MarkSFC

I thought he had his best game of the season.........

Maybe doing well so far this season but doesn't mean he's good enough for us or that he's the right forward either. The fact that he's from Southampton perhaps make it feel like he should be here but being from Southampton should not be high on the list of attributes. He may not even support us! We need to sign someone proven over more than 16 games in League 1. Austin, LeFondre, Boyd, Graham, are just a few that spring to mind.

It's an interesting point that Window Cleaner makes regarding the number of games played by Rickie last season. He actually played a game at Brizzle so 59 games! I checked and over his last 5 seasons since '05/'06 he has played 50, 52, 57, 48, and 59 an average of 53 games each season. In that time he has also averaged 23 goals per season. Without doing alot of research I doubt there are few players in world football who have played that many games over the same period. Admittedly over the last month or so I have become concerned that his goals have dried up. But with the knowledge of his workload it seems very logical that what he is going through is a bit of lethagy and fatigue, and almost certainly more mental than physical. If Pardew had managed to get another striker in and if Barnard and Connolly had been fit all season I suspect Rickie would now be in a better position. As it is he will almost certainly have to wait until at least January to get a rest which I think he needs. Only he and NA will know what the real matter is and only they can sort it. I'm sure they will. Considering all the concern there seems to be and the fact that we are well in the pack for top two, just imagine how good we'll be with some more options from Jan AND a firing Rickie for the last 4 months?!!

There are some seriously clueless people on here!!! Anyway, Arsenal at The Emirates would be ideal as others have mentioned. Or anyone we can lose to and make money from!!!

I like him, technically good, well he is French!!! Not sure he knows whether he should be the holding midfielder or the attacking midfielder! Not sure he's a good enough/string enough tackler to be the former and definitely doesn't create or score enough to be the latter!! Hopefully Adkins has decided he's the holding type and will help him in that! Certainly don't want to lose him!

Think it will be virtually full strength, but I would leave Davis, Lallana, and Fonte on the bench and use Bart, Holmes and Martin. Probably also start with Guly instead of OX. The FA Cup is obviously not priority but getting to round 3 could possibly yeild a glamour tie and possible tv revenue/exposure for our club so important to be serious enough to win Saturday.

Hard to disagree more!!! Thats the beauty of football, all about opinions! Think Dickson will be first choice and Harding wil be an ample deputy until an academy player is ready...or Adkins convinces Bridgey to end his career taking us back to the Prem!!! Seaborne though has reached his level....if he proves me wring fair play but think he's awful in very quick games and when the attacker puts him under alot of pressure, i.e. I think he's slow to make decisions and react.

Don't think either are good enough to be in a top 6 Championship team next season where hopefully we will be!!!! So no worries....

My brother lives in Shoreham and listened to "Brighton" commentary and the commentators thought Brighton were very lucky to get a point.

I think you're doing our club and set-up a dis-service there. Unless he goes to a promotion chasing team with a great chance of actually going up, i.e. Cardiff or QPR, I think that coming to us would guarantee our promotion so he would only be sacrificing a few months of NPC footy for a few exciting months of winning and championship winning footy. And once we are up next season with our set-up and financial clout we wil be very well placed to challenge for top two. As for his personal deveopment he clearly isn't ready for the Prem anyway so a season or twoand a half with us will suit him perfectly.

He would be awesome. Better than 1 in 2 record in League 1 (53 in 105). In Championship over last season and this he is scoring just about 1 every 2.5 games. At only 24 on our youngish developing team he could fulfil his potential here better than Hull or almost anywhere. Get him in NA!!

First competitive game at St Marys was Chelsea.

And if we win we are gauranteed to win the league.

Sounds like there may be at least two or three quality additions come the end of Jan then. Be great to see a striker in on loan this week and if we have targeted LeFondrr and can get him early that would be very good. Would be great to see another CB and Midfielder too.

Needs Joe Jordan in order to be successful. Knew when he didn't bring him here that something wasn't right.

He'll still end up with 25+

difinitely? Or are we his "second team or other team of choice" because he's lived here so long? The reason I ask is I'm sure I've seen him on tv saying spurs was his team.

I think neither are particularly great at kicking and distribution but for different reasons. Davis would have learnt hid trade as a kid snd in his early pro days without the need to kick/control back passes. And very few schools/kids teams play from the back! Goalkeepers normally end up there cos they aren't the greatest kickers/passers of the football but can catch! Therefore David had had to learn this skill relatively late on. His level of performance in different aspects is quite wide, hence he's never played for England in a time when there hasn't been a great one since Shilton. Bart on the other hand is effectively still learning. Although goalkeepers ate starting to get chances higher up the league at younger ages now it seems, because of his injury mainly and KDs form in a team that played the hoof ball mostly he hasn't had a chance to reach potential yet. I think he should get his chance soon but as our (former GK) manager sees him in training every day he's better placed than any of us to judge. I wouldn't be surprised to see another keeper in Jan or the summer.

I always thought he was a Spurs fan. Probably with Saints fan mates for the day out......

Maybe after Reed amd Hunter arrived they suggested a few things. Maybe as the Echo suggests, they have merely done a bit more research at other Academy/training grounds and decided to implement more and better improvements. God forbid this is actually a good thing.....although it appears to have been delayed Cortese said that when they announced it first time round that they had actually brought it forward in the overall plan. I would have thought that the important thing is to get the best project they can in time for the Prem.... No money.....my Rse!!!!

Not an obvious choice, not a football choice but at least someone who is known nationwide if not even internationally. Not the nicest bloke I've ever met and both times he was up himself and being a bit if a ****! mind you both times he was out drinking as was I! He was acting like berty big bollovks flashing the cash and I suppose if I hadn't known who he was it wouldn't have mattered!! Still, fair play to him for supporting the foundation and anything anyone ever does for others free of charge is great by me!!

If we only sign one player in Jan it needs to be a striker who's basically been there done that etc. LeFondre, okish, Austin, okish. A REAL statement of intent required by NC and the Leibherr Family that they/Saints mean business and will spend. Build the the team and the fans will come. Their cash is the fuel to success over the next few months and beyond. Putting a fiver in the tank once in a while just to get to work and back means st some point in the very near future you'll probably breakdown!!

Good ridance I say! Flattered to deceive in virtually every game, overall preety ineffective when it came down to the nitty gritty. Did like his ability on the ball and his sense of urgency but failed miserably in getting the result, i.e. the killer pass or goal. How often did he sky it over the bar from only a few yards out?!!! I hope he does well but I like that NA has made a decision on him and is doing something about it. Strong positive management.

What's that phrase? Oh yeah, patience is a virtue. If you really do only care about the here and now and not the future you are indicative of what's wrong with this world and "more importantly" (!!) football.

wow! I never thought I'd hear someone say they would prefer Wilde and Lowe back over this regime!! Time will prove me right but the next few years will give all (and I use that word reservedly!!) far me enjoyment than we ever did or ever could had, particularly in terms of sustained success, under those two formerly mentionted cretins. Your timescale is slightly wrong I think over the money, Lowe would never have sanctioned and never did I believe spending £7 mill in one season (not even when we signed the great and unbelievably over-priced record signing Rory "but I've got a long throw" Delap), it was Wilde and I think Trant(?) who gambled the £7mill on Burleys (clear-headed) judgement!!! And spending as we have relatively big for a League 1 team and albeit without so far result doesn't mean by any sretch of the imagination that come the end of Jan and end of May next year we won't have a) spent a fee more hundreds of thousands if not a million or two on players and b) secured promotion. I was disappointed that Pardew didn't make what I (and others on here) thought were glaringly obvious signings in the summer. CM, striker and a pacey option. To some degree and within the loan market NA has looked at doing it. It's also a little difficult to sign alot of players for the kind of money you seem to be wanting/needing us to sign when in League 1. It will be easier to convince some Championship players to move in Jan when it is clearer on how likely we are to promotion and also the position of the players current employers. I'm sure you won't be too disappointed!!!!