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Another summer break thread. We have seen some real guff served up. Only stipulation is they must have played a 1st team game.

 

Bart

 

James

Lancashire

Bennett

Molyneux

 

Wright

Hammill

Euell

Sarimento

 

Peckart

Patterson

 

 

Manager: Dodd & Gorman

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Bit harsh on Sarimento as he barley played for us, so you can't really make a judgement. To be fair, in the one cup game I watched him in he looked quite handy with the ball....but that's all we saw.

 

I'd have Phil Ifil in at RB in place of James, but the CB's are fair. Can't really argue with LB either..

 

So...

 

Kevin Miller

 

Phil Ifil

Lancashire (could have easily been Liptak...)

Bennett

Molyneux

 

Thomson

Euell

Ryan Smith

Jordan Robertson

 

Peckart

Patterson

 

Manager - The dutch duo.

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-------------- Robertson ----------- Baseya ---------------

 

Hammill ------- Idiakez ------------ Sarmiento ------- Belmadi

 

O'Halloran ----- Powell ------------ Lancashire ------- Wright

 

------------------------- Bart -----------------------------

 

Sarmiento for the shocker away to Notts County

Belmadi for flattering to deceive after the wonder goal v Crewe (I can understand if that should make him exempt though) He never released the f**king ball when he needed to!

May be harsh on Cedric Baseya but to be fair he has vanished without trace.

And Robertson, well, one swallow doesn't make a summer.

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Christ, forgot about O'Halloran. Whatever anyone says, he was signed as a promotional move for the up-coming U21 friendly we were hosting. It was no surprise to see his face used in the posters.

 

Harsh on Belmadi Colin..? He was outstanding for us when he played, but that was the problem - we didn't see enough of him. But when he did play he was often a class above.

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Harsh on Belmadi Colin..? He was outstanding for us when he played, but that was the problem - we didn't see enough of him. But when he did play he was often a class above.

 

I stand by my choice. :)

 

As for Alan Bennett, after the Palace game, ok, but away to Cov that season he was phenominal!

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What about that lad we loaned from Sheff Utd, who later got banged up for death by dangerous driving (or similar).....Jordan Robertson?

 

 

Yep, got him in my team. We played him on the left in a couple of the games so i've stuck him there. Although my team doesn't really have much of a formation tbf.

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:lol:. There you go, i've got our worst tactic from the wilderness years in there too.

 

Might need to find 6 more central midfielders though tbf..

 

Ah, back in the day....

 

----------------------- John ----------------------

 

Hammill -------------------------------------- Licka

 

----------Safri ------ Wright ----- Idiakez ---------

 

Skacel ------- Bennett ----- Davies -------- Thomas

 

---------------------- Bart ------------------------

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:lol:. There you go, i've got our worst tactic from the wilderness years in there too.

 

Might need to find 6 more central midfielders though tbf..

 

Ah, back in the day....

 

----------------------- John ----------------------

 

Hammill -------------------------------------- Licka

 

----------Safri ------ Wright ----- Idiakez ---------

 

Skacel ------- Bennett ----- Pele -------- Thomas

 

---------------------- Bart ------------------------

 

Not sure how to fit 6 in though.......

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Picking Bart is as crazy as it is fcking harsh.

 

Fair enough if we'd only had him and Kelvin, but we made do with KEVIN MILLER FFS.

 

Still, despite never playing, that place has to go to Forecast just for getting paid.

 

Given the sheer scale of absolute dross we've had, picking Skacel seems equally ridiculous. Hardly his fault some fans expected him to be Ronaldinho. He was still pretty good. If you think Molyneux or Dickson were better, you haven't seen much football.

 

That was just a hypothetic Burley team with many CM's team from back in the day, my serious pick was further up.

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Poke

 

James

Lancashire

Liptak

Harding

 

Thomson

Hammond

Wotton

Guly

 

Pekhart

Perricard

 

Hammond, Harding and Guly?!?!?!?!?

 

Have you been following us at all prior to the last 3 years???? Trust me, those 3 are world beaters compared to the dross we've had in their positions. Bit disrespectful to select them as well due to the contributions they've made to our turn around.

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Who

 

Ever

Played

For

Saints

 

Against

Bristol

Rovers

FA

 

CUP

2008.

 

 

 

Best thing about that away day: Rickie Lambert came into my life!

 

Southampton:

Davis

Ostlund

Powell

Davies

Wright

Saganowski (McGoldrick 80)

Idiakez (Wright-Phillips 57)

Viafara (Hammill 87)

Surman

Euell

John

 

Subs Not Used:

Poke

Thomas

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Hammond, Harding and Guly?!?!?!?!?

 

Have you been following us at all prior to the last 3 years???? Trust me, those 3 are world beaters compared to the dross we've had in their positions. Bit disrespectful to select them as well due to the contributions they've made to our turn around.

 

Hook line and sinker :)

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Southampton:

Davis

Ostlund

Powell

Davies

Wright

Saganowski (McGoldrick 80)

Idiakez (Wright-Phillips 57)

Viafara (Hammill 87)

Surman

Euell

John

 

Subs Not Used:

Poke

Thomas

 

Well take Super Kelv and Surman out and I'd say thats right on the money although I could have sworn Leon Best popped up at some point to score an own goal

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apart from players, this was one of the worst nights, certainly at home.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_1/7248322.stm

Just remember the last 20 mins watching Wright lumping useless ball after useless ball at their defence, and thinking, "we are never going to score here". and we were playing Plymouth.

Still, luckily, as Luggy pointed out , we were too good to go down..............

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apart from players, this was one of the worst nights, certainly at home.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_1/7248322.stm

Just remember the last 20 mins watching Wright lumping useless ball after useless ball at their defence, and thinking, "we are never going to score here". and we were playing Plymouth.

Still, luckily, as Luggy pointed out , we were too good to go down..............

 

The embarrassing thing about that Plymouth team is the fact that Wotton was an unused substitute :uhoh:

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Another summer break thread. We have seen some real guff served up. Only stipulation is they must have played a 1st team game.

 

Bart

 

James

Lancashire

Bennett

Molyneux

 

Wright

Roman Gasmi (sp)

Euell

Sarimento

 

Peckart

McGoldrought

 

Manager: Dodd & Gorman

 

Gasmi did play 1st team but only as a sub once or twice.......utter turd in football boots!

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Kevin Miller

=============

Jermaine Wright

Olly Lancashire

Darren Powell

Stephen O'Halloran

===============

Jacob Mellis

Lloyd James (I feel this is harsh - must be someone worse)

Jason Euell

Ryan Smith

===============

David McGoldrick

Bradley Wright-Phillips

 

Subs

Jake Thomson

Vincent Pericard

Paul Smith

Jordan Robertson

Ryan Smith

Nicholas Bignall

 

Managerial Dream Team: Burley and Poortvliet

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Kevin Miller

=============

Jermaine Wright

Olly Lancashire

Darren Powell

Stephen O'Halloran

===============

Jacob Mellis

Lloyd James (I feel this is harsh - must be someone worse)

Jason Euell

Ryan Smith

===============

David McGoldrick

Bradley Wright-Phillips

 

Subs

Jake Thomson

Vincent Pericard

Paul Smith

Jordan Robertson

Ryan Smith

Nicholas Bignall

 

Managerial Dream Team: Burley and Poortvliet

 

You cant have Burley as all the outfield players are in the correct positions

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Who

 

Ever

Played

For

Saints

 

Against

Bristol

Rovers

FA

 

CUP

2008.

 

 

 

Best thing about that away day: Rickie Lambert came into my life!

 

I would say the same against rotherham in the carling cup of 2008, but we had a couple of decent players in that team. Svensson, Perry, Cork, Surman, John. That's the problem of pre 2009. the whole regime was gutless, and without pride.

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GK: Kevin Miller (I still find it bizarre that he was first choice for a time - God we must have been desperate.

DR: Jermaine Wright (Just the worst footballer I've ever seen)

DC: Pele (Not a defender so why sign him as one?)

DC: Bennett/Makin (that defensive pairing against Palace on the opening day of one season has got to be the weakest I've seen since supporting Saints)

DL: Vignal (Had friends who said he'd be naff having seen him at Pompey, they were right - just shocking)

 

ML: Hammill (Overweight and useless)

MC: Safri (Don't think I ever saw him pass it forwards)

MC: Idiakez (too old even when he signed for us)

MR: Jason Euell (Mule - says it all)

 

FC: David McGoldrick (thought he was all that, he wasn't. Every time I see one of his cockily taken yet missed penalties it makes me so angry)

FC: Saga (with the caveat of it being once he'd signed permanently. Thought we'd signed the new Pahars but he was just dreadful after signing on the dotted line)

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Kevin Miller

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Jermaine Wright

Olly Lancashire

Darren Powell

Stephen O'Halloran

===============

Jacob Mellis

Lloyd James (I feel this is harsh - must be someone worse)

Jason Euell

Ryan Smith

===============

David McGoldrick

Bradley Wright-Phillips

 

Subs

Jake Thomson

Vincent Pericard

Paul Smith

Jordan Robertson

Ryan Smith

Nicholas Bignall

 

Managerial Dream Team: Burley and Poortvliet

 

Ryan Smith in the starting XI AND on the bench. Interesting. He was pretty dire in fairness (although annoyingly did look like he could be brilliant - frustrating)

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Harsh on Kevin Miller.. Thought he did well when drafted in.. sure he was no Kelv but thought we had him to thank for many points in his time

 

Completely agree with this. In fairness, during the "wilderness years", it'd be hard to pick our "worst" keeper, purely because I don't think we've had any absolute muppets in between the sticks at any stage (bar Bart and his howler against Blackpool - but that hardly makes him the worst either).

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Disagree with the nominations for Vignal, Miller and Ifil who I thought looked decent at times. Licka wasn't bad either, a bit lightweight but one of the better players under Pearson. I'll try and got for the players who actually played for us, not the ridiculous players like Pulis, St Juste and Forecast.

 

Poke - Saw him ship 5 goals at Hull. Might have had a slight knock, but looked hopeless.

 

James - Had the pace of a man twice his age, lightweight, tried to cross from the halfway line.

Powell (Captain) - Mother of God why...

Lancashire - Had none of the tallents you'd expect of a defender.

O'Halloran - I think Martin O'Neal had a moan because we didn't play him enough. He was taking the p*ss surely?

 

Ryan Smith - World Class. lol

J. Wright - Even in his naturally possition he was hopeless.

Euell - Played pretty much every game for 2 years, always up front or in midfield. Averaged about 3 goals a season. Sh*te.

McCann - Maybe dropping down from the Prem will help him find his level... oh, ah no hang on... nope still crap.

 

Pericard - Retired because he couldn't take the embarassment of going from Juventus to Havant and Waterlooville before his 30th birthday.

Robertson/Pekhart - Pick one or the other, I can't decide. One goal each... that's about it. Actually I'll go with Robertson, he can talk to Pericard about prison.

 

Subs: Pick any from Kenton, Sarmiento, Hammill, Forte, Flakey, McGoldrick (£1m :lol: ), Wise, Paterson, Idiakez, Thompson, Gasmi (pushing McCann for a start), Molyneux, Liptak (was it him who once ran half the length of the pitch looking like he was tackling himself?).

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-------------- Robertson ----------- Baseya ---------------

 

Hammill ------- Idiakez ------------ Sarmiento ------- Belmadi

 

O'Halloran ----- Powell ------------ Lancashire ------- Wright

 

------------------------- Bart -----------------------------

 

Sarmiento for the shocker away to Notts County

Belmadi for flattering to deceive after the wonder goal v Crewe (I can understand if that should make him exempt though) He never released the f**king ball when he needed to!

May be harsh on Cedric Baseya but to be fair he has vanished without trace.

And Robertson, well, one swallow doesn't make a summer.

 

Belmadi?! You flipping nutter.

 

 

By the way, Gasmi.

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