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ah yes Chris, what position did he play in his short career by the way??

There is probably more fact in the Beano or the Dandy, I mean Desperate Dan really can eat 4 cow pies.

And then some. If Lambert had scored 6 open play goals from 14 league starts we wouldn't have much to moan about, trouble is he's scored 1 from 19

I am really surprised that anyone gives any credence to anything that is printed in the Sun regarding football.

perhaps it was all just part of a cunning plan eh:lol: The sort that Dîck Dastardly dreamed up for every episode of Wacky Races.

Doble is a striker,or supposed to be anyway. I just cannot fathom all this development and talent pathway stuff. If the lads aren't considered good enough to merit a 15 minute cameo when we've nothing left to lose what is the point of their being here.

but that's the point, I doubt if he'd come from Bompey where he's in the public eye to sit on our bench no matter how much we pay him.That would mean him replacing either Lallana or AOC which is unlikely if they're both expected to stay.

Pugh's a winger isn't he? Would expect to play as well, so that would mean him replacing AOC I guess, unless Lallana is on the move of course, which those who seem to know most about him say is unlikely.

Loved the weather girl on Sky News this morning, exciting weather coming up....if you're 5 and have got your mittens and sled all ready. Oldham is already off, that's a big backlog that they're building up

In fact I see that Jose is saying on the OS that if they can get out of this league they'll pass straight through the NPC into the Prem. That's confidence for you.

but why does it happen, perhaps we should give up traipsing round the hospital in the days before. Why was a third division roustabout like Gary Alexander allowed to pass through both Lallana and Dickson without either of them getting a meaningful challenge in, there are other examples from Saturday's game, do our players suffer from the cold? are they unwell? are they thinking about next week, next season. Something wasn't right on Saturday what it was who knows.

Perhaps he's a ringer and we sold the original to Real Madrid back in the summer for 90 million £

Still it's a very strange statement isn't it, if we're willing to pay the salaries then I'd imagine that every one of our players would find a use somewhere or other albeit it at a much lower level for some of them.Then again I do think Mr C does make strange statements from time to time, like the one he made back last summer about AP.

if that's the case how come that there are 8 sides above who don't seem to need to do that??

3 million £££ gimme gimme

does he do brawls in nightclubs??? if not that's a + for him then isn't it.

I entirely agree here, what is the point of having a "development squad" if you have no intention whatsoever of ever using it in a League game when you have nothing left to lose.Now NA likes to witter on about creating a pathway for this group of young players and yet when he has a chance he doesn't use it.It just smacks of him saying what the Chairman and I presume Mr Reed want to hear.At least Arry was honest about it, he wasn't impressed with the youth set up and said so.It's just hypocrisy to let us believe that we have all this "talent" in reserve. It might be added that some of these players have played in the Championship before on occasions,some of them are still scrubbing around in the development group at 19/20 yrs old whereas Morgan who is now seemingly the new whipping boy has played nigh on 80 or so first team games at 21

A while back NA said in one of his interviews that he wasn't afraid to drop Rickie Lambert but as he hasn't that means one of 2 things a) he thinks he's doing an OK job even though we have difficulty scoring most of the time. b) he can't drop him even if he wanted to. Take you pick according to your beliefs.As we didn't sign a loan striker even though we knew Barny was struggling it's a bit of a conundrum.

doubt if wur Cassie would be seen dead anywhere near a dump like Newcastle anyway.

Which is why of course Mourinho,Benitez and Ancelotti would never get a top job in this country.

Lambert is 28 going on 29, he's been playing rough and tumble lower league football for all his professional career, make do and mend injury treatment,some might say he didn't lead a very healthy life before he came here. 57 games last season. All that has taken it's toll, no doubt he's stale and starting to go over the top,don't think it will be a very gradual descent for him.

If we were succesful then I guess the play-offs are better than nothing. But you're always at the mercy of an individual mistake or collective off day, you end up playing your whole season on 1 or 2 games.

of course it isn't his last chance his name pre-printed on the team sheet.

Correct. Back in the euphoria days of last summer I predicted that we would get nigh on 100 points this season and I thought I was being conservative in my estimates. Obviously we can't win every game but a round 100 looked reasonable.Now I sincerely doubt that we have the arms to obtain automatic promotion, trouble is I placed great faith in AP, seeing as NC said all was well and AP had his full support blah blah blah. Then AP gets the sack and we get this "manager" who reminds me as some sort of scoutmaster or bumbling history professor.I really don't think he can handle "problem players" so I guess he leaves that to his sidekick or Santa's Elf. I have come to doubt his judgement in the matter of players and I am afraid that it will leave us short in the long run.

so then what's happening on this one. Hope we haven't been insane enough to send the Ox up there.