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Potential banana skin avoided. Box ticked and onto the next. The coming busy period will reveal how good we really are but, right now, I'd back us against any side home or away. The addition of Brooks has strengthened us and he'll certainly get game time during this run. If he plays well it will give RM a nice selection head ache. Right now our confidence going into games must be sky high and sometimes that is half the battle.

POP!!!!!!!!!

51 points from 21 games is good going after our 4 straight defeats.

Probably not but nothing much changed today as we both got 3 points.

Stoke definitely aren't 🙂

Ipswich currently on a very damaging run.

Comfortable win by the sounds of it and no real dramas. The unbeaten run continues and we roll on to the next one. Well done Saints and RM.

2 for Kiefer Moore

As we appear not to have put them to the sword we need to keep it tight for last 15 minutes - don't give them a sniff.

Ding-dong game and now 3-4.

Are we going through the motions now? Would rather we went for the jugular.

Not watching but sounds like a very good half with us well on top so hoping for more goals after the break. Well done Saints.

Think that loss in the FA Cup might have damaged their confidence.

Fantastic that we've kept KWP. Now we need to secure promotion as, if we don't, he'll certainly go in the summer.

Is that ten or five?

If we do go a goal down this will be a very difficult match. An early goal is needed to draw Rotherham onto us. We should win and I think we will.

A perfect example of the many Bmuff fans who call us arrogant and then proceed to be erm....arrogant. At the end he tries to make something of the fact that their next game is against West Ham whereas our's is against Rotherham conveniently overlooking the fact that for years we were playing the top sides while they were coming up against the Rotherhams and below. I trust he will enjoy this short-term smugness because, in my most arrogant fashion, normal service will be resumed shortly

I think you are possibly seeing Alcaraz through rose-tinted glasses. He gives the ball away a lot and often very cheaply - ok, on occasions he loses it by trying something special but generally he is too careless with the ball for our style. Rothwell needs time and I think may prove an astute signing.

Aribo suits our style more than Alacraz - he gives the ball away far less and is a lot stronger so I would disagree but this game is all about opinions of course.

It's a no brainer for us because he hasn't ripped up this league like we thought he would and when playing has been giving the ball away far too much for our style. It's win-win for us because Alcaraz gets 6 months with a top Italian club who presumably pay all his wages and, if they want him after that they'll have to pay a premium of over 35 million - if not he returns next season with some useful experience under his belt. I doubt he'd be getting loads of game time for us based on his performances lately so would mainly have been warming the bench. Sensible business in my book.

Welcome David and let's hope your time with us proves mutually beneficial. Good luck to you.

Agree, far happier with this than if we'd signed Benson. Could be great for us in the crucial remaining games.

If he does go and there is no adequate replacement we can kiss goodbye to an automatic promotion spot.

Not sure which Armstrong you are referring to but if it's AA he needs to remain in his present position which is his most effective in terms of goals and assists. You don't cover my point about the possibility of Adams leaving in this window.

I just think from what I've seen of him he wouldn't add a great deal because we have quite a few wingers on our books already and he's not stand-out enough to warrant adding another. We need a striker because if Adams goes or gets injured we will be relying on Mara or maybe playing a false number nine. If we are only getting one extra body in I think we should be prioritising a striker not a winger.