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If they both sign then Murty-Jaidi-Perry-Harding wipes the floor with any back four we put out last season in the Fizzy IMO. Good stuff. Now for Ricky Lambert or Fernando Torres.

I hope the team for Millwall is Kelvin Murty-MysteryNewSigning-Perry-Harding Lallana-Gillet-Morgan-Fish Rasiak-MysteryNewSigning Although it could be Thomson on the right with Lallana pushed up behind MysteryNewSigning up front with Rasiak offski. Bench: Bart, James, Patterson + take your pick (Thomas if fit).

Leeds probably hoped it was two seasons to get out of this division too. Won't be easy, but I'm still hoping Pards has quietly been given a 5-7 million quid budget to spend on players (plus whatever he can make on sales) and that we can be top ten in with a shout of the play-offs with five games to go. Mind you, I convinced myself we'd finish top ten with an outside chance of the play-offs last summer too. So I'd best keep taking the pills. Come on Pards - 1 x quality of each of the following: right back; no nonsense centre back; box-to-box goalscoring midfielder; wide player with a decent cross; lightning fast striker. Oh, and get Morgan and Lallana playing to their full potential. Not too much to ask is it?

Really good interview - we aim to get somewhere towards the middle of the table by Christmas and then try to push on from there. No promises, realistic stuff - and what he's heard from the fans over the past week sums up the problems he can already see himself. So we're not as stupid as we think we are.

Listening to his interview on Saints TV he seems to know what the problems are already. Lack of passion, lack of fight, and in some areas lack of quality. He's not going to come out and say I've got big bucks to spend and I'm looking to buy six players, is he? But when he says there'll be some movement I think we can believe him.

+1. Wotte a load of utter nonsense.

LOL - we're playing the academy side, it's boys against men, where's the experience.... Hand break on, skid violently, end up facing other direction.... They're all too old, it's like Dad's Army out there, chuck the young'uns on FFS. Who would you rather have alongside Gillett - Holland or Wotton?

This is good compared to last year's 'we will walk it' hysteria. Low expectations based on current squad. Good because a) I've seen a few League One games in the last couple of years and some of the teams are shocking. A fully fit team including Rasiak, Saga, Gillett, James, Davis, Lallana could do some real damage b) I think your demand for several new players coming in will be met anyway and c) Pulis isn't going to get anywhere near the first team this year

For a fan- base that spends days on end abusing the blue few, and has 'Yellows' as its away song of choice, this kit is just too ****ing blue. Loved the inverted version photoshopped earlier though! COYY

Poyet would be good. But my vote's with Coppell. Or perhaps - but may not be realistic - Stuart Pearce.

I'm the best fan on this site and if anyone disagrees with me I'll see you after school behind the bike sheds. 'Ave it.

To the tune of My old man's a dustman... Ohhhhhhhh His name is Markus Liebherr, And he's from Switzerland, When we buy Ronaldo We'll pay cash in hand. We're richer than United We still love Matt Le God But look at poor old Pompey Stuck in Fratton ****ing cod. Ohhhhhh etc etc

No he stayed on because it's arguably the best job he's ever going to have in football. Respect for the way he's handled himself over the last few weeks, but that doesn't make him a good manager. The new owners have bigger better plans.

Hehehehe. Sorry. Just trying to get my post count up.

Let it go boys. Most of us have moved on, why can't you? Let's talk about something else. Oh I know. Football.

I feel like someone has just lifted an enormous lead weight off my back. I'm still stunned at how stressful this has all been, and I currently live thousands of miles away from Southampton. I think I'll go home, crack open a few beers, and cry like a baby. Get in!!!!!!!!

A Swiss role for MLT? And there was me thinking he still needed to lose a few pounds.

Maybe Wotte's been told he's just keeping the seat warm for Steve Coppell to take over as manager once the Swiss/Austrian/Pinnacle/Whacko/Mystery/RodStewart consortium takes over. So he thought he'd impress the new boss by going for Murthy. Good Plan, Amshterdamm.

Best hat-trick I've ever seen. Still outraged that it wasn't in the Guardian's best all-time hat-trick list. Brilliant brilliant game. Also beating Man City after extra time in the League Cup. I thought the Archers was going to explode.

Fortunately so was Fabrice's 90th minute curler into the far corner. Good game that. But yes, it was clear Rooney was going places.

Anarchy in the UK... from the album Never Mind the B0llocks - Here's the Saints.

If we could get £1.2 million for DMG (plus decent sell-on clause) and spend it on Jon Main from AFC Wimbledon (a man who can't stop scoring and would be ours for £100,000 tops), a lower league Jimmy Case (names anyone?), and another old warhorse centre forward (a Steve Howard clone) I'd say that'd be a decent bit of League One business. We are where we are.

Just to add to the cheerful mood of the day - Claus is up in court and has admitted to drink-driving on the M3. Not clear where the other accusation of fleeing the scene of an accident is going. But doesn't look good for him.

How about 'Hey Buddy, can you spare a dime?' If not, I always thought 'Anarchy in the UK' would get the crowd going. Or how about a rocked up version of Bing Crosby's The Bells of St Marys - that could bring a tear to the eye. The Bells of St. Mary's Ah, hear they are calling The young loves, the true loves Who come from the sea And so my beloved When red leaves are falling The love bells shall ring out, ring out For you and me Not sure what love bells are though.

I like this. Comparing the plight of SFC to one of the greatest military debacles in history, in which an estimated two million people died. Good to get things in their proper perspective.