benjii

Thanks for the update. Good to have these sorts of insights on here.

It's not a guess. It's what people think would be good.

Here's a team I would like to see: ----------------competent GK------------------- Cedric-----Yoshida----Virgil------Bertrand ---------------Romeu---Heyoybyeer------------ Redmond----------Boufal---------------Tadic --------------------Barry Manolo---------------- That team should do well. I think Puel's been unlucky but the insistence on sticking with our midfield three isn't working. Too easy to play against and too limited going forwards. We would get overrun at times with the line up above but we'd also have some games where we smash people.

Yes, seems obvious. A decent athletic, physical DM to go with Romeu, sort the CB situation out and we have a very decent team.

He's wasted out on the wing IMO. We need to get him central and nearer Gabbi. Hope it's a minor knock.

I feel sorry for you but there's always going to be someone with a hard luck story. The fact is that demand outstrips supply. You'd be better off being annoyed with football authorities only allocating 2/3 of capacity to the clubs than being annoyed with Saints.

He's talking about members.

That's a bummer. Given they've only recently re-platformed the website it ought to be able to cope with iPads. Good luck!

Me too.

If we let West Ham have the ball in good wide positions to get crosses in then Carroll would probably murder us even if Fonte and Van Dijk were playing. The key tomorrow is to dominate possession and defend aggressively in terms of closing down and maintaining a fairly high line. Then even if Carroll does win all the headers they aren't going to be dangerous. To that end, I'm not too worried about centre back personnel tomorrow - more about the midfield and wide players getting stuck in properly.

I'm now "Less than an hour". Cracking stuff.

Queue, I think. There is a progress bar above that ominous black box. How long is yours?

I'm in a queue for "over an hour" allegedly!

what a helmet.

From memory, I think Davis did play wing-back, or maybe JWP did.

He's got an ST so he's guaranteed a seat tomorrow. As are you. Chill out.

It will be very interesting to see how we line up. I think everyone would agree that we need to get Boufal on the pitch as much as possible and, in my opinion, he is better used centrally than stuck out on the left. I know the forwards are encouraged to rotate but the starting position / defensive structure still dictates where the majority of touches will occur. Allegedly, Gabbiadini is not a central striker but would be better suited to the wide right role. Boufal and Gabbiadini both sound like players that would suit the "diamond" with the wide-split forwards that we played at the start of the season. T If we stick with the current 4-3-3 with Gabbiadini on the right and Boufal on the left then, with Long, Jay Rod (or Austin) playing centrally there would be no starting place for Redmond, or Tadic. It seems a shame to sacrifice Redmond or Tadic in place of what is likely to be one of our midfield "steady Eddies". A 4-2-3-1 does seem like the obvious approach but perhaps we doubt whether we have sufficient muscle in midfield to only play the 2 genuine central midfielders. If we're determined to stick with a central midfield three then I think the diamond is probably our best bet, with Boufal central, Gabbiadini on the right and Tadic or Redmond coming in from the left.

Varsity (London Road) has reopened as something else. It will have the rugby. Don't know what the food is like!

Obviously not because he didn't get sent off and he wasn't trying to "take out" VVD. He was just being a bellend.

Not really. If you deliberately "take out" someone to cause them an injury it's probably going to be red card in the modern game.

Mark Paul.

Yeah, but you do run a Christmas hamper business.

Utterly idiotic. Pretend to get injured by the other team's best player.

He means this: -----------------GK-------------------- RB-----------CB----CB---------------LB ----------------Romeu------------------ --------CM---------------CM------------- ----------------Boufal------------------ --Barry Manilow-----------Jay Rod-----