S-Clarke

Good stat. Norwich also lost 3-0 that weekend, away @ Swansea.

Do you know who would look excellent and give us that drive and threat from midfield? Gylfi Sigurdsson. On loan at Swansea, who don't have an option. There will be a bidding war in the summer for him, I hope we show an interest.

He needs to go otherwise he'll continue to pull them down the league.

This stage last season and the infamous thread: http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?29466-Rochdale-2-0-Southampton-Post-Match-Reaction&highlight=Rochdale

He tweaked it in training on Thursday, and from that moment he was out for the weekend.

The crap about him having to play ''as it's in his contract' is almost as bad as the rumour of Arsenal buying Morgan for us, and we're just looking after him until they want him back. He plays because he gives us a good option and he offered a shed load more than Sharp did by the way. He drops off and allows us to play a couple of different systems, his versatility is why he's in the team. He wasn't great yesterday, but he wasn't the worst at all - he actually made an effort and was positive with the ball. Some of the criticism that is directed at him is just vile and pointless, some fans have made their minds up and that's that - they'll never have those views changed.

Just an interesting few predictions These are just based on my predictions for what it's worth, and I've gone for pretty much worst case scenario for us and best case scenario for WHU. These are the points hauls I calculated from the final 6 games: I predict we'll get 10pts WHU will get 16 pts Reading will get 11 pts. We still finish top, WHU scrape 2nd and I've seriously overcooked WHU's results as I wanted to see what they'd have to do to overhaul us. Realistically they need to win all their games and we need to switch to relegation form. Saints - 88 WHU - 88 Reading - 87

Conners is injured too though. Injuries are hitting us at the wrong time.

Lee is injured right foot stepped on during practice March 13, then was followed by a bench outside. And 19 days in his blog, publish photos of the place of the injured remain spike marks, "I think there is no bone or ligament injury is expected to recover from an error at about 1 week, and able to return soon" had to comment. Results of re-examination, found that damage to the ligaments of his right leg, but it was decided to surgery. According to officials, the outlook take four to six months to heal completely.

What a stupid thing to say.

Guly looked better than Sharp yesterday in my eyes....

Nice. Plymouth have a record of producing some very handy players. We seem to always be on the lookout which is positive! So much happening off the field that we're not aware of.

This. We started okish, but were criminal at the back and gave away so many errors. Poor show all round, we just didn't turn up at all.

Don't remember Lambert taking a while to settle with us, he kind of hit the ground running really and didn't look back. You could see the attributes he had straight away, and although not fully fit he was always going to be a handful. I think Sharp needs to improve his confidence and I'm sure he'll look better once he's done that, but I'm struggling to see any ability and he slows our game down big time.

Can't be doing with listening to excuses about the pitch. If it was so bad, why did Blackpool not struggle? We are able to mix it up in boggy pitches, but unfortunately it seems that we can only mix it up when Lambert is in the team - without him we just hit pointless long balls which aren't being controlled, held up or moved on. We needed to stretch the game yesterday so we could get in behind them and so we could combat their width, but we didn't. We stuck to a diamond and long balls without Lambert, which is game over pretty much.

The guy looks so fragile confidence wise. He's failed at a 'big' club before and I bet you that is on his mind. He seems to thrive being the big fish in the small pond, but struggles in setups such as ours and Sheff Utd where he's part of a good squad. I want him to do well for us, I really do, but he doesn't seem to have that quality and agility I thought he had. He doesn't help us as he slows us down, not sure if that's fitness or that's just how he is - if that's how he is then he's going to be no good for us as a long-term striker.

Skate.

Why do we always have to find out via some third party? If he's injured that bad I'd appreciate our club coming and saying so, rather than keeping it all pointless under wraps. There is time for that, and there's time when you need to tell your supporters what's going on...

Ah yes, Reading play on friday night. Interesting.

You mean there would have been more for you to wet your knickers about?

Strange post. It's not the perfect result at all, and Sharp didn't play well at all.

It's what keeps him going.

We didn't play with our usual energy, not sure why. We looked sluggish and never got to grips with it, we also didn't seem to know what to do when we had the ball in the final 3rd. Seemingly there was no game plan without Lambert.

His defending for the 2nd wasn't too shabby either....he had a stinker.

Because the club have officially confirmed that he's not out for the season, he didn't have an operation and that he was just rested for today. That's why the thread was closed.