S-Clarke

Rumour going around that Warnock has been sacked, could screw this deal up.

He's a total hypocrite, living on borrowed time. He'll walk IMO.

I prefer going back 2 years, Bottom of L1 by 10 points, not much of a team, selling our best young talent......and then in comes NC and Markus, and from that moment we've never looked back.

I think the main difference in our play this season is Cork, his presence alone has taken us up another level.

Agree with that. We're up against a proven championship striker on Tuesday, the first time we've had such a threat this season. So it will be interesting to see how we cope.

I heard it was slightly down on last season, not sure if true or not.

He's a great fit for us in that respect. NC is a very forward thinking Chairman and wants to embrace all of the sport science/football development side of things, I think you find some managers don't like that and want to do it their own old fashioned way. I think this was some of the issue with Pardew. With Adkins he embraces it, he's a forward thinking manager and very modern in his approach to everything which is exactly what this club needs at the moment. The players look as fit and trim as I've seen them for a long time, and this pre-seasons has benefited from being arranged by a former physio. He knows what he's on about when it comes to player conditioning.

He's definitely added more of an aggressive element to his game. I watched him play for WBA on a few occasions (my dad is a baggies supporter) and he was often the energetic midfielder, bursting into the box, scoring goals and spraying the passes left to right. A technically outstanding player in those days - he's still got that in him, but this dirty edge to his game goes a bit too far these days.

Been told the same as well, they're baffled they're trying to sell him. Apparently he's the perfect partner for Fonte too, comfortable on either side of defense and throws his body on the line, wins 90% of the headers and does all the dirty work etc. So a younger Jaidi in that respect. Their loss is our gain..hopefully.

straight red, no arguments. Really poor from Chappers.

We're in a great position really, as you said Bristol City have the fear of losing Maynard on a free, so I expect them to cash in nearer the end of the window, as his value will just decrease from now. Burnley seem to have a price on all of their players heads, which is good for us. Jay Rod will move to us if we offer Burnley what they want, which isn't too much more than we've already offered. Remember, Brendon flood from Burnley is the guy that said Eagles and Mears wern't for sale....then 2 days later they were sold for £3m.

Apparently he's handed in a transfer request according to the Bristol City forums. Will be interesting to see if he plays tomorrow.

This will be our toughest game so far, the toughest game for our centre backs too as they have a real classy championship CF to contend with in Chorpa. They've not really had a massive defensive test thus far. They've bought well this year, but as we all know, lots of new signings can be negative initially....and with the fans expectations now through the roof, they could get on their backs quite quickly if things aren't going their way.

That ship has sailed, we got the best out of him.

lol @ warnock ''It was a bad result, but i'd rather be playing here than going to places like Portsmouth''

http://v2.barnsleyfc.org.uk/showthread.php?155595-Adam-Lallanna&p=1034259#poststop

Although I don't think you can just forget Pard's in all of this. He started this off for us, he built this team and put us back on the right track. Although for some reason he couldn't get the consistency right, Adkins has just taken us on another level.

He's created one of the best team spirits I can ever remember as a Saints fan.

Horrible flash backs of your Jan Port and Wotte threads DD...... but I think he's excellent, perfect fit for us in that he's a modern, forward thinking manager. I like the way he always seems to keep his cool, no mater what happens. and he's played the pre-season perfectly, one of our best pre-seasons in years without a doubt.

"Lallana, Do Prado and Cork. That midfield 3 ran the show. Connolly and Lambert will be a handful for most teams. Can see them being right up there." Pleased about the comments about Guly, I think he's a real classy player and he's added a bit of that British steal to his game.

We've just been promoted, we have no right to win there and we've come up and adjusted very well. It just feels bloody arrogant for us to come up league and start writing off ''Little Barnsley, Little Millwall'' as ''easy games'' ''if we're troubled in these games we're not good enough'' etc.. Your expectation surely cannot be for us to be serious championship title contenders? It's great we're there now, but I think all realistic fans know we won't stay there....so I'm not quite sure what you're getting at.

Yep, I use my saints player login for all other clubs ''players''. Quite handy to drop in and hear their managers comments after we've played them etc.

That's what I thought....completely odd statement.

Wasn't that bad today, it's been so much worse. i.e the entire site stops responding for hours after the final whistle!

lol nice.