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To be honest, neither of them were at their best/sharpest today but we were still miles too good for Forest. Lallana's skill gets him by when he's not 100% fit (which I'm convinced he's not). Connolly just needs game time. His brain is first class!!!

Good result. Few things to work on and a few players still not quite at the tempo of early season (Lallana and Connolly), but we could/should have won that 6-0. How did Martin miss that sitter??!!!!

That would explain the cameras in Cobham this morning...

Mate, I feel you should spend some time (genuinely) understanding clinical depression. It is a mental illness - the clue is in the term 'clinical'. People of sound mind who can make rational judgements are NOT clinically depressed. Gary Speed (if depressed, which we have to assume) was not able to make a judgement about those he was leaving behind. He was locked in a chamber of mental torture and decided that they only way he could escape was death. It is tragedy. Selfish it isn't. What is selfish is the failure of so many people to engage with an understand mental illness.

Agreed. The first thing you do if you know someone wants to buy your car is tell them it's not for sale...

Mate, who is that in your avatar? It looks like a very angry William Shatner? Or Richard Hughes?

I think that sums up my feelings exactly. Maybe if you live in London, watch a lot of SKY sports, you have a different expectation to the yokels??

Yes and, in my view, the club might send someone to a memorial service, and those who might wish to show their respects would go to that. In my view it's not something that a football club should do in isolation of its community. There seems to be a feeling on here that because the football club is in Southampton, it is somehow representative of the city. While it is a part of the city, that the point. It is PART of the city and not the other way around. Therefore, in my view, the club should support the city's memoral activity. Just a view. It wouldn't offend me if I was asked to stay silent for a minute. If I was asked to clap it would annoy the feck out of me as it always does...

And to be fair, at least three of those were proved right...

Mate, I tend to agree with your argument until the point where you dismiss mental illness as some form of selfishness. When you have suffered from clinical depression and come back from the bring do come along and tell us what a jaunt it was... Back to the point, the unexpected loss of life at any time is sad, but when is it a football club's role to lead the memorial?

I would ordinarily be all for buying marquee players, but I cannot believe our manager stating that: We expect 50% of our first team to come from the Academy has been lost on some of you. If this is our modus operandi, we will not be bullied by anyone into paying beyond whatever budget we have set. In fact, our buying strategy now seems almost exactly that of a former chairman who shall remain nameless

Handel. Yes, I am a Messiah.

On Kompany, I thought at full speed it just looked like a tackle and my old man was amazed he was sent off, but when you watch it again he does go in with both feet off the ground. I don't think Foy called it wrong - I reckon 50% of refs would give a red and 50% a yellow. Truth is Kompany was told (as were all players) that if you go in with both feet off the ground it is a red card. If he does it and is sent off, is it Foy's fault??

And what are next week's lottery numbers?

Dame would be a tad more appropriate...

There is a difference between using the width of the pitch - which any team would be crazy not to do and the repetitive call for 4-4-2 with two wide men, which seemed to me to be trotted out inanely by both commentators yesterday. Full backs can use the width of the pitch, forwards can use it, midfielders can use it. We get it. We lacked width. But if Lee Holmes had come on and played left midfield with a brief to come inside, what would that have achieved... What irritates me most is posted above by Minty - it's simplistic 'fan assessment' - why didn't they make the point yesterday that Nigel Adkins might have been using a low risk game to analyse where young players might fit in the hierarchy of the club? Why not comment on the difference in tempo between yesterday's game and our early season play? Why assume the manager's tactics are flawed, that players are playing to order (when in fact Adkins was screaming at Lallana to go wider at least twice). Say what you like about them both, but listening to Steve Claridge and Gary Neville is insightful - you learn something most times you listen to them that as an ordinary fan you might not have known. Listening to Solent's commentary is like listening to a couple of old fellas in the crowd. And thankfully, when I don't go to games because I live in London I have to rely on match threads which are of equal quality - all fine and dandy when we're winning, suicidal when we're losing...

Well, you'll have to trust me. It was like signing Messi, Ronaldo or Rooney. And yes, just as you're thinking 'don't be ridiculous', that's what I said to my mum when I got home from school and she told me we'd signed Kevin Keegan...!

Welcome to the world of professional footballer...

How old are you fella? Signing Keegan was like coming home tonight and finding we'd had a bid accepted for Lionel Messi... Lambert was a lot of money (relative) but a striker at Bristol Rovers whose salary we tripled! (Still turns out he's ok...)

Confidence is confidence. Let JWP start the next game, bang in another goal and let Lambert EARN his place back!!

For me this is the problem - it sounds like two old men who sit behind me (not literally). When things are not going well it's all doom and gloom, feeding off one another's despair and despondency. Then when we get back into the game, it's all gung-ho and the world is wonderful - the manager goes from tactically inept to tactical genius in a space of minutes. Really, you might as well read the match thread on here.

Whenever I think of making a major signing I can only think of one name - Kevin Keegan. Since then, to be fair, every signing has been a disappointment. And, in truth, all our very best players since then have been home grown - Shearer, Le Tissier, Bale.

An example of a bloke who has made a great summariser and yet I hate, is Gary Neville.

The best thing about this game, other than winning it, is that Adkins will have learned a great deal about some of our lesser stars and their performances should put pressure on one or two of the first team who could do with better competition.

To be fair, so do I and I would make a terrible radio summariser. I don't think anyone has anything against him as a bloke, one of the critics even likened him to his dad!