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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.

I suppose that leads onto another point. Away from home and against the top sides we need that extra defensive strength an balance so is there room for Ramirez and Lallana or is it one or the other? It's fine at home or against the weaker sides, but with them both in the side the teams might exploit it.

Why weren't you impressed with his performance today?

Why not?

What did you think of his performance today?

There were loads of crap boot brands around in the early 90s. The kit manufacturers like Patrick, Hummel, Pony did some. Then there were some really crap ones like Quaser, Brooks, line 7, Arrow, new Balance, hi Tec. I rememeber entering a completion in Shoot magazine to win a pair of New Balance boots because Bryan Robson wore them and I thought they'd be cool to have, they weren't.

Ryan Dickson as well and Jonno, bring them back as not playing would have made them better.

What have thy done to you?

Yep, agree with that. It seemed odd to lose Lallana then shift our other most creative player into a position where he is less effective. Meaning two changes and not one a losing Ramirez effectiveness at the same time.

Do you remember Quaser boots? My mate at work was an apprentice and first team player for Saints in the early ninties. MLT used to wear them and all FA players that were sponsored by Nike, Addidas and so on would get boxes of their decent t-shirts, shorts, track suits efc and MLT would get all this naff Quaser gear.