Saint Garrett

Sometimes I do wonder if our fans watch us play...Morgan IMO wouldn't look out of place in any team in the world.

Jaaskeleinen isn't great though, he has had some good games. Good shot stopper but thats about it. It could be argued that West Ham were better than us at the start of the season, but we have no surpassed them as our players have got to grips with this league and players have got fit. Saturday will give us a good idea from that, but I'd say we're now better than them, and play much more positive football. However at the start of the season we we're playing 'positive football' without really doing anything with the ball, and at times it was more 'gung ho' than positive and we put ourselves into the sh!t. Our back four is now pretty much settled, Clyne has improved considerably as the season has gone on, as has Yoshi. Cork is now fit who was so important to our promotion season last year, and has been incredibly important this season since he's come in. It's also boosted Morgans performances as well IMO. JRod is now causing problems to some of the best defences in the country, and Lallana has actually learned how to give the full back some cover. Surely you cannot realistically think they are so much better than us ?

Why? We don't need to sell, he's been with the club 5 years and given him tons of experience, just signed a new contract, statistically the best DM in the world, is our best player, and surely on the verge of a France call up. Add to that players like Henderson went for 20m, Allen 15m, I see no reason why we'd entertain any bids of under 20m.

Had a good start yes, difficult to break down, play negative football will get you draws. 'Percentage football' will get you a few goals. Wouldn't call him a good manager or their players good though. Many poor teams in the division this year....and anyway I said our players are better like for like. Doesn't make them more effective against some oppositions....!!! This forum is far better now you're not on here as much anymore!

Fair play for having a go, but don't give up the day job just yet

Lol Nolan. He's abysmal. Even WHU fans don't rate him.

Says who ?! And my point is that we have been after some players for a while then finally get them. J-Rod, Clyne, Sharp, Hooper, we have all been after for ages.

Be interesting to see if we go in for names we've been linked with previously. We courted JRod for a year or so before we signed him, same with Sharp, along with a couple of others. Astori is the only name which stands out....Matt Phillips? Here is who we were linked with in January... http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?41776-Who-we-ve-been-linked-with-for-January-thread Federik Sorensen? Zarate? Verdu? Biglia ?

We are though? The only player that could get in our side would be maybe Tomkins or Reid...possibly Jarvis but personally think Lallana and Puncheon are both better.

This, plus their arrogance is tuned down a bit due to them not being favourites for this game. They know we've been playing really well and deep down I would expect a lot of them are expecting a loss as we're far superior to them man for man.

Personally think Morgan is better now than Carrick has ever been.

Thinking probably 90degrees, Orange Rooms, or Buddha Lounge...

Certainly was a quality goal.

I would say Morgans 'value' is about £15m, but I don't think we'd sell for quite a bit more than that. Bidding starts at £20m...

I hope we win from a pen from a Lallana dive

JWP plays in the '3' though, he looked OK in his apps in CM before Cork was fit, but not quite good enough yet to play CM in a prem side IMO. Flamini would be decent backup on a sensible wage, but he's not an improvement on what we have.

It won't effect his ability to fall over everytime the ball goes near him anyway.

Morgan probably doesn't count as 'young'.

Would expect him to play. Cole always seems to cause us problems...not sure who I'd rather played. I guess it depends how the game goes. With Vaz Te, Diame, Jarvis and Cole they have pace to cause us problems on the break. Carroll has the touch of a rapist.

Interesting for you maybe...really quite dull and repetitive for the rest of us. I respect your opinon that you think we should have got him back in 2004, but to keep going no about it in 2013 is just quite frankly boring.

He was manager over 10 years ago. Get over it! This is the West Ham Build up thread...whats it got to do with this game? It's worked out for the best in the end so who cares.

Not had mine...!

I always thought he was pretty good, wasn't he nailed on to go to Newcastle for the last few years...?

It will probably be Welbeck

But they didn't go into admin...