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According to well-informed Pat over on the UI; Strachan will be announced as manager, either tomorrow or Thursday. He will have a 5 year deal with hefty bonuses for each and every promotion. Targets have already been agreed and money made available with a huge budget. ???????????? *Edit: don't shoot the messenger!

So - why did the 9/11 attacks take place then?

Bye bye Badley

That actually happened you know - back in 1939. We got so fed up with them sending planes overhead infact that we ended up going over to their place & giving them a good kicking. It took a few years mind. They didn't come anymore.

Current British troops in Afghanistan is 8,000. US troops currently number 57,000 with Obama promising this number to rise to 68,000 by the end of the year. Looks like we (and especially our American friends) are there for the long term! Incidentally - the British toll of 184 killed in Afghanistan is less than a third of the 657 American forces' deaths, according to U.S. figures. Whichever side of the fence you're on - that makes gloomy reading. What's the answer? damned if I know...

Whilst I share with you wholeheartedly your praise & thanks to the 'Tigers' 1976 - I'm sure I'm in an ever-decreasing minority here by saying that I actually DO think the job the lads are doing in Afghanistan is a necessary one?!?! We've stopped the Taliban running training camps there (hand in hand with al qaeda of course) - and more importantly - it's absolutely vital that the Taliban are prevented from taking a foothold in either Afghanistan or neighbouring Pakistan. The Swat Valley - once called the 'Switzerland of Pakistan' for its natural beauty - is now the Taliban's battle ground for Islamic fundamentalism where harsh Islamic (shari'a) law is imposed on the population and fully sanctioned by the Pakistani government. In recent weeks, armed Taliban fighters set up checkpoints and occupied mosques in the Buner region just 60 miles from Islamabad, declaring Islamic law before retreating after striking a deal with the government. It may be an uneasy "peace" between the Taliban and the Pakistani government at the moment - but it won't be long before fighting flares-up once again. The Yanks have a large military force on the Afghan-Pakistan border as we all know - and for good reason. The US (along with the UK) know that it doesn't bear thinking about - the consequences of the Taliban (let alone al qaeda) getting their hands anywhere near Pakistan's nuclear weapons. So (personally anyway) - I can see sense in keeping a large force in the area & especially Afghanistan. The dirty filthy Taliban are truly evil - evil in the sense that I wouldn't put anything past them - least of all the massive "bargaining chip" of a nuclear device or two. They live in the stone-age - and they want everyone to live like it too. I cannot even begin to fathom why a certain race of human beings would want to live life as if it were 500 or even 1000 years ago? Anyway - maybe I'm wrong. I dunno. I come from a long line of seagoing relatives. My grandad (long gone now bless) served in the Royal Navy all through WWII and my own father did 26 years as a submariner. I myself did 12 years at sea on RN ships - so I like to keep up with what's happening in the world & have an opinion on things. One thing I do know for sure; the whole town of Wootton Bassett should be given an award when the Queen makes her next list of medal recipients! Hat's-off to those good kind folk indeed!

Look at Adams's record as boss of Poompey. No thanks.

I believe it is in the process of being renamed THE LIEBHERR STAND.

Well done The Echo - superb stuff. You saved our club single-handed! Liebherr-ation Day! He was always better off reading your rag as opposed to this forum...or the UI etc. I love you The Echo - and well done! I only hope thejockbellend Gordon Brown reads The Echo too then...

Apparently - Liebherr took a look around St Marys and "instantly fell in love with the club"...which is totally understandable of course!

So - apart from a bulging brown envelope, a nod and a wink - why did Pinnacle get the nod ahead of this Swiss fella?

Looks like (in that photo) he's extremely puzzled as to what a football boot is! Welcome to Saints then Ode!

It's no big deal imo. Season ticket holders will save themselves ££££'s over the course of a season; and there will be plenty of seats available for everyone else in this division the coming season. So - who really needs a membership?

Agree entirely.

I say sell him & spend the money on Adam Le Fondre from Rochdale...as well as strengthen in other areas. And we'd still have some change left!

MLT possibly on the Board of SFC? 'kin superb news if true.

Bollix. Same old ZZZZZZzzzzzzz (*yawn) sheite then.

That's probably the finest interview I've read from Wotte since he arrived here. The guy speaks a lot of sense in it. He certainly appears to have his heart in the right place & I have no doubt he will tell the players on Monday quite straight: "Are you up for League 1? If not - then F*@k off."

so say's Sam Green. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/samgreen/blog/2009/04/30/league_one_need_not_be_so_bad_for_southampton__at_least_they_will_exist

I've never heard of either of them ffs. Steele and Quentin Hubbard out!

Indeed I do. Heavy night - for obvious reasons...all SFC-related of course.

Honestly - I don't think the man will EVER be happy until he finally gets his dream of naming the club "Rupert's Rovers FC". He's obsessed - and should be sanctioned!

Viva Mtarfa!

As we'll be League 1 next season whatever the outcome of a (possible) appeal over the 10-point deduction - I'm already looking at a few faces that should do well in that division next season. Leaving aside any new manager & whoever he brings in of course (in the way of fresh players - if any) - the likes of James, Gillet, Mills, McLaggon & Jake Thomson should do well as long as they have a couple of experienced old heads around them. That's assuming that A. they want to stay - and B. no-one puts offers in for them in the summer of course. I'm very worried about starting with minus 10 points though. A 'big ask' to bounce straight back up ala Foxes style with such a handicap. Still - I'm just a fan of the club I've supported for 38 years now & I'll be happy to just have the club still functioning!