04 Sep 2013 17:54:51
after Dykes speech this afternoon, I can't help but feel a little smug as a Southampton fan. Considering we are part of the solution not the problem. And because our foreign manager has kept to the clubs tradition of focusing on our British youth. I'm sure Everton and West Ham fans are feeling a little smug too as I feel we three clubs are the only teams consistently bringing high quality British youth through and playing them as well.
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He's targeted for us to win the 2022 world cup by which time Shaw, Prowsey and Chambers will be 27, in their prime, how good do you reckon they'll be then!
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If you think about it we have more young players who will be peaking around that time from this saints youth academy with Sinclair, Rowe and Reed all likely to grow into quite strong players. Also players like Barkley from Everton and keeper Butland will be peaking too from other clubs.
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Wilshere, chamberlin too
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04 Sep 2013 11:06:23
What position does Ward-Prowse actually play? Winger? Attacking central midfielder? And Lallana the last couple of games? Winger or attacking central midfielder? What I´m getting at is that on the wing we obviously have lots of options (Lallana, Osvaldo, Rodrigues, Ramirez, even Isgrove) but attacking central midfield maybe only Davis or Wrd-Prowse? So basicly are we dependant on an 18 year old, with no other options in that position?
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Or Ramirez, or Lallana who can also both play AM
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When we play the 4-2-3-1 system then most of those people are palying as CAM's and we are using wing-backs.
Lallana, JWP and Ramirez tend to cut inside and not play that wide wing role.
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Ward-Prowse is a central midfielder. His best performance this season was in the second half against Sunderland when Schneiderlin went off and he dropped deep alongside Wanyama. Don't think he's suited at all to playing out wide, but the manager rates him enough to want to shoe horn him into the side somewhere and ultimately it's all good experience. But he'll end up at CM or AMC.
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Osvaldo ramirez steve davis jay rod lallana defo no other options :L
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