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For the first time this season I'm embarrassed. The kids may be trying but this is sh1t.

Are you sure it wasn't Keith Harris the ventriloquist, who used to appear in ****e variety shows with his hand up Orville's bum?

If Lallana is sold I reckon we'll get relegated.

Oh well, you could try the Washington Wizards I suppose. Nice reminder of our magical chairman. By the way are you the bloke who lives on a park bench in the middle of Dupont Circle and shouts "Whatcha doin' with my wife?" at everyone who walks past? I sense the same yearning for attention. It's uncanny.

Yeah - perish the thought that any footballing reasons would come into it. Don't these people know the chairman is trying to run a business? Jeez. I don't know about you Scooby but I'm not that interested in all this soccerball stuff anyway. You got your Redskins season ticket yet?

he hasn't even been manager for a dozen games yet for ****'s sake. all this nonsense about billy davies who we can't afford - lol. i must be getting old but the demands for instant success are starting to **** me off. one thing which will guarantee we fail is changing the manager again and again and again. or haven't you been watching for the last five years.

Don't sell. Keep him for another season at least. Building for the future Rupert, remember? Thank you.

Quote[Can I be in the holding role]EndQuote sure, i'll be in the hole

Sadly, that's the position we're in. But I think the way the chairman handles it will be critical -- ie how long do the good young'uns stay until we cash in. If he's fit there are bound to be some inquiries if not bids for Lallana in January. Fulham and perhaps others. But if he goes that quickly -- after just half a season in the first team -- then the future looks really grim. With Theo we didn't have any choice. With Adam, and others, we do in terms of contracts. So unless the bank are literally kicking the door in, I hope Lallana stays for at least this season and next. Big test of the board's long term intentions/ambitions IMO.

Squeaky bum time. coyr

Big Dave was good, but past his very best when he came to us IMO. I always thought Jimmy Steele was a legend too, but mainly because he looked so ****ing hard -- at least he did to a ten year old standing on a box in the Archers.

Too true. Wrighty was class. One of the best centre backs I've ever seen playing for Saints. Along with Killer in his prime, I'm struggling to think of anyone better in the last thirty years. Who else?

Every dog has his day.

The Egil Ostenstad Staying Onside School The David Prutton Diplomatic Relations with the Ref Diploma The Franny Benali Own Goal O Level and The Ricardo Fuller Degree in how to be a complete ****

Here's a neutral's view from The Guardian -- maybe he wasn't as stupid as some think, just unlucky: Southampton were unfortunate, too, in the dismissal of their teenage central defender Oliver Lancashire, who got a slight touch of the ball in his clattering, covering tackle on the overlapping Damien Delaney. Particle collisions have been in the news for the last few days. This one was neither malicious nor strictly foul. As Jan Poortvliet, the manager, said: "He never had intention to kill someone." Chin up Ollie, you'll be back.

what he said.

Davies and Rasiak. Saga was just what was promised -- a decent player when needing a contract, and then a guy who just didn'[t seem to be able to motivate himself to play his best.

that sums it up for me

That's not a bad shout. A centre back willing to p1ss on all four corner flags could well put QPR off. |And if they were one up with two minutes to go they wouldn't be tempted to play for time in the corners. Nice.

It was indeed £9.1 million as a full and final settlement. Or to look at it another way about £9 million more than we could have got had Theo simply walked. So I presume there is no sell-on clause and canny old Wenger will make a massive profit if/when he gets sold on. C'est la vie.

So you wouldn't put Adam Lallana into last year's team instead of, say, BWP? You wouldn't put Spiderman into a Souness team instead of Ali Dia ; you wouldn't find room for Drew Surman in the Branfoot era? We're a mid-table Championship team at the moment so I know what you mean. But memory does fade with age my friend.

We had no choice, but there's an awful feeling of what might have been this morning. Theo running the show for England, Bale running the show for Wales... good luck to them and roll on doncaster away on a wet wednesday night.

No, he was going to be selling/loaning our most highly paid players. Rasiak, Saga, Davies, Viafara all gone -- and Euell, Skacel, BWP would have gone for a decent offer, and may still go on loan. Personally I would have kept Greg over Stern, and told Stoke they'd got enough of our former players already when they came in for Davies (they re-signed Higgi today as well and maybe they'll take Kelvin on loan). But we have no money and aren't in a position to argue. And btw my Spurs supporting mate says he'd rather have kept Pekhart than brought in Fraizer Campbell for 7 mill. Let's just pray he's right.