Legod Third Coming

If we play like that on Saturday you won't have to do any willing!!!

Agreed, people are having a pop at Mellis who actually played well!!! Sure he put a few passes away, find me someone at our level who doesn't. But we got noticeably worse quickly when both he and Morgan went off!

That's what I thought Paul - I was well chuffed when he went off!! And then they got better!!! Feck me! What I wouldn't give for impact subs...

I think he's saying you are handicapped which is disgraceful!!! If he had balls he would just call you a spas...

There aren't, they were miles better than Charlton!

Nick - lighten up mate! I was merely saying that if anyone has to apologise for anything then it would be Kelvin for going Aboriginal on us for the first goal!! I'm not going to criticise the guy but I think he could have done a lot better - which I'm sure he knows!! As for the players' articles on the OS, they do my head in too so I have some sympathies with the OP. I would like to see the talking done on the green stuff! However, last night I thought we played well and were undone by a decent side on top of their game, in form and full of confidence.

When they took their number 3 off I thought they were bonkers as he was their best player. Shows why I'm not a manager...

I don't think a single player has anything to apologise for after last night. Well, apart from maybe KD and I'm sure he doesn't need me to tell him...!!!!

Who would have stuck with Phil Parkinson, or Curbishley, or Lawrie. I still think that you cannot judge a manager after ten games. 15 maybe!

You make a very good point here. There was a period around the time they equalised last night where we did nothing but play ping-pong football for about ten minutes. I think Kelvin should have slowed the game and rolled the ball out more to allow us: a) a breather b) to regain some composure and confidence on the ball c) to furstrate Rovers with some decent posession. I don't think it was rousing people per se, but some better quality thinking on the park for sure.

While I did laugh, this is pretty much accurate. They do need the confidence and composure that is the difference between a winning mentality and losing one. I bet in talent terms there's precious little in this league, if anything.

Agreed. He still scares the feck out of me and his positional sense is appalling. But he also hit two superb balls into the box, one which Lambert nodded over when he really should have scored and one which just eluded everyone...

Both he and Hammond are 100% accurate from my seat. If anything I think they're both being a bit harsh on us. If people finish, we win 4-2 or more likely 4-1... What we need is summed up elsewhere as confidence and composure. Both of which we have to build.

I thought Harding had a torrid time apart from when he spent a lot of the time going forward where he looked great. But for both goals from that side, I would want to see my full back running the guy outside to the bye-line and then blocking his cross. To be fair I don't think Jaidi helped him much last night. The first goal we didn't block the cross either on the wing or inside, the second sadly Mills just invited the bloke to step inside and lash it! Their first goal came from a good ball which Kelvin went Aboriginal for - not sure you could blame the defence for that one!

He didn't mention money. It didn't sound from the interview that money had anything to do with it. Otherwise, he could easily have said that. I suspect - given that he was unlikely to be on a goal bonus! - that he was fit and simply cost us as much sat at home as he would have done stopping someone scoring!!

I don't think we scored against the run of play, far from it! And then their goal was as a result of our Aboriginal Goalkeeper!!!!! Rather than thoughts about the oranges... Agreed on their substitution and ours - although I still think a tired Morgan is better tha a fit Wotton!!!

Er, the people who think Mellis played left midfield and left Harding exposed probably need to watch a recording of the game. Both he and Papa were swapping all night while they were both on the pitch. Obviously a ploy by Pardew. HTH.

Some people need to take the emotion of losing out of their analysis of how we played last night. Christ it was gutting. Really, really painful. But then you have to take the game and review it. Where did we go wrong?? Substitutions? Tactics? Individial errors? These are the things we should be discussing. I defy anyone to say, for example, that we played badly? Or that anyone on the pitch wasn't giving 100%. For my money, we were simply beaten by a bloody good side who we made look ordinary for long periods. But sadly not for the whole game!!! People seem to forget that under WGS we would sometimes be beaten at home by Spurs or Blackburn or Bolton... Last night we lost to a team in fantastic form who were good. We fecking nearly didn't. Is that good enough. Not if it's repeated every week no! If we lose to poor teams or play poorly, I will be calling for Pardew to be hung from the Itchen Bridge. But really? What more could we want last night? Other than we had buried our chances. Morgan and Lallana missed sitters. Well, there's a reason they and we are in League One... oh and both were superb for most of the remainder in the game for what my opinion is worth.

There you go Alpine, there is no moral high ground argument required with this sort of woefullly inaccurate analysis. This is the bloke who scored one (really), and made one with a sublime ball Frank Lampard would be proud to have played.

Lallana and Morgan both missed sitters. Lambert did not. HTH

While football is about results, it's not always is it. Look at who we have played and where they are in the table. If we play like we did last night for the remainder of the season we will beat most clubs. I fully expect us to beat Gillingham. So that will resolve the question.

Anyone else read it? Talked a lot about being fit last season but not being able to be picked along with other 'senior' players for 'political reasons'... So finally the evidence, as if we needed it, that our senior players were being sidelined by the management of the club. Incredible. All the conspiracies were true.

Just a word to say. Best team to visit us (play us) this year. And best fans by a mile. Delighted to see them cheer and applaud Lambert as his name was read out. Shows a bit more class than some.

And had a blinding header a foot over the bar from a super James cross? Probably not him then eh...

Hallelujah... Can we have a bit more rational analysis in this thread and a bit less emotional retardation... Last night was a brilliant game of football - really genuinely inspiring for League One and a superb advert for our league and our game. Their first goal could easily be laid at Kelvin's door - whisper it... Their second came because we don't close down in the full-back positions well enough (or at least didn't last night) Their third was a screamer and Mills (rightly) blames himself for not closing down properly. Both our goals were excellent football and both Lallana and Morgan missed sitters - albeit their keeper pulled off two good saves for both chances. I came away from that game feeling like I'd been kicked in the nuts by a blonde who had previously given me the impression I was going to get lucky. I still think I will, just she needs a bit more time to come around to my charms... On the upside, we battled throughout the game, for long periods were better than them and had some excellent individual performances. That we did not win is evidence of the wafer thin margin between defeat and victory. You score your chances, you win - that's how it goes. But as for the usual retards leaping on the manager's back, just grow up a bit first eh?