VectisSaint

Agreement was with previous holding company, probably no legal obligation for present company to reintroduce free bus travel.

I think Nixon should be impeached.

This is rumour of new stadium sponsor, St Mary's in future will be renamed Gordon's Gin Joint.

Sharp came on as sub twice, if he didn't touch the ball in those 2 appearances then maybe it says something about whether he was good enough for the PL. In fact I think he did have a few touches. Hammond was struggling to get into the team regularly in the Championship, I think it was fairly obvious he was surplus to requirements. Personally i would have kept Sharp, I think he could have been useful in some circumstances, but with the needs of the squad rules it has left us potentially with a couple of spaces for free agents (assuming the so-called GK rules really are tosh).

Talented bloke, all this and part of the Velvet Underground as well. Star man.

I said some rather harsh things about Woolnough and his chums on a thread a few weeks ago, stand by my sentiments but sad to see a familiar face go, and in very tragic circumstances. Wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy.

OK, whatever you say, he is clearly just the guy we need, fully fit, raring to go, no issues at all. Luckily for Saints you are not the one who sorts out contracts. We don,t need a 3rd choice crocked has-been .

So you would ignore the knee tendon and cruciate anterior ligament injuries he has suffered since retunring from his two arm breakages (same arm broken twice). I never said he was injury prone (although the evidence is that he is), I said he is crocked, and it would seem Sunderland seem to share this view hence his release. Its a shame for him, but in the end some footballer's careers are cut short by injury, Gordon appears to be one such. If we are looking for a free agent keeper, surely Boruc is a (slightly) better option than Gordon, at least he has played regularly for the lasy few seasons (can't say I have ever seen him play), Wet Sham decided not to pursue him after a trial recently I believe.

Which Pele? Edson Arantes do Noscimento or the real one?

I think this is the clue.. He isn't. He has played 16 games in 2 years. Cortese is not being stubborn just sensibly does not want to pay someone to sit in the treatment room. Move on, there is a reason why he is a free agent, and it is because he is crocked.

Sounds like lazy "journalism" to me, but would be more sensible than the moronic suggestions of Dino Redknapp (just).

You forgot Fox. Yoshida was pulled out of position because Fox was not defending properly. This is happening time and again, where Fox leaves the Left CB exposed, who then goes to try to cover and it pulls the remaining back 3 apart and leaves huge gaps. Yoshida could probably have done better (especially if he had been on the pitch more than a few minutes) but the root cause is Fox's defending.

And how will you respond if it doesn't go tits-up? I expect in the same way you always respond, negatively. Why don't you just for once wait and see. If we lose to Villa feel free to come out with the usual "told you so" stuff and nonsense, regardless of the result or performance.

I think anyone who seriously thinks NC would sack Adkins to bring in Redknapp is seriously deluded. He may sack Adkins (hope he doesn't) but no way on earth would he appoint that or any other dinosaur. If he does sack Adkins it will be to bring in someone that fits his philosophy. If he is as ruthless as some suggest (and there is no evidence to say that he is, Pardew was a different kettle of fish) then he will already have someone lined up and it will almost certainly be a foreign (Italian) coach.

Fair point, but would you want to risk Gazza next week in a winnable game against Villa, or would it be better to trust what we know. What if Gazza had a Bart? Could destroy his confidence and leave us with no backup? Difficult call, but I guess Adkins sees them on the training ground and he is the one that has to make a judgement. If it was down to me I'd tell Davis he is in the last chance saloon, stick with him for Villa, play Gazza against Wednesday, and take it from there

Thanks, I watched the game on Sky anticipating seeing some good stuff from him in the 2nd half, good old Sky cut out the good stuff and then subject us to Bertie Dino Bassett, perhaps I should have watched the Beeb's dinosaurs instead (Hanson and the Boy LineAker that is, not Shearer - I believe the Slug Balancer was not let out of the Care Home for MOTD last nght).

Funny how the memory plays tricks, I had it in my mind that it was actually 7-1, I'm getting old (I checked it and it was 6, yesterday I made some comment about 7)

I watched the highlights on Sky, did they not show some of his play, because apart from the pass (or was it a shot) to Lambert, every time he got the ball he gave it away (I counted 4 times). Now I was watching closely because I wanted to see him play because he was getting good reviews on here during the game, but the highlights didn't seem to match up with the comments. The highlights on Sky are pretty extensive, so they really must have cut out a lot of our better stuff.

To be frank, he was never that good, he always had the weaknesses he is showing now, no command of his box, poor distribution, poor at corners, his one saving grace was that he was a great shot stopper. He did OK for us in L1 and admittedly did seem to have improved a bit last season, but to say he has been so good in the past is a case of rose-tinted spectacles in my opinion. It seems that Adkins knows how to play on the pitch, but has a blind spot when it comes to keepers, which is surprising given his own playing career was between the sticks.

He is not exempt from criticism. But he played quite well yesterday, and prevented Arsenal scoring a lot more, their main threat came down their left side and Clyne and Fonte did well against that. True, more goals came from our right, but that's what happens when that is the side where the opposition has the threat. I assume you did not see the Clyne own goal, not a lot he could have done about that. The truth is that Fox is a liability, hopelessly out of position time and time again, making it very difficult for Hooiveld/Yoshida to cover, and they end up being dragged out wide to the left to cover the huge hole that Fox leaves. In the end it comes down to the simple fact, Clyne is raw, young talented full back who clearly has the ability and can improve. Fox is just out of his depth and does not seem to understand the basics of defending, and will be used less and less in set pieces and in attack now that we have other options (Davis and Ramirez for corners). Clearly Adkins knew that Fox was not good enough and tried to do something about it by signing Buttner, but that little **** ****ed us around when Manure came sniffing and left us without other better options apparently (although I think Yoshida would be good at LB if Hooiveld is fit).

Your maths is shocking as well

Actually Swansea had 2 of the top teams in the first 4 (started against Citeh like us) and had Chelsea in 6th game, so their start was none too shabby either. Note that Norwich are yet to win this season. Interesting to look at the PL table, there are still 8 teams including us yet to win this season (OK, I know Stoke have yet to lose either) but that is a very high proportion of teams without a win after 4 rounds of matches.

Yesterday it was Fonte, but previous games Clyne has shown he is good enough. Hooiveld is not good enough and Fox is crap. Davis is a liability. Yoshida looks good. Ireally think its too soon for Gazza. Yesterday the real problem was the MF 3 were overrun by very good Arse MF, they were far better than Manure or Citeh.

Better than Harry Bassett on Sky, basically said we did not have PL players and we are in big trouble. Seemed quite please about it as well. He really is an ignorant dinosaur, the sooner people like him and that other Arry **** disappear from football the better.

Thank God, I was beginning to despair of reading anything sensible on here any more. This is a top post but will sadly be wasted on some of our dimmer posters.