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Only because MLG's Dad massively overrated him.

Won't be popular with ALWAYS_SFC but someone had to say it. He was stealing the fans hard earned cash.

Considering we signed Stiggy in 1997 for 600k and he was utterly ****e, is he 'pound for pound' one of our worst ever signings? Thats probably the current equivalent of a £12m signing and he made no impact. The Windows 95 version of the black box was seemingly stuck on the Scandanavian setting, which didn't do us too bad to be fair but the Stig was a Carrillo style flop.

I think there is a bit of a fight to secure him, certainly between Ireland and Nigeria, as otherwise an Intl call up is too soon.

This is a red herring and the least of our problems IMO.

I disagree with almost every single football related post your write. Hughes needs to go, but Strachan is just a like for like dinosaur manager. The worst thing about Hughes is his lack of a consistent, visible tactical plan. Strachan would be the same. We need someone younger with a bit of energy and an actual playing philosophy. (Not getting Marco Silva instead of Pellegrino was a big error).

"Morning Mr Gao, it has taken a while to get hold of you. I have a proposition for you..."

Mark Hughes was encouraged by the attacking threat carried by his side, despite the 7-1 mauling at the hands of a rampant Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium today. "I felt we were a threat all game and obviously forced the issue for the Laporte own goal which was pleasing. We had worked on it in the week and carried out our game plan well." "For 5 of their goals the referee was naïve and ultimately that has cost us, we definitely deserved a point, if not more. Clearly we have played well and are close to where we want to be, which is competing for a top 10 finish. If we play like this going forward then I am confident we will get there."

Who do you genuinely feel is in the relegation battle, then?

Newcastle won't go down. Rafa can organise a team and their fixtures til Jan are excellent, unlike their start. They will get double our points between now and Christmas IMO.

He wouldn't get anywhere near their team! Ridiculous post. Which other slow, non goal threat, non creative midfielders do they have? Its not a type they want.

By all accounts Huddersfield have played well in some of the games they have lost - they just lack goals in a big way. In January possibly they will sort that? Re Newcastle - check their fixtures between now and January. They could comfortably pick up double the points we likely will. I think they will do enough to stay up personally, and they are defensively sound.

Huddersfield, Fulham, Newcastle, Cardiff and Saints. Leicester and above are already safe IMO and I don't see West Ham or Palace being in the bottom 3. Burnley will grind enough out at home. Grim, grim start considering fixtures.

He is a decent PL squad player who probably needs a move to be put out of his Saints bubble and revitalise his career. All IMHO of course, Morph

Well for a start Stekelenburg and Davis were worse for us in the PL and thats just the most recent era of no1s.

So, just to check: 1. Forster is one of the worst goalkeepers we have ever had? 2. You expect him to sign a new 5 year contract and then a year later agree to almost halving his pay?

Which teams were those then, seeing as you appear to know? So basically we were expecting Forster to very quickly decide to: a.) Take a pay cut b.) Move to a Championship club Not exactly good treatment of a player we deemed worthy of a new 5 year contract 12 months before to presumably stop him moving elsewhere. As for the Ralph quote, he and the club are the ones that lose credibility as they are not doing as they say.

Who were the host of clubs that wanted Forster? Some options in a madhouse like Turkey? What if he wants to live in the UK? He signed a 5 year contract a year beforehand on a certain wage which probably prohibts him from moving, but Saints were perfectly happy to pay him that at the time so you can't just let his career rot because he wasn't playing well. Just think its not how you treat a senior pro, especially for a club that according to Ralph says it differentiates itself on how we treat people.

IMO current treatment of Maya Yoshida and Steven Davis is pretty poor from the club - especially given current struggles. Both are model pros, leaders for their country and have been great servants at Saints. Seems like Davis is being phased out but IMO he still has a role even if from the bench. Yoshida even more bizarre and its actually a bit off how he has been treated. He is extremely well liked by teammates. Could equally add Forster, put in a very difficult position by the club. Fair enough he wasnt playing well but he doesn't deserve this. Not a good way to treat senior pros and won't have gone unnoticed by others within the squad.

Austin beyond awful at the moment. Still not sure why Saints fans love the guy so much - he has about 14 goals in nearly 3 years at Saints! Shouldn't be considered as a starting option anymore.

1. Hughes Out - no plan, no philosophy 2. Starting Austin is like playing with 10 men 3. Hoedt was actually very good 4. Lemina also 5. Gap already appeared in the league unlike last year. We won't ever be higher than 13th this season and probably a lot lower.

Why do you mention Redmond in every single post about JWP? Bizarre.

Delicious irony here.

Would imagine this is becoming increasingly likely - he isn't even a bit part player at the moment.

Ormerod over Jay Rod for finishing? Interesting.