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Last 25 games, on 28th December, Saints beat Huddersfield including that game Saints 18w 4d 3l, 58 points. Huddersfield 15w 9d 1l 54 points. What an important win that game was!.

Early 1950's Eric Day on the right wing received a ball over his left shoulder from behind and brought it down on his right instep, fantastic skill. Christie, Wilkins,Traynor, McLaughlin, Parker, Elliott, Flood, Reeves, Day, Mulgrew, Hoskins. Kiernan, Page, McGowan, Walker played in that era. Tony Godrey was the youth team goalkeeper v Man Utd I'm not certain but I think Brian Flood also played in that team in goal. Bob Charles first played for Saintsfirst team as an 18 year old in 1959/60 the promotion year.

Tony Bliar, Gordon (I'd like to run the IMF) Brown, David ( I've changed my mind) Cameron, Nick (who?) Clegg, Boris (I fancy that) Johnson, etc, etc. No thanks. The Royal family may be an anachronism but they are our anachronism, spare us from the self serving crooked type of people that put themselves forward as Presidents and God forbid they could be anything but a figurehead.

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Faded out on me between Dorchester and Honiton. A bit patchy on 96.1 at low points on route. I don't know about AM 999 Khz which appeared to be out of range, but FM 91.6 MHz is VHF and line of sight.

I was Bill, I was on crutches after broken leg, Plymouth let me sit on the seats right on the touchline under the stand wall. Also LO.

I've just had a look at some of the stuff, what schizophrenic rubbish. One thread yesterday was assuring the Huddersfield supporter that this was their must win game, no let up, undefeated at home and wanted 100 points. Today they lose, didn't need to win, game meant nothing etc, etc. What a bunch of knobs, with joined up thinking like that it would be better not to put their thoughts down in writing.

We had a poor start, only 5 points from the first 7 games, then the settling in of the new manager. It wasn't until after Christmas that we really got going. We have matched them since then. In 23 matches we have taken 52 points. In the first 19 games we had taken only 28 points. By my reckoning over the season at the latter rate we would have amassed 104 points to put Brighton in perspective. In Adkins 36 games we have amassed 76 points.

The goals weren't hoofball. Last ten minutes, need to win one goal down, Butterfield gets down the touchline and crosses to the penalty spot, Lambert nods down to Connolly who spins left and shoots into the right hand corner of the goal. Two minutes to go and we have a free kick five yards into our half on the left touchline, Davis hits a deep cross to the back of the box, Fonte attacked the ball and nodded over the goalkeeper into the net with Lambert following the ball into the net. I've seen plenty of similar Brighton goals like this on tv this year and more than their share of scruffy goals like their first today. What did he expect Saints to do in the last ten minutes needing a win. The simple fact, his defence didn't cope with the pressure and folded. The man is a knob, following in the footsteps of many one eyed managers without the good grace to give credit where it is due.

£80m to £90m on stadium.

The Brighton fans, management, publicity people really set themselves up for this with their petulant behaviour. All I can say after their arrogant transparent behaviour, is 'have some of that'. A more graceless bunch especially after their brilliant season it would be difficult to conceive. It is a terrific way to put their season to bed, end their unbeaten run, end their unbeaten record at home and now leave them facing possibly another defeat next week. A brilliant result, back in the driving seat, forget this one and Brighton move on to Monday and take it from there.

Give them their guard of honour before the game if that's what they need to make their chip on the shoulder feel better. Psychologically it will really annoy our players, wind them up and get them tearing into Brighton to prove a point.

This is not specifically aimed at Brighton, it's good that they have built a nice new stadium costing something like £80m - £90m however it would be well to remember that the majority of clubs that have built new stadiums including ourselves have gone into administration or suffer financial meltdown at best.

Stephens wasn't very quick either. As I said previously we need a couple of strong leaders in midfield which we just don't have.

What a pathetic attitude. If you had any real football knowledge you would be able to join in discussions instead of regularly resorting to sarcasm.

Brighton have been promoted and won the league, this is just the week that the euphoria plus the after the Lord Mayor's show could end up creating a blip for them. It is a cup final for us and I have a sneaking suspicion it's the sort of game we will win. Play the best team available.

There has been a lot of talk on here about overlapping full backs. The last thing a really quick player needs is a full back taking the ball up behind him, passing it and going for the overlap because it means the quick player never gets to get down the line pretty much like Forte yesterday. It needs the ball to be given early to the quick player or better still played down the line and the fullback supporting inside but leaving the wingers space for him to run into.

I thought about this yesterday because of the dire central midfield, but came to a different conclusion. I would team Connolly up front with Guly and play Lallana and Forte wide. But in midfield I would replace the strolling Stephens with the strolling Lambert teamed with Hammond. Lambert is probably the most incisive passer in the team but is not breaking sweat to get into dangerous positions. Stephens made one tackle after losing the ball yesterday, made a few forward passes but mainly sideways and backwards, Lambert would be a much more dangerous player for us and Hammond could concentrate on defensive duties. I came to this conclusion because of Connolly's injury record although he has a great football brain and could probably play central midfield. It isn't however going to happen, as Adkins is very orthodox and not at all innovative or original in his thinking, hence the way Jones and the empty right side turned us over against Rochdale when it was crying out for us to clamp down on their midfield..

The two players in the centre of midfield are the main reason we are underperforming. Hammond, Stephens, Chaplow and Schneiderlin are just not strong enough. We play an enormous number of meaningless round robin passes that go nowhere and just invite the opposition to close us down because of the negative slowness of our play. Our two central midfielders basically hang around the centre circle, Stephens is neat and tidy, painfully deliberate and totally unambitious, whilst Hammond provides effort but little else and no leadership. We need leaders in central midfield showing the same basic football understanding that Connolly does naturally. We were a different team late in the second half after Connolly came on. Connolly has a proper football brain and his movement and passing ability brought the best in football terms out of Guly and Lambert, which then involved other players like Dickson, Butterfield and N'Guessan. It is a crying shame that we had in Forte the quickest player on the field yet nobody played him in down the line. Invariably he was taking the ball square with the fullback trying to get outside him, instead of playing him down the line and getting up in support. If Connolly can stay fit we will be a better team. In footballing terms we still need two strong leaders in midfield.

Count me in. Whoever is going to manage this should pm Steve Grant, who talks to the club on behalf of the SW, regarding the proposition.

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We are just playing without a right midfielder and very narrow surrendering the wide areas to the opposition. We got away with it v MK Dons and Orient but we were exposed wide last night. Both goals came from out wide, the first a deep cross and Harding ball watching yet again, as against Peterborough, he allowed his man to nudge him out of the way and get a free header, he just doesn't know where to position himself so he can see the man and the ball and not be baulked. The second a speculative shot from wide right yet again missed at the near post. Play 4-4-2 and use Forte/N'guessan/Guly wide until Lallana/O-C are fit to start. We should be positive now and go for it in the last six games. It doesn't look like Stephens is the answer. The view from Oldham was he plays well in a team playing well but goes missing if the going gets tough.

He did a good job on Kevin Davies v Bolton. He just goes wherever Jones goes. Whereas a defensive midfielder picks up any threat in his zone, I'm suggesting a close marking of Jones because he is so vital to them. Knock him out of the equation and Rochdale are only half the threat.

I'm not proposing that Martin plays in midfield. I'm suggesting he man to man marks Jones who is probably the most effective central midfield playmaker in this division. Take him out and Rochdale will struggle. Let him play and he could cause big problems.

Schneiderlin in addition to medial ligament damage has DVT and until that is sorted would be unlikely to play.