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I meant how many teams that we play just boot it 50 yards and by pass our team. There seems to be this misconception on here that we are some incredible free flowing attacking side playing brilliant expansive football, 5 goals in 9 games suggests othewise

I was listening to talk sport this morning where they were taking about this article and having read the comments on here I was expecting a slamming of Rickie lambert. What we got was a perfectly well written article making valid pints. As usual the helmets on here and talk sport express their 'outrage' over absolutely nothing.

How many teams do this?

has any fan, whatever the mongboard, ever cheered and punched the air when they found out who the referee was? Like the media, every referee is apparently against us.

I think he actually asked for Dulldays account to be deleted and then reinvented himself as Brett from Camden, before admitting he was actually Jamie the Navy Chef from Plymouth.

Good point, although at times this place is comedy gold and i've long held the view that it would make an excellent BBC3 or Channel 5 fly on the wall documentry.

Dont let the haters stop you sharing your ITK stuff mate, i for one appreciate it. I too was lamblasted for revealing that Cortese didnt rate Adkins and he was a dead man walking, i was too was labelled atroll for daring to suggest that Adkins didn't have a full handle on transfers. WHen i provided details of the Clyne deal 6 weeks before it happened was dismissed later as being nonsense, sadly for this forum i have been ground down by the relentless dimissing of FACT and ITKness as "WUMMERY" so no longer share my info. Dont let them force you down the same route, it would be a sad day for mongboards.

I do love a good "if that was me on my role job" type scenario. Here's a thought. If you were doing a perfectly good job for your company, they then brought in other people to replace you, do your job for you who werent any better and they sent you off to the filing department with all the 18 year old trainees. Told you that they wanted to get rid of you and you should look for another job but when you found another job they told you that they wouldn't accept your resignation and you had to carry on working in the filing office away from the rest of the company, do you think that you might have a case for constructive dismissal? Maybe Billy should take Saints to court, thats what you do if that was you in your job right?

It wasnt just preseason, he featured in Adkins first two premier league squads and with us 1-0 at home to Wigan, Adkins decided Sharp was the man to come on for 20 minutes to try and rescue a point. You say there is no evidence but i think most people accept now that Adkins didn't really know what players were coming in and out of the squad last summer. And you're absolutely right, in a 25 man squad last season Sharp has been replaced by a player who did no better and is now so far down the pecking order he's out on loan for a season, so was it really nessasary to replace him? Could he have been our Adam Le Fondre?

Did they? Mayuka was brought in the day before for the window shut, with Sharp sent out on loan. lets be frank, it was all a bit of a surprise to everyone as Sharp had featured thoughout preseason and in the first two games. If he didn't feature in the managers plans then why did he use him and why didn't we offload Sharp sooner? The proof is also in the pudding regarding Adkins attitude to Mayuka, a handful of sub appearances and one start where he was nothing short of woeful and hardly got a kick after that until Adkins was sacked. MP seemed to have the same view as he too would hardly give him a kick, even going on record as saying he needs to buck his ideas up. Now he too is out on loan for a season. It seems MP certainly doesn't rate Mayuka or Sharp and Adkins wasnt a fan of Mayuka. Of course its speculation as to if Sharp would have done any better, but given Mayukas contribution to our season seems to have been about 20 minutes of decent play when he came on against Spurs, its not a great leap to say he couldn't have done much worse is it.

Well Sharp featured in the first couple of squads of last season, before Mayukas arrival where he was then sent out on loan, he also came on against Wigan. So clearly the manager at the time did think he could offer us something. We have the benefit of hindsight Egg, do you think Sharp would have contributed less than Mayuka last season?

It's a simple question. Could Billy Sharp have contributed any less than Mayuka last season, or even this season? I dont think Billy Sharp is good enough for a long term answer in the premier league but given the choice as to who i'd rather have coming off the bench for the last 10 minutes when chasing a game and the options are Sharp and Mayuka i know which one i'd chose.

Comedy gold

Because that never happens now does it. I seem to remember De Ridder, Forren and Lee being hailed as massive coups for us and having beaten off a host of top clubs to secure their signing.

It was because he hated being called dull drums wasn't it.

I had no idea you were 133 Jamie!!

It was just plain weird.

He may have been rubbish but it wasn't his fault that we signed him on a five year deal and on paper signing a 21 year old keeper who had been a young star and made spurs bench in the premier league might well have been seen a a gamble worth taking for a club that was in th mess we were in. The fact of the matter it people are making things up about forecast that simply aren't true. Why isnt Mayuka coming in for the same stick? Here we have a player who cost £3m, will undoubtedly be paid very handsomely, was billed as the 85th best player in the world not long ago. apart from 20 minute in October has been utter gash, so far down the pecking order and away from the first team we've loaned him out for a season. Why it give him the same treatment, make up a few stories about him and give him some hilarious nickname like Missuka?has he not been equally as Poor a signing if not worse than a 21 year old rookie who had never played a first team game?

LOL at the commentator 'that's certainly a booking' if that happened today there would be 'outrage' and calls for lifetime bans.

You don't have to justify yourself to me mate, as long as you can live with it.

The only player to have started out at a top flight club and ended up playing none league, right? We've never had an academy player that we've sold on who has gone down the same route.

There has been a lot of spectacular horsesh*t written over the years and the ever growing snowball of it shows no sign of slowing down. The mongboard version is f orecast was part of the bale deal - even claim on here we swapped him for Bale, utter bulls*it, he signed for us the year after Bale left for an undisclosed fee so common these days,no suggestion we cashed in our Bale selling on fee at this stage even if we did bale was hardly setting the world on fire at that time, of only Lowe had had his crystal ball put and known that 5 years later Bale would become the worlds most expensive player. On that note also fair play to spurs for helping us out, they didn't have to do it, again would they have known how good Bale would become? At one point they were even prepared to sell him, undoubtedly for much less than they paid us for him. He was a 21 year old goalkeeper who had made Spursbench several times and was a star player for their academy, given how much some of you bang on about our academy players then surely on paper this looks the perfect signing for a skint championship club to take a punt on. It didnt work out but its not the only young player signed by a club that hasnt. Still don't let that detract from the bullsh*t and rewriting of history when it comes to this player. Another Mongboard myth invented by our football manager geniuses which is based on what they imagine happened not what did.

Its not so much the mistake its the manner of the error. Mistaking a Moroccan centre back for a an attacking midfielder who had left the club from the same country. A kind of 'all the look the same those johnny foreigners' type error.

Schumachers is up there as well.

Kachloul didn't even play for us then. Plus he was an attacking midfielder. Other than that an easy mistake to make.