Smirking_Saint

Good tactics from Hudds, what i thought they would play. We will have to see what Adkins plan B is like. My thoughts are that if they are pushing up hit the wings or long ball.

what a great start

I really don't understand this thread TBH ?? What difference does it make ? Of course your gonna get a few people having a pop but that goes for anyone who is considered different from the norm (which is boll*cks for a start) Your no different to any other fan really. I don't really understand the purpose of the thread.

Nope FOR france lol

I think if we let Morg's off the leash and allow him to play like he does against France he would look even better. BTW nice to see Guly being on Soccer AM showboat twice this morning.

COYR Same as last week boys. Though i would take a draw tbh

How very hypocritical Anyway, how is Riquelme and Maradonna getting on ?

Permanent to replace Connelly. Hopefully this Bignall will be a good signing however.

Striker yes, but winger ?? Probably not really needed. What with Punch, Lallana, Ox, Holmes, Dickson and Mills.

Dickson is a decent player whenever i have seen him, he has ambition going forward, a testing cross and can defend when needed. More importantly he is young. Holmes is starting to look decent aswell. We are pretty inundated with left sided players atm but i am confident if given game time Dickson will look very good. We could probably do with shifting some of the dead wood IMO. Holmes is probably one of those names, as may Mills be.

Guly was fantastic he really was, but i wonder what he will be like against a tough battling team that have more about them then a very poor Tranmere side. Its a hard choice, and one thankfully i will not be judged to make. It all depends how Adkins sets the team up against them, Saturday was the best i have seen us play for years and years, even PL ones. So hopefully more of the same, i just wonder if Guly will lose his confidence a bit if he is continually closed down and his clever flicks are mopped up ?? I don't know who to start really, what i do know is we now have fantastic options with Barnard-Guly, Barnard-Lambert, Lambert-Guly. If we keep Guly and Chaplow i honestly think (with the return of Richardson) we are more or less a complete team, perhaps a young hungry striker is also needed.

Don't get me wrong, i enjoyed the season we were in the cup final and top 8, mainly because of the results. I wasn't great football though, very defensive. Even some chelsea fans had had enough of the defensive tactics towards the end of Mourinho's tenure.

He isn't a bad manager but not outstanding, he made us very hard to beat, it was almost boring under him. I don't know, sometimes things just don't turn out.

No doubt you have a conspiracy theory in the offing ?? AL from a personal perspective would be mad to sign a contract in January without knowing where we are going to be next year, there is no way he will stay or probably be persuaded to stay if we are still in the third tier, if i had offers from the PL then i wouldn't. The NPC is however different, especially if we look as though we could have a decent crack at it. Equally i believe that NC won't cash in, we (i think still) are minted, we don't need the cash and so what would the point be ? Some players are irreplaceable, AL (at this level) is irreplaceable and so i think he will also wait until seasons end and try to persuade him again once promoted, i would be very surprised if contract talks have not already been approached. All in all i reckon this one will rumble on until somewhere near the end of this season or start of next.

So you got punished for your kind action ?? Blimey !!

Company paid for the degree as part of the contract i signed up. Plus i will be forgoeing the child benefits and paying a sufficient amount of tax anyways. I would never have driven myself to the levels of debt some of our young students do these days, it is just not feasible. As far as the 'you need a degree to get a leg up line' it is just wrong, most employers would rather see experience then degrees on a CV because that is what is seriously lacking in the job markets these days. TBF, someone made a good point earlier, that degrees that are 'needed' should be subsidised. Perhaps this could be done in line with employers such as what they do with apprenticeships in which the company will get half of the degree costs back if they successfully push an empolyee towards a 'needed' degree ?

I am a graduate, but a graduate that ensured i had a job at the end of it and didn't just wittle away more of the countries cash or raise my own personal debt level too high. I fully support this idea. Why should i fund the majority of people that just go to uni for the lifestyle ? Not only this but also the fact that there would not be such a 'supposed need' to have a degree to achieve a role. The country is in enough debt atm, we need people going to work, supporting the economy and achieving life skills, not sitting in a pub and every now and again doing some homework for a media studies degree.

Can't be doing with losing my Saints season on FM

Played them both now. I used to be a PES diehard, nowadays i just want a decent football game to play with. PES hasn't really been in the races since fifa09 IMO and last year FIFA10 really drove a nail in the PES coffin, this was pretty much when i decided to leave the PES franchise towards FIFA's and really really enjoyed it (having thought it is too easy before) I really hoped PES would fight back this year, and it has, a little bit. It has moved on to the dire performance it had last year, but some of this is that FIFA11 has moved on, but not by a large amount. I don't like the animation in PES, and i am not a great fan of the gameplay, it doesn't look as polished either. That said i have to admire the fact that the top difficulty level is actually challenging. FIFA has got harder but anyone that plays it a great deal will find EXPERT mode pretty easy to master, this is where FIFA needs to act. Online and against mates FIFA is far far superior but still i get bored playing the league mode as it is too simple. My overall review - Two decent football sims this year, FIFA wins again but PES has closed the gap a little bit. If only FIFA added an extra difficulty level then there would be no contest.

I prefer Raid 6 for my laptop

Give morgan a bit more licence to break forward and he would be an awesome player, he seems to get this licence for France and plays fantastic in that sort of position. So my two would be Hammond and Morgan. Hopefully Hammond plays like he did against Tranmere.

osmotic

lol

I didn't say he wasn't suited ? I was saying that implying he isn't suited is a bit mental, in comical Alpine_saint style.