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Quarshie and THB could improve their's and the team's performance immeasurably if they just stopped the short recycling and hit the ball up the lines. Most of our problems were caused by losing the ball cheaply and far too often.

I used it a bit yesterday to look at several Premier and Championship matches and all worked well on Smarters.

Sunderland hammered WHU 3-0 today. Maybe Fernandes should leave that well alone.

Playing tonight at Northampton

Still shopping in Poundland.

£35m + £8m add ons. Our quoted counter £45m + £5m easily attained add ons + 25% sell on. A long way away.

Provided Saints lower their asking price. that's the important bit. That isn't happening.

He may not have put the ball in but he played an important role in Stephen's goal. By making that run he effectvely took out Coady who was the only Wrexham defender leaving Stephens at the open far post to score.

After all the stick he has taken, Bazunu had a decent game, my man of the match for that save at 0-1, miss it and that was a defeat. Shout out for Ryan Manning, where did that come from plus a decent win and cross for the much maligned Jack Stephens at the back post. Over 75% possession, 27 shots, 47 touches in the box, hit the post, two penalty shouts one a definite shirt pull. It was all about Wrexham from the outset on Sky. I thought we were far the better team against a counter attacking team.

He's training with a group of senior players who aren't in contention to play against Wrexham. Neither is he for two reasons, he's probably not totally fit and the fall out from the transfer speculation. Furthermore the German club connections make sense as ROOF are a German agency.

If he kicks off, stick him on the subs bench for the U21's and tell him to come back and see the manager when he grows up. He can't be allowed to rock the boat. Robinson will more than fill his boots given the way he performed after Martin left. Everton can piss or get off the pot. Pay the asking price or push off.

Fernandes and Downes training today. Dibling not shown but video was fragmented.

Looking at Dibling and his according to Will Still ambivelant attitude and just getting on with it behaviour, whether the real pusher of this potential transfer is his agent trying to engineer a big profit for himself. Saints have set a baseline, Everton have a ceiling which seems below that. I can see Everton wriggling a bit but unable to agree the fee and walking away. In any event for me apart from money nothing sits right about this deal for the lad especially Everton as a destination. I can see him stagnating there. Moyes had a new manager bounce last season but there is no guarantee that they will not be struggling again, new stadium and players are no guarantee. For him maybe the best move would be to pass on this, sign a new contract and improve himself knowing a big club coming in with a big fee would open the door rather than risk his future at a club that has been a basket case for years.

Having watched his pre season I can only say that in the main he has done well. Not being a victim of the Martin obsessive system looks to have freed him up.

When it comes to good players that are valuable to us attracting big clubs at home or overseas the big scam is a loan with an option to purchase which never materialises. That way we lose a real asset and get little in return. If they're that good load up the fee and make it plain no timewasters, put up or push off.

I've taken a one connection, for laptop, tv, Firestick, iPhones, uses Smarters, only the Firestick was a bit tricky. For Smarters just log out and log back in using provided data. The chat support was very good. Paid with Paypal.

Looking at Ramsdale, I find it difficult to believe that he would want to play for a bottom six Premier League club or sit on the bench for a top ten club. I can see nothing more soul destroying than to lose week in week out whilst picking the ball out of the net. Playing for England will get more competitive and playing for a poor team or on the bench will hardly help his cause. There may be an attraction of a good financial deal living where he's happy and hopefully playing for one of the top clubs. It sounds like Dibling and his family are contented where he is but his management company wants to transfer him and make a killing. That could be resolved by the family in due course. Saints are right to demand an excessive fee. As for THB and Fernandes, we really need to keep them both. Again excessive fees should be the asking price of any enquiry.

In my view bottom line is competent players who must have pace and power with a touch of calculated nastiness. No pussies please.

I sometimes flew Saints teams to matches like Norwich and a pre season friendly in Amsterdam. Lawrie got a Peter East History of Saints signed by everybody including Keegan etc. Often saw Saints players at airports. Friendly with Ian White played with him at Stoneham. George O'Brien, Chris Nicholl, Dave Merrington, at Wellow, Played with David Peach the day after he had a snip. We laughed our way round as he was walking like a jockey. Ball and Keegan at Stoneham. Dean Saunders then at Liverpool at Manchester. I was flying a full aircraft to Orlando, annoyingly we had some late passengers. Dean Saunders and family entourage. They thought they were VIPs. His mother in law was kicking off because they thought their seats were reserved so checked in late and weren't sitting together. I told the handling agent to tell them to either sit where they were allocated or get off. I didn't believe in delaying nervous passengers who'd made the effort to be early. They sat down but were a bloody entitled nuisance most of the flight. About an hour out I got a request for Dean Saunders to sit in one of the jump seats for the landing. My response was tell him to F*** off. I don't think they repeated it. Over the years I carried or met lots of interesting people.

Flacid. passive garbage. Martin gave us the method. The players are complicit. Walking and passing. Rediculous.

Personally, I'm sick and tired of a succession of dickheads that consider themselves football genii all with a inflexible different way of playing. No wonder the players are lacking direction and confidence. What is needed is a common sense football man without a pet theory that looks at the squad, then picks teams that get the best out of the players and form the best team, balance and blend. Defenders defend, full backs defend, centre backs attack the aerial threat. Midfielders get stuck in and support mobile quick physically strong forwards. All the players playing in their best positions and make us difficult and unpleasanr to play against. It's not rocket science.

That was a gormless shambles. I personally think the manager is an idiot. What is needed is a manager that believes all the defenders defend. We had three full backs creating precisely nothing and no idea how to defend. We need a couple of centre backs that go for the headers. I'd like to see us ditch the various formations tried and play 4-4-2 with two strikers. Now is the chance to unload all the superficial players and bring in some gritty, uncompromising characters.

Personally I think Juric doesn't have a clue about playing in the Premier League. What happens when selections are made on assessments in training? Chaos. Smallbone, uncompetitive, players fitted in out of position. Three centrebacks on the bench at Chelsea, selected one centreback plus a reserve fullback and a midfielder as a back three playing man to man marking. Any half decent manager will just get his attackers to take the defenders for a walk which creates chaos and holes at the back. Two kamikaze full backs often in no position to defend. Team selection with no balance or blend. When defending getting on the wrong side of attackers, facing the wrong way and unable to see the ball and mark goalside. And so on and so on. It's a shambles.

With due respect to the different opinions regarding the continuous debacle we are witnessing on a weekly basis. This manager is an idiot. Anybody who thinks sticking square pegs in round holes every week is competent is deluded. The mere fact that Juric like Martin is wedded to a one trick pony system and is shoehorning unsuitable players into vital positions says it all. We have a decent enough goalkeeper but the vital back line is totally disorganised. The recent three with only one centre back is a disaster. We need to go to a back four with two centre backs. We have two reasonable full backs that should be made to primarily defend instead of playing like kamikaze wingers. We lack discipline and organisation in defence and that needs to be sorted. Personally after watching all the different formation I can't see anything better or more natural for our players than a simple 4-4-2. The set up recently has been a total clusterfuck. Bree and Aribo with one centreback in a back three and Smallbone in midfield. Smallbone has no conception of workrate, won't tackle and doesn't know how to defend, example last night abysmally wrongsided for the headed goal. In the circumstances Fernandes with Downes in the middle would be better with Dibling and Sulemana wide and Onuachu and Archer up front. The players are unable to play naturally as both Juric and Martin insist on playing their way. Watching ABK following Neto and leaving a bloody great hole at the back was stupidity beyond belief. Man marking at set pieces certainly but not the way we are doing it.