Miltonaggro

With all this rumbling on the very last thing Liverpool need is a niggly, tricksy away fixture against some bully boys in their last game of the season, at Stoke per se...

Brilliant, you could also genuinely have included Lollana and Lambert. This should be pinned to the dressing room wall on Saturday.

Even if they were to sell, not sure they would be able to meet our asking price, or his ambitions for that matter.

Nerve jangling, but wouldn't that be something!

He's always had that side to his character, a good manager in his sojourn at Saints, but the ego was always going to intervene at some point. I do wonder, given Rodriguez recent new contract and the positive speculation with Clyne's contract, whether the big franchises' are being scared off with Lallanaesque price tags being attached to our players - no more bargains for Wenger, that is for sure. The real Spurs nutter though, is Pochettino, who seems to be under a great deal of pressure in recent weeks - perhaps Levy has given him his school report and horoscope? To attempt to take credit for Koeman's success after the press led hyena attack last summer is despicable, and the recent comment about how much Van Gaal and Koeman's had to spend compared to him (at 'big time' Tottenham) shows a breathtaking lack of respect and what looks like sheer panic. I am praying that Man City win today and we win at Man City next week, alongside chokes from Spurs and the dippers - what a season that will be, and we will be on our way from plucky player supplier for the big franchises to perpetual thorn in their sides!

On opening this I was hoping for end of season Karma; Gerrard. Wouldn't that have been fun!

Whoever writes the Twitter feed for PaddyPower is a card: "Breaking news that Jay Rodriguez has signed a new four year deal, which will keep him at St Mary's until the next transfer window." - raised a smile!

Genuinely surprised and pleased. Hopefully an early show of intent and ambition, great stuff!

Agree with much of this, but feel that if the glaring holes for experienced cover at goalkeeper and striker had been addressed in January, we would have been able to hold it together. Crazy really.

King Dong would be much better, and more appropriate considering the sh*gging currently being given!

It's nice to think that there is still romance in football, and if a funny little club from sunny little Bournemouth can get to second place in the Championship it gives hope to the likes of Aldershot and Eastleigh. We should give them the welcome they deserve at SMS, a seaside town up until recently only famous for geriatrics and exiled scouse benefit scrongers, now briefly in the big time. Like Michael Barrymore at the end of the pier...

Brilliant analogy Batman, and one that I'll be borrowing. Now for the scouser's league form to go into free fall - YNWA LMFAO!

He'd have his c*ck out in a jacuzzi again...

Voted, will be interesting to see how the Liverpool Echo cook the books...

By cartel, I mean that competition was more open in that era, or at least felt that way - had to be there I suppose. Sorry to cause confusion.

This is how I remember it too. Perhaps the oddest thing for younger Saints fans to contemplate was the normality of it. There was no cartel (notwithstanding the dominance of Liverpool), and in that decade you had Derby, Ipswich and Forest challenging as well as Saints, and the sheer entertainment value of those McMenemy teams was incredible. I visited cousins in Manchester in the early 80s and saw a good few kids wearing Saints shirts, so it was a very different culture. Really thought we had cracked it that season, and we were top of the table for longer than any other side, but Saints being Saints (even then) we stumbled at the last fence. It would be lovely for this generation of Saints fans to grow up with a similar feeling of normality with Saints challenging season on season!

From the mid eighties until the mid nineties Koeman was world class, and a real problem to overcome for any opposition manager. My favourite player of that era. Also, a fierce competitor and a real hard case, and it's amazing how laid back he seems in management.

They should ground share with the skates (who do need the money); kindred spirits and all that.

Me too, and if you look at our goal difference it's fully deserved over the course of this season.

That's how I remember it, seemed rather odd.

The Cherries. Their natural rivals are Weymouth. They should have more respect, comparatively it's like Rochdale inventing a rivalry with Man Utd. Howe will be off the first sniff of a real football club. I still think they will choke promotion...

Very talented player and a coup when we signed him, I remember him teasingly appearing on the gantry before matches at the Dell, felt like we were being taunted! McMenemy once said that having Charlie George at Saints 'was like having an enormous diamond in a safe and not knowing the combination' - that about sums it up. Perry Groves on the other hand was total sh*t!

One for the cultured

He needs to maintain their current league position and gain 15 points from the remaining games to match Tim Sherwood's performance.

Agree, and the bonus is that 5th for us would be incredible, 6th or 7th for Liverpool or Spurs, given their delusion, is a disaster. Get it right and we may even be instrumental in the sacking of Rodgers and / Pochettino come May.