Lighthouse

Rickie Lambert played along side Brett Ormerod in one game, a League 2 match between Blackpool and Wrexham in 1999.

Steve De Ridder and Jan Paul Saeijs played together at De Graafschap the year before Steve signed. Never played together at Saints obviously.

On paper weaker than the two Manc clubs but I still don't see us getting anything from them. Will be interesting to see how our new signings fit into the team. I'd go with a team of Davis Clyne - Yoshida - Hooiveld - Fox (if fit) Davis - Morgan - JWP Puncheon - Lambert - Lallana Subs: Gazza, Fonte, Chaplow, Ramirez, Yukka, J Rod, Lee What a bench that is BTW.

I thought Oldham was the highest club in League Football.

Hammond - Sixth choice central midfielder by my reckoning and that doesn't include Lallana Dickson - Wont get a look in De Ridder - Isn't going to get in ahead of Mayuka or hopefully Ramirez. Loan him out, might be useful in the Championship next year. Guly - I don't rate him that highly and I don't really think he suits our new system. Butters - 3rd choice RB and also getting on a bit. Chaplow - As with De Ridder, he could be a useful NpC player next season so a loan out. Seaborne - Don't rate him as a PL player but we need more cover before he goes.

That's where you're going wrong IMO. Harding is not a great player, he is a competant Championship player. There is nothing wrong with that but Harding will never be Premier League standard. Some players will make the step up, others wont. It would be foolish not to strengthen are options in any area of the team in the hope that ALL our Championship defenders are actually Premier League quality. What you are doing is crying to mummy about how the nasty dog bites you, whilst you stand their waving your pork sword in it's face. You know exactly what is going on and still feel the need to entertain this muppet with a response. Please stop.

More to the point he was often chucked into games which weren't going our way and needed to change things. In many of the 20 minute appearances in which he failed to impress, the rest of the team were crap for the full 90.

1. All that Spuds stuff has been ANNOUNCED in less than 24 hours. Negotiations could have been going on privately for days or even weeks. 2. Transfers are like bits of string. Just because Spurs have a 10cm piece of string, doesn't mean all pieces of string are 10 cm. We don't. We just haven't been endlessly badgering Fulhams journalist on Twitter about who Fulham are signing.

I don't think we've seen anything close to his best last season. I'd be inclined to loan him out to an NpC club where he can get regular football, then make a judgement next season on what to do with him. If he goes on loan and plays a blinder, he could be pretty useful next year should we get relegated.

No thread yet? The last game finished over an hour ago FFS! I'm quite looking forward to this actually. I trust in Adkins to have learned a lot of lessons from the Wigan game and I hope we will get a more organised performance at least, even if the result probably wont be much better. As for the team... Davis Clyne Hooiveld *Surely, surely we will have signed a centre half before the window closes Fox... or.... Davis Morgan Lallana Mayuka Lambert Lee Subs: Gazza, Fonte, JWP, Puncheon, Sharp, Rodriguez, Ramirez (dare to believe people!)

More of a wide forward in our system. If he is playing out wide instead of Guly or Rod that's fine by me. Lambert, Rod, Sharp, Lee, Mayuka, Puncheon, Guly, Lallana, Ramirez? That's a lot of attacking tallent right there. Welcome aboard Yukka!

I'd agree with that. Jordan Robertson orphaned a couple of children changing his ipod, so why people think drink driving is no big deal is beyond me.

Those cyclists are a filthy bunch.

We wont have properly made it until at least 2 of our players have been caught kn*bbing Danielle Lloyd. My money is on Jos and Steve, they seem a pair of lads.

I talk to the (fairly small) group of people I liked at school on Facebook if I want to. I'm not really bothere about seeing the rest if I'm honnest, although I probably would go to a reunion out of idle curiosity. See if any hotties have turned into fat *****rs and vice versa.

I remember being repeated told that anyone who can't see what Jermaine Wright brings to a team was clueless and knew nothing about football. I think I must be a bit thick because 6 years later I'm still none the wiser.

And before Guly and Puncheon we had those useless black players Paul Telfer, Mikel Nilsson and Calum Davenport. You're right, it's weird how all the players being criticised at the moment are black. Fonte, Fox, Rodriguez and Kelvin. Still, none of those players would have taken any abuse what so ever if they'd come through our accademy. Players like Lloyd James, Simon Gillett and Ollie Lancashire were universally popular on here, just because they came through our youth system.

Guly's problem against Wigan was the same as Rodriguez in that he wasn't really suited to the role. To play out wide you really need some pace or skill to take on a man and get to the byline. He just doesn't have that. He is a neat passer, he knows how to finish and is fairly good in the air but he never once looked like stretching Wigan's defence. He was always cutting inside into a crowd on players. He was good enough at keeping the ball, he just never did anything useful with it. P.S. The fact that a lot of people don't rate Guly doesn't make them haters. It's a valid enough opinion and if a large number of people share that opinion there may well be something in it. I thought Darren Powell was sh*te. That doesn't make me a hater, Darren Powell was sh*te.

Mods are no good, we need some nuns to get this place in order.

If you think about the entirity of time for a moment... You are dead for a near infinite amount of time before you are born. Then you are alive for the tiniest, shortest flash of time possible, then you go back to beign dead again. So why with such a ridiculously short lifespan would anyone bother spending any of it not ignoring alpine and his predictable, nonesensical attention-seeking bullsh*t. Just ignore him, it is remarkably easy if you give it a go. Let's get back to talking about probably the biggest Saints signing of our generation.

I thought he was our new wicket keeper?

Chelsea are apparently willing to pay something similar for Shaw who is yet to make a senior appearances, other than a couple of sub appearances in the cup. Walcott played 13 senior games before Arsenal paid £12m for him. I guess if you've got clubs are willing to take a gamble, regardless of experience.

Did anyone watch A Touch of Cloth on Sky 1 tonight, I thought it was hilarious. If you're into your Airplane and Naked Gun style puns, one liners and subtle visual gags you will probably like it. I think Episode 2 is on tomorrow.

He could be used as cover if we had 4 centre halves and 3 of them got injured. However I don't think anything less than 2 new signings would be sensible. I don't count Seaborne, he is completely unproven and could turn out to be another Davenport. Your thinking is a little bit Burley IMHO.