Lighthouse

Okay, I’ll take it as a given that the Telegraph article was 100% what the club told them and hasn’t been sexed up by a journalist but they haven’t said they are bringing in three players. Just that full back and CB needed addressing. I can’t imagine we’ll see a CB with JS/JB playing well now and 3 others not getting a game already. By all accounts we’re after full backs, so I’ll see what happens before I get too upset.

When was it said there were three players inbound? All I can recall is Ralph before Xmas saying hello wanted to bring in two players.

He's scored 17 goals in half a season in the Championship. I'd keep Adams, if that was the choice on the table, but I'd swap him for Boufal in a heartbeat.

Not for me. We have several options for creativity already and only Ings actually banging them in.

He's from Leicester, not Peru.

It could be that the club thinks we wont sell out our bit, so they gave Spurs a few more.

Probably because it’s sh*te.

There run in is horrendous though. In their last ten games they've got Liverpool, Leicester, Spurs, United and City, plus Wolves and Everton away. That leaves them needing major points from home games against Palace, Newcastle and ourselves.

I agree, by far the most hilarious option.

I'm not sure the Premier League's top scorers, 33 year old Vardy, 30 year old Aubameyang and 31 year old Aguero, would agree with that.

This doesn't make any sense for either the club or Adams, I'd be massively surprised. Okay so he hasn't done it yet, what did we think we were getting for £15m? He's just come up from the Championship, into a team which has struggled up until a month ago. He needs time and confidence. What on Earth is selling him for a loss after 6 months supposed to achieve? What other goal scorer are we getting for £15m? Perhaps we can stick the £10m on a 4-1 horse, then we'd have enough to buy a guaranteed goal scorer like Sebastian Haller or Cenk Tosun. Why would Adams go there, so he can dream of playing in the Premier League next season?

Offside - Yes. Handball - No The handball rule is fine, people just need to get used to it. If we had conceded the injury time equaliser which West Ham had disallowed, we'd all be fuming about the handball in the build up.

Oh Christ, not that idiot again. He doesn’t know anything, he just rehashes a bunch of rumours we’ve all seen else where with some fake pseudo-insight like, "the player is keen, the agent is negotiating over XYZ."

When we spank Spurs in the Cup and get drawn away to Man City again.

This sounds unlike the Eric I know.

I go paint balling there all the time, can't be more than an hour and a quarter from Marchwood. I can't see geography being an issue but if that last big pay cheque comes up somewhere...

I know I'm starting to get greedy here but the thing we're missing is a decent 3/4-0 spanking of someone, just to get the GD a bit further North. Charlie Nicholas said they'd lose 5-0 on Soccer Saturday yesterday and Jeff was taking the Mick for being so harsh on Villa. Probably a few smug texts being sent this evening.

TBF we’ve only got three.

There’s always the mediocre teams with more money than sense, I.e. West Ham and Everton. You never know.

Wow, what defending there. Bompey are really in trouble at the moment.

It could be that Bertrand's fate has been decided and this bloke is being brought in to compete with Vokins for a starting spot next season.

Lyn Oslo striker Tubold Breddi

Well, it's hardly cryptic, not that I know anything about him.

Surely that's just bookies reflecting the fact that a lot more money will already have been lumped on Saints going down. All clever algorithms to make sure they cash in regardless of who goes down.

I think he tried to overcompensate for our poor defence by flooding it at the start of the season and it just didn't work. They seemed to play with an attitude of, "there's five of us, that man/ball must be someone else's problem." Goals going in left, right and centre whilst the defenders throw their arms up and stare at each other. Fair play for Ralph having the balls to go back to two CB and say, "Right, Jan, Jack - I'm choosing you, step forward and take responsibility." It has the added bonus of allowing us to play another forward.