Pat from Poole

There was also quite a lot of unpleasantness between Brighton and Huddersfield when they met at the Galpharm this season. Clark was hilarious, running on the pitch at the end to celebrate Huddersfield's win, waving imaginary cards in the air mocking Poyet and his mates' actions in trying to get players booked/sent off through the game. Bit of bad blood there, methinks.

How p1ssed off on a scale of 1 to 10 will Huddersfield be if we win tomorrow? Positive thoughts, people.

Rod Stewart also played for Brentford.

I know I've said it before, but he needs to go back to presenting the programme in a cafe with the newspapers in front of him as he did on Gazzetta. Gave a bit of an air of class, particularly when he would start gabbling to a waiter in Italian. He really doesn't need Murty and Rosenior spouting tosh.

Agree with pretty much all of this, particularly Stephens. I'm probably being harsh, but he just doesn't look like he has much about him at all.

He was shocking. As he was up at Walsall. To not book the guy who hacked at Hammond's Achilles but then book Forte was laughable. And to give the ball to Rovers' keeper after the Barnard / Bristol Rovers player joint booking when we were in a really good attacking position FFS.........

These are the 9 players who I feel we are going to be relying on big-time over the next 5 games. There are others who will be involved like Butterfield, Stephens, Chaplow, Forte and Richardson (and possibly Schneiderlin?), but I think if those 9 players play all 5 games and play well in each game, we'll finish second. I wouldn't expect the most important of those 9 (Lallana) to be playing two games in three days next week though.

I agree with much of this. Dale Stephens is an odd one, and I wonder how he managed to score so many goals for Oldham this season. He doesn't look like a player who can really impose himself on a game. So many times today we were looking for a midfielder to make runs to support the front two, we are having to rely entirely on Hammond for this.

I'm not convinced that Johnno Quick is the brightest of sparks.

Dickson's a class player. He's been criminally under-used this season.

I hate to say it, but that ref really wasn't very good in the game up at Walsall. He turned down a penalty request for us in the second-half that was a fairly blatant handball. Also gave Walsall most of the 50/50 decisions. Hopefully he's just a homer.

I heard this last night and just sighed. If he is coming out with this sort of tosh in the dressing room, you get to a point where you start to think the players will just ignore him and do their own thing.

Would expect the home sections to be heavily populated with Saints fans for this one.

I think they've had some decent features on there, e.g. the report on Brighton's new ground a few weeks ago and the stuff on Plymouth's finances, and I found the Murty / Steve Fletcher stuff quite good, But yeah, overall it's not a good programme. Far too cluttered. Shame, as James Richardson is very good. Perhaps he should present the programme on his own from a cafe reading a newspaper like he did on Gazzetta all those years ago.

Seconded.

But the sum made from the Cortese ticket tax is probably a drop in the ocean compared with these losses. As others have alluded to, it can't just be the likes of Lambert and Fonte who were on big money last season. Kelvin Davis' decision to turn down West Ham may now make more sense, for example.

It does make the decision not to have a sponsor this season look somewhat financially extravagant.

Rofe was commentating (very well again) on Solent last night, and seemed to know of the ref. He said that he'd been reffing in the lower Leagues for over 10 years and was a good solid ref, albeit not having ever reffed in the Prem. Top bloke, Rofe. He commentates so much more sensibly than Uncle Dave, made some good insightful comments, thankfully not along the lines of "Well, what Southampton don't want to do is concede a goal here!"

I think clubs in the Championship not already receiving parachute payments from the Prem get something like £2 million - £3 million per year at the moment from the current deal. It's quite a significant increase from what teams get in League 1, which if memory serves was something like £500K. I know the Bournemouth Echo were getting pretty excited about it recently when they thought Boscombe were going up.

Yeah, completely agree. That was an amazing day, plus quality pitch invasion.

Agreed. They're a very good side. I can see them going the rest of the season unbeaten; we just have to hope there's lots of draws within that run.

Adkins wasn't the manager then, but Wilkins was at the club, so if Wilkins didn't pass on that info to Adkins he's a plank. If he did and Adkins chose not to take notice of it, Adkins is the plank. Albeit a lucky plank.

Well, put it this way, the hysteria on this board since the Charlton game at the potential prospect of Lallana being out for the rest of the season is endemic of the extent to which our results depend on him being fit and playing well.

I would echo this. I also think that Huddersfield have got a very good nucleus of experienced players, and unlike us are not over-reliant on one player.