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probably all much the same as us, too many matches on the clock, too close together,only 1 really effective side etc etc etc.Maybe the other lesser sides are beginning to work out the playing schema of the upper sides as well. We play too much long ball onto Lambert's head, looks like it's been sussed by lesser sides with no real game plan of their own,their plan is just to snuff out ours.

I don't think Walcott ever played for us in the Premier League...could be wrong though

Does not Nugent score a few goals for Burnley? I think he does. A true goal scorer will always score goals, wherever he is and at whatever level. Don't forget that under APs stewardship Lambert has become fitter and sharper and is scoring more goals than ever. Scored against Pompey didn't he? (not that that is a model for an EPL defence). As I said early on, plenty would take him for his dead ball kicking alone. We probably don't pay him anywhere near the stars of the CCC and they have more money available than we do.One must not confuse the owner's willingness to spend a bit of money and his entire wealth.As it stands with Newcastle and WBA looking like going straight back up the CCC will be awash with TV money next season,probably in the region of 6 million per club I suppose and plenty will have money burning holes in their coffers.

They've done quite a few games already. I've watched them all so far,pretty good for £3 a month when you're stuck in continental Europe with a work roster that leavers you a lot of spare time when you don't need it and not enough to travel to games all that often.Plus you can run it back and do your own slow motions.

[quote=Legod Third Coming;643923 A I agree with you though, current form is good enough for automatic promotion s. Is it ? Really? I"m not at all sure that 22 from 12 is automatic promotion form. Would extrapolate to 84 ish for the season and that's not a cast iron guarantee of a top 2 place. Certainly there 8 away and only 4 home games in those 12 though. If we can beat Leeds and Swindon at home in our next 2 we will be on an auto promotion schedule again but on current form we certainly are not.

Think it was Puncheon who slipped, shouldn't have been marking a bloke about 6 inches bigger than himself anyway.Plus their 8 and 27 are unmarked and Fonté is drifting about in no mans land.

I don't think we pay overly high wages to all of our players though. Anyway those players might move on for sporting reasons, it happens a lot.We shall see.

that would be logical of course but I'm not sure that that's how the owner will see it. He allowed money to be spent in an effort to compensate the -10 points and may want to see a little better return on his investment.

See what Nick? AP doesn't look at the League table or so he says.

And well he might or WBA or Wigan or Stoke or whatever. I would predict that we will start next season with no Lambert, no Lallana, no Morgan and perhaps even no Fonté. We shall have to see how just how much of a Nostradamus I am. If we are still in League 1 or course.

The days of Chopper Harris,Nobby Stiles,Billy Bremner and Brian O'Neill are long gone, none of them would have survived on the pitch 10 minutes under today's rules.Refs are self important and deliver cards like confetti as we saw yesterday. NB I've look at the "lowlights" on saints Player and the only reason I could see for giving a penalty is that Seaborne sort of puts his leg behind the other blokes knee in a sort of judo fall effort. In effect the bloke can't move backwards without falling over like that.Doubtful still but probably a well known pro foul technique.

It doesn't matter if he's good enough for the Premier League or not, half the players bought for kings ransoms by "ambitious" clubs aren't. They are quite happy to ply their trade from the bench at 20K a week and assure their financial future for ever. There are some pretty bad players in the EPL you know;couldn't get a game at Barcelona or Naples or Galatarasary or wherever but some EPL team will snap them up to make up the numbers. Look at that bloke who scored from 50 yards in the autumn, became a uber mega name within seconds. THe EPL will always have spare money for anyone who just might get a few goals Lambert fits into that category just now as does Beckford, remember Villa paid about 8 million for Fabien Delph, and to date they've seen nothing for their money. Players like Lambert will always score goals and some EPL team will take a punt on that this summer.

Well his dad I guess or so it would seem.

But no Baj, you haven't read the opinions of the highly informed on this forum, he loves it here, he would turn down 100K a week at Chelsea to play for Saints. I am afraid that many Saints fans are totally deluded as to our importance in the footballing world. WE have never ever been able to hold onto a player who wanted to leave and it will be so for quite while yet.

On occasions yes, against bad sides away from home. Other than that our side is second to none...well at home anyway.I have long given up trying to understand Pardewspeak, one minute it's minimum the play-offs, the next it's well it's not the end of the world if we don't get there. I presume the players are equally confused over our ultimate objectives.

by the time we get to the Premiership under our 5 year plan Lambert will be long past it.He'll be looking at a shot at it long before we are there, his dad's word just seem to confirm my thoughts of yesterday, for which I of course got roundly slated.

I doubt that we would turn down 2 million actually, maybe even less.

I wish I was as sure as you seem to be. A player wants to play at the highest possible level, Lambert owes us nothing and if he gets offers that he sees as a step forward ,well then I guess he might just accept one of them. As we well know football player's contracts aren't worth the paper they're written on them when a player wants to leave but are rock solid ,cast iron ,24 guarantees when he's absolultely dire and nobody else wants him.

wait until we tonk them next week-end then, should be good reading on there.

and as those of us old enough to remember will tell you Blind Faith leads to huge disappointments. In fact our side (on a League 1 scale) can be compared to the first of the super groups, great individualities who should sweep all before them when put together but as with the Clapton,Baker,Winwood,Grech combo there were an awful lot of bum notes and a whole lot of disappointed fans,still Hyde Park was free.

He certainly seems to add something to our attacking game of late, doubt whether that's Seaborne's forte really.Plus Seaborne gave away the "penalty"

Harding was taken off for 3 or 4 reasons which AP wants to keep to himself, his words not mine. They must have been good though or at least I hope they are as the Chairman will probably want to hear them.

Unfortunately for many football managers their "performance" and those of their players are intrinsically linked. I mean if it was just the player's fault then no manager would ever be relieved of his functions would he.The manager and the players are one and the same unit, as it written on the wall at SMS, no-one is to blame we are all accountable.

Yep I've got realistic expectations, League 1's most expensive side, capable of turning over Huddersfield and Norwich with ease shouldn't get derailed on a regular basis by craphole sides from craphole places, how unrealistic is that. One maybe two really bad results well that's hazard for you, that it happens time after time after time it's systemic.

No you're being completely irrational here, he's a neutral and his presence shouldn't affect our fans.If we get upset because of one middle aged Skate fan and his daughters we need to seek help. It's a free world get over it.