Saint Garrett

It's a pretty crap article. Any saints fan will tell you that we've not played particularly badly but mistakes are costing us.

Was having this conversation with my dad last weekend at West Ham. It was a lot more fun going to away games expecting to get atleast a draw and having a good chance of coming away with a point. It's got to the point in this league, where a draw is a great result, and a win away is beyond your wildest dreams. Great to be back in the prem but seems a lot more stale than what I remember. Also the atmosphere in the home games and all away games has been pretty poor. Who would have thought a team who were 4-1 up at half time would sit in silence all game, and Everton who I always thought their fans were really good, sat in silence all game. And West Ham, who I'm told have the best fans in the league constantly by West Ham supporting mates, barely make a noise even when they were winning...This season has been all a bit.....'MEHHH'.

Good. (Although that is one of the worst articles I've ever seen.

Because he's a stubborn c*nt, and so is Cortese.

The sooner he gets the QPR job the better,

I'd rather be relegated with Nigel than have that budgie back

Chaplow shouldn't be playing in a premiership side.

We'd probably still concede ha

Hard to argue with that. Maybe Cork in there somewhere for Puncheon, with Ramirez floating out wide, but apart from that....looks about right.

Id take Fox everyday of the week over Frazer. If we have a good RB (Clyne), play him at RB not LB. Why would you rather have a RB playing LB ? and then a poor RB playing RB. Might as well atleast have 2 players in their proper positions.

Hmmmm...pretty atrocious Vs Everton, and was only good Vs Villa as we had the ball for the majority of the second half.

Be interesting to see what happens when Cork is fit, as when Ramirez was playing, we kind of changed our play. Ramirez was in a free role, with 2 'wingers' and a CF so he was taking one of those CM roles. And at Everton we played 4-diamond-2, with the front 2 playing very wide with Ramirez as almost a false 9 position. I don't see Ramirez as a RW but I think it's too narrow if we play both Lallana and Ramirez floating with one up front. Interesting decisions from NA once everyone is fit. (Obviously I'm not counting Tadanari as he's never fit)

The atmosphere at the games, especially the home games has been poor this season. We made more noise when we was in L1 FFS ! Maybe the Prem is just stale.

NA has said that we will play 433, so that is what I expect. Someone mentioned that this has been implemented all the way through the club, not just the first team, so that the younger players get used to the system and know exactly what is expected of them in their role.

For me ----------Boruc Clyne - Jose - Yoshi - Fox -------Morgan-Davis------ Puncheon -Lambert--Lallana ---------Rodriguez--------- Gazza, Hooiveld, Reeves, Chaplow, Mayuka, Guly, JWP.

Would be a surprise if Gaston was involved, but hope he's improving quickly. Maybe an outside chance for the WBA game ? That will be about a month since he got injured,

I had to do that last year, not fun at all, and takes ages. I was doing 45 in a 40, I was fuming.

J-Rod is better and contributes more. HTH.

I can see why we like to keep things quiet, but there was no statement on promotion which was weird, and lots of stuff has happened which a little statement from the club would have helped the fans understand. Something isn't right.

I do think the club needs to come out and explain a few things. Yes Lowe was always mouthing off, but heard nothing from Cortese for ages. Got some explaining to do. Training ground Transfers Loan Ownership

Duplicate...

Harding is 10 times worse than Fox. Good honest player but poor. I miss Deano as I really like him as a player but his first touch let him down, however like others have mentioned I think he was a leader in the dressing room and a pretty dependable player. However, if cork and Gaston were fit, he prob not even get on the bench as NA wanted there to be a pathway for JWP.

Rumour has it Dembele might be injured for this. Thats one down....

Has it been 'rocking' once this season though? It certainly wasn't against both Fulham and Wigan. Villa yes but only once we were winning, and I don't know about Man Utd as I couldn't make it. There seems to be an attitude at games I've been to this season that we try and sing at the start, then we sing until we concede, and then it's quiet. Its what happened on Saturday and it's what happened vs Everton. We need to sing our hearts out when we're losing or in need of a goal, thats when the team needs us most. Whats done is done, but the team needs us.

Would be a top signing, believe it when I see it though,.