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Just a shot would be nice. Tell us, how many games have we lost to "a worldy" recently? Maybe out of the 10, 2 go in, better than the one that goes under Pelle's foot and we still don't get a shot from a yard out.

Easy to look world class when you have the pitch to yourself more than 25 yards out.

Apparently McMenemy asked him why he just couldn't pull out.

Well, he's that stupid he had to ask the coach if the girls were fit enough.

We don't seem to be picking up on his flicks and chest passes enough so are we really "geared up" to play with him. Midfield need to be sharp in the right areas - and they aren't. Schneiderlin seems to have forgotten all about going past (he started the season doing it a bit more) and Tadic just isn't there.

When our defence does that everyone complains that we are giving the opposition too much room to come on to us. So Liverpool were giving us that space ... why didn't we use it? The problem is in midfield where we just take too long nearly all the time.

It gives them self-justification for still living in Gosport.

A logical contradiction. If it IS an interesting argument, the condition of being interesting has already been met. There can't be a 'should' about it. The battle of the pedants has begun ....................

Threads like this I find bizarre - I watch games for the excitement of the 'if onlys' and the 'what ifs'. Anything else would be a bit like watching Scottish football in the 80s, when if you were a Celtic or Rangers supporter there were only 2 (4?) games worth watching. The rest were a foregone conclusion and the league was as boring as hell. In the Championship etc., don't we have playoffs to create extra excitement? People here it seems would exchange excitement for guarantee if they could. Might as well go to sleep for 40 years.

If there's one thing you'd think a Koeman team might be good at, it's shooting from outside the box. Has RK forgotten how he himself played?

I expect Bond has taken the cones with him so he can reserve a layby on some industrial estate somewhere for his "return of the burger/sandwich van". Except Arry, who else would employ John Bond's nipper?

We can go one better than that - we could go for those with two left feet.

I think it will show Koeman's real genius by getting Davis to be in two places at once.

If he said nothing you'd be on here as quick as a flash saying "his dad's gone quiet when asked a direct question, so things aren't going well".

He's just a flash harry when in lots of space. Don't need types like him in English football. Where's a Billy Bremner when you need one. There, done it for those not big on irony.

But on the bright side look at the opportunity it gave you to use emoticons.

From which mountainous scree slope do you hail from, goatboy?

It isn't just about us getting into the CL, but also the whether we would likely progress.

Yeah, i know what you're saying. I went to a restaurant where they served up an excellent 5* meal, but I was reluctant to get excited about it as I wasn't certain I'd get a great meal in a few week's time. I think you must be the definition of pessimist.

I guess it's time for you to redesign the Saints Web Banner, what with all those players on it who have gone. History, wot history?

or maybe even c) pay more than he proves to be worth, watch him fail repeatedly to deliver and loan him out to Hull as a bench warmer. I wouldn't buy a youngster who is hawking himself around to find the highest bidder. Most likely will have an attitude issue.

He has excellent games, but is not an excellent player? What % of his games have to be excellent to make him an excellent player? Presumably you've seen all of both Maldini's and Toby's games to be able to defend your definition so far as these two players are concerned, or are you just p*ssing in the wind as normal?

Don't be too sure he will actually get here - the pilot is having to use notes.

OMG, objective rationality. F right off.

Outed as what, an expletive or something more meaningful? I don't come here every day (apologies, I have a life outside saints web, unlike a lot of others). I can think of some apt obvious 4 letter words for him, obviously, but has he been outed as a skate, or Rupert Lowe or something? Really, if you want this website to be something worthwhile, a lot of you need to stop talking to yourselves and become more informative, or at least clearer about WTF you're trying to say.