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Didn't the EU grant Fords about £100m to open the new Transit factory in Turkey? Didn't the EU do the same in Poland etc so that firms would move there? So the very organisation the government want to remain in is the same organisation moving work to other countries and permitting low skilled immigrants to come here with about £3.5b being paid out by taxpayers in various benefits.

Played in U21s a couple of weeks ago and looked poor.

Now we are down to the final stages of the season when teams are competing for known achievements, Europe, escaping relegation for example. The competitive part of the game has ratcheted up a notch. In that respect we are light in midfield because the non combative Davis wants to find space, rotate the ball and avoid physical contact. Clasie and Romeu are massively outnumbered in midfield and up against it as they are the only midfield players competing physically. In my opinion we need Wanyama back alongside Clasie with the impressive, combative Romeu replacing Davis giving us once again a combative ball winning midfield and a player that is prepared to get up in support of the strikers and more importantly pass forward and then keep going forward.

I personally think it was a very mediocre game. When we had possession we moved the ball slowly and there was little movement up front. I thought Mane and Tadic didn't help themselves by playing very narrow. On the positive side I think we might have found the man to play in the middle of the middle three and play up and down once Wanyama is back releasing Romeu to play there. Martina showed that he isn't a bad player but not very switched on. He lacks awareness, he had loads of time to get goal side of Fonte even if he couldn't get a tackle in but he stood watching, not aware that by getting goal side of Fonte who then wouldn't be the last man and yellow carded not red. Not acceptable for a player in the Premier league. The goal was well worked and whilst Pelle wasn't much of a threat himself he had a number of positive touches that resulted in others having a chance including a couple of touches in our goal move.

Some of the players hated him and when they played a game on the dell car park some of them tried to clatter him. Ian White told me that his peripheral vision was so good that nobody could get near him.

It needed to match up Bournemouth, two changes were needed Clasie plus either Tadic for me or Davis if we played as against Arsenal. Bad as the play was, it was awful defending of the two free kicks that really did for us.

Before it even kicked off last night it wasn't going to work. Koeman got it wrong again. It's not even the 5-3-2 that messed it up, it was picking Yoshida as the third centre back that messed it up. It was a mess the last time we played three centre backs including Yoshida. There is a complete lack of balance. It only works, although I don't like it, with a two proper left sided players. Playing the lightweight JWP as one of two midfielders was crass. We were massively undermanned in midfield against a team comfortable and pressing hard in a 4-4-2 with their full backs supporting the wingers. Consequently the front players were feeding off scraps. Bournemouth didn't really create anything but they pressed the life out of us. The two goals were the result of stupidity by Fonte fiddling about on the touchline, the ball should have gone into row Z. What did he think he was going to do if he won the ball apart from trying to shepherd it into touch, and an oversensitive referee giving a free kick as yet another Bournemouth player belly flops to the ground in dramatic fashion. Then failing to defend properly, what's the point of eleven players defending if they get in each others way? The weakness of the middle three after Koeman admitted defeat wasn't solved by the non combative Davis. The only option was Clasie and Tadic or Davis and take off Mane or Austin with Yoshida and completely change to match up Bournemouth and 4-4-2 as we did against Arsenal and raise the tempo and press the life out of them.

Long had a touch of cramp, hamstring ok, subject to training reaction whether he plays.

Kenedy.

Personally I'd have thought a three match ban would have been a fair exchange for putting him into orbit late in the game. As for the kicking the ball out and then getting it back however the opponents decide is a nonsense. In the first place it's the referee's responsibility to control and stop play. Secondly, play on until the referee stops the game, then contest any restart bounce up. Thirdly if the ball is kicked out then play it like any other throw in.

I probably didn't make myself clear by putting 3/5, because it was mostly five at the back so in the midfield space we were left with only Romeu and Clasie willing to run press and tackle, against a side that was given the space to pull us around, whilst Davis doesn't either defend or attack and lacks the will to provide a physical challenge. Pelle looks like a player that has run his course, only Koeman doesn't see it that way. He has been poor for a long while now, but yesterday he was dire and turned the game in Chelsea's favour by surrendering possession so easily. We have been much improved without his one dimensional, selfish, immobile imitation of a traffic cone. Playing as we are, his need of a spoon fed service isn't happening as he isn't the focal point any more.

On reflection I think we got the tactics wrong. The 3/5 at the back against sides that can dominate possession surrenders the midfield and forces the team to defend the penalty area. Against Arsenal, one of these sides we completely dominated by playing a back four and pressing up behind a middle four compacting in midfield and denying the space and time on the ball to pass the ball around. Then getting the ball up front quickly behind the centre backs for our quick strikers. Yesterday and against similar teams we should adopt the same tactics but whatever we play, Pelle isn't mobile enough any more, as if he ever was. Targett dropped too deep probably because Bertrand was very central leaving him vulnerable without cover. Five at the back is all very well and works against the average side but against the best sides we have to adopt a more proactive pressing counter attacking game. All in all we were possession wise dominated by Chelsea's passing and movement, however we restricted them and created the better chances. After Pelle gave the ball away and the linesman flagged for Kenedy kicking out the referee was wrong to allow play to continue which resulted in Fabregas's soft cross going in. If Chelsea hadn't scored then it's possible that they wouldn't have scored at all.

The five at the back allowed us to defend but light in midfield. Clasie and Romeu were great but Davis didn't help them one iota when we needed a more combative player rather than a player that neither tackled or was dynamic enough to get up quickly to help the two strikers. Consequently we were over run. I'd like to see Wanyama play with Romeu and Clasie and go back to 4-3-3 etc with Mane alongside Austin and Long. Pelle was a disgrace for an international. Back heels and flicks without a target were the easy option just giving the ball away time and time again. Mane should have come on for Long and JWP for Davis. Pelle plays like a traffic cone, his lack of movement has got worse.

Not Southampton but the Compass at Winsor between Totton and Bartley.

With due respect to both camps nobody knows how the referendum will end up. Only a small percentage of the population has been sampled in a unique referendum. Whilst everybody might have an opinion nobody can be sure which way it will go because of the unique factors, For example, Fishing communities-out, Farmers in etc. Dislike of the EU/ like EU, worried about immigration/not worried, work for companies connected to EU conversely no connection but hamstrung by EU regulations etc etc There will also be a percentage of the vote that is completely hacked off and will vote out to give the arrogant career politicians of all parties a bloody nose. I don't like the EU, I despise the politicians and I'm voting out especially as I detest the fear campaign and feel we can do well out of the EU.

All Mercedes 4 x 4s are made in the US as part of the trade deal.

I'll have to check with my son who works for Mercedes, but a mate is awaiting delivery of a new Mercedes, he says that he has been told that his and indeed all right hand drive Mercedes are made or assembled in South Africa he didn't know which. As to the EU debate, last year in the first two months about 4,000 immigrants came through Greece and 10,000 through Italy, in the first two months of this year 102,500 have come through Greece and 7,250 through Italy. Last year over 1m came through Greece in the twelve months. This is the worst weather of the year over there. I just can't begin to imagine how many will come into the EU by the end of 2016. It isn't going to get any better in the foreseeable future. The sooner we can get control of our borders the better. The EU sure as hell have no idea how to deal with this, apart from throwing billions at Turkey who will have no problem continuing to look the other way.

Isn't going to happen but England not having to bankroll them would be a bonus. Scotland going alone totally independent without subsidies from England would be from an English point of view really interesting. It would leave England an even richer country of 55m.

Any nation that thinks it's a country and can't make it's own laws or manage it's own immigration and is subservient to an organisation like the EU isn't a country it is really a devolved government much in the same way Scotland, NI and Wales have devolved governments within the UK. That is not for me, It's time to dump the EU and go it alone. Anybody who thinks a nation of about 60m with the fifth biggest economy in the world won't survive or be welcomed to trade with others is ignoring the facts. We don't have to be like Norway or Switzerland if anybody doesn't want to access to our market that's fine, but it won't be Germany or France and really who cares about most of the EU countries whose economies are bust and relying on hand outs a lot of it ours.

Expecting the truth from politicians is the height of delusion. I have no time for them. I have even less time for the bureaucrats of Brussels. We've been royally stitched up. I can remember before EEC and in my opinion there was no problem travelling or trading then, but then it was never about trade or travel it was about power and the formation of a federal state run by the bureaucrats with the complicity of the politicians taking the population for mugs as Cameron is doing now.

We can't control our immigration, can't deport undesirables or have supremacy over the European court. The benefits deal is a myth and can be overturned by legal challenge in the European Court or by vote of the EU parliament after the referendum. The red card only give the right of discussions if backed by a majority, doesn't change decisions. If we leave we would be able to make all those decisions. I understand under international law the status quo applies to all cases under treaties that are terminated so that all those here and UK citizens in the EU can stay.

Hampshire, I was joking about Europol, it was the local plods.

Jesus, not that:blush:

The last one that got in broke a window to get out and away from my dogs. I'd have loved to have seen his face after he opened the kitchen door and faced by a couple of ten stone ****ed off dogs who wouldn't let him out. Europol were no help, never caught him.

Cameron can rank himself as the equal of Heath and Wilson in their approach. Heath lied to the people getting us in, Wilson lied to the people to keep us in, now Cameron is doing the same. We voted for a common market not a European state and I for one am voting leave before Turkey and Bosnia join and the Islamic torrent becomes a tsunami. Open borders from Afghanistan to Dover, no thanks.