S-Clarke

excellent. so the one party that is interested isn't even willing to stump up £3m to enter into a exclusivity period. brilliant. i would guess that the proof of funds is his santander current account bank statement.

agreed, i've thought this way all along. Adam can be the focal point of this team, all the way through to the PL. Pard's knows this, and i'm sure adam does. What's best? warming the bench at Fulham or Wolves, or being a key player and focal point of a progressive team? easy choice IMO. Same goes for morgan...

Their home form hasn't been too special latley, who knows - football is a funny game when you add pressure to it. i agree with you though, we've got too much to make up and not enough games. If we win every single game we possibly could make it, but the chances of that must be slim.

how good is your source? suprised by that, after we'd farted around with him in january, you'd think he'd never give us a 2nd look. he's had a loan at Donny recentley, where he was very good - so if we do get him, it's still a coup.

if we are to get into the playoffs with our slim chances, then it all hinges on tonights result, if Oldham can get something then it's on - but if Huddersfield win, it gives us too much to do with not enough games left.

Alpine, you can be a pillock sometimes. apparently, according to your great knowledge we will be better placed without Lallana and Morgan anyway - but now there is actually interest in one of them, it gives you great ammunition to go on another negative route. At the end of the day, it's in the sun. which should be enough to close the thread anyway. and also the ''2m rated'' fee is a laugh, as i know the club value him of 5m and above and we are no longer in a position where we have to accept anything, if they don't offer what we want then they can sod off. and at the end of the day, if we did sell him it would be for a good fee and we know that the money would be reinvested back in quality, not like previous seasons. Not going up in the championship playoffs was critical, as we all knew we would not be able to strengthen or keep that team together. Not going up this season is not critical because it wasn't expected anyway.

i think he's still there, and that Mclean fella - but probably not for long. agree though, they will be strong next season.

unfort. they've already sold their best player (well an initial loan) to Forest i think? george boyd - class player.

it's not going to happen IMO. as much as the southend game is being built up as a ''massive game'' for both clubs, in the end it will probably count for zilch.

it really wasn't great viewing tbf, painful at times. but it's good to win games ''like that'' - esp. after coming from behind, shows the team has a bit of grit about them.

save that for after the southend game.

if you had any clue what so ever, you'd also be able to see and understand my point.

We were really off-colour today, esp. Morgan who didn't look fully fit to me - he was giving the ball back to Orient at every opportunity. Lallana won us that game through his endeavor, enthusiasm and quality - it was like a one man show at times. Well done adam. At the end of the day, 3 points are all that matters at this stage of the season - but we really did get out of jail with that performance today. Pards did look pretty exasperated on the touchline after we gave the ball away for the 99989th time, that dressing room wouldn't have been much fun at HT. anyway - a wins a win, it's always good to pickup a win when you don't perform, it shows you have something about you as a team.

and i'd also go as far as saying, without the ''pressure'' attached with that 10pt penalty, we'd have won more games at the start and would be sitting up there with the Millwalls/Swindons.

no game will be easy John, you'd have put Leyton Orient as a ''no-sweat, home banker'' - but boy did they make us sweat for that.

We were really off-colour today, esp. Morgan who didn't look fully fit to me - he was giving the ball back to Orient at every opportunity. Lallana won us that game through his endeavor, enthusiasm and quality - it was like a one man show at times. Well done adam. At the end of the day, 3 points are all that matters at this stage of the season - but we really did get out of jail with that performance today. Pards did look pretty exasperated on the touchline after we gave the ball away for the 99989th time, that dressing room wouldn't have been much fun at HT. anyway - a wins a win, it's always good to pickup a win when you don't perform, it shows you have something about you as a team.

Unfortunately it's not just on here, football fans in general are fickle and are taken in by the opinions of low-end tabloids and stupid sky sports Sunday supplement programmes. No one seems to look at the big picture anymore, it's all snapshots on 2/3 games or even 1 game - ignoring anything good that's gone before. There were questions over Mancini staying at Man City after only a few games, and also after the decent season Leeds have had (it's tailed off big style, mind) there are already big noises to get Grayson out, although I'm sure if they now won every game until the end of the season and went up, he'd be the best manager in the world. That's the way football is now and with the ever increasing media whores stiring the rumours, it will get worse.

other than 16 goals and 7 assists? we'd be worse off if we did sell him and anyone who says otherwise is slightly bonkers imo.

good player, but completely the wrong type of midfielder we need. we have lallana and punch to fill that role, as people have said above we need a commanding CM, a been there done it type figure. Lee Carsley is a good shout IMO.

yep, and the funny thing being is that they are close to admin themselves.

''Solid mid table at Christmas with a bloody good run at the play offs ending in noble failure. Oh yes, we're going to finish ninth. And all the people berating everyone for having "unrealistic expectations" for "expecting" to finish in the top half will be precisely the same people who in April will berate anyone who says we can't make the play offs when we are bumbling around tenth/eleventh. Precisely the same people. Mark my words and it will happen. There is a little switcheroo that happens on the forum that turns the "realists" (we'll be lucky to finish in the bottom four get a reality check etc etc") into the loony optimists ("if we win the next three and so and so loses two in a row we'll be four points off the play offs etc etc") around about the end of March. Trust me, it happens every season.'' fair play cb-fry

interesting. so tbh we're ''exceeding'' many peoples expectations, but some still moan. ''FWIW i can see us comfortably mid-table, we've left it too late to mount any playoff push but i expect a strong end to the season where our team (which is better than 90% in this league) actually starts winning games on a regular basis. I expect us to then kick on next season and win the damn thing, the expectation should be nothing less.'' wise words once said.

tbf it's not a ''new manager'' really, we're lucky they haven't got a week to find a replacement! so not much will change in terms of preparation and ideas, as both manager and assistants bounce off eachother 99% of the time.

Geriant Williams, was manager of Colchester when they pushed for the playoffs in our playoff season.

there are some people that didn't like pardew from day 1 - so they'll never change their opinions. If we walked the league next year, they'd say it was in-spite of him im sure.