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Number two in the F365 list of struggling strikers. http://www.football365.com/topical-top-10/8962338/Top-Ten I'm guessing they are working purely on stats then what he actually brings as a forward/holding player.

How about a Crap forward line? Curtis (George) Rawlings (Bill) Andrews (Len) Pahars (Marians)

Quashie for Q Zoltan Liptak for Z

Except of course when he did. They say football is a game of opinions. I couldn't disagree more.

Not prolific yet, no. His goal against Palace was well taken though and he was fingertips away from getting one at Anfield, he is posing a definite threat. After we took the lead Swansea took the game to us as you would expect from them. We attacked with conviction and generated several chances of our own before that and the interplay between Lallana, Lambert and Osvaldo were utterly key to it. Could, indeed perhaps should have been 2 or even three up by that point. Osvaldo's mobility, strength, close control, intelligence and team ethic have been extremely heartening, he is a class act.

Following on from 9 players pulling out of the Welsh team for the final qualifiers our Lloyd has been called in. Good luck to him.

As I said earlier, thought it was extremely telling that we were massively on the back foot as soon as Osvaldo picked up his knock at the start of the second half. Like Rickie he is more then just a goalscorer, his tracking back and link up play was superb.

You would have started with Rodriguez instead of Osvaldo yesterday then?

So, if we win at Old Trafford we are odds on to win the premier League!? HA Love that website and towards the end of a season their model is essentially flawless in calculating probabilities but it lacks context so early in the campaign.

Yep, had a great time at the one filmed in Coventry a couple of years ago. They specifically asked me to attend as the only member of the general public in the local area who would happily admit to voting Tory!

Come on Sour Mash, you must know that not all human beings are the same. Some (i'm guessing you are part of the group i'm in) can control that and keep any frustrations within, others will vocalise them, others will go nuts over it, and others will remain in a zen like state of nirvana. We could be getting into quite deep discussions over human nature and conditioning now, suffice to say though we do fundamentally both agree that negatively jeering your own player is counter productive!

At the expense of our attacking threat. Thankfully we had done what we needed by that point.

If it was that simple I would be in the England team!!! In my opinion he didn't play to his best yesterday anyway, it could have been match rustiness but he shirked a few challenges in the first half and played utterly within himself as far as distribution was concerned. He thankfully grew into things and with JWP providing cover he looked far more in place. People were frustrated with a player who is out of his depth. On another day it could have cost us the game, it didn't. As I said, the reaction to him achieves nothing but the crowd is occupied by 30,000+ emotional human beings who will express frustration with an obvious weakness. Are we the only club that seems to pick on the weak link in the side?

It achieves nothing. Yet people react emotionally to things at football matches, we don't just sit there passively and stoically like MLG do we!? If a player is seen to be underwhelming and not pulling his weight they will get a reaction. It's telling that it happened even though we won, he certainly didn't get the same reaction in the Manchester City game last year.

Being a pedant mate, it wasn't booing. It also wasn't from the start, he was given a chance and was the worst player on the pitch. He was a little exposed at times but there were occasions when he looked terrible (bottling going in for challenges) and at best was utterly ordinary, contributing nothing other then a safe pass and simply another body on the field. Anything negative from the fans was born of frustration rather then contempt. I would never condone it yet I can understand it.

Nope, if anything he was cheered a little where I sit. Fox wasn't booed either (that I could hear), but the sarcastic cheering was a bit much.

The lesson, if you are going to eat an overpriced crappy burger at football at least be sure to get it from the vendor vans around the ground. Any burger that comes in a bag is asking for trouble! That they will happily take extra money for something they knowingly cannot provide is quite scandalous however! In the grander scheme of things it's what, 20/30p or so between a burger and cheese burger? It is however you dress it up though; theft.

We are in form, Manchester United are looking to turn a corner. This is such a weird feeling; I fear it's going to be a massive anti-climax for us. We can beat them, we have no better chance of winning at Old Trafford in the league then this but all runs must come to an end and Manchester United surely cannot stutter this much for an extended period. Prediction: Manchester United 1-0 Saints

He's pretty damn good. Better then Niemi? Could be.

Great player, him and Rickie are really beginning to learn how to link up and his link up play with the midfield is superb, he is such a handful. No mistake that when he picked up the knock we were tactically off kilter.

Yep!

That drive home went rather quick! I shall be staring at the table for an hour or so tonight whilst sipping a cold drink intermittently. Enjoying this while it lasts! The match was a game of two halves... the injury to Osvaldo was the turning point but Boruc was inspired and we just about ground it out. Rodriguez' goal was the icing on the cake.

He seems to me in some ways to be the 'Morrissey' of hip hop.

Channon, 185 in the league Le Tissier, 209 all competitions? Yep, you got it.

Well, it was stated we would decline a place via fair play last year.