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I knew Kev from his days as an associate schoolboy at Saints. He was a nice lad and a terrific centre midfield prospect back then. I was over the moon when he signed for us and thought he did a good job for us overall, scoring a few cracking goals along the way. I seem to recall him running rings round Man City at their place at the start of one season. If only he had taken the chances at Fratton and Bucherest he might have become a Saints legend. I thought the comments when he left we slightly misplaced for such a seasoned pro, but they were pretty harmless and I didn't feel any anger towards him at all. He just said that he hadn't settled and things didn't go quite right. Hardly surprising considering his apparent private life at the time. Football fans are always looking for a villain and having been relegated he fitted the bill nicely. I have to say the songs at WBA when we first played them again were amusing, but obviously ruthless. I had to chuckle though when he popped up to score an equaliser right in front of us Saints fans and he gave us all a little smile himself. He certainly had the last laugh that day. I have to say I was gutted he got another deal at Palace. He is bound to score against us. Seriously though, he has been a great player and you have to applaud players that get rejected then fight their way back through the leagues as he did.

maybe the banning of photographers and the local paper, the shoddy treatment of Nick Illingsworth and MLT, and a dare say selecting only a couple of journalists to talk to.

I agree with you but our balance is lost with fox both on an attacking and defensive sense. Our centre backs are so much more exposed and we lack penetration without the runs to the byline from Shaw. Huge loss. Shaw as much as cork changed our season

something done years ago doesn't amount to tradition. Tradition needs to be something done regularly over a period of time I'd of thought.

How much is he liable to go for?

Hull City with a nickname The Tigers is not the same as Hull Tigers. does anyone actually think a name change to Southampton Saints would be OK? That would be a very sad day if you ask me.

When I lived there in the mid 90s they were known as `City' by ullites. In recent times knickname `The Tigers' has gained prominence, but `Hull Tigers' seems a step too far. What next, the Sunderland Black cats? The owner points to short names being the reason but City is shorter than Tigers the last time I counted. This name change reminds me of that Budweiser **** take advert with the Portsmouth Pirates etc. Sadly fiction seems to becoming reality

Can we try and win it please?

even though it's for Rovers I still enjoyed watching this Lambert goal posted on twitter

aren't Defoe and Rooney both injured? he might actually get a game. Pleased for him. Not sure it is good news for Saints 3 days before the season starts. Maybe Saints players getting caps will help improve our profile and help with future recruiting.

I wouldn't mind reliving Horne's equaliser against Bolton or SRL's goal at **** park. if allowed I'd like to go back and stand on the post and volley that skate's volley clear or better still quantum leap into Guly's body and go through Ward like a freight train.

Hard to tell much from a youtube video, but as videos go that one doesn't sell Finnbogason all that well to me.

I was thinking exactly that for some reason - must be the tap in description used on this thread, but in reality there is no chance he'd come to us I'd of thought. There would be a long old queue of clubs before us probably.

that worries me also. It seemed a lot of money for a player they didn't seem to rate.

if that is accurate it's not the most glowing of endorsements. I'd be worried about the time it might take for a Brazilian striker to settle. I don't watch Brazilian football, but I imagine it's a very different style.

care to expand?

how would I know? We got them quite early in the window, so that might suggest yes, but I think the term `targets' was used by Alpine rather than `first choice targets'.

Can someone tell me why we thought we could ever sign this guy when Spurs have failed to do so for the last few seasons? Was it the extra tv money at our disposal that meant we might actually be able to match the selling clubs asking price? Why have Spurs not used that extra money themselves to buy him? Out of interest, do Brazilian strikers have a history of bagging lots of goals when they come to Europe? For some reason I can't get Mirandiha out of my head, but I ma sure there are some good examples where they have thrived.

I know we have been over this a thousand times, but don't nearly all teams have difficulties prizing away decent players from other clubs at the price they want to pay? I mean there's a small side in Madrid that seem to be having a little spot of bother getting that Bale kid. All very frustrating I imagine. Why don't thy just give Spurs whatever they want and just be done with it? If the two clubs valuation of a player match then deals have a chance as they did with our targets Lovren and Wanyama. besides, these signings show that we don't always struggle to capture are targeted players.

any reason why?

Interesting to read above that Damiao had scored just 29 goals in four season. That is not quite the full picture. according to Wiki in: 2010 he scored 7 goals in 25 Brasileiro Série A games. 12 in 35 in all competitions. 2011 he scored 14 goals in 28 Brasileiro Série A games. 38 in 51 in all comps. 2012 he scored 7 goals in 19 Brasileiro Série A games. 24 in 43 in all comps. 2013 he scored 1 goals in 2 Brasileiro Série A games. 9 in 20 in all comps.

if you needed a guy to trap a bag of cement, he wouldn't be the ideal choice. I'd give him 8 out of a 100. He gave his all in games and in the odd one he was effective because he won some headers, but by and large I rank him as the least talented footballing professional I have ever seen at the club. Fair play to him for making a career out of kicking people

I really hope we don't get to test this theory.

didn't we sign Yoshida last summer? Oh... I can see now why you were left dissappointed.

he signed for us in Jan 2006 so I don't think he did. Are you thinking of Blaney with regards to save of season?