VectisSaint

Sounds sadly familiar, seems like we are making sure that all of our teams have the same in-built suicidal tendency.

Fair play then, the art of standing still is much maligned. I do it a lot

I understood Lee won and scored the first penalty. Maybe he didn't play very well, but surely our goal counts as a memorable incident, as would his later miss. So thats 2 memorable incidents that Lee was involved in.

Commentators said on the slow mo replay that it was clear pen, given by the Lineo (I'm not watching by the way, just listening on SP, gave up with that awful video link after removing several malicious files and so on)

At least don't let him take 2 in one game

Probably for the handball by Lindard which lead to his sending off

United down to 10 men, Lee's 2nd penalty brilliantly saved

Let's hope the other 10 back him up...

Good idea, no pre-season, played 1 match in the year 2012, and people moan about Boruc being off the pace and overweight...

I wonder who will be managing us? It is though a reflection on modern day football, I really don't know what would not be classed as boring by some on here. I guess if it is so boring the Club will not bother opening the ends or the Kingsland for the game, just use the Itchen.

Yes, thank you we knew that, we were looking for the rearranged date, think that was pretty obvious from my response :-)

Stop wearing a white t-shirt under a black top at press conferences, it makes you look like a vicar.

No, looked on BBC and Chelski, perhaps its not arranged yet, I guess it would have gone on the free FA Cup w/e in Feb but thats impossible now.

When is the rearranged Chelsea league game? Thought I would look it up on the OS, silly me, its not listed :-(

Why the **** does the English FA Cup have to be sponsored by a crap US "beer" (not sure if it really should even be called beer). By the way there is no need for the either/ors from 45 to 64, most of the games were played yesterday. In particular Tommy Fourpast only let 2 past for the Gills against PNE, they really must be poor.

They have learned how to defend. Now all NA has to find is a formula that allows us to do both. Despite what Adkins says about us scoring goals it is not true, our goals have dried up, but then so have our goals against. Its a fine balance, and we are not the only ones who have made this change, Norwich for example, Hughton has turned them from a team that conceded lots to a team that are difficult to beat.

Probably just as well, we look knackered when we play 3 games in 7 days, at least we don't have to do that again this year.

Why do we only get one O in Southamptn? There is plenty of space for our second O :-) Bloody media bias.

Just wondering from today's stats, Liverpool had 24 shots, 11 on target. I guess one of those was the goal, so did Gazza have 9 or 10 saves to make (hitting the woodwork does not count as on target)? Because in previous matches he has actually had precious little to do apart from the goals which has been a testament to our better defensive organisation - one terrific save against Newcastle but hardly any other shots on target. My concern with Gazza has mainly been about whether he can actually make saves because there has been little evidence so far.

I didn't see Spurs so cannot comment. Against Villa he looked full of running and enthusiasm, but his touch was woeful, Bambi on ice sort of thing, and he was only on the pitch for 15 minutes when we were 3-1 up. Not knocking him by any means, just saying we haven't really seen enough of him to make any judgements, and I don't understand why, can only assume that Adkins does not see much from him in training. Perhaps after today Adkins may think about making some changes, 5 games with unchanged side, and first defeat I can understand why he kept the same team. I think a couple of changes might freshen things up.

The way things are going we may not have the worst goals against column for much longer...Reading currently 27 against with 1.5 matches in hand over us (32)

Unless he gets some games, its debatable whether he will even go to the Africa Cup (actually I'm sure he will). Zambia must be wondering why their star player is not even getting a game at the moment, he will hardly be match-sharp. Must admit from what I've seen I've not been impressed, apart from his enthusiasm, but like most have hardly seen anything at all as yet. I think this week has highlighted that our squad depth is not what it needs to be, we have a decent 1st XI but we don't have much to bring in when needed.

You're not too keen on Yoshida are you...

Think we may be struggling because of the white kit, not used to playing in it, must have confused some of our players.

Don't see it myself, apart from Suarez and possibly Gerrard (who is way past his best), they really are lacking in any real talent. IMHO.