Smirking_Saint

He loves it And my self esteem is fine btw

He would be a great signing, Jaidi is pretty much on the way out of the door along with Wotton (should be already) and Connelly. We need to think about replacing them, especially a striker and a new central midfielder. I think we are pretty blessed for wide men tbh.

That isn't the tattoo i want by the way, i was just sort of implying that i don't want the usual tribal flame standard.

For a long time we have played a sort of 4-2-4 or 4-2-2-2 sort of formation. Puncheon puts in a good shift and lallana tracks back every now and again but essentially we have one midfielder who just sits in front of the back four and that is his role, be it Hammond or Schniederlin and the other is box to box but in no means is he deployed as an advanced attacking midfielder. For me to get it to work we need to use a 4-2-3-1 formation, and incidentally it was that formation that i thought we looked the most comfortable using last season.

Yeah, i can agree with that. He has not been at the races, i stick by what i said at the start of the season which is we needed to stick by him as long as we could however he doesn't seem to be coming out of it any time soon and we need to start getting scores on the board. I think we have been unlucky at times but i would rather see Barnard in there atm and use Lambert and Chamberlain to scare and batter defenders towards the end of games if we need them. TBF he was never a footballing god. He always seems to struggle against defenders with any pedigree and fwiw i would be more devastated to lose lallana, morgan, fonte and perhaps even puncheon. I just am not convinced he will take the step up to the next level, and is getting towards 30 (which is ok if you are naturally fit and strong). I just am a bit puzzled as to where the whole confidence issue has come from and i really think something or someone has really knocked him as we were told he was 100% fit at the start of the season. Strange. But we are missing his goals.

There are a lot of things i may regret when i grow up, and that has gone through my mind. The way i see it is i going to do my living now, when i am older i can just cover it up etc, but still have a lot of youth left. In fact, i have been told that due to my latest knee injury i will probably suffer a little in later life with my left knee joint but it is that or give up sports now, which isn't an option for me. I have thought about it for years and am sure i want it now. Life is full of regrets BTF, but i prefer to regret things i have done and not those i haven't.

'Everyone loves a peanut'

Looking to get a couple of tattoos, one on both arms. Probably a full sleeve on one arm and a 3/4 or 1/2 sleeve on the other. Obviously i won't be getting them both at the same time but will probably start with the full sleeve though. I have a few ideas as to what i want, my ideas of getting a tattoo is that if you are going to do it you need to get one that is legitamate, interesting and tells a real story. I am not a fan of random pictures that seem as if they go nowhere. I want a flowing showy design. I have a couple of ideas in regards to themes etc. Kind of like this, but not exactly (not the theme i want really) It is hard to find a whole idea, and i know that i won't be able to just come up with a complete design. My question to anyone on here that has tattoos or is perhaps an aspiring artist etc is that if i went in and talked to a few artists what are their imaginations like ? Will they be able to help me with a vision etc ? Anyone know of any really good tattoo artists in Hampshire and some that should be avoided ??

Is there actually anyone you actually approve of in the team atm ??

No way !! RIP

Yup fair point, shut down the forum no point in discussion any more.

Dickson and Lallana better at crossing. Fonte better at passing Richardson - i appreciate you havn't got to see him but on first looks it seems as if the Leeds researcher has taken the p*ss. Davis - A bit better all round Seaborne - Better on the ground then in the air.

Why would it be Pardew ? That said, league one and bottom half of NPC is probably his level. Its a strange one for me, they were doing well and i believe that they have a limited budget atm after the 2nd takeover last year ?? Maybe wrong. It all smells like behind the scenes unrest again. My bet is Ince.

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Indeed. Once again the attributes don't match true ability. Hopefully there will be an editor again so i can tweak them to represent true to life attributes.

He has hit a purple patch, players do, last season Lambert scored bucket loads and this season he is not. Hell, even a techniqueless JBT had a decent season for us. Basically, some times average players do well. BWP has found his level, he was pretty poor for us, i never rated him. We need players to move on with. We are 4 points from 2nd place so hardly in dire conditions are we ?? Add to that he was a cretin, ran into blind alleys a lot and had a big offside ars£

I have answered this so many times before. To football clubs players are not people that are paid in the normal sense of the word. They are an asset that is purchased and paid for in order to achieve the best gains for the football club. Much like a printing company will pay good money to a machine that does the jobs 10 times more than an original machine. Clubs earn dependant on their position, silverwear and sponsorship. The media drives this more than anything. The ways to increase the fortunes of the club are to purchase the best players and the only way to do that is to pay them accordingly. The real issue is not players wages, they are relevant now as they were in our dads days of watching football. The pundits saying things like 'Stanley Matthews would turn in his grave if he knew the wages' is also a ton of bull. There wages were relevant to the income clubs recieved, it is just a case now that there is more income and hence larger budgets for football clubs to bargain with. The real issue is the method of income, they are not sustainable. The prize money needs to be cut down and distributed more fairly around the leagues and clubs so that clubs do not stretch for the holy grail of prize money and risk self destruction. If the money was more evenly distributed and prizes slashed more emphasis will be put back on getting fans back into stadiums, its no surprise many fans feel out of touch with thier clubs these days. Whats more the FA needs to get its house in order and actually reign the PL and FL back in to create one unified body, not 3 different factions all with different rules that bicker and squabble. But... that will never happen... instead due to the greed of people at the top i envisage the PL splitting again, probably under scudamores tenure, to mean that the top 3-4 sides are taken into a super league (like was mooted many moons ago) with increased revenue and lower league football is left to rot.

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Banned i think, but TBF i don't actually know him outside the forum. Shame though, he could be a bit of a wind up but he didn't deserve banning.

It could have been, but then they were all banging on how he was in perfect fitness at the start of the season. We don't know what went on behind the scenes, could it have been a falling out between Pardew and Lambert ?? Or other reasons ?? Either way something is wrong with our Rickie, he hasn't been performing like we know he can. OR Is it because of all the hero worship has changed my view slightly of him ?? I remember saying last year he looks lethargic and didn't cut it in a few games, maybe he is the Lambert we know but because we have been building him up so so much he hasn't lived up to it ? The truth is somewhere in between for me, all i do know is its a balancing act between waiting in order to help him with his confidence and not harming our fortunes on the pitch. Edit - But yes, i think we need replacements. If not to bolster our front line because i think Connelly has had it as a force now, perhaps offer him and Wotton backroom roles and employ a new quality young striker and a quality all round midfielder.

Gaylord

Rickies Bus

Its more annoying beating them away every 5 minutes

He was suffering whilst Pardew was still here TBF.

You can't carry an out of form player forever, especially if you want to be promoted. I'd drop him for a few games and let him get his head in order. Makes you look at those rumours again though, what with his crazy lull of form.