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Does someone really need to know all our pressing triggers to be a striker on the bench (especially with 9 subs!)? If we're a goal down with 15 minutes to go and one of our strikers is knackered then I'd rather this guy came on and tried to score than Redmond come on and do a good job closing down. Sounds like Ralph being a bit of a bellend to me.

I'll definitely stick a couple of quid on some big score lines when we play the top teams.

Stephens let DCL drift off him into space at least twice in the first half as well and we were lucky not to concede from simple crosses then. When the ball is out wide he doesn't keep track of his man and gets caught moving towards / under the ball. Stephens is a League One / Champ quality defender and will regularly make serious mistakes leading to goal scoring chances. Any team with someone decent in the air will find it quite easy to score against us if he is in the team. As 4th choice, and given the ongoing lack of supply from our academy he's ok, because who are you going to sign as 4th choice(?), but as a regular starter he's a disaster. If we don't sign a strong centre back who can play with Salisu and bring him through, or an exceptional keeper, we will probably get relegated. We conceded the second most goals last season and yesterday we conceded three to a team who were pretty poor for most of the match. It's not like they were causing lots of problems or scoring world-class goals. We are so easy to score against that we are screwed unless something changes.

Pretty obvious that we need to sign a quality centre back. We could have conceded a couple in the first half from routine, bread and butter crosses. Unless we do bring in someone who is first choice we will continue to be the team that gives away the most points and lets in more goals than nearly everyone else.

Cheers mate. He sounds like just the sort of style of player we need. Obafemi is a bit of a conundrum. He has shown some moments of real quality in some of his appearances, but a series of managers have felt he isn’t worth a run in the side and have preferred people like Shane Long and Nathan Redmond up front, who are not exactly prolific. There are question marks over whether he has applied himself properly in training or whether he is clever enough tactically and switched on enough to do the work “against the ball” that our manager loves. I’m sure there’s a decent Championship footballer in there, at least, and if he was to prove himself there then you’d have a bargain for 5 or 6m. I think we’d all like to see what he can do with a loan to a decent Champ club and some regular games.

Bertrand is virtually non-existent as a productive attacking threat any more, although he is still a good one on one defender, which left us horrendously lopsided in attack, and Vestergaard is the slowest player I've ever seen so isn't really suited to a high-press game. Vestergaard is good at passing but not very good at defending.

That match was class. Remember it well. The run of form at the start of that season was so exciting. We had just come up and hadn't really added much to the League One team so you hoped we'd be OK in the Championship. Then we just started taking teams apart and you knew something special was going on. Cant remember if it was the next match or not when we went to Ipswich and scored 4? It's a shame we didn't win it, but to go straight through the Champ in one season was a great achievement by Nige and the lads.

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Like a stern but buxom matron.

Turkish is represented by black, cyan, magenta and yellow.

Should see the doctor for that.

Looks like a very different player to Adams. Adams is a good, all-round forward, who links play very nicely and has a good eye for a pass. One of his big weaknesses is that he lacks half a yard of movement/anticipation in the box and so struggles to get on the end of crosses. That's why, unless he fixes that, he will never be prolific at the top level. Armstrong looks much more like the traditional "fox in the box", looking to play on the shoulder and get early shots away with either foot. With that sort of player, provided they can still find a bit of space, there's no reason why they shouldn't do well. If we create chances, I back him to finish them. I think he's the sort of signing we need - the "poacher" type- to complement the players we've already got, and a proven PL "poacher" is outside our budget (and there aren't many of them anyway!).

10th isn't the average place in the PL.

Insurance?

Better at passing than defending. No big loss. Sell.

And before that he played in the Copa America. Seems a bit mental, really! I guess Brazil care about the Olympic football.

Selfish cunt, can save humanity, but only for a grand!

If anyone makes a realistic bid and he wants to go then I've no doubt we will sell him.

As someone who never really saw Shilton play club football it's odd how highly rated he seems to be because I've only really seen him on highlights from '86 World Cup, and from watching Italia 90, but my prevailing view was that he was embarrassingly bad in both. I guess he was past it by '86 and for some reason was still getting picked by England in 1990? Getting out jumped by a 5 foot 2 midget in '86, barely getting near any penalties and falling on his arse against the Germans. Rank. He must have gone downhill quickly after his first couple of seasons at Saints?

OK, put it this way: our "right price " is generally market value for anyone decent, so a buying club just has to make a fair offer. Whereas - to take an extreme example - Man City aren't going to accept a "fair" offer from Man U for their best player, it would have to be an outrageous offer. We have zero clout because everyone knows we actively want/need to sell at least one of our best players every summer.

All of our players are for sale if we get the right offer. That's the reality of having a disinterested and/or financially impotent ownership. It's just how it is for Saints at the moment. We don't make money without profit on player sales and we have a large loan we need to pay off or refinance on the books now as well. We will plan to sell a couple of players each summer to raise money. This summer, I expect we plan to sell Vest and if Ings wouldn't sign a new deal then selling him was the right thing to do. I doubt we actively plan to sell JWP this summer because his value should continue to rise if he has another good season, and now we've already sold a player for a good amount, plus got rid of some deadwood, but if someone comes in with 50/60/70 million etc. then I've no doubt we will let him speak to them.

If we don't make a sizeable profit on player sales over the next few years then we're fucked when our loan falls due or we enter a perpetual cycle of refinancing debt against an ever worsening position. We were always going to look to sell a player for a big fee this summer. Clearly Villa were willing to overpay him on wages as it's a completely pointless move from a footballing perspective for him. I guess he didn't want to risk another injury disrupted season leaving him in a worse position next summer and his agent is probably confident that none of the top clubs were coming in for him. Wouldn't be surprised to see Vest leave too. Can't see anyone willing to pay enough for JWP and he's on a longer contract so I am sure we would rather keep him in line for sale in a year or two.

You seem to be a bit confused between different species and different shades of human, no? An Orangutan isn't a ginger gorilla.

Yogi Hera would be insane!

No, it's not based on that. It's based on us having the same GK and CBs as last season and employing a team shape that leaves us outnumbered in central midfield and lacking recovery pace in CM. So, basically, it's based on us having more or less the same defence as the one that was gash last season.