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Thr right result in the end, Keegan won the B team Poll, now for the main one. Ron Davies for me.

To be fair Tim, I have listened to your comments, as a coach you see it differently, your comments are pretty well on the mark, talking about shape, lack of width, targeting areas, dead ball situations etc. Despite not being at the matches you are pretty well summing up what I see not happening.

She's a well connected agent, facilitated Man City takeover I think.

No thanks, Lallana doesn't want to, won't and can't play wide right, if you want him in the team without totally knackering the shape and width, he has to play in a central position either midfield or striker. It looks like same again this week, unless tinkerman does something silly, maybe bring Skacel back in next week unless the team play well, then leave well alone.

And if some ruthless bastard does him in the first 10 mins and ruins his career, will most people just not care.

I'm voting for Ron Davies. George O'Brien, Derek Reeves.

He is the moderator that managed the poll. Read back and you'll see he has said he won't do any more polls, because of the criticism. In any event it has served it's purpose. If he was excluded from the A team I'm sure there would be a reaction. The problem really is that the rules are simple but not simple enough for some people.

Got time to spare, It is difficult to tell if they are unintentionally stupid or trying a wind up. Not that clever I think.

Ron is for me the best. I have watched Saints since 1954. If he is voted into this B team he will be rated third/fourth best Saints striker in this poll. He then is disqualified from the A team. As it is, it looks like he will be saved, provided Keegan wins this poll.

Your two favourite strikers, it's up to you. But it sounds like you've voted for your favourite striker to be in the B team.

1st best striker with 2nd best striker in the A team. As a pair. Best L/ BestR 3rd best striker with 4th best striker in the B team. As a pair. B team L/R Each poll is separate.

Not at all, it's a poll. St Landrew has already chucked his hand in over it. At the end of the day if Ron Davies is in the B team and not the A team the **** will hit the fan. I wouldn't mind betting this poll will be scrapped.

Simply done, as was done with the centre backs, one poll, vote for your two best strikers in the nominated 4 4 2 formation.

Once a player is selected in a position in the B team he is excluded from ALL other positions in BOTH teams. If he wins here that's it. He is finished/excluded.

That's where your wrong, if he wins this one he is excluded from the A team. He will be the second team striker. The best striker becomes third choice if voted in here,

Correct, if he wins the poll on here now. If you want him as the A team left striker next week you don't vote for him here. I voted Keegan here, and provided Davies doesn't win this one, I will vote for him in the A team next week.

NO, it's one or the other. If he is picked here for the second team he cannot be selected in the A team.

This is NOT the bloody first team, RTFQ, It's the bloody SECOND team FFS. The ones voting on here for Ron Davies are either those who think he is great but are too stupid to understand the rules, or DON'T WANT HIM IN THE VOTE FOR THE A TEAM NEXT WEEK. Voting him into this SECOND team DISQUALIFIES him from being picked for the A team.

It's not a cap, the clubs have to exist within their income. Certainly not to in France, would lead to relegation, either Bordeaux or Marseilles fell foul of the rule a few years ago.

Like I say, already in the rules in France/Germany, Platini and many countries see the finances in the likes of Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester Utd, and now Manchester City as an unfair competition. £600m to £800m in debt and technically insolvent but able to finance teams that are better than the opposition in Europe. There is a groundswell to make the English clubs live within their income. This will just speed it up. Platini will surface shortly. Arsene Wenger is already kicking off as he sees his top four place threatened. It would be made a condition of entering the Champions league and Eufa cup.

This may get FIFA/EUFA to act and allow clubs to only spend earned income as in Germany/France. Platini is on the case, this will be seen as the straw that broke the camels back.

Ron was the best and is probably a shoe in for the A team next week. If you vote him into the B team this week he cannot be nominated for the A team next week, It's not, "is he good enough to be second best", Its "he is too good to be in this team".

My comment is not really about the dimensions, the width of the pitch is variable between maximum and minimum dimensions. However once a pitch is marked out, that's the way it stays. If a team changed the dimensions it would have to be verified legal. We need to play to the touchlines not 15 to 20 yds inside.

It makes the team, narrow and lopsided, no crosses from the right byeline to the left back post and worse nobody on the right back post when crosses coming in from the left. Lallana always gets sucked in to the near post. I know it's a different level, Utd are brilliant at playing both touchlines, then always hold back two players attacking the back post as the defence is sucked in, then outnumbered. If the wide man comes in, somsbody else takes the touchline, we don't do this and it is fundamental.

That midfield won't work with Lallana selected wide right, he just won't play there. He doesn't like playing there and comes inside all the time. He definitely could play well there if he disciplined himself to play wide. If you want him in, he would have to be in either of the two centre positions or as a support striker.