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I don't think he's fit, simple as that. He's playing because we have no other options and i hope we're not causing him more harm by playing him. Get a loan in, drop him for a few weeks so he can get fit - and I'm confident we'll see a different player when he comes back. But don't be silly, he's not a one season wonder. He's proven in this league season after season, but at the moment he's playing like he's had the worst pre-season of his life.

It is looking very difficult now. We're only just in September but we can really only realistically have 4/5 more defeats all season if we want a top 2 finish. We're going to need some never seen run of from from a Southampton side to even get close. I reckon we'll know end up sneaking the top 6, which isn't really good enough with the team we have. I'd love to know what's happened, everything seemed to be in place before our last game against Southend. It's the stuff if nightmares!

Don't be silly. They will possibly be dropped because they need to get fit, and confident. We saw last season that when they're on form and fit they're bloody good players for us.

It's true and it's a bloody disgrace. We've had no excuse this summer, we've had everything we need - the money, the continuity, the best players staying. What have they been doing? What a waste.

Absolutely agree. We're lacking that ''something'' at the moment, just a bit of magic to unlock the back door. I still think we've got the players in our team to do that (they did it consistently last season) but we're totally unfit and off form. I think the only solution is to get some temporary loans in, shake it up a bit and hopefully we'll start flowing again. I can't see it happening at the moment with the current bunch as they're in a complete rut.

let's hope so...

Davis was one of the better players tonight, pulled off 2 cracking saves. I don't think he's at fault, it's the players in front of him letting him down. but i agree with dropping Hammond/Punch and lambo. They need to get fit. I'm a big fan of puncheon and lambert, but they've struggled massively this season and are possibly our two worst players at the moment.

He was backed in january and last summer, and he didn't waste a penny. All of his signings were well thought out and they all added something to the team. I have no idea why we've been so quiet this summer, but i don't think you can say that pardew wasted money.

The injury became apparent during pre-season. The club sought medical advise, they advised that they could do exploratory surgery on the knee - which would be 4 weeks out, and if a problem is found he'd be out for a min. of 6 weeks. The doctors advised the club to ease him through, play him in the games and take him back to the doc if he breaks down. Which he did against rovers. The club we only acting on the advise of third-party medics, the blame can't be put on their doorstep for this one IMO.

It's a good point, our bench and options are bloody awful. We probably only need 1 or 2 extra faces and it'll look a whole lot different....but we're not anywhere near getting players. Adkins has got to assess the current lads first, which is fair enough. One player i'd like to see given more of a chance is Dickson, he was rated as one of the best players in L1 last season - so let's bloody well use him.

Good manager, we've done well to get him.

Adkins is a great fella, he's such an intelligent bloke and see's the game well - but I'm more disappointed with the players and their lack of any ''reaction''. I reckon we could see some big changes on Saturday (from the way he was talking), and it's about bloody time.

At the moment, in form terms, yes. But when we play well and on form, we're one of the better teams. It just doesn't feel like we're ever going to be on form again though.

Problem is nick, we're going to need to go on one hell of a run now and we can only lose 3 more games if we're going to do as well as Norwich. I can't see where it's coming from as we're now going to take time to bed into the new managers ways. We've already lost 4 games, they lost 7 maximum last season. Looking at it that way, it's going to be one hell of a ****ing effort now.

not if it's hindering the way we're playing. Adkins needs to teach us a plan b in 3 days.

You do make some good points, although i feel they were following the advise of medical guys on Lallana's injury. but on the other points...How they've managed to make such a screwed up start of such a crucial season, after keeping the core of the team together is a bloody disgrace.

We've barley troubled any GK since the rovers game.

It's going to be hard, the playoffs are a lottery. I dreaded the thought of them, now to think this could possibly be the best we get is ****ing awful. If we fail to go up this year we'll have to start all over again and we'll never replace Lallana with someone of the same ability.

Drop Lambert, bring barnard in. Stop the long ball, try to play to feet with width. We need a shake up, keeping the same team for the sake of it is not good in our situation. We need a freshen up as they're stale and lacking confidence.

but he created a lot himself, and also laid on 22 assists for others. He's not good enough at the moment.

Why does it always go wrong for us? we're obviously not going to go up are we? everything is conspiring against us. Not just small things either, we've lost our owner, our manager, our best player to an injury for 2 months, lambert is injured and unfit, barnard was suspended for 3 games...oh and we've lost 4 games in a row. I'm so depressed and deflated after looking forward to this season more than any other. We kept the bloody team together which everyone feared we wouldn't, we spent a big sum on a pre-season abroad and everything was set. On the eve of the plymouth game i was so excited...now i'm struggling to be bothered to go to saturdays game. IMO Lambert needs to get out of the team and get fit, don't care how long it takes him. Get a loan player in to replace him because he's hindering us at the moment, when he's fit everything goes through him - when he struggles, we're a non-team. Pretty much 90% of our play went through Lambert last season and over 60% of our goals were down to him. He's not lambert at the moment, whether it's fitness, injury, or another reason - but i'm a massive fan of him, and he has been our worst player so far. Adkins will do very well to get us promoted IMO, this is just like a nightmare.

all the good work from last season has been wiped out in a period of 4 weeks. Automatic promotion, which i thought was almost a dead cert, will be very hard now. Sickening.

oh dear. this season is ****ed up

Jaidi is clearly not fit though, i wonder if he's one of the players Adkins alluded too..

lol @ skates. They're being done by Burley