Miltonaggro

Lallana has just been confirmed as first team coach under Still and Trollope, with Ruben Martinez joining as keeper coach. Rusk, Thornton etc shipped out.

That would likely be a very good cameo signing for this season, still very fit and a genuine leader.

I am at least encouraged that both Joshua (20) and Damion (20) have the brick-shithouse physicality of heavyweight boxers, and at £3m and £4m respectively, might genuinely be seen as low-risk potential signings. For perspective, Larios at 18 cost us £6m plus, Mara at 19 cost us £10m plus, and Sulemana at 21 £22m. I think these two lads will be the early additions suggested by Spors et al. and approved by Still.

Think even the current SCC brains trust might be aware that they will likely be toast next May. Could be that the application or reapplication will go to a more pragmatic panel.

I'm hearing that they might open it on an extra day this year, perhaps a Thursday or a Friday. Rumour is that much depends on which cruise ships are in the docks.

Like others Ekelund, only player I ever saw completely on Le Tissier's wavelength, if he'd stayed fit would have been an absolute legend, and Alderweireld, looked the complete modern centre back, had the lot. Also really enjoyed Richard Wright's spell with us as we looked so much better with him in that poor side, always thought he was massively underrated as a keeper and in his prime should have won a shedload of England caps.

Seeing David 'one trick' Lee and Lee Todd in a Saints side used to wind me up.

Yep, all their stadiums were built that way, but Lowe then went on a ramble about the cost per seat. I think if it ever happens it will be one of the side stands, taking us up to around 40k, hence the LCFC comparison.

Solak in full kit and studs on the deck of a P&O liner with a Draper hard hat on. Nailed on!

some people will, even at the planning stage...

Of course, but with Solak it might actually be more than a fantasy.

After Dragan's comments today, if it happens we will likely plagiarise LCFC's recent plans as the much vaunted BARR bolt ons will be brought into action:

I always have. Man has always been willing to spend money / invest and talk up the club, just that he had a minor ensemble of Billy Smart's Fodbold Management alongside for a while. As I said before, I hope he stays around long enough to see a proper return on his funding, sporting and financial.

Christ, whoever signed that off needs to be shot!

Ah, the famous 1970s dinner lady tabard ensemble!

From chump to champions league. Hopefully for near to what we paid for the dinlo.

Yep and Bobby Robson let’s him go to saints as over the hill, and promptly becomes England manager the next month! Never played for England again but 120 odd games in the following 3 seasons for SFC suggests he still had some lead in the pencil!

I think the manufacturers run the standard design choice past the club and then say, but if you want it to be even more innovative we can… At this point people who know what they are doing will say fuck off, hence the reason we end up with all this bollocks.

Fuck it, if that’s kosher! Why do they do this, most other clubs with red and white stripes have returned to the traditional symmetrical back pattern. Such an easy sales win.

I'd forgotten that! I think Trollope's replacement at Swindon was Dave Peach, which never worked out. Also a young Glenn Cockerill would have been a teammate in that ST side.

I went right off international football when Venables and Hoddle were managing England with all the favouritism and press bullshit plus treatment of MLT when he was world class, and never really been too bothered since. However, the preceding Robson era was terrific, in terms of the personalities, football, and following England abroad - '86 and '90 world cups the stand out and completely unique. But for me, the tournament that best sticks in the memory was the 82 World Cup in Spain. Either Shoot magazine or Texaco petrol gave away this tournament disc which you could turn to reveal squad members, Saints were represented by Dave Watson #5 and Kevin Keegan #7 in an incredibly strong squad - an invincibles moment. Then in the run up to the tournament Admiral reveal that cracking new England kit, coveted by kids all over the country, the red away is still a thing of sublime beauty. In my youthful enthusiasm I genuinely thought we were nailed on to win it. Going into the tournament both Watson and Keegan were injured, and though the likes of Bryan Robson played out of his skin in the first game against that brilliant France side (3-1 and quickest goal in WC history) it went flat against Germany and Spain in the latter stages and even the return of the talisman KK had no effect. Looking back a typical England tournament, but loved that England side which gave us Shilton and Mills a few months later.

The problem is that sometimes when you look into their eyes they could be almost human. Recent research suggests that some members of advanced troops can use rudimentary tools and work as teams to achieve mutually beneficial group tasks. But you should always be wary if you encounter one in the open, they are known to habitually carry chlamydia and rabies, and some have the physical strength of a very petite woman.

Remember him at Fulham late 90s early 2000s, so played in decent sides under Keegan and Tigana.

See Peter Shilton’s ‘most difficult opponent’ and consider who he’d played against in the previous decade: