Ex Lion Tamer

Along with fitness, it's Adkins' psychological control of the squad the marks him as a great manager. We may not have the perfect squad but he has kept this team focused and brought the best out of them, particularly in the slippery games against weaker teams

Chaplow is not a RM, he is a CM, although I still think he is probably our best bet at RM because he is the best at protecting the RB. He was also getting into good positions going forward but the trouble is he's not very good at crossing (because as I say, he's not a RM). He's much better at arriving in the box late to finish a move.

Chaplow's our only midfielder who can get box to box in central midfield, we need him to find his form in the centre and not waste him on the right as Hammond and Cork together are not adventurous enough

Should only be played in CM I think, he's not a RM

He was quality and I could never understand the criticism he got, although yes, he didn't offer as much cover defensively as someone like Telfer did

This is my number one gripe. There must be something they can do make it possible to buy a halftime pint without having to miss some of the match? They would make more money if they did, as no doubt more people would head down to buy if they knew they could get a promptly served drink, so everyone's a winner

I miss Benthelegend

There's a picture in the concourse at SMS where at least 50% of the fans pictured have moustaches, its odd

Echo saying Saints have a financial arrangement with the BBC, anyone know what this is?: http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/saints/news/8726935.Saints_chairman_breaks_silence/?ref=twt

Surely its more that the Dell was a massive benefit to us as teams hated playing there due to how close the crowd was, and it was that that helped us punch above our weight for so many years

Looking at the latest Echo story they appear to be very much back in the loop with insider knowledge. Loooks very much like the info has come with the blessing on the club. It seems to me that, in what is a testing time for Cortese, he has realised how much he needs the Echo

They want their logo in as many places as possible to get value for money

It would be sad if we did it every week. As a one off to demonstrate how easily we were winning a wembley final, it was fun. Especially taunting the Carlisle fans for not joining in

I read this one, its pretty good though no idea if its better or worse than the others mentioned: http://www.thefootballforum.net/ The design's nicer at least

I want stripes to be honest, was quite excited by the idea of having Saints stripes without a sponsor. If you can afford to buy the strip every year then i can see that you wouldnt be bothered by a year off of stripes, but as an occasional buyer i would really like to get the stripes without the sponsor. Cant have everything though i suppose. Yet, i dont see the logic in going back to a kit that we only had for one or two years, which was probably chosen quite arbitrarily, as opposed to something that we wore for many years and which many of our heroes wore.

Norwich only got relegated because they had Bryan Gunn as their manager, who was rubbish. As soon as he left the players, plus some new ones, started to show their potential. Our problems were more more deep rooted, not least because we didnt have the quality of players

I wasnt there but it sounded awesome on tv. One question though is i was surprised i didnt hear 'wash your mouth out son', we do this song every game and when they actually visit it doesnt happen? Or was it just not audible on tv?

They made an unreasonable demand which the Echo rightly refused to fulfil and so they throw out their toys. Ok so the club has all the power in this situation but I would rather the Echo retained the independence to print what it likes when it likes rather than it become the OS part 2

The club are acting like idiots though

I was going to say the fact that we, at a time when we were in the championship and had no money, announced that we were going to play total football. But yeah the statue beats that

Is there though? All your argument consists of is speculation. Cortese has struck me as vey sensible so far but going on the info so far it seems the echo has acted only as any self respecting newspaper would

Cannot believe anyone on is having a go at the echo for printing public domain info! Come one. The echo gets so much stick for toeing the line then people give them gip for going againt saints' news agenda

Yeah, i laughed at that! Well worth signing up to that podcast. Can someone please remind me what muffingate was as i always forget

From Wikipedia: Sounds like he's still got it, i'd have him back, great to have a passionate player like him in the side