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Probably would have kept hold of him when he left as Lg1 without (at the time) any recognised forwards seemed a bit daunting. Wouldn't touch him with barge poll now though. No better than he was when he left IMO.

Personally I thought we could have moved Guly to Right Mid and SDR to play alongside Lambo to give us some pace. For me MS is not dynamic enough to do the job Chappie has been doing for us and this stunted our entire game plan.

Have to say sounds like one of them days. Losing Chaplow so early seems to have buggered up the game plan today. Hope we can nick one but can't see from where at the moment!

Crazy isn't it!? I remember going to a reserve game at SMS against Chelsea that got something like 8000 fans watching. 3-3 if I remember rightly I'm sure Beattie scored!

Been coming :-( 2-2 FFS

I'll give it a possible shout ... to the song Stand and Deliver Steeeeeve De Ridderrr He'll f-in take the **** Dum de dum de dum Theres a start feel free to ignore but its can't be any worse than our main chant for him being his first name!

I'd just like to say I'm sorry for that last 15 minutes ... said to the old boy at half time that it would "sort of" be nice to have a team give us a game as it was getting a little boring! Thank god for this new Saints I'm sure we can all remember games from times gone by where that would have ended up as 2-2! Glad Chappers stuck it to mini Ferguson again and another super 3 points! Onwards and upwards! I still can't fully believe that I'm not dreaming!

To be fair David we have obviously been bloody lucky ... When will teams stop accidently letting in goals for the mighty Saints at St Marys?! Anyone else bloody glad Chappers has stuck 2 fingers up to Mini Ferguson AGAIN?!

Seeing as I've just been offered tickets in Block 43 of the Northam from the ticket office I don't think thats right. Itchen was 100% NOT sold out as easily found tickets in any block between 8-13. I think attendance will be around 25/26k.

I may be being Thick but whats to stop the club at least draping it over block 1-3 whilst they are closed it would get alot of viewing on the tv that way as well due to the current camera positions.

To be fair I rarely hear the goal music until celebrations have died down anyway perhaps you need to celebrate more to drown it out? ;-)

Would have taken an away point from Derby before ko as their home form has been decent. Things to be learnt from today ... JC is not a right back! Jos and Fonte looked immense for 99% of the game bar the goal and some of our build up play was sublime! The only thing I would say is perhaps its worth us reverting to getting chances to Lambert as his finishing is high class :-D Overall happy and massssssssive game now on Tuesday! Well played Saints ... as for Alpine would you kindly stop writing us off everytime we conceed a goal. Its alright to be pessamistic ... we're saints fans but come on chum no need to be damn right depressive in the middle of some of the best form we've had in many a year even Man Utd drop points to teams around them you know! They win their titles by consistently beating the crap at the mid to lower end of the table and not losing to other forerunners.

Seriously why would a business man like NC sack someone who he could have gotten compensation for if this was true?

I remember he scored 2 goals against us in a friendly at home to Stoke one year. Was a massive suprise to everyone there seeing as how he'd just come off the back of the least effective loan period ever with us!

You would think that with all the incest going on down the road that deal is enough to bankrupt them again in next to no time ;-)

I love this team ... That is all :-D

Harding for me. He is IMO better defensively and doesn't get pulled inside, very rarely allows a winger the freedom of St Marys to get in a cross either. Decent going forward without being outstanding but does offer a good partnership and understanding with AL. Can't see Fox's future at LB without a significant improvement, perhaps better as a winger?

Think its time to take off Connolly for De Ridder move Lallana up front with Lambo and get back to 4 in the middle.

Hate to be all Matt Le Rainmain but he wasn't voted the leagues best left back. Left his man both times for goals yesterday. I thought he was average going forward and didn't work well with either wide player in the same way Dan Harding does. Looks to have a decent cross on him and hopefully he can get further up the picth than wanging in balls from 30yrds out. Defensively I am hoping for a massive improvement. Played too narrowly leaving the wingers acres of space to run into. Seems to panic alot yesterday in the same way Dickson does. Can only get better really however first full game in a crap back 4 so we shall see!

Really if they want the League cup to be of any value they should set the same rules as the JPT where you need to have (I think) 5 or 6 of your regular starting line up in the team.

I wonder if this is us being clever worrying BCFC into the possibility they could get nothing for him in January by signing pre contract terms. IMO 5m + for him is a bit steep but none the less a decent player and would do a good job for us.

Chaplow off perhaps Lambert off and Schnierdelin on and defend like hell for 10 mins?!

Shush! This is still Saints! Sounds like an excellent first half and another good DC finish. Seems to say "What do you want with another striker?" Keep it up Saints its so pretty seeing you on top of a league!

Durham win coming up then ;-)

I wonder if he's going for the record number of clubs who consider him their worst ever player having been voted as such by Grimsby and Lewes last season?!