Golac's Iron Gonads

He actually managed to play worse than I expected him to. I thought he'd be slow and flappy but I din't expect his kicking to be woeful aswell. If that had been Białkowski, Gazzaniga or Davis many of you would be saying he should never wear a (specially widened) Saints shirt again. But as many of you are convinced that he must be good because he's an international keeper who's played for big teams in big games you make ridiculous excuses, he's rusty, not match fit yet he's a goalkeeper who's been at the club for 2 months now! I'm sure he's been training.

I hope Boruc does play so we can see exactly how bloody wonderful he is, a lot of you must avidly follow the fortunes of Fiorentina and the Polish national team because, to me in the 2 Saints games I've seen him play, he's looked no better than what we've got. I feel it'll go the same way as Davis, there was plenty of clamour on here for Kelvin to be given another shot in goal, and that went really well! People seemed to suffer early season amnesia, because he was bad then and he was bad when he came back. I don't expect Boruc to be any better than he was against WHU and Spurs. Gazzaniga if he's fit, and in January get some experience in. If Gazzaniga's still injured play the Pole and let me enjoy seeing a 'seasoned, experienced, international' one last time.

Can anyone give a reasoned explanation why Adkins took off and attacker for a 5th defender when 3-2 up against 10 men?

Who of the current squad do you consider the most effeminate? If the 'men with guns' showed up and forced you to sodomise one of our boys whose cheeks would you reluctantly part? (Though statistically 1 out of 10 of you wouldn't be too reluctant). Of course it's entirely possible that you would not select the most effeminate Saint for a forced bumming, perhaps you'd use the unpleasant opportunity in order to exert some sort of power trip fantasy by electing to fill the backside of one of the more rugged squad members. Thoughts? Merry Christmas.

Bloody hell, even a thread about a mildly amusing picture has turned into something as depressing, bitter and turgid as an Eastenders Christmas Special. Is this what being in the Premiership does to people? like just love one another maaaan

Nowt wrong with the NFL, the sport is great. On top of that most players are educated and can string a series of lucid sentences together without resorting to cliches, the commentators are well informed, impartial and willing to admit mistakes, and the referees rarely get things wrong and if they do the sport has embraced modern technology to the extent that wrong calls are pretty much eliminated. I'd like to have seen that plank at the City/United game run on the pitch at an NFL game.

I was looking forward to seeing Michu when we played Swansea, was dissapointed in what I saw, played like a lazy Berbatov but with half the skill, he spent more energy with his exasperated arm waving at his team mates. Spoke to a Swansea fan on the out of the stadium he said Michu had been blinding at the start of the season but had really dropped off after being moved into a more forward position. I promptly transferred Michu out of my fanstasy team and he's been banging in the goals ever since. Thought Ki was the better player when we played Swansea. Though I'd take their CB too.

He hasn't looked good in the 2 games I've seen him, and the poor attitude doesn't fit in with the 'together as one' Adkins mantra. The missus says I fullfil all her out of shape, slow reacting, wierdo needs.

Terrible mistake yesterday, but I'd still stick with Gazzaniga over Davis or Boruc. 1: Despite many on the forum stating Gazzaniga is a calamity waiting to happen/already cost us 4 points due to calamities, the defence still looks far more comfortable playing in front of him than in front of Davis, I include last season when we still looked suspect at the back. 2: I prefer Gazzaniga's attitude to what I've seen of Boruc's, who took it upon himself to sarcastically applaud 'fans' who had the temerity to boo a pretty poor 1st half performance against Spurs. Who the **** is Boruc to walk in here, conceed 4 at West Ham, follow it up with 2 in the first half and then disrespect some fans opinion of his ability. Looks a total tosser to me and I hope to never see him in a Saints shirt again. I'd prefer to stick with Gazzaniga until January and strengthen the position then, also letting Boruc **** off back to whence he came. Did Paul Jones get all this stick when he was making mistakes every other week?

What concerns me is that neither Huth/Shawcross/Gallas/Dawson/Turner would attract as many lovely Japanese women to St Mary's. I agree that Yoshida doesn't appear to play like a conventional Prem centre-back, but I like the fella, he can play the ball around, almost scored a wonderful scissors kick at QPR, and moves into positions that allow an out pass for players being closed down, which is a boon for our keep the ball way of playing.

Clean sheet,3 points, Gazza magnifcent save, Lallana a bag of tricks, I love everyone of these players. One Nigel Adkins!

That's the trouble with watching MOTD highlights, you don't get to see Gazzaniga snuffing out attacks by quick decision making and coming out to take the ball*, you don't see him organizing his defence, you won't see the way he eats up 40+ seconds taking a goal kick and killing any momentum QPR or Villa have managed to muster, you won't see him remonstrating with the midfield for allowing a shot on goal from 25 yards, you won't see how much it means to him when the goals go in (he was hitting his own head after Puncheon's and then took it out on the crossbar), I don't think you can see the self-confidence he exudes that is beginning to creep into the back 4. I think this bloke is going to be superb, maybe Boruc is not match fit but he was the antithesis of all that Gazzaniga has shown in the Spurs game. *Not so much for the QPR goal, but it was a difficult cross to collect and Hoilett was unmarked. On the plus side he has learnt from last week and when in doubt he booted passbacks upfield.

Gazzaniga is the ****ing business.

No, but it also applies. There was a thread about having a dump at football matches, has anyone ever had I wa nk? I'm genuinely interested, I felt like one after Morgan's goal on Saturday.

I'm not sure what they are doing right, I have a feeling it's an awful lot of luck, I've lost a considerable sum of money backing them to lose against a variety of teams, in all the games they have been absolutely battered and somehow managed to avoid defeat. A quick look at the fantasy stats show that Jaaskelainen has made 48 saves this season, the highest of all prem keepers. I think if someone could find the number of shots they've allowed on goal it wouldn't be that different from ours.

I'm pecularly gifted in that I am able to last 1 hour and 50 minutes without feeling the need to push poor quality food down my throat or drink beer. It's especially easy if I start at 3pm on a saturday afternoon. I also as a general rule try to have a **** before I leave the house for any length of time.

I just got back from next Tuesday and it was 2-2

No matter how weak people think our defence is, there will only be one team with James Collins playing in it.

It is the sort of thing you would keep secret

I have to say I'm stunned that Ramirez's game is so highly rated, he looked impressive in the last 20 minutes but I thought he strolled around doing his best to avoid the ball in the first half. In the second half he at least looked like he wanted the ball but his passing seemed often under hit and he slowed down most attacks, in my eyes he didn't start playing until we were 3-1 up and the space opened up a bit. For me Ricky's touch and control were phenomenal today, his running excellent and he banged 2 in, easy MotM, followed by Clyne and Lallana. Ireland going off helped us greatly too.

Only took me 5 minutes to get tickets for the Villa game. Logged on yesterday at 9:25 had chosen 2 seats and paid for them by 9:31. My old man, who 'doesn't like booking online', had called the ticket office and was held in a queue when I logged on, he was still on hold when I showed him two seats in the Chapel End and asked 'they allright?'

I've thought all summer that this bloke cdajfu, but was too scared to mention it.

Danny and Rod Wallace buy both for 30 million and get a 3rd Wallace free.

Steve Moran circa 1981 = 18 million, but available to Man City/Liverpool/Chelsea for 30 m

I think you could just about argue that in every position we don't field the weakest player playing that position in the premier league. But I do think Kelvin comes close, I feel a bastard saying that as he's done a good job for us.