Saint_clark

Good pacy work from Forte down the right hand side, shot spilt by the keeper.

So much for this being a match thread

Adkins clearly has faith in him, good enough for me.

Penalty claim by Reeves turned away.

Not sure why everyone is worried about the defence. The weakest link is Cork, and he is more than capable.

Kick-off any minute now. http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?33399-Palace-V-Saints-First-Half-Thread

Yes, but as I recall there were no "big ties" on that night.

But he scored the winner - and it was a cracking goal. A fourth choice striker who does very little but still gets a goal? Yes please.

We've been spoilt with TV streams on here recently. Don't start expecting them every week.

He's done nothing wrong when played.

Team; Bialkowski, Butterfield, Martin, Cork, Harding, De Ridder, Ward-Prowse, Schneiderlin, Holmes, Reeves, Forte Subs; Dovey, Dean, Moore, Richardson, Guly, Lambert and Barnard

I can definitely remember a few occasions where Guly played with Barnard, and yes - he held the ball up very well.

I would argue that Guly played the Lambert role quite well at times last season.

Forte is only going to get in the side if Lambert, Connolly and Guly/De Ridder is injured (even then Lallana might play up front instead) - how good are other teams fourth or fifth choice striker? I don't think he's as bad as people make out anyway.

I can see Cork and Morgan starting in midfield with Hammond and Chaplow starting on saturday. Fonte is clearly a bit jaded so leave him out tonight ready for the weekend as well.

Watch that video on youtube right till the end and you'll just about hear it. I cringed in all honesty.

Pretty sure he had his first touch in one of the earlier rounds.

That's when you know you're really struggling, when you struggle to struggle.

I'm liking the potential of Sinclair, Ward-prowse and Shaw though

And they're not gonna play their first team either. Besides, one youth teamer playing doesn't mean we're "playing the kids".

Aren't the semi-finals still two-legged?

It fits the tune better if you ask me, rather than having to extend the second syllable of Marsden to make it work

As usual, I seem to be sh*tter than everyone else at this game

3-0, Aguero. F*ck me, they could carry on here.

Reading fans aren't very clever are they? "oh...what happened there?". Well it's this new thing in football called passing....