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Got back half-an-hour ago. Did the job quite well today and we had extra in the tank if we needed it but do want to see more ruthlessness if we are going to kick on and build towards being L1 Champions next year, Leeds and Norwich would have killed it off earlier.

 

Murty was excellent and a quantom leap improvement over the hapless James at RB (James is far better in CM) and Lallana was a treat to watch again. No-one had a poor game although Perry is clearly in the final embers of his career and should be emergency cover only really. This is a game we would have lost 2-0 last season so let's be pleased and look forward to the Third Round draw.

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Great win, had to leave 15 mins early as my 4 yr old daughter wanted to go. To be fair she wanted to go after the first 10 mins. It was her first match, and part from being surrounded by hairy arse southerners, some bloke woked past with blood oozing from a head wound. She said tonight when I put her to bed. "Daddy, don't take me to football ever again, i did like the train ride though" I think I will try again but it will be at home in the family enclosure next time I think. And how **** are there facilities!? Also, I had lost my phone in the taxi on the way there so need someone in the ticket office to phone me a cab. I was told they didnt have a pay phone, and when I dared suggested I borrowed on of there phones they looked at me like i'd asked to **** in there shoes! My daughter was freezing, in the end one of them called a cab, but was told it would be at least 30 mins. I asked if they could try another, and they said they only ever use the one firm. I explained that it was for us not them so surely they could use another, but they refused. They suggested that the station wasnt too far away anyway and I could walk, bloody gits, its 2 mile away!! Ended up walking to the travel lodge and the guy on reception got us one straight away. What is it with some people?! They were women too so you would expect they would have a little more compassion. Kind of didn't help with my daughters first matchday experience! Still had a good day though, and it was quite funny that any time a song with swear words started my daughter looked at me to make sure I wasnt joining in! :)

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Was nice to be back in my old uni town today still as freezing as I remember it. Played really good football at times especially when keeping the ball on the deck. Waigo makes me chuckle looks absolutely shocking for 40 minutes then scores 1 and sets up the other. Shouldn't have conceded but that appears to be an SFC trait at the mo and so be it as long as we score more than the opposition thats what matters.

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Great win, had to leave 15 mins early as my 4 yr old daughter wanted to go. To be fair she wanted to go after the first 10 mins. It was her first match, and part from being surrounded by hairy arse southerners, some bloke woked past with blood oozing from a head wound. She said tonight when I put her to bed. "Daddy, don't take me to football ever again, i did like the train ride though" I think I will try again but it will be at home in the family enclosure next time I think. And how **** are there facilities!? Also, I had lost my phone in the taxi on the way there so need someone in the ticket office to phone me a cab. I was told they didnt have a pay phone, and when I dared suggested I borrowed on of there phones they looked at me like i'd asked to **** in there shoes! My daughter was freezing, they said they only ever use the one firm. I explained that it was for us not them so surely they could use another, but they refused. They suggested that the station wasnt too far away anyway and I could walk, bloody gits, its 2 mile away!! Ended up walking to the travel lodge and the guy on reception got us one straight away. What is it with some people?! Kind of didn't help with my daughters first matchday experience! Still had a good day though, and it was quite funny that any time a song with swear words started my daughter looked at me to make sure I wasnt joining in

 

Haha what bad luck you had, took my two for the first time and to be honest I built the atmosphere to be so special and it turned out pretty flat.

 

At least they are enjoying the hotel room in Northampton right now.

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Mate, Boateng couldn't finish a ham sandwich and that other striker couldn't hit a banjo with a cow's arse!!!

they have been creating chances and not taking them against much, MUCH better teams than us...

 

we conceed about 2 goals a game at the mo...I would fear they would be too much for us and cant take that yet...not after they humped us last time

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I note a change in me which has occurred. I didn't have a niggly feeling that it could all go wrong! Years of being used to us losing in the cup against lower division opposition seems to be on the turn. I felt certain that we were going to win and would have been very surprised if we hadn't.[/

 

As I mentioned in another thread, the expectation rather than dread is a major change in our outlook, what a great feeling !

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Great win, had to leave 15 mins early as my 4 yr old daughter wanted to go. To be fair she wanted to go after the first 10 mins. :)

 

Hey I was sat right behind you , hope I didn't swear :) She seemed to enjoy the occasion certainly was less troble than my old Dad who was sat next to me ha ha.

 

I took my daughter when she was 3 and that was standing on the Archers... hard work and as I remember I left early too.

 

Anyway she saw a win for her first game and that's important. She'll have to go to every game now.

 

Macca

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just got back and i see the same suspects slagging off the team, we won a game we would have lost last 2 seasons.

some people on here can never find anything positive to say about the club, team or players.

 

Perhaps beating Northampton was expected but after leading by three goals 3 2 is a little disappointing not happy clappy

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just got back and i see the same suspects slagging off the team, we won a game we would have lost last 2 seasons.

some people on here can never find anything positive to say about the club, team or players.

who are slagging off the team...some are concerned by our apparent lack of defence each game at the mo

 

 

do you think pardew is happy with this..or ALSO concerned..?

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Gave away a needless penalty and scored a crap own goal. Very similar to Gobern's performance against Bristol Rovers in the first round of FA cup. If Gobern were poor on that night, Hammond was better but similar to him just now.

 

Why I don't want him to be our skipper? Just pure preference. I think Jaidi must be a better skipper and if I am the manager I will give the armband to Jaidi.

Based on what? Pardew clearly does not agree with you and, with respect, I think that I would back his judgement over yours.

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I'm chuffed to bits with how our season's going but I do worry about our defence. Yesterday we looked very fragile - every time Northampton got in the last third it felt like it took last ditch defending to stop them from scoring!

Don't think the centre back pairing has been solved yet - Murty looked great and Harding not bad but through the middle we look vulnerable.

If we buy in Jan that's the first position I would look to strengthen

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I'm chuffed to bits with how our season's going but I do worry about our defence. Yesterday we looked very fragile - every time Northampton got in the last third it felt like it took last ditch defending to stop them from scoring!

Don't think the centre back pairing has been solved yet - Murty looked great and Harding not bad but through the middle we look vulnerable.

If we buy in Jan that's the first position I would look to strengthen

 

I don' think Perry will play a lot of games this season. Having said that I prefer Thomas to Trottman at the moment.

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Another good day at the office. The important point to remember is that we are winning on heavy pitches in rain-sodden conditions whereas or slickest football is designed for fast dry pitches. If we can win ugly repeatedly in these conditions then it should be fun when spring comes and we can knock it around a bit.

 

SUID

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I really cant understand why Mills was brought on and not James.

 

We needed a calm head in midfield to keep possession, I would have got James on after 55-60 mins. Schneiderlin isn't going to at his best on that sort of surface in those conditions. We couldn't keep hold of the ball at all in the second half, it was probably our worst 45 minutes since we got Jaidi and Waigo and the whole team turned the corner.

 

Three well worked goals are probably the only real positive from yesterday. Was also nice to see Bart come from quite a few crosses although he clearly needs a few games to get to his best.

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I note a change in me which has occurred. I didn't have a niggly feeling that it could all go wrong! Years of being used to us losing in the cup against lower division opposition seems to be on the turn. I felt certain that we were going to win and would have been very surprised if we hadn't.[/

 

As I mentioned in another thread, the expectation rather than dread is a major change in our outlook, what a great feeling !

 

It is a great feeling and we are a lucky bunch of supporters with a set up like this. On the other hand it is also a work in progress, and AP has some way to go before he is happy with his squad and what it is doing. We have clearly started scoring goals, hurrahhh, and a winning mentality is under construction, but there are tweakings to do in the defending department and major surgery to do in the first team squad beyond the bench.

 

Some of the critique can be a bit wild, but it is also progress to question a 3-2away win, rather than the wimpering defeats we have become used to. To suggest that we shouldn't retain a critical attitude is way off the mark.

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A solid and comfortable win, with the scoreline flattering Northampton.

 

It's a bit of a concern that we're still leaking goals, but as Pards has said, it's 'job done' and now we wait to see who we get next!

 

I thought Lallana, Wotton and Schneiderlin all had good games, with Lambert putting in a good shift as the lone striker.

 

Perry and Bialkowski hardly inspire me with confidence, but neither have had much game time of late so they could just be a tad rusty.

 

All in all, an entertaining game, a deserved win and a good day out.

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What hasn't been mentioned is that we had to deal with a referee who was aching to give Northampton everything he could. Gutterdidge got away with a terrible late challenge on Harding with just a warning. Lallana was clearly pushed down in the penalty area and then right at the end Harding was pulled back in the penalty area. Ok we had pushed the ball too far, but it is still a penaly whether he could have got the ball or not.

 

And what was going on with the refreshment kiosk at the back of the Alwyn Hargarave stand? Even though there were only Saints fans in the whole stand the stewards wouldn't let anyone get to it. Maybe they were saving the pies for Akinfenwa?

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What hasn't been mentioned is that we had to deal with a referee who was aching to give Northampton everything he could.

 

Dunno, he could quite easily have given them a penalty at 0-0 when Harding pushed one of their players in the back. Granted it wasn't a massive shove but enough for it to be given if the ref was that desperate to appease the home fans.

 

Quite a drab game. Seemed like Saints were coasting most of the time. You could see such a gulf in class when we got our passing and movement going.

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Got back half-an-hour ago. Did the job quite well today and we had extra in the tank if we needed it but do want to see more ruthlessness if we are going to kick on and build towards being L1 Champions next year, Leeds and Norwich would have killed it off earlier.

 

Murty was excellent and a quantom leap improvement over the hapless James at RB (James is far better in CM) and Lallana was a treat to watch again. No-one had a poor game although Perry is clearly in the final embers of his career and should be emergency cover only really. This is a game we would have lost 2-0 last season so let's be pleased and look forward to the Third Round draw.

 

 

Well maybe not Leeds or Norwich, but anyway.....

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Job done and after we scored it sounded pretty comfortable until the battery on my radio packed up and I later found out that it ended 2-3....Glad it did pack up if it got that much of a nail biter!!!!

 

I was listening to it on Solent; does anybody know what 'dithering and dathering' is or means??!!!!

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What, that we've played Northampton in the cup already once this season ? :rolleyes:

 

You should use a dictionary to look up "Completely and Utterly"

 

I think he was referring to the point you made that we won "there" already this season. We actually played them at home in the Carling Cup. I think that's what he means.

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As good an explanation of your diminished mental capacity as any.

 

lol you really are very combative aren't you little man. I'm not going to bite. I will disagree with a lot of the BS you will write, which I'm entitled to do, but I'm not going to get personal with you. But hey, keep getting personal with me, I'd love for you to get banned.

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Tbf St Will after how personal you got a while back it's quite hypocritical to have a go at Alpine for it now. You stupid c*ck. ;)

 

Yeah well he wound me up to sh1t with his negativity. I'm not biting anymore - I'll just let him make himself look stupid and enjoy other people slagging him off.

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What, that we've played Northampton in the cup already once this season ? :rolleyes:

 

You should use a dictionary to look up "Completely and Utterly"

 

Diddums. Mocking someone for calling it a tricky place to go, when we had already won there once this season, when we hadn't played there at all this season. Go back to your hole.

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