not only horne, i thought houghton had his first poor game for a while, constantly passing the ball right when we had all that possesion in the second half, the majority of our plays easily handled by the saints defence, soon as it came left we scored!

We need a recognised fullback and not Horney. It's a specialised position and it needs filling with an out and out FB. Horne should be used as a utility back if a place on the bench could be found for him.

Spot on.

horne was shocking today. Epitomised our whole performance with his lack of speed and ideas. As has already been said, I can't remember a half back being caught in posession so many times before. Having said that, much of the ball he received was absolute cack. Ball out of dummy half is pretty poor from us all of the time and as much as I like houghton, it is his biggest weakness

Manu, Whiting & Briscoe on our left flank should have had a field day with the possession we had. But they were starved of the ball for the whole game, which was criminal IMO.
Horne is my favourite FC player of the SL era, but I hope we have something a bit more special at 6 next year

Finally!

I've been saying for the last 2-3 years that Horne is done at 6 and when it was announced that he was moving to fb I thought it's not ideal because he still isn't a top fb. But atleast he's away from 6. He should be a squad player from next season. He's not good enough to be a first choice player in any position for us imo.

I said the other day that it is the clubs intention to sign a new fullback and halfback for next season,horne WILL be a back up player next season if all goes to plan

agree with above really although think horney still might be our fb for next year,

There's plenty of quality s/o and fb about.

It wasn't that today, he just genuinely wasn't good/decisive enough. The amount of time it took him to catch and pass today it was like watching Washbrook in the halves for us again. Even for his try he hesitated and looked to pass first with the line begging.

I agree with this, Houghton and Horne were pretty poor today . Houghtons distribution was awful and Horne was terrible.

If Kearney is the best we could do this winter I'd sooner we do go with Horne for a year and then look for better.

Are more and more people finally starting to realise that Horne has had it. Getting him away from 6 is great and getting him away from 6 and fullback will be even better. Squad player if he's to stay for me, nothing more.

Number of poor decisions too. The set just before half time there looked to be an opening on the left but brought the ball back into the traffic on the right and the attack fizzled out

Horne was very poor today,too slow and ineffective with distribution,we are crying out for a decent no 6 and thats been happening for a few seasons now,squad player next season but we need a bit of class in the pivots at fb and hb