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Yes I know that but it would seem to me that Barney was subbed a lot last season as well, it's probably the same problem. I think that the medical staff are managing quite a lot of players at the moment,Adkins refers to it in most of his Saintsplayer interviews.I wouldn't doubt that they are managing a few cases of mental fatigue as well, Jose and Morgan being two obvious candidates. You can never be certain because NA obviously doesn't speak of individual cases most of the time, he indicates it's happening though and you can pick your own candidates.

Trouble with Barney is that he doesn't seem to be able to go the distance any too often,we get an hour out of him each time but no more.Lambert has been shouldering all the donkey work for far too long and we don't have any real alternatives,last season we had Papa and Antonio to help out a bit. When you look at the appearance statistics this season and last for some of our players you can see exactly why their form might have dipped. Rickie 83 games in 16 months (plus pre-season) Deano virtually the same,Lallana 70 odd,Morgan 70 ish plus 6 or 7 internationals, the lads are probably ****ged out most of the time,some handle it better than others but you can bet your old boots that any base injuries (you know those deep rooted niggles that you can tolerate) aren't getting any better.

Here's a thought for you. RL probably played what somewhere around 58 games for us last season, most of them the full 90, that's probably nigh on a double season for most players. We might have burnt him out . Southampton played far too many games last season and we may well be paying the penalty for it this season.

probably won't even play, might not even still be here.

Guly is a good player, still not sure the coaches and manager know what they're doing with him though. Might be above their pay grade as the transatlantic cousins say.Bet Guly hasn't worked out why tellytubby gets a game every week and he doesn't.

should be alright now, the extended highlights are up.Still miss those full 90s though. One interesting point, when Lallana put an effort a bit wide (3.09 in) look into the back field and see who's waving and gesticulating a full 15/20 yards behind the ball, yep you've got it Rickie Lambert. Virtually the whole side is in front of him,slow?? not even that fast.

"While much is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened" TH

and where was that then? not that I doubt it because it sounds far fetched, but then so did some of the stuff lb told us.Most of which seemed to have some factual base in the end.

now it would seem to me that Bournemouth,Peterborough,Charlton and Huddersfield all have (or had in the case of Bournemouth) 2 strikers who have scored more than any one in our squad, and Lambert has 4 penalties in his score as well.Maybe they all have a shedload of penalties, I don't follow any of them closely. Fortunately we have a decent defence to mop up the inefficiency of our strikers a bit.

we wouldn't get 800k for an old war horse like Lambert,we wouldn't have got 2 million for him in the summer either.There are numerous young bucks in the UK and elsewhere who could do a better job in the higher leagues than an ageing D3 hotshot,

if it's in the Sun it must be true.

he did leave him out against Shrewsbury

I doubt if it's Blackpool in themselves that are creating apathy, it's what they represent, a side who were in the same league as us not 2 full seasons ago,probably considered as inferior to us at that time because many thought we'd finish above them.We look at where we are and where they are and it brings about a certain train of thought at least if not self pity.

because he just got a massive kick up the arse from Sir Alex, 6 months to prove himself or so it's said.

Although in his latest piece on the OS NA does say that they think RL's injury is a minor one but they'll have to see.

Who cares anyway, if he's cooked his goose with NA so much the better for us. He's not up to scratch this season anyway;Although he could have done the decent thing and fallen out with the manager before the loan window closed, not that anyone would lend us a decent striker anyway.

Ah that I don't remember, saw it on wobbly justintv,just remember one incident where AL had 3 bites at the same apple,2 were blocked by the keeper and the third he sidefooted wide (or something like that) Only thing(as far as I remember) that was really impressive about that game was the partnership between Holmes and Morgan...out of this world,but we couldn't score and they eventually wore us down.

wot yer mean by that m8, see its easy,I got a PhD but I can type bad same as any over ejit.

We'll get a good crowd but I expect the tickets won't be cheap.Still it has to be better than those gods of football Tranmere and Dagenham.

and we missed a shedload, Lallana being the main culprit, seems he's moved on a bit since then.

Perhaps not the right thread but is it true that David Jones is no longer secretary or director of the club, replaced by Brendan McGlinchey (or something like that)?

perhaps it's not replying to letters that has (if you believe some posters) brought about David Luker's demise

the 4-4-2 jibe was only a couple of weeks back, Carlisle game. Merrington gets up my nose, I'd rather have anyone else,even Audrey could probably do a better job in my opinion.

there have been scientific studies on this,remember seeing one in the OMJ quite a long time ago though.