GOAL! JASON PUNCHEON makes no mistake this time as he hits a fine shot low past the Evian keeper after good work from Schneiderlin #saintsfc
From what i've seen on here Puncheon seems to be having a very good pre seaon so far. He must want to stay at saints
I don't think his ability has ever really been in question. Now he's on side he will be real asset this season
He wasn't match-fit though, that was evident. There's nothing like an Adkins pre-season to get you up to speed.
You can't do a proper, perfect pre-season when you get brought into the fold in mid-late Jan fully and the season ends in April.
In which case we need a new striker. Lee is gonna miss the whole of pre-season, he's no hope of ever getting match fit until next July
Alright, alright fair enough. But Puncheon is chunky and Lee is not ;-) Lets see. Clean slate and what not.
That's fine. I have no problems with Puncheon and I have no problems with clean slates etc, but what I do have an issue with is people making it seem like he'll be a 30 game starter key member of the side, when he's made no impact whatsoever for us in two seasons now. A decent pre-season doesn't make him an amazing Premier League player.
Oh no I agree. We have to wait and see before we can really say. He had a blistering first 8-10 games for us in L1. I remember Norwich away and he was absolutely roasting them.
It wasn't his fitness that was the issue, it was his lack of game time. Then against hull he was thrown on for the full 90 having not played properly for a good few weeks and didn't perform, unsurprisingly
Well we can't really say because he never had much time to show himself. He wasn't chosen because of the off the pitch issues