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Yeah. Unless we storm the league those three are all young and will want to leave if they have any ambition at all. All are good enough to play in the Championship and they all still have a full career ahead of them.

Good thread - although I think Davis, Thomas, Euell, Schnerderlin, Gillett, Thompson, Gobern, Saga and McGoldrick will all either want to leave or will be too expensive to keep (unless we get taken over by someone with very deep pockets).

Totally agree - he will prove the whingers on this site wrong.

Yeah - that's quite depressing.

Yeah but today's prem includes such luminaries as Wigan, Stoke, Portsmnouth and Hull so we're not missing too much

Any proof of that one Robbie?

Kelvin was on the other side of the wall so how on earth could he see? It was stupid of McGoldrick to jump with his hand rasied but technically it was not a penalty.

A quick scan of the internet show that not many people think it was a penalty... Comment at 47 mins: http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/jan/04/manchester-united-southampton-fa-cup-live Comment at 17:10: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/fa_cup/7810369.stm Comment at 52 mins: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/liveScores.html?cid=114&mid=12957 Para 22: http://soccernet.espn.go.com/report?id=259005&&cc=5739 "The decision clearly a poor one as TV replays showed the ball hitting McGoldrick's head as he turned away" etc, etc

The ref has ruined the match.

How about giving them a chance before continuing with your year-long whine?

This was when he was 17 years old and making his first first-team appearance? I think he needs to be dropped as his performances don't warrant a first team place at the moment. I think he had bags of potential, but now he has finally been given the chance to cement a first-team place, he has not put the effort in. That is unacceptable as he still has to prove himself to be a good player. His reputation as a prolific youth striker counts for nothing.

According to soccerbase Campbell has played in 12 skate prem matches this season (out of 17) that is a fair majority and does not include his UEFA matches. So he is definitely a first teamer and therefore a key player for them.

That's not the bigger picture - that is just a childish daydream.

Sounds about right "a former refuse tip will be transformed into a new home for poopey" although there will be 15,500 too many seats for your fans.

Pains me to say it but at least they are ambitious - poopey contacting the richest man in Europe?!

Totally agree. I was impresed that we managed to get back to 1-1 away from home and after going down to 10 men. It was always going to be an uphill struggle after letting a goal in after 30 seconds and a central defender being sent off after 30 mins. If we can sort out that enduring thorn in our side - the defence - and get better at scoring from our own set pieces and defending other set pieces, we will be ok. Two of their goals were from set-plays.

Looking purely at his stats, it does seem an odd move - if Saints liked the look of him when we played Stoke, they could have gone for a loan first. However he was on a free and he may be seen as a player to take over from Wotton in the longer term.

It still gripes me that Burley let another prost young-un (Blackstock) go to QPR for £250k to make room for Rasiak and Wright-Phillips. Blackstock and Mcgoldrick would be fighting each other for a place in our starting line up under JP (14 goals last season and 2 already this year).

Brum write up from the match: http://www.blues.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/NewsDetail/0,,10412~1376030,00.html

Good post. I would add that they are very different managers and although Poortvliet has got the side playing extremely well, I wonder if he would have been able to keep that demoralised Saints side of the tail end of last season in the Championship - impossible to say.

Reports from Independent and Guardian: http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/football-league/derby-county-0-southampton-1-poortvliets-youngsters-leave-jewell-facing-total-meltdown-907878.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/aug/25/championship.derbycounty?gusrc=rss&feed=football Also from Derby's local paper: http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/football/Alarming-times-Rams-outclassed-Saints/article-287115-detail/article.html Like this: "Derby were handed a football lesson in their own backyard by a bunch of kids who had lost their opening two matches in the Championship... And those youngsters played beautifully."

Would you trust Shearer, in his first ever managerial role to spend it wisely though? Knowing our luck he would be like a kid in a sweet shop and spend his left right and centre on all sorts of rubbish, and we would be left with a bloated squad of journey-men and sicknotes again.

From The Derby Evening Telegraph: "Southampton’s youngsters handed woeful Derby a football leasson for long periods of the game at Pride Park Stadium and would have won by four or five with better finishing. " http://therams.co.uk/stories/woeful-derby-are-booed-off-again

Good choice. Although I would prefer Primal Scream - Kill All Hippies