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Really got to get him signed up now.. seemed very coy in his interview though. Can see no reason for him to look elsewhere, hopefully he'll realise that now he's mellowed down a bit.

Good to see some people giving Adkins the credit he deserves. Against the big boys away we play J-Rod, keep it tight and bring on the guns in the 2nd half when were still in it. Can't fault it, Ricky's made an impact twice now (City and Chelski) and then the belief comes in. All this 'if he played from the start' is stuff we can't know, you can't assume it would go exactly the same way. Well done Nige and the lads, awesome performance exucted brilliantly.

Absoloutely chuffed!! Risky from Adkins and it looked like it had backfired.. but having the big guns ON for the last 20 made all the difference, what a ****ing goal by Punch, made even sweeter by our Luke roasting their right back. We have some seriously good forward players! What a comeback, could be such a crucial point.

Clever ploy.. now Yoshi and Hooiveld play out of their skin, and we win in a heroic 1-0 win. Vintage management

Thought it would, just making sure. Can't wait to tick this ground off.

I would say that is Yoshi and Fonte's biggest strength..

Was good til he got figured out

It is.. but will no doubt be some questions about Forren.

Obviously he knows his stuff, i just find it strange that a Norweigen international should have to go for a trial before they decide if he's up to it. A bit bizarre to me.

Plus the fact that he is a journalist, and seems to have a lot of links to Saints.

Forren is a Norweigen international. Not as good as Italy I know, but still an international regardless.

Simon Peach‏@SimonPeach Norwegian contact tells me Forren to #SaintsFC could be happening. Molde have apparently accepted a bid & agent meeting club today.

Yeah pretty much, requires no effort - just stick their beak in at the last minute and offer wads of cash.

£££££

QPR also interested according to a few Tweets. Game over.

I dont really get why he would want to do a trial? Isnt the point of scouts to decide if hes good enough or not? Clearly we have faith in our bunch. We can offer him 1st team football, he'll most likely be behind Agger and Skrtel.

OooooOO! A twist in our favour..!

This has to reach general sale right? Going for a weekend here.

They did pay about £9mil for him 2-3 seasons ago to be fair.

Thought it was very loud in the top tier at the end when we were hanging on.

Got back late last night, great day out. Thought we played well in the first half, even though things didn't click just quite right in an attacking sense. I thought after the first half if we play just slightly better we'd come out winning 2 or 3-0. As it happened, we never really got going apart from a few counter attacks and Villa went very direct. Fair play to Benteke who won literally everything that went towards him. We were hanging on quite a bit at the end, I really felt like they were going to grab something, and they really should have done what with some glaring misses. Boruc - Some very good saves, held onto things well. Best keeper performance this season. - 8 Clyne - Links up with Puncheon really well, thought he had a decent game - 7 Jos - Some fluffed clearances and lost out to Benteke a fair few times - 6 Yoshida - Couldn't handle Benteke and was a bit clumsy missing a few long balls - 6 Shaw - Awesome. Looks like a seasoned pro. Brilliant defensively and made some great runs going forward - 8 Puncheon - Looked a threat, could have maybe had more end product but a decent game for me - 7 Scheinerlin - Some brilliant passing and got stuck in when required - 7 Cork - Neat and tidy, what we know of him really - 7 Ramirez - Never really got into the game at all, rightly taken off I think - 6 Rodrigues - Ran himself into the ground for the team, worked the channels, hassled them, and made some really clever runs. Probably should have been more clinical with his shooting, waited too long a couple of times, but a good game for him - 7 Lambert - Such a good player, always looks so calm on the ball - 7 I'd say overall we were about 6 out of 10, but we got the win and thats all that matters. I have to say regarding the penalty, from my view in the far right hand block of the upper tier, I didn't even see Rodrigues go down, I was just appealing for the Puncheon incident.

Has anyone seen Joe Bennett? He looks about 12. Hopefully Lambert will peel off onto him as he always does and bully him.

Nige has weird knees

Anyone think Lallana could make the bench? Probably too soon I know, but he's kept his cards close to his chest on this one.

Nah, i really fancy us to win this. Get some crosses in the box, they looked hopeless dealing with them on Tuesday. Our defence is marginally better than theirs, and their relying on 1 guy to outscore us. We can stuff them if we play it right.