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I'm sorry, there certain was.

No intention of doing that, i'm in the white wave. (I believe the medium group) i'm happy there.

Saints 1-3 Spurs

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The one dragged across the box with the open goal waiting..... Could you imagine the reaction if Punch, Jay or Guly had missed that?

How many did we craft with him on the pitch on Saturday? None. As I said, we are not going to agree and we have made our respective points quite clear.

Very good Nigel.

I will agree with you that he is our best player. For me, our best player would not have made that type of impact last Saturday though. Our counter attacking play required an absolutely mobile front line to out-fox their organised and experienced defence. Sadly, short of a re-run with Lambert starting up front to test our respective theories we will never know. We shall have to agree to disagree.

How many goals did we score with Lambert on the pitch v West Ham, how many without? I do not doubt Lambert's importance, as I said, he is key. But due to the nature of the league we are in he will not be key in every game and it was right he didn't start last Saturday, our defence cost us that game, not our forwards.

What are the cut offs between the waves? I entered 1hr 45 min on my anticipated time on entry, but I feel I am closer to 1hr 35 now. Confident I won't be last starting in the white wave either way!

No we havn't. Yet he hasn't scored in every game he has played. We all agree he is key for us, but I stand by my view that he will not suitable against every team we play.... especially if we continue to persist with the 4-5-1/4-3-3 wing forwards type formation.

I'm suggesting there is no point putting square pegs into round holes. Lambert didn't make an impact when he came on on Saturday, if anything our comparative lack of mobility at centre forward from that point onward hindered us. Rodriguez played a key role in crafting Lallana's goal and was then withdrawn. That game wouldn't have and didn't suit Rickie, I back Adkins' call to start Rodriguez having seen the game unfold, even though I was baffled by the decision at the time. Rickie has a massive role to play for us, but not in every game and i'm glad we have an alternative. If Lambert gets injured we are now not as vulnerable as we were last winter, Jay gives us a plan B/alternative plan A when needed.

An absolutely far point. Not enough as we would like. Equally though, what impact did Lambert have when he came on on Saturday? Very little. Tactically West Ham were set up to deal with him. We were beaten on the day by the sharper team.

Going forward we were by far and away the better team in the first half. Defensive blondness killed all that good work stone dead within 4 minutes of the restart. Rodriguez starting looked to be a good move up until that point..... where everyone was wishing we had a better finisher on the field in the first half, despite the fact that Rodriguez' excellent movement was part of the reason we looked the better side. Quite glad we have the two forwards that can offer something different depending on the opposition.

Did he genuinely believe he could replace Alan Shearer?

Without trying to be too dismissive....... Actually, no, sod the pretense... That sounds like utter drivel to me. Rickie Lambert is a model pro and will have known he was on the bench and likely to needed as a substitute. He will have traveled with the squad as normal.

Spoke to one at the back of the Kingsland stand before the Fulham game. An extremely polite and attractive american girl who didn't have a clue what was happening. She had no idea why a load of them had been called down from a London modelling agency to stand in the relative cold selling £3 magazines to 'soccer' fans. How much would it have cost to bus them all in compared to the old hands? Extremely lovely girl though.

My quest to own a replica of every Saints home shirt over my life has now reached it's final two. I am now looking for the following: The 1984-85 Draper Tools sponsored kit, classic early 80's type. The Air Florida sponsored one is also desired (as technically it was worn in my lifetime...... just.) And the following all red with white/black shoulders design from 1985-1987. If anyone knows of any that are available please don't hesitate to let me know. I will make a competitive offer for them.

And thank heavens for that! He was still contributing well v Man Utd by that point, it was madness to take him off then. But this is a conversation for some other repeated threads I feel.

Well, it's tricky to when you are substituted consistently on the hour.

The thing with Puncheon, he has always considered himself to be a premier league player, part of the problem was that he felt the club was beneath him in League 1/The Championship. Now we are up there, he is where he wants to be. No need to leave/throw a strop, just get on with it. Finally he can just get his head down and work without any other rubbish to go with it. Having said that, when does his contract expire?

To echo.... fantastic!

They even redecorated the away dressing room since I did Soccer Aid, interesting pictures. Thankyou.

What do you do for a living out of interest? Other then upping your post count, in recent days, obviously.

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