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Completely agree with this point of view. If you score four goals away from home and don't win, the defence must come under scrutiny and Seaborne had a mare of a game frankly despite the fact that he was up against the best striker in the league. Harding made one crucial mistake by not sticking with his mark - one mistake but a fundamental one. I think some blame must also go to the management team - at 2-4 they should have made a change to the formation immediately...they didn't and our midfield was overrun. We sat too deep trying to make up for the fact Posh were able to advance through the midfield much too easily.

Again, the lack of transfers in this window tells us NA and NC have done some excellent business.

Top post and I completely agree. I am astounded that there are muppets on here that don't realise what has been achieved in this window.

Not sure how you are in a position to judge them yet on their standard IN THIS TEAM!?!? The team (in L1) at full strength could probably not be bettered, so anyone who comes in is not going to get an immediate start unless there are injuries. They have come in to bolster the squad and provide an alternative when others are injured or need a rest (or go to jail). So by that reasoning they HAVE improved the team significantly, where significant means without them we would need to play players out of position - e.g. Dickson on the wing. PS: My take on this window is 9/10. Pretty damn good business keeping hold of some exceptional talent, signing perm deals and bringing in new blood. Fantastic really.

Incredible morons on here that think a few posters on a Scunny forum represent the whole fanbase and provide an accurate assessment of a player! AND for some unfathomable reason these same nutters cannot seem to come to terms with the simple fact that (a) this lad might flourish among the better players we have in our squad (yes, they are collectively better than the Scunny squad) and (b) he will also benefit from the far better coaching facilities this club offers. The club has basically answered all the questions asked of it over the transfer window - players we wanted retained - we've retained. New blood with pace on the wings and a striker...one purchased and one loaned...done deal. And we've kept Oxo when everyone was convinced he would go, which is a fantastic show of commitment from NC who really does believe in the long-term plan. Frankly, if you're disappointed with the outcomes of this notoriously difficult window it's obvious common sense has somehow eluded you. We need to give the boy 2-3 games to settle in before the boo boys get to work on him.

£50m!!!! The football world and in particular the Prem is quite literally disappearing up it's own arse!

Fixed. (;

And it's for that reason that I am OUT! LOL

ah ha.

Good player - surprise signing...so which defender is on the way out?

Apparently he's on a bus to Blackpool. Or somewhere.

Forte will be a good signing for us. He has a chance to get into the squad pretty much straight away which means he'll want to impress. Seems to me like he has been constrained or not happy in some way at Scunny since NA left.

Let's hope you're right - lose Fonte and kiss promotion goodbye IMO.

Please not Fonte - the promotion challenge would be right off the rails if he went. In the top 3 most important players to this club IMO.

Hmm, assuming it's true can't see Martin being too impressed if he's blocked that move given the lack of appearances he's had under Adkins - Eastleigh to Prem in 2 seasons is not too shabby really. He'd be earning at least three times his current deal I suspect.

It matters not what previous managers think - if that was the case Chaplow would never play again if his previous manager had a say. Chaplow for me is the best and most likely choice because he would provide consistency in role potentially all the way through to the Prem. If he and Schneiderlin keep up their partnership even better still.

Just a thought - perhaps premature, but worthy of discussion. Chaplow is an articulate, hard working and skillful player that gets around all over the park. I've watched him - he talks to other players and likes to motivate. I think he could be a great Team Captain - better than Hammond who seems a bit...well...quiet, not commanding of the team and hardly sets the world alight with his very few interviews to date. Thoughts? Poll?

Actually, like they need it?! They have more dosh than some L2 clubs.

Good man.

I mentioned this on the match thread, but thought it worthy of mention here. I saw Guly leave SMS on crutches last night. It didn't appear that he had a leg or foot bandaged etc., so hopefully it's just precautionary. There were some photo/autograph hunters milling around him, so did anyone else find out how he is?

There is just one massive issue that we can take from yesterdays game - this team needs to get out of L1 to see it perform at it's best. Nothing else matters this season.

No need to get defensive - you THINK the Northam was loud because of where you sit. In the Itchen centre the MU supporters were loud enough to drown out much of the noise from the Northam. And anyway, my point was (as previously noted in other threads) that our support is nullified by the sheer fact that every large game our most vocal supporters are fragmented to other parts of the ground to make room for the visitors. THAT to me is just plain stupid and needs to be addressed by the club as a matter of urgency IMO.

We are L1 at the moment and they are the most successful club in the World. It's not his place to jiz over how well Saints played for 65 minutes. He was not really disrespectful so that's fine. When we have the depth of squad to match them, I feel sure that within the next 10 years we will be on level terms and beating them again. PS edit: I do believe the ref was spoken to by Ferguson at half-time though. Not that he had anything to complain about, but he does that to unsettle the ref and ensure when a decision needs to be made there is no question of him siding with Man Utd's opposition.

Very proud of the team - 1st half we could have been Prem opposition I thought. Got very leggy after 60 mins and Fergie knew it would happen which is when the supersubs came on a cut us a new one. That said, it was two sloppy passes from Dickson and Gobern that let the side down (and Gobern showed he is nowhere near the standard required for this team now). Outstanding performances were from Butterfield, Chaplow and Schneiderlin (surprisingly). When we left the ground a couple of players came out and Guly was on crutches for some reason - hopefully precautionary. New lad Dany hardly touched the ball when he came on which was a shame. All in all a fantastic days footie - got to shake hands with Nigel Adkins, Franny Benali and one of my heroes Mick Channon. Did the stadium tour before the match with Nigels A's Mum and Dad (very nice down to earth people) - he came into the corridor outside the changing rooms to take a photo of our little group on his i-phone! Jimmy Case did a little turn on the mic and we had John Motty Motson do a little bit of talking at the end to auction off his match notes (he was commentating for 5-live) - he got £600 for the Saints Foundation. Only one grumble and that was that from where we were the Man Utd supporters made more noise than us for large parts of the game. Northam was not at the races today, but of course it was half decimated. This needs to be corrected by the club IMO. Also, there were no chants for Markus which was a bit disappointing. Oh well. Proud to be a Saint today. COYS!

This. Make it so.