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Made for us. Long, Clasie, Wanyama,(Romeu), Tadic, Pelle, Mane. Cedric at RM in front of Yoshida could be an alternative possibility. Koeman won't buy 4-4-2.

This is all very well but years ago amateur players at the highest levels because they could if they wanted often, played Saturday, Sunday, Wednesday for different clubs and the very best often played mid-week representative games as well as training Tuesday and Thursday and working full time. The Sunday teams were usually teams that comprised players from a couple of Saturday clubs playing in comparable leagues of similar strength. The days when pitches in the winter were very heavy, much more tiring than the pitches Saints have to play on. I can understand the concerns but I don't buy fatigued after one game especially with the effort some of our international superstars have been putting in lately seriously affecting them 48 hours later. Knocks and injury recovery in that time is a different matter altogether.

Of those 12 five were against Villa. so 7 shots against the rest.

Gallagher seems to be out of favour at MK Dons where he is hardly pulling up trees. Not the best example. Stephens not playing at Middlesborough, Turnbull in div 1, McCarthy in div 2 Seager (For U21 6 goals in 6(1) appearances, Reed and Hesketh should surely be near to the first team bench

Koeman has to find an answer and can't afford this safety first negative thinking or we will be in a relegation scrap before we know it. We need to be more positive, raise the tempo and put teams under pressure if we don't we aren't going to win very often.

I don't like passing it sideways and backwards, getting closed down and back to the keeper to launch it. I want to see passing but I want to see the passing going forward with midfield players getting forward to help the attackers and incisive passing not the easy option.

JWP or Davis wouldn't even get on the bench for me. Davis, fourth forward from midfield 8 goals in four seasons 137 appearances, JWP in four years 1 penalty. We don't need that and it is time to get in players that can score goals and win the ball. Small wonder we can't score with either, sometimes both of those two in midfield. I can't see anybody in the Premier wanting either of them.

Interesting insight into Leicester, Kasper Schmeicel on Sky. We went back to trying what we did in the Championship and it's working. We are NOT a possession team. The front players play off the shoulder of the defenders and the ball is put into the space behind them, where the forwards want it. We win it and get it up to them quickly. We on the other hand pass it around slowly, allow the opponents to close down the space in their half and outnumber our few players that get up front. Or we hit Pelle who is struggling to win the ball with precious little support. We have loads of shots ie Villa, 23 only five on target and a goal from a corner that everybody misses except Romeu at the far post. In my view we need more of Leicester and less of Poundland Tika Taka as coined by Verlaine 79 which nails it for me. Or Souness slaughtering Swansea, passing for the sake of passing. 651 passes 2 shots on target 0-0.

If he does he'll be out of a job sooner than later. We don't need bottlers in midfield. He doesn't give 100% and has been allowed to indulge himself for too long carried by the players that do give 100%.

As far as I am concerned he is a big part of our midfield problem. I was delighted when he was taken off and it certainly didn't get worse. Wanyama's atrocious positional play and passing didn't help neither did JWP's powderpuff presence. It's time Koeman got ruthless, small wonder nobody ever tries to buy Davis and JWP.

In 1975 I voted to remain in a common market. In the referendum I will vote to come out of what the cheating politicians have made it into without a mandate from the people.

If you want to see all that is wrong with Davis watch the BBC South clip of the first goal. It starts after Davis unloads the ball to an opponent and Clasie's tackle that rebounds to Alli. Davis can be clearly seen trotting back now level with Fonte's tackle where Kane receives the ball, Davis still jogging back, Kane goes towards goal Davis still jogging slightly quicker, Soares out of position trying hard get back to get a tackle in but on the wrong side, Davis in the ideal position to go in hard on Kane but slows up, pulls out and lets him by with only VVD to beat and score. Davis pulls that stunt all the time. Pressing he only tracks and rarely gets close enough in my mind making damn sure he is always a bit short then when confronted by a physical tackle he does what he did here slows down and waves a foot, oh dear too late. As for the pointing as he strolls around.

He won't cost anything like that with only five months left on his contract after the window. Besides a lot of the teams linked are relegation candidates at the moment. He won't be going to a struggling team like last year.

It's a no brainer. Austin is out of contract in July and reportedly on circa £38k per week. His goals would shoot us up the league and the extra place money would go a long way to covering the cost. Because we sure as hell aren't scoring now and Rodriguez has a long way back when medically fit. The talk of him not moving in January and running his contract out makes sense but an offer that covers that and gives QPR something won't be dismissed out of hand, especially if he wants to go to Euro 2016, he really has to be scoring in the Premier League.

I suspect he's not sucking up to the manager.

Play Mane and Long together up the middle until January, with another forward, Juanmi, Seager? on the right. Consider a midfield of Romeu (holding) Clasie and Tadic on the left. Rein in the full backs so that only one gets forward at a time, basically defenders defend. This could switch into a 4-4-2 or a 4-3-3 as wanted. Get Austin in in January, JayRod fed in from the bench after a good series of run outs in the U21s to get some goals and regular games.

That is total hogwash and just an excuse. Soares and VVD are the only new players playing anywhere regularly. I make an exception of the goalkeeper. Juanmi, Clasie ( until recently), Martina, Romeu have appeared intermittently at best. The same old, same old, none scoring, slow, passing midfielders Davis, Wanyama, JWP have featured regularly. We need aggression and high tempo dynamic pressing and runners to get into the box, together with movement up front. Pelle is too slow, plays with his head down and doesn't dart about at all and is easy to mark as he has been worked out. From Long, Mane, Tadic, Seager, until January, then FFS get Austin in, cheaper in the long run. Place money will make up the cost because he will get goals, and if he does so will others. From Clasie, Romeu, Reed and Wanyama (only if he changes his attitude. If wanyama wants to play as one defensive midfielder he has to stop wandering all over the place and play in front of the back four releasing the other midfielders to join the attack.

A lot of common sense in here.

Players go on runs at the front and up the sides but they are ignored and the ball goes sideways and backwards so the runs stop, where we are, Clasie looks like a forward passer, Romeu gets it but the others need clearing out.

Nobody knows how he'll do or Reed for that matter, however we do know there are a few that aren't performing and that's a fact. Stupidity is doing the same thing time after time and expecting a different outcome. Time for change, system and or personnel.

We now turn the ball over regularly, yesterday Davis and Wanyama passing to the opposition in their half led to two goals. Graham Souness today slaughtered Swansea for 651 passes, 94% short, 89% accuracy and 2 shots on target and no goals. He said the great Liverpool teams believed in possession but were exhorted by the coaches to always have the aim of going forward.

Reed has tenacity and energy and he doesn't bottle tackles, we need that. I'm fed up with players that don't go in where it hurts.

To be fair to the lad he had a stormer against Everton last year when we won at home and Morgan and Wanyama were out. I'd take him any time for his tempo and tenacity. JWP and Davis are lucky to be manager's favourite picks but don't hold a candle to this lad when it comes to giving 100%. The manager's favourites, Wanyama Vice Capt, Pelle, JWP, Davis, are way below par for the Premier.

I think Clasie is a decent player but more than that he gives everything and for a featherweight has heavyweight courage that some others would do well to copy.

Davis and JWP, keep the ball, pass it back or at best sideways and slow everything which allows opponents to condense into a ten man block with little space behind. We then pass it around and eventually lump it up towards Pelle with nobody hunting the breaking ball.