Saint Without a Halo

so far Walcott Bale and Dyer have scored against us Still to score against us Chamberlain, Surman, Delap Baird, Monk, Willimason, Jones, which other ex Saints are still playing in the premiership? With a goalkeeper that is almost a full team of experienced top level players! (bet they would have had a hatful more than 5 points so far if they played as a team providing we added a reasonable keeper). A good line up (even is there is an excess of wingers and not enough midfielders) of Keeper Delap Williamson Monk Bale Wallcot Baird Surman Chamberlain Jones Dyer Also why is it players we sign rarely score against their old teams? ohh silly me we didnt sign any with premier experience other than Davis!

Two ex players heavily involved in us losing 2 points Played well but Dyer lucky to score of the post when robbing yoshida from a por Gazza decison Then at the other end Monk takes out Lallana for a certain pen and nothing given Things just dont go for you when your struggling

Once again like the curates egg we play well in parts!

Correct Designed by SOM of the the States

Have Man U stopped [laying well because they signed Van Persie?

That is what we need a defensive coach, an experienced leader on the pitch, a couple of new defenders in January and some confidence! better than a new manager!

Mark Hughes?

Redknapp came in the last time we were in this position and took us down! Why will he do better this time

Which of our Adkins era signings over the last 2 years has been good, solid and claimed a regular place in the team by right Cork? (Probably the one who staked the best claim to a place before injury but again bought young to develop) De Ridder? (wasnt good enough for the championship) Hoievelld? (Good in the championship out of his depth in the premiership bought as a last resort to replace an ageing Jaidi) Fox? (Bought for promotion but seems out of his depth) Lee? (Will he ever play) Sharp ? (probably suited the need at the time but not bought with the future in mind) Rodriques? (young, has potential yet to fully develop and good for the future) Davis? (Seems to have lost it in the Scottish league) Clyne? (The best of this years bunch so far but also young and developing) Mayuka? (Again young with potential and needs time to develop not what is needed now in a relagation battle) Yoshida ? (Could turn out good but still learning how to play in the premiership) Ramierez? (Very skillful, Still to early to tell given his injury but again young and needs learning time) 12 players here! How many of them deserve a permenant place in the team? probably 3 at best. Norwichs championship purchases seem to have adapted far better to the premiership last year than ours Why? was it because their policy was a mix of young and seasoned players? Despite all our spend our three most consistent players are still there from league 1 Lallana, Schniederlin, Lambert 1) Our real problem is we dont have the players to play the system we want not just in defence but across the park 2) Our signings either are not good enough or do not fit into our style of play or have been bought with raw potential that needs time to pay dividends, time we dont have! 3) We have no real experienced seasoned leaders on the pitch in the Ball Case mould to provide the bite and motivation when heads are down. 4) We play pretty football in a lightweight style when some brute strength and determination is required (we had no bookings yesterday) In fact our youth team players like Ward Prowse, Luke Shaw, Ben Reeves etc often look better than our expensive signings this is particulalry worrying! It is worth remembering that the Pardew signings seemed to have been bought to do a job and did it well almost from day 1 Hammond Harding Fonte Jaidi Lambert They may have been in league 1 but they all slotted into the team and system almost immediately and did a great job! and in fact formed the basis of our double promotion! We are not yet able to say this about any of the subsequent buys OK RANT OVER

Nigels interview is the same one again!

Man for man how many of our team would get into the albion team Townsend says I Cant think of one! Says it all

We are clearly out of our depth in all areas now! we started with just the back not working now it has effected the whole team today the defence actually looked marginally better than midfield! and the forwards did not look dangerous at all

I feel so sorry for Nigel Team was poor no spirit no confidence the fear was so obvious Our fans were brilliant is the only +ve

Westbrom are fifth no wonder we lost! oh hold it they are fifth because they beat us! All confidence gone, poor players, fear and no tactics, we have lost the spirit from the first few matches

Davis is useless gives the ball away continuosly

would still mean we were **** for 87 minutes though

we need our obligatory goal for us surely?

Guly playing a bit of Rugby by the corner flag!

lucky easy miss by brunt

Guly and Mayuka

yes we gave wba a better game in the season warm up than this

Even our passing is now going to pot the confidence is shot

key stone cops again they dont need to create chances we present them on a plate on a regular basis by losing the ball in dangerous positions

we seem to get worse every game

yet again