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Mowgli

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  1. Let's not get carried away here. The long term ambition of having a first team made up of 50% academy players does not rely on no sales whatsoever. If you are producing 6 players of quality each year, you need to be holding on to about two of them. Two will possibly not be quite up to the grade and maybe sold to lower clubs (but still make it as good players) and two will possibly be impatient and want to join Arsenal or whoever to (in their view) progress their career. Those sales will be an essential part of the club being financially self sufficient. It does not make us a selling club, just a well run club. Having said that, if Luke is that good I hope we can hang on to him. Incidentally I don't think we can pin him down to a contract before July.
  2. A very sad occassion that has very little to with the club or with football. There will be plenty of other local tributes and events, well thought out and meaningful for people to engage with.
  3. I detect some sort of competition going on for the daftest post ever. If that is the case, this forum will soon not be even worth logging on to I'm afraid. Maybe if we kept these sort of posts to the lounge, that would help....? Just a thought
  4. The trouble with the membership scheme is that it also helps away fans to get tickets in the home section - so no its not based on the number of games you attend. You're just paying an annual premium to make sure you get priority when they do go on sale. Easier than getting an 'away' ticket through the OLd Trafford ticketing system.
  5. I heard that the physios identified a weakness with his muscles that was causing the injury problems. Special diet and special exercises have allegedly rebuilt his leg muscles from the ankle up and they have great hopes that he is a new player now. But today was about giving the youngsters a chance and Holmes would only have been used if the game turned out a bit differently. So give the guy a chance. Forget what has happened in the past as we may well see the best of him as the season pans out.
  6. FFS it was double save and he nearly got to the third shot. Most of the papers were drooling over those saves.
  7. This rumour has alaready been rubbished on another thread - putting development on hold would be very costly indeed.
  8. Bit left field I know but maybe it was because they couldn't agree on working procedures which is what he actually said to the original contact.
  9. Hey I'm a Puncheon fan but even I would not play him. Not because of the bust up but simply that he has not played a competitive game for a long long time. On that basis I would sooner see one of the youngsters given a chance.
  10. Smashing ground but until they put in the missing seats it will never have a decent atmosphere. There will be no problems with planning. There are no real grounds for refusal having granted permission for the use in the first place (if they do refuse they will in on appeal). Thought the concourse was much nicer than SMS and the food drink was especially good. A choice of Sussex ale or Forty Niner. Really pleased for Brighton as they have potential of a really big club.
  11. babelfish has a lot to answer for....
  12. Not disagreeing with you but it is the coaches and the players who must be reaslistic and keep their feet on the ground. We are fans FFS so its just as acceptable to be in lala land as being a miserable bastard. There is an irony in your post when you say the vast majority are in lala land and then say we doing better than we all expected. Supporting Saints is all about winning the big games and losing to those we think are merely routine!
  13. Thought I would sleep on it befire posting. Bristol deserved their win and we were not as fluid as against Palace. We did not pass the ball quick enough and allowed Brizzle to get in our faces and we found it harder to get rid of the ball effectively. Unusually for Saints we tried to take one touch too many in front of goal and some great moves fizzled out as a result. As for saying the players were not up for it (as someone suggested) I cannot agree. They all worked hard but went too often for the fancy flick rather than simple pass. Guly and Lambert both worked hard but to no real effect as Guly dropped far too deep and Lambert to wide. WE seem then to rely on midfielders to score and they did not have their shooting boots on tonight. When we did get good shots on goal, James made some pretty impressive saves. MOTM for me though was DE Ridder who ran their left back ragged. Good crossing, effective tracking back. Has learnt to release the ball at the right time but sadly this was of those nights where bearing down on goal alone might have been better.
  14. To be fair football has always been like that. I personally could not give a flying **** what the Northam think. You only have to look at the OS pictures with Schneiderlin and see SDR and Guly after the game to realise that the players love Guly to bits. I honestly thought he would be out of his depth in this league but now I'm thinking he can probably do a job in the Premiership. I've been to a few games this season with neutrals (home and away) and the consistent remark was 'who is that guy - he's everywhere...'. Even on his quiet days he's pulling markers off Lambo and Lallana to give them more space. On the basis that we generally have players like Barnard and Connolly on the bench to shake things up if he does go missing I really do not see what the problem is.
  15. Work it out. Without Guly in the side, we would be on the edge of the playoffs right now.
  16. How does it do that exactly? It says Guly is getting an average of 2 shots per game against Sharps 1.4. His shots on target shots are 0.95 against Sharps 0.86 but he is scoring once every 3 games whereas Sharp is better than every other game. so his workrate is higher but his finishing inferior. Would love to see the stats on assists but I suspect we will end up concluding they both serve their teams well. You can do anything with stats can't you!!
  17. This did make me smile as it is one of the most significant debates this season - the style being to play from the back rather than hoof upfield. It is the only thing that keeps Martin out of the side at the minute IMO. He's a terrific defender but a poor passer of the ball. Most of his clearances come down with snow on. Jos can pass the ball out as can Fonte, together with the occassional mazy run from defence. That aside, I agree we have decent depth at the back and another defender is not top of my shopping list
  18. Why do we need to blame anyone? It was a goal the team conceded and you can go back and over analyse the performance of a number of players on that goal (the ame as you can for the Pompey goal). At the end of the day, a draw was not IMO an unfair reflection of a scrappy game. Blue line. move on.
  19. Just so I'm clear - what is the general concensus on the goal conceded. some seem to think Harding should have risked a pass back to the keeper rather than the safe option of kicking it into touch. Some feel Kelvin should have come for the cross. some feel Guly should have challenged more and other think he should have stayed on his line. Seems to me both goals were down to poor defending. Then again, if defences never made mistakes, I guess there would be a lot of 0-0 draws! Poor game but a draw looked a fair result. More than happy to be still top. There are no teams below us that seem capable of putting a mega runv together to topple us. WHU, Leicester and Cardiff have all looked good on occassions but when push comes to shove they blow it.
  20. Mowgli

    Fox's sub..

    Fox was the better defender and was useful from deadball situations. However, his longish balls into the channels frequently ended up in us losing possession
  21. Sometimes you need to look at the bigger picture. If the opposition has sussed him out it means they are trying to mark him out of the game which means others will have more space
  22. Whilst they have a realistic chance of promotion, I doubt we could get him for anything near a reasonable price. Still think Maynard is the pick of those available. Would like to see Adomah too!
  23. Not sure how that is mind games. Telling your existing underperforming squad that he needs 25 players is hardly going to motivate them to play better. More likely they will feel he has no faith in them and will seek their fortunes elsewhere.
  24. A great read and no real complaints over the Cortese bit. He does indeed seem to balance those issues that might offend one or two with a passion and commitment that is second to none. Chairman don't exist to be popular - they are there to get the job done. Proud to be a Saints fan reading all that and more convinced than ever that we will do well tomorrow.
  25. What? The bit about Man Utd being interested or the suggestion that we can't compete with them yet?
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