Fitzhugh Fella

I think when it all is taken into consideration we must be one of the best run clubs in terms of our financial arrangements in Europe. I shudder to think now where we could be if we had been taken over by Pinnacle/Marc Jackson/Middle East/Thai type combo. The Liebherr family have been very good considerate, owners but I think they have also made a shrewd investment considering their small initial outlay. Whoever it was that put them in touch with the club - was it Oldknow as rumoured? - deserves our gratitude, it was a fine day's work.

I stand by what I said re Tadic - great skills and flashes of brilliance like the cross yesterday, but goes missing, is inconsistent and can be very frustrating. Not my sort of player, sorry. As for Clasie I was being a little sarcastic but I watched him closely in the second half and he was absolutely spent. Koeman should have replaced him earlier because for the final 10 minutes he looked completely out of his depth as the game just totally passed him by. His international pedigree makes him a good player on paper but at present Ward-Prowse must be wondering what it is that Clasie has that he doesn't.

This line is on ESPN "No matter what TV companies will lead you to believe in the build-up to this weekend's Clasico on the coast, the only genuine south coast derby in the eyes of Saints followers is against arch enemy Portsmouth. An animosity which runs so deep it makes Rangers vs. Celtic look friendly".

Liked this bit from ESPN "No matter what TV companies will lead you to believe in the build-up to this weekend's Clasico on the coast, the only genuine south coast derby in the eyes of Saints followers is against arch enemy Portsmouth. An animosity which runs so deep it makes Rangers vs. Celtic look friendly".

Him and Tadic very similar players.

For once one of your posts brought a slight wry smile to my face - still trying to forget that away match last December

Well I know quite a few who were pretty angry so his opinion is a fair one.

Clasie inclusion a big error imo, never ready for a big game. Hope I am proved wrong but Koeman has dropped one.

100% sure he is not injured.

And he is not injured, he was watching from the stands!

I hear he has become Franny's gardener

Saints charge a club a sum of money when they loan a player out and then the club doing the loaning get a bit back from Saints every time the player makes an appearance.

There are cyber warriors and there are über cyber warriors but you, mate, trump the lot you pathetic little weasel.

Woah lets write everyone off who has n't ripped up the world by the time they have turned 20 shall we?

They signed Maynard on loan a few weeks ago which means Sam has been on the bench recently but he has scored one for England U20s v Holland last week and came on yesterday v Turkey and helped turn a 1-0 deficit to a 2-1 victory.

Someone needs to look up the definition of centurion

No I agree with you questions re the size of a Mars bar etc etc are futile and embarrassing - you come up with some good points. One rumour I would like confirmed or denied is that Lowe had foundations put in at SMS when it was built that would enable an extra tier if needed. I have never seen the club comment on this but it would be nice to know one way or another.

I have no problem with the way the club is being run these days - hardly a foot out of place but I guess it would be nice to know things like "is there any chance of adding to the capacity one day or is that just pie in the sky"? On a personal level I would like to see the club devote some space in SMS for some sort of museum but I have already floated that to RK so the ball is in his court.

You got any of your own ideas?

And Platini should follow, how on earth did the FA still manage to back him replacing Blatter last week? The guy is as bent as a nine bob note.

Well done on a sensible appraisal of JWP who is slowly growing on me, but one thing on the grammar (sorry pedant alert). You say "Saints fans" with no apostrophes which is fine but then you say "Saints's triumph". I long ago stopped the comma bit because Saints fans or Saints triumph are like simple nouns being described. Does that make sense? Probably not!

Yep sums it up for me

Yep my thoughts were the same - a scramble for Klopp could well happen over the next few days