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What I've been saying and seeing all season. The trouble on here is lots of football fans but few with any real experience of playing or coaching. The ex players and coaches I talk to, all see this problem of narrowness restricting the passing options the same way we do. All decent teams have players on both touchlines simultaneously when in possession spreading the opposition and increasing the passing options. Good teams defend in to out and attack out to in but most on here just don't get it.

Nobody talks about wingers, what we are talking about is the wide midfielders not tucking in and allowing the opponents to compact, denying schneiderlin the room and options to pass the ball, then when we lose the ball, providing the room for them to counter attack us wide, which for example Swindon did. The pitches aren't narrow, the best surfaces are out wide on the worst pitches as at Wycombe and Exeter, except for one patch of real soft stuff, we just chose to plod through the middle.

The Carlisle forum were complaining because their criteria was 65 for seniors, whilst we were getting the concession at 60. It was explained that the ticketing policy was dictated by the clubs own rules which had to be adhered to for the final tickets.

I won't have to, he is going to have to convince Cortese he's the manager for next season and I don't think he has done that. I'm not driven by results alone, I want to see teams playing decent football without a big emphasis on booting it long. I happen to think with the players we have got, we could play good football and do a lot better against the poorer sides, rather than trying to negate them by compaction.

Manchester Utd. When we play narrow we lump it up front, when we spread out we play football. It doesnt need Capello or Ferguson, Wilson gets it at Swindon, which is why they pulled us all over the place at SMS and why they are where they are and why we are where we are. But don't let the facts get in the way of the red and white striped mist that obscures the managers shortcomings.

Thanks.

Only needs a rudimentary knowledge which I suppose is a bit better than no understanding at all. Pardew may well have a vast knowledge but allied to a fear of losing it isn't working.

I know for a fact that the wide midfielders are instructed to tuck in. That came from one of them. We don't need a samba or for that matter, sarcasm, we have the pace, we only need to give it the room to play and a lot of the time we don't. To understand that, you need to have a minimal understanding of what makes a team work and it is patently obvious you don't. So with all the goals we still wouldn't be in the play off places without the points deduction. The dire narrow performances at Exeter, Millwall, Brentford, Wycombe, Tranmere etc and a lack of goals in those matches caused that.

The two wide midfielders tuck in and play more like four central midfielders, because they only go to the touch line when the whole team shuttles across leaving the other wide man in the centre of the field. That is why we boot so many balls up front as there isn't the room to pass it around. We were ludicrously narrow on Tuesday and were pulled all over the place, the same against Swindon and the majority of games under Pardew. It wasn't until the goal that Waigo and Puncheon spread out which opened up the back four and led to the goals. If Schneiderlin hadn't been injured and replaced by Wotton I think we would have got a few more goals. With Wotton we were defending too deep and allowed the full back too much room to line up his shot. However the two wide men did a decent job. I would be happy with more of the same. Waigo/Lallana wide and Lambert and Connolly up front.

If we want to create positive momentum from Wembley, we have to break the Pardew tendency for safety first, give it a right positive go and then take that forward every match. We have to give it our best shot to win every match, not just long ball to scrabble a few wins and fail in the end wishing we had given it everything. We might fail but we needn't look back if we do. I happen to think that it is Pardew's negative approach with arguably the best squad in the division that is getting up Nicola Cortese's nose. It may well cost him his job if he doesn't go for it.

If a loan player was brought in to play in a Wembley final it could well cause massive dissension in the dressing room. I think the suggestion of Gillett is a decent fourth choice punt and quicker than the out of position pedestrian James. Less likely to cross from the halfway line. I think after two wins with Harding we will go that way unless Thomas is fit.

Barnard, Puncheon, Otsemobor, Seaborne.

I don't care about the result. We are on Sky and I want to see a team put out against Carlisle set up to attack, with the wide men on the touchlines, playing high tempo pass and move football from the back, trying to get to the byelines and tearing Carlisle apart. Keeping at least two attackers up defending corners and be totally positive.

I ordered 10 tickets including 2 concessions (seniors) and presumed that the 2 tickets with only one stub were the senior tickets, as all the tickets showed full price, that identified them as concessions. The Carlisle senior concession is over 65 but the Southampton concession is over 60, this is because the normal club concessions at each club apply.

He didn't take penalties or free kicks. John Page took the penalties. I think George O'Brien took them in later seasons. All his goals were from play.

I don't care, I want to see the team look like a proper football team not just hoofing the ball up front. I want us to use the good squad that we have, to play passing football at a high tempo from back to front. I want to see, with further strengthening, that we have the ability to play teams off the park and develop a style that will take us all the way.

Some players wear a second pair of white socks outside, covering some of the red hoops.

All I know is what my eyes are telling me. We have bought a very good squad but they are not being allowed to play to their collective abilities and are hamstrung by the the managers negative approach, packing the midfield and forcing the ball to be lumped up front. I don't buy into the Pardew philosophy, I'll go even further, I bloody well hate the way we play. This squad of players deserve better than the up the middle way of playing Pardew is adopting. I want to see us playing proper passing football and these players would be a much better team if they played that way. If Pardew can't supply a team which contains some of the best talent in the league, that plays like a proper football team, without relying on hoofball, I want him replaced with a manager who will.

In that case what's his excuse for not playing a passing game at St Mary's. We have played some dire hoofball there.

We have to play football and not just keep lumping it. It won't get us promotion.

If the club aren't absolutely certain that Pardew is the right manager for the whole of next season leading to automatic promotion he should be replaced. If there is any doubt, he should not be left to start next season, then have to make a change and catch up. I think it will be the former.

Route one, ball from our half, goalkeeper came and missed it, Lambert with nod on. What's that 1 in the last 527 lumps up field, I prefer proper football.

Two left footers on the right, a right footer on the left, nobody wide. Lallana missing our only two chances as usual. Lessons to be learned, but obviously not by this manager. Cortese still thinks we have a chance of the play offs, as soon as reality kicks in, I wouldn't give anything for his chances.

Lallana and Puncheon were at times on the touchline but the whole team had come across and were still causing a traffic jam on one side with nobody wide on the other. The wide midfielders were still tucked in. Swindon on the other hand spread out and moved the ball around as soon as they gained possession, with players wide both sides, plus runners in the channels.

Spot on. My information is that Coppell accepted the job and after all the negotiations were complete, was on his way down to sign the contract. He apparently then had second thoughts, decided he was going to go with his original plan and take a break, then contacted the club.