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Good to hear he's doing well. He wouldn't have got near our team this season with our midfield options, so this was a great move for him.

It was Lambert.

Yeah, signed a new contract until 2014. At the same time when all of our key players resigned. http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~2426115,00.html

Morgan and Cork were both outstanding, but Morgan pips him.

I wonder what Jay Rod is worth now? He's having a cracking season to be fair, think he's on 14 in all comps now. I think Burnley were interested in what we had to offer, but we weren't interested on what they then demanded.

It's genuine as well, not the usual ''oh let's just show the fans that we care'' **** that we've been used to in previous years. This group is really close. And that's probably 50% of the reason we're top.

There is a player at Chelsea who they are looking to loan out in the 2nd half of the season. He's young, powerful, pacey....Romelu lukaku Worth a quick loan offer for a few months? I can't see many premiership teams giving him lots of games, and what better way for him to adjust to English football than to come a few miles down the Motorway to top of the table Southampton... Stoke tried to sign him at the back end of August, but they were told 'no' because he'd already played for 2 clubs during that transfer window (then they went out and brought Jerome anyway). AFAIK he's free to be loaned out after January, and I doubt Chelsea see much benefit in him going abroad when they'd probably prefer him to adjust to english football.

I felt embarrassed for Ramage. The guy is just plain awful and has been whenever i've seen him, be it for QPR or Newcastle.

No one knows anything for sure, other than NA and NC, so it's probably a guess.

Based on your guly post, and this post, you quite simply weren't there today.

Nope he wasn't the best, but i just don't get these '''he's the worst player'' comments, when he quite clearly isn't. I can accept that he has bad games, like last week, but he also has effective games - like today. And he also has unplayable games where he's all over the show. He's an enigma and a match winner, and you have to accept the rough and the smooth with him. Take him out of our side and we've lost alot of the unpredictability we have.

Whatever. He was not the worst player on the pitch. That is a fact.

Yep, tbf during the first half of that game it just looked like a ''keep the score'' down routeen from birmingham, there was only one winner. Their 2nd half was better though, I still don't rate either side too much tbf. I think WHU are abysmal to watch and not very effective either at the moment. They have some good players who should be doing much better than they are tbf. I don't think some of their players benifit from ''big sam's '' way. Let's not forget that they have a tricky away game at Derby next, and are without Nolan, Mcaartney, Fabuert, Meite....etc, there are more but I can't remember all their missing players!

I don't know, he can play when he wants to. That little burst he had from defence into the box was a good laugh, almost got onto the end of it!

Yeah, from what I've gleaned from taking to a few people today - it's just a tweak, nothing more serious than that - and just another week or 2 added to his recovery. I'd expect to see him in our home game in the middle of January. It's certainly not an ACL, so don't start fretting over that.

He is a beast. Love the bloke. Our best centre back partnership for a very long time, they both compliment each other so well.

Birmingham look utter utter dross, don't think we can bank on them doing us any favours today.

Aaron Maclean possibly. Pacey, Powerful striker. Exactly the sort of player we need.

ah bull****, boro score.

Cork and Morgan in the middle ran the show, and De Ridder showed alot more promise from the start and what we've all been wanting to see! The front two seemed a little flat, but Guly got himself into the right positions twice....and got us 2 goals, so that'll do for me from today. A pretty bog standard win really. Didn't think Palace offered a great deal, but their RB Clyne was their best player by a mile.

Merry xmas to everyone - let's hope 2012 is as much fun as 2011.

Lambert has been excellent. but in terms of consistency, it has to be Fraser. He's played consistently at the same level all year, he's a great 1st half of the season and has totally surprised me if I'm honest. Looks a quality championship player.

There was a deal that was close in the summer, we were also trying to include Matt Phillips in any deal. That didn't happen and Phillips ended up going on loan to L1. Wouldn't surprise me if we tried the same again.

I think Rhodes is the fine example of a young player that needs to take 2 steps back, in order to move forward. He wasn't getting the game time at Ipswich and needed it as it was hampering his development. The move to Huddersfield made sense to all parties and we're now seeing the true ability of the lad come on. He will score goals in the championship, no doubts about that, some players just need to drop down a level or 2 to grow and gain the confidence before coming back better players.

He's probably realised what an idiot he was, moaning that when with us in L1 it was below his level. We've risen through the leagues quicker than anyone could have imagined and probably attractive for lots of players at the moment, so It would not surprise me if he wants to give it another go here. He was a bit of an idiot, but the fans ganging up on him at the start of last season really didn't help things. On hsi day he is a premiership player as we saw with Blackpool and he'd add that pace and skill down the right hand side that we're missing at the moment.