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Puncheon looked the part today and played well. However I can't help thinking that it is the shop window we saw.

Presumably you mean Newcastle 2 down at Stevenage.

Unlikely, but Lallana could go as he is out of contract at the end of the season. If a good offer came now, against the alternative of the player wanting to go and tribunal compensation.,

I can see several problems for clubs wanting to unsettle and shift Chamberlain. We don't need the money. Cortese isn't going to be dictated to by anyone, if Chamberlain goes against him, he may well end up not playing for anybody until 2013/14 season at the end of his contract. He isn't going to be cheap and Cortese doesn't believe in the never never. £10m could mean 'cash on the nail or don't waste my time', we now pay up front for transfers due to the Leibherr no debt principles. Cortese will decide where and when Chamberlain goes and the benefit to the club will be the only criteria. I wouldn't want to be the first player to suddenly find at this club the usual shenanigans won't work.

Unless he is loaned or transferred his registration with Millwall lapses today and he reverts to his registration with Saints.

I was delighted when Pardew went and even more delighted when we employed Nigel Adkins. I'm pleased that he is winning over many of those that liked Pardew.

If both Guly or Chamberlain are not available we will not have any pace up front. We need to keep or replace Puncheon. At the moment Guly's movement and pace and Chamberlain's penetration is our main threat, take that away and we are pretty pedestrian. IMO we need two alternatives to cover and compete. If we don't it could dry up the goals and derail the promotion. We need a goalkeeper that will dominate the penalty area. The Exeter goalkeeper played a blinder against us and prevented a rout, he was pretty good all round and surprisingly I believe was their reserve keeper.

The fee for Guly has already been agreed in the original agreement. Once the club has decided to keep him they only have to agree a permanent contract with him then pay that fee.

The problem with the D&R attacking at the end was the lack of pace up front as Alex and Guly had been taken off. Barnard is energetic but not quick, Lambert likewise. If we are going to get in front and defend a lead under pressure we need some lightning pace to bring on as it is difficult to break out if the defenders/midfield defend deep as it causes us tremendous problems especially with a goal line rooted keeper that allows the defence to back into the six yd area. If we are to soak up pressure we need a dominant keeper that will drive the back four out and catch the crosses thrown into the box. Two players like Waigo/Antonio would stop the oppositions defenders pushing forward and make them vulnerable to quick breaks.

21/8/2010 signed a three year contract until Aug 2013. Besides he has been with the club since he was seven years of age.

Something which is also being ignored by the Guly critics is his ability to drift away from the markers and reset his position having made himself space, something that Adam Lallana and Alex Chamberlain need to learn. If they do, it will make them incredibly dangerous, having lost their markers on the backpost corner of the penalty area/goal area.

I think the relevance of the ends decision is for the away fans not to be close to our goal when the away team is attacking in the second half. They are then deprived of noisy support which is drowned out at the far end.

Only quoting the PNE Chairman Maurice Lindsay who confirmed this at their fans forum. Mind you he gave Ferguson his backing and he was sacked yesterday.

More importantly would Barnard have been subtle enough to put in Lallana (missed open goal) Chamberlain and Chaplow with defence beating passes for clear shots. More than likely would have ignored them and tried himself even though the others were clear. Horses for courses, Guly provides the movement and space to open up defences for others, the strikers primarily are looking to score which often stifles movement. The movement on Tuesday provided seven or eight really good chances whereas up to now we have been struggling to break through defences. We looked capable of scoring all the match after the equaliser.

I think the noise from the Brentford game when we were turned over, plus the fact we nearly tried it before but reverted to habit, has made them realise that playing into the noisy home support is worth something in the second half when the results of most games is settled. The home goal is a long way from the away supporters and they can't unsettle our defence with their noise.

He needs to recognise that he is looking at up to five years in the reserve/loans, with the possibility of a few substitute appearances, followed by intermittent games and stiff competition from bought in foreign international players. He's a footballer first and foremost and first team football is the aim wherever he is. He won't do better than stay here he's only 17 and a first team regular.

Because of tunnel vision and and a dearth of football knowledge. He is a good player at this level at the very minimum. He pulled the Huddersfield defenders all over the place with his movement and passing. He'll do for me.

Talk about tunnel vision, Lallana missed two clear chances and hit the bar with an open goal why no criticism. Guly put in both Chamberlain and Chaplow for goals. He caused the Huddersfield defence all sorts of problems all afternoon, as I remember Huddersfield were putting their bodies in the way and they were closing down quickly, the chances he missed were nowhere near as easy as the two missed by Lallana who however all round was excellent apart from missing the goals. Today we had, after missing three golden chances, going behind and nearly two whilst being pulled around in defence by some slick play, shown great character, equalised out of nothing from a Lambert 2009 type shot on the turn, Guly put in Alex for the second from there we put in a terrific team performance. Jaidi was finding Lee difficult but gradually we gained control. It was a real team performance, yes there were some individual weaknesses but the teamwork got us on top and kept us there. Unlike against Brentford we played with a high tempo and the midfield were committed and showed good movement, Lambert was much improved and Guly really worked the Huddersfield defenders. If we can maintain the teamwork and commitment we may be able to get to the top of the league and stay there especially with a bit of strengthening. Even so the bench was much stronger today.

I'd be quite happy to get into the transfer window and provided we are going to strengthen the team, leave as many games as possible until we bring in reinforcements.

There has been a lot of talk about the pre season but for me the most telling reason for the poor start was the lack of competitive match preparation. The teams that appear to always start well play a few lesser quality teams often two on the same night with mixed teams, then the first team comes together and play competitive games against equal or better sides, working on match fitness and teamwork etc. We on the other hand played the two best and already match fit teams before we had hardly done any fitness work, then a hotchpotch of poor quality opposition with a final game against Reading. All the games were a mixture of first team and development players playing together with none of the first teamers playing a full game and some not even playing. The first team didn't play as a unit until the first league game which was also the first full match that any of the first team played. This preparation didn't allow the teamwork of the first team to be bedded in and to hone the match fitness which was missing.

Adam's father said that BR were poor and we should have scored eight. The AP rumours need no comment from anyone.

That BR were poor and were easy to beat. The comment was on the highlighted item.

Adam's father told Weston the very same thing.

The Bristol Rovers game keeps being put forward, any one would think it was supposed to be the great turning point of the season, however it wasn't a particularly good performance that swept every thing before it. Weston was talking to Adam's father before the Swindon cup game and he said that Rovers were so poor we should have got eight. I saw the goals and there was no great cutting edge to any of them. I understand Adam's injury was caused on a treadmill at home, that a specialist couldn't pinpoint any specific injury and suggested he continued to play until it broke down or not which it did straight after half time at Bristol. This was on the understanding if he opened it up to look, Adam would be out for a month but if not and it broke down he would be out for six weeks. To play he was having pain killing injections before 1st and 2nd halfs.