Miltonaggro

He is joining as head of suntanning...

If we keep learning and adding quality we are going to stay upwardly mobile. COYR...

We are beginning to look a really good team, team being the key thing. Let's hunt down West Ham now...

Wunderbar my proud beauties!...

I was recently talking to a colleague who is involved with private/public sector business initiatives in Southampton, and he made the point that successive councillors and councils cannot think about the city in a joined up way - the matra is any investment is good investment, it's either party politics or hobby horses, never a long term vision for what could be a great small city. Despite it being seemingly obvious, development opportunities are continually missed and good buildings and areas bulldozed to make way for infill generic spam architecture. It seems that every penny received is spent on trying to polish bad areas whilst ignoring improving the city's assets. There is no viable plan for amenity, leisure, or heritage (which is layered in the city), and the lack of imagination is breathtaking - the course seems to be to turn Southampton into the Hull of the south. I was once at a seminar, and a very senior SCC employee (in a thick Lancashire accent) said that the council had mooted a lighting scheme to turn the Civic Centre clock tower into a giant 'virtual lighthouse...to show the city's history of protecting shipping' - I kid you not...

I would simply mix it with cement to form a large free car park to bring back the alienated multitudes. Not sure if anyone has photographic evidence of the alienated multitudes but I am convinced they are out there...

Big Ron is very culturally aware, and referred to Remi Moses, Cyrille Regis, and Laurie Cunningham when at WBA as his 'Three Degrees' so he may modernise and use the affectionate term 'Destiny's Child' when he takes over from Fat Les at Saints. Not many people realise that Ron, as well as being an expert on football tactics, also has great knowledge of Iranian wine, gold bullion, and knots. He would give Nige an edge...

I've heard Bradford is very nice at this time of the year...

You may jest, but Ron has got something to prove, would unite the fragmented fanbase, and take some pressure off Nige. Sack Reed and bring in Big Ron as a father figure for the youngsters...

What the club does seem to need is personnel with recent Premier League experience, in the form of playing staff if not additions to the coaching staff. Adkins and the players have potential but could do with some mentors in the Ball and Case mould...

This. What is required most of all is an experienced vocal leader on the pitch, not a good fit with current transfer policy but we are crying out for a genuine been there, seen it, done it, to give these talented youngsters some leadership...

Great today and a very good footballer. As back up / mix up to our current pairing it would be nice to sign a beast in the mould of Jaidi under the age of 25...

They've learnt nothing from the debacle in the last window!...

This. In the case of the Skates and Henry, it was a Jimmy Savile scenario. Just a distant memory now...

As a centre half Dave Watson. Not a giant of a man, but towering headers and some bullet goals...

Regardless of what the fans think, moral or not, Cortese will do what he thinks fit and best for the business. Two of his options are to release significant funds to plug gaps in the squad that should have been plugged last window, or sack Adkins and bring in another coach to motivate the players, such as Di Matteo. No morality, justa de business...

Absolutely hilarious, we need much more of this type of thing to put us on the map...

This shows how far we've come on. Under Lowe I would have been happy with Leslie Phillips...

Look at Guly, all over the place FFS...

Value for money Golac. Impact Keegan...

Adidas reverse Ajax. Put your shirt on it...

Cheers Shroppie, Lol!...

Par for the course, Barry, it's progress. It would take a Mad Max scenario to return it to the way it was, Portsmuff are attempting their own doomsday programme at the moment so it will be an interesting test case - down there it's less plastic, more cling film wrapped dog turd...

I'll try that again: You are right Adrian, the concept of the 'plastic fan' is not necessarily related to a class construct it's more about culture. In the good old days, or the bad old days if you believe FA quangos and David Mellor, football 'culture' was predominantly working class, as was playing football in the evenings and at the weekends. Football was very much linked to youth culture, so when I started going as a kid in the late seventies there was good smattering of skinheads and architypal older 'bovver boys' (BR, FW, Fords donkey jackets and work boots everywhere), which then flowed into the casuals in the eighties - designer labels but still very much working class in the main in terms of background and job - the 'family club' existed, but only in certain areas of the Dell. Post Taylor and Premier it's a sea change, and moving from the Dell certainly decimated the demographic. Clubs that seem to have held on to the old school fans seem to be the ones that have stayed in historical stadia and thus the areas loyal to them - this would explain the nature of Spurs and West Ham support, which retains a core of grizzly locals and their off-spring. Obviously Saints had no choice but to move as the Dell was so restricted, but when I bump into a lot of people that I used to go home and away with their choice is augmented by not liking the 'new ground', or simply not liking 'modern football, modern footballers, or indeed modern fans' seldom money. Youth culture seems to be dead, so it's unlikely that terrace culture can be resurrected in a meaningful way...

You are right Adrian,