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If you want to retain the top talent you have to pay them. We chose not to. For a shirt period there was a lot of money made available to attract and retain youth talent, but when certain people left the club, the tap was switched off. Losing genuine young talent like JJM and AGR is a big loss IMO. These are potential Shearers, Lallanas and Luke Shaws. If we are ever going to have a side that can thrive in the Prem again, we will need more than just a few young players getting into the first team, we will need one or two actual superstars to emerge.

Chelsea offer you more money than you can imagine while you continue to learn the game and you say "na, I'll stay here earning buttons, thanks. If I get injured or fail, I'll put it down to experience."

tried and failed. Bit disappointed not to be able to go to the home game, but such is life.

Possibly, but none were impressed enough by what he did at West Ham to sign him last summer, so why would they now feel he is the player they need this summer? He's done well for us, but it's performances in the championship, where he impressed for Swansea. I'm not sure there will be a long queue. If we have the funds, I think he'll be joining us...although the two promoted clubs might be the fly in the ointment.

WBA deserved a draw at SMS. We were excellent first half, totally dominated and deserve to be leading. Second half was all them and they had a couple of great chances in addition to their goal. We scored on the breakaway, against the run of play. Could easily have gone the other way.

he's only ever saved 3 pens, 28 conceded. Pretty poor. For comparison, Kelvin Davis saved 11, conceded 50. Our friend Angus Gunn has saved 5, conceded 24.

I used to play cricket where QPR trained (Imperial College Sports Ground) and every year they'd redo the main training pitches there. I wonder if perhaps we have dug up our own main training pitches and thus SMS has to be the venue for training?

that's the beauty of football. shit teams can beat good teams every now and then.

do you think its going to be 5-3-2 from now on in?

perhaps consider him as a sprinter with explosive pace not long distant runner with a big engine.

I am just desperate for him to succeed. He ain't been great, but him blossoming at Saints would be fantastic. I'm not giving up on him yet.

You obviously didnt witness Stephen O'Halloran in a Saints shirt then?

thats really bad tackle both feet off the ground. Red in the Prem possibly.

another decent McCarthy strong handed parry. He's looked pretty solid. On another day those parries go to a forward, we concede and everyone says how shit he is. Not a single mention about it when it doesn't pan out like that.

he just showed great movement for the header a second ago?