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I think 6ft 6 Yevhen Khacheridi fits the bill. Here he is putting Andy Carroll on his arse at the Euros.

You are in good company there. I say 'good', it's actually Baj.

Funny you should say that, my second team is (rather randomly) Dynamo Kiev. They had a great team in the late 90s but they've been gash for a few years now. Nowhere near the quality of Shakhtar these days and in real danger of finishing the season behind Metalist and Dnipro and missing out on next years Champs League. Oleg Blokhin is taking over though, so hopefully he will get them back on the right track. How does a Saints fan end up living in Kharkiv of all places?

Appart from £40m in transfer fees in the last 6 years?

I think if Morgan's injury time effort against Spuds had gone in I would have gone mental. How Sandro didn't end up like Anne Boleyn I'll never know.

It's great for Southampton because young wannabe players will look to home grown tallent like Bale, Walcott and AOC for inspiration. Let's say there is some bright young 10 year old wonderkid in Southern England and he gets invited to join accademies at Southampton, Reading, Swindon and Pompey. He's going to look at the our set up and see Bale, Walcott, AOC, Shearer, Bridge, MLT and Lallana. He's going to look at the Skate's youth policy and see... er... Joel Ward.

One slight alteration

We are getting killed playing the way we play. We need to play the way someone else plays. Not sitting back nescessarily but we certainly need to be a lot tighter and more organised at the back. I wouldn't chuck Ramirez straight into the starting line up after a fairly long injury lay off. I'm expecting to lose this game, Ramirez or not, so I would personally save him for the Swans when he will be a week fitter and could potentially make the difference. The last thing we need is him getting clobbered and missing another month.

- - - - - - - Boruc Clyne - Fonte - Yoshi - Fox - - - - - - Morgan - - - - - - - - - Davis - - - - JWP Mayuka - - - - - - - Lallana - - - - - - Lambert Morgan should sit in front of the back 4 and not let anything past him, much the same as Huddlestone did on Sunday.

Based on what? He is 35 and hasn't been seen in England since Arsenal let him go 2 years ago. He is probably glacially slow and according to Wiki he failed to impress on trial at West Ham.

Agree. For a monday night League 1 game, on Sky, 4 hours drive away (probably more like 5 or 6 with traffic), which they are likely to lose, that's not actually a bad turn out.

Incidentally, what's the lowest anyone has ever been done for speeding on a motorway? My current box on wheels starts to drink fuel if I go much above 70 anyway but I was just wondering. Going by the 10% + 2 rule, I'm guessing 80 or above is the lower end of the limit.

Lee Molyneux was worse than Fox So was Steven O'Halloran and Jelle Van Damme and Lee Todd and Jermaine Wright and Lloyd James and Chris Makin and Tomasz Hajto I don't rate Fox either but this bizarre logic that he is the worst fullback ever to walk onto a football pitch baffles me. Of course Shaw could be (and probably is) worse than Fox, that's why he isn't playing. When we get beat 8-0 at home to Norwich, then we can start talking about things, 'not possibly being any worse.'

Sorry to interrupt the Miltonrodent appreciation thread but I do have some thoughts on the team. Gazza Butters - Seaborne - Jos - Shaw Chaplow - JWP - Guly De Ridder - Yukka - Lee Fitness permitting with some of them obviously.

We aren't far too open, we just make schoolboy errors in large numbers. Spurs hardly overran us today and Boruc was barely troubled other than the goals. It was the same at West Ham. We weren't too open, we kept it tight for long periods then out of the blue we self destruct and they casually wander in and score.

Just to add my thoughts.... First half I thought both teams were pretty bad. Much the same as West Ham, we did absolutely nothing going forward and didn't trouble Freidel until about 50 minutes into the game. They were never all over us as I feared they would be but we handed them the game with 2 of the softest goals you will ever see scored in the Premier League. What Clyne was doing for the first I don't know. Didn't seem to make any effort to get up for that and I'm afraid to say he has been at fault for a LOT of goals this season. More so than the much maligned Fox. The second goal was just a complete calamity. Second half much better and were unlucky not to nick a draw at the end. Mayuka made a big difference when he came on. I think the biggest difference for me was after Huddlestone went off. He ran the midfield in the first half. Sat in front of their defence and always finding space. Good players J rod - worked very hard and got his first Premier League goal. Let's hope more follow. Mayuka - looked sharp and quick when he came on. Changed our team. Yoshi - looks our best centre half, composed and made one fantastic challenged on Defoe to stop a near certain goal. Poor players Puncheon - didn't really do much Davis - didn't get hold of the game in midfield. Boruc I don't think did much particularly wrong, although the second goal was a bit of a mess for all concerned. Didn't see the bottle incident so can't comment yet. The idiots in the Northam (only a small minority, maybe a dozen) can feck off. To try and end on a positive thought, if we play like we did for the last 30 mins we will comfortably stay up. It's a big if though, Spuds were there for the taking second half and we didn't punish them enough

If you think an internet forum is dull you're probably spending too much time reading it. There are only so many things you can say about a football team. This board isn't supposed to be a substitute for a social life. If you can't think of anything interesting to discuss, go and do something else in 'real life'.

Wow, that's quite a large backtrack from

You also said NA had 2 games left just before the Arsenal game. Cortese must have been mighty impressed with our performance against Villa if it made up for our sh*t performances against Arse, Everton, Wham and Fulham. Either that or you are just bullsh*tting.

I think all the people worried by this need to take another look at this bit: Ooh look, Lambert was dropped for Southampton's last game, let's make up a nice easy, predictable rumour... Stoke they like a big lad up front, that should fill a few collum inches.

These drones aren't cheap pap and once their potential is realised they will only get more advanced and therefore expensive. Maybe China do have the cash to build 10,000 drones but then they would also have the cash to build 10,000 manned aircraft or 100,000 tanks or 1,000,000 front line infantry etc. etc. War has been determined by who has the best resources available since the beginning of time, drones are going to change that.

You're comparing apples and oranges. Close air support and the front line soldier serve 2 completely different purposes. SEALS were needed because there isn't a robot out there close to matching a person for articulate movement, coordination and communication. A pilot essentially just sits there pressing buttons, which can often be easily be done in a safe location hundreds of miles away.

If the MK2 can sustain forces of over 20g and has a bullet proof rectum then yes, it's exactly what we need.

Drones are the future, like it or not. There is just no sense in sending a bloke in a plane over hostile territory so he can get his arse blow off, need rescuing, getting captured, interogated, demands for ransom etc. Not if you've got the technology to do it all from the safety of a Royal Navy destroyer 400 miles away. Plus aircraft technology has come on massively in the last 100 years. The most obsolete piece of kit in them now (by a long way) is the human being Mk.1. They need air supplies, ejector seats, survival gear, a big glass canopy and a shed load of heavy and expensive instrument displays. All of which can break and need regular maintenance. The latest RAF Typhoon is capable of mavoeurves far beyond the g-force limits a human being can endure.

Yes. Adkins is more than aware of our problems in defence, he isn't Burley. He knows our problems and the options open to us, if he (and the coaches) have decided that Shaw isn't ready yet then he probably isn't and may well prove more of a liability than Fox or Yoshi.