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Ditch the black kit and use the red and white.

I was only suggesting the three of them play. I agree with Long up the centre. I do think that the Davis coming off the bench with fresh legs and mind is a better option. Today he had a big influence and was far more positive than he has been in a long time. I would prefer Hojbjerg starting and I think the jury is still out on the second centre back. I think Fonte still has plenty to offer although Yoshida is definitely improving with regular play.

I remember him, RIP Barry

Not a chance, now we need him to score. Redmond is very pretty to watch but I'd prefer Long and Rodriguez and Boufal, it would be too much to hope to have Tadic on as well as the other three.

Three outstanding pieces of football. Bertrand putting Smith on his backside, going outside and finishing into the far corner, Run from Davis, back heel from Boufal, lovely dink from Davis over Boruc and a great run from Rodriguez into the goalmouth, Turn and control of the volley by Rodriguez into the top corner was absolute class. That's more like it at last we got runners into the box.

Good player, in my opinion he should get more game time.

The problem with our defenders and midfielders passing the ball around backwards and sideways the whole of the opposition have loads of time to get goal side and consolidate their defence denying our forwards any where to go more often or not catching the unwary offside. The slow tempo is killing us, Everton for some reason was good and that sort of tempo is required. With the tempo comes the sharper ball movement and earlier pass into the channels/runners.

I'm not advocating lumping it up front just cutting out a lot of the sideways possession and playing the ball out quickly to the forward players. As many times as the full backs go forward they play it back to the centre backs or exchange passes with the midfielders then more than likely back to the keeper or centre backs.

Only Long and Rodriguez could possibly score a few goals. Everybody else is a once in a few months occasion. Play them together and try to build on the mutual support. Ditch Redmond as a striker and use Boufal as the most likely of the rest to score plus possibly Sims. To do that though Puel has to switch to 4-2-3-1.

Redmond has never scored regularly unless you call once every eleven games career average. Redmond plays like he is not a goalscorer Boufal does the spectacular, is a decent footballer but not a box striker, Tadic gets the odd goal when we are playing well, Davis, JWP, Clasie and Hojbjerg are hopeless in front of goal, Romeu could but is the midfield anchor. I do wish the centre backs would head the ball down in the box when they get the chance. Heading up and over doesn't hit the target. Last night the slow build up allowed Stoke the time to park the bus around the area. Bertrand was effective on the left but Martina's hesitation and indecisiveness on the right together with awful delivery is adding to the midfield lack of penetration. We need at least a pair of strikers up front Puel plays one. We need at least three players that are possibly going to score, Long, Rodriguez and Boufal are all we've got at the moment IMO they should now play possibly 4-2-3-1 or 4-4-2, plus maybe Sims. With Hojbjerg and Romeu in midfield. Again IMO the over emphasis on attacking full backs slows the delivery up front. The ball needs to be delivered quickly to the forwards to then get at the back four instead of the full backs delivering the ball badly into a fully defended penalty area. They can support the attacks but not be the focal point. We are not going to get anything different out of the midfield, they don't have it in them. As long as Puel makes the selections he is making we get what we are doing now. High possession, numbers in midfield, good defence, poor attacking and the striker feeding off scraps. What's the point of 71% possession and no goals and few chances.

Another punch less unbalanced cluster**** unless they play 4-2-3-1 with Boufal behind Long like the at the start of the second half on Sunday.

Not politically correct for the experts but I'd love to see it. A lovely balanced system with the right players rather than a hopeless system with the wrong players.

It's not a case of bringing Gallagher back. It's more about why on earth would we bring the lad back to face the higher standard defences in the Premier with the team playing such defensive negative dross. It might ruin all the good work he is doing. Leave him where he is. Better still get Puel to change the way he has the team playing more Everton and second half Middlesborough than meaningless possession statistics. Goals win matches.

Sturridge is arguably the biggest sick note in the Premier League. We need a strong, brave, quick forward that has a history of scoring goals and playing most of the season's games.

Personally I think we lack physical strength up front when we play just one out and out forward, Austin, Long or Rodriguez with little support from Redmond, Boufal or Tadic plus the lack of midfield support. I would like to see Rodriguez coming in off the left, Maybe give Boufal the freedom in the centre behind Long and a choice of Sims, Redmond or Tadic on the right. I feel that Tadic is most productive on the left so if he was to play Rodriguez could switch to the right. That would give us more physicality, pace and height and four attackers instead of three. Clasie was showing forward intent both yesterday and against Arsenal so He or Hojbjerg could partner Romeu in a 4-2-3-1. I can't see Puel buying that though as he seems hell bent on playing most of the game in our half pushing up the possession percentage but sacrificing goals for preferring to let the forward feed off scraps. Whilst many in the crowd are passive there is a rising dissatisfaction with the set up of the team and some of the negative dross on show.

All the Premier matches were live on SportsnationHD today. Tomorrow just go to Sportsnation register and pay, If you go through Google there are numerous sites underneath the main Sportsnation site that show how to put Sportsnation into the Video addons on Kodi. If you have registered and paid you will be on the Sportsmania home page whether you have Sportsnation or Sportsmania. At the top of the page there is a Kodi tutorial to select. I just wrote down each step pausing the process each time then carried out the operation quickly from the crib sheet. You can go through google and download Kodi to your computer. You then have it. If you want to use the Firestick I assume you use the same process as above to put SN/SM on Kodi there.

Leave out Davis, Clasie and JWP and play Romeu and Hojbjerg in the middle with Sims, Rodriguez and Tadic in front of them with Long at centre Forward. Play a high pressing tempo and get the ball up to the forwards quickly dispensing with the defence knocking the ball around for a dozen passes ending with a punt anywhere from Forster. The slow tempo ultra negative crap is sucking the life out of the team.

I was driving in and the team was announced on Solent. FFS Redmond starting, from that moment I knew we were up against it. Redmond is no forward, he flatters to deceive looks lively on the ball but one dimensional only comes inside and runs out of ideas and the attack breaks down. If he is playing as a forward in a 4-3-3 he has to make runs, get into the box rather than standing in the box. He stands and waits for somebody to give him the ball, he has no anticipation and lacks a football brain of any quality. Sims requires a dynamic tempo to be able to make his runs effective, the funereal tempo last night allowed the opponents to crowd in front, deny space behind and make it almost impossible to exploit any space leaving us with one forward and three midfielders who need to play differently, get the ball up to the forwards quickly and support or even run beyond. Holding the midfield and waiting for the full backs to get up the lines just plays into the opponents hands because invariably we have one in the box, totally outnumbered by defenders trying to get something on crap crosses. This manager and the way he plays represents everything that is wrong, 70% alleged possession and lose, 59% last night and knocked out is absolute crap. He either has to sort it out or the club have to fire him. We cannot sustain this nonsense and if we lose VVD and Fonte we will be struggling, conceding goals and not scoring. Harry Reed will give us more in midfield than the backward thinking Davis, JWP and Clasie. For Gods sake his substitutions were dire last night bringing on JWP when we needed goals. He should have shoved VVD up front and put Fonte on at the back. Leaving Redmond on was daft he should have been replaced on the left by Tadic and left Sims on.

The point that had already struck me. Peace in Gaza is unachievable until the people there grasp the nettle and give up violence towards Israel which will end the retaliation and allow the world to help them to a better and safer life. They need this together with electing a government that endorses that peace and recognises the reality of the existence of the Israeli state and tries to peacefully co exist.

Rod Wallace I believe was offered a new higher paid contract with a year left on his old one. The reason he let his contract run out was that the agent I believe advised a clause allowing him to leave if the club were relegated which the club refused to entertain.

I'd like us to try and sign Nathan Ake, he looks a very talented player, then keep Fonte until his contract runs out and use Ake as a box to box midfielder until we want him as a centre back.

If there is a £25m release clause it will only set the maximum fee that we can ask for him but that doesn't mean that he is automatically released. The club could refuse to release him and hold him to the term of the contract. It also doesn't mean that if there is an auction the club couldn't take a much higher fee by setting the bidders against each other. The Saints hold his registration and he can't join anybody until they agree to transfer the registration.

Higgins had some lads that were loyal to him which I found strange at the time. Apart from the Wallaces the very talented left winger Darren Eadie left Saints for Norwich where I thought Higgins went after leaving Saints. It was a long time ago and it's something that rings a bell.

Relieved that he has been tied down. It looked like he would be out on loan and probably released but fair play to Puel he tried him at left back and he looks a natural there. I personally rate him between Targett and Bertrand, second choice.

That's a fact.