VectisSaint

Like it, must have been one of the biggest "shadows" ever, Desperate Dan becoming invisible, more likely to seem like an eclipse.

Excellent report, summed it up very well, we were absolute ****e, neutrals watching on TV must have wondered how the hell we are 2nd. But as you say, fortunately Villa were ****er. I even learned a new word "bunt" still don't really know what it means (some sort of American rounders term) but it does sort of sum up Mane's embarrassing effort early on. Why is it that we play badly like this sometimes, West Brom at home for instance? I did wonder whether the PL would investigate strange betting patterns after the performance on Monday night.

What we need is Gary Neville and our Black Box to recommend him

He already shares midfield with Morgan, I expect sharing his home with him as well is a step too far.

"Property worth millions is believed to have been taken" - millions of what? A Range Rover and 3 TVs are not going to be worth millions (of pounds). At least the other report in the other thread said it was thousands.

The extra 2 days rest worked well last night.

Why would anyone be surprised by Agbonlahor's speed? It is his greatest asset and what he is best known for in footballing terms.

Oh my God, another of the "Look how brilliant I am, I can prove all my arguments are right and I know everything there is to know about football and no-one else knows ****" poster. I thought we had enough of this "thrush" type on other threads. Clearly demonstrated that your understanding of football is questionable and your understanding of the concept of people having views contrary to your own is completely alien. If you cannot see some of the weaknesses of Forster's current game and cannot deal with people making a point about this without saying that the guy is complete horse crap, then really feel a Forum is not the place for you. Forster is 26, youngish for a keeper, and he will develop and will probably be a great keeper in time, but to just ignore his current failings and pretend they don't happen is just plain daft. He made a blunder last night, as Ron said "we are all human people", nothing wrong with that, but to ignore the other incidents and his nervousness which has been evident on several occasions this season is just ostrich-like. At times his body language reminds me of Gazza (just to be clear this is not saying he is better or worse or even comparable to Gazza, just a reference to a common trait in his behaviour on the pitch). It is concerning that we have a keeper who is anxious and indecisive when he is lined up behind the best back 6 in the premier league and one of the best in Europe. Its worrying, but there's nothing to be done about it other than just stick with it until hopefully his confidence improves, he is our No 1 keeper and will be for many years to come hopefully. Anyway, I guess as I know nothing about footballers i should just understand my place is in the wet bed and try to ignore any negatives with the team. I look forward excitedly to our match against Man City with confidence.

That's just daft, its the back 6 that have prevented the shots getting in, not the back 4. By the way the comment about least goals in Europe is wrong as well, we were 3rd least before tonight. Still only the rose-tinted specs brigade will continue to think that he's the greatest thing since sliced bread while shouting bed wetting at anyone who has a view that is based on reality.

It wasn't just his howler tonight, he looked nervous and indecisive on more than one other occasion, and not for the first time this season. He has hardly been troubled by shots on target so far this season because our MF/defence has stopped any shots coming in. He is great with crosses most of the time, his distribution is far better than Boruc, but sometimes he reminds me of Gazza, and tonight was one of those times. I still like and rate him, but he is not the greatest keeper in the world at the moment and there is no evidence yet that he is an upgrade on Boruc. I hope Desparate Dan proves me wrong.

Dreadful game, awful performance, we got a point thanks to Nat Forster gives me the willies, like having Gazza in goal tonight.

What game are watching? We have been as crisp as a soggy lettuce. Wanyama has been shocking. Missing Davis badly.

Villa bus delayed. Why do they use a bus?

Bournemouth, home and away.

We know Tadic is OK more interested to know about Steven Davis.

Assume that everone posting on here missed RK's presser. He is not coming bIf he did he would not get any more game time than he does now.ack on loan. End of.

Maybe we will have a white Xmas and all the games get postponed, that would solve the problem. Then we can play twice a week in Feb/Mar to catch up, with all the new players added to our squad in January. I don't believe for one moment that RK launched a tirade or anything approaching one, but I think he probably knew about this pretty soon after he took the job, if not before. It does disadvantage all but the very big clubs due to squad size, but that is what pre-season planning is partly about, ensuring that you have a deep enough squad to cover this part of the season, and despite all the "i told you so comments" by some of our posters on here, this is a little of what some people say we have not addressed. 18 players out and 7 in during the summer and 2nd place after 11 matches does not necessarily mean everything in the garden is rosy.

In Shane Long we trust.

TYpical, just as he looked like being effective, same old Gaston, but it really wasn't a red card.

Just enjoyed seeing him playing Poch at his own game, closing down the Spuds defence and forcing them into a mistake. Has actually looked quite good, would love to see him score against Spuds (but then I always enjoy anyone scoring against them).

You have to remember that journos are used to getting complete denials from managers from the likes of Redkrapp, and so when a proper manager denies something they just think "Arry" and assume he is lying like their fav media whore.

He is Australian, but both his parents have Greek ancestry (probably means his Grandparents were Greek). He has been with Saints since he was 14 (17 now) and before that was with Chelsea. I don't think going to Feyenoord will have anything to do with his nationality or visa type issues. Easier for him to get into England than any European nation as an Aussie.

I have my doubts that he will be with us beyond this season, sounds like he wants to play for AM again, but we will see, I have no doubts that he will give his all for us while he is here, great player in my view, yet another that complements Jose and forms a partnership where the sum of the parts is greater than the individuals.

Did Ron mention Cork? I've listened but didn't hear Jack mentioned at all. He was asked very specifically twice about Clyney and responded about him specifically. Did I miss something?

Really hard to see why it could possibly have turned into a "turkish bashing thread". After all your post was so nice and polite and at the time at least you were one of the most respected posters. What exactly were you right about by the way? Given you are right about everything its difficult to know what specifically you were right about in that particular thread. Clearly there were updates to the page after your nice, polite request was made, but seems to have lapsed again since. Does anyone genuinely look to this page regularly expecting to find news? Do we really pay to access the Latest News page? I thought the payment was to allow full use of the forum.