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Richard Chaplow. Close the poll. He started the season on the bench, Lallana got injured, he came in and stamped his authority all over the pitch. He diminished the loss to Lallana, which is no small feat. MOTM against West Ham, MOTM against Boro. And while I know it's now November, I wouldn't put it past him being MOTM tonight. Great player, and great management to get the best out of him.

You, sir, may have just made my day!

Awesome, all the passes, the little flicks, the awareness of where the opposing players are. I hope we play like this at Elland Road - I wasn't alive at the time, but I've seen video footage of when Leeds made us look stupid with their passing. Play like this, and we'd go a long way to making up for that.

Looking at those fixtures, what I can deduce, is that we're really in for a tough second half to the season.

In the Predo league I went for 2-1. It'll be interesting though, Adam will be itching for a good performance since his return from injury, I reckon De Ridder will make a big impact on this game too, and goals for Rickie MUST be on the cards. Yes they're good in attack, but our defence is looking a lot tighter as of recently, so they'll find it tought to break through, and that will create space for us to create chances. I wouldn't be suprised though if Adkins started Harding in place of Fox, to tighten up at the back,

He's exceeded expectations since he joined and, as much as we all love Fonte, has become the first CB name on the teamsheet. A must sign imo, he looks so composed, and would definitely make the step up to the Premiership, should we get there next season. Fingers crossed Cortese can sort something out, as Jaidi is, sadly, at the end of his career and Seaborne still recuperating. That said, maybe he was a six month looan because Cortese or Adkins had a better target in mind in January...

I agree. Matt Le Tissier should buy two seats.

A couple of years ago, I wanted to buy a (faux) leather beanbag to fit in my new house. My mum asked what I wanted for Christmas, so I asked her for one instead. What I ended up with was a lurid Green Fabric oversized slab of a beanbag. (Always buy something you really want yourself!) This beanbag is nice. (But I don't need one anymore.)

Nearly two hattricks in that game too, Guly and Fonte! I think he's won his right to start in the front two, but I think even if he hadn't, that's where he'd have found himself, based IMO on Chaplow's form and the return of Lallana. Chapper HAS to be in the starting XI, and with Lallana reclaiming his position in the left, and Cork/Hammond/ Morgan favoured in the centre, the only spot remaining is on the right.

Here's the thread - http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?25200-Adkins-appointed&highlight=Nigel+Adkins+appointed - looks like a lot of happy people at the time...

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Manager of the Month? It's between him, Freedman and Hughton IMO.

Ooh, a nice birthday present for Frazer Richardson too, result wise. Shame he couldn't play on his birthday, but Happy Birthday anyway Fraze!

I'll be stuck in the bowels of Terminal 4 for this one - no phone reception, no computer, no radio. The only link I have to the outside world will be teletext. God bless it. As I can't listen to it, I guarantee it will be a cracker. :-(

Great win. Just saw the highlights on iPlayer and Fonte could have had a hattrick! It's a shame they only showed the last bit of Connolly's goal too. Keep it up lads!

:-D Sorry, I was being a pedant! I think if we play as well as we can, the only game I think we have the potential to struggle in is, ironically, Bristol City away. But stranger things have happened, our form can't last forever. Can it?

"How many points CAN we get?" Well we CAN get 15! "How many WILL we get?" Hmmm, 13 IMO, if we play as well as we know we can in every match.

A fit Lallana will make a massive difference, remember we went through nearly a whole month of tough fixtures without him and came out unbeaten in the league. A fit Adam will raise our game even more, and if we play as well as we have seen his season in every game, there's no reason why we can't win every game. Optimistic, yes. OTT? No. We're that good at the moment, there can't be one Saints fan on the planet who could have forseen this!

Last season, I was massively in favour of Butters, who was miles better than what I saw of Richardson. This season, Frazer has been the balls. Frazer should be our number one IMO, but I still love Danny.

Great month. Adkins would get MOTMonth if it weren't for Dougie Freedman.

At first sight, I thought the first was Anders Limpar, but when you mentioned Asanovic it clicked. (Great player on one of the CM's)

I'm fat as a house, but luckily fit on one seat. I have to sit front row though, as I have a massive knob. P.s. I'm killing all you fattists, one by one, with my bucket of KFC. (once I've stripped said contents of secret herbs and spices and chicken.

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Connolly had his rest in midweek, I think NA will start with him as usual, but yes, I would like to see De Ridder be given a run on the wing to see what he can do. (Which would mean pushing Gools up front.) Incidentally, hypothetically, could you imagine a central midfield of Guly and Chaplow? If both were to take their proper positions, I feel we'd ship goals.