sotonjoe

Attacking midfielders that can't seem to shoot anymore aside?

Makes the ropey old BnB on Hill Lane sound rather grand!

TBH, I will be mightily disappointed if he is unveiled as a Liverpool player in a few day's time after they agree a deal for a million euro more.

A translation of that article would be good. I for one am unsure why Buttner, his Dad, agent and Vitesse apparently made a mess out of our potential deal, but the Utd deal has apparently moved seamlessly within a few days. Perhaps all the parties are just much keener to get a deal done with Utd and the reported 5m euro fee is above our reported 4m euro fee.

Could you explain this clearer as I'm not sure I understand. Are you saying Utd were on the scene before us anyway or that they came in after?

You need to cut through the hyperbole, positive and negative, and be realistic about it. We would never have actually expected to get anything from the game and would have hoped to be able to walk away from the game afterwards without a huge amount of self-coubt about our ability to compete in this league. The fact that that actually happened and we didn't get absolutely stuffed is a huge relief for everybody, and this outcome is just about the best we could realistically have hoped for.

Incidentally, and seeing as the thread has been closed, I'm not sure why we lost interest in Buttner. I thought reports in the week suggested we were back in for him so to heart he's on the verge of signing for Utd is a bit of a disappointment. I can only guess Utd just got on with it whilst we had our backs turned.

A bit of a fretter then!

We were in the lower tier towards the corner and a few rows from the front and it seemed really hard work to get any songs going. I don't think "pretty much everyone singing" was the case for much of the game at all. A lot more people joined in when we were 2-1 up etc, but as far as away sing songs go it wasn't up there with the best and I thought it would have been tbh. I just thought there would be more chants when it felt like everybody was singing as opposed to just a few groups singing. The upper tier was laughable. They were all sat down and didn't seem to get involved at all until we were 2-1 up.

Just seen this post on Daily Echo website.. This person (called montecristosaint) seems to put an interesting angle on some saints incidents. Is this because he knows something / has heard something or is he just a presumptuous fruit loop a la Alpine?

Great game to go to. Odd to find that songs wouldn't catch on as much as I had expected. Would have thought those of us there would have mostly been keen to make some noise but seemed that the majority were happy to remain pretty quiet.

Christ... that announcement by Steve makes this seem like something massive. Check out the Alan Sugar wannabe in charge of the Mong Board.

Wow. This last page got a lot shorter once I put DullDays on my ignore list. I'm like a kid with a new toy.

Someone whinging just because their erroneous thread was locked. boo hoo.

But is he Jonno quick?

Who is Martinez?

I wouldn't count on Seaborne playing anything except golf just yet. The odd appearance for the U21s doesn't mean he's fighting fit or ready to take on the Prem. In fact, was he eve ready to take on the Prem?

I'm not too confident about only having Fox and Shaw tbh. Obviously Adkins is assuming that Dickson is out of the question, and I agree that he's prob not up to Prem standard. I see Fox as a player who could do ok in the Prem, but without setting the world alight (his earlier experience was of that sort), whilst Shaw is very young and completely unproven. Unless Shaw is really good and already physically tough enough, I'd like to see a quality LB in to compete with Fox.

Are you my Twitter stalker?

Same journo claiming Phillips has handed in transfer request as well.

Adkins has been discussing him in weekend presser.... Alex Goring Crook @alex_crook2mNigel Adkins on Ramirez signing 'It looks exciting. It shows the ambition of the club. We have come a hell of a long way.'#saintsfc Details Reply Retweet Favorite More

I don't mind losing as long as we're not embarrassed. I would love it if we had something to celebrate in the stands though, so scoring first or getting an equaliser at some point in the game would be a real highlight.

lol at Dulldays' original post.

I don't have the time what with all the games I go to.

I vote for Matt Le Pedant and Dull Days, but only if you lock the pair of them in their own little padded forum, far away from this one where they can mod the bejesus out of each other.