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Shocked he hasn't made the bench yet. Matteo Destro or Javier Hernandez would be my choices, reckon it'll be Haller or the young lad at AIK.

Head On Hit Nail The

**** off to the cocky cvnt that played the pass with his back after going 1 up.

Obvious one: **** of Puel, absolute pussy and bottled that. Not a one off and your no tactical genius.

So much rage, so many points I want to throw out, too angry to articulate anything remotely useful or intelligent so will bullet point them and look back in regret tomorrow morning. **** off Les Reed > ****ing conman. **** off Nathan Redmond, never seen a player attempt to pass responsibility as often as he does and that includes non league idiots. **** off Maya Yoshida, granted you've been decent in the tournament, tonight = helmet. **** off Jose > meh. **** off fans, we are supported by complete and total mongs, run out the door early on, only sing one song which 50% of people **** up. **** off BT sport for constantly panning the camera to that **** of a supporter in the hat, with the face paint. **** off Jermaine Jenas, absolute bell end of a pundit, you only highlight the obvious, if thats the case **** off to radio. **** off Virgil, you're my favourite Saints player this decade by miles, go and play at Barcelona and Real where you deserve to be playing with better players. **** off Ross Wilson, I could do a better job than you. **** off to any of you that think with rationale and look at the bigger picture, European nights don't come along often at Southampton, grab it by both hands. Right now I don't care we are in the EFL semi final. Feel free to add.

I miss Dusan.

Thats exactly how Forster injured himself before. Dave Watson needs to be pulling him up on his delaying before clearing his lines.

Its like watching a 'beat the block' session. Horrible watching your team play like this at home but Liverpool so dangerous.

Yep, taking our under 12 team, FA & Saints given clubs the chance to claim 15 free tickets.

There was a deadline to do so I believe.

Missed the whole game and coverage.. been in hospital with the other half after some worries with baby! Thankfully Mother is well, just a small infection and baby is cooking nicely with nine weeks to go. Had no signal in the hospital, so a great result to cap off a stressful night.

http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?57094-Katarina-meeting-with-Asian-personnel#.WBo6LjKcbPA [VINE] [/VINE]

No, expired in on the 16th or 18th October..

HELP.... all joking aside, our first little one is due in January and as much as I've tried to get us ready, you never really know. Any advice, decent blogs, links to websites?

They aren't, they're on the pitch.

No it was an open session. In a nutshell, spoke to her about discrimination, doesn't matter peoples looks, heights, colour and experiences her and told her that remarks like that could put people off wanting to play football.... I also reminded her that Saints are in a higher league than Pompey and that even Man City couldn't beat us.

Delivered a coaching session yesterday; had a ten year old refuse to play on the same team as a 'scummer'. Strangely the player was wearing a Man City shirt. Worst thing about this, it was ten year old girls football.

What do you make of this version MLG?

Has Icardi been suspended by the club or just stripped of the captaincy?

2-1 up, Olomola.

Not in the age groups 5-16, players aren't considered as being position specific with the exception of goalkeepers which also opens another can of worms. A certain Championship club will only sign an academy goalkeeper if they have a current or projected height of 6ft 2. What is ludicrous with this is some goalkeepers maybe 5'11 but have a better jump reach than keepers that are taller than this (Navas at Madrid has a jump reach of over 9ft)plus projected growth spurts are never accurate. Academy kids up until the age of 13 will play a variety of different positions and in all three columns of the pitch, this will help lay the foundations of being an all rounded footballer, then in the older teens the traits are 'sculpted & tailored' to the players strengths. Put it this way if I'm a ten year old player that only plays centre back - I will only learn how to play with the game in front of me, receiving the ball square at most times and dealing with plain sighted runners (on the shoulder or a player running at me). If I also play as a CM I will learn how to play with 360 degrees capability, a number of receiving principles, overloaded situations. When that player is 22 and playing in a pro game hopefully they will now be confident enough to revert back to the experiences they had as a child and how to deal with it .. we want players that will be confident in any state of the game; in possession, out of possession and transition. It really is an interesting world, so many aspects to consider, biological background, culture, current ability, personality traits and then the most important the scouts prejudice.. http://www.businessinsider.com/new-study-destroys-malcolm-gladwells-10000-rule-2014-7?IR=T http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26384712 http://changingthegameproject.com/the-10000-hour-myth/ I highlighted culture above as professionally I believe this is key to creating intelligent players. For those that read Dennis Bergkamp's autobiography, he talks about a culture where he would play with a ball and a wall and deliberately watch how the ball would rotate, react on certain parts of the wall - this effecitvely enhanced his shot/passing selection. We as a country have become so PC, we don't have children playing out on the streets/cul de sacs, adjusting to potholes, the improvised pitch markings, the uneven slope. We are (parents and majority of GR coaches) so keen to have players playing a mini professional version of the adult game, they demand better facilities and conditions. We now have a trade off... Dangermouth, at the risk of me boring you to death, I would always pick talent over physique. Talent is more adaptable than physique (I can't find the paper that helps evidence this). As for older vs newer techniques, it has to be bit of both but I cannot emphasise how paramount the 'good learner' part is in young talent development and identification. Again prejudice falls into this, people assume a good learner is the clean cut, squeaky clean image, doesn't argue back and has their hand up at every opportunity - this couldn't be further from the truth. I will go into more detail later on as I have a session to go and deliver in twenty minutes. Love the points you make about South America and Fraser Forster!

Commentary on match days now for free according to ****ter.

10,000 hours has been adapted into bit of a myth, it's now considered as 10,000 experiences. Some might say tit for tat but books such as the talent code and sports gene explain it better than my post would. My current role is around player identification in the 8-11's age group and you won't believe the split with 'scouts' ; some are your generic old school dinosaurs that claim to 'just know' if a player has something about them whilst you have a lot of young cocky out of uni who look into the psychological aspects of how much the player is a good learner Some clubs look for athletes and look to develop them into footballers and some clubs look for good learners of any size as they believe they will be easier to develop with the clubs ethos (Barcelona being the main example). It's a little bit naughty of Saints to claim they're the only club doing this, I've been aware of Sheffield United (who by the way have a fantastic academy and really do things the right way but that's a post for another day) have been doing this for a few years. I love the thought process behind it (academy kids can be real hit or miss in terms of grounded or arrogance.)

Redmond is a 10 or a winger not a striker. Go with Forster Cedric - Fonte - VVD - Bert Hoj-Romeu-Tadic -Redmond/Davis Long Austin