S-Clarke

His transfer was almost as protracted as Skacels, remember when leicester tried to hijack it? after all that, he only scored 2 goals all season! very much a player who came accross as the sort who thrives in confident, winning environments...but isn't there to stand up and be counted when the going get's tough.

why do people post such complete woffle.

Elliott ward would be a FANTASTIC signing.....on his day one of the best defenders in the championship, always been a fan of his since his days at West Ham. Better that trotman too IMO....def. too good for L1 level whatever happens.

i agree with you, there is alot of work to be done on this team to get us even close to the likes of Leeds. I'm not talking in terms of first team quality...more squad depth and a settled working team formation. when they go up this year i fully expect them to do a Leicester tbh, if they keep hold of beckford that is. That is what we need to do, as it's been shown - build a good team at L1 level, win most weeks and you'll go into the championship being able to compete with the top 6 teams.

No chance, he's not going anywhere. He'll be here for the rest of his career now.

If he wants to sit in their reserves, fair enough. Would be a great chance for him to catch up with bale to see how he's getting on though. FWIW i don't even think he's good enough for spurs. He's a decent player, don't get me wrong - but he's got alot to do if he's going to ever be a regular in a top 6 team.

hand of ****ing god from henry - blatant. he passed it into the box with his hand ffs 2-1 to france

I don't think we'll ever see holmes play for us again tbh. It's quite interesting that the players we considered to be the better ones last year (Holmes/Gillet etc) have been deemed not good enough for us...quite a frightening indictment of last year methinks.

He's a decent championship player, from how i remember him. Don't think he's that old? so should do a job for us at L1 level. Leeds wanted him in the summer, but he failed a medical. Wasn't he at Luton alongside Steve Howard/Rowan vine?

Don't see the point. Harding is one of the best LB's in the league and Mills is good enough back up for that. heck...we even have Molly if worst comes to worst. Would be a pointless signing unless both mills and Molly are leaving.

if we do - i'd put Connolly and antonio to the bench, bring on Papa and (if fit enough) Murty. Stick Lloydy in the midfield and push hammond and morgan into advanced positions.

I agree, alot of focus is put on ''which formation wins us games'' - but IMO, if you have the players with enough quality, you'll win enough games anyway - regardless of the formation.

Impressive. was quite a strong bristol city team, a few of the players were act. in the team that beat us at St Mary's last season...

completley spot on - it was identical to the rovers game in that sense, where harding was up against it as Lallana wasn't ''glued'' to the left. Playing 4-4-2 needs 2 out and out wingers, who are disciplined enough to hold their positions. If they go walk abouts then that's when the space opens up.

I'd like to buy a top defensive midfielder in january, someone who's built like a brick house. That is what we lack at the moment IMO. we played ok when morgan and hammond were allowed to advance forward, but when one is needed to sit - we loose something, as neither are in that ''DM'' mould IMO.

I think he played for us against Gillingham, i think he poss hit the bar/post or something?

they played a great game IMO - well disaplined, had a fantastic defensive shape to them and knew the ballance between attacking and defending. They were possibly the most organised outfit i've seen us play this season. Poyett will be a hero for them IMO. He was the engine behind the success at Leeds/Swindon.

What worreis me is teams will see how Brighton setup against us, and do the same. Ok, they may not have the threat brighton did - but it's an interesting thought. Brighton played and attacked us with the same purpose as Bristol Rovers, and got the result at the end of it. That's why we're not quite there as a team yet...we need to learn how to deal with ''skillfull'' pacey forward/wing play - luckily there isn't much of that in this league.

I don't think they are that poor, i think they are in a false position. They have good players for this level (Forester, Elliott, Cox, El-Abd) etc..and spent just around £1m in the summer on new players. They were pre-season favourites for at least a top 6 spot - now they have a decent manager i expect them to move up the league quite quickly.

i really can't understand that - how can you hope we get knocked out, or lose any game of football? this is a chance for a trip to Wembley...and tbh it's the best chance we'll have of getting there this year. i still don't see how that game cost us though tbh - seeing as Trotman, who was the worst player, has been rested for a couple of games. If we play a league game mid-week, but lose the weekend one..do we blame the mid-week game? It's exactly the same scenario imo - in this league you have to be prepared and fit enough to play saturday - tuesday - saturday - wednesday etc.

Can't see anyone else but hammond tbh. was probably the purpose of the change around against Charlton in the JPT - and by all accounts he had a good game.

I kind of agree, it was like a flash back to previous games this season where we haven't had any real pattern to our play and it's all been a bit hit and hope. But we did have a fair bit of the % in the 2nd half and probably should have got it back to 2-2 with hammonds chance. Found it quite funny reading the programme, and pard's said they want clean sheets...it didn't look like that in the first 20mins! We could have been 4-0 down by then!

We have had our most consistent spell over the last 6-8 weeks than we have had for years and years. This was a blip, a defeat, these happen to all teams. I wouldn't over anaylse it - i;d sit back and watch us go on another long unbeaten run - as we have shown we do.

I didn't think he was that bad today tbh, alot of our threat came when he was on the ball and running at their full back. As people have said - he's raw, and is by no means the finished article. IMO though he has terrific attributes and if trained and coached correctly, he could become a fantastic wide man.

TBF we started scoring from corners once he started taking them and Lallana stopped. I think he has the ability to whip in a fantastic ball, but he is way to inconsistent in delivery, from both open play and set pieces. Alot of the corners are either over hit or played into comfortable positions for the GK. Something to work on in training.