Southampton Banter Archive August 24 2013

24 Aug 2013 23:38:22
Why does every other club wonder where SFC are getting this money from?

Or the blistering price 10m is for nothing.

Because these tend to be people with big club mentality who have no concept of what happens outside the top 4 because they are 'small clubs'. The rest just haven't kept up to date. No one does their research anymore.

24 Aug 2013 19:40:17
Hey ed,

i feel as though ward prowse is almost on par with Shaw as a prospect. His technical ability is outstanding for a man of 18. Possibly the brightest English prospect for a midfield role.

what is ed001's thoughts?

saintg

{Ed001's Note - I like JWP, alongside Liverpool's Rossiter, he is the top English youth prospect I have seen. Rossiter is on a par with Gerrard at his age, so that gives you an idea of how highly I rate them. My only worry for him is that he might struggle for first team football, with Southampton having a strong group of youngish mids already in place. Maybe the talk about letting Cork go might need to be true for his sake.}

Ross Barkley. 19. Mustard

Respect to Ed001's knowledge, again, but hope Cork doesn't go yet and, at the moment at least, I think it's the rest of our midfield who need to worry about first team football and not JWP!

JWP has started 2 in 2 with no midfield or attacking injuries of note. I think that says something about how involved he will be in the first team.

JWP was fantastic yesterday, I must admit I was insanely impressed with his passing from dead ball situations, I think he still lacks certain elements to his game but give him a season and I think he will be a contender for England.

24 Aug 2013 18:22:50
Still need that creative midfielder to thred the killer passes though cortinho would have been perfect?
70. /. Of the play and still struggling to score from open play? We still need that xfactor player to open up defences!
Why we let punch go without bringing someone in first makes no sence?
Let's hope Mopo got something up his sleeve!!
Would have played Osvaldo over jay! From the start!

Jay had one good moment in that game that was falsely ruled offside but apart from that he was very poor. A shame because I thought he'd build on his progress last season straight away. Oh well, hopefully he'll get back into the swing of things soon.

We have spent well but the rookie errors are still there. We were absolutely awful marking from set plays.

I think we do lack that little cutting edge that makes a great team at the moment. We play great build up but when the opponents try to shut up shop we lack that ball to set the right man in to score. Perhaps it's an issue with youth and Osvaldo may be the cure but we will have to wait and see. But I would love to see another attacking midfielder join who we know has the through ball capabilities.

Ramirez is the solution, we need to give him more game time and he will be key to us.

Agree we should have played Osvaldo over Rodriguez and also agree with the Ramirez post

Totally disagree. Oswaldo would have been sent off for a start. He did very little - very deflating. Jay actually scored a very good goal but for the flag. on balance Saints should have won.

To the guy who said osvaldo should hae been sent off, the first challange was a simple collision which diakite made a meal of, furthermore when he can on osvaldo had pace power and was clever with his use of the ball. If J-Rod had finished one of his 3 clear chances would have been game over. Put osvaldo in his place and I imagine he would have converted one or two of this opertunities.

Agree that Coutinho would have been perfect but don't 100% agree with anything said above. Huh, football fans eh? S'pose I should feel happy about being disappointed at dropping 2 points!

Agree with the above post, Osvaldo in Rodriguez's place, he showed us signs of the good things to come when he came on and linked up well with lallana and Ramirez. Ward-Prowse was outstanding to

Firstly Osvaldo probably should have been sent off, [thank god he wasnt] but personally I think Jay Rod is a very handy player, JWP did phenomenally well
but Lallana has been off the boil since we got into the prem, Gaston hasn't found his feet, Punch was extremely inconsistent, Guly is the same, personally I think out of all the attacking midfielders we have him and JWP look heads and shoulders above the rest.

I really don't rate j-rod find his finishing to be at a very poor standard

I was very pleased to see how Osvaldo made quite a few chances for other people on Saturday, the future is bright people.
Even if we have only won one out of the last six.

24 Aug 2013 17:29:51
I know I can't be the only one who thinks this, but I don't think Lallana is up to the standard for a first team spot. Don't get me wrong, I love him for the loyalty and service he has shown to the club but I think Ward-Prowse and Ramirez are better options. I think he'd be bettered served coming off the bench in the last 20-30 minutes of the game, where his flair and pace can wreak havoc with tired defenders. I do think Poch already has these thoughts, and with Osvaldo signing I can see us weaning Lallana out and using Ward-Prowse more, with Osvaldo playing on the right as an inside forward. Just my thoughts on this, any one have anything to add?

I think your mad. Lallana is one of our best players!

Lallana and Rodriguez are squad players. I think the future should see Ramirez cutting inside from the right, Ward-Prowse playing as the most advance central midfielder/AMC and someone with a bit of pace attacking from the left. Perhaps Victor Moses will be available now Chelsea own half the world's attacking midfielders. Maybe Omar Rowe is close to being ready to step up.

Osvaldo's going to take over from Lambert soon. No-one wants to acknowledge it, but he'll be like Norwich's "talisman" Grant Holt - back in the Championship next season.

Agree. He's a good squadie but he shouldn't automatically be in first team. His only flaw really is that he tries to do to much and ends up giving away possession. If they could train that out of him then maybe, but right now with our high pressing, losing possession so cheaply ends up punishing with critical counter attacks.

Lambert won't be back to championship next season, he's better than Holt

Thought the 'Lallana and Rodrigues are squad players' was an honest and insightful post until the last 6 words. C'mon mate, they're are loads of Prem clubs who would snap our hands off for Rickie. Btw, I wish people would put names to their posts to make responding easier.