Southampton Rumours Archive August 04 2012

04 Aug 2012 14:33:59
Southampton Team v Wolves :

Gazzaniga, Clyne, Stephens, Hooiveld, Fox, Chaplow, Hammond (c), Lallana, Guly, Puncheon, Sharp.

Subs:

K. Davis (GK), Richardson, Fonte, Ward-Prowse, Chambers, Rodriguez, S. Davis, De Ridder, Seaborne.

annoyed with 15 days to go we arent fielding our strongest team possible. only positive that i can find is that Jarvis isnt on the Wolves teamsheet at all. sign him up! :)

Realistic Saint

Agree, doesnt make a lot of sense.. The only logic I can see is that we are still to bring in a number of players and hence NA is still looking at options. There appears little chance for a team to gel. The chances of us making a strong start this season are diminishing by the day.

No RL, Possible injury ?. Paul

There are 3 games still left pre-season. Do you want to have the first 11 trooping out at Man. City worn out and injured?
Pre-season is about bringing players up to full speed but minimising the risk. Adkins will have things he is still wanting to try out, plus he will have masses of electronic data to decide on who needs the games and when.

Saint Martin

Stop worrying guys NA knows what he is doing
In NA we trust COYR

1-0 saints billy sharp nearly half time

Lambert has an injury as well as 2 other players not included. dissapointed Clyne not getting a full game as well as Jay Rod

Realistic Saint

Lambert, schneiderlin, shaw all carrying slight knocks corky off at the olympics, Davis still not fully fit and players need to be given a chance to shine and work way into first team reckoning so chill out people.

Lambert had a knock from training , schneiderlin and shaw also carrying knocks. wouldnt have even started if it was a leauge game today

04 Aug 2012 00:20:50
Southampton set to take Ajax left back, Nicolai Boilesen on loan with a view to a permanent deal.

Would be a good signing, looks like a future star LB.

I think it's obvious you only wrote that becuase we played Ajax last week and you thought it would be more believeable.

Lenny

We have Fox and Luke Shaw already. dont know how much game time he will have, however, we dont have to register Shaw in our 25 man squad so it is still possible. But i think Adkins will most likely let Shaw have a go if something happens to Fox

Realistic Saint

He is a left sided cb he is like daniel agger

No Luke Shaw in the squad for the Wolves game today.... hmmm

I retract that comment. Shaw Lambert and Spider notified as being rested after knocks...

Huey

04 Aug 2012 00:03:19
Apparently Adkins has decided to take the first team captaincy off of Dean Hammond as he won't be heavily capped next season and may be on his way out, he will name a new captain within the new week probably a player who has been at saints for a while, my guess is Lallana as he came up through the youth so will be able to identify with the young players but has so much experience in the club and knows the 'Southampton way'.

Lallana has been the most vocal on the pitch in pre-season matches, so would make sense. Especially now with a more central role. Heard rumour of young scottish winger maybe coming if his time gets knocked out of europe.. Guess mackay-stephen or james forrest.. redandwhitedee

Mirgan sniedejlin

IF it was taken from him you wouldn't expect an attacking midfielder named as skipper. I'd have thought Corky or Jos would be top of the list.

It would probably be Steven Davis

I dnt think we should give it to adz ... Still young and I feel it would be to much pressure .... My thoughts are either kelvin or Davis who has a lot of experience as skipper born leader! :)

I reckon K.Davis. Most expirianced and looks like a good leader.

Lenny

I reckon Lallana would be a good pick he's been around a while and knows the youth team having himself been a youth player not too many years ago. Lallana has been a saint for most of his life and Kelvin Davis is already club captain Lallana should have the team captaincy.

^ Keepers don't make good captains it needs to bean outfield player. Anyone that's played football will tell you you need your captain in the heart of the action and easily able to get his point across. You cannot do that between the sticks and your view of the game is very limited. I would say Hooiveld, Steven Davis or Lallana.

Kelvin defo captin

Kelvin was already team captain but they gave it to Hammond as he was able to communicate with the outfield better, doubt they'd give it back to him

^Yeh Spain and Italy really struggled with GK's as captains this summer ;)

^ That is true however Spain are a freak show there. They really are something special they play with no centre forward ffs!
And as for Italy- Buffon may well be the captain but Andrea Pirlo makes them tick and is very vocal in the middle of the park.

A player doesn't have to be captain to be vocal though, communication is always key. Personally i like having a CB as captain, they should be able to see everything clearly, whereas a midfielder is often being pulled around here and there. However would i give it to Fonte-no. Would i give it to Jos- maybe but hasnt been a saints player for long.

Have you forgotten why kelvin isn't the captain now? He was, it wasn't working so they gave it to an outfield player and named him club captain. So no, it won't be kelvin

Gk as captain is not rly that good idea i personaly think a gk cant give out the orders to the other players as well as an outfield player i think davis i know he is new but comes with so much experience