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Just about the only outfield player who looked like he gave a toss. Problem with our team at the moment, no-one who cares (maybe Yoshida).

It's the fact that he has done nothing, said nothing, shown nothing and seems to have had his hands tied by our minority owner that is the concern. Making bad managerial appointments is because he has done nothing to change the incompetents that we had before he bought the club. In the end it is his responsibility, albeit with the shackles in place that the previous owner seems to have put in place. The incompetent management put in place constraints to protect their positions. Gao needs to ac to protect his investment but shows no signs of doing so or having the nouse to do so.

Let's hope you're right (I heard similar today as well). I don't want him to be off because one day he will be a good player, but for now he isn't and shouldn't be anywhere near our first team.

But the man agent of the club is the responsibility of the owner. If he was any use, he would have kicked out the likes of Ralph and Les and replaced them with people who can be effective and make a difference. Being the owner isn't just about the money, it's about having a vision and putting things in place to turn the vision into reality. Gao seems to lack that vision or any idea how to fix the club and ultimately that's his problem, compounded by the stupid decision by our previous and still part owner to maintain the status quo with regards to our pathetic management.

It went pear shaped before Gao got involved, but it's a much bigger pear now.

Agreed, just watched as well, unbelievable, not just the left back but also the captain. Our left side of defence has become so poor, with Hoedt making mistake after mistake again, how on earth does he keep his place in the team. Vestegaard looking poor, slow as well. Hughes has to bring back Yoshida and pair him with Stephens if we are to improve. I still think one day Hoedt will be good but he needs to improve away from our central defence, we can't afford to have someone learn his trade in that position. Looks like Bertie needs to be replaced with Targett and Yoshida restored as captain.

Or even better get shot of Ralph (and Les, Gao, Nelly and Kat)

than Southampton for a scout to see his work rewarded, as the Premier League side are known to give their youngsters a chance. .. but only on loan at other clubs.

Romeu was fans player of the season year before last, so I can't see we have been missing a DM since Wanyama left. He seems to be half the player he was then at the moment but its difficult to say we don't have one, we just need to get him back to form or make sure the system he is playing in suits him better. He also seems to struggle when playing with Lemina (and vice versa).

Maybe because he didn't want to be #2 to Cedric.

If you were picking a central defender Wesley Hoedt wouldn't even be on the bottom of the list.

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But what's the point of a loan, they will never be good enough.

MLG will be along shortly to tell you it's irrelevant. :-)

They have, but just keep the perspectiive that they are doing very well in the 2nd division of the u23 league, where they are because the management of the academy in the last couple of seasons has been so bad. The players can't help this but they are not being tested against the best.

Hasn't been training, now is back in training and hence concern that problem will reoccur.

Twitter, St Mary's Musings. Its the blister problem still apparently. Hasn't been training.

So now Ings is a doubt as well.

Its not obvious at all, you have 20 outfield players (thats 2 per position) and 3 keepers. It was something that got added a few tournaments ago and is totally pointless, especially when only playing 2 internationals in a week - can sort of understand it in a full 6 or 7 game tournament. Its overkill, how many times does the 3rd keeper get to play. There are so many keepers these days that earn a living in football without ever playing a first class game.

Unlikely, you really don't need 3 goalkeepers for training. i always wonder why teams consider it necessary to have 3 keepers in a squad.

If you actually read what is being said, it actually suggests that there will be an extra 16 teams in the "league" or group stages of the competitions, i.e. an extra 16 teams will be guaranteed a number (probably 6) of home and away fixtures. It looks like this is a way of guaranteeing that the G14 (?) clubs will be guaranteed to be in the top competition regardless of whether they qualify (the whole thing is being pushed by the group of big clubs, not UEFA). It could be that very few additional clubs, perhaps none at all, would qualify for the qualifying rounds. I would be surprised if the end result of all this is any significant expansion of the number of teams that have a route into Europe (via the qualification stages) but simply that 16 teams will be guaranteed a longer run in the competitions. I don't think we should hold our breath that there will be any additional route into Europe.

He "doesn't get near the team" because he was injured for a large part of the tail end of last season. People seem to forget this. Its also why he hadn't played for NornIron for nearly a year. He's going to struggle to break back in now because Hughes has other options (not forgetting Armstrong has been bought quite clearly as his long term replacement).

Except he wasn't done for speeding (and definitely no mention of reckless driving). Someone else was speeding, but they don't know who, might have been his bro or hos cousin.

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FF was in the squad in 2013 though, he was at Celtic but we knew he was coming from our feeder club.