Smirking_Saint

You are obviously having a laugh right ?!

I see what you did there

Hmm One of; Benteke Ince Richards (uninspiring ? What planet are you on ?)

Phew, managed to get away with not being involved in that. Even if it was or wasnt true, I still dont necessarily believe that conversation ever made sense. But there you go, Lard hated Adkins almost as much as Roger loves Lambert. Its sort of similar to Alps, eventually when we are relegated Ill expect he will pop up and say I told you so.

Whilst we are at it dump Ramirez and pick up Antonio ?

TBH spurs and city have always had a decent following and both, however you judge club sizes are arguably bigger than us. Could we make the CL ? Honestly I cant see it happen with us, we could always do an Everton maybe and skirt around it but itll take a long time. The academy means a lot but essentially unless you are established you will end up selling off your better products. Make no mistakes Shaw will leave eventually, as will the next guy etc etc Our power on the south coast is already established, MLG will tell you otherwise but we wont gain anything much east or west that we dont already have or will never support us. Those big clubs have big big cities to call upon.

Lol

Now I like you Clarky, but even with the 'Saints hate Redknapp' glasses on surely even you can see thats a little OTT ?

Yeah, I know the feeling, wasnt massively happy with my performance, couldnt get a grip of the midfield nor string enough passes or shoot accurately enough. I actually came home not annoyed with the result butmy completely abject performance. And Ihave had a pretty decent season in the centre of midfield in the top sunday league. Still, I enjoyed it, whens the next one ?

I feel safer now we have our caped crusader looking out for our wellbeing on the forum.

Just a slight overreaction to what has been a pretty mellow debate there sunshine, Id suggest looking over your suggestion here in bold.

Exactly, and in fact you can see that the sheer amount of African imports these days prove that Athleticism is high on the agenda of ehat is needed for a footballing thoroughbred as opposed even to technical ability. Now I am not saying that technique is a thing of the past, it really isnt, but what with the pace and power of the prem these days you need to be physically stronger and quicker then perhaps you ever did and more so then the technical game which is played more often abroad. Whats the point of beating two players if you dont have the legs to get away or strength to hold off ? That is also the case in a defensive point of view, you could be the best man marker of a generation but without sufficient strength or pace you'll probably still be found wanting 50% of the time.

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To be honest with you, I had completely overlooked that.

Really dont understand why you are having so much trouble figuring this out TBH, nor do I get why you are getting so ****y about it. Forren has just come into the club after a decent lay off between seasons abroad, he probably isnt up to scratch and Id imagine that the standard over there is lower than here anyway so fitness and sharpness may have been lower BEFORE the break. If Fonte cant find his way back into a side who apart from Saturday have been performing ok (ok Jos worries me but tgats just my opinion) then why would they chuck someone in right now ? Care to explain why your do forceful in the knowledge that it wouldnt happen the way Monk is suggesting ? Or are you predisposed to just act like a bit of a tit ?

We press high up the pitch, essentially if you can get the ball forward to a significant number of players against us you will do ok as it takes time to readjust and get players back into position. The high pressing game is effective but taxing, and can leave you short if your not careful. This is usually made worse when the FB go forward aswell. That said, Lukaku looked v v good.

Whats the point in argueing with him ? It is all just idle posturing to him, even when he does know what he is on about (not often and even rarer when football related) his posts are laced with tiny traps baiting people into an arguement. Anyone with any sense could see J Rod, Morgan and Ramirez' potentials.

We dont tend to have them so much over here, I think they are a bit of a muchness on the continent though. You never know, it couldbe in there, but I doubt it. It depends really just how much the Arse want him and NC doesnt want to sell. Personally Id like to grab 20m for him but the Ox vs Morgan comparison is shot because Ox is English and so you pay a premium. Id expect him to go for around 15m though, if we really dig in. All for me depends on IF Arsenal get into tge CL and in what positions they want to strengthen. Personally I see Song going back there.

The future is bright ? Regardless of anyones thoughts on HR or anyone else as a manager, they are indeed, only the manager. How you can say the future is bright with someone like Tony Fernandes in charge ? Trigger happy, generally a bit of a clueless idiot who has saddled you to the hilt in wages and transfer expenditure ? Whats going to happen after a couple of years in the championship ? I would say the future isnt as bright as you think.

It does, I had an MLG moment, Im sorry

I am buddy, I have thought long and hard, and reckon we may just miss out on it this year, its all Villas fault you see

But obviously it also means despite our capitulation against WBA the opposite will happen with Saints and we will now lose the remaining games ? Righto

Up there with those that reckon we are CL bound next year probably

Villa isnt world class anymore