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Maybe Saints tried to slip it in early so they played a managerless Charlton and they were having none of it.

You cannot argue that if a top side comes in for a player it's only a matter of time before they leave but SFC can completely control WHEN they leave. Would be dumb to cash in on Oxo now, if Arsenal are willing to pay what we want and if he wants to go, sell him in June not half way through a vital promotion challenge.

Football creates wealth as well, just look at Peter Storrie.

I don't remember us, the tax payer, bailing out SFC.

I don't have a problem with bankers or others getting big bonuses, although morally I find the level of greed utterly repulsive. The thing I have a problem with is the fact that our government is completely powerless to do anything. Soon, when the cuts kick in, we will be laying off police, nurses, our armed forces and other vital workers in their thousands while the banks continue to make billions for themselves. They are ruthless money making machines devoid of any morals or decency, they should not be in control of our governments, it should be the other way round - for all our good.

That has to the the way it will end up, there has to be some sort of global agreement otherwise there is absolutely nothing stopping the banks and large corporations doing what the hell they like. At the moment individual governments are completely powerless, it is not sustainable.

I don't disagree that having all the singers in one stand helps the atmosphere, it's just the idea of trying to engineer the Chapel into a Kop that is bizarre. These things happen naturally, people sit where they want, people sing if they want.

There is no way that shower of ****e will earn 15K a week anywhere.

The whole idea of turning the Chapel into the Kop is bizarre. What's Cortese going to do, write to every fan and say that from now on the singing fans all have to sit in the Chapel? Then I suppose all the old codgers who like to watch the game in silence with their blankets and thurmos flasks will have to shuffle round to the Kingsland and all the Northamers will have to up sticks and sit next to the family centre?! What planet do you guys live on? There is maybe a case for extending the amount of home fans in the Northam but even that's not practical if there is a large away following.

psychopathic?

I would be happy if we keep hold of everyone (Oxo and Puncheon), think it would be wise to get another striker in though.

I wouldn't accept less than £10mill, the potential there is obvious.

It was pretty clear that Saints were an excellent investment opportunity, that's why we attracted someone like Leibherr - there is no way we would have gone under. I think naming a stand after Leibherr would be a fitting tribute though. Sure many people have made greater contributions (players, manager etc) but what Marcus did, and how tragically soon he died makes it a unique situation - he deserves a fitting tribute. Matt le Tiss, Channon, Bates, Paine etc will always have their names in the history books because of what they achieved, naming a stand is a good way of having Marcus' name live on.

3 points ahead, 69 left to play for - yeah you've got it sewn up.

Would have prefered seven. Oh well, got to take the rough with the smooth.

It's good to see someone with loyalty in today's game. I don't blame him for turning down Palace and Charlton, neither are in good shame finance wise, Charlton inparticular is a poinsoned chalice. As long as they don't get in the way of us I hope Bournemouth do well.

It's pointless trying to plan these things, people will sit where they want, people will sing if they want. Dumb thread.

The corporate seats sell out in a flash for these games, it makes sense to hike the prices up. There are plenty of rich ****ers around this area with spoilt brat kids who support Man U, they will sell out at that price easy.

Bart commands his box better than Kelvin but it would be harsh to drop him, he hasn't made many mistakes and is a superb shot stopper.

I prefered it when he hated us.

Might work, not sure if they have player together up front much this season though. Buy another striker and you don't have to change Lallana's position, if you have a team that is working well you are better off keeping it consistent and not having to shuffle players around or change the system when injuries hit.

I think the squad is good enough to possibly win the league, but I think if Barnard and Lambert get injured I think we would struggle for goals. I don't see a Guly - Connolly partnership doing it consistently enough. Keepers - fine Defence - fine Central Midfield - Chaplow, Scheiderlin, Hammond & Gobern should do the job - maybe add one more. Wide players - fine if we keep Puncheon Strikers - I would sign up Guly and bring in one more top striker. We have enough resources to not let any possible injury problems derail us.

If there is no Tuesday game straight after it is worth fielding our strongest XI in round 4.

Arsenal, Chelsea or Spurs away - I fancy a big tear up in London.

With Puncheon back I reckon we just need one more striker.