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It tells us the teams on 26 points after that many games did not go down. And that the bottom three teams came from the bottom four then. The brains trust on this forum can talk about collapses and mega surges of form but the brutal truth is very little will change between now and May. West Ham are as likely as Man United to go down. They aint going down. If that was Saints in that position right now Les Wender and gang would be crowing about Champions League and 50,000 stadiums and sneering at anyone saying we were scrapping to stay up.

Stick to skulking around the training ground car park or whatever it is you do. WHU aren't going down you absolute spanner.

Is it? 17 clubs stay up every season. West Ham will finish in that top 17. See you in May.

Sure about that? Have another look. Lee, JRod and Mayuka are together more than ten alone. You saying the rest were all frees?

The Red/Asia thing is totally overplayed and if you think that signing a couple of asians and playing in all red is some kind of "obvious" marketing masterstroke then you are deluded. Some sources say Chelsea have 100m Asian fans. And Chelsea wear blue. And, well, win stuff. All the time. We just might need to do that a lot to be big in Asia. Our all red kit is just fu cking sh it. End of.

Just showed a nice little montage of our four one win earlier in the season on MOTD, they didn't have to. They must really hate us.

Jesus christ.

How low was this league when he was manager?

Shed loads of added time to come.....

Just got in and put the stream on. No white kit then? Lets hope we can see this through. 15th would be sensational.

Correct. Which is a failure in decision making now, not a result of being in League One two years ago.

Quite. Bit silly to complain about squad depth with twelve million quid's worth of attacking talent on bench, two million quid striker farmed off on loan. Two million on a rookie keeper, with a CL keeper drafted in on top. Strengthened the midfield with Davis at, what, another 3 mil? Can't remember. And despite our lack of defensive steel we still found the time to spend millions on a full back and a centre back. We may have made mistakes but we invested in depth just like we all begged Mr Lowe to do. Well we've done it now and people still want more, as they always will.

We outspent most clubs in Europe, so had the funds to rectify this. I don't quite remember Norwich blowing nearly every club in Europe out of the water eighteen months ago but I am sure you do. I do not accept the "poor tiny League One underdog Southampton" sob story.

NickG must has multiple user names. Apologies for not realising this.

Brilliant. Can you imagine the uproar if an opposing manager or, god forbid, Mark Lawrenson came out and said "Southampton are nothing but a bunch of League One players". The divs on this thread currently saying exactly that would be going apesh it.

What happened to our NPC winning team being better than the England team? Turns out we're just a Yeovil that got lucky. Love this forum.

Steve Bruce and Steve Cotterill sprang to mind but their double ship jumping was in the same year rather than the same season.

Pointless reference to the Alex Ferguson case study. Well done. This thread is complete.

Hunky Dory for me. But they're all great from his glam phase. But if you want the pinnacle of art-glam, the first Roxy Music album is just sensational. Think I got it when I was 19/20 (so 1998/9) and I've never stopped loving it. That's my tip for the 23 year olds on this thread.

Amazing isn't it. And all the clubs around us have signed, what, eight or nine players each. Transfer committee out FFS.

300ft high statue of Nicola Cortese based on the Christ statue in Rio. Or, a Waitrose.

Except he doesn't.

Utter bullsh it by the way. That humble lower league one team contained a million pound keeper, a million pound centre back, a million pound midfielder and million pound striker. Multi million pounds worth of talent all over the pitch. You're making them out to be some bunch of jumped up Hereford United style part timers. And I think it highly disrespectful that you sneer at our current team and write them off as nothing but lower league one standard.

When was Les Reed coach/manager of a lower league side?