VectisSaint

It was probably at his christening.

Yep, 2011 already

There was a lot of rubbish spouted about DC and his injuries, according to the man himself he was fit nearly all of the last season with use. I think even the Skates would not have signed him unless he was fit, even they are not so stupid as to sign someone on a month's ontract without checking out his fitness beforehand (are they?).

With the rain we are having signing a Wellington might be a wise move. Just hope he has no beef with the English weather.

or Dyer (Nathan variety)

Doesn't seem to be doing Nathan Dyer too much harm

Usual moronic vitriol on the Echo site from so-called saints supporters. DC was always a decent player for us and a decent bloke, did they really expect him to say when he signed for them, this is a **** club and I intend to take then down another division. Glad that he has found some gainful employment even if he is playing for a lost cause, basket case club, just hope he actually gets paid. I'm sure we didn't all call Channon, Davies and Stokes Skate ******s just because they spent some time in the twilight of thier careers helping out our poor, ungrateful neighbours. Cannot see what motivates people to write abusive stuff, calling people ******s etc in a public forum such as the Echo, really shows what a load of idiots we, like most other clubs, have in our midst.

And you accused me of being on my high horse. Your high-horsemanship is outweighed only by your pomposity.

Did Adkins go defensive? Did Stoke come out and play very differently in the 2nd half after a hair dryer half time from Pulis. Some people seem to forget that a football match includes 2 teams. We were dominant in the 1st half, but Stoke were also appalling (nevertheless they should have had 2). Anyone who cannot see some positives from yesterday really should hang their head in shame, we battered Stoke for 45 minutes, playing them at their own game. 3 goals scored at the Britannia, only 4 goals conceded in their previous 11, I really do wonder about some of our (Arsenal) supporters.

Ill-advised to leave Saints, as a Saints supporter that is what I think. Maybe you think otherwise. He was advised to leave too soon as soon as the £££s were on the table, money isn't everything, believe it or not.

Don't buy this fitness thing. He was still full of running after 102 minutes yesterday and is the only player that we have that is able to hold the ball up, something we will definitely need. I would be staggered if NA drops him to the bench against the Arse. I also hope that we don't get Fox back in, would be a disaster if we have him up against Oxo (assuming Theo plays as striker as this seems to be his position now).

Claus was the same, but never stopped him being played. I hate smoking and agree no professional sportsman should smoke, but in reality it makes little difference at his age, and is of less consequence to a goalkeeper than an outfield player. Many footballers smoke, they also drink heavily, not good but really should not be a factor for a fit young (compared with me) footballer.

Can only assume you mean Mr Mark Chamberlain, if so I could live with that, assuming he is at the game. Booing Mr Oxlade-Chamberlain would be a different matter, no reason to boo him, just because he was ill-advised by his Skate dad.

Wow, one of Gazza's biggest pluses over KD is his distribution. The fact that he actually gives it to one of our players and doesn't kick into touch like KD usually does for a start. KD used to have one strong point, his shot stopping. Well, I think even that is now a bit suspect, 2nd goal yesterday was a dolly and he let it squirm through his hands (sorry don't buy the unsighted argument, if he was unsighted why did h get his hands round the ball).

Happy New Year Alpine. Thank you for one of the funniest posts I have ever seen. Sorry I was a bit late getting to it. Love it.

Glad someone else noticed it. I'm not 100% convinced, very difficult to tell, but the more I see it the more I think he controlled it with his right arm. Still what goes around comes around, Fonte's handball was nailed on, and he would have been red carded. Yoshi's was so straight forward, not deliberate imo. Davis is awful, flapping again, lets hope his little injury is not too insignificant and NA has to choose Artur.

Unless you were one who said this, I don't know why you even care. Did you say this? Have you been back and edited your post to try to cover your embarrassment? Lighten up, its Christmas. Perhaps you get embarrassed about people wearing Santa costumes as well, or cringe when Sammy Saint does the Gangnam Style thing. Happy New Year.

The Lambert out movement is a figment of your imagination, a bit like the Cult of Cortese. Doesn't get away from the fact that a number of people were seriously suggesting that Lambert was past it, too slow and should be dropped, especially for the Stoke game.

6-3 now. & would make their goal diff the same as ours, and also equal our goals conceded. They are deffo being sucked in.

Unlikely that they will have changed things much by 12th January, most January business is done on the 31st.

38 or 39 should be enough this season, because of the way the bottom few teams have played so far (including us). Shame we didn't get 3 today as that would have put us exactly half way there. We just need to improve on our first half season haul by 4 points and we will be OK. Despite some disappointment today we are back in touching distance of everyone up to 12th, just need the Arse to do the business against Newcastle today, shame Ba just equalised.

Feck me I wish people would understand it is "top drawer" (sorry Trousers not aimed at you but the Solentsport tweety ****).

Bonus point, we really should not have expected anything today, shame we did not hold on to lead, but if you had asked me before the game I would have taken a point. There was at least one poster predicting 0 points from this and the following 4 games. Scoring 3 at Stoke, when they had only conceded 4 in previous 11 is fecking amazing, just a shame I have the Stoke keeper in my Sun Dream Team.

There were some who were saying it, for sure. They are probably editing their posts right now LOL

And there were quite a few on here who suggested he was crap and should be dropped.