Miltonaggro

A missed opportunity indeed, and a complete screw up by the SFC 'teamwear department' assuming that there is such a thing. Getting so much right, and this easy gain so wrong!

Premier Inn...

The need for greed, pure and simple! At least we are not the only overachieving medium sized provincial club being raided anymore, I suppose...

Gotta love Matt Targett, looks like he's on his first school trip.

Yep, even more incredible that the apparently newly savvy commercial dept at the club signed it off, or indeed chose it alongside other designs. It really was an easy early win for under armour, with a take on the Rank Xerox or sash likely to engage the fans immediately, or even a traditional slick red and white stripes effort. It's the same with a yellow and blue away kit (worn in all three of our major cup finals in living memory), which 'is Saints' and just looks so much better than the alternatives. Mind boggling...

Mine too. He's got two years left on his current deal and 27 in September, so possibly the 'right time' for Swansea.

Of course thanks, SFC come out of of this tournament looking like a key club!

Davis and Long did OK too, and Bale proves only players that leave with the Saints fans blessing can progress ;-)

Very, very pleased for Fonte and Cedric, and what a battling performance in the French backyard - pots of character! Let's hope the experience of lifting a trophy becomes a habit for Jose.

It's third time lucky for the summer rebuilds, and that's bound to create a degree of concern and trepidation from the fanbase, along with derision from outside which is tedious and detracts from our progress. Puel has as much chance of being a success as Pochettino or Koeman, more perhaps as arguably his managerial experience and record is more impressive pre SFC. Key player sales are a nagging problem, as there is emotional (and in terms of season tickets and merchandise - financial) value invested in 'stars' and seeing them leave every season despite success is disheartening. Of course, whilst successful, this policy will likely continue with the 'doubters' silenced, but the tolerance threshold if it starts to unravel is lowered, and the press have been waiting to apply the coup de grace since Poch left. So, of course Puel needs time, he also needs significant funds to strengthen and to be given the space and the authority to do it his way. He is not known to be a 'pussycat' or a 'yes man' so in this sense he is the polar opposite of the JP and MW experiment. If we are currently in an assessment period right now his assessment might be the same as Koeman's - that none of the current youngsters are good enough! Game on, enjoy the ride!

Hope not. Tenacious but small and lightweight, and we already have two of those.

Read the Everton reply in a high pitched scouse accent, comedy gold - and to think that we previously thought it was red side of that city that was delusional...

Yes, some absolute crackers there. Two things struck me, how brave he was in going in after many of those 50/50s, and a tinge of sadness seeing the turnover of great players we've had, seeing Shaw, Schneiderlin linking up etc.

He has a far superior management record to Les, the box has spoken...

A central midfield partnership of Schneiderlin and Gonalons would be formidable. Quite possibly the stuff of fantasy for Saints, but formidable nonetheless. Come on Claude, win us over before a ball's kicked ;-)

More of a Fabrice Fernandes replacement, to be honest...

I heard that sorry tale too. Les Reed tried to do a Walter Raleigh style intervention to Rudi's grope in the lift and consequently got his head stuck in between them. Makes you wonder what might have been...

Having had a think, I now feel Manuel can be our Claudio - papa Southampton. I would however favour a younger number two, ideally Lawrie El McMenemy...

Agree with pretty much all of that...

In all of the 'welcome Ronald' pictures he looks a bit non-plussed, very different to when he joined Saints...

At least they get to add Westquay and the New Forest to the things they can tell their grandchildren...

Sectionable in fact...

For middle aged Southampton fans you were the Leicester City of the 80s, for those under thirty you are a northern Aston Villa. One interesting historical fact is that Adolf Hitler lived in Liverpool before the First World War, obviously a fertile breeding ground for pathological entitlement, irrational delusion, and historical selectivity - though it's difficult to decide which team he supported.

Bally hitting the high notes!

Jabba the Jock!