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100% agree. In fact f*ck it, you've just won most sensible post of the the day.

Well in that case then why are people panicking as we only want 2-3 players, it doesn't matter if we sign them 31st of May or the 31st of August.

And of course then if they dont play like Pele every game they'll be accused of only being here for the money.

Danns and Bailey weren't. Middlesbrough are one of the favourites to go up, Bailey could be playing PL football in a year, with us he'd have to wait two years absolute minimum, he is 26 now, probably only got another 4 years left at the very top of his game, if i were him i know where i would go. You seem to think that our market is players outside champions league or international standard, surely this is a wind up? We are a LEAGUE ONE CLUB FFS! Lets have a dose of reality!

I absolutely agree but all people bang on about is 'cover' and that is the point, finding a player better or as good as Hammond and MS, both IMO capable of and have played at a higher level, to drop down a league is not going to be easy. People seem to think players are queuing up to get here, but we failed with bids for Danns & Bailey, people need a dose of reality, we are league one club a big league one club with bit of cash yes, but top quality players are not falling over themselves to join us, so improving on what we have is not going to be as easy as it is on CM10.

Where did i saw we were? I said a player of similar ability, ie a central midfield player capable of playing at a higher level.

NO, we will see over the next 46 league games, nothing will be won or lost on saturday.

No, no Alps, AP Has done nothing, or at best half arsed, you said so yourself earlier.

I am not saying he is not a good player, he is class at this level but do you really think it is going to be easy to pesuade a player of a similar ability to come here and not be guarenteed a start? He a CCC standard player at the moment, what CCC player would not only drop down a league but then also not be told they are even guarenteed to be one of th first names on the team sheet?

You started panicking the day the window opened.

You said he is figuring regularly and scored four or five goals and was consistantly delivering at a higher level, when in fact he has scored two goals, one of which was against a reserve team back four, which we know for a fact it was as it was our reserve team back four! That is not consistantly delivering at a higher level however you dress it up. As for my analogy of MLT v Puncheon of course they are worlds apart in terms of ability one is a League one player (that is where we are dont forget) and one was one of the best players this country has every produced. My point being that Puncheon has that same type of ability, albeit at a much lower level and he has proved this in the past, i think it was the Charlton game where he was crap yet he set up the goal out of nothing and we won 1-0. I think you need a player in the side who is a little bit different and offers that, even if you sometimes they are a 5/10, other times they will be a 9/10,

You've obviously forgotten about the JPT final then.

What a charming image. Need or want? Obviously you know what is going on then, just like you knew we were signing Lambert, Fonte, Barnard etc.

We dont have a gaping hole in our midfield, we have two very good central midfield players, with an average league one player as cover and a right back in Butterfield who can fill in there as need be like Lloyd James did, exactly the same cover as last season. Outwide we have two very good wide players with cover in Mills, a decent player, Dickson, a good player, OC, a decent prospect and Holmes, if and its a big if, he can stay fit, is also a decent player at this level. The evidence is that we were rumoured to bid for Bailey from Charlton, had a former premier league player on trial which for whatever reason didn't work out and Pardew has said he wants to bring in 3 players, stuff is going on just because the club aren't announcing every player they are interested in like some do, doesn't mean nothing is going on.

'Dont they know i just got married'? Bloody hell, letting himself go already, only been married a fortnight, she'll be getting pounded by someone else by the end of the year if he doesn't pull his finger out.

How do you know we aren't? Pure speculation, rumour has it we have a bid for Tyson turned down, how do you know what is being done to secure this transfer?

Yeah sorry you're right, thats why Bailey chose to move Middlesbrough the CCC not us, if strong rumours are to be believed that we wanted him, we can have ANYONE we want. We should follow Man Cities example in bidding fot Milner, they could have just got him, afterall, no club haggles over transfer fees for players they dont want or need to sell do they.

if this is true he is an idiot. Been in the game one year and telling people how to run their industry is the most ridiculously arrogant thing imagingable.

Being pedantic, no they would not, as neither where here for the first game of the season, neither was Lambert or Hammond. AP says he wants to sign three more players, and he still has a month to do so. When the window shuts, the squad is complete, at least until January.

I know what you mean, i just missed out on the Lawrie era so grew up watching Nicholls teams then us struggle year after year so most fans under 40 are used to us stuggling and dont expect us to win anything ever. But dont forget in this league and indeed to one above we aren't little old Southampton, we are along with Wednesday the biggest clubs in this division and favourites. If we dont win it or at least go up, it'll be due to either a crisis of injuries or our own fault, everything is in place for success. Personally i think that is a great position to be in.

no no, they are wrong, dont they know we dont have adequate cover in CM, RM and CF??

Of course players become available. At any time a players circumstances can change and want a move which then means he joins xxxx club who then have a player/s who may be considered surplus to requirements or not guarenteed first team football when they looked like they were a week ago. Other clubs wont sell players unless they have got a replacement in, like Forest with Peter Whittingham. Selling clubs will hold out for the best deal if they dont have to sell and buying clubs will wait until the end of the window, if the selling clubs needs to sell to get the best price possible, just have look at all the players who move in the last couple of days of every transfer window. Plus the player has to be good enough, of the right character and also want to join us. It's not championship manager, pick a player from the list and its yours in two taps of a keyboard.

call yourself a fan I did too and i honestly think Pucheon is the better player, technically he is better, he had the third highest assist rate in L1 over the season and he is also likely to weigh in with the odd spectacular goal as he did for us and MK Dons last season, he is the type of player that can turn a game with a moment of magic. He may frustrate and is not as obviously busy and quick as Antonio but i remember a certain other player we ad who was a bit like that too. To say that Antonio has 'consistantly performed at a higher level' because he has scored a few goals in preseason is ridiculous though. If he is banging them in and doing the business for Reading between now and christmas you may have a case. he came on and did okay on saturday, but dont forget his goal came when all of our back four except for Butterfield had been taken off, so he in fact scored against a defence of youth and reserve team players. I'd love to have him back but lets not make him out to be the new John Barnes.

Agreed, though Dickson, Butterfield and Barnard were best players.

He was there, saw him in the Kingsland. Obviously not banned then, just not allowed a season ticket. I think our resident Jimmy Tarbuck double was stalking a bird in the new forest.