VectisSaint

Natural goal scorer when there is no offside rule maybe.

Suggested it a few days ago, hijack the Notts County deal which seems to hinge on Sol being offered a coching role by Sven.

Did read your post sunshine, and I will confirm that your assessment of the weaknesses of Harding and Murty are wrong. Harding has reasonable pace, i saw on Tuesday him dealing with a very pacy winger, and he did a very good job. You said another of his weaknesses is he doesn;t get forward. Well that is incorrect as well, sunshine. That is not his weakness but a weakness of the headless chicken ahead of him. Harding would have been ignoring his primary role if he had got forward much on Tuesday. His first priority is defence, if he has cover from MF then get forward, but he cannot rely on Lallana to cover therefore he has to do his duty. You said Murty's weaknesses were that he was small, slow and doesn't get forward much. Well 2 out of 3 is bad in this case. He is not small, and he does get forward, at least on the evidence I saw against Millwall. 5'10 is above average height for a British man, may not be tall but to say he is small is ridiculous. If you had said one of his weaknesses was that he was fat then that would have made more sense, because he is!! I never said that you had said any of the players were crap, you have made that up. So, in future when you write something try reading what you write before posting, and try to see if the words you have written (a) make sense and (b) bear any resemblance to real facts. Then try reading what intelligent people write in reply and you may realise that you are not the great intellect that you think you are sunshine.

Radley College (Minor Public School) and Reading Uni actually. Still, agree with the sentiment, minor toff with sawdust for brains...

Splinters

To be honest I think the answer to that one is pretty obvious. Only Surman and JPS will be missed, and I think Surman was overrated (lack of pace was his biggest problem). JPS was also a bit of a liability at times. Harding makes Rudi look very ordinary as a LB. BWP, at lease we won't be offside so often.

Completely and utterly wrong about Harding, cannot get forward when there is no support from his MF partner (Adam headless chicken Lallana). Best player on the pitch for uson Tuesday. Largely incorrect about Murty (though will agree he is not quick). Probably agree about Mellis, but he should be played wider and not in CM, I suspect with Hammond that he will not be played there again. Lambert, well he may not be the most mobile, but you don't score 29 in a season if you are not very good, just needs the right service.

Read the article again and you'll see that he hasn't even got that, he actually lost money. As I always referred to him, Nice but Dim, and now I'm not even sure about Nice.

A team that is not tinged with the losing mentality: Poke, Murty, Trotman, Thomas, Harding, Mellis, Hammond, Gillett, Schneiderlin, Rasiak, Lambert Only pre-Pardew Saints I would use at the moment would be: Rasiak (not here last year) Schneiderlin (used to success with France u21) Gillett (mostly because there is not much option, but I think he is what we need in MF) Thomas (didn't play under Agents Orange) Poke (success with Torquay, used to winning) I know the last one is controversial, but I don't agree that Davis should be automatic choice. He is part of the problem, not the solution. Great shot stopper, crap at corners, poor at kicks and distribution. Once we get back to a winning/not losing mentality then bring some of the other players who are clearly talented back in. I cannot put up with any more of the negative football I saw on Tuesday night, back passes to the GK who then gives it to an opponent either directly or via a throwin.

Wouldn't you refuse to go to Millwall?

If so then its bad editing, Harding was far and away our best player, in fact he was probably our only player that looked like he knew what he was doing and gave a ****.

he should move his Mali HQ to Southampton then...

No, no, no. We don't need any Slade favs. I really dislike Noddy Holder and I'm not sure about his scouting credentials.

Thought I read on here that JPS is ****ed off with how Wotte was treated and so does not want to be here

Can't we hijack Sol Campbell's move to Notts County?

They may have raised their game, can't comment as I did not see them play MK Dons, but they were still very poor, just made to look competent by our absolute crapness. If you give a team of schoolboys the complete run of the MF they would probably create some chances, thats what we did.

Agreed, Leicester did quite well last season as well. I've read nothing official, but I would suspect it is a loan with a view to a permanent deal. If the guy has been injured, then this is a low risk option, if his injury problems return then he will be let go, between now and January we will have a scouting network put in place again (we don't have one at present according to AP) and we can look out for another CB which we might or might not bring in based on the success of the loan. People knocking the loan system are just blinkered and don't really understand how modern football in the lower divisions work. Welcome Mr Trotman, looking forward to seeing an improvement in the back line.

Seem to recall McNamee played mostly on the right up against Harding, who frankly had him in his pocket for most of the game, given that he had little support from our MF. Unless I am mixing him up.

Swindon didn't need to raise their game. We were crap, so were they, just not as crap as we were.

Wins in bold Dream on... Seriously you look at that list, forget we are in League One and think we could beat all of them home or away, then you remember where we are and how we mullered Swindon

Who will pick the GK? AP picking subs is a bad idea, he doesn't know what to do with them even when he has 7 of them sitting alongside him. Maybe we should just form a cooperative and we will all pick the team and ensure that all players in the squad play an equal amount of time during the season and in every position on the pitch. Seems the fiarest way to me.

Why? Do you think we only need 2 or 3? Of course we need 4 strikers, maybe not the 4 we have but 4 is a minimum. I think its better that the manager picks the team, rather than have a system like the one Sven employed with England and Neville.

First thing to do is change the team captain to an outfield player. KD should however remain as Club Captain. In the modern game it is not acceotable to have a GK as team captain. the team captain must be involved in on pitch discussions with the Ref. Last night it was clear to me that Thomas was fulfilling this role, trouble is he is too hot-headed and was coming close to being sent-off. Hopefully Hammond is being brought in to fulfil this important role.

He only had to ask and I could have popped along on Saturday to see them against MK Dons. Scouting may be a problem, but this did not cause the abject performance last night. This is an excuse, but clearly something that does need sorting. I hope AP has not recently graduated from the "Burley School of Excuses".

You didn't watch the same game as me then. The 1st half was backwards football, sideways would have been a positive improvement. I have concluded that some of our players are not too bright and did not realise that we changed ends before kick-off