Greenridge

The EFL Cup Final Placebo effect. Well known in football medicine.

I have this vision of Reed as Captain Mainwaring and Puel as Lance Corporal Jones. Or vice versa.

We can throw away the much vaunted and fabled Southampton Way blueprint if we sign Caceres.

He won't need to excel to be a step up on Forster right now.

Maybe you should have read the post it was in reply too. I made no mention of whether it was right or wrong for Koeman to leave / be pushed or whatever it was that actually happened. It was related to the criticism he got for not playing the youth as he didn't think they were good enough. He's been proved right and Puel playing them has demonstrated that they aren't good enough but Reed made it clear when Puel joined that he would be doing just this. Get it now?

In which league and what position in that league would you rate Forster at?

We've pretty much managed to prove that Koeman was right with respect to the kids. OK, Sims looks like he could play a part and McQueen has done alright when he's played but that's it. And Koeman has successfully introduced several of the Everton youngsters into the first eleven and also bought the likes of Lookman. He's seemingly not a bad judge after all despite what some posters and the club would want you to believe.

I hope you are being significantly well renumerated by the SFC PR department because your misplaced, misjudged and misinformed optimism is making you look, well, a bit of a plonker to be honest. Maybe you should try and get to a game or two and see first hand what pretty much the whole of the fan base can see week in week out. There's room to be neither a 'bed-wetter' or a 'happy-clapper'. It's called an objective realist.

You don't say. I'm sure he can move around as much as a fully fit Fraser can.

He's a goalkeeper, he's not running a marathon. He's just got to sit on the bench. Can't be that taxing can it.

Yes, they should have taken their pocket MRI scanners out with them on the pitch and made a fulll diagnostic assessment there and then.

He's out for two months and likely off in the summer.

They have good telecoms on Denmark. Extensive 4G coverage and free wifi in most hotels and many public areas.

Seems to conflict with the story that he suffered a last minute injury.

The cupboard is looking pretty bare in that respect. We have Vvd of course then maybe Romeu and possibly Boufal if he meets the heights it's been indicated he might. After that I don't see any players that are going to be attracting the attention of the top 6 teams. The academy conveyor belt has run pretty dry as well. But who's to say that with further investment from the Chinese or elsewhere then we might move away from the 'self-sustaining' model in the future.

I know the club like to adopt a stealth approach to new signings but that's taking it a step too far.

What happened to the 'off the radar' CB signing you mentioned a few days ago?

I'm struggling to get to grips with what your definition of "high profile" is?

Les is going to take his big white flag he was waving last night.

I think he was playing Fantasy Director of Football on his Spectrum and lost track of time. Easily done. From the OS...Les Reed: "With Jay Rodriguez, Shane Long and Nathan Redmond all in good form..."

Err, did nobody tell him?

He was our no.1 target all along.

I'm sure we'll still be 9th come the 11pm deadline whether we sign a CB or not.

urning Les is turning into the Chemical Ali of the Premier League.

There should be lots of interesting possibilities.