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Sounds pretty pathetic and hopefully you'll get your ticket back. Football just gets ever more sanitised and dulled down. More fans will vote with their feet, paying a small fortune to be treated like a 5 year old is not a way to encourage your customers.

Tottenham Hotspur determined to land Southampton star Luke Shaw in January and will open bidding at £15m Can't see it myself but every player has a price.

Looking good, Ossie and Ricky are slowly gelling which is ominous news for the rest of the prem. When they fully click someone is going to get a pasting. 2 goals conceeded all season. Keep that defensive form up and we'll be top 6 in May.

There's no sentiment in football and Ricky is no different to any other player despite what the fans may think. That said I can't see the point of selling Ricky for what IMO would be a lesser value than he is worth to the club. I think he could do a Sherringham job for the team for a couple of years yet but it's Poch's call in the end. When the day comes I'll be sorry to see him go, he's been absolutely immense for this club.

Boruc Clyne Fonte Lovren Shaw Wanyama Cork Schneiderlin Ramirez Lallana Ossie

Despite the niggles I'd play him Saturday, he has the ability to unlock defences and I think he could link up well with Ossie. He's not the finished article but he has something that the others don't, that ability to consistently play the killer pass.

Boruc was our most important player last season IMO, without him we may well have gone down. The guy had to wait a bizarre amount of time to get in but it's no coincidence that when he did we finally started to stiffen up at the back. Top keeper and a really good signing.

Before some people panic about goals scored remember our most successful league season in history, 2nd in 1983-84, was based on a mean defence and a lot of low scoring wins. We got a lot of smash'n'grab 1-0's that season. The key to doing well is defence. As long as the back 4 stays stingy we should do very well this season.

We've had quite a few chances but we've come up against some decent keepers. I think Ossie is gently feeling his way into our team and will start to score soon. Once he really connects with the midfield I can see a lot of goals coming. Ricky seems to be subdued at the moment but was unlucky not to get one against Wham and like Ossie I can see him firing up soon. They just need to click but it takes time.

He's a bit raw around the edges but to be fair he is 21 and has just come from the Scottish league. At the moment he's doing the defensive work just fine making us hard to beat but as he becomes more comfortable with the team and how it plays I think we'll start to see him making more forward runs like he did at Celtic. You have to be patient with him though, he didn't set the transfer fee - SFC and Celtic did and I trust that the club knows enough to think he'll go on to become a hell of a player for us. I certainly do.

Not enough width and too predictable. That said if we had put away some of our chances we'd all be saying job done. We can all moan at Wham's negative approach but Saints need to quickly figure out how to get round teams set up like this because they are going to face a lot more like this at SMS.

Tough game. Wham are going to be well drilled and obstinate, looking to score on set pieces or the break. We are favourites but can quite easily see Wham getting a draw or even a smash and grab win. Hopefully 2-0 to us - Ricky and Ossie getting on the score sheet.

Bale for Forecast Has there ever been as big a gap between the quality of the players in a deal? Shearer for Speedie had nothing on this one. Nice one Rupes.

If you watched him play last night then the answer is absolutely yes. Osvaldo should be the spear head and Ricky the foil. Two quality players that will click and when they do it will be good to watch. Patience needed though. Talk of Osvaldo on the left or right is nonsense. The guy is a centre forward and a damn good one at that. Play him where he will do damage. Get Cork back into the team too, he allows the full backs to bomb forward and provide width. He also allows Wanyama and Schneiderlin to squeeze hard knowing they have cover. Diamond for me. ---------Boruc Clyne Lovren Fonte Shaw ---------Cork -Wanyama Schneiderlin ----Lallana\Ramirez ----Lambert Osvaldo

Well played Ricky and watching his set up play for Welbeck shows me that he could play in the hole for us and be very successful with Ossie. Welbeck is a funny player for me, scores next to no goals during the season yet when he does he looks an excellant finisher. He really should be getting a lot more goals because he has the talent. Welbeck and Ricky looks like it could be a very fruitful England partnership if they both stay injury free. More importantly Ossie and Ricky should be an even better partnership for us.

Ali Dia was a bit of a laugh. OK so he couldn't play for toffee but come on, if anyone on here was offered a chance to have a go in the first team you'd jump at it too. Got to admire the guy's nerve. Also don't mind Fox, the man's a regular whipping boy on here but I think he's a perfectly adequate back up (emphasis on the words 'back up').

---------Boruc Clyne Lovren Fonte Shaw ----------Cork -Wanyama Schneiderlin -----Lallana\Gaston ------Rickie Ossie

I think we've had a very good transfer window. The absolute top priority was to get a good centre forward to take some of the weight off Ricky's shoulders and IMO we exceeded the brief with Osvaldo. Defence needed strengthening and all signs are that Lovren and Wanyama are going to be excellant acquisitions, both young and hungry and huge levels of potential. We kept all our top youngsters especially Shaw which is like a top signing in itself. When was the last time we managed to successfully hold onto our own talent? You have to go back to the days of MLT (and he was a complete maverick). The only downers are losing Puncheon, can't see the logic in that one and not cutting out enough players who realistically don't fit anymore but that's small potatoes compared to the pluses. I'd give it an A- or a B+.

The biggest problem yesterday wasn't Wanyama - it was that the full backs were not providing adequate width in the final 3rd and the whole team suffered. We need all 3 DMs playing, one infront of the back 4 to cover the attacking full back and the other two in the centre maintaining the defensive squeeze. For me Cork would be best infront of the back 4. He's far too good to be on the bench. We also need Shaw and Clyne back ASAP. Not knocking the two guys yesterday but Shaw and Clyne are unquestionably our best 2 full backs and provide a vital function to the team. Targetting a 21 y.o that has just arrived from the Scottish league after one anonymous performance amongst many is knee-jerk. The lad has all the attributes to be a damn good player but he needs time. He isn't the finished article and was never sold to us as such so he needs some patience from the fans.

Terrible display, as bad as our 3-0 loss to WBA although at least this result is not critical. Should have had a penalty, unbeleivable decision by the ref and I suspect the fact that he let Fonte off right at the end was him 'balancing the books' so to speak. We lacked any kind of intensity and were ponderous, predictable and devoid of ideas in the last 3rd of the pitch. Far too slow getting forward, far too little bite in midfield and far too little cutting edge up front, seriously dissappointing from a team with the players we have. I know we are better than this and I know we will improve. Just as well as today's performance would have seen us beaten by a decent league 1 team let alone prem opposition. The only outfield player that looked like he cared was Lallana. Boruc was OK (albeit the goal was a bit dodgy) and so was JWP but the rest were anonymous TBH. Norwich weren't much better either and I don't think a 0-0 would have been unkind to either team. A performance like this with the team we have is unnaceptable. It's not the losing, it's the manner of the defeat. I fully expect a drastically improved performance against West Ham in 2 weeks.

David Connolly's goal at Brighton in lge 1 : losing 1-0 with 6 mins to go and Huddersfield breathing down our necks Connolly scores having come on as sub only 10 minutes previously. Fonte followed up to get a vital last gasp 3 points. Hooiveld's goal at West Ham : big goal as it stopped them opening a gap on us and gaining real momentum. Lambert's goal at Leeds : the win was a big confidence boost after an almost total siege. This was the result where I started to believe in promotion. Lambert's goal at Villa : vital 3 points against a rival. Lambert's goal against Chelsea(h) : effectivley gained a 3 point advantage over our relegation rivals and a massive confidence boost.

Solid pro, was instrumental in bringing the winning mentality back into the club and played a big part in pushing us all the way back to the prem. Best of luck at Leicester, they've signed a very good pro there.

Puzzled why so many want to see Ossie play behind Ricky, Ossie is our best goalscorer and should be up front either alongside Ricky or with Ricky dropping back into the hole. He's a CF - play him there and he will do what he does best, score goals.

------------Boruc Clyne Lovren Fonte Shaw ------------Cork Wagamama Schneiderlin ----------Ramirez --------Ossie Ricky