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I'm up for it. Lets do it. We can all wear club shirts, wave scarves and hold placards with lots of clench fists punching the air and fake cheering as SKy announce the news we have beaten off competitions from a host of top European clubs to securce the deadline say signing of Jan Von Witter from Dutch Erdelvise L2 challengers RKS Beersterhoogen. A player widely regared by ITKers in Holland as the new John de Wolf.

The same Nixon who got every transfer deal spot on in the summer. And who is clearly talking about Jacob Butterfield from Norwich, not Danny from us,

Nice try. That garage hasnt had any fuel since Christmas. Troll.

Nixon said last night they are also interested in Butland but don't have the cash for that deal. Unlikely they'd suddenly find the money for this guy.

There is no chance of this one happening but Dede from vasco de gamma would be a great signing. 6ft 3, quick strong ball playing centre half with full Brazilian international caps. He'll leave Vasco soon as they are struggling financially, probably end up at a champions league club.

My thoughts entirely. I've no doubt he's potentially very good. Just not what we need right now.

you can't beat mongboards can you. Everything from potentially the best keeper in the world to the most overrated player in Birminghams history.

Let's be realistic, most 'experts' are absolutel helmets. Most are do shi*te they make Steve Claridge look knowledgable and interesting. For every decent one there are 10 crap ones. So I don't know why anyone cares or gets worked up about what any of them say.

To be fair Blackburns win at Old Trafford last season transformed their season.

Yes, that's exactly what happened.

I would suggest its fair to say 95% of millionaire young men in thier 20s or early thirties would much rather live in London than Southampton. Not everyone has the mindset of a pompous, narrow minded old man Les.

But but but. Redcrap is a terrible manager who bankrupts teams and doesnt have a clue what he is doing, this can't be right.

I'd have thought you'd have said Brian Howard.

]/\ I didn't think it was possible for your to be as arse achingly dull on a subject as you are about football kits. I was wrong.

And both of our points against top half sides came when Lallana wasnt playing. So what are you getting at?

Sorry, maybe i'm not understanding what your point is. As i cant see any WINS or even DRAWs against top sides or away from home. Please can you point them out to me.

Propoganda.

Sorry, still cant see where you've said why Guly was so unimpressive yesterday. I'm interested to know.

Do i really need to repeat myself? I thought my previus post was quite clear. Against the top sides and away from home then i dont believe we should start with Ramirez AND Lallana. It leaves us too OPEN and prior to Lallanas injury we'd lost every game expect one. Results seem to support this.

I think you need to read my post again David.

I think what is evident is that if we play lallana and Ramirez, ie two flair players, against the better sides or away from home against most top half sides, it leaves us too open. We cant play them at their own game and expect to win, you've only got to look at our away form Pre injury to work that out. At home we can get away with it and when we have a lot of the ball and other teams come to defend. I dont think we can against the better sides. I think against these sides we play one or the other and set ourselves up to be a solid, compact unit and set out to defend well and be difficult to score against. Teams like Saints aren't successful by filling the team with attacking players, we have to be balanced and we will never get results against top sides by trying to outscore them.

When i looked at the fixture list over xmas i thought we'd do well to get a point. We're two points better off than i thought we'd be. We've played two good sides who are both in form. Fulham, perhaps we should have won but then they'd be thinking the same as well.

Why? It's a geniune question. As usual a lot people missing the point, no one is disputing Lallanas ability. We've had two good results and two good performances against teams bang in form and barring a last minute screamer and a linesmans decision it sould have been 2 wins against a team with the best home record in the country and another team packed full of internationals banging in goals. This isn't just conincidence, it's because as a unit we've looked much more solid unit and a better team, IMO. Which is why i asked the question.

Watch our goal again. Whose interception and pressure on the defender led to it?

I thought that would fairly obvious given my comments about us looking a a more solid and balanced unit with him there. Now, tell us why he was so unimpressive. A lot of people seem to agree with me so I'm interested to know what you think and how you saw it so differently.