Causer

Barney should come for Hammond IMO

Team from West Ham official site Southampton: Davis, Richardson, Fonte, Hooiveld, Fox, Hammond, Chaplow, Schneiderlin, Guly, Lambert, Connolly Subs: Bialkowski, Harding, Cork, Martin, De Ridder

Davis deserves huge credit for keeping us in the game in the first half when we were very shaky defensively. Second half we were superb with only some incredible blocks and saves keeping leicester in the game. Lallana and Cork were excellent but Harding and Seaborne were well off form and Guly really doesn't protect his full back enough in away games.

chaplow off FFS

1-0 yeahhhh connolly

Its not out night

Clearly a naturally talented player with skill but the big issue is that he dosen't link up well with Rickie and Barnard in part due to his selfishness and poor decision making. There were many occasions yesterday when Guly/Lambert/Lallana and Chaplow were all occupying each others space and leaving gaps in other midfield areas and leaving Hammond and allowing the Dons to crowd us out.Personally I think at the moment Guly's individual skill and flair doesn't quite make up for the fact he does not fit in to the team system. However if Adkins can work on his decision making and get him to adapt to Lambert's style of play and Barnard's movement then he could become a top player for us.

Lallana, class above the rest of the league, we are dreadful without him.

Come on Franchise, please hold on

Deannnnnnnnnnooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Bart in

Superb effort from the players,battled hard for 60 mins before tiring. Morgan and Chaplow were brilliant as was Butterfield who dealt well with the cheat Nani. The ref was hopeless, never a free kick in the build up to the first goal and gave many very harsh free kicks against us. Now for Promotion.

Light our our at Pompey, someone hasn't paid the bill....

Huddersfield,Mk dons, Swindon, Carlisle defeats and drawing at 3rd bottom Yeovil. Easy to pick and choose results. Either way we should be beating Tranmere.

Completely agree Morgan dominated the midfield and was the lynchpin for our attacks today. MOTM for me as well.

I am top about mid way through the Championship season after winning League one with over 110 points. I rely heavily on free transfers and loans which allow you to pick up good players for no transfer fee and as a result have bought anyone yet. For example I have managed to sign players like Delap, Jonathan Woodgate and Mido for no transfer fees although they do have high wages. Team GK - Davis - still doing a decent enough job LB - Paul Robinson - solid defensively and decent going forward CB De Merit - great player, a rock at the back and scores outrageous amounts of goals from corners CB Woodgate - classy and another goal threat at corners RB Halford(loan) - never makes an error RM Mendy - fast with a quality cross CM Delap - unrealistically good at long range shots and his throw is awesome CM Osborne - powerful box to box midfielder LM Kapo - great shot and a quality passer ST Volanthen - fast too good for championship ST Mido - goal machine Subs Anichebe Bart Nyman Bebe(loan) Lallana Gosling(loan) Valeron(very creative player) Has anyone got any tips about training? I am giving Oxo all cup games and frequent sub appearances but his stats have barely improved.

Get Connoly on

Just back from the game. First half we were dreadful, the distribution from the defence was dreadful and the midfield was getting overrun by the 5 men in the Notts midfield. We dropped very deep allowing Notts to get lots of men forward and putting us under pressure from set pieces. Second half we were better but did not look like scoring until the games turning point which was the penalty where we got a lucky break to get the ball to Lallana who played Barnard in who was scythed down for a stonewall penalty. Lambert was never going to miss and we were away, Notts being a man down meant there striker was left up on his own unable to hold the ball up and we put them under pressure. Barnard scored a nice finish from a corner and after that we kept the ball very well and saw out the game. Davis - struggled to command his box(although the goal was a foul) with corners into his 6 yard box being left for panicky defenders, distribution was also poor and he nearly gave away a goal after dwelling on the ball too long, however he showed his fantastic shot stopping ability with a great reflex save in the second half. Richardson- very very rusty and off the pace with a few poor crosses and he gave the ball away alot Fonte- pure class, some towering headers when we were under pressure and some quality tackles,he also seemed to be organising the defence well so we caught them offside alot Seabourne - very good in the air but looked clumsy when required to defend balls on the ground, his distribution improved rapidly after some abuse from the fans!! Harding- solid but didn't provide much going forward unlike last season. Puncheon- little of the ball and when he did get it did not too much with it and wasted some set pieces Hammond - ponderous and did not get involved enough in the game Schneiderlin - ineffective with surprisingly poor passing and was lightweight in the tackle Lallana - brilliant on the ball, the only midfielder who played well, had the Notts defence panicking and deserved his goal Lambert- off the pace, he wasn't even winning headers or holding the ball up as well as he does normally Barnard- lively and works hard and did well to win the penalty and scored Oxo- lively but didn't do a lot Chaplow- helped us in the last 10 with his energy and helped us keep the ball Bignall - looks talented,his pace gave us a useful outlet near the end of the match Ref - hopeless, at times it was a lottery which way he would give a freekick. Fans- superb, very loud and a wide variety of songs, did not shut up at any point including the half time match on the pitch, a real 12th man.

Puncheon and Guly off, Bignall and Barny on

Bugger game over

Lallana sounds like the only player who is performing today.

He was moaning about the Brighton freekick which led to the goal as well, just saw it football league show and it was a blatant push. Symes should have been off as well.

Finally he gets the recognition he deserves, far better than Heskey and Carlton Cole who have far more caps

Put Martin on use his height!!!!!!!