Saint_clark

I wouldn't try it at the game now they're allowing beers in the stands, knowing my luck I'd end up shouting "phallus joy" and get put on the sex offenders register.

Each to their own, I think I'll just have one or two instead of going that crazy.

With safe standing you could at least put a little plastic ring on the bar to hold the cups.

At least if he gets back into the first team we can stop blaming our lack of goals for.

Boooooo! She'll be a great keeper for them and be England number one before long. Good luck to her, shame to see our homegrown team that grew up together playing for Saints falling to pieces over the last 12 months. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/ckgx535y54wo

For Christ sake, don't start doing this. Utterly pointless. You'll go there, be the only person singing and be forced to sit down by the stewards. Stick with the Northam and wait until we have a run of form and judge the atmosphere then.

Well as the away fans are closer that's no surprise at all. The home fans have sounded pretty decent on TV/streams.

He's an AM more than a defensive one though, I think.

Well you're clearly just blanking out the elements that don't suit your opinion then as it was only a couple of games ago he was getting slated for not scoring from 3 headers he won in the air. He was also criticised for flicking headers on with nobody running beyond him. He can't be coming in for that kind of criticism if he isn't winning the headers in the first place.

But prices have moved on since then. Getting a VVD, Wanyama, Pelle or Tadic would take £30-40million now.

Have we EVER had a new manager bounce? I guess Adkins counts but we were doing OK under Pardew before that anyway.

Is it fair to say that it's pretty much impossible to properly assess at the moment because it seems after every game the posts in here switch between him being a quality, under utilised played to being a donkey.

You're being very harsh on Brentford, they have some proper quality in there. Dismissing Mbuemo as a talisman is an odd one for certain.

He's started 3 games in a row, over the busy new year period, with a new manager trying out different things chief among them to make us more solid defensively. If we're going to play a striker that isn't going to score goals i'd rather play the one that has shown he can hold it up, link up and cause a headache for defenders.

He's not saying we ONLY sign £40million players.

It's why I would have stuck with Sugawara and just tried to work covering his defensive issues.

You're right. Three games in a row is time enough for any player to bang in a hattrick or two. Cut our losses. Said before I wanted to see him get a run of games and I stand by that - meaning 5 or 6 in a row at least, not 3 and out. The alternative is getting Armstrong back up front.

Did Guly ever score at premier league level? No? Then right off the bat you're talking nonsense.

Exactly. Is he going to bang in a load of goals, is he even going to reach double figures? No almost certainly not. Do we look a more cohesive, effective unit going forward with him holding the ball up? 100%. If we get Armstrong out and Archer or even Sulemana in alongside Dibling to drive forward instead of drift about uselessly, then we'll see more of the benefits. We saw it work for Palace with Mateta holding and Eze and Sarr running behind him.

Spread out over 3 separate seasons and 5 separate managers with no consistent run of games in that time, so impossible to properly judge him by.

Mateta was woeful when he first came to England.

Excitement amongst some is palpable to get in here and criticise. He linked up well in the first half, was shattered in the second. Mateta up front for Palace shows the benefits of having a player up front who may not get a lot of goals but can hold it up and link up well, which Onuachu does. He'll score goals if we continue to give him time, not a huge amount but some.

Fucking bunch of useless wanker bastard fucks all round.

All Lallana has done since coming on is give it away.

The fuck was that foul for then ref, couldn't have been a push.