Fitzhugh Fella

No back or groin problems

I can categorically refute this.

He is very near to being ready to play and could be picked as early as next Saturday

I nodded off when the youngster Cliff Morgan became a capt

Well I hope our scouting team/managerial team have got one eye on the forthcoming close season. If the exodus materialises (and forgive me for at least thinking about it) then it will be a reassurance that all eventualities/replacements are already been considered.

If I was a betting man I would lay a few quid on this one - I think most people have accepted he's off in the summer, that was the deal he struck with RK last year. I think the exodus this coming summer could nearly be as significant as last pre season with Clyne and Rodriguez and perhaps Cork all departing.

Sims looks promising but needs to work on his composure

Is Rowe injured

All it takes is an injury to Fonte and we are screwed, a ch on loan as cover is paramount

The most important thing for him will be the actual terms offered on the contract I should imagine. No hands have been bitten off yet by all accounts.

He had a bad knee injury and then had a setback but he is not far now from being fully fit. He may still be raw but he played 18 games in the Prem for us last season and is still only 19.

Difference between being a party animal (like to think I was one once) and having sex with underage girls. I met Andrew once, a more pompous arrogant chap it would be hard to find.

Basically just working on match fitness so could be soon

Surprise you haven't mentioned John's new fish and chip shop in Lodge Rd - excellent it is.

We definitely need a goalscorer to take the pressure of Pelle. With Rodriguez still out for a while and Gallagher also injured this is a real necessity.

Yea I got 9 out of 10 with me thinking Ibrox was Villa Park

He looks like he is in the Maze prison

There is something not right down there from the manager's standpoint. A bad Xmas and we should have an interesting January

So unless Pelle picked up his knock in a Sheffield nightclub we can assume he would not have played at Bramall Lane even if he was not suspended?

So the players have a bad game and all they have to do is come and say sorry and all is well? Rather they scuttled off to the dressing room heads hung low and ignored the fans rather than patronise them. Too much of our recent talking has been done away from the pitch.

It's all gone rather quiet or have with all been distracted by events in Yorkshire last night - perhaps a lot of nut jobs haven't made it back yet.

It's probably all been sad before on this thread but here are my thoughts and I do still feel the need to let off a bit of steam. Having just wasted 15 hours of my life watching last night's debacle I do feel I have the right to whinge a little I am trying not to let the horrendous 5 hour drive back from Sheffield last night/this morning, to cloud my objectivity but I can’t remember when I felt so disillusioned with Saints. As the saying goes “it’s not the despair that kills you it’s the hope” and I really felt last night we have blown (yet again) a very reasonable chance to add to our pathetic haul of serious silverware (1 trophy in 129 years). But we choked and lost to a makeshift (yes they had their injury problems too) third tier side in what was at times a shambolic performance that lacked any guile or nous throughout the team from Forster right through to Koeman on the bench. The manager is starting to show cracks in his abilities with some strange decisions to choose players to play out of position (Bertrand last night was a fish out of water) and to give Ward-Prowse two games in four days when he has been out for 8 weeks and not had a full day’s training. What Reed must be thinking I don’t know but being constantly overlooked while on the bench can be doing nothing for his confidence. If he is not good enough then put him back in the U21 squad. Koeman seems to make his mind up and then will not accept he may have got it wrong (I give you Jack Cork). Last night the players were all bickering among themselves, no one had any understanding of each other’s game and once Sheffield United scored the game was up because there was no one I repeat no one (except for one chance that fell to Mane) who looked like they knew where the goal was. It really was very sub-standard and concerning that the ship is increasingly rudderless. Pelle’s stupidity getting booked for what he did on Saturday cost us last night and he needs to shoulder some of the blame. I know we started this season very well with some of Koeman’s signings looking good business but I hate to say it I think there was an element of beginner’s luck because none of the new arrivals are covering themselves in glory at present. Tadic has become a shell of the player he appeared to be, no final delivery, poor crossing, weak finishing and worryingly already looks spent although the first Xmas cracker has yet to be pulled in earnest. Pelle blows hot and then very cold, his game is limited and he is no Lambert when it comes to holding up the ball and variety of movement. Mane sometimes resembles a headless chicken, he has pace and skill but nil awareness. Long? Well I have done my best to look for good in him but he is still exasperatingly getting caught for offside far too often and his finishing is poor. I am sure we could have prised Ings from Burnley for what he spent out on Long. And I had my first long look at Gardos last night, clumsy and uncertain were two words that quickly came to mind, he looked out of his depth and is a poor signing as he is a downgrade on Hooiveld and that is saying something. Clyne was awful last night, my son who bumps into him at clubs in the City says he is full of himself and arrogant and I just wonder whether the England recognition hasn’t gone to his head (a la Lallana) a little. Schneiderlin was petty and stupidly booked and he later kicked the ball away and could have been sent off. He is rash and petulant at times and when things aren’t going for him becomes headstrong. You could say the same about Wanyama too. I thought Targett had a good first half, our best player but then he got taken off for Isgrove (with Bertrand dropping back) but Koeman took the wrong man off (unless he was injured). Isgrove flattered to deceive, he will carve a career at League One level, like Gilllett and Hoskins, but no way is he Premiership or even Championship level. And finally Ward-Prowse, I just don’t see what the fuss is with this boy. Except from his delivery which is by far superior to anyone else (that in itself is a poor reflection) he is no more than a hard-working midfielder. Intelligent off the pitch he may be but he is no more than an ordinary player at the moment although as I mentioned earlier perhaps I am being a little unfair with him only recently coming back from injury. At least he looked up for it last night and he has the right mental attitude. So a very abject, disorganised performance from a group of players who looked like they had never met. Sorry this is a long ramble, I won’t be going to any more away games this season after last night’s horror show so this will be the last of my diatribes. If you made it thus far, thanks and one final word on the fans who travelled in numbers last night. Well done you did your city proud, it was an unacceptable shame the players could not respond accordingly.

I have a spare seat in a minibus plus driver leaving the Cowherds at 12 noon if you want. £50

I wish we had a forward who could finish like Eriksen