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Lol at the drama queen comment. Well I'm glad we agree then. Queeney.

Drank at the cricket club. What a lovely place to have a drink pre-match. Cheap and a nice game of cricket (well, cricket practice) to watch in the sun. Without a doubt the best part of the day.

Now you're just insulting fellow fans. We get it, you rate Wotton, fine, there's no need to accuse us all of being sheep just because we don't think he's good enough.

Threads about conceding from set peices, woeful performances, manager bashing, large away followings coming home disappointed... We've got our club back!

I disagree. Nobody wants to dislike our own players. I actually like Paul Wotton, I think he's extremely passionate and he clearly wants the best for SFC. However it is so plainly obvious that he has no skill, ability or confidence. As soon as he gets the ball he looks to hoof it at every opportunity, and even the hoofs don't reach a Saints player. Actually I do agree that he wasn't the worst. That goes to Lancashire or Thomas.

I genuinely like the bloke. He cares, has passion and wants to win. Unfortunately though he is nowhere near good enough and needs to be replaced. I think he's good back up, but nothing more than that. But please, please, if he plays on Saturday let's not get on his back. That's the last thing we need right now.

Agree with all you say apart from this. I feel sorry for Pato. He has a good game against Millwall, is then dropped and then played completely out of position at right wing. I agree that tonight he was poor, but that's because he is NOT a right winger. Upfront he causes problems and will turn out to be a good player for us, but Aaron Lennon he aint.

Yep, spot on. We lack all forms of leadership and have done for some time.

In that case please tell one of our midfielders this as soon as you can. Thanks. It's strange how a club captain at almost every club in the football league is a dominant figure and one who leads the team, yet some fans don't think we would benefit from having one.

That's what I was worried about. Hopefully he'll just assume that this was an off night and that we don't always perform like this... (haha yeah right). If he's as good as we hear though, we urgently need him or someone similar in the middle organising everything because at the moment, we have none of that.

First of all this is NOT an anti Kelvin Davis thread. I think he's brilliant and without him we would be well and truely screwed, and this is not a thread questioning his abilities as a captain. However, in my view we desperately need someone outfield who can tell these clueless morons who call themselves Saints players what to do. Kelv is too far away to influence anyone. We need someone in the midfield shouting and organising constantly but with Davis back in goal we don't get that. There was no communication at all tonight and it showed. I hope this Hammond fella is given the armband if signed.

Are you thinking of the time when he sliced the ball straight out of play in the second half? If so Thomas played it back to him on his left foot (Kelv is right footed) at about 100mph, so it's not surprising it was a poor clearance. I can't think of too many times he gave it away other than that though?

It's so obvious. Gillett = Good passer, demands the ball, wins tackles, calm on the ball. Wotton = Hoofs everything, can't tackle, too slow, perfect Saints player really.

FOR F**KS SAKE THAT WAS PATHETIC. AAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGHHHHH. Right got that out of the way. Just got home after watching the most gutless, woeful, inept performance I've seen from Southampton for many years - in fact I can't remember many worse. One up front has never worked for any club, I've always said that and against a team like Swindon it's a disgrace that we played that formation. It showed right from the start that we were scared of them and would not be attacking them. I bet Swindon couldn't believe their luck when they saw Lambert alone up front. Pardew is starting to look a LOT like Burley. Playing people out of their positions and making substitutions way, way too late. Every single Saints fan there tonight realised something needed changing after about 5 minutes, but Pardew took 80 minutes to make ANY changes what so ever in terms of formation or subs. Pathetic. He brought on Rasiak with 1 minute of stoppage time left, embarrassing and so frustrating. We have a midfield who clearly don't want the ball and a team who don't want to give it to them, yet we have a player in Gillett (who always demands the ball and does something positive with it) sitting on the f**king bench. Brilliant. My player ratings, for what they're worth: Davis 10 - No reason why not to give him full marks. Without him it would have been 3 or 4. Harding 7 - One of the only players who can hold their head up high after tonight Thomas 2 - Totally unprofessional. Starting arguing with their fans after one of two of them gave him some stick. Lost his man every single time, including their goal. Lancashire 1 - I'm sure this guy is a nice lad, but he is a bad footballer. James 4 - Had energy but was always the wrong side of his marker for each set peice. Gave the ball away a lot. Patterson 4 - Not his fault Pardew played him on right wing. What the hell was AP thinking? Lallana 5 - Tried his hardest to do something, but never really did. Wotton 2 - Hoof. Hoof. Hoof. Rubbish. If only he was a good player, because he clearly cares, but he's not good enough. Schneiderlin 3 - Too weak. Did try hard though. Mellis 6 - Looks a decent prospect actually. Lambert 4 - Missed a sitter and his free kicks weren't great either but he played alone upfront and had no service at all, so can't be blamed. Pardew 0 - Clueless. Hope this isn't a sign of things to come with him. It's not even worth rating the subs as they didn't have long enough to do anything. I'm glad that's off my chest, but it needed to be said. If we don't bring in at least 2 players before Brentford we will definately lose. I'm not a doom and gloom merchant at all, but after watching that tonight it's clear the players we have aren't good enough and we need new personel urgently. Ffs.

I just pray he wasn't there to witness that shambles tonight. If he was I'm sure he'll be re-thinking this move. ****ing hell we were ****e...

Do you work for the Merlin by any chance?

You're quite worried that we're signing proven players in the league we're new to? You're not really? Are you?

But you're being moronic now for thinking you were being ironic when in fact there was no irony at all in what you said. I think you mean 'sarcastic'. Tut tut. Anyway, really strange that we've put this up on the OS before the deal is completed and it makes you wonder if another club are trying to come in for him. Hopefully it'll all go through ASAP though, it seems there are only good things written about this guy. Good work if it goes through AP.

Nelson... No no not after Horatio Nelson no no, after Nelson Mandela. Who they locked up, just 'cause he was black. Great man great dog, so...

Are you mental? Are you f**king mental??

That's 5 seconds of each of our lives we'll never get back. Thanks.

http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=15959 I think it's a mis-quote anyway, see what AP said in his pre Swindon interview.

Will any other Saints fans be drinking in the Cricket club next door to the stadium? Apparently it often has plenty of away fans and is cheap. Might try it out seeming as I plan on parking there too.

Yes and it's dreadful, whereas the Torres one sounds great. Silly Mancs.

Brilliant that we'll have over 3000 fans there, and even more brilliant that we'll be home in no time after the game to crack open the celebratory drinks as early as possible. Come on you...er... Blue and Yellows?