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Surely every ex players ambition is to follow that trail blazer Jason Cundy and get themselves a slot on talk sport.

I follow Arthur Borucs career closely and saw him play in a match for Southampton v arsenal in December. He was awful, spilt every cross, looked out of shape, nervous and couldn't catch a cold. If lambert can't score at least four against this CLOWN he is not international standard.

You must have caught him on a bad day, i did hear about that game as i folllow cagliari closely, a few fans described him as the Italian Richard Dryden. however when I was visiting relatives in Sardinia I saw him play against AC Milan and he was amazing, the ball was like a magnet to his head and he won everything. Even the Milan travelling fans applauded him off the pitch and joined in with a rousing rendition of He plays in the middle He plays at back Davide astori Make Maldini look cack. I think he's probably worth £37m

I watch a lot of Serie a and have followed Astoris career closely. He is the new Maldini IMO and massively underrated and underpriced. I remember watching his debut and thinking this is a proper defender we've got here. I expect lots of people saying how good he is have never seen him play though and are just saying it because we've been linked with him a few times.

Never seen the shawshank redemption? They're all only there because of scum like you.

Innocent until proven guilty Is a load of bill+cks. Why do they impose bail conditions of this is the case? Why do the prosecution build a case against you, using every minor bit of evidence regardless of how innocent or irelevant it might actually be and attempt to turn it into something sinsister to fit the picture they are trying to paint. It's more a question of guilty until proven innocent and the public lap it all up, salivating at any news and the thought of what might have gone on. They aren't going to deny the public and opportunity to enjoy it all and the old bill love it all. As long as they get their conviction they don't care how they do it.

I know you've got me on ignore as I frequently make you look a clown but yet again you're at it. Is that really the best that you can come up with? At 31 years old he doesn't represent the future does he. As for not troubling the worlds best defences are you absolutely 100% sure that he will and that he will go on to spearhead England's march to glory in brazil?

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?