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Absolutely right. Simply leave at least two preferably three up, two wide one central, keeps 3/4 back and pulls two midfielders deeper out of our box and means we can defend higher up the field and our clearances don't come straight back. It also means we can strike on the break and try and exploit the stretched defence and space behind it.

Two things stand out for me, Schneiderlin is a superb passer of the ball but to utilise him we have to have wide players out on the touchline for him to pass to. Secondly all the players in the team have to blend and complement each other, I don't see that at the moment. Individual flare might be thrilling at times, but because of the poor mix we aren't getting the ball into our strikers from wide, consequently we aren't scoring enough goals. Waigo is reputed to be able to play wide right and is an international with pace who can score. Holmes is a good crosser of the ball and links well and works hard on the left side. These two players could be the answer to the lack of balance and quality crossing.

Ron was told this by Lallana's father, there is no question mark against his commitment. One league goal in a year isn't a good return. He has scored three goals this season which isn't bad however our whole season hinges on our performance in the league. He is being criticised for not playing wide enough and not getting in decent crosses when he is supposed to be the wide man. His delivery from corners is pretty poor, hitting the near post in the last few minutes on Saturday with Jaidi, Trotman and Thomas in for the corner was inexcusable, not even reaching them. Lallana is putting his own position under threat because dead ball situations realise a high proportion of goals across the leagues but we are poor. Holmes puts in good crosses and dead balls, if he gets into the team it will put Lallana's position in the team in jeopardy, unless he starts to deliver an end product, providing good delivery and scoring more league goals.

My lowest handicap was 4. up to 6 at 63 then due to a knee operation which took 3 years to get over, now at a more than competitive 12. I play six days a week and will be disappointed if I'm not back to 7/8 by early next year. I was a member at Stoneham for over 25 years but the terrain is too up and down for me now. Like I said Quindell doesn't attract me.

We will see how long it takes for him to learn how to put a decent dead ball in or start putting in crosses for the strikers. If Pardew rated him as a goal scorer he wouldn't be taking all the corners, he'd be in the box.

Maybe taking your blinkers off would allow you to see things as they are. It is one thing having a subjective opinion but you seem to be devoid of any football background. As a matter of interest Teddy Nutkins is an ex Saints player.

The whole thing begs the question did this type of thing happen regularly and was this only because of it's failure that it became tellable.

That's up to them. There are a lot of charity days for good causes at decent courses competing for a limited number of available golfers. Quindell isn't the sort of course that interests too many. The players like MLT probably get a free day out but if I'm going to pay for the privilege I'd prefer to play on a decent course.

Provided Jaidi is fully fit I can see us being pretty solid at the back. The little I saw of Charlton last week they concentrate on getting to the byeline and cutting the ball back high or low. Our full backs will be key and so will the wide players to stay wide and stop Charlton easy access to the corners. If we hold them and they start hitting balls into the centre backs as we do then it will be as easy for Trotman and Jaidi as it is for our opponents when we do the same thing. I would like to see Holmes on the left with Waigo wide right and coming in on the right back post for centres hung up. Lambert and Saganowski as the battling strikers. I hope Waigo is decent in the air.

Maybe if it was played at a decent course it would attract golfers. As soon as I saw Quindell I lost interest. Like the Ryder cup it could be rotated home and away each year.

It opened today until Nov 26th.

Stating the obvious however we may find that he won't do that and unfortunately may become a fringe player.

He is right sided but appears more positive and effective on the left side. His biggest problem is the unhelpful hype that he is the real deal, when all he is, is a young lad trying to make a breakthrough. His end product is poor and he still hasn't got a nailed down position to call his own, despite the incessant promotion by some on here that he can play as a striker or central midfielder. He isn't strong enough yet to play in midfield and there is no evidence that he can get twenty goals as a striker.

Lallana was decent down the left in the first half, gave himself room, stayed out wide and caused some problems down the left. The second half was anonymous and he didn't have a clue how to play off Lambert. His dead ball delivery is flat and awful and if he does get it airborne it clears everybody. Karen Carney for England Ladies could give him lessons on how to deliver a dead ball. His problem is the more players we get in, the more difficult it is going to be to give him a game. This may be dawning on him but playing three positions in a match is counterproductive. He is an enigmatic problem, he does have good control but lacks pace and isn't a natural goalscorer. He looks better on the left because he can go either way but on the right he only comes inside. We can't play him up front as he isn't strong enough. quick enough or cute enough to get us 20 goals a season. He just isn't strong enough to play central midfield. It may well be, wide left is his best bet.

Quick players wide shouldn't dribble. They should knock the ball down the touchline well past the defender and sprint give it one more touch towards the byeline and get behind the defence. Again why haven't the academy taught them this, letting them dribble takes away their speed.

Coppell has a good pedigree, international player, winger, coach and manager, has a very stable personality. Unusually for a footballer is a university graduate and appears particularly mature and has worked with the other members of the management team in the past. I would welcome him.

Maybe you should try a different sport to be a critic as you clearly know nothing about this one.

Matt Paterson is a really shy quiet introverted lad that needs to be helped to come out. He wasn't helped by Reilly sending him off v MU, and he isn't being helped by having to take the load in the first team, because we are short of a striker and he isn't ready. He needs to score goals in the reserves to become confident. Paterson, Lancashire etc need to be put back in the reserves and be re-educated and allowed the time to develop properly.

Yesterday, Pardew was trying to get the two wide players out on the touchlines. I lost count of the times Pardew was waving at Thomson to get back wide after he had drifted inside. Thomson's default position as a winger is on the touchline, what worries me about a lot of the boys that have come out of the academy is their total lack of knowledge and awareness about football tactics, taking players away, making space for colleagues, bending runs to stay onside, drifting in behind the last defender, just kicking the ball etc. The academy looks as though it is not equipping the young players with the tools to do the job in the first team. The one thing I'd criticise Pardew for yesterday was substituting Perry because it stopped him in the last 15 mins from the desperation move of sticking Trotman up front to try and win some of the high balls going into the box. Pardew is trying change things we play with more width each week but it is like pulling teeth trying to get these kids to concentrate and do the job. He has brought in some decent players but the lack of pace is killing us and that isn't his fault. I would have thought that an absolute requirement of any kid going into the academy was pace. In latter years only Walcott and Dyer had pace and Bale was quickish the rest are pedestrian. The Arsenal academy requires pace, one never sees a slow Arsenal player. I think the academy needs sorting.

It was dumb because James was poor at full back in comparison to Thomas and it meant at the end we couldn't put a big man up front. Lallana was awful as a striker and offered nothing up front, he is clever on the ball but lightweight and doesn't get in where it hurts. We needed to do something different but we didn't. As for formations we never went 3 at the back. James and Harding were orthodox and Trotman and Thomas were central. The two midfielders were too deep and offered no support. The problem is the forwards/midfielders have scored one goal between them from open play in six league matches.

Lallana did well, stayed wide and had more of the ball than usual and caused problems. So what happened then, we bloody well changed it, poor wide right, anonymous as a striker. The central midfielders are playing in a comfort zone, 10 men and our central midfielders are sitting in front of the back four FFS. The two central midfielders have to get up in support of the strikers and get to the edge of the penalty are at the same time as the wide men are getting down the wing. Mellis needed to be wider, so he wasn't really effective and was taken off. Joe Mills has talent but looks like an overlapping full back not a winger. It appears to me that if Lallana plays wide he could be effective on the left with Waigo wide right. Lambert needs Saganowski to play off up front. We have to be more positive in midfield, I prefer Schneiderlin to James and he should be asked to get forward at every opportunity. I thought taking Perry off and altering the back four dumb. James should have been taken off for Schneiderlin and Thomson swopped for Mellis without switching Lallana around. If they really wanted to make an impact maybe pushing Trotman up alongside Lambert for the last fifteen minutes might have caused them problems.

More like 4 at the back, 4 in central midfield and 2 picking up scraps.

That is a myth that width is one sided. To pull the defenders apart there has to be a player/s on one touchline with at least one player initially wide coming in on the blind side behind the back defender. Proper width is using the whole width of the pitch to create gaps. If a one sided winger is employed it allows the defence to compact and push over to meet the threat without worrying about being outnumbered on the blind side. The midfielders drop off and we get exactly what we have at the moment.

Not when that was posted, after the Swindon game, Lallana pulled his finger out against Birmingham but one swallow doesn't make a summer. With the new players I can't see him up front instead of Saganowski (if he stays) or wide left instead of a fit Mills/Holmes although right midfield is a possibility if Waigo doesn't play there. I personally would play him as a last thirty minute impact sub wide or up front.

I think Schneiderlin is the best and most incisive passer of the ball we have got. Up to now he has been completely negated by the lack of players wide so his only targets were clustered in the middle of the pitch. I would play a back four of Thomas, Jaidi, Trotman and Harding, a central midfield of Hammond and Schneiderlin with Waigo out wide right and Mills/Holmes wide left with Lambert and Saganowski to battle it out up front. That would leave the option of Lallana coming on for the last third up front/wide to get at the defenders with fresh legs.