Saint Garrett

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...

Never been convinced with Arshavin. He's clearly talented but just never looks bothered. Not sure he's fit in the hard working philosophy.

Would be decent backup for cork and Morgan.

Morgan and Shaw, Lambert unlucky not to win it, but Morgan has been immense.