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I wasn't sure of it was him or Bougherra that looked good at their place. That reminds me, what happened to Peter Madsen in the end?

christ, if anyone was a little nervous about Seaborne after reading the Exeter forum, they'll be shaking when you read the Norwich forum about Otsemobor http://www.pinkun.com/cs_pinkun/cs/forums/3/1959516/ShowPost.aspx#1959516 "Firstly we signed him as a free agent so my guess is he was probably on a decent wage, which is ok if your in the side and playing regularly - but if you are back up then its a bit of a waste of cash. Secondly you couldn't really stick him on the bench as cover because he can only play one position, Lambert has always opted to field 'attacking' benches with minimal defensive cover and with this in mind Spillane is a better bet (and a player who was in a real rich vein of form before he got injured). There is no doubt that Semi has ability, and enough pace to give Usain Bolt a decent race, but how many times did he use it effectively. One decent performance out of four isn't good enough and the bloke next to me made a great point against Millwall - if he cut out the lapses in concentration and dozyness he would still be at Liverpool. Time and again he dallied in possesion, and I was never confident when he was in the team, because a successful game for him was getting through ninety minutes without dropping a clanger. How many times was there space to run into on the overlap and he stood on the halfway line wondering what everyone was getting on his back for, how many times did it take him three touches to get the ball under control, how many times did he turn back inside into trouble when a clipped ball down the line was a much better 'out', or take his eye off the ball for a split second as the ball rolled out for a throw in! Nothing against Semi, and wish him luck at Saints, they've obviously just gone on the number of games he's played (when realistically we didn't have anyone else to play there), rather than scouting him - and as others have said, it has to weaken their promotion bid a tad!" this one is slightly better "Semi had the potential, I love a full back who can go forward and be a threat his pace was brilliant... alas when he went forward no-one offered him an option... defensively he had no one capable of covering if he went forward we now have a lack of pace in our back four which is a must if we intend to continue to move forward... happy with the cover as many have said if only mcveigh, cureton and theo would follow and as I have said before Iexpect lappin and doc to leave in s ummer... we need to get rid of the deadwood from last season and the season before who offer us nothing but a large dent in our wages semi will do fine at saints, I believe he is a capable championship defender but only if he has a good defence around him... as said I feel we are more than adequate in this division... however next year our current defence is no better than a lower mid table defence good luck semi... but feel it is a good move and hopefully one of many before the end of the year and I hope lambert continues not to offer new contracts to our deadwood"

AP was happy with Ward or Seaborne, bids went in for both, both clubs accepted and Pardew choose Seaborne. Simple. Why all the fuss?

agree except Lallana on left and Waigo on the other side, oh and Holmes can do one. Antonio from the bench has been terrific, especially away from home. Add to this Millwall scouts will have seen him struggle in recent weeks and not even mentioned him in their reports so he can be our surprise. Having said that Perry will start.

nor me. Despite the flurry of goals I could see he was slow, didn't hold the ball up well and his decisions when it came to passing were terrible. I thought I might be wrong but every time I see him he gives the ball away so cheaply its not true. Never been all that impressed. Shame his wage is too big to attract anyone from the CCC lower half. We should have agreed to pay the shortfall in wages when Ipswich came in.

it certainly is but there always be people unahppy at the quality of the signings (which is fair enough) or wanting players signed in othjer positions.

Maybe Ward is ****? Maybe palace want too much for Danns, maybe Dony won't let Stock go. Who knows?

whilst at Colchester and Leeds he was toal **** in that role.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees. some pace to cover our giant CB's is ideal.

No idea if Jon is any good, but an attacking right back sounds just the ticket so long as he can defend. I hope he is pacey, anyone confirm that? Pardew has done it again. Just when I thought he had ignored our weak spot he goes and get a player to fill it. I think that puts to bed once and for all any idea that AP buys players in positions he already has enough quality in (as said by Charlton fans when he joined us) - unless of course you think Perry, Lancashire and Thomas were the answer for the second half of the season. 6 month contract - no brainer. I wonder when we are going to ship a few out?

I'm sure it will blend in with the rest of the `stadium'

Meh, I explained where I got my incorrect figure from, and you are right I should have questioned it, perhaps, but then again I've never seen a 6'2" centre back lose so many headers as Thomas, so why would I? Whatever, I'm just happy we have some tall lads in and hopefully they are better in the air than Thomas and Perry.

spot on. Murty is very average, but the difference is now he has had plenty of time to identify the men he wants rather than taking what was effectively left. Loaning player before signing them, or short 6 month deals are a very good way forward.

no shortage of saints fans screaming for us to sign him at all costs I recall.

if you say so, http://www.soccerbase.com/players_details.sd?playerid=9365 either way he is not all that good in the air in my book. More than happy with him as right back cover but he's a very poor centre back and I have said that pretty much since day one barring a great display at Sheffield United in his first few games.

if people think back to the first game of the season at SMS you will recall Millwall chasing the game in the last 15 minutes, bringing on Jason Price and chucking him up front as part of a three as they went long. It was Perry and I think Thomas that day failing yet again to cope with long ball football. As yet another long ball was failed to be won cleanly it went for a corner from which they scored (again because we didn't win a clearing header cleanly and Abdu headed it back and in). A 5'11" and 5'9" centre back pairing cost us that day. Since then we have signed Trottman 6'2", Jardi 6'3", Martin 6'3", Fonte 6'2" and Seaborne 6'3". Pardew, a centre back by trade is not daft.

one `insider' privy to the information has posted, the rest don't know whether to believe her or not.

With no Jardi, Seaborne is the natural replacement if we are looking for a ball winner. Suspect it will be Perry and Fonte though. No sense in changing the entire CB back partnership, although it didn't do Villa any harm when they brought two new CBs straight in. Besides even I have to admit that Perry has done pretty wellin recent weeks.

good thinking, get another game in before the Embargo is lifted and they buy themselves out of trouble.

I saw Misfud play for Malta against Portugal in the world cup qualifier about a year ago and he looked a very tidy player to me. Very decent first touch and a good footballing brain. Not too dissimilar to Connelly, but it was hard to tell if he had the finishing prowess as they hardly got out their own half that day. Stood out a mile amoungst Malta's side (not saying anything) but more than held his own against Portugal. I have to say I'd like to see us going for a striker that is going up the football world not down. We already have the experience with Connelly, Lambery and Waigo. Mind you who is there other than Jackson?

brum are worth a watch these days.

maybe I only believe the posters that are saying the things I want to hear, but those that are saying he is decent certainly come across as more balanced than those that don't. Just to reitterate that I'm not underwelmed at all by this transfer. 6'3", 22 year old ball winning centre backs that captain their side to two promotions sound right up my street. I look forward to seeing him at the Den if he plays.

really? Which one is crap in the air and is terrible in posession, and which one is the unit that never loses headers? Seaborne sounds like the new Trottman to me. Fonte is the new Claus, possibly.

http://www.exeweb.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36509 some very mixed reviews in there - which fully supports hypchondriac's hesitancy. Although the balanced opinion from what I can see is that he is a genuine tough ballwinner, that makes the odd mistake, hoofs it too much and is at his best when he just wins the ball and gives it short to someone a shed load better on the ball - sounds very much like Trottman to me. Although one or two suggest that he can pass and wouldn't get int he side if he didn't. Let's hope so. Might be a good time to think about what a thread on here would look like if one of our centre backs was leaving and the kind of posts you'd get on there, cos if it was Perry off you'd get lots of good and plenty of **** from me and one or two others, Thomas would get lots of **** and a fair bit of not too bad, Lancashire would get nearly all **** with the spattering of give him time from me and others.

and your opinion was that he is not better than we already have. Do you actually know that?