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Who will be our surprise star?

  • Guly

  • Lovren

  • Mayuka

  • Chambers

  • Lallana

  • Ramirez

  • Other

Results are only viewable after voting.
Archers Road said:
All except Lallana. I think we were all expecting great things from him. Nice to see him finally showing the world what Saints fans have known for a long time.
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The surprise from Lallana is how big an improvement he has made this season over previous. This is the best he has been, since perhaps he was that outrageously talented academy kid of 16-17. I love genuine two-footed skilful players over workhorses, and Adam is both. He's the most talented player, bar none, Saints have had on their books since Matty, and now it is starting to show through properly.
 
TheSecondStain said:
The surprise from Lallana is how big an improvement he has made this season over previous. This is the best he has been, since perhaps he was that outrageously talented academy kid of 16-17. I love genuine two-footed skilful players over workhorses, and Adam is both. He's the most talented player, bar none, Saints have had on their books since Matty, and now it is starting to show through properly.
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Lol, half of this forum had written him off and were 'stating' Gaston shuold start every game.
 
ImpsSaint said:
Lol, half of this forum had written him off and were 'stating' Gaston shuold start every game.
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That's complete rubbish. A few of us said it was going to be a big season for Lallana because he had been under-performing for a long time, and he needed to step up and make a case for his inclusion in the first eleven. To his credit he has exceeded all our hopes. I don't think anyone "wrote him off".
 
ImpsSaint said:
Lol, half of this forum had written him off and were 'stating' Gaston should start every game.
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I don't think that's true at all. As you'll appreciate, I'm on this forum most days and in the past 18 months the worst have seen is disappointment about Adam's form, and that was in isolated moments last season. But nobody has written him off that I can recall, bar perhaps irrational ex-members who are best forgotten.
 
pass the football said:
That's complete rubbish. A few of us said it was going to be a big season for Lallana because he had been under-performing for a long time, and he needed to step up and make a case for his inclusion in the first eleven. To his credit he has exceeded all our hopes. I don't think anyone "wrote him off".
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Isn't that exactly what ImpsSaint was saying? A lot of people had written Adam off last season as not being up to it?
 
Let's not forget Lallana has only had a really impressive quarter of a season in the Premier League. Andy Carroll had an impressive half season not too long ago and he couldn't maintain it. Let's see Lallana keep these performance levels up for a bit longer before we get too excited.
 
written off was exaggeration. However many were expressing doubts as to whether Adam could make that step up whilst at the same time saying Gaston needed time.

I accept no-one had written him off but there were many moaning that Adam could play pants and not get slated by anyone whereas others couldn't which is an oxymoron in itself because they were slating him for being unslatable.

From the platform he started this season, namely doubts over whether he could make the step up then it is a surprise that he has arguably been our player of the season so far at least in the attacking side of things.
 
It is surprising how well he is playing right now, but speaking for myself at least, the major disappointment with his form before was that I knew he could do better. He has earned the right to a bit of leeway in terms of criticism and I think he was given that.

Why does it follow then that Ramirez should be written off after one underwhelming season? Your position seems contradictory.
 
I was surprised at how many people voted for Ramirez. I voted for him too but only because everybody else did! <laugh> I did like the comments which mentioned JWP and Fonte, and they've both stepped up massively. I think JWP wasn't that worse last season so, personally, I've always rated him highly.
 
Modern Life is Rubbish said:
Chambers was the real surprise I think; a decent stand in for when Clyne was injured. Just looked at his profile on the OS, and he's listed as a midfielder. what is his preferred position?
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Started as a right midfielder but as is the way with they acadamy, he was moved around and the rightback slot suited him. If you look at his goal record for england and the acadamy its fairly impressive for a rightback. For the first team im pretty sure he was told to concentrate on defending as was Shaw when he first entered the team.
 
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