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I said we got what we wanted. I've never had any thought that it played an active part. Bless you CB Fry for caring and remembering though, to know you were so moved keeps the spirit of those halcyon days alive! So, you are a sexist then CB Fry?

So it's purely about what you want?

Ahem: You must get off on this. I hate to think that you are actually that misogynistic. Going back to something you missed, Do you think the whole of the Grass-roots of the game should give up. After all it's only about the teams that are being watched, right?

A successful campaign I may add, we got what we wanted. And it's the words of a man who has just become a father to a young daughter. That such retrograde perspectives as yours still exist is really quite scary.

No a team for those who need help would be a good idea. Shall I sign you up? You are just being a poor man's Turkish now.

So the entire grass roots of the game should give up?

Very well said.

I don't. So, you have no qualms about depriving people a chance to represent their club because of gender? You make some further sarcastic examples, but should there be the interest in running them and the club gives it's blessing, why should that be something for you to criticise? You have a daughter who catches the football bug and you have to explain that's wrong? You tell her to get back into the kitchen? Or do you take pride in the fact that should she have the ability she can play for her club, her team.

I'm advocating a women's team and you are just being sarcastic to those with that position. But fine, if you want to lower yourself to the lowest common denominator that's fine.

You don't want to answer me directly then? Just want to snipe?

You bring the prawn sandwiches, i'll bring the thermos. I'm delighted that gender will not be a barrier to my daughter playing for Southampton should she catch her father's interest in football. I had the pleasure of coaching a girl at u11 level who had to stop playing due to gender at the end of the season. She was heartbroken as there was no team for her to play for in the club, thankfully she found somewhere to continue and she now captains her city's semi-pro side. The pride and reward she gets from that is amazing, why would anyone want to deprive someone of that chance just because it doesn't fall inside their own personal spectrum or paradigms? It's about time the club had a ladies team, this is truly fantastic news.

There is no point debating this I know, lets just agree to disagree. Personally, I'm delighted that there will be a Southampton Ladies team again from next year, it brings us into the 21st century.

Why not? It's not as though money is being wasted on buying up a Ladies team and parachuting it into the Super League, Southampton Ladies will be born from the academy and provide a focal point for the young women and girls who play the game and give them a chance to aspire for playing for their club, you know, the 40-50% of people who are in our fan base who just so happen to not have the dream of currently playing for the club that is just as much theirs as yours. If it doesn't catch momentum, nothing lost, if it does, more the better. I would consider it very important, it shows our club has a soul and exists as just that.... a football club for all.

Nice life story, what's his question.....?

Two players refused larger pay offers to come to Saints... Clasie and Virgil?

Ladies football part of the 5 year plan, glad to hear that. Important to have a ladies team in the fold and one that is being organically grown.

They have been a bit corporate, but efficient and obliging. Not too shabby.

Quite an admission George

The nature of politics these days, attack the opposition ahead of praising your own virtues.

Good man.

Our one world class player. All is lost chaps.

Dear Spurs/Levy Pay our valuation or f**k off. Yours disdainfully.

Why do we need so many 'clubs?' Comparing something as politically influencial as the EU with UEFA though..... Really Tim.

No political pressure to fit into a system we had minimal input on. It is however a sideline issue for me, albeit one that has shown how impotent the EU is when it needs to actually do something. The 'every man for himself' behaviour of the newest member states shows how pointless the EU is as an entity. It is the point of principle, it is undemocratic, it is too inflexible and it is a threat to our long term future.

Out The immigration argument is pathetic, there will till be immigration whether we are in or out, but if we are out there is a better chance of it being done in a way that is actually to this nation's benefit. It's more a case of flexibility, we need to be independent to cope with the changing nature of the world, by aligning ourselves to a monolithic entity such as the EU we will not be able to react quickly to world events such as the migrant crisis which just shows how unworkable the EU is. Alongside this there is also a point of principle, we voted into the European common market, a trade agreement, not into a political union. The argument of 'that was clearly where it was heading' holds no water to me, we did not vote for political union, we voted for trade. As such the disgusting practices of the EU during the roll out of the Lisbon treaty are an affront to our national sovereignty, identity and culture. The EU is an undemocratic sham and we must get out of it.