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Our Academy has also got it wrong sometimes after the recruitment was right. Releasing too early Ings, Ben White, Twine, Mings to name a few.

TV looked at the Mara offside after and showed he was onside but the linesman was twenty yards nearer the goal and wasn't level and got it wrong.

I heard a concerning thing if true about our scouting. It was that we have a bunch of graduates with Sports Degrees on computers scouting. No wonder if that's true we are signing mostly trash. It's not rocket science, pace, non negotiable, Strength, non negotiable, a cool football brain, non negotiable, two footed, non negotiable, skills such as tackleing, heading, shooting as appropriate to position, non negotiable and above all courageous. It doesn't take much watching to pick out what's wrong with most of our players. Defenders, one footed, slow, poor in the air and just stupid how did that happen.

Firstly Adams hasn't scored eight goals in the Premier League. maybe four. Secondly if we want a striker/s then stop messing about do what West Ham has done act decisively and stop trying to haggle until the Window is closed. WHU signed Ings in two days and according to the French press have signed Moffi from Lorient for £21m. So much for our piddling offer. No wonder we were blown out of the water. If we want players get in and do a deal because we sure as hell can't continue with Adams and Armstrong.

Welcome, thanks. The sooner they start him the better. It's unbelievable he hasn't played yet.

If that means playing Adams and Armstrong as strikers he's an idiot. They've had too much time between them already. It's time to move on. Playing them and expecting them to change and score goals is a good definition of Insanity.

In football terms I think he's thick. He never even reacted looking along the line, he was offside. Then panic set in and a simple finish was missed. He was offside anyway. His miss did more to sum him up, he has no idea as a finisher and the more time he gets the worse the finish. We can't keep playing a striker that is most comfortable thirty yards out from goal spoiling, he's there to finish and he doesn't do that regularly with the chances he gets. He is also unaware of the times he is regularly in offside positions. Even when he scores my first thought is always,was it offside?

I just think in footballing terms he's thick. He looked ponderous and slow today and if the ball is in the air wins practically nothing. Stood before the ball was played today and froze and his attempt at finishing was indicative of panic that shows on every clear opportunity he spurns. If anybody wants to see good clinical finishing have a look at some of Tella's goals for Burnley. He is a better finisher than anybody we have as an attacker except maybe Orsic. We need to get him back and give him a run in the free role he obviously enjoys at Burnley. I can't see us buying a better finisher than he has become.

On reflection, I posted last night that we retreated too quickly at the free kick and Lyanco played Watkins on side. There is more to it, firstly Lyanco was the first to take a step backwards so was the backmarker. We need an experienced defender that knows what he is doing to manage the defence. It needed two things in my opinion, one a player to call the play as the free kick is taken and secondly the whole line takes a step away from the goal on the call. That would in ninetynine times out of a hundred result in multi offsides. It would also give the keeper the room to try and claim the ball. He had no chance yesterday. Lyanco is hopeless at heading, done like a kipper by Fulham and under the ball yesterday, who the hell ever thought he would make a centreback. Salisu isn't that good in the air and was between two Saints players marking nobody. The zonal marking doesn't work. We need to have a better plan than line up and just run back as the kick is taken and allow the opponents to move in.

Better still don't play him or Adams, Armstrong and Elyonoussi. What's the point in buying players and not playing them.

There were several standout players for Saints today. Firstly a shoutout for Diallo who managed to produce some of the most dangerous AV attacks by giving the ball away. The prize for stupidity has to go to Elyonoussi for his shove in the players back just before the disallowed goal. The second prize goes to Mara for a succession of stupid pushes especially for the one resulting in Watkin's goal. He wasn't alone Armstrong was doing it all afternoon. Finally Che Adams for doing nothing for an hour including a stupid offside then missing his kick completely. We've just bought a goalscorer in Orsic so why don't we play him. And definitely finally after lining up for the free kick why didn't we hold our line. The whole Villa team would have been offside. Instead we all went backwards and Lyanco's shoulder put Watkins onside.

Adams just appears brainless. He was offside looking along the line and had plenty of time to step onside but did nothing.

I see Lorient are tracking Djenepo. I'm wondering if there might be the makings of a deal, part exchange for Moffi. His wages might rule that out unless we mitigate that financially.

I was really watching the Hull CF. SU were on top but it wasn't a great watch. I didn't really pay too much attention as nobody really stood out. I was paying more attention to how Tella was playing. He wasn't outstanding but made some decent runs and his movement was good but his goal was class, in his own half, spotted the break coming, between centre and right touchline, stayed onside, waited for the through ball and burned the defender giving him a little time to look up and check the keeper before hitting it hard across the keeper into the opposite corner.

There is a recall clause in the loan agreement confirmed by Kompany after Christmas.

Tella with another cracker, Typical Adams miss one on one situation but Tella ice cool had a look at full pace and smashed it across the keeper into the bottom corner. We're looking at all and sundry but we have a gem and don't appreciate it.

For anybody interested Tella playing for Burnley, 0-1 v WBA on Sky Sports. Sheff Utd v Hull (1-0) on EFL Sheff Utd. The Hull CF we are linked with looks pretty ordinary. I'm watching both games at the moment.

In the early eighties I flew the Saints party to Amsterdam for a match. Lawrie had Peter East's History of Southampton signed by the whole party including Kevin Keegan. I've still got it along with a load of other Southampton FC books through the years.

I've been watching Tella playing for Burnley and he has obviously benefited from some good coaching. His positional play and touch is so much better and his ability to keep cool in front of goal is impressive. Add to that his pace he looks like a good player. Is Jackson an improvement on Tella who already has Premier league experience.

It was a 1977 PIPER PA32R Cherokee Lance, retractable version of the PA32 Cherokee Six. Both six seaters with 300hp engine. I hope you had plenty of Instrument flying experience because most untrained pilots get disorientated and lose it within minutes. I'm surprised at the pilot pissing around when the thing to do was fly the aircraft manually. I once got disoriented over the North Sea from Norwich to Stavanger single pilot carrying a load of explosives for an oil company in the middle of the night. I was at 10000 feet looking over the side at a vast fishing fleet showing white lights, I then looked up at the sky more white stars as it was crystal clear.I looked down again at the white lights and suddenly I didn't know which was up or down. Being an experienced instrument pilot I focussed on the instruments and flew on not looking down again until well clear of the lights. Never ever forgot though.

Cherokee six or Single Commanche ?

January1959, FA Cup third Round. Special train to Manchester. Third division Saints v First Division Manchester City. With the magnificent Bert Trautmann ex German paratrooper and POW in goal . Terry Paine tore Man City defence and full back Cliff Sears apart, Saints won 5-1, Reeves 4 and O'Brien plus Cliff Huxford playing most of the match after pulling a muscle early on - no substitutes in those days. We got back to the Central Station after midnight. George O'Brien shouting " Where's the bloody brass band " 1963, snow from Boxing Day until April, hardly any football played. George Kirby pushing a pram around Cumberland place then terrifying Peter Grummitt with Saints 0-3 with 13 minutes left drew 3-3 after 1-1 draw away in FA Cup sixth round (QF) then beat First Division Notts Forest I think 5-0 at White Hart Lane in second replay on a neutral ground. Lost 0-1 to a scrappy Denis Law goal at Villa Park in the Semi Final. All the Saints players used to hang out after training at the old Tudor Coffee Bar at the Junction. Lots more where that came from.

It's a mystery that any of them are called strikers because they're everything but.

He created a very good assist laying the ball off with the centreback tight behind him but unable to get near the ball unless he fouled Ings.

If we are cosidering bringing in Danny Ings we need to push the boat out and buy another goal scoring forward that allows Ings to be substituted and can take over some of the match time whilst covering if the worst happens and he picks up an injury.