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    Confucious wrote:
    I wrote to Nigel, before his departure abroad to scout talent, and said this 'specialist' mindset regarding attacking or defensive players is clouding thinking and is grossly inefficient. There are only so many new players we can afford.

    "Instead, what we need Nigel" I wrote "are just one of two players with the combined ability to show resistance and act as a cover, bastion, bulwark, buttress, shelter and shield to fortify and safeguard the our goal - plus the talent and invasive inclination to assault, charge, rush, storm, strike, assail and aggressively lay into the opposition goal."

    I have no doubt he got on the plane muttering "Cheers Confucious" and feeling determined to apply this glaringly obvious, yet so little applied, logic.

    After all, would you buy a car with a great engine but no wheels or marry a woman with wonderful breasts and no quim?
    Just settling down to my first weekend of the so called summer and 3 months without my beloved Saints. I wish I could find one with wonderful breasts and no gob!!"
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Saints fans make the case for defence

Tadanari Lee, left, one of a big strikeforce at St Marys. Tadanari Lee, left, one of a big strikeforce at St Marys.

Almost half of Saints fans believe that Nigel Adkins’ summer transfer priority should be to bolster his defence.

In an exclusive dailyecho.co.uk poll, almost 2,000 supporters voted on where Saints should strengthen before their Premier League campaign kicks off.

And 42 per cent want Adkins to add to his defensive ranks with 25 making a central midfielder their priority, 21 per cent a winger, eight per cent a goalkeeper and just four per cent a new striker.

Saints did have the second best defensive record in the Championship, conceding just 46 goals over their 46 league games.

But they are short of Premier League experience with only three of the Saints defence having featured in the top flight a handful of times.

Full story in today's Daily Echo

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