S-Clarke

It's amazing, 1 win and we're getting the calculators out working out what we need to get top 6, and 1 defeat and we're going down FWIW - after our slow start - i think top half mid table, with a strong finish to this season - letting us start next season with some momentum. Anything other than that will constitute a poor season IMO.

Personally i thought he put in a good shift yesterday, but it's glaringly obvious that he's lacking confidence and even fitness IMO. If you give him the service (which is the key!!!) then he will score bags of goals at this level. Heck...he was scoring in the champions league this time last year, he's good enough to be a regular for us. At the moment our attack is a bit lop-sided and unbalanced, players like Saga do not benefit from the long ball game but once we start injecting a bit of pace and width into our game, he'll come good. Name me a better striker with a similar pedigree we could get if he goes? No one imo - we're lucky to still have him, so let's bloody well support him.

who gives a ****, seriously? we won - end of.

and the one against Northampton (ok in the cup but still..) i think he's lost his argument now.

Well i was there and appreciated what i saw from the lads. The first win was never going to be pretty, it just needed to be job done and we did it. we were never going to thrash them today, the confidence isn't there for that (yet).

lol @ portsmouth... and even more lol @ them for letting Nugent go, who scored two for burnley today! excellent job.

cracking attendance today, 19,971 i think. good stuff.

We were good today, not exceptional but all the players did what they needed to do. Yeovil came here and gave their complete all, that's probably as well as they've played all season - but we were resilient and solid enough to push them back. I thought the CB Pairing was excellent, Jaidi had a top home debut and i don't remember him missing a single header, he's very assured and composed in tricky positions and he got us playing from the back on a few occasions. Hammond in midfield was excellent too i felt, box to box, tackling and spraying the ball about - he was everywhere. Lambo did well - led the line expertly and i felt he worked quite well with Saga, who i must add gave 110% today - although he's lacking a bit of sharpness it must be said. Papa did ok - still a little rusty but he injected some pace down the team and could have scored with his 2nd touch! (ok, it was straight at the keeper - but he fashioned it well) He'll get better with games. Overall, 2-0 - easy and we have a win. I'd have taken a win with a goal in the 93rd min off a cows backside tbf, it didn't matter how we did it - just that we did. Onwards and upwards...

Confirmed by Pard's on the OS now - "Graeme we hope is around only around three weeks away and we look forward to welcoming him back in when he's ready." good news!

I thought it was quite an interesting read....

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/saints/news/4637676.Saints_are_on_the_up_thanks_to_Downes/ It's good that we now have a person to just work with the defense, something we've needed for a few years i think. The players seem to be responding to it as well. I don't think anyone can deny that (so far in the last game or two) it seems to have made a big improvement...

Haven't heard - but he'd be a good signing. In a way though, he's kind of Similar to saga in stature and movement - can't see us having both.

Great news if true. He's the sort of player that could be the final piece in the jigsaw for us. Can't be underestimated how much we've missed that overlapping full back on the right....

Thats my fear - if we don't score early, then it will be a long long slog IMO. If we do get an early goal, it could be a big score.

i think he will - they're really struggling for numbers atm, as Ince was talking about it on monday night.

Good move for me. He's getting experience in the division we're in, and he's playing for a competitive team in this league. He'll come back better for it IMO. - much more worthwhile that going to L2 on loan i think.

Fantastic article. Agree with every word written in it.

wooo!

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1BV61JLW there you go. if you want more info on it - http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php?t=146268 (but you have to register for those forums)

500k i think. interestingly (i know it's not the real world..!) but on FM, we have a ''agreed price'' of 750k on the loan, and this is from the latest DB update. but anyway, i think if we showed them near on £1m they'd accept.

http://www.pne-online.net/forum/showthread.php?t=43491&page=2 interesting posts on there... seems like Trotman has had a falling out with the manager there, which is why he was shipped out - they don't think he'll play for them again.

No call back option. we have him until Jan 1st - confirmed on PNE's OS.

I expect us to win, the key will be getting an early goal as if we go into the 2nd half still 0-0 then it could be hard work. Yeovil will obviously come with some sort of plan to stop us playing (i doubt they'll be massively adventurous, as a draw will be a win for them)..but the bonus being this time we have a few surprises we can throw into the mix (i.e papa). I think Yeovil are a cracking little club - but comparing the resources and squads, it should be a win for us - our best chance this season to get off to a winning mode. They have only won 3 games in 28 league games. They're not a very good team these days.

We've become very hard to beat, there is a real desire all over the pitch which you can sense. Once you have this mentality, then wins are only round the corner. It's just not happening up front consistently for us yet - but as we have the leagues top striker in lambert, it's only a matter of time. everything is in place for us to start moving up the league at real pace.

i agree 100% with you on that. they seemed to be ''planning'' for an instant bounce effect, rather than long-term planning. This is what we have now and we're bloody lucky at that. close shave with pinnacle - agreed.