VectisSaint

Bristol City away would not be a problem, just wear our home shirt and they'll think you are a local.

Mike Pollitt, over 500 league appearances for various clubs, including 36 for Wigan. Might be 41 but hardly lacking in experience.

Next season

Based on one game this season, its difficult to know whether this is a worrying trend or not. I don't recall Saints resorting to "hitting high balls towards Rickie Lambert (and, now, Daniel Osvaldo)" on Saturday, at least not often. I think we showed plenty of invention on Saturday and on another day and with a different ref might have scored 3 or 4, but it is always going to be difficult to break down a team who go one up so early and then park the bus. The defensive lapse was unacceptable, but their scorer was very clever peeling off the back of the defensive mob, and made the goal because of his size not in spite of it. Lambert and Chambers did not react to what was clearly happening behind the backs of the defenders who were "marking" the main aerial threats and that is a lesson that we have to learn (and that our future opponents might try to exploit). Nonetheless if anyone is going to plug the leaks in our defence I would put some faith in MP. Only time will tell if we still do have a problem with weaker teams at home, far too early to conclude so far.

He didn't get between anyone, he peeled off of the back of the group of players and found himself in space latterly vacated by SRL and not picked up by Chambers either. Man on the post would have made no difference, issue is that he was allowed to get away from the other players and those in the right area were asleep.

Too big, poor quality, badly edited content (check out the dates of birth for some of our players who seem to have been born the same day as Kelvin, as my nipper noticed). One of several things that I found disappointing about the "match day experience". Seeing lots of stripes about the city and realising they were Mackems. The new shirt is tacky, if I wanted to support Bristol City or Arsenal I would.

Helped them get their first point of the season last night. Past his best when he joined us but always gave his best and was a positive contributor on and off the field, hope he does well.

Let's hope that Roger does not notice this thread. Will Adam start today? Personally hope he does, but he does need to improve some aspects of his game, but I believe his form at end of last season was still a hangover from his injury. I would be glad to see him get his rewards for his loyalty.

One of those instances where last year's form has zero bearing on this year. Different manager and completely (?) different team. Apart from their name they bear absolutely no relationship to the team we played last season.

Very good. I wonder how many in St Marys know the tune though. You will have to pay me 10% every time we sing it for more than 20 seconds.

Will be a massive disappointment if he does not score with his first touch. He surely must follow the example of SRL England Goal Machine.

Ballad of John and Yoko might be more appropriate if his t-shirt when he arrived at SMS is anything to go by. I do like this guy, has decent taste in music. Still a bit concerned about players wearing glasses though.

To be fair apart from his age I would love to have Berbatov at St Marys. He is a class player and would have suited our system ideally, his vision and movement off the ball is brilliant and he scores as many as SRL. As for Bent they are welcome to him, useless pile of ****.

Its either Bale or Messi.

Point is Gaston is on the bench, Yoshi is not, same game, same flights, why is one jet lagged and not the other. I am guessing Yoshi may have picked up a knock, didn't people say he had an awful game, maybe knock might explain that a bit. Anyway he's not playing and to be honest didn't expect him to start today, just surprised MP has gone with Jose rather than Jos based on pre-season.

Scored one more than Corky.

Did Yoshida pick up a knock mid-week? No Guly or Punch even in the squad. Would have preferred Davis over JWP. Did we play Fonte and Lovren together in pre-season? Slightly strange looking team in my view, but lets see what happens, would take a draw.

Ditto, never get excited about England these days, but let out almighty yell when that went in.

Are we signing Danny Wellbeck?

Quite right, in fact he didn't get into the Scotland team at all, not even into the 29-man squad named by WGS. That really does show to me the level of his ability. Scotland have a complete dearth of talent these days, and yet Danny is not even considered good enough to make the preliminary squad. His defending is awful, primarily his positional sense, and as a result he pulls his partners in defence out of position, which usually exposes Hooiveld who is not the greatest or Yoshida. Usually when playing alongside a 17/18 year old both look capable, if not outstanding. People seem to have this idea that just because you don't think a player is good enough that you can ship him out, completely naive view of those who play FM or the like. Fox will be quite a high earner and there is no-one going to take him off our hands who could afford his wages, so we are a bit stuck with him. Hopefully Clyne will be fit for Saturday, if so I would rather see Clyne play LB (where he has proved he is as good as he is at RB) and play Cork or Chambers on the right.

But he hasn't had a full pre-season, he's had the shortest pre-season of any of our players. Bloody Confed Cup.

Someone should tell him he has until 2nd Sep

No, I think he is a defender.

Usually only awarded to a player after 10 years service, sometimes less in special circumstances. Think KD would need at least another 3 years to qualify. Lallana is the only other player that will even get close in the next few years, and he would still be some years away from retirement. Testimonials are much rarer these days, they used to be granted more in the days when players did not earn megabucks as they were a way of providing a last decent pay day.

Did Glen (not that one before Dalek wakes up) play for them? If there is one team that does not need a new brand name its the Spuds. "Hotspur" is almost unique, even Spurs. Personally think Spuds or Yobbos would be better. Man Citeh would become the Manchester Golden Eagles (or just Eagles) and surely Liverpool would become the Liver[pool] Birds or perhaps the Hubcaps.