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to be honest you can't compare a player in a side like Newcastle to a player in a side like Saints. You can only compare performances in sides of roughly equal ability. If you watch Arsenal or Man U (which I'm sure you do from time to time because it's unavoidable) you'll see players hit passes into space knowing that their team-mates will get there, with us it's different, you can hit a pass to say Puncheon and he'll get it 2 times out of three and the other time he'll mistime his run or screw up the control or just not move at all, same with recovering the ball in midfield,if someone hits you a hospital ball well you're probably in the crap and it'll look bad.Good players may look bad in good sides just as bad players may look the real biz in good sides.Football is a team game and until you have equal ability all round individual performances are hard to judge. Morgan needs to move on for his own sake as does Lallana,they'll be targets for aggression as long as they stay in this division.

No I don't think there is in the football league, could well be wrong though. I've never heard any mention of position having any great financial relevance.

Why should I be ITK over it:cool:, it's just the way things happen and human nature. NC has already dealt with it in one of his interviews,if he talks about players "asking to leave" not being retained I think you can be fairly sure that it's not just a hypothetical situation. Anyway we have at least 2 players who have had their budding international careers nullified by being in League 1, both were "thinking" about moving on last season. AP talked them into staying, don't think he'll succeed again this time.Lambert? well his dad said he wanted a stab at the PL and I don't think we'll get there soon enough for him, he'll probably want to cash in on his season with us now rather than later.Lambert unlike many 3rd division hotshots still has potential for improvement on top of his obvious ability to score a lot of goals and I can well see an EPL side taking a punt on that at 3 million or so which is, let's face' it chicken feed for the EPL where clubs regularly waste 5/10 million on complete non hopers.

what we do at the end of this season will have little bearing on next season because as likely as not our team will not be the same.Players will leave..count on it, some are way too good for this division and will want to move on.

Of course nothing is impossible..yet. This case is not so simple though, it's not about 1 team making up points on another team ,it's about us surpassing no less than 4 other teams who are more or less points ahead of us.Only 10 wins will do us any real good and even then I don't see any 2 of Colchester,Huddersfield,Swindon,Millwall and Charlton going into complete free fall and Bristol Rovers and MK Dons only getting average results.

we only have "must win" games left this season. Won't be enough anyway but we need to win them all, including the two that we've lost recently.

But your argument shoots itself in the foot a bit. Should Charlton lose to say Huddersfield and Colchester that puts those teams into Charlton's place not us. This whole play-offs discussion is a bit ridiculous, we aren't going to make up 13 in 10 on Colchester, 11 in 10 on Huddersfield and 17 in 10 on Charlton, they may wobble and waiver but at the end of the day 2 of them will be above us.At this moment in time there are still 7 teams in this division who have obtained more points than us , ie we haven't caught them up in 36 games so why anyone should think we will surpass 2 of them in the last few games beats me.

I bet we sell for more than we buy this time round.Not from any will of the management but just because it will happen that way. Something like 5 million out and a less than a couple of million in.

But then again there is no real reason for that to happen. You could put most pro footballers in any position on the pitch (apart from in goal) and they'd do a reasonable job, maybe not brilliant but reasonable.

Seaborne can cover at left back for Mills and Harding can stay a right back. We have James as a cover at RB if absolutely necessary unless his ankle isn't quite right. I expect us to line up for the JPT final as we did yesterday though,well in respect of ful backs anyway. Connolly in for Barnard and perhaps Papa for Puncheon.

Better the loser you don't know that the one you do. Very common occurence in Football. Anyway the side is crap, you could get Sir Alex or Mourinho to manage it and it would still be crap.

But to be fair they only wanted someone who would agree to a 9 game contract at first.Their options must have been severely limited.Why I don't know but that's what their chairman said.

Having won either of those two would make things look really interesting.

James can't be really fit then, expect he's had some sort of setback with that floating bone thingy.

I expect their programme can't handle anything else than Chelsea,Man U Arsenal and Liverpool being in the first 4 places of the EPL.System overload.

Right my BBC page isn't updating properly, still shows them on 64 points. wonder why that is, probably need to clear out my cache or something like that.

Nope,not unless 2 teams absolute crack up to a ludicrous extent.

Really? 64-50=13?

On course for what? Great result all the same but 14 behind with 10 to play just isn't do-able.

35 yard lob apparently.

Fonté booked

Penalty to Saints

de la merde

Hammond c*cks up, Morgan gets booked sorting out the mess. Hammond is becoming a really weak link.

we will probably really regret losing to Swindon.