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So "Dagenham and Redbridge" go top. Take that Monkey Boy. A pleasant surprise to see MLT and his family in the Kingsland today.

He blames the players, blames the ref, turns on the interviewer and still manages to link himself with Kenny Dalglish. He comes across as a loser. Contrast with Adkins' positivity.

It did go past season ticket holders on the two most recent occasions we played down there. I know because I went to both and I wasn't a season ticket holder.

Sounds like he's down to his last marble. I agree with one thing he says though.

More by luck than judgement. And you forgot the spitting. How grown men can stand on a footbridge and spit on people below, including women and children, just because the team they follow lost a football match is beyond me.

We have emerged from the depths of League 1. Having made an initial impact other teams will now study how Saints play and work out strategies to beat us. There will definitely be some bus parking at St Mary's but we're used to that.

What a rollercoaster. Followed it on that BBC text update thing. Ain't doing that again. Nearly gave me a heart attack.

Buster Crabbe....or was it Buzzard Crabbe or Bustard Crabbe?

Saints had Crouch and Poke.

Surprisingly so. I got tickets for both and I wasn't a season ticket holder though I think I had membership.

I thought N'Guessan had a loan spell at S****horpe. In any event when he signed N'Guessan, Adkins was quoted as saying he'd been tracking him for two years. He hadn't worked with Chaplow but again had been tracking him. Chaplow - "Nigel showed a bit of interest while he was S****horpe manager. When he got the move down here I was hopeful that he’d still maybe try and get me down." By matey from Reading i guess you mean Bignall, a player that I can't recall ever having made an appearance. So add Cork and Forte to those above and Adkins had either worked with or had been tracking for some time all of them except Bignall, an emergency one month loan signing.

I hope it does work out and thanks for the crumb of support. I don't know what he did at Scun thorpe. I think he knows Cork, Sharpe, Forte. Think I'll shut the fk up in future. Anyway I'm off to bed. All the best.

I haven't jumped to any conclusions. I've just made an observation.

Perhaps Adkins watched him on You Tube then?

Quite right but Adkins has tended to look to sign players he's worked with in the past. This isn't one of those. No big deal. If the bloke's good then great. Just an observation.

Nothing "exactly". Based on reading between the lines. Just a hunch.

How much did Adkins know about this signing? Reading between the lines, as you do, it just seems like it isn't his?

Hedge funds don't muck about and are interested only in the bottom line. They have no place football. I'm so relieved Sisu were not allowed anywhere near our club.

Good post which I would largely agree with though I think it's the spine of the team that Adkins will try to strengthen. CM in particular is where games are won and lost so there's always room for improvement if the right player is available.

Absolute rubbish.

You don't have to operate behind a veil of secrecy to cock up transfers. That's more likely done in the glare of the publicity.

Thanks for the reply. It's interesting that France seem to play him further forward. I think there's a danger that we categorise players as a certain type without having seen them in role different from the one they are asked to play for a particular team. For all I know Cork also may be perfectly capable of playing in a more forward role.

Is this because they've been asked to play a similar role? Can neither play further forward? Anyone know if Schneiderlin plays the same role for France Under 21's as he does for Saints?

"The best thing the Russians could invest would be fresh DNA - that gene pool desperately needs a top up." Gene pool or pond life. Who in their right mind would invest their DNA in there.

Haven't Harding and Chaplow played there before? Chaplow played in the PL didn't he? I think the play offs are realistic.