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Puncheon was out on his feet, you could tell. Going to take a few weeks for him to get back into the groove, as he's not had any action for the last 6 months and no proper pre-seaosn either. He worked his arse off though, really positive display from the lad. Fair play to him, total turn around.

He was such a poor ref. in terms of not reading the game correctly, he got in the way of the ball on a few occasions too and actually set us away at one point. A really really poor ref, had no control of that game in the first half.

Turned of SSN now, bit boring. Their mega deals are Zamora to QPR, and Jelavic to Everton. Great. Great for the clubs, but for a neutral a total damp squid. In fact this window has been pretty slow for everyone, compared to last year's 200 odd million, only around £50m spent this year. Maybe clubs are taking this fair play policy into consideration? In the grand scheme of things we've done better than most.

Almost - probably a late confirmation on that one. Agreed a £3m deal with Bolton and was pulled from the Watford squad at the last minute by the owner. Bit of a bummer for them, no time to get a replacement in. Although good result tonight nevertheless.

Sordell to Bolton

Christ, Sky sports milk this don't they?

All done as far as I can tell.

They've managed to keep hold of a load of their quality though, which has surprised me.

Lambert was excellent, and so was Lallana - both were important in our attacking endevour.# Lallana needs to pass quicker though....took a few too many touches for me, when it was better to either shoot or release.

90 points probably, but look at how close it is now - even down to 7th. It's all closing in and this league is anyone's now. Birmingham are reminding me of Sunderland from a few years back. What a good manager Houghton is.

Really good game played out by two good sides. First half was very even, and we gave them a little too much space at times - especially in midfield. We did have the better chances in the first half though, and their goal was a bit dubious to say the least from where I was sat. 2nd half was awesome though, best we've played at home for weeks. At the start of the season when the ball was running for us that would have been 4-1 without a doubt. We battered a very good team in that 2nd half and there was only ever one team going to win it in that 2nd half. Lee came on and made such a positive impact, I thought he looked excellent holding the ball up, running off the ball, and he also fought well - and showed he wasn't going to be brushed off easily at this level. Looks a little live wire and a very positive home debut. Great to see Fonte and Lambo back, who were excellent IMO. Fonte lead from the back and we looked so much more assured back there, although Martin wasn't 100% comfortable on the left hand side of defense and it hindered us when playing out at times. Everything in attack went via Lallana and Lambert, who held the ball up, played others in, controlled excellent etc - typical lambert, and never in doubt when he took that penality. 3rd time lucky too, because we had another 2 shouts that were stone wallers - no doubts about it. One slight negative - the full backs. Both poor in position and out of possession, I imagine Richardson is still a little rusty - but his crossing was well off today. Overall a very very positive display and we will win alot of games playing like that. Cardiff are no mugs either, but we made them look very limited in that 2nd half.

Someones made up rumour. Villa wouldn't have the cash and we would sell this close to the deadline. Fact.

josh_burridge Josh Burridge Danny Collins is inside St.Mary's tonight finalising loan deal. Option to purchase, will go right to deadline #transferdeadlineday is it over....or is it not???

Not surprised, if we were doing anything we'd have done it earlier or yesterday along with Sharp IMO. Prob dip into the loan market in a few weeks. All in all a very good window though. Can't moan.

Hargreaves_Owen Owen Hargreaves Bad news. I've fallen through the transfer window.

We'll miss him

There's alot of talk on their forums that we're one of the clubs very interested.

Not just going on that, but the Vardy interest too.

Confused with our obsession with strikers. We're turning into WHU!

Interesting talk on the Skate forums (I feel dirty now) that we're one of the clubs seriously interested in Pearce. Someone even says he was at Stalpewood earlier. Can't believe that though.

Sky sports twitter feed (well one of their reporters)

[h=2]Sources are telling us that #pompeyfcand Ipswich Town have agreed a fee for Joel Ward and Stephen Henderson [/h] and so it starts...

Sources are telling us that #pompeyfcand Ipswich Town have agreed a fee for Joel Ward and Stephen Henderson

He's one for next season as they want a loan back, whatever the fee.

Are Fleetwood town loaded or something? Otherwise how on earth can a club of their size resist £1m bids for anyone?