for_heaven's_Saint

Indeed.

Well I'm sure if we matched Borough's bid and had it accepted he'd choose us over them.

While I remember, what happened to the barcode ticket turnstiles that the OS kept telling us we had to keep our tickets nice for?!

Schneiderlin looked impressive to me yesterday, I'm sure the eventual pairing will be him and Cork, though there is no doubt Hammond has had a great start to the season.

He already spends too much time in the middle, when he's playing at right back!

Thought this was going to be another thread about Lallana.

Not.

Fair enough, couldn't get to that game so can't argue with that, but in the games I've seen he's been unplayable.

I also thought he was poor defensively and the goal got him off the hook a bit. For example for their second goal the ball should never have made it into the middle and then Guly should have been first to the ball. He was beaten quite a few times, but tbh I think the entire defense had a poor first half. Reckon Leicester probably identified our fullbacks as the weakness and they couldn't handle the movement of their attackers.

Which was why it was nice to see De Ridder come on, get the ball and put his head down and run at their defence.

Well no one has managed to do that with any degree of success so far. I do agree we look weak at Right Back though. Would have liked to have seen us go for Clyne from Palace.

There were a couple of times when Fonte and Seaborne made excellent and vital last ditch tackles. Unfortunately these were necessary because they'd let their man - usually Vassel- get past them far too easily in the first place.

Woken up this morning and I'm still not quite sure how we didn't score a third. Their keeper did make some good saves but there were times when our players seemed reluctant to pull the trigger. Nevertheless, we played well second half and I'm sure there will be games where we don't deserve a point but get one.

Indeed. Certainly don't think Rodriguez is to be sniffed at.

Bit of a deceptive title!

Perhaps. He doesn't say it's been accepted, which is something I suppose. Hopefully our bid was accepted and we've talked to Sam and he's got his heart set on us.

Oh bugger.

How long 'til someone asks...

Sorry to dig up an old thread, but it's (somewhat) interesting to note that in the latest Saintsplayer coverage - of the under 21s' victory over Brentford- Martin Hunter talks about our defensive pairing and points out that we have now converted Harlee Dean from a central midfielder to a centre back; with some sucess. Not sure if this was the intention when we brought him in, I suspect not, but perhaps one to watch for the first team in the not so distant future...

Would be very pleased if we got Baldock- is in great form at the moment and with Adkins' track record with young strikers he could be a really great player in a year or two.

Fernandes looks like he has a bit of pace and can cause us problems.

I wonder if their bid is less than Peterborough's or MK Dons have upped their valuation.

Here's my brief preview of the game for a betting site http://www.sbatv.tv/2011/08/live-leicester-city-vs-southampton/

He's off somewhere then! Still doubt it will be here.

Those of you saying about him not being a ball winning defender- I agree neither him nor Fonte have a lot of ariel dominance like Jaidi, but could a defence not be just as competent if not more so with two intelligent cbs who can both cover each other and pass the ball? Like having two Fontes playing together.