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We need to add some genuine pace out wide. I'd also look to recruit from the championship. Muxch smaller wages then Premiership rejects. A new keeper to push Kelvin. Jack Butland or Craig Gordon from Sunderland perhaps. Some pace at fullback wouldn't go amiss. Clyne looked comfortable if not outstanding. Liam Rosenior looked handy. Some extra quality in midfield. Jordan Mutch from Brum is outstanding. Also like Mikele Leigertwood who was top notch against us. Phillips and Wilfrid Zaha are the two best attacking players I've seen in the championship. I'm all for sticking with the squad that got us up, but real quality signings can take you to another level as has been seen at Newcastle. Top notch strikers especially. I'd also like to see us return to the pass it out at all costs football we started off the season playing. We are miles from that now and we are no longer like Swansea. After their success that should encourage us to follow that path.

"...literally hundreds have paid their £100 deposits." That £8m looks a long way off.

33.2.8 No Club shall charge higher admission prices for visiting supporters for accommodation that is ranked as comparable with or inferior to that used by supporters of the Home Club in the same or next highest ranked accommodation. 33.2.11 Discounts or special promotions (in each case for one match only) made available to supporters of the Home Club must also be made available on a similar basis to visiting supporters provided always that each Club shall be permitted to designate four (4) Matches per Season as 'local promotion' Matches where this Regulation shall be deemed not to apply. Clubs shall notify the Executive of the Matches so designated as and when they are designate

nope. Like you it was just from memory of us being in the Championship last time. perhaps the rule has changed. I'll check.

did you feel robbed that it wasn't 365? I think I would have.

whenever I have joined a new online betting website and you get a nice juicy free £50 bet or whatever I always go for women's volleyball and bet on some massive odds on cert. The chances of an upset seem slight to me as that game is all about the quality and very little about luck. The return is small, but its still a return. If that doesn't float your boat then £5 Lambert first goal scorer seems to do the trick every time my brother in law comes to watch Saints. Never seems to work for me though so I've left that bet alone. No need to to thank me.

I believe you are allowed as many deals as you like, but only the first four can exclude away fans.

Their supporters trust were quoted on BBC Solent this morning as saying they needed about £8m rather than £5m to buy the club.

How many offers is that? I count at least 5 yet away fans still have to pay full price. One price for home another for away. Not on.

wonder if Forest fans were consoling themselves with possibility after their play off defeat last season?

I feel sick just thinking about losing 1-4 to the skates. Please refrain for putting the possibility into my mind.

skates have sold 2984 of their 3200 allocation, last selling day is today, so 200 more could be available.

I feel no connection with the Titanic tragedy whatsoever. If the club have a minutes silence then I will of course respect it, but I'm not sure I would understand why I am doing it. If I want to learn about the event further or offer a period of reflection I'll do it when I visit the museum.

can you describe what you mean when you say class player? Genuine question.

He's very slow. But he does come alive when a chance falls to him.

they just played him all the time and he did what he has done for us, very little in the build up, very little in terms of threat, he just got in the box and waited for chance to come his way and he took some of them. Nothing more, nothing less. He will score goals for us too, not loads, but he will score simply because if you play strikers long enough, create chances for them and ask him to get in the box (which he does), goals will come. He'll grab the winner on Saturday.

you can score and play badly

he scored 53 minutes into his debut at Huddersfield and was first class immediately in that season for us. Had a terrible first half of the second season though.

always dangerous to criticise attackers because they have the best opportunity to score goals and make your opinion look bad, but can anyone deny that he is poor in the air, offers limited hold up and link up play, has no trick and is the slowest `non big man' striker you have ever seen? I'm not sure what everyone was expecting, many seemed to be clamouring for his signing. Not sure why, he was exactly the same at Donny. I suspect the leading goalscorers list was the basis of the clamouring. Statistically he might have looked OK (1 goal in 3 games isn't bad), but the reality is he is just a goal hanger that gets 1 in 3 and offers little else. He has 3 goals in 9 appearances (5 starts) for us too. That's what he does, scores goals when he has enough time and space. Without it he offers very little. The question is what other options were there? The Championship wasn't blessed with available strikers, and some of the clubs and players wanted a fortune. Of those that did move Vaz Te has 4 goals 9 appearances, Maynard 1 in 10, Jutkiewicz 3 in 16, Tyrone Bennett 4 in 9, and Jason Roberts 5 in 12. There's you stats, what about their all round game? Certainly Roberts is a handful, Jutkiewcw is good in the air, Vaz Te and Maynard offer pace and Bennett, well I have no idea, but I bet we find out...

**** today, not been playing anywhere near as well as in the first half of the season, but we'll still go up. Felt like that since we destroyed Brum at our place.

not sure why everyone is reacting to the game as though this was a one off bad display. We've played like this away from home a lot this season and to be honest the side has not played well since Christmas. In recent weeks we have been ugly away from home. Leeds tore us apart, Watford were terrible but we were only just better and Millwall we stunk the place out. Gone are the days where we passed it out from the back, showed real bravery on the ball and dominated games. We hoof it much more, but we also don't seem to show the levels of ball control in midfield to ensure we keep possession. The fact remains we have won games playing badly and plenty have told me the performance doesn't matter its the result (********), but today we got what we deserved, poor performance AND a defeat. Davis 7 solid display, can't fault him Butterfield 0 absolute total waste of a shirt. Liability in defence and crap with the ball. Crossing woeful. Worst game I have ever seen him play for us. Jos 6 had a decent first half, won a lot early on, but he didn't win the header that led to their second and lost his man for their third. Hard to ignore the third goal, but you'd be surprised how often players get miles fro their markers only for defenders to to get lucky as the ball doesn't find them. it did today. But if you can try to ignore those two key moments his all round game wasn't bad. Fonte 7 casual (or too slow, not sure which) and not strong enough for their second. Chucked himself at everything else. Bit slow on the ball, perhaps the options weren't there. Fox 6 too casual at times and went missing a few times in first half. He lacks pace, so I guess he did quite well to stick with Ince who was a real livewire in that first half. Quiet game for him. Chaplow 5 needs players around him to work the ball so he can make runs. He's seeing too much ball. He is needs to be working more off the ball. Not back to his best, but then again he had a long spell in the latter half of his first season when he was terrible too. Need him firing otherwise we are a man short in midfield. The Reading game worries me as they are so quick in midfield. We need them chasing Chappers not the other way round. Morgan 6 I can see why some fans don't like his simple ball stuff. Too much if that today. Diamond doesn't help him and Cork IMO. When we are struggling he needs to step up, but if his job is to sit can he? Cork battled hard in first half, but disappeared in second in which his touch wasn't good enough. Needs a little space to work in and he didn't have it. Nigel ****s around with the diamond and he is very often the loser. Lallana 7 I thought he had a decent game, especially in the first half, an improvement on Millwall that's for sure, but he still gave the ball away too much towards the latter part of the game, but he's always going for the killer ball and that's much harder to complete than a square pass 5 yards. Sharp 4 missed his pen, OK, it happens, but he had a great chance in the second but he was just not sharp enough and defender made a last gasp tackle. If he was sharper he wouldn't have had a chance to make that tackle though. Hold up play and lay offs were woeful. Luxury player that has not taken enough chances since he came for a bloke that does nothing other than score goals. Guly 6 should perhaps have scored and just didn't do anything else in the first half. better in the second with some neat play in midfield, but if he's dropping in then we are playing one up front. Little wonder why we have a lot of possession in the match but not threat. de Ridder thought he tried too hard and by and large he was rubbish. Barnard not on long enough, perhaps someone stretching their defenders would have helped, but he doesn't have pace either

Claridge continues to speak a lot of sense about us.

thought we played better than at Leeds to be honest.

you were right last season about our play off hopes being hanging by a thread so you're probably going to be right again.

don't worry with this TV display we'll lull the final six opponents into a false sense of security. We'll still get promoted.