Convict Colony

Pelle is a lay off beast

JWP and Davis are MIA at the moment, who'd if thought

Romeu isn't booked yet a new record hahaha

Does Owen Hargreaves know we have only lost to Everton this season ?

We will win, I have no doubt. We have played badly so far this season but only lost 1 game and have improved slightly every game and tonight i think we are due to be more clinical. 3-0

In for Hazard, wicked

I like this a lot and the stats about both Fabregas & Carzola do sound plausible about how we will use Clasie as I watched the under 21 game that Jordy got injured in and he set up the goal for barnes with an awesome deep lying pass to him. So its Vic/Romeu deep and Jordy floating, Betrand/Cedric bombing on and us becoming a better version of arsenal:D. Bring back the injured gang.

I think its all about Attacking Central Midfielders for us as this is the 1 position we haven't upgraded since Davis and I would buy 2. 1 who is an absolute gun and 1 who has shown promise and I don't even need the full 30mil. So for me. Gun - Free = Yoann Gourcuff 1.85m tall (wages would take a fair chunk and injury prone but needs to get out of France) Promise- PSG - 10mil = Adrien Rabiot 1.91 tall (entice him as Gourcuff gets injured a fair bit so he would play a lot) So both can deal with the physical side, either that or try Nir Bitton from Celtic as my promising back up.

I am finding that as opposed to his earlier games where Cedric took on his man and crossed first time has now resorted to our RB type of cutting back and either laying off the ball to a midfielder or crossing on his weaker foot. This delay is enabling more and more defenders to get into the box and is limiting our % chances of scoring. According to this article when he was linked with Arsenal he is really rated for his crossing. "The full-back loves to bomb forward, his intelligent combination play and outstanding crossing ability, even when space is at a premium, a potent attacking weapon, as is his long-range shooting." http://o-posts.com/news/teams/uk/arsenal/cedric-soares-suitors-lining-sporting-right-back/

Nice thanks, an interesting perspective that I'd not heard before, tell me more

Interested to know your views on this as I feel that from each of our managers Nigel/Poch/Koeman there has been a profound evolution but currently with Ron I am not sure how we are trying to play this season and is there a team you could say we are striving to play like for comparison ?. Under Poch we were a pressing machine, fitness and recovering the ball high up the pitch was our calling card. With Ron last season we seemed to carry on with pressing but the creativity seemed to be pushed out to the fullbacks/wide forwards linking to feed Pelle at the expense of generating anything through the middle via an AM. This season (I know its early doors) we don't press as a team, fullbacks are trying to push on to cross into Pelle (Cedric apparently was bought for his crossing ability) but if they are negated then due to our midfield being stifled our forwards are starved of service and we seem to be relying on Mane brilliance or someone picking up Pelle's knock downs/flicks which I would of thought for a defender can be relatively easy to defend against. Against Watford we have 14 shots on goal 1 less than the most for the weekend but they all seemed to be 30yrd hopeful hits from our midfield or forwards. I remember a Feyanoorder coming on here and saying that to a certain extent in one of their seasons it was all just feeding Pelle for him to score but his conversion rate isn't massively high. So how are we trying to play do you think, would this style be easy to defend against ? who would you say we are trying to play like in world football style-wise ?

ah ok fair one.

Instagram which is private not Twitter

We'd soon suss him out when his user name is "Big Van Dijk"

Apparently according to a celtic fan Van Dijk has started following Saints on instagram. His account is private but has thousands of users so he could be one of them and can see it.

Can't remember but I think Monk mentioned he liked the look of Gourcuff 29yrs AM who is on a free at the moment (his personal view not ITK view) bit injury prone though and high wages

I spent the summer moaning on here hoping we'd sign Wijnaldum but even I would say they play in 2 different positions. Clasie has/was and is primarily used as a DM, he can pass from deep from that quarterback position, Wijnaldum is a balls out AM who busts a gut to get into the box, assists goals and scores a lot but obviously Davis is faniced more by RK

Mine worked fine for the entire match on TSN 3 except for last 5mins of 1st half, played it through Chrome on 20mbps speed.

Actually thought the 3 at the back worked really well, I thought Caulker played very well in there and sort of played a "Van Dijk" role for us. Romeu is racing Mitrovic for consecutive yellow cards. Vic was neither here or there in my opinion, some lazy passing. Pelle had a breeze block for a foot today, maybe needs a rest anyway. Cedric, I'm undecided, he kept cutting back before crossing which slowed down the play and allowed the defenders to get back. Targett did ok against the fastest dude on the pitch. I am no longer commenting on our AM.

Just thought i'd refresh everyone's view of him since he doesn't get on much

Shane Long is our Danny Welbeck. What does Juanmi have to do to get on the pitch, wonder how many seasons it will be before we have an attacking midfielder who can create chances from open play.

I really want to see what Juanmi can do for an extended period, bring him on for Davis for 2nd half.

TSN 3

Cedric and Mane to score a brace each. Obviously in my dream team.

Doh that's my dumbass comment for the week, will edit it.