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I've never claimed to speak for anyone but myself, in fact I realise that most fans like Harding. I'm just not convinced, but maybe after being spoilt by Bridge and Bale I've set my sights too high. I like Mills a lot and have been pushing his claims for a long time. I actually quite like Thomas at right back. He is a very similar player to Harding but better in the air.

were you one of those moaning about Lowe taking £300,000 a year from us whilst running a PLC? Peter Tells Stories is `earning' a reported £2m a year at their place and what a fantastic job he has done handling their finances. Seven years later and the stadium is still no closer, the training ground hasn't been built and season ticket rices are so high that the `world greatest fans' have actually now stopped going in their thousands. ****flaps, gaydamak and tells stories all have one thing in common, they have don't give a **** about the club they have just used it for their own means. Think Goodfellas, and the scene where they buy everything on the restaurants' credit and then when they can get no more they leave it to burn.

for starters he is slow. I like fullbacks to be pacey otherwise the are always susceptical to a pacey winger. He's clumsy, his passing leaves a lot to be desired and thats about it. I like his comittment, he gets stuck in and he's genuine. I'm just not convinced at this point, certainly not to the degree others are on here. Its early days and I'm more than happy to jugde him in another ten games.

sorry to keep disagreeing with you Derry, nothing personal, but I am starting to doubt your ability to read a player if you think Gillett is the answer to our wide problems. He has no pace, no trick and no idea how to play there. Holmes certainly gets to the byeline, but I don't recall him ever working hard and tracking back last season. In his defence maybe he was not asked to, but I fear that in a 4-4-2 he will not be this up and down wide man that you imagine.

I could not agree more.

he didn't get my vote. I'm not saying he is ****, I'm just not a fan.

no they don't. Chelsea and Arsenal play through the middle all day long. However they have the class in the middle to do that. You might be right about our problems, but you're wrong to say that width is everything.

happily take HART to run our youth set up should he get the old tin tack.

nah. He must have read that Forum. They stopped taking bets on ****flaps returning to **** park...and he did.

Couple of bookies stopped taking bets on WGS to be next Skate manager according to mate of mine.

I'd like to see Mills in the side myself. Great left foot, lots of energy and he looks like the sort of player that is going to get better and better rather than already reached his potential. He needs a long run of games IMO. I'm not a fan of Harding so would be happy to see him play at left back, but maybe when Thomas returns so we still have that height advantage that we have now.

by the same account: Lambert and Saga - not working Lambert and Waigo - might work

you are obsessed by width. Chelsea don't play with width or Arsenal and they seem to do quite well. The game is not ALL about width. Even Barca, who obviously have wingers, tend to play narrow and Messi is foreever coming in off the wing as Ronaldinho did before him fromt he pther side.

is there anyone left in the world that actually believes a single word that comes out of the mouth of Peter Tells Stories? I wouldn't trust him with yours.

he can get on the end of flick ons, run the channels, turn defences, latch onto through balls...in fact all the things Saga is not doing or offering. Saga needs chances on a plate. Until we start delivering that perhaps we need to pick a striker, Waigo, that will create different opportunities.

so you are you saying that Lallana isn't a round peg. I don't see any round pegs to fit the left an right midfield positions. In fact I've been saying it for well over a year now. Holmes, Pappa, Mills, James, Lallana, Thomson, McClaggon, Mellis, at best they are all oval pegs.

you have made a very good point indeed. I loved the way we played at the start of last season with wide men and a man in the hole giving us a real fluid feel. If we had had the right players with the right qualities then it may well have worked The big draw back of course was that the formation left our fullbacks extremely exposed and that cost us time after time. Only when Gillett started covering all the holes did we ever look reasonably tight. Davis Thomas Jardi Trottman Harding Hammond Schneiderlin Pappa Lallana Holmes Lambert Would we win more games than with a 4-4-2?

how much was it for a ticket to watch Brum at home last season?

out of interest, what is their agenda?

Saga is a battler? Could have fooled me. Much rather see Waigo down the middle. When you play out wide you have to chase back - unless of course you are proposing a change of formation. I wouldn't rely on Waigo tracking runners.

he does that a lot. He seems to think that because he hasn't got the pace he might as well just get it into the mixer. To be fair he delivers some decent crosses but from that angle it is so much easier to defend than if he crossed from closer tot he byeline. I'm not sure why our wide men are so worried abotu dribblign it down to the corner. At worst you'll usually get a throw or a corner by heading down there, at best you'll get to the byeline and deliver a cross that is very difficult to defend.

I thought Mr Young was going to employ him at Brum. I get the feeling he knows he can earn much more money on the fringes of football (agent, TV work etc.) than working his way through the managerial minefield.

"win", dive might be a better description. The midfield and wide men can certainly be blamed for the lack of chances, god knows how many times I have shouted at James to get to the byleline before crossing, but you have to look at Saga's positioning throughout the game. Lambert won pretty much every single header *****il they put two men on him) and Saga failed to get onto a single flick on. Not one. I realise that its not always easy to predict where the ball is going to go, but at times it was bloody obvious that Saga just needed to gamble and he would be n to a good thing. I'd be tempted to give him just a little longer to get in tune with Lambert, but if he still fails to take advantage then questions have to be asked and Waigo has to get his chance.

that is the perfect description of Saga's performance in the Yoevil game. This lack of pace or sharpness is why he is not carving out any chances for himself.

I've been thinking along the same lines, but I think we just should just live with it. What would you prefer: conceding one or two perfecty executed free play goals due to lack of pace at the back or conceding a continuous supply of goals, from set pieces and long balls, due to a lack of height at the back? I thought Yoevil offered a reasonably pacey attack and it wasn't a problem. When we are 1-0 up with ten minutes to go and we are up against three big forwards and the opposition are lumping it forward, who would you prefer Perry or Jardi? It's a no brainer.