Miltonaggro

Oh dear, did Righton lose and miss out, typical Daints fan I wasn't keeping up...

This was the package Pochettino passed on to Ferguson in the restaurant last week. Turned up today under the dugout...

Well said, and given the VVD contract, it may already be happening...

That was a (rare) lol, from me...

Some of the BBC website reporting has been mind-boggling over the course of this season, latterly with Southampton's 'faint hopes for a Europa place' juxtaposed with Liverpool's 'surge for the Champions League' for instance - I kid you not! It would be lovely to think that we are entering a period of change where, like the seventies and early eighties, the provincial clubs can upset the apple cart and give the worthies bloody noses every season. It would take several seasons of Saints, Leicester, West Ham and one or two others finishing top six and picking up silverware to bring real change about. Perception is telling, and a friend who is a good lad, Spurs fan, said to me innocently and frankly yesterday 'you will do well to keep hold of Koeman this close season'. I agreed, he's right, but when I pointed out that Spurs would do well to keep Pochettino from Man U and PSG the atmosphere changed as I'd clearly touched a nerve. Saints firstly need to arrest this perception that we are a selling club, doing 'amazingly well considering they sell their best players each year' (see MOTD weekly for this cliche). Secondly, we need to win something, League Cup, FA Cup, whatever to put 1976 to bed and show both players and the media that you can win things at the club. It's certainly going to be an interesting media watch this close season, with Leicester as well as West Ham, and perhaps Spurs having to resist approaches for their stars. I hope the 'new plan' mooted by the in the know posters, is one of resistance, consolidation, and longevity. Great time to be a Saints fan, and it may yet get better - b*llocks to the press!

Happy with Stek as understudy, it's more of whether he is...

Let's hope so, it would be brilliant to buck the trend and have him at SFC for a good while, I want Saints to win something with, and for, Ronald Koeman!

Superb Saints, superb! Now that the Portsmouth scum are dead and buried, there is nothing like beating Spurs and Liverpool - the clubs with the most worthy fan bases in football. Come on Arsenal and Watford!

Spurs also need to keep their best players and their manager. It would be surprising to see them win the league next season.

Kelvin Davis!...

Sorry to hear that Vectis. Frank was past his prime when he joined us, but like Charlie George still had a lot of the silky skill and showmanship and I loved watching him, particularly alongside Steve Williams. It was also a treat to see his fashion sense before and after matches, which even in the early 80s was something to behold - the Huddersfield Elvis! Here's a reminder of what he was capable of -

This is a prime example of a rhetorical answer. That, or early onset Alzheimer's...

The theme this year is The Falklands War 1982, I'm going as the Defence Secretary John Nott...

You are absolutely right, and I think is the key to organic growth, top eight challenging and a few cup wins in the next five or six years would consolidate the club very nicely (I'd settle for two FA Cups, a League Cup, and the Europa - no pressure...). I remember the momentum from the FA Cup win lasting for a decade and it would be nice to give our great club that extra zip!

It would be nice if they could lose their last two games so that Arsenal and Man City finish above them with Saints in 5th - not perfect but nice...

Arguably the best English player of his generation.

A case for imposed Dignatas. Sorry if that sounds controversial!

Brendan Rodgers with Harry Redknapp as Director of B*ll****. Dream team...

My main concern is whether he can learn French if it's only a five year contract...

Exactly how quick is he?...

There is, but he's just retired from his job as head waiter at a hotel in Torquay...

The EU Commission...

Clearly a move by Van Gaal and lazy journalist-arsonists to unsettle him. I trust his diamanté diamond encrusted cuckoo clock was saved?!...

No, ratfink is the Saints' Piñata for the rest of his career. His cockiness and reactions when playing us suggests the feeling is mutual, the only way out for him is when he drops down to the Championship in a couple of years where cuddles are few and far between...