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LOL at Pap being involved in a criminal underworld. The mind boggles as to where his vivid imagination is going to take this thread.

I hope he gets better but if you choose to slide really fast down an icy mountain on two thin bits of wood you should expect to get injured at some point.

It would make sense to force them to explain these sort of decisions. At the moment it is too easy for them to pander to the home fans, especially at the bigger clubs. If they knew they had to go on TV and explain why they made their decision they would be more inclined to give it how they see it.

A thread about offending people on a football fan's forum is only going to go one way.

Puncheon always has one or two games like that in him but never seemed to do it often enough. Decent player though, would welcome him back but think we could get better with the sort of cash we like to chuck around.

I always thought the problem was Wilde promised new investment and failed to deliver. Leaving Saints in a pretty sh!tty position. Crouch appointed Pearson and kept us up when he was chairman. He has to take some of the blame for the Wilde era but Lowe was destroying the club anyway and carried on where he left off after Crouch had gone.

Would be great if common sense prevailed and safe standing was allowed. There is no logical reason why it shouldn't. I doubt it will though because I expect clubs prefer to sell seats at the higher price and there is probably nothing to gain financially by converting back. Maybe dwindling attendances and lack of atmosphere might prompt them to make it happen?

Great stuff. Zero chance of him leaving in January.

I think the best we can hope for in the league is 6th, but we will need to strengthen in January or be very lucky with injuries to achieve that. Hopefully now that chances of either being relegated or qualifying for Europe in the League are obviously far fetched we will put a half decent side out in the FA Cup.

From what I have heard Carroll is likely to be out 'injured' for a while. I wouldn't be surprised if they wanted Lambert to fill the gap. I doubt very much Saints would sell though.

It was still in place a year or so ago according to my mate at Bournemouth so I doubt they would have cashed in on it unless it was for a sizeable amount.

It takes time for any player to get used to playing in the Premier League, especially a 21 year old goalkeeper who has seen little or no action of any kind this season. He still shows plenty of potential, anyone writing him off because of a few mistakes is an idiot.

He would be better off going to a top 4 club.

Yeah, they would have to double that to get any interest IMO.

They would have to stump up a sh!t load of cash to temp Cortese into selling.

I can only assume that if he said "get Jos off" that meant he wanted him replaced. I doubt he wanted us to play with 10 men.

they were on the bench

Fonte or Yoshida?

I'm confused as to why anyone would give a sh!te either way. If somone doesn't want to serve alcohol or bacon because of their beliefs that's entirely up to them, doesn't effect me in the slightest. Just go to a till with a less Muslim looking person. Some people just need to chill the f*ck out and get laid or something.

If the dozy old bint can't see what is racist about the Gollywog I think that, given that she is a councillor, it makes perfect sense for her to have diversity training.

I hate stories like this, the ***t who said it knew some people find it offensive, that's why she said it. It's just pandering to the swivel-eyed right wingers who just love to go around moaning about "political correctness gone mad".

The form guide is often more about who you play than how you play. We shouldn't be too disappointed with the last few results this just like we shouldn't have got too carried away after our easy start.

I think it will be an easy 3 points.

If we are talking about progressing as a club I think a cup win would do way more in terms of raising profile and increasing fan base than finishing 6th. It is also the most likely way to qualify for Europe which makes the club more attractive to the better players. Wether we finish 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th or 10th will make little impact on our club except for the prize money. It's a shame that money rules the game nowadays, it's an even bigger shame that so many fans are happy to play along with it. We have had some cracking League Cup games in the past. I was a kid when Andy Ritchie equalised for Oldham in the last minute of injury time at the Dell, it felt like the world had ended as I really believed we would get to Wembley.

The Prem has changed but I think only 3 clubs had a net spend higher than us over the summer - that is a million miles from life under old Rupes. No comparison at all.