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I'd go with Bart Frazer - Martin - Jaidi? - Harding Steve - Hammond - Morgan - Puncheon Lambert - Lee Depending very much on fitness and Lee's signing being complete.

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I've been saying it for months and I haven't changed my mind; Connolly is one of our best players when we are playing brilliantly. If we are anything less than brilliant he goes missing. It would be unfair to pick him out for last night, although he was our worst player along with Harding IMO, however he was never going to score. Lambert, one decent cross or a free kick and we might have nicked a goal. Guly can find himself a yard of space and nick a goal when you least expect it. Other players have a bit of pace or trickery which makes them a threat, but not Connolly. If you stick it on a plate he is a good finisher (see Boro and Forest) but otherwise I don't rate him.

Where's the fun in a quick and painless death. I hope they survive, but have to sell everything which isn't nailed to the floor and end up playing their kids with Darren Powell and Jermaine Wright. *Sighs and drifts off into day dream".

Fair point, deluded probably is a bit strong. "Living under illusions" maybe, although that kind of amounts to the same thing I suppose. The point I'm trying to make is ART is a very long way off the mark taring us with the same brush as alpine. There are thousands of fans living outside of Hampshire who couldn't have made last nights match even if they wanted to. Many that did probably had to sit in traffic for ages on the M3, struggled to park, missed the first 20 minutes and got home at 1am on a work night after the game. That's not nice and opting to watch from the convenience of your own living room is not fickle, not by a long way.

The same reason we cheer when we score. How pointless is that? The players know scoring a goal is good, so why bother jumping around shouting "Yeah! Get the f**k in!" It's about raw emotion and passion. No it's not rational, not nescessary and doesn't help the players. I can't see it knocking the players either. Anyone who can't take 5 seconds of booing after a display like that needs a good talking too. If that was me walking off the pitch I'd be thinking, "Yep. Fair enough, we were sh*te".

You're deluded. When a player considers a move they aren't going to be looking on the internet at what muppets like alpine think. "Fickle supporters who prefer watching their football on TV". I suggest you give up football and go and watch the Albanian chess championships instead. Every other sporting event with television coverage suffers a relative drop in attendance. If you think a Monday night football match is any different you're on another planet. In any case, 21,000 with a pretty low away following is nothing to be embarassed about. Especially 3 weeks after Christmas with big games against our rivals coming up and 2 FA cup away trips. I think you're just looking for a reason to hate Saints fans. The number of people being unreasonably negative on here is probably in single figures. Plenty of people saying 'we were sh*t, need to improve, need signings, bad injury list etc.' but very few people saying 'Adkins out, we wont get promoted, we have no ambition etc.'

Can understand Maynard going to Wigan, as it stands they are a better prospect than Saints. They are likely to offer better wages for a start and there are enough sh*t teams in the Premier League at the moment for Wigan to stay up. Even if Wigan go down, they will have a decent shot at promotion for a couple of seasons with their parachute payments. All off this makes them more appealing than Saints and much more appealing than Bristol City. Sharp... I have no idea what personal issues he may or may not have at the moment. All sorts of rumours that he wants to come here, but we aren't bidding enough etc. etc.

So would you expect Bristol City fans to boo after they beat us at Ashton Gate? Afterall, they were still in the bottom 3 after being crap all season. People weren't reacting to our League possition, they were reacting to the game right in front of them. Which was sh*te. If people were upset about our league possition they'd be singing Adkins out etc. Not 5 seconds of booing at the final whistle.

Last night really made me want to sign Sordell more than any of the other names being spread around. Need some pace up front badly.

Christ on a bike, why are people so obsessed with Vokes? According to the Football League website he has scored 2 goals for Burnley this season and 1 in the League cup for Wolves. He can barely get into Burnley's side, so why would we want him. People are just obsessed because he is a Saints fan.

I don't see the problem with booing at full time. Half time no, because there's still time to turn it around and make up for a poor first half. Anyone who pays good money to watch a performance like that has the right to boo a team. Why not, that was dreadful. I know we've had a brilliant season, 2nd in the league etc. etc. but that counts for nothing if you play like we did last night. Booing is the fans way of saying "that was utter sh*te and I don't ever want to see it again". Personally I want the players in no 2 minds about it.

So you are of the belief that people are put off crack and heroin by the law? The law is even less of a deterant for people on hard drugs than those who just do a bit of weed every now and then. People who smoke cannabis quite often have a job, a family and a pretty decent grip on reality. Heroin junkies don't. ALL they care about is where their next hit is coming from. They will steal from anyone, including their own ofamily to pay for their habbit. They don't care for one second about the law. The best we can do for these people is: 1. Make sure they are getting clean drugs, as opposed to the stuff laced with rat poison off their dealer. 2. Make sure they are getting FREE clean syringes and a place to safely dispose of old ones. I doubt this will be very effective, but anything which reduces the use of dirty needles can only be good. 3. Make sure the government is getting the money from these people instead of criminal gangs. 4. Make sure some of this money goes into rehab centres, councillors etc. to get people off drugs.

Well if he has, it's no surprise tonights performance was completely alien to him.

For me our strongest 11 would be: Davis Richardson - Fonte - Hooiveld - Fox Chaplow - Hammond - Cork - Lallana Lambert - Barnard The players in bold were all missing this evening, which to me would point toward something of an injury crisis. I don't think we should be singing player in such a scenario to cover the cover we have. People are talking about signing 2 centre halves. Seriously? That'd be 7 on the books, a very expensive luxury. A one month loan to get us through should surfice.

Christ, if some of you are writing De Ridder off after tonight's game, what about the rest of them? I thought he was one of the better players on the very rare occasions he got the ball. He just hasn't had anything like a decent run in the side. He got a couple of starts against Palace and Bristol and was by most accounts one of our best players. He probably didn't start tonight because he's been injured and we didn't know if he'd be fit for 90 minutes.

I know I'm 3 hours late for this but I have just driven up to Bristol, so here goes... We were sh*te (has anyone touched upon this yet, can't be arsed trawling through the whole thread to find out). I can't think of one decent performance from any of them really. Jos and Martin I think achieved mediocrity, but that's about it. We just never looked up for it. Chasing long balls over the top was a complete none starter. Hitting it high at Guly and Connolly was never going to work either, but we compounded the problem by never fighting for the second ball. We got bypassed in midfield, did nothing up front and fell asleep at the back. We had a couple of decent chances. Cork... f**king hell it's easy to see why he's never scored for us. Holmes put one effort wide. That's about the "highlights" of it as far as Saints are concerned. Can't be arsed giving all the players marks out of 10, but for me Harding and Connolly were the worst. We got away with Harding at RB against sh*t teams, but tonight he looked like a fish up a tree. A full back who can't turn his man outside is an accident waiting to happen. He was hardly an improvement at LB if I'm being honnest. Connolly did nothing. I maintain what I said after the Forest game. When Saints are brilliant, Connolly is a decent player. If we are anything less than brilliant he goes missing. I'd give them both 1/10 and they only get 1 for not being Darren Powell.

I think a 1 month loan would surfice here. Jos - looks like a small tweek, I'd hope he will be back in a couple of weeks at the most Fonte - Surely isn't far off Martin - Is fine. Cork - Will do in an emergency

I'm all for decriminalising drugs, all of them. Clearly the law is not a deterant for most people. I don't know anyone who has wanted to take drugs, but refused on the basis that they are illegal. I know people who take drugs because they want to and I know know people who don't take drugs because they don't want to. That's it. Obviously an age limit is required, same as alcohol, but I think most adults are capable of making their own decisions. If you legalise drugs you can sell it and tax it. You'd save millions each year in Policing drug crime, and the tax revenues would be enormous.

Just Googled "Canadian Tuxedo" I think if Britney and Justin can't make it look good, nobody can.

I thought this was the best, not the most expensive? Walcott was a class act in the Championship and has gone on to play for England several times. I'd have said £10m including all the add ons was a pretty reasonable price, as opposed to "great business" for Saints. On the other hand, £15m for a League 1 player is just insane money. £7m for Bridge was a bit of a bargain for Chelsea I'd have said. Considering they then went on to pay £30m for Ashley Cole. I'd have said Bridge was as good as Cole when we sold him, but that's just my opinion.

Futacs, Ward and Huseklepp might be useful squad players if we already had them. Would I sign them? Absolutely not.

Roughly in order, best at the top. The Buys Chaplow - £50k Fuller - £90k Pahars - £800k Beattie - £1m Lambert - £1m Crouch - £2m The Sells Chamberlain - £15m Richards - £8m Davies - £7.5m Beattie - £6m Burley - Whatever Scotland paid for him

The only acceptable way to watch football is to meet in a real ale pub at 9am and drink said ale until 2.45pm before heading to the ground. Upon reaching the ground you must then arrive at your seat 10 minutes late for every match. Stone Island shirts and Henry Lloyd jackets are the only acceptable attire. Replica shirts are banned. Anyone with a name printed on a shirt is banned for life. Those wearing face paints, jester hats or red and white wigs are to be ritually stoned to death at half time. Anyone who fails to follow these rules is either a pikey, a student or a gayer.

Which countries have you packed up and moved to in 2 weeks? Don't you think it's possible that Lee has been told to sort his life out and get everything in order, rather than having a lot of loose ends in the back of his mind whilst we rush him into the matchday squad. After all we were told by the club that he had an "Outside chance" of being in the squad for the Leicester game. "Outside chance" means possible but unlikely, and we told this a couple of weeks ago when the story was first posted on the OS. Clearly the club were expecting it to take this long when they first said it was pretty much a done deal, a couple of weeks ago.