Mr X

What did he base that on? And if so why did our scouts deem him worth our record signing?

Agreed maybe he is indeed one for the future and he was brought with that in mind?

To which question?

Not an attack the guy obviously is a talented footballer but so far it's only been glimpses of talent lots of showboating but gives the ball away far too often! Can you see him going on a goal run? So far I can't and can't help feeling we paid way over the odds. Maybe he is one for the future but is that what we need now?

Whole team is terrible today!! No excuses with the two week break and a crunch game

Nearly a fook up by kelvin !

All silly tip tap pretty stuff with no real threat on goal from us what is the point in trying to do too much with the ball! That was a penalty though clear contact

12th to 14th in our first season that's ambitious think we will need to sign players of better quality than J rod and better value than Ramirez if we are to achieve that

This is a massive pivotal game it will decide wether we can indeed push on or wether we are destined to be sucked into the mire of avoiding the bottom three and nothing else! A win Would send out a clear message to the teams around us anything less than a draw is unacceptable in the situation we are in the table is so tight and we need to beat our closet rivals ie Sunderland, Wigan etc

That is indeed true some on here a few weeks back stated that they couldn't wait till we are back in the championship more equal league and enjoyed seeing us win more games, they seem to have gone quiet. I wouldn't see it as too much of a disaster as I can see us bouncing back but most people know the premiership is the place we need to be if we are going to progress as a club and establish are 26 year reign again

Who labelled him trigger happy? No one on here has said that I merely said he will be advised against being another abromovich as that's not the way to go for continuity

Hopefully cortese's advisors will tell him that being trigger happy isn't always the answer to progression, maybe Chelsea will learn that lesson. I'm confident that should we stay up Adkins will be judged on next season and next season only

Do you think nc will give nige another crack at it next year if we just scrape 17th this season?

Agreed you'd have to be pretty bold to claim that surviving wasn't the most important goal for this year. All we have to do is make sure three teams are worse than us, easy right? im thinking we can maybe already put reading down as one of those teams

Saints fans being saints fans and all that

You would have thought so but ........

For me it's all about staying up this year and I'd be over the moon even if we finish seventeenth! Would some people be totally unhappy with that, given how much we've spent? I know Nigel will be aiming higher obviously but could we call seventeenth a success?

was that the final nail in our coffin that sent us down?

Agreed it would have made sense although wether he'd have agreed to go to league 2 is another matter. Adkins obviously deems the bottle throwing incident serious as he'd been nowhere nr the first team or bench for that matter he seems seriously out of favour

All three of our keepers our currently championship level at best, boruc has played at a higher level but is nowhere near the fitness or skill level he was at and has a rumoured bad attitude which leaves us with two keepers that can neither communicate with their defence, deal with crosses, or get down to shots quick enough. We do have a goalkeeping problem people are in denial

I don't get the mentality in slagging of a club simply because they are struggling slightly more than us how does that help our plight the fact is we're both in a relegation battle along with potentially any team in the bottom half that could go on a poor run

How useless is this ref!!!!

Not a good half for either side!

Think most people are too nervous to post!

Is mayuka on the bench?