VectisSaint

First goal against West Ham? If you watch the game against Arsenal you will see that he makes Yoshida look positively world class when it comes to defending (which he isn't at RB). He was hopelessly out of position so many time, but Fonte got him out of a hole time and again in the first half. He has played 5 times now, hardly condemning his straight away.

He was injured mid December (pulled his hammy in training after the 2-2 draw with Brighton). Hasselbaink says he will be out for a few more weeks yet. He has already missed half of Rangers games this season due to injury. Do we really need another injured striker?

Yes and no. Clasie went off at 67, Jose scored at 69. JWP went off 71, Long scored 4th on 90+

David. Martina was awful, defensively. His goal and his attacking play were great, but really he is very poor at the defensive side of his game. The other thing is that Stephens is no longer at Boro, he has been back with us for a while. His loan will presumably be cancelled tomorrow (or whenever transfers can actually be made), until then he cannot play for us. You can see him quite clearly in training videos, he also travelled with the squad to West Ham earlier in the week. Hopefully he is going to be given a chance, although he made hardly any appearances for Boro he did show in the league cup against ManU that he is reasonably good..

But these weren't the only players that we moved on in the summer of 2015, we also stopped paying Cropper, Hooiveld, Mayuka, Osvaldo, Rowe, Sinclair and Johns.

It was also being reported that Palace are after him. Rangers want to sell him, and he wants a permanent move sorted out, unless Saints are prepared to convert him to a permanent then he is likely going to be out of here this month. Personally I would not want to sign him, if Gardos is expected back soon, we also have Jack Stephens back.

Can't drop Vic, because Romeu is suspended. Not that I think Ronald would drop him anyway.

Apart from Arsenal I don't actually recall him getting cramp before. Lallana always used to get subbed around 75 minutes. Shaw often got cramp.

Not exactly HCDAJFU but I see Caulker is being lined up for a permanent move to Palace. Probably not too big an issue if Gardos is close to a return and Jack Stephens is available (I see the OS said that Stephens was not involved for Boro, perhaps they could have mentioned it was because he is back with us). Caulker moving would also free up a loan space if there is any truth in the Chambers rumour.

Martina, Yoshida, de Ridder. I guess Pelle, Tadic and Clasie might not be considered cheap. Van Dijk and Stek via other clubs and not cheap.

I can't remember which game it was, but he was already tried at RB a couple of years ago, and was awful. He really has none of the attributes of a modern full back, can't tackle and is slow. Would be a terrible move. The days of playing your worst players at full back have long gone, thank goodness.

This is very true. In fact in a fight to avoid relegation it is much more important to beat the teams below you. Not losing against Norwich is important. The Arsenal win though was important , it means we now need only 16 points to stay up, though its possible 18th place could be more than 40 points this year. 16 points from 19 games would seem to be achievable. But does tend to indicate how poor we have been this season compared to the last 2 seasons. We have seriously regressed.

Played 90 minutes yesterday, including assist for 2nd goal. Is Waljer injured?

Assist was taken away when they changed the goal to an own goal. Tadic now has the assist. Bloody stupid but there you are.

He missed most of our pre-season, then came back and then got injured again. Effectively he had little or no worthwhile pre-season. You will not see the best of Claise now until next season. But he will still be effective in the games he does play as he was for 67 minutes on Saturday.

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.