kwsaint

who Eastleigh?

I believe fielding an illegible player removes three points if you really wanted to be anal. Now is it possible?

40K for QPR does seem a touch unrealistic. An SMS size stadium would be more realistic and provide the facilities that Loftus Road doesn't have. It would be cheaper to build as well. It's all very well having grand plans, but these things need to be funded. When Saints moved from the Dell, they got the capacity wrong. Planning permission for Stoneham was 25K. The thought with SMS was that it would only be filled 6-7 times per season as the Kraken points out. However, we ended up averaging over 30K for all the seasons that we have been in the Premier League. In hindsight, SMS should have been around 35-36K, and it's why we keep on having threads about extending it.

To think that we could have played Shaw, Chambers and Ward-Prowse.

Dave Merrington had a huge influence on the youth policy in the late eighties/early nineties. It dipped after he became manager and then left in 96. It wasn't until Strachan became manager and flagged his concern about the youth policy that Rupert did anything about it. To be fair it was then put on a better footing and has been built on in recent years. We are on a roll. Saints now has a reputation for being a well run club and giving youth a chance. Parents will want to get their kids involved with Saints.

This. I had no idea who he was. Why should anyone who doesn't support Pompey have any idea who he is. He's not "cosying" up to him as norwaysaint said. He's having a picture with him because he's a nice bloke.

sadly I was wondering this but I haven't the heart to go on it and find out. rip mandela

Goalkeeping cover and left footed CB who can cover at LB. Let Ramirez go. Think we will need to be looking at a striker in the summer. At the risk of getting shot down in flames, I would have Andy Carroll. He is wasted at WHAM as they play hoofball. His hold up play is actually good and he might actually develop into a really good player with us.

Reality check, but we are neither as bad as the wrist-slitters would have us, or as good as our hype. My guess is that we will finish in the top half this season, but outside the top 6.

Niemi for Boruc Killer for Fonte (what a pairing Killer and Lovren would make) Shearer for Lambert - need someone who can hold the ball up well and Shearer was superb at leading the line

Can't see us getting anything from this game now. Back four have been so well drilled and Hooiveld simply isn't anywhere near as good as Lovren.

He who wants to be first shall be last. So a 95th minute penalty from Lambert to make it 2 0 seems fitting.

Mate wrong thread made me chuckle that

Tbh they do have a fair point in the fact that they don't want to go for a larger allocation as I suppose they are buying the tickets off the opponent and then just recouping the money when they sell them to us. In answer to your question, I assume the speed in which tickets sell nowadays, other clubs can't afford to put aside a couple of thousand seats just in case we sell all our allocation and want more. I agree though it is annoying but something that, nowadays, we have to accept.

Heath in 84. No contest.

My reason for being incensed was more the laziness behind his reporting. There seems to be a lack atm of critical pundits (the only one I can think is actually pretty good is Gary Neville). I felt as an article it could have been much longer and he could have gone into more depth about why we played badly (e.g. there was no clear strategy as to how we were going to win the game; unlike saints who's defence moves up as a unit, ours tended to drift and there seemed to be quite a few times when germany were through one on one with Hart purely because our offside trap was lazy). My beef is that he's the "bbc football expert" or whatever his title is officially. When I watch rugby, for example, the commentary is interesting and is always critical. Cricket as well although that's a slower game so they have to talk about something. It's not necessarily bad because I disagree with him (as you pointed out we agree on quite a lot) I just feel it was an incredibly lazy report.

I'll answer post 2 then: 1)Hart did make 3 or 4 very good saves that kept the scoreline down. But for me, he also made defensive errors like running out of his penalty area when the defender had it covered. It's these mistakes which was why I felt 8 was a high score for me. For me, he wasn't as consistent as a world class goalie should be even though he can be if he gets back on form. I would have given him a 6. 2)As I said earlier, I felt Cleverley didn't look like a first XI player to me. He hasn't got the confidence on the ball and his control is sloppy. I would have given him a 3 tbh and given Henderson a run since he's had far less game time for England. These friendlies should have been trying out new tatics and players rather than keep going back to the old ones imo. The likes of AL prove that picking players who are on form maybe a better strategy than players who are "better". Imo cleverley isn't any where near on form. 3)Thought Smalling was a 4 since he hasn't got the dominance of command a centre back should have. Whenever Lovren or Fonte play for saints, I'm sure you can agree with me that there is a command that they go forward as a unit and back as a unit. Maybe this is harsh on him since it's tactics rather than him himself but I feel an international player of his quality should have more dominance in the defence third of the pitch. 4)I'm trying to be unbiased with this one but it may be hard. Lallana didn't have a good a game as he did against Chile granted but he showed good vision, crossed the ball well and oozed confidence on the ball. Yes he may have miscontrolled it at times but I felt only 5 was harsh. I would have given him a 6 or a 7. Apologies if I offended you earlier. I'm not looking to argue on this forum just to have a debate. Feel free to criticize any of my points.

Literally can't be arsed with this. It seems every discussion on this forum is shouted down by the likes of you just because you don't care about it. I didn't realise this forum was created for you Turkish. You've said some good things in the past I'll give you that, but why do you shout down things which don't interest you. I was merely saying maybe Lawrenson isn't the worst pundit after all and you interpret this as "Lawrenson must be the best pundit there is".

Please Turkish, show me where I said he was the worst in history? I'd love to know...

Same place everyone else on him comes from. What I wanted him to be is a bit more critical. We lost 1 0 to Germany's C team at home. If that, in your opinion, warrants are worst players (imo cleverly) to have the same rating as AL then fine but I disagree.

Read this article today: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25012040 Rates everyone 5 out of 10 apart from the occasional 6 or 7 out of 10. Thinks AL has an outside chance of the world cup and that because Joe Hart had one good game, all hope is restored. I just don't understand where they get these guys from.

Gibraltar is an over-sea territory whereas the channel islands are crown dependencies. Basically, I believe the channel islands are more controlled by the UK than Gibraltar (which has its own parliament) that it probably wouldn't be allowed.

I think that he is enjoying his football too much here to want to move

System was wrong. Playing 2 up front against a team like Germany leaves the midfield weak. And Sturridge and Rooney simply don't link up at all. Agree about Wilshere - over-rated, as are many of the players tonight. Thought Lallana did OK and has a good chance of going to Brazil.