VectisSaint

His defensive weaknesses were there for all who cared to see them on Saturday. Got found out today.

Well he was instrumental in 2 goals on Saturday and was player of the month for the goals he scored last month. Really trying to blame Davis for today is pretty stupid, more what is expected of the Davis haters, Derry and Verlaine who wouldn't be able to distinguish an ass from an elbow.

Rubbish, Pelle's ability to hold the ball up when we are up against it is another myth.

Guess you really don't remember what a disaster that was when we tried it. What we need is Cedric, apart from Spuds he has really not done much wrong.

To be fair if he had said "every time he is on the pitch playing RB..." he would have been spot on.

Dave M said earlier he was picking his nose.

Well we clearly didn't Saturday. Nevertheless this is return to type, and why things were going downhill before the Arse game.

Romeu booked, misses next game

They were installed due to the needs of TV broadcasting. I thought the old lights were also removed but can't be sure without checking. They are painfully bright at times, i agree.

Relatively unusual for a guy to still be growing at 20, though not unknown even to 21 or beyond. He was listed as 6' 4" in January, how ****ing tall is he now?

Needs to avoid yellow card as well (as do Fonte and JWP).

Upwards or outwards?

Why were the LED lights superfluous? It would have been quite dark without them.

Jan Kluitenberg has posted a picture on Twitter showing Pelle training. Not sure if its a picture from yesterday or this morning, doesn't look like Staplewood, the team travelled up yesterday so could be somewhere in/near London.

You could stand outside McDonalds

You could be right

Ronald has stated many times that no-one is leaving in January, no-one.

Knee and Groin

Should we update the title of this thread? Delete the 3 and jobs a good 'un.

Injury worse than I thought

He may have been in line with Mertesacker (may) it was Koscielny that was playing him onside, over on the left of the front of the penalty area. He was not offside. the line of the penalty area makes it absolutely clear. I admit my snap is a millisecond or two after the ball left Clasie's foot, but the players don't move that much in that time. I don't watch NBC, but it sounds like they were looking at the wrong player (Mert), typical of so many pundits today, don't properly understand the Laws of the game. http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/attachment.php?attachmentid=1895

This. On another day he would have been getting absolutely slated if the opposition had taken full advantage. He also several times stood rooted (a la Johnno Quick) not really knowing what to do. He more than made up for this with his attacking play and of course the goal which not only was a beauty but had the effect of lifting the team and restoring their confidence. I don't agree that defensively he is better than Cedric, who apart from his last game against Spuds has been defensively sound for some time now.

He wasn't. Try checking out the highlights, Mertesacker was level and Koscielny was about a yard behind when Clasie passed the ball. It really is quite clear, stop persisting with your nonsense, you are as bad as Wenger.

Romeu for Clasie, if Clasie is not fit, only change I would make unless Cedric is fit (and it would be harsh on Martina to drop him after his attacking performance yesterday). We need to bear in mind that Romeu, JWP and Fonte are all on 4 bookings, they all need to avoid a yellow tomorrow in what may be a very physical game, as Wet Spam have reverted to physicality since their injury-list inspired slump in form. Just hope that some of our players who ran themselves into the ground yesterday (Long and Davis especially) are fit to go again for 90 minutes less than hours later.

Agreed. His treatment of Long when he was injured (from yet another unpunished foul) was also laughable, although I suspect it was a blood injury and so technically he was correct to get Long to leave the pitch, but the way he handled decisions was just a complete joke. He seems incapable of communication with the players so as to explain his decisions, in most cases because his decisions are inexplicable Don't want the criticism of the referee to detract from our performance, he didn't actually make any difference, but it is buffoons like him that give PL referees a bad name.