S-Clarke

They are apparently after him on loan

But he was fine enough to play today, therefore what you said means nothing.

Yep, sounds like a classic Lambo setup. Still not massively sure about Rodriguez on the left hand side, although it's dynamic and not a ''static'' left sided position, I'd just feel better if he was up front as an out and out striker. I have a feeling he'd prefer that too, just a hunch I've got from his body language in the games I've seen him play.

Sharp on the mark a.g.a.i.n. He's the only consistent ST we have at the mo.

TBF if we don't sign a new CB or 2, we probably are. No real joke in that. Would guess NA thinks the same.

Well at least we're only talking about 1 or 2, rather than needing 5 or 6 new players......

Once the season is started and the Man City game is out of the way, I think we will look ok.

15mins to go lots of subs for both sides, game seems to be petering out now. We had a great pre-season last year in terms of the setup, but the results were as mixed as this years (so far) I seem to remember a 1-1 with Yeovil the week before the season started. and an early defeat to Eastleigh.

Three half-time changes by #SaintsFC: Steven Davis, Jack Cork and Frazer Richardson on for Ward-Prowse, Schneiderlin and Fox.

I think it was just the kit, it made a few of our lads look a little on the chubbier side...when in fact they aren't. I doubt Rickie would have been unprofessional in the summer of the biggest season of his life. But he hasn't been involved much at all in many of the games, starting to wonder if that's more to do with our new setup than anything.

Adomah seems to be causing us non-stop problems, as usual. We'd do well to sign him. good option on the right side straight away.

We do seem to go behind alot after dominating....need to start converting our chances. Wakey, wakey lambo. He's been dead this pre-season!

Hes right though, as he was referring to Steve davis

I think we can safely dismiss this.

For new tyres, or repairs, I've always gone to Flintstones in Shirley. Have always been excellent for me. Quick, easy and cheap.

It has absolutely nothing to do with the club. It's the football league interactive contract which shed loads of clubs are locked into for years, and years and years. I know for a fact that we've tried our hardest to get out of it this year, and the general consensus was that we would, but it seems even though we've been promoted we're still locked in for the remainder of the contract. I believe it's something like 6 years, may be wrong though.

MLG to the rescue Cheers. I kept thinking back to David Burke, but he was ''poached'' by brighton IIRC.

There's a transfer committee, which includes Reed, Cortese, Adkins and the head recruitment scout (whose name escapes me).

It seems to be the time he annually goes, as he went around the same period last year. He doesn't strike me as the sort of guy that'll change anything that'll make him worse off!

If it's who I think it is, then they have an agenda and I'd ignore anything they say.

Didn't realise he moved there, thought he'd moved to the lower divisions in Italy. Still, he was a part of our success, however small, and although frustrating he was a good laugh to watch...!

I'm pretty certain that if we'd had a 50% failure rate on transfers over the past 3 seasons, then we wouldn't be in the PL right now. Therefore our signings have been mainly successes. That's surely the only statistic which needs to be thrown his way to prove his argument as flawed rubbish.

Absolutely. Good players often get sunk into the marsh that becomes a club on the decline, and the fans then look at them and say ''Hey, you used to be decent, we know you're good, so play" etc. So he's number 1 target for abuse straight away, so the reactions from the fans at that club are clearly going to be massively negative. But what sort of club has Blackburn been to play for in the last 2 seasons? A laughing stock with their Indian advert, owners that haven't' got a scooby about football, fans trying to invade the pitch to protest, abuse and violence directed to their (clueless) manager. Name me a player that could thrive in that environment. You were right about Delap, in his first season he wasn't bad for us - steady, did a job, but when the managerial merry go round started any form of coaching went out of the window and he sunk into the marsh we had become. To write a player like Pedderson off is silly.

I watch alot of football thank you very much, and going by these threads I have a hell of alot more perspective than you do about the sport. What's happened at Blackburn in the last 2 years? Exactly. Who has been managing the team? Exactly. Put him in a decent team with a coach that knows what he's doing and he'd do a job in the PL.

Where did I say that? Stop putting words into my mouth. Pointless arguing with people like you. It'll just go round in circles so I'll cut my input here.