ManorHouseSaint

Your riposte is laughable, really. He is a defender first and foremost. If he cannot do the basics of defending (i.e. at least being positionally aware) then he is not doing his job properly. Who cares if he can do overlaps and push forward well, if cannot do the job that he is in the team for? Moving forwards as a fullback is a bonus. Not essential, like making sure the wingers are kept in line. To make an excuse that Mellis wasn't tracking back is weak, if not completely nullified by the fact we were playing 4-3-3. Using that formation we will always by liable to a quick counter attack, particularly on the wings and therefore at the beginning of the game Harding knew what his responsibilities were. To get dragged so far centrally was such a basic schoolboy error once, but to do it again and again is just amateur. Mellis was extremely poor, there was no denying that. But to take the blame away from Harding is in my opinion utter rubbish. If you look at the way many of goals have been conceded this season it isn't through the central areas, it is down the flanks. Harding has played every single game, and yes, in some games he has been impressive. But in others he has been defensively naive. This is my opinion though. You are entitled to yours also. But don't come on here an attempt to belittle me and spout off. Your opinion is no greater then mine. In my opinion, Harding has been excellent in some respects. But in others, particularly his positioning, he needs a bit of coaching, or we will get over run again and again down our left flank.

Very solid, yes for the majority of games. But I completely disagree with you on the positioning side. I think he has been woeful in that respect. I'm with Dark Sotonic Mills, I think he was awful against Rovers and was at fault for at least two of their goals, if not all three. I also don't understand his ranting at the ball assistants in the last few matches either. It doesn't achieve anything, and they are only kids...

I'm guessing that was sarcastic... Luck doesn't come into it when you are that appalling... What's more disturbing is that Pardew doesn't see how bad Wotton really is. I hope this was a one off, because if not, when the Town fans started singing "going down" it could become a very harsh reality sooner rather than later...Pardew has a LOT of work to do...

I was at the game and were an absolute disgrace. As bad, if not worse than some of the performances last year. Not even in it from the kick off. Pardew's tactics were non descript. Players lacked; drive, determination, passion, leadership, skills, talent, the ability to keep the ball more than 2 passes and not give it straight to the opposition. Wotton isn't even a footballer. He just wafts around like a bad smell. Pardew's substitutions were appalling. There was not one positive from today, not one. He we havwn't forward at all according to that game. You may say we need more time, but if you had seen that performance you feel very similarly. Truely, truely awful.

I hope we stuff them! Purely because my Dad is a Hudders fan, and they are my second team. We are travelling up to the Galpharm and I am sitting in the away end, him the home. It will be stranger for him more than me, as Saints are his second side (lived in Romsey all the time I've been alive) and he watches almost every game I come down for at St. Mary's. So, he may get a few peculiar glances and a bit of grief from other home fans as he is likely to applaud any good stuff we play. Every other game this season, bar the return in St. Mary's, I will want Town to win. But for those two games - I hope we thump them badly. I never thought I would see the day that my two teams were playing in the same division. I'm looking forward to it immensely! 2-2 my head says though, I reckon.

Good luck to the lad I say...I think people are being very harsh on him. He was never the greatest player, granted. But he never really got a good run in the team to show his potential. A bit part player. Would do very well at this level. The people still giving him grief about the robbing incident - just let it go. For one, he didn't actually steal anything, he just stood there laughing like an idiot (Though, in no way am I condoning his part in what happened). But to call him a liar and a thief is a joke. Let's move on. People need to be given second chances (who hasn't made mistakes in their lives and not looked back and regretted something that they have done?), and I agree with Dicko and think under the right manager directing him and coaching him he would thrive... Good luck BWP.