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Other teams aren't doing that well? and... we can clearly play better than we are at the moment!

was a very average performance, again felt we were too light weight on the ball, puncheon lallana and rodriguez especially, spurs is going to be a challenge, would take the same result again

mods can we change the title to just 'jimmy saville' and my opening post to just 'discuss' please as i'm disgusted at it all! and this thread was started a year ago, thanks

hopefully the curse of sky stays away, we are back to another 'needing three points' game .. I think Nigel needs to go for the jugular on this one, 2-1 saints with a 1-1 draw at half time

well just discovered this thread again lol, obviously I started it the day he died with the story rolling on BBC about him being good for charitys and his wacky tv shows etc, but now having heard all of this I take back my 'RIP etc' ..he was a weird man

seeing as i've got 2 quid on him at 150-1 on betfair, i'm hoping he finishes top scorer with a lovely 33 goals lol

yes you should, never doubt the lambert ... ever!

3 pts required here, anything else and we are deffo relegation fodder

I just hope before the villa game nigel decides two things; - our starting 11 - our formation/playing style that and installs some confidence back in the squad

sat in the arsenal end that was a painful day out. my thoughts; we knocked the ball around at the back quite nicely at times but when it came to moving forward we ran out of ideas and simply weren't quick enough to pick out the pass (conversly arsenal were awesome at doing this yesterday) ricky was marked out of the game and had practically no service, when he did it was a punted ball big sam style, which added to the confusion in terms of our playing style we are still knocked off the ball far too easily, the only player who didnt let this happen was ramirez when he came on yoshida looked confident unlike the rest of the team and ramirez looked a cut above everyone else in our squad. the only way is up but nigel needs to sort his starting 11 out now and work out his strategy for the prem, because at the moment we are about as confused as a box full of frogs

argh, love cortese, love mlt, make it stoppppp

sort it out guys, lifes too short

dont get me wrong I love adkins and can see where he was coming from, lambert was cream crackered, as was lallana and he was probably thinking with united throwing the kitchen sink at us muyuka might get a goal on the counter and it would be the icing on the cake moment, but realistically we shouldnt really have made any of those substitutions and instead just of adjusted our shape

as adkins has always said, focus on us, we did in league 1 and championship and it is exactly what we need to do now we are in the prem, where there will be even more attention, people like merson giving five mins of dribble shouldnt even feature on our radar

I agree, its a nightmare to read anything, I used to go there to read all the player interviews after signings, now I cant be bothered, the saints player advert plays havoc with reading the O/S on my phone too

sky sports news raving about clint dempsey going to spurs, we could of had two clint dempseys for what we paid for one ramirez ... intriguing

in other news my cat just yawned, yes we are going to lose, yes united are brilliant blah blah blah

what a terrible idea. a) he got us relegated b) he doesnt suit our kind of club/set up and c) (most importantly) adkins has just got us back to back promotions from league 1, he deserves more than a fair crack of the whip in the prem

my thoughts; we looked aimless at times, just happy to knock it around at the back in the hope that something might eventually come from it, lallana looked lost (aside from his one moment of brilliance), cant understand why ward prowse didnt start, we needed injections of energy/pace all over the pitch, rodriguez clearly doesnt like being out on the wing and we were far too easily knocked off the ball all game ...also the ref/lino were crap

i'm hoping to go, so +1 to whatever we have sold so far, if that helps...

for me it was an expensive reality check that we havent got this pre season right, euros and olympics somehow to blame for not enough transfers and i'm not sure we know our starting line up anymore ..if we beat city it will be more luck than judgement thats for sure and a miracle t'boot

went to the udinese game yesterday, they looked like a football team, we had pub team esque organisation, granted its a pre season friendly, but I guess in my mind I thought we might look a bit more like a team than we did ... rickie looks unfit again, lallana not in the game really, leaking goals, we were so light weight as well, brushed off of everything ... the only glimmer of hope was clyne looked an awesome addition ... in short, i'm fearful ...

i'm going to be foolishly ambitious and say we will finish 5th, 6th or 7th

I think we have better players than norwich and swansea, therefore I expect us to do better than them and therefore I expect us to 'suprise' a few people

seems like a complete waste of money to me, unless you like watching random tuesday morning training ground chats, for the record arsenal fans get it included in their season ticket price (but they do pay upwards of 900 quid for a season ticket)