Chin Strain
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That was Bally's local in his last few years. Saw him in there a lot
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I somewhat fondly remember him launching Paulo Futre into Row E at Upton Park many years ago but this challenge has completely escaped me:
Run it off son
I was there...classic challenge. We came back from 3-1 down with 10 men to draw
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Thats his Dads I think. Lallana drives a 4x4 I'm pretty sure.
Think he's got a Porsche Panamera now
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Fox isn't a world class left back, luckily we have one that will be. His failings have only been exposed due to Shaw's injuries. Along with Hooiveld he is not great and all being well shouldn't feature in the matchday squad but doesn't deserve the bandwagon abuse he gets.
This. There are a couple of idiots that sit behind me, and I swear they blamed Fox for Cork being substituted. Frankly I'm embarrassed for them as they blame him for everything. He's not good enough, but I'm not sure what people are hoping to achieve by getting on his back all the time. It's hardly helping him or the team.
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Ah, sorry...missed that on the ipad
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Just read on Tiss' Twitter feed that Kevin Moore has died.
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Haven't heard from Lawrie on this subject recently. Surely we must be crap 'because nobody has ever heard of MP'.
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I see what you say
But if fox done this or done that etc?
Maybe if he did people wouldn't criticise him .
The way I look at it is.
How many other premiership teams benches would he get on!? Let alone on the pitch.
Good lower league player but he's no way a premiership player for many reasons.
Its funny how people always blame him misfortune on him being left exposed! Just like everyone was saying when Lallana was in front of him!??
And apparently he was exposed yesterday for the goal lol!!
Funny how Shaw doesn't have this problem getting exposed and making stupid mistakes.
I didn't say every time it was because he was exposed. I said that I don't think he's PL class and he has issues positionally. All I'm looking for is a bit more of a balanced view from the people sitting behind me - unfortunately some people just want / need a scape goat.
Clyne may have been covering for Fox (that's what team mates do), but that doesn't exempt him from his share of the blame for not doing what he should have done.
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Always room for improvement.
I'm Amazed some of you rate him as a premiership player.
He put a good shift in yes. And can fault his effort today and contributed to a great win.
This doesn't hide the fact he is crap and is player well above his level in the premier league.
He was completely at fault for one goal today and to say he was left exposed is nonsense .
Its not negativity to suggest this after such a great win! Its being a realist .
And to be fair I've said fox is out of his league since the start of the season so in not just picking him out as gully isn't playing.
Gully and fox won't be around long term I can assure you that.
Jos laid into Clyne for the goal. Clyne didn't argue, he knew he should have taken a yellow for the team.
Fox's quick thinking and superb ball to Lambert directly led to the 2nd goal.
He was also. Left exposed on more than one occasion with him v two players.
Yes he's not the best positionally, and I don't think he's PL class, but that's why he's back up to Shaw. We're not currently a big enough club to have two top drawer players in each position.
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Can you all come and speak to the couple behind me please. During yesterday's game it became apparent that Fox would appear to be to blame for global warming and all African famines, amongst other things. I recognise Fox has positional issues and isn't the best defender, but when he pings a peach of a cross field ball to Lambert and you hear 'Lambert made that a good ball' you sort of despair a bit. No mention of the quick thinking and quality ball for the first goal. They were having a go at him for pushing up the park...'what's he doing up there?'....erm, carrying out his managers instructions, compressing the play? Then again, it took 30 seconds for them to start their moaning yesterday, and I'm certain they will have found something to moan about all the way home last night.
It was the same with Guly. He also has his obvious faults, but again when he was subbed in a game earlier this season having put in a good overall performance, despite them salvaging him for 70 minutes, he got a standing ovation. Same with last night when Fox goes off. You'd wonder if the penny would drop that maybe most other people are seeing different things.
It's just so painful week in week out. I suppose they're the definition of a 'customer' and not a 'supporter'. If Fox had banged in a 40 yarder into the top corner last night it would have been the keepers fault, or he'd have miss hit it.
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Why concentrate on Redcrap? Joe Jordan was a Saint and he's followed HR all over the place. He too was instrumental in our downfall so give it to him with vehemence!
Jordan followed him everywhere....but not to Saints
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Bring back Puma Kings. Proper football boots!
I've got the astro Puma Kings. Best boots I've ever had.
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I'd that's aimed at me, my answer's above.
And it's not a fact, it's just your opinion...which you are entitled too....as is everyone else.
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What teams were thy against though.... Did you watch the game last week and today, if so you couldn't possibly say the defence looked more assured with him in goal....
I thought he was very weak today. I'm not sure what he was doing for the goal, or whether he'd have saved it anyway, but it was poor judgement. There were several other very iffy moments.
I don't think Boruc's the answer either. I think taking Kelvin out of the spotlight, letting him go back and work on his game, would put him in pole position for me now. He was in the NPC Championship team of the year last season for a reason. I can't believe he's just lost that over the summer.
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Davis 14 goals 4 games no points. Boruc 6 goals 2 games no points. Gazzaniga 10 goals 6 games 8 points. IMO the defence is better with Gazzaniga.
Davis, tbf, had United, City and Arsenal in those games.
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Moulded....Puma Kings.
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The last 1 was a penalty. The others were not.
Agreed re the first 2...thought the last was outside the area though.
Either way, he's made a rod for his own back. Refs watch games, notice things, and talk amongst themselves. Suarez doesn't get blatant penalties unless the ref is absolutely convinced...they'll always have it in the back of their mind that they may have been conned. It's up to AL to shed that image.
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Ryan Dickson and Forte have been fees that we have gained very little from...
Forte was worth it for the MK Dons game alone
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I need a couple of days off work to focus on the job on hand
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If she was 20 and he was 40, we'd be saying ''jammy barstool''.
And if she was 10 and he was 20, we'd be saying? Not sure I'm following your point
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Disappointed that I was on 434 posts with a skate....I need to get one more post to cleanse myself
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I would rather see younger players play, but at the right club where they will be coached properly and play proper football. Man utd, for example, send loads of players on loan as they recognise that there is no substitute for playing.
In the case of players like dickson who clearly have no future with us, we have to help them move on. To do that we will have to subsidise wages otherwise we end up with a player drawing a full wage which suits neither us or the player.
It depends on the player though. Man U may send out a load of youngsters on loan because they think they may not make the first team. They may well keep players who they are confident will make it in their system for longer, and then send them out on loan - it's probably the case that players break through at Man U when they're a little older.
As for Dickson, who knows the real reason. He has the option to lower his wage demands / demands for a pay off (if that's the case) in order to play football. I'm not having a go at him, but it's likely that there is an option if he wants to play.
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Sadly that's the saints way now and a factor in why our younger players aren't off playing league football to gain experience. Makes no financial or football sense.
It's not that simple though. Would you rather our youngsters were being coached 'the Southampton way' by our PL coaches, or sent out on loan to somewhere to play hoof ball? Arsenal are very picky who they send out on loan, and apparently refused to loan Walcott after they bought him because they believed it was more important that he was properly coached rather than got lower league experience.
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That was Harding.lol.
No it wasn't.....
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Lol....good one!