Saint Fan CaM

Interesting to hear that he's still not moved his family down here. His job can't be as stable as perhaps he and the club might like to admit. Right?

Hear hear!!!

Yep - were you?

Blimey- you moan at others not reading the thread! To repeat, I don't care about half-time as most peeps stay in their seats until the whistle goes. It's before the full-time whistle that I get the freakin' hump.

You make a good point - he might improve enough to be useful, however my feeling is he will not be good enough to improve in the NPC. If we field anyone of his ability in that league we will be found out (like we were so many times when we played sub-standard youth during Lowe's tenure). Can't afford to be sentimental about this - the club intends moving forward at a pace and that means always improving the overall level of competency across the squad. If he was good enough to do that he would be displacing Schneiderlin for example.

Listen, don't get me wrong - he may well be improving (I'd be even more disappointed if he wasn't), however I don't see enough in his game to indicate that he'll make the step up to NPC level (unlike most of our other midfielders). He is probably not too far from being on a par with Hammond TBF but I don't see him being with us all the way through to the Prem - do you?

Thought Martin put in a very assured shift on Tuesday - not sure what some fans expect to be honest. He won 90% of the aerial challenges he was faced with from where I was sitting. He put one stray pass to an oppo player - how many times has Jaidi done this?!

Mmm, sorry to be the voice of dissent here, but for me he is far away being good enough unless we're content to remain in L1 forever and certainly not good enough for the NPC. Not got a problem with him being 4th choice while we're in this league, but to harbour thoughts of him remaining with us as we climb back through the NPC is daft IMO. He's far too lightweight in the tackle and not decisive or precise in his passing to be an effective CM beyond L1.

I wear a replica shirt sometimes. I sit in the Kingsland centre and have got a great aisle ST seat. What I detest is the hoard of early leavers slowly making their way down the aisles with 10 minutes to play of the 2nd half - it should be f**king banned!!! I pay good money to watch the whole game but can't because some tosspot is blocking my view! So while I empathise with Turkish, I have to say the issue has absolutely the square sum of f**k all to do with replica shirt wearing or the consumption of food/drink.

Poor performance - good result. Forte cost me a considerable amount of money by not scoring at the end when one on one and making it 4-0, so he's my hate figure now. (;

Meh. The club made a gesture and there is All Saints Day celebs. Any excuse to moan...

No - that is all.

Wales England is on the same day at 3 and that was why it was moved.

We will lose tonight. The wheels are about to come off the bus big-time. HTH.

Pulis will go. Forecast is our no.2 keeper now, so he's going nowhere. LOL /:

Hahahahahahahaha.....hahahaha. [chokes] Riiigghhhtt.

A fabrication IMO.

But we have a big squad. And some world class Academy players raring to go. Oh heck, what's happening to me...I'm suddenly getting very cynical.

Err....isn't that two names?

It may be an individual player thing, but I am more convinced it's a collective team thing...possibly connected with the Manager and Coaches in some way. One player having a bad day at the office could be covered by our other fantatistic players, but it's not like that. In fact the one thing that I have thought all along is that, to get out of this league, you don't need highly skilled players - you need players that can be motivated to play out of their skins...to fight beyond their individual merits for their manager, the club, the supporters, even the Chairman. That's why Bompey are where they are. It's why Adkins was able to get Scunny into the CCC. Unfortunately, the make-up of our squad generally does not appear to match this profile. Perhaps our players are too clever to be fooled by the Managers rhetoric?!

My impression was that Chaplow was the midfield man we craved. Certainly many on here (myself included) thought he was a great signing that would start most games. Now given that, who would you drop to allow a complete new lad in to then become a leader on the pitch? It's not going to happen is the simple answer. While we would all like better players, but you have to ask why a group of 11 players supposely best in class will not perform consistently. The fault has to lie at the door of the Manager surely?

This - Alpine speaks sense.

This one result isn't the issue in my eyes - it's the nature of the result that is concerning. This team have given shown an almost complete lack of guile and spirit when it comes to winning against this type of team. There is a trend and for my money that responsibility lies with Adkins and his coaching team. Give them an attacking side that plays football on a bowling green pitch and we'll win 6-0. For whatever reason, Adkins appears to be out of his depth in being able to find a solution to winning these types of games and it's going to cost us an automatic place. If the league was any stronger this season we would be struggling to hold on to a play-off place.

Let's play the U-18's in the first team to shake things up a bit! Err...hang on - what was that...we've tried that before you say?? lol (;

Sorry to have to say that we'll struggle greatly to make 2nd now. Play-offs still within our grasp, but who would put money on this team having the bottle to go through? If I didn't know better I would hazard a guess that Adkins has lost the dressing room and indeed the plot. And it's a little niggling doubt that has been with me for some weeks. Look back over the results of this season and the nature of the results - there's a consistency in these types of performances that is very worrying. I am really starting to have doubts about Adkins ability to command a presence. His interviews are bland and are now also seemingly stupid too. If we lose against Yeovil I think the crowd could turn against him and that could be the beginning of the end for him. And lastly, I NEVER EVER want to read or hear another ******* defender interviewed on the OS prior to a mid-week away game. It's all a load of regurtitated bollacks that in essence means nothing - other than we will lose of course.