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Your obession with me is becoming rather worrying. Sitting behind your PC all day everyday arguing with people on the internet about things you only have third hand knowledge of is not the answer Alps. Angrily and busily tapping away at your keyboard wont raise your heart rate enough for you to burn enough calories to fit into a normal sized replica shirt that you dream of. It's time to take a step back from the anger and bitterness that seems to encapsulate you everytime you see one of my posts. Maybe turn off the computer for a couple of days, put the 2 litre bottle of full fat coke back in the fridge, thrpow out the burgers and frozen pizza, seal up the multi pack bag of Mccoys crisps and get rid of the chocolate bars. It's time to get out and sample some of that Austrain countryside, pull on the trainers and get out there seeing a bit of the country you live in. You'll benifit from it, in fact it is scientically proven that you exercising can help you with this..... Improved self-esteem and greater sense of self-reliance and self-confidence Improved mental alertness, perception and information processing Increased perceptions of acceptance by others Decreased overall feelings of stress and tension Reduced frustration with daily problems, and a more constructive response to disappointments and failures I can sense all these things on you so maybe thats the answer you have been looking for Alps? Give it a go, get out there and i can help you, depsite our fragile relationship, i'll support you through it all, it hurts me when we argue, i feel like i am stamping on a puppy with a broken leg.

well maybe they should start targeting idiots who would buy a lump of dog sh*t if someone told them they needed it.

You probably did win it, all they need was your bank details to transfer the additional £5k spending money you would have won.

Yeah i just meant generally Brighton would be an attractive club for a player to join. Going back to Martin, he'd be a decent signing, good player at this level and only 22.

IMO Brighton are a very good club to join. A good team, a good manager, a new stadium and potentially a decent sized fan base, with the right investment they could go places. But also just remember how far Leeds were ahead this time last year.

But you said staying in league one with a promotion contender, but not us. So he must be leaving Swindon as they sure as hell aren't, who else can afford £1.5m in League one?

As i have been taught many times, never accept the first no, apparantly 70% of sales are made after overcoming the fifth objection.

based on what?

someone ITK (apparantly) on the UI board said a few weeks ago we were in for Martin and some welsh midfield bloke i'd never heard of, Tudor something i think.

Agreed, to be fair a guy at the BT call centre in Indian was very very good, knowledgable and helpful when i had problems with my broadband but every other experience with these call centres has been awful. The other day i had someone call me up on my home phone, it was an Indian guy trying to sell me something and calling me up "about my computer" i couldn't understand a word he said, he had to say 4 times "i am calling about your computer" before i realised what he was saying and i didn't have a clue what he was selling, when i said i wasn't interested he got all arsey saying "do you think i am calling you to waste my time" brillaint sales technique! how the f*ck do they expect to sell anything like that?

David hughes was a very good player, shame he had some many injuries as he could have been a great player for us.

brilliant atmosphere, the whole ground stood up singing as one, loved the scarves being waved over the heads, that is proper support and a proper atmosphere.

he's been joining every f*cking club in the country if you believe this thread.

Look at you piping up at the last minute with you usual arrogant nonsense, going to contribute something worthwhile?

because we drew 0-0 saturday with the most in form side in the league.

F*ck i cant be bothered to debate this anymore, you're all f*cking right, rather than looking at signing decent players better than we have and improving the squad lets just sign loads of squad players worse than what we have on long contracts to act as cover players so in three years time we've got 30 league one players playing in the Championship earning £5k-£7k a week and we can all slag them off as being sh*t and wonder why we are a stuggling championship side and not in the premier league.

As i've said numerous times and getting bored with repeating myself, if no one leaves we are good enough for promotion with what we have, if player do then we need to look at it and act. No one knows the extent of Lallanas injury yet but everyone is panicing that we are going to go on a slump without him, same with Chaplow. For all we know they might be back saturday or they might be out all season. Again no one knows Barnards situation, although i am sure NA will have taken advice of his legal team and be aware of potential sentances and court dates, believe it or not people dont get charged one day and sentanced the next, it can take months to bring a trial to crown court, if indeed it goes that far. NA and NC know what they are doing if we have season long injuries and people being banged up then for years then then obviously signings or loans will need to come in and i'd expect NA to act on this, but we dont know and there is no point buying "cover" players if Lallana is going to be back in two or three weeks and Barnard does even face trial until july. Some people just bang on and on that we need cover here there and everywhere and are speculating on what ifs and worst case senarios, demanding like for like cover players without actually thinking of the bigger picture and what the club is trying to achieve. Maybe, just maybe we have made "substancial bids" because the manager wants players better than what we have, not just bench warmers incase of injuries. So to put it in very simple terms to spell it out for some in bullet points. * If no one leaves or gets crocked for the season the squad is good enough for promotion * If players do leave or get crocked for the season i would expect suitable replacements to be purchased * If no one leaves or gets crocked for the season i would be delighted if we signed two or three players of the quality to improve the first team squad for more options and depth, ie Charlie Austin and Ryan Harley * if no one leaves or gets crocked for the season i do not see the point in buying players to sit on the bench in case of injuries, because the type of player that will be happy to do this will either be 1/worse than what we have already 2/not the type of mentality you need for a title winning side. I will cavet this though with if we sign a very promising young player similar to Aaron Martin who is happy to be part of the squad and a prospect for the future then that is fine.

and according to some we are destined to fail unless we have 5 world class players sitting around as cover for every position.

Got 3 terrace ticket for Exter today and also 2 for Peterborough, not sure how many we got to that one.

There was no queue whatsoever when i went down there at lunchtime, 4 windows open with only two people being served. I said to the guy serving me i thought i'd be queuing for ages, he said it had been very quiet, which was a surprise. Apprantly there are 9,000 left.

I absolutely agree Steve, you beat me to it. Goal scorers cost money, he regularly gets 20 a season player in teams not as good as WR or DD, so that plus him being English means he comes at premium.

This is where a lot of people are blinkered on here and just look for like for like replacements. If you are talking playing 4-4-2 then no player better than Lallana is going to joining us so yes Harley would drop to the bench in that circumstance, this is if he was signed purely as a left midfield player. But a player of his ability gives us other options other than 4-4-2, he and Lallana could fit into a 5 man midfield with AOC, plus two of of MS RC or DH giving us a very creative and attacking 4-5-1, or also in a 4-3-3 as wide attacking player, or in a 4-4-2 there is no reason why he couldn't play on the right, left or centre with Lallana also in the side. That is the whole point of a smaller squad of quality players, options, variaious formations, players rotated to suit the opposition and also keep them fresh and motivated. I'd much rather this than just like for like cover, providing poorer options of what they are filling in for, thus making the team poorer by default. This is what people will get if them simply demand like for like cover players which some on here are doing, as no player worth having is going to be happy to sit on the bench waiting for someone to get injured. And to answer your question on Forecast & Pulis i dont know what the hell they are doing here in the first place and shouldn't get anywhere near the squad.

COVER COVER FU*CKING COVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I dont understand why it is such a difficult concept for people to understand, a squad of 22-24 good players is going to be more successful than a squad of 11 good players and 24 average ones. We do not need players to "Cover" for injuries and supsensions. What sort of player is going to join a league one squad and sit on the bench? No one any better than Gobern, Martin and Conolly that is for sure. We need good players, as good as or better than we have to improve the first team and squad and capable of allowing us to adapt formations, tactics and team depending on oppostion & conditions. Not f*cking COVER players to sit on their arse until one of the first XI are injured or suspended.

Why does this matter? he is a big boy and i am sure he is capable of moving away from home for £10k a week. It'll come down to who he thinks is the best club and offers him the best deal.

It is no surprise that his best performances for us this and last season (apart from his first few games) came away from home. Isn't Adkins a psychology graduate or something? If anyone can sort out JP it is him.