Lighthouse

First goal - Davis should have been following Osman in for the rebound, Lallana left Clyne exposed 2 on 1 in the build up. Second goal - Didn't pick up the run of Mirallas at all but that was a fantastic finish from Jelavic. Third goal - Frazer in no mans land at the far post, Lallana sold himself completely.

So now we're bring up the Boro game last season to use against him? Gordon Bennett, I think some of you lot are off your trolley. As if talking about sacking Adkins for hypothetical defeats isn't bad enough without dragging last season season into it. Why the last 8 games anyway, do you just want to skew the stats to make Adkins look bad?

Taking Wigan out of the equation because we've never played them before and Man City because there were a bottom half team last time: Man Utd (h) - Arsenal (a) - Villa (h) - Everton (a) 2012 - LLWL - 3 points 04/05 - LDLL - 1 point 03/04 - WLDD - 5 points 02/03 - LLDL - 1 point 01/02 - LDLL - 1 point In anticipation of people saying, "yes but it's the performance today was terrible and it was too easy for Everton". We hardly played Villa off the park in 2001 when they came to St Mary's and won 3-1. Teams don't go to Man Utd and Arsenal and play badly, they make you LOOK bad because they play such good football. It's no coincidence that teams go to OT and the Emirates and look very poor every week. It's not luck, Everton aren't at the top of the table because they're been playing a team having a bad day every week. A lot of people predicted bottom half finishes yet seem to think this will involve playing excellent football and being water tight at the back every week. It's not going to be like that. We are going to lose a lot and we are going to look bad doing it.

If we lose to Fulham it will be our second disappointing results of the season after Wigan. The rest, even shipping 6 at Arsenal could all be pretty much expected. I've just looked at our fixtures for the next 3 months. With the exception of Chelsea away in December they are ALL easier than 4 of the 6 games we've just played. Let's judge Adkins on the back of these 3 months of winnable fixtures and make a decision at Christmas, rather than throwing a panic because we haven't won at Goodison. Fulham, Spuds, Norwich, Geordies, Swansea, Sunderland and Reading all at home before Christmas. They are the games that will show if we're good enough to stay up, not the start of death we've just had. There are also some winnable trips to Wham, WBA, Stoke and possibly Fulham coming up too. Patience.

We've played 4 of the 5 best teams in the League in our opening 6 games. 3 of those were away. Despite this we are still above some teams who have f**ked up MUCH easier fixtures. We need to sort out the defence but we are still giving top 6 teams a decent game. There is definitely something about this Saints team, which is more than I can say for Norwich, QPR and Reading at the moment.

You wont get much tougher games that away to Arsenal, Everton and Man City. They're the kind of fixtures Man Utd regularly lose, so lets give Adkins a chance to sort things out before we start comparing him to Holloway.

W00T for nuns on fag breaks!!

They haven't even been that good, it's just sloppy defending. Bit worrying this, we've got another 6-1 on the cards here.

Normal service resumed, good oh. I was getting a bit freaked out for a minute there.

Oh yes!

Could the front 6 possibly look a bit like: - - - JWP - - - Davis - - - - Gaston - - - Rod - - - Lallana - - - - - -Lambert I'm hoping so, I'd rather not see Rod pushed out wide again.

Can't argue with that. A decent 'keeper would be nice but there hasn't been a stand out performer for me yet. A decent LB, so either Cole or Clichy would be good.

The age of constent in Mexico is 12, they should have just gone there. Maybe flights were too expensive.

A strange blend of Northern/East Mids and West Country. I've lived in Scotland, Germany, Holland and the USA at various times, although luckily never for long enough to invade on my dialect.

"trumpet mistress Helen Goddard, 26"

I remember Anders' missus getting voted the hottest WAG in the Premier League by Nuts Magazine once. No arguments here.

I find it cringeworthy how over the top presenters go to appologise for bad language. All the, "we would like to offer our sincerest appoloies if any of you were offended," etc. bullsh*t. It's not as if he said it on Balamory.

Don't worry, I'm sure you can steal another goat.

Villa could well end up like we did in the 04/05 season. Selling the better players and replacing them with cheaper options. The few remaining decent players they have like Bent and Ireland could get p*ssed off and stop performing, like Beattie did for us. I'm not saying we will finish above them this season but I think they could be in for a nasty surprise playing like they did yesterday. P.S. We are not the worst team in the division, Reading have looked far worse so far.

Boruc Butters Stephens Seaborne Shaw Cork JWP De Ridder Mayuka Guly Rod

To be fair half those clean sheets are against teams like Motherwell and Dundee Utd.

North of 30,000 with people still paying for summer holidays and having lost the first 4 games. A few none ST holders probably went to the Villa and Man Utd games and maybe an away game so cant afford this one. No shame in any of that IMO.

Good grief Reading are terrible. 0 points after 4 games was worrying for us but at least the ingredients of a decent side were there. Reading have just looked like a bunch of muppets against West Brom and Spuds. They are going straight back down playing like that, no doubt about it. West Ham haven't been anything to write home about either. Lucky to get points in some very winnable opening fixtures.

This is all true. What I was getting at is that they don't have any young Ukrainians making up the spine of the team, which is what Barcelona and Saints have been striding for. I would say their model is based more on Arsenal, bringing in the best young tallent from other clubs, usually abroad and developing them into their team. Metalist have a pretty good record in the Europa League, which would explain why they are ranked higher than Spuds.

Most of Metalists first team regulars are South American, with the exception of Goryainov the 'keeper. I can't say that their youth set-up has produced any amazing tallents. Must be doing something good for Reed to go all the way to Ukraine for a look around. Let's hope he takes a look at Yarmolenko whilst he's out there.