S-Clarke

Yeah 100% agree with that. You can't deny his technical ability, he's got it all. But as you said, his desire and application to professional football is why he has never made it and probably why he won't ever make it. He may say differently when he looks in his bank, but I still think a player with his talent should have achieved more in his career. A bit of a wasted career really.

But at the same point, there must be a reason why Maehle hasn't gone anywhere. He keeps being linked, spoken about as being super cheap etc - but he's still at Genk. Must be something fishy there.

Stop with this equality bull**** already and let us lead our lives as we wish. Nanny state.com

So we now rely on getting in loan fees before we can strengthen our side Totally skint!

I think we're nervous to play him at CB as he's so ****.

I thought we palyed really well today, looked a threat and got a well deserved goal. Struggling to work out what Danso is to be honest, he has not taken his chances at all. Looked rubbish. JWP full of energy, Armstrong I thought was buzzing around - so I hope that injury isn't too bad. Ings should have done better with that header at the end, he looked ****ed with himself. Overall, we're still in the hat...! Good performance and we look a pretty decent side now days.

I don't see the point in £20m when it will just disapear. I hate our ownership and how much they're holding us back, we could really go forward because we have a terrific manager here, like top level european manager in the MP mould - back him! Let him build a proper team in his way and we'd be having the time of our lives! He's going to get bored eventually as there's only so much he can do with this group.

Probably true. He's not had many chances, and I can't remember too many clear cut efforts when he has - apart from the hitting the bar in one game. He's been utterly ****, let's be frank. He's got attributes there I'm sure, but he's been a bit rubbish. A non-goal scorring striker isn't what we need, and we've got two of them in Che and Long!! Luckily we have goals from elsewhere!

Holy ****, some blasts from the past on here! I think we've all had some good run ins with Alpine over the years, although I'll be honest I did let him rile me a bit in my younger years! I genuinley hope he's OK in his health though. I've been posting on here since 2007ish I think (well, SaintsForever before that), time flys when you're having fun..? It's been a crazy decade and a bit, and look at where the club has been during that time. Down in the dephs and then some of the best years of our history. I didn't know about Saintlee though, that's really sad. I shared a few chats with him in the past!

An amazing run of away form, which has moved us to a position of looking up rather than down. I can't quite believe we're 9th, it's ridiculous considering where we were 7 weeks ago - insane turn around. Credit to Ralph who has energised us again and the players for responding. Take a bow Jack Stephens though, he’s the biggest revelation in this turn around. Where on earth has he been hiding? Christ, if we sorted our home form out, we'd be up there challenging for Europe. Maybe we have a chance to sort that out in the coming weeks? Next 3 home games in the league - Burnley Newcastle Villa And then West Ham and Norwich sandwiched around them. We've got a chance here to give ourselves a really comfortable end to the season.

That LD Sports thing still absolutely stinks. More so than it did, because even these months on it's still a company of nothingness who can apparently afford to sponsor a topflight English team. And they’re Chinese. and our owner is Chinese. Let me think a second. Yeah, it's not dodgy at all. Fully legit sponsorship deal with no links to our ownership. God, once we get that stupid little man Gao out things will start looking up. Until then, it's going to be quite a lot of dodgyness.

We don't have the mobility or pace in the spine of the team to deal with players such as Traore or Antonio, it really highlights our weaknesses when you see players such as those running at us. We played 'ok', but not that amazingly. We played a hell of a lot better last weekend to be fair and got a deserved win. We did get two good goals first half, but it felt like we'd never really got massive momentum and were just strolling along a little. 2nd half Wolves woke up and we struggled to contain them, their pace and power was just too much for our limited spine. It's frsutrating because of where we were first half....! But it's a bump back down to earth, and the next two games will probably be further nails in that bump. We've got some games coming up during Feb and March which should give us enough though, but my worry is a few of them are at home - and our home form is still horrific. Until we sort that out, we will continue to struggle to pull away.

It must be so frustrating for Ralph. He said on a couple of times we 'MUST' do something, and now he's having to wind that back and tone down a little as the club are once again failing him. We will get to the summer with the same holes we have now, but with even more holes to try and fill as other players leave. Is it a case of just wait until the summer and do an entire rebuild? If that would happen, I'd probably be content, but we all know it won't and we'll be left even more short than we are now. Gao has really taken us to another level.

That change in stance, and the fact we haven't got in anyone 'early' is kinda suggestive that we're not getting anyone in. We're being prepared now! He must be ****ed if that's the case, he made it quite clear that's what he wanted. Is he about to be let down again by this faceless Gao?

Do you really see Danso being worth £50m at any point? I don't. I reckon he will be your typical journeyman centre back, and that would be an expensive £15m! So i wouldn't go anywhere near him.

That Watford home game should have been one of those to aim for, they screwed that right up. They look shot at the moment. I doubt their fan base are any more confident going into these next 3. I'd bet Norwich to beat them to be honest, just a feeling I have. They're terrible at the moment.

Settled team is the key, no more questions about why x isn’t getting in the squad, why are we playing x there instead etc. The team picks itself, and most importantly it's balanced. What has also helped is our good run has coincided at a time when fixtures are close together, so it's given us an opportunity to really gather some momentum and accumulate points over a short period of time. Ings has benefited from a good run like this and looks as fit as he's ever looked. I think we've also managed the fitness of the squad well over the last few weeks, so kudos to the backroom staff too.

With Kane out, it would be stupid not to include him and give him a run out. The guy is full of it right now, a headache for the best defenders as he just pops up everywhere. Look how alert he was when he hit that shot against the bar, he just never stops buzzing around right now. Having someone like that up front is great for any team and England will beneift - if he comes from a 'small club' who gives a ****.

It's hard to want to change too much, it'll just be what the fitness shows to be honest. Back 4 I think will clearly stay the same, that works and has formed a solid basis to the surprise of most of us. I think this will be a tough game though, Wolves are a tough nut to crack. They generally don't lose too many games or let in too many goals, so we're going to have to be very good to get a win I think. It's really handy that our good form has come when we have games in quick succession like this, as it means we don't really lose that momentum as there are no imminent international breaks. We've picked the best time of the season to have this sort of run.

If Spurs buy him and we get millions for him then we're laughing, alot. I have no idea in what universe Spurs would think he's a good option for them at all. He needs some time lower league.

“Jamie [Vardy] is fine. He unfortunately missed the game at the weekend, but he trained on Sunday and since that, so he’s absolutely fine.

Not entirley sure who would want him to be honest. NPC club on loan?

It tones down the initial rage at selling VVD for e.g., with the idea that we wanted to do it early so we had all month to reinvest etc - it suddenly deflects fans anger and makes them think more positively, and the terrace chat becomes more around exciting additions as opposed to who we lost. Keep stringing those out for a few weeks until the ''how difficult it is'' lines start coming out, and by this time the actual rage has died down from the sale and the club have engineered the fans mood. Then comes frustrated acceptance, but not the pure anger they’d have had if the club admitted they weren’t spending the VVD fee when we sold him.

I doubt it, they're on 30 points and have already played a bundle of games. They've managed it well so far. They went 12 games unbetween between September and December! I can't see them dropping into the bottom half.

I remember the season we smashed Sunderland 8-0, when the reverse came around no one expected anything other than a win. Sunderland beat us. I'm not giving up hope, esp. given how we've played over the last month. We seem to cause anyone problems at the top end right now, and we seem suitably strong at the back. Let's see, but we go into it with optimism. We started December on 12 points, we start January on 25 points. I mean, what the hell.