Saint Garrett

Reserve team seems to be there for youngsters to play competitive football. Only 'first team' plays who have bee involved with them this season have been Mayuka, Lee, Barnard and Reeves. No idea why fringe players dont play more often or players coming back from injury don't ease themseves back in.

Partly true....but partly not.

Oh when the saints.

You're such a bellend.

It's ours.

Thing is if you buy good players who have prem experience and will still have a sell on value in a few years, they cost a fortune...in transfer fee and wages. We obviously looked to bring in players from abroad and gamble a bit, also ones who are young so they don't demand a lot in wages. I agree our summer transfer window was dubious, and unfortunately our gambles haven't paid off yet. But they will get better and won't drop much in value either. It's just whether these players are going to make the impact they were expected to have.

We played yesterday.

Did annoy me when the commentator said 'and the spurs go marching on'....f*ck off bellend.

Bale scoring again too.

Rodriguez Is more than good enough for the first XI

To be fair though, that is the system we play. We push the full backs up high to join the attack and give us width. Difference between Shaw and Fox is that Shaw has the pace to get back and rarely lets the ball come into the box. He's also clearly not as good but Fox doesn't have the pace to get back into position when we lose the ball.

No. Where have I said that? I'm saying that regardless of how we're playing, our fans always need someone to moan out. Once Guly was out the picture, everyone moved onto Fox. Now Fox is out the side, people seem to be moaning about Gaston. He done well yesterday. Do I think he has done enough so far to justify his pricetag? No, not really, but he is still a cracking talent who can make things happen. Also he wins a lot of free kicks. On another day we would have scored a few from set pieces yesterday. I just don't think he is worth fans just moaning non stop about him. Give him a break, he's still better than a lot of other midfielders in this league.

Boruc; Clyne Fonte Yoshi Shaw; Cork Morgan; Punch Gaston J-Rod; Lambert Davis Fox Jos/Forren Davis JWP Lallana Guly Mayuka

Good.

Agree. Our fans have already pushed Fox and Guly out the side, just going to end up pushing Gaston back abroad. He played very well yesterday - just watched Football First from last night...He was involved in pretty much everything we did creatively. Only thing wrong with him is he seems to tire after about an hour. He is key for us.

Why would Pilkington be playing at the back !? Have I missed something ? Big game. They're out of form, we're coming off the back of an awful game. We're capable of picking up a win, and hopefully we get one, but Norwich are a good side.

http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?43583-Forren-Mayuka

Thing is with Lallana he's never really had 'a position'. He's not really a wide man, you could argue that his best position is in the no10 role, but Gaston is probably more effective playing there.

Lallana has been very frustrating this season for me. Talented footballer yes, and great servant for us. But his decision making seems to be a lot lower standard than that he's playing at.

Just watching Football First. We were all over them in the first half. Literally they had one attack. Commentators saying Bothroyd should have been sent off. Gaston was involved in pretty much everything good that we did. Remy vs Fox was such a mismatch and Hoilett vs Clyne nullified Clyne's threat. They are a quick side and it caused us problems.

West ham away, west brom away... We could easily not get anything in next 3 games and back in the bottom 3. Worrying and only ourselves to blame.

We could easily lose the next 3....so annoyed about yesterday

Fair enough I couldn't really see from where I was and didn't hang around to watch! Not that sad!

Shaw looked about 20% fit tbf and was only on the bench just in case. He was stretching every time the play stopped yesterday clearly struggling.

Not in with his mate Cortese either. Very odd especially given all previous rumours! MP interim di matteo summer? Lol