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Agree. Martin on, now!

They've done their homework imo.

Reading the better side although Guly doing well. Fonte deserved a sending off imo. Great save Kelvin!

Been saying it every transfer window. Class player, goal getter, young enough. Huddersfield would fight tooth and nail to keep him though.

Rotation can happen against Palace, keep a similar team to Tuesday imo.

We don't have anyone to replace Lambert should he drop out, nobody in his mold, which is why he's indispensible. Lambert is a quality player, other teams in this league this season that we've played have picked up on how much better they'd be with Lambert up front - there's a thread about it currently on the Derby forum, but we'd feel his absence less if we had decent back up. To me, Lallana is our key player because he can make stuff out of nothing, he can keep possession when it's needed, and is a goalscoring midfielder, something every successful team needs.

Good shout. After seeing Guly's performance on Tuesday, I think he's due a goal or three too. I won the battle of the two live matches against my missus. She's agreed to watch the Saints game live on Sky if I give her my SaintsPlayer log in so she can listen to the Norwich commentary on Norwich PLayer. w00T

We already have him.

I was there that night, getting well and truly baracked by my Palace supporting mate. It was freezing. Our best player on the night was Cork - the reason I was glad we signed him. Kuqi made us look stupid. Ray, my Palace mate, picked up on Lloyd James's performance at right back, saying he was quite good. Shows how much better our current position really is. I see Zoltan Liptak has joined Brighton on a trial...

Guly reminds me a lot like Kebe, if anything he has a better footballing brain. Kebe is a key player in Reading's side (could leave for free at the end of the season too), but I'd like to see Guly show him up tomorrow. With Fish in their team and a "what might have been" signing of Kaspars Gorkks at the back, it promises to be an interesting day.

re: Squad rotation, all I can say is I'm glad I'm not the manager. Chaplow, Morgan, Dean and Cork is four top midfielders at this level fighting for effectively two spots. For this, and so much more, I give Adkins respect.

It's to reveal that Dan Seaborne has developed a previously unseen condition, similar to foreign accent syndrome, but where he adopts the playing style of a foreign footballer. Namely Paolo Maldini, as a result of his injury.

I had two, but she took them six years ago when we met. A stream is the best idea I hadn't thought of. Thank God for mobile broadband.

Only seen him live once for Blackpool but he does look a good player - I'm suprised Blackpool let him go. Good acquisition for Sheffield United at League One level - I think they'll go up with Charlton this season.

Yes. He seems comfortable on the ball. I feel sorry for Seaborne, but Jos is our future.

For some reason that scoreline made me laugh - perhaps not the unlikeliness of it, but the randomness of it. I'd take this position with 2 games left to play! I would be looking forward to this, but Reading vs Saints on Sky is being played at the same time as Liverpool vs Norwich on ESPN, and while I finish work in time to watch the game, my evil Canary loving missus has decided we've watched too much Saints in recent times (bull****) and will be watching the Norwich game instead. It doesn't help my cause that our local only shows ESPN games. So, I figure I either need to find a pub or establishment that shows both ESPN and Sky games AND will be showing both, or I'll have to sit through the poxy Norwich game with SaintsPlayer commentary on the laptop. Any ideas on how to get around this? As for the game, we're good enough to win it but I'd take a draw. :-)

Ah, proper internet access, that's better. Right, a good win, was pleased to be able to go, just a shame the traffic was soooooo bad beforehand that I had to forego my pre-match pints. I left early so I can imagine there were some disappointed people arriving late. I thought Saints were very good in the first half, we dominated the proceedings and played the better football. The goal was justified, and I was pleased we scored then as I saw so many people disappear off early for their halftime break. S******. In the second half we were under the cosh a little bit, the substitutions didn't help, we were clearly playing for the 1-0 win. Yes they worked in that respect, but I thought they could've cost us. Chaplow was brilliant for me, and yes he was booked, but he didn't deserve to go off. He was creating space for us which was enabling us to get behind the West Ham back line. Guly too was very good, he has a great eye for a pass. Towards the end of the game I was getting nervous but Kelvin made some good saves. (Which, while good, made up for a few dodgy moments he had earlier in the game.) Fonte also looked risky, he ended up on the ground a few times and missed a couple of balls. Against a sharper attack, that would have cost us. One last thing though, was that when Harding came on, he played left midfield, when the obvious thing to do would be to push Fox up. Weird that, although I guess he must have had the instructions to do so. For them, I thought their number 2 was quite good, and Baldock was a good acquistion for them. I actually thought Papa Bouba Diop was OK too. Pleased though, a smash and grab win, but a win nonetheless. 5 points clear, who'd have thunk it.

Waiting for the traffic to disperse before setting off for home. Chaplow was immense, created and made space, great engine. Honourable mention to Jos, Guly and Fox. On a better day, Connolly could've had a hattrick.

I'd be inclined to say their strikers are better than ours overall but I think Connolly will be itching to get one over on his former club. Hope their fans don't boo him.

My birthday usually falls during the international break. (11th October)

Back when the top four were the top four - Man Utd, Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea, there was talk of them breaking away into a European Super League and leaving the rest of us behind. I still reckon something like that will happen, although perhaps it'll be Man City or Spurs challenging for a spot. While I don't see this happening - Promotion and Relegation is what makes the competition amazing, I've always maintained the Championship is the best league. I would LOVE to be back in the Premiership, but I would definitely miss this league. Nobody has a God given right to be in the Premiership - I do find Arsenal's position early in the season mildly amusing, but money is ruining this game. I will always be a Saints fan, but I would consider going back to grass roots to support a local team somewhere down the leagues where money makes little difference if Saints got involved in all this. (Which hopefully they won't!)

Got back from a lovely break in Cyprus late last night and realised I'd yet to get my ticket for this game. Luckily I'm travelling alone so it's easier to buy one ticket - I'm now the proud holder of a seat in the Chapel/Kingsland corner - I'd have sat anywhere to get to this game. That said I do think it'll be the end of our impressive streak at home, but I hope we make a fight of it!. 3-1 WHAM. Met two Saints fans in Paphos, we ended up watching the Derby game and had the whole bar to ourselves, a great time.

Good news pour moi. I Couldn't make this game so I was going to get the day off to see it as I have a week off from the following day - but now I can arrange my shift around the kick off time, watch it on Sky, and use my precious one day off for the Brighton game in November. Well, it made sense to me.

http://injuryroom.footballunited.com/ OMG, just found this site! Check out THESE photos!!! (WHat I just wrote sounds like a dodgy email, but some cool photos nonetheless if you like being grossed out!)

The photos of David Busst I think it was, made me gag. You could see the bone.