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Is he left footed then? I always thought he was better on the right but I guess the Hearts goal might bear out your assessment. Personally I think he's got talent and worth persevering with. He's one of the few players we've got that has the ability to pick out a good pass in the final third (whether he always does that is a different question) but I'd rather have a player who has the talent even if it is largely unrealised than someone who might run and run but achieve the same result. We've got a fair number of cloggers in the side now - it'd be nice to have someone who can be the difference between a tough team hard to beat and a tough team that wins. What do I know though? I thought Fernades was great (and still do) but he was slagged off continually as well.

We don't have much strength in depth but then which div 1 clubs do? We've been crying out for width though but on the left side if 2 from Harding, Holmes and Mills can stay fit then we should be OK. On the right I think Lallana will play better than wide left. We could probably do with some pace in that position but it's a hope and not a necessity. Waigo up front (if he's as good as we think) should be enough with Lambert. I don't think we've actually got that bad a squad now and hopefully Wally Downes will help in the same way Snodin did (we've seriously missed him). Charlton may come too soon but now that the transfer window has closed I'd expect Pardew to start to get the best out of his coaches and his team.

Why? Or is that supposed to be funny? Statistically the chances of winning a raffle are much less than winning a game of football. Should we be concentrating on winning raffles instead? I'm confused......

What's that then? Genuine question.

According to Cotterill on Sky Sports Colchester are lucky not to be one nil up. ha ha classic!

Yes, exactly. I'd be happy enough with Lallana wide right but Thomson has been shocking this season. James would be OK on the right but don't expect him to skin the fullback and get to the bye line - he's solid enough though. Incidentally we will win today - it's the first home league game i've missed so far.

Do we have a decent wide right player though?

So you think he's doing something wrong but don't know what? Great, that's helpful....

That's not really an answer though is it? Surely no one decided we'd not win for 5 games just for a laugh....so something must be wrong. What is it?

The inevitable question is what would you do differently though?

Saints 1 Colchester 3 I'm basing this primarily on the fact that predicting a win for us hasn't worked yet. However, Boothroyd teams always win and always score three against us and despite losing their last three they'll be bouyant after his appointment. Smashing seven against Norwich shows they've got the talent to do well and with Murty out I think they'll target our right back. It's a shame that neither Waigo or Jaidhi are available as well. The only bright spot for me is that we could hopefully see the return of either Mills or Holmes. We haven't really had a balanced side this season and I'd expect our left side to be pretty strong if either of them start the game.

Still not exactly inspiring is it? Jaidhi is probably a good signing but I expected that would have been the easier of the deals to tie up - and wasn't dependant on today either. We look a lot stronger defensively anyway and Jaidhi would help but still need quality in wide areas as we seem to struggle creating chances.

Bit underwhelmed to be honest. We started the day thinking we'd get three players in and ended up with the maybe promise of one player that's obviously going to be a loan or a free.

I was going to say that but I do miss the atmosphere of a full ground. On the other hand I don't miss the opposition scoring and seeing loads of people jump up around me so swings and roundabouts.

I was hoping to see him in action but on the other hand if we are interested then it could be good for us that he's not involved tonight. He's certainly the kind of player we should be after and from what I can tell he doesn't seem to be a 1st choice for Leicester. Strange considering he did so well last season.

Max Gradel hasn't even made the bench for Leicester tonight. I have no idea if he's injured or not but it could be because he's lined up for a move. Would be nice if it was to us.

Good points but it does do "Strictly come dancing", "cash in the attic" and other quality programmes that you just wouldn't see on ITV. I just wish they'd get Ant and Dec back.

I think it's brilliant. It does tend to divide opinion into extremes though. I thought the US version was slight worse than OK but not abysmal.

Have you said anything? I doubt it.... You've whinged a bit that you're not happy at our start, well who is? Everyone else can see that it'll probably take a bit of time. You just want to throw your toys out of the pram and cry.

Seeing as you brought my name up.....what I find ridiculous is that there was no point to your whining and complaining. There was nothing constructive apart from a toddler like cry of "but I want to win". We played better yesterday (by all accounts) and should have won. Of course it's frustrating and of course it's taking longer than we'd like but it is what it is - a job in progress. If you'd complained about the signings, the team selection or anything else then you would have an opinion and something to justify it. Yesterday you did nothing but moan without anything to back it up. If you feel we should have won then obviously you feel that something that hasn't been done should have, or that mistakes have been made. What are they?

If you're talking about the little "adverts" between segments then yes I agree - it is like advertising. If you're talking about the "news" content such as when John Sargant quit Strictly Come Dancing last year then they can justify it by the fact that so many people are interested in it. Personally I don't but then I don't get to make the rules and obviously a lot of people do find it worthy of being in the news. Interesting you should say that you don't feel you should pay for the tat you don't care about - if you just subscribed to content you were interested in then you'd find that you'd have less choice and less "quality" TV. Look at SKY, look at ITV how much genuine quality documentaries do they produce? Not many.

They also plug other crappy entertainment shows on other channels such as Big Brother. They do that because for some reason people are interested in it. Off the top of my head I can remember Justin Lee Collins and Noel Edmonds both plugging shows on SKY on The One show (and I don't watch it that much). I'm not disgusted by the BBC at all but that's not the point - Murdoch Jnr was moaning because he felt that the BBC offering "free" content on the internet was harming the chances of independant companies making money from online content. It's a fair point but given the alternative it seems most of us are more than happy with the BBC.

No one has said we don't want to win games and no one has denied you the freedom to express your pointless opinion. In the absence of any argument except "we need to win games" your posts are without substance. If you're going to moan then at least have the balls to back it up with a decent argument.

He's not trying to offer solutions or excuses - he would just like to moan a bit. He's not saying Pardew is bad, he's not saying the team is bad, he's just a bit tired and emotional.

I think everyone knows your point of view now. It wasn't constructive in any way, it wasn't illuminating, it didn't make me think and it wasn't interesting. Thanks for sharing though.