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spot on.

I have a ST but I'm certainly not in denial. With the financial problems we have (we actually lost £17m last year without player sales saving us) I have said (and keep saying) that we will go down. Anything other than relegation will be a bonus. With that in mind I think we are doing pretty well. For starters we are than we finished last season, and really I like our passing style. I like the number of chances we are creating, I loving watching Lallana, Surman, McGoldrick and Cork linking up and but for some poor finishing we would have won quite a few more games. I do go to the away games so I have seen us win games this season.

was he injured perhaps?

Patterson and McGoldrick are both excellent prospects. The boo boys can all **** off.

we are doing a hell of a lot better than I thought we would. Great first half. Gutted we didn't hold on. Cheer up people, we are playing well.

poor game today buts not write him off just yet. 20 games into a career, plenty of time to improve.

what difference does it make whether we pay the mortgage off to the bank or the rent to the council. Actually just like with housing it is better to pay a mortgage off as you get a house at the end that is yours to sell (or in our case live in rent free) than to pay rent that goes on forever and at whatever price the landlord sees fit.

my question is does the loan agreement permit him to be sold to another party? I can't see it happening. None of our senior players are going to be bought. They are all on ludicrous wages and clubs don't want to be saddled with those wages (plus a fee) and then pay them during the summer months. Much easier to loan them till end iof may and then hand them back. Rasiak and John must be tempting for other teams though as they are proven scorers if perhaps not the best team players.

no offence Kate from Andover (in the Echo's own message board) but Ryan Smith has been utter ****e and I don't want to see a single penny of my ST mney going to pay his wages. Get rid. We have BWP, Surman, Holmes, Skacel and Lallana who could all fill the wide left role better than he can. As for the rest. Pekhart looks worse than Patterson, and he is on our own books so don't see the point in signing him up again. Robertson has done very little to impress me. Besides John and Saga will return (hopefyully they won't stay long or the money will run out) so we don't need all these strikers. I assume Dyer will be back as well. If Davis stays then Bart needs to be loaned out.

Rasiak is on a season long loan. Can he be sold in January to a third party (I assume Watford won't buy him in the window as they haev no need to)?

you have to get the starting price right in the first place though.

first thing I looked for in the player profile text was pace. And its there. Fantastic. There are very few (if any) top quality fullbacks without pace. I'm interested to know if he has height or is decent in the air. Anyone know?

tremendous gesture. Surprised Wolves agreed to that though (and they have to) as they get 45% of the income.

no we won't. Dobie will be back as will John. If we are lucky and we can offload both then we'll get another loan in. Jan might even keep Pakhard and Robertson (hope not).

does the stadium need to sell out before the corners are then sold? Will people who have bought a ticket be able to trade it in for an Itchen corner seat?

spot on. I think people need to realise that Rasiak was on £20k a week at Spurs. He didn't leave them to earn £10k a week. He will be on £17k a week for sure. Thats £884,000 a year. Stern John was a Premiership striker. How many of those are on 10k a week these days? These guys are on monsterous wages and thats why they are still here. No other reason.

Very good post this. Totally agree about Lowe wanting (and probably doing everything in his power) to offload Rasiak, Saga, John, Thomas and even Davis. It's their wages that cripple the clubs finances. Players like Lallana, Surman, McGoldrick etc will be on absolute peanuts compared to Stern John. Loaning players out is no good either. Yes it gets players off the wage bill temporarily and if you close your eyes tight and try really hard you might just dream that Bristol City and the like are paying a small loan fee, but they will be back come June 1st and then you face 10 weeks of summer wages (if not more if we can loan them out in the window). Try Rasiak and Stern john on a combined £35k a week x 10 and see how quickly the FA cup game money dissapears. I know Saga et al have their fans, but I personally will be mightly pleased if he and John can find perment homes come January (and Rasiak if at all possible). Sadly I fear they will both come back and we'll have no choice but to sell Surman for buttons to keep the overdaft under £5m.

we are going to out our SKY voodoo to bed on Monday night. You heard it here first.

45% of revenue goes to Manure. Of course this game is not going to clear the £5m overdraft so Lowe is spot on. A reply would make a massive difference though.

that mighe be true, but we certainly could do with a little more physical presence and height up front - just look at the difference when Euell came into the side and put himself about. We need someone we can play long to now and again because short stuff all the time becomes predictable and easier and easier to defend against (although you wouldn't think it looking at the second half display on Saturday). If you throw in a long ball, a ball over the top, one down the channel and then a shed load of neat passing in between you have a great mixture of attacking threats. We could also do with a few freebie goals. What I mean by that is goals like Pearce scored directly from a corner that didn't need 28 passes, an eye of a needle ball and a defensive mistake to score. A lofted ball and a big man forcing a poor defensive header and then someone following it in to score `cheaply'. Patterson appears to be better in the air than any of the other strikers and that alone makes his inclusion appealing. In short he looks like he does what Pekhart was brought here to do. Be the big man leading the line. This I think we need not some lazy arsed poacher that stands around waiting for a chance. Having slated Robertson's last two showings he'll probably score a brace on Saturday to put me straight. I bloody well hope so otherwise lets get Paterson on with half hour to go not 10 minutes.

lazy, overated and bankrupt, no thanks. I hope both are bought on Jan 1st enabling us to keep Surman and Lallana. Fat chance though. I wonder how many more of you want to pay those two for 4 months using all the transfer fees for Lallana and Surman.

Skacel looks and plays it long to him every single time. When he's not on the pitch Skacel doesn't bother playing it directly up to the striker as he knows it doesn't stick. Pekhart and Robertson have looked average. Send them back, cut the wage bill and give the lad the shirt. Far too many strikers on the books if you ask me.

total wipping boy for fans that should know better by now. How many more players are going to be lambasted on here before they have had a real chance to show their true talent. Fuller, Jones, Davis, Davies, Surman...

nicely argued. But for the money we pay him, Saga's goal record was ****e last season. Putting goals to one side Saga's all round game is poor IMO. I've never seen any striker give the ball away so cheaply so often in all my days. Before anyone responds with `great workrate' I say ********.

why write McGoldrick off. Are you old enough to remember MLT's early seasons - he was very hit and miss. If you are slightly younger than cherck out BT's scoring recorfd early doors or if you and nipper than perhaps Jones' first couple of seasons. You have to give these guys time. Personally I'd start McGoldrick ahead of Dobie even ignoring the fact he's probably on 3, 4 or 5 times as much a week.