S-Clarke

You've already said that, and saying it twice doesn't make it any more valid.

he's away....with wales. This is a good signing, along with Antonio and hal-robson kanu this is one of readings promising players. Very quick, strong and powerful. If you want a comparison he's kind of like a young Patrick Agymang - i've seen him play once or twice.

At stages in the game yesterday i felt i saw glimpses of him from last season. He's definitely improving, slowly yes - but he's getting there. Look back at the clips from the first 30mins and you'll see most of our good play revolved around him, his hold up play and bringing others into play was very familiar - but he's just not getting the opportunities in front of goal at the moment. You don't drop him though because he's a 30 goal striker at this level and he will always come good. Just be patient, Adkins is doing some good stuff fitness wise. I bet you anything that those 2 penalties will take the weight of his shoulders, because he has been playing with that burden of not having scored for a few games.

Actually at this stage last season Norwich had the same points total as us (they had a shocking start last year), it was Leeds and possibly Huddersfield/Colchester that were up pushing for 2nd. But we are lucky there haven't been any teams consistently winning this year - possibly only Bournemouth and brighton being the most consistent pair, but they're not anything special.

i don't think it works like that. As he said, he's still under a contract with us (NDA) - both he and Nicola would have signed it, and if that's broken then his payout will be at risk.

I think it's clear to see that he didn't have much good to say about Nicola - hence why he decided not to comment when asked what he thought of him!

Hammond was immense today, really pleased that he's getting back to the level we all know he's capable of. That's the reason he was made captain..

Interesting move, the forum has become a bit stagnant recently - so a change like this should freshen things up. Wouldn't put myself forward as I'm not around often enough these days.

At least the forum is carrying on the theme from the club.

Too late.

That's the final straw for me.

Once i managed to get to the game, then find a spare seat after someone had nicked mine, then it was quite a good afternoon.... I felt we controlled about 80% of the game, but we got a little shaky in the last 15mins as they came onto us a bit...but that's the only time i really felt worried, we were in control other than that. We didn't create as many clear cut chances as we can, but we still scored goals and i don't really care how we get them - as long as we win the game! I liked the way we kept the ball, we passed it around well and had them chasing shadows at some points. It was great to see Lallana start and i thought he was brilliant for about 60 or so mins, then obviously he tired as you'd expect. The same happened with Lambo, i thought he was back to his form of last season at times - his hold up play in and around the box and his ability to bring players into the game was coming to the fore again - and we will always create problems for the oppo when he plays like that. Bournemouth huffed and puffed but i was a little surprised by them, i thought they'd have been more of a threat but our defence was on top of its game. Fonte was back to his best and Seaborne continues to impress this season, i thought he was very assured. - and Harding also had his best game for us this season IMO. All in all a good win, we can probably play better than that but the league table is getting really tight now - and another win next weekend could paint a different picture on our chances this season.

That will be a very interesting show, but he won't be able to say anything - of that i'm sure. I'm sure the presenters will be keen to get on to him about his departure here...but an NDA is an NDA...

I wouldn't play Lallana yet, he's still not fit and will continue to feature for short 20min spells for the next few weeks. I think it'll be pretty much the same as recent weeks, with Fonte possibly coming in at the back...and Chaplow joining the bench.

Excellent signing, i loved him when he was here a couple of years ago. His career has pretty much stagnated since moving to PNE, i don't think he's a bad player at all i think it's more that it wasn't the right club for him. By all accounts he loved his time here and played some of his best football for us, so hopefully he can carry that on. I'd assume this is initially for a month because there are question marks over his fitness, he's not really featured this season. But on his day, as he proved with Burnley, he's a top class championship CM.

Their chairman is just a total motor mouth, as proven by this statement and his unprofessional comments on solent (when he thought the mics were off) I'm sure it's tactics to try and spice up this enormous south coast derby.

I saw him against Colchester, and i thought Dicko was equally as good - and he'd be worth a start as much as Holmes.

I'm sure Holmes has developed into twice the player he actually is, just by sitting in the injury room.

Tonight's result was not good enough, it was poor, but if you look at the bigger picture and what Adkins has inherited then he's got to slowly get us out of this slump. He may not have really inherited the best squad in the league, some good players yes - but without a good pre-season they turn into injury prone pretty average l1 players.

I'm still holding hope for 2nd position, but i wanted to see us win the league so bad. I don't think i'm ever going to see my club top of any league in my life time.

not really, look at it in the context of things. On first look it's a poor result, but if you look at where we are in the season, how long the manager has had in charge and the fact that we are slowly improving then i'd say it's more acceptable than a 0-0 at Wycombe at the back end of the season, when we 100% needed a win and the manager had been here for half a year. As people have said, if these results were swapped round (Wednesday 1 -1 Southampton) (Yeovil 0 - 1 Southampton) i think the reactions would be totally different. A win on Saturday, and then the following Saturday and it's 10 points from a possible 12 avaliable. That's auto form, but we need to prove we can do it and keep doing it. Still going to be tough.

we haven't lost. and i still think this post is totally ridiculous and driven from a knee-jerk reaction.

Go on then, Adkins out.

tbh it's looking more and more likely that the pre-season preparation was not good enough, and you'd have to put that at Pardews door.

thanks, good to hear the views from someone there. There's just a general air of disappointment as we couldn't hold onto a winning position, it would have made such a difference.