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He reminded me of a six foot, super fit, Ronnie Ekelund. Gaston the six foot Ronnie Ekelund ;-)

My thoughts exactly, a good chance of Neimi mark two, and a lot of those recent performances and clean sheets were against the better Italian clubs...

Mustard at Fiorentina Dave as well as Celtic. Another full international in the side...

Very, very good player, and a strong character. Cracking signing for nowt...

I think it would work too...

Solid keeper and a commanding presence. He would be the borrucs...

Felt that the Man City game would be tight, and gut feeling is this will be also. Five goals, 3-2 to us or them...

From my addled grey cells I remembered this, could be adapted reasonably well once the carnival atmosphere starts at SMS:

He is doing his best to emulate George Best...

The boy Clyne. Once we get a winger it will be like the 7th cavalry...

It was a genuine shame as he had a great touch, and a bit of an edge. Sounds incredible now, but I though we had found our midfield general for the next ten years. My first game was 1977 so I missed out on Stevie Williams's debut, but what a player - Mr silk and steel...

Steve Moran, electric. One from left field is David Hughes who Alan Ball debuted in a friendly against Gothenberg, looked an absolute class above in that match...

Agreed. Think that the club has always had an eye for young players. Once he had been here for three or four years the McMenemy 'youth policy' was providing a large chunk of the first team squad, stars like Williams and solid pro's like Bambi Waldron and Graham Baker. The Nicholl side that reamed the 'best ever' Liverpool side had the last stream of this youth policy pulling the strings, grounded and nurtured brilliantly by Merrington. Crediting Lowe in this area is like crediting One Direction for inventing rock and roll...

Spot on...

Give the septic a break chaps, it is the offseason, FFS...

Yes. Can you be more specific?...

The push for Europe starts at Man City...

The Teflon Don, with Andy Oldknow as bridesmaid...

It's basically a carbon copy of Stoke City's chaps, every button. Theirs is slightly better because they play in red and white stripes...

Indeed, why not. A matter for the Board, but possibly the European ambition might have to gain context...

I think we will do a reverse Blackpool - baptism of fire, slow start and then pick up. If big investment is needed in the January window I reckon the owners are good for it...

My uncle used to have a car sales / garage off the Avenue in the mid 1970s and used to spend several afternoons a week at the Cowherds with the infamous Saints reprobates of that era (the post training sessions). I was about ten at the time, and saw the aftermath a couple of times. Love to have been in attendance with that lot!...

Good for Danny Fox, and for the club. Of course there is a danger of injury, but Saints players in international squads is a barometer of our improvement and ascendency...

It was always going to be the case that this Olympic appearance would determine Butland's value at this moment in time. On his showing, lots of potential, but nothing like the finished article, and worth £3-4 million tops from our transfer budget, and for those reasons I'm out. Time to get in an old sweat with Prem experience as cover for KD and mentoring for Gazza...

With Puncheon, the suit is so he is ready for an interview at one hour's notice...