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he is not quick and he is left footed. Why does everyone expect him to go past fullbacks on the outside? Every now and then he goes outside to keep the fullback honest and he did that today, but he's going to come inside more often than not and when he does he'd looking for movement in front of him and in the second half (one great Morgan run apart that he should have picked out) there wasn't a great deal going on so he eventually ran into trouble. He got caught in possession down the middle once, when a little slow to release, but at least he was making things happen and offering a threat. Having someone dribble and take pressure off the back four is vital and he does that well. Once he went off we hardly kept the ball at all and we ended up dropping deep and under the cosh. In contrast Chaplow doesn't dribble and relies on people finding him on the move. We didn't have enough ball to take advantage of that and our right side just disappeared as any sort of threat, long angled balls from Yoshida apart.

Can't agree with this at all. Chaplow has played wide midfield for us for two seasons. Mayuka is a centre forward who has played a few minutes on the right side of an attacking 3. I don't want to see him or any other striker playing wide as part of a 4-4-2.

why do we keep taking Puncheon off? He was our best player against United and he was right up there today as well. We haven't improved in any way after both substitutions. Add to that we dropped him completely at Everton. Adkins certainly knows how to keep the two muppets behind me happy. They moaned at him all game, then moaned at Guly too. Talk about judging a player based on past performances. Lambert wasn't having a great game and did very little in the second half, but defensively we are weak at set pieces whenever he goes off. I thought Fox had a pretty good game today. Got tight to Duff and tracked his runs well. Got the wrong side of him a couple of times, but he was only done when faced with a 2 on 1. A few stray passes, but overall I thought he did OK. A million miles better than the Villa game. Fair play to him.

I can't helping thinking that Cortese has redeployed girls in skirts to hand those sticks out

is he?

Jordon Sibley. If you have a better route to an answer I'm all ears.

why do you frequent a football forum, is it to whinge at whingers?

Jordon Sibley. If you have a better route to an answer I'm all ears.

so it could not be both ST and TV money then?

er no, read my post again, the complete opposite.

Season ticket revenue will be around £12m and next season the TV money is over £22m so it could be quite a bit more than £16m.

some of us, having seen our great club and the **** one down the road get close to liquidation, are not happy to just stick our heads in the sand and say "He is Swiss, of course he knows what he is doing. They are all great with money over there, especially the bankers." We want to be sure. We can do **** all other than ask questions. it costs nothing to do that. if you don't give a ****, that is fine. Watchign Saints is a past time, a hobby after all. But for those that nutjobs, to coin a phrase, that like to monitor every move made by the club, this action must be highlighted, discussed and questioned. It's not worrying. Personally I've got far bigger things to fret over, and no one is adding grey hairs as a result, its just the interweb

I recall the skates saying exactly the same thing. Didn't quite work out like that with TBH did it?

surprised he didn't have to go the stadium to collect the letter.

Are you being serious about the dinner invite? I would hope top of your list of questions would be about the loan.

You are on to something there. How about priority seating fee and non allocated seating. That would encourage fans to get into the ground hours before the game to ensure their place (like the old days) and then you'd have more time to sell them **** they don't really want like foul smelling hot dogs.

I wonder how many former programme sellers that have perhaps been selling them for 20 years or more (getting a free ticket as payment) will now shrug their shoulders, say this is progression and then head down the ticket office to buy their £36 ticket? Unless we are selling out and can sell their seats this saves the club nothing That said, automation is everywhere, so why not programmes? Southampton Football Business goes from strength to strength.

I don't know if he is sensible with money or was a successful banker. Being a Swiss banker doesn't mean you are necessarily either, but he's done very well for himself and he's been very successful at SFC that's for sure. However criticising other clubs for spending future income and then doing exactly the same is hypercritical. I'm sure he has everything in hand, but one admin was more than enough and I don't want to see risks taken.

did your source suggest that the owners would not be loaning/gifting any more money? Also any indication that they would be owners for decades?

what makes you say that? Knowing how to squeeze the last penny out of fans or racking up £21m of debt in three seasons? The fans keep paying and the side keeps winning so his decisions have been correct, but football is unpredictable, things could easily have been different. Can you tell me how he has demonstrated he is sensible with money? Yes I'm a cynic, indulge me.

did your source mention any reasons for the need to loan from a third party?

really. Wonder of Kweku Adoboli or Kareem Serageldin will use that line to get their next job?

The Everton loan from Vibrac in 2011 of £14m is suggested to be costing them £1.3m and a previous bank loan in 2010 cost them £1.6m PLUS 3%+bank base rate interest, so these loans are not cheap by any means.

genuine question. Can you give me some details about Cortese's success as an investment banker. I keep hearing on here how successful he was but can't find anything to substantiate it.