for_heaven's_Saint

An hour travel on the ever unreliable train to Havant!

Lallana >>> Carr. See video of St Mary's nutmeg and subsequent foul for proof.

Well at least Lee should feel at home at St Mary's!

I think if we can keep it tight for the first 60/70 minutes, playing more on the counter, then we can really push on towards the end of the game and snatch a win.

Got absolutely crunched and got straight up off and running. Enough said.

Don't see the point in getting into mud slinging arguments about attendance, it's not as if the people arguing have any influence on their club's overall attendances. With regards to the game, I think we fans and more importantly Adkins and the players should assume Birmingham have their strongest team available. We all remember what happened when we went away to injury struck Cardiff and Brighton.

Because some teams are better than us?

Definitely. Fwiw I thought Fox's distribution was poor last night and lost us the ball too much, but he's the best we have. With Sharp up with Rickie I think we will be able to play our whole game further up the pitch.

I'd go with last night's line up but with Jos for Martin and Sharp for Connolly.

So many times I've watched in frustration as Lambert pulls out to the wings and puts in a great ball, only for no one to get on the end of it. 'If only we had another Lambert in the middle to finish it off' I've thought. Well now we have Sharp to do just that. Excellent!

We're in the Championship. HTH

BBC Radio 5 live senior football reporter Ian Dennis on Twitter: "Matt Upson will stay at Stoke if Danny Higginbotham leaves #SCFC. A lot of Championship clubs keen on Higginbotham #bbcfootball"

I think I'd be more worried if he went to one of the teams below us. WHU have got plenty of strikers and waste most of them.

He is number 11 because '1' is a very sharp number. Just like Hooper is 88 because '8' is a very hoopy number. FACT.

Disagree, he certainly won't get as many starts, but still think he'll play a fair bit.

Will celebrate when it's signed and on the OS, until then I remain nervous and (Very slightly) skeptical.

Keith Andrews has handed in a transfer request.

I hardly ever post after a loss, too depressing coming on here.

This. And I hope if there's one thing we've learned from the summer window it's that we need to go for second choice now rather than make another offer. Having said all this, who would be particularly surprised if we signed neither Sharp nor Hooper but a striker none of us had even considered?

If true we should give up now and use the next 2 days to get our second choice.

That deal is only a loan at the moment though.

Hopefully the Prem clubs just keep drawing each other and we grt a Championship or below side at home. Might as well go as far as we can, if we beat Millwall that is.

Is this something you've read, something you know or something you've made up?!

Any more objective observations of his performance from those who were there?

He could do worse than going back to Southend for a month or two.