S-Clarke

A very nice read, if you have a chance watch the full 8min interview on the BBC site as it's very interesting. He's often made comments about building us on the a Barcelona style template and it looks like he's deadly serious about that. Would love to know who the big sponsor is too..

Not going to chance getting to Eastleigh this morning, apparently the main roads in and around eastleigh have not been grited. The slushy mess on the road is also turning icy here now as well, was passable earlier down my road but it's getting worse.

Some people reckon areas in the South could get up to a foot of snow. It's showing no signs of slowing down...it's getting heavier here if anything. Parts of Kent have been hit with 25-30cm of snow....!

This is going on all night - i doubt there will be much moving here tomorrow morning.

shame he's been banned, his posts were quite interesting a lot of the time - but slightly hard to read too.

Swansea 1 - 2 Skate ****s

We'll get a few showers over the weekend but i doubt it will amount to much. The forecasters haven't said too much yet, but the middle and end of next week looks horrendous for everyone - including us. Lots of significant snow everywhere and it gets even colder.

After a slow start we've now started to continue our form from the back end of last season and if we keep that going, which i expect us to do with more additions in january, then we'll win the league with room to spare. I'm very confident with our chances because we've managed to keep within touching distance of everyone, and this is also with the promise of quality additions in january to add to our already quality squad - this will be coupled with sides in and around us loosing their better players as we've seen today. It's going to be a very exciting 2011, I'm sure of it.

This league is weaker now without the likes of McCoid, Jermaine Easter, Marcus Tudgay - so that can only serve as more ammunition to us. We may have not got anyone, but we will certainty benift from our rivals loosing their better players.

Any reason? we don't need one and it would be a stupid expense. Kelvin is top class for us and we have a quality understudy in Bart waiting in the wings. GK is the one position we really don't have to worry about what so ever.

harding and seaborne are both nursing knocks

didn't we lose that one? or it may have been the Sheff. U one i was thinking of. i remember is quashie bursting forward and missing a sitter inside the first few mins.

oh well, we best hope that chappers is fit! or give young gobern a go. either way he is a gifted player but after seeing what chaplow has offered us, he's not the be all and end all.

As someone said above, give them forecast...

yes please....he tore this league apart when he was last in it. But surely he'd prefer to go to a promotion chasing CCC team? He can do a job there as he scored over 10 goals for Leicester last year. Still find it odd how he cant get into the team as i think he's a terrific player.

Wasn't bad, bit of a frustrating one as i felt we could have won it if we just gave that little bit extra. Chambo was well handled by them so we lacked a threat that could run at them and cause them problems. On the other hand though i felt we dealt with them excellently, their winger Bennett wasn't involved as much as i feared as he's an excellent player and we didn't allow them to play football at all - much in the same way as we played against p'boro, in their face forcing them to misplace passes etc. Hopefully chappers is back for the next game though as we badly missed his forward running through midfield. Although our midfield harried and tackled brilliantly, we didn't have that attacking edge to it. 0-0 isn't a bad result at all, especially with Charlton dropping points so the gap hasn't really changed too much.

The same as on Saturday then.

We may be playign them at the right time. There wasn't anything wrong with our team y/day, so i wouldn't change a thing - even the order of the subs worked. Brighton are without their CB as said above, and also their other CB, Greer was subbed with an injury so they may be giving a 17 year old his debut.

and to add to that, their other CB - Greer, was subbed with an injury so they're currently talking about giving a 17 year old his debut.

he was subbed in the last game due to an injury, so he was probably injured y/day.

That's mental mate, really enjoyed them last season.

You're spot on with the point about the balance. It's the best balance we've had in the team for a while, a midfielder that sits, a midfielder that bursts forward, two attacking wingers happy to take on their man or cut inside - two natural sided full backs bombing forward. If we can keep this team playing together consistently we'll do very well.

I thought it was Richardsons best game for us, looked excellent bursting forward with a few nice little tricks too.

lol random

I like Hammond, we're often weaker in the middle when he's not playing. He gives us a bite and is the sort of MF you need at this level to achieve anything.