3 things.

Totally agree with you (and Beagrie). Fox should never have been sent off! If anyone should have been sent off it should have been Caldwell. It doesn't matter that he was not the last man, the challenge was so cynical and if it was on the half way line he would have gone.

 

No.No.No.It wasn't a penalty,I'm sorry but it wasn't.
Fox played well tonight,except for all those long balls he hits ...I don't know why he does that...

 

What game did you watch?He constantly gave the ball away with his big hoofs.
In the tackling aspect of things he played well though.

 

Where did I say his hoofs worked?, I said he hardly lost the ball which he didn't in a sence. It was just his hoofing that was ****.

As for asking about the game, seeing as me and my mates are still driving home from brum kinda obv.

 

Yeah,well hoofing it was kind of losing the ball,really.

 

I still think he is being told to hoof it, why else would he keep doing it?.

 

I actually thought his shorter passes were poor. A few times his passes went astray.

 

Go to the game or watch on tv?. Probs why we have different views etc.

 

I thought Adkins wanted us to play a passing game...

 

Think Adkins is more pragmatic than that. Ours strength and natural style is to play good passing football and, at the beginning of the season, some teams were bedazzled and gave up, but he has said there will always be games where there is a need for direct football (aka lumping the ball forward). Are we suprised when we have a striker like Lambert? I would agree with many posters that sometimes we should shoot sooner.

 

Maybe to clear his lines?.......To be honest to me the left is a problem anyway. We seem to end up in more trouble over there than any other part of the pitch. They often play it so tight on the left and lose possession because of it. Often they will get it to a central midfielder who immediately passes it back as he has got his back to the opposition goal. Now whether that is because somebody hasn't told him to turn or he isn't quick enough to turn I don't know. As a consequence it goes up to Lallana (as he too has got his back to the opposition goal) back to fox out to Hoover then more often back to Davis. The reason it would appear is that they have no where else to go as the movement in front of them is very rigid. (I am talking about games at St Mary's). If teams come here and pack the midfield and push up onto the back two you have to stretch them wide and if necessary by pass midfield putting balls into spaces behind them. Unfortunately we are missing the skills of chappers of people that are prepared to take it to the opposition to run at them and get them to commit players to create gaps. Our thinking appears to have gone very rigid. Also our build up play is too slow the passes not disguised enough.

 

2 horrendous yellows! Never rated that ref! Idiot!

 

After giving the first yellow, why would he think a fending off warranted the second. Most refs would have tried to avoid giving that, unless he'd had his eye on Fox for others he hadn't given. A kind of cumulative yellow.

 

Obviously, having heard all the live Solent commentary, but only seen the TV highlights, I can't comment on Fox's overall conduct with a great detail of accuracy, but you could be right with your observation. There have been plenty of instances of cumulative yellow cards [and red], down through the years. Often it has taken just a soft, but certainly illegal tackle, to take the offending player over, what the referee has considered, his personal limit.

 

They say that decisions even themselves out over the season, well, all I can say is that we are due a few good ones after what we have endured in the last few weeks!

 

thank you!!!!!

 

Some of us know that Dan Harding and Adam have a better understanding than Foxy and Adam do, sadly Dan H isn't quite as good as Foxy in some respects so has to be sacrificed, I still wouldn't be too worried on Tuesday if Dan H get his place, I am sure he is good enough to face Millwall.

 

Why oh Why did Lambert not shoot from the free kick??? What was there to lose. As long as he missed the wall there would have been no chance of a counter attack.

 

Yes, we know about this mythical THEY. They turn out to be pundits, who can't be bothered to work out the probabilities, or who simply can't fathom them, that often, a team may have a fundamental decision go against them, and small insignificant decisions go for them. They will say that decisions even themselves out over a season. Yet, occasionally it's the fundamental decision that gets a team relegated, or promoted. Or they win a Championship or Cup, or fall at the last hurdle.

I'll cite the World Cup as an example, as everyone is aware of these incidences. I wouldn't say France's decisions evened out over a competition, when Tierry Henry clearly intentionally hand-balled his team into the World Cup Finals, or cheat Maradona hand-balled his team into a winning position against England. Or are we to say that Henry's handball evened out the decision that went against France back in the 1980's when Schumacher body checked Patrick Battiston..? No..! It's utter twaddle. Incorrect decisions don't even out over any time. What they do is unfairly help and condemn, and should be taken out of the game at the earliest opportunity.

 

Have a look at the Daily Echo Gallery, should Sharpy being playing with this injury! http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/sa...ints/view/gallery_244620.Birmingham_v_Saints/