The Kraken

Tell us about your trip down there?

Spot on.

SSN now announcing it on their rolling breaking news feed: "Southampton have agreed a deal with Plymouth for winger Jason Puncheon".

Not great, but not a terrible result. Leeds look to be a team in freefall; they lost 3-0 today, that's 3 league defeats on the spin after such an amazing start. Yet I'd still back their class to shine through over the season. As I would ours.

I agree 100%. Spot on. You just can't argue with logic like that.

Had a chat in the pub tonight about this with a mate of mine; he used to work in an estate agent in the Hundred and mentioned the Red Lion, he said that when he was there you could still see the writing on the building of the old pub.

Go on then, I'll give it a go. That's all I know. Got to love Romsey; I went to Romsey school (when it was good).

They pay their staff's wages for January on time. Hang on, sorry. You said vaguely feasible didn't you....

I've had the misfortune of meeting him. He is an incompetent and odious buffoon.

At least justify your opinions then. You’ve been asked various questions and seem to be choosing to ignore them to carry on your tirade. You've been asked who you would play (or sign) instead of Lallana, who you don't rate. You've been asked who you'd play instead of Schneiderlin, who you don't rate. You’ve suggested Lallana and Schneiderlin can’t play together; what’s your solution? And what are you basing this on? You’ve mentioned there is a fair amount of evidence bouncing around that we play better as a unit with Wotton in the team. What and where is this evidence? You've been asked why you're so openly critical of Lallana and Schneiderlin, who most others see as up among our best performers throughout the season, and why you've formed this opinion of them when you've seen than play so very little. If you're going to have such forthright opinions, then at least back it up with alternatives. And not just your usual childish response of rolly eye smileys and accusations of happy clappy status. If you’re going to have a moan then at least offer an alternative. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, and no-one’s opinion is wrong. It’s just completely bizarre that you consistently come out with these outlandish views and yet offer no alternatives or solutions to the problems that you see.

I think we agree; I'm not saying that these are our first team options. The original post, not by you, was that we now lack depth up front with Pogo leaving. My point was that, with all of those options to us, we really don't.

It's on the Sky Sports News feed. Apparently Williamson and his agent are in Newcastle for his medical and it's only just been noticed as pen was going to be put to paper. Also, the David James to Stoke move is being put on hold as "Stoke can't get in touch with the owners to finalise the deal". And we thought it was bad being owned by Rupey and Mike the Red.

Waigo I disagree with you; he seems very much a front line striker. We certainly signed him as a striker / winger. His inability to understand the offside rule obviously counted against him... Lallana's natural position seems to be behind a main striker I'd agree, but he's still a backup option for up front. I believe Pearson played him up front when he was here. Saga may not want to be here but he's still an option we have to turn to. Patterson is clearly not deemed good enough for us by Pardew, so it's in the best interests of both parties that he moves on.

This just gets funnier! Pompey thought they were on the verge of getting £1M from Newcastle for Mike Williamson. However, its been put on hold since some bright spark at Pompey actually read the finer details of his contract, which states that his previous club Watford would be paid £1.25M upon his sale, which would have left the skates out of pocket! You couldn't make up how badly they are being managed.

Sometimes it's fun to mock the afflicted. Even if they are just doing it for the wind up.

But unfortunately still out of your reach. Bless.

One of the highlights of your life? Really? How odd. I sympathise with you if watching a group of kids getting shoed-in is all that you have to aspire to.

Really? Ricky Lambert David Connolly Lee Barnard Marek Saganowski Chuck in Adam Lallana and Papa Waigo, and I think we have an abundance of depth up front.

Cheers. We'll see then. Like I say, can't see it, but then I never would have predicted Fonte stepping down to League 1 so anything can happen. Would be an excellent signing if it comes off.

Really? I just looked on P****y Online and there's nothing on there about it.... Can't see it to be fair; skate aside he's a decent combative midfielder, think he played against AC Milan and looked decent.

Damn that NickG. He's always trying to put a positive spin on things like new player transfers and our winning form. It brings me right down.

But who? Please tell me who you would buy, that we can afford and who would come to the club, that would offer us more in that position. Someone who will contribute more than 12 goals and however many assists, and who'll strike up a playing rapport with Harding. Really? What evidence? Wotton gets abuse because he is an extremely limited footballer who has put in a number of average and poor performances. I've had the misfortune to see many of them. This is in comparison to Lallana and Scheiderlin who, the odd poor performance aside, have put in a number of excellent performances. You may not rate these two; I really don't know why, but that's your opinion and you're entitled to it. To be fair, Wotton gets more abuse than he probably deserves, and there's no denying that on occasions he's done a decent job for the team. But to suggest that we're a better team without Lallana and/or Scheiderlin, and at the expense of Wotton, well I can't agree with any of that.

It seems that the only person comparing Lallana to MLT in this thread is you.

Sounds great; seems to be a striker in between the attributes of Lambert and Connolly. Gives us some real options up front now, and should take a bit of the burden away from Lambert. And for £200,000 (plus Pogo I guess), he's pretty cheap.

And he's certainly right; as most have suggested on this thread his performances of late have fallen short of the high standards he set for himself earlier in the season. But I'm pretty sure Pardew is suggesting that he's a much better player than we've seen of late, and is capable of playing a good deal better (and higher) than we're seeing now.