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N'Doye not N'Daye

He wouldn't stay as he disliked Pardew. Still pigs could yet fly. Pardew is absolutely ideal to stabilise Newcastle in the middle of the Championship. The Toon will love his long ball narrow game plan.

Never mind airconditioned stadia in 2022, more importantly what about 32 air conditioned training camps!!!! Training outside in 50C would be a good reason for players giving it a miss.

Refusing the request to commemorate the deaths that happened on the stadium site when asked, is what brings criticism. The right thing to do was allocate a site for the plaque as near as possible to the site of the shelter. Comparing it with other sites is irrelevant as it is a request that applies only to SMS and only really became relevant when the stadium was built.

Why didn't Putin bother going to the selection process? Because he didn't need to.

Pretty much what she said. She obviously did a good job because she was promoted into an area she wanted to work in.

Look, Lowe built the stadium and 'etc' covered all the rest. 'Whoever was concerned' shows that nobody is being targeted, however subsequently I saw that the lady's grandson 'Golden Balls,' has posted in the Lounge Blitz thread and stated that his grandfather was trying to get Lowe to agree but he wouldn't. So it was Lowe.

I know somebody that worked for the management under Cortese and still works in the club. She has, apart from saying that he is a demanding boss, said a lot of good things about how she was treated personally by him. So your statement is too radical by far. Suffice it to say that there are a number of people that dislike him.

Nicola Cortese has taken plenty of stick on here so when he acts like a decent human being showing consideration and compassion it is good. SMS is a vast area with plenty of places to put up a plaque to the unfortunate fans killed on the stadium site. Whoever it was who turned the request down had no sense of history or how the people of Southampton feel about those unfortunates killed due to enemy action. It is right that there is a plaque on the site.

On the official site there is a report that a lady whose husband survived a direct hit on the air raid shelter at the the old gasworks because he went home for lunch. Eleven Saints fans were killed on Sept 26th 1940 in the shelter by the direct hit. The shelter was sited on what is now St Mary's. For years the lady's husband had tried to persuade the club to put up a plaque as a memorial to those fans but they had always refused. As soon as Nicola Cortese was made aware of the request he gave it his support culminating with Kelvin Davis presenting the plaque to the lady at the BBC Radio Solent broadcast on Tuesday night commemorating the 70th anniversary of the blitz. The plaque is to be put up at SMS. If Lowe etc, whoever was concerned, had refused this request they should be ashamed of themselves, especially as it is a Swiss citizen that is now doing what should have been done years ago. Sadly the lady's husband has passed away so was unaware that eventually his dream did come to fruition.

Well they would know about that with the massive crowds they get at all their top division games and most of their best players abroad.

I think you are pretty close to the problem. A player also has to go flat out at times. I have been watching Lambert carefully for a few games and one thing which is really getting up my nose is that he isn't raising his pace to flat out at any point. On many occasions when he is changing position he trots which most of the time is fine, but then he suddenly has to make a burst of pace, but doesn't and continues at threequarter pace even though it is obvious he needs to go flat out. Lambert can give so much more than he is doing. If he is injured he needs taking out of the firing line. If he is not, he needs to make more effort, go flat out at times and if he doesn't, he should be used as a sub until he sorts himself out. At the moment one goal from about 25 games is not good enough for the main striker. Four penalties and a deflected free kick muddy the waters. Lambert doesn't earn a starting place at the moment and until he does we have to find another way of playing until January. However it may be that Saturday has brought things to a head and the next time we see him play, he will either be fit or motivated preferably both.

Adkin's interview post match, "Lambert came off injured"

However he caught the one deep cross early on so there were no more hit into the box. He also made the one difficult save he had to make. His kicking is adequate and his understanding with the defence is wrong to criticise as it's his first game fo about a year and never with this back four.

There is no way of finding out at the moment the answers to some vital questions. Firstly does he have some deep seated injury or injuries and is he being kept going with injections? Secondly if he doesn't have an injury is there something else medically that is causing problems? Thirdly has he got some attitude problem relating to an alleged enquiry from a higher division? Going back to yesterday there were two occasions that he opted to play crosses when he could have scored, as he probably would have done last season, at the very least tried to score. This I think is the point Weston Saint is making. What really stood out for me was his running which was a long way off flat out. Even though there were times he needed to go for it, he never got above three quarter pace. If there is no injury issue this is unacceptable. I personally felt that he should have been taken off because of this. In the event I was surprised he was replaced at half time as it used up the third sub. I thought then, either he was injured or Adkins had addressed the problem head on. I am not surprised by the rumour but hope that it isn't so. Either way Lambert should be left out until a) he recovers, or b) until he sorts himself out. The way he is playing is devaluing him as a player and it is not fair on the rest of the team to have a player that is so short of effort whatever the reason.

With due respect that is more a reflection on two players not up to the mark than the ability of Hammond or Schneiderlin.

Schneiderlin plays in his comfort zone and often just unloads the ball to the nearest player. He plays a lot of valueless passes that do nothing for the momentum of a move. Often a move that is developing crisply with movement from players starting to drive forward is stopped in it's tracks by Schneiderlin playing a silly little sideways possession pass or even turning away and playing a backwards pass. Okay we still have the ball but the momentum is stopped and the often inevitable result is the ball back to a defender thence to Davis and a big punt forward. Does he have talent? yes, does he use it properly? no. He may get forward but never drives forward, he lacks a cutting edge because of playing comfortably. He shows no determination or even good decision making if forward again opting for the easy pass that allows defenders time to continue consolidation. When he is forward he has to pick the killer pass which he is capable of doing but chooses not to often just unloading the ball. FFS Gobern just trying to get the measure of the game had the ball in the net twice yesterday. Will he ever be any good at the top level? IMO unlikely. Is he ever going to be as good as the likes of Sammi Nasri? again unlikely, because he lacks their intensity, pace and cutting edge. I would like to see the club try and get him to add a cutting edge, if that is not possible his ball playing ability is going to waste because of the negative comfort zone he plays in.

Man Utd away, 75000 crowd, probable tv game take the money and move on.

Poyet now saying that Brighton fans are unrealistically getting overexcited because they may well be priced out of promotion as they can't compete for the sort of player they now need. In comparison Southampton paid one of their centre halves the same as it is costing Brighton for their four. If we had wanted players he had no doubt we would have signed them. I think he is being realistic in saying it is one thing challenging for 20 games but 46 is a different thing altogether. It sounds like their backup squad is very thin.

Lambert performed last season. This season we are performing despite his poor form.

We won't get the 2018 world cup, it's already been stitched up.

Schneiderlin doesn't rate a place at the moment he is a long way behind Chaplow and Hammond when it comes to the needs of the team. He has scored one goal in over two seasons and never gets into dangerous positions. In a team with aspirations to win the league and most of it's matches against hard working teams the last thing we need is a strolling player that settles for nothing passes to players five yds away and then holds. He never ever goes on the sort of run that both Hammond and Chaplow carried out for Chaplow's goal. A lot of the time he takes up the role of a strolling spectator and more often than not when a crisp forward move is started stops it by playing a square or backward pass then rather than move for the return holds and strolls. After two seasons he is a luxury player we can do without.

7-3-3 in league draws colchester, yeovil, brighton. 13 games + FAC1. So last 12 games - 24 points 2 defeats.

Lambert and the team were hopeless under Pardew and Wilkins. After last season and the Championship winning team promise by Pardew, followed by an incompetent pre season and a pretty poor start I would give the pre Adkins era a big round zero. In the league Adkins has w7, d3, l3 which is 24 points in 13 games. He has turned SMS into a fortress unbeaten in 7 games with 5 wins. Away form is work in progress but we have taken 7 points in 6 games and have played all but 4 games against top half teams. I have included the MK Dons game which in my view Adkins could have had little influence. Since then he is averaging 2 points a game, his influence has become apparent, the team is evolving nicely and I expect a tougher approach away from home with the flakier characters playing less of a part from now on, with significant strengthening in January. I expect him to get close to 2 points average away and close to 2.5 at home. All in all he has done a pretty good job.

If Cortese wants him and Adkins is convinced of his value to us, it wouldn't surprise me if they buy him. Now that Pardew is gone he might change his mind about wanting to play for us again.