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Wow. Big time. I will however give them credit for being a Chameleon. They are adapting to their surroundings and contemporaries beautifully! The future is bright.....

You truly rate Cork that highly? He's good, but one of the best you've ever seen?

Aside from his testimonial I never saw him play for us.

Same formation for me: Gk: Antti Niemi DL: Wayne Bridge DR: Paul Telfer DC: Dejan Lovren DC: Michael Svensson M: Morgan Schneiderlin M: Adam Lallana M: Matt Oakley F: Theo Walcott F: Rickie Lambert F: James Beattie Manager: Nigel Adkins Honourable mentions: Pahars, Bale, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Cork, Boruc.

Aside from our game at Cardiff over Christmas of course. Better to support then undermine.

A friend of mine did the trip to Kenya, a month or so of humanitarian work funded by her redundancy pay. I believe Cortese was meant to go but didn't in the end, nonetheless she met him at St Mary's on return, just like all of the other participants.

Agreed, a nice throwback to the very early kits. But with the Addidas stock on 50% off in the club shop + the rumours..... I just hope we get a good option next year.

Always used to Park at College street. Always spaces if you are there around 1-1.15, taxi ride to the stadium of only a couple of quid. Spar shop near to the car park with an ATM if required. There is a noodle car just around the corner near to St Mary's Church with seating.

Of course many of us care, many want you to do well. I would love to see the Cherries in the Premier League just like I hoped we would both go up from League 1 together in 2011. Feet up time? It's felt like that since the Sunderland defeat in the FA Cup. The subplot of four players chasing an England place has kept things interesting.

Wanyama is certainly stronger and better in the air but Cork offers better technical ability with the ball, Wanayama is caught in a catch 22 position currently, he is being kept out of the side by an in form player but needs game-time to rediscover his touch. I would start with Cork over Wanyama at the moment if a direct choice needed to be made, putting both into the team would be an option though. As for a prediction..... Cardiff will be fighting for their lives and I hope our team spirit hasn't been broken too badly by Jay's injury. Saints 2-1 Cardiff.

Remember they were taken over by some American syndicate, selling players on promotion in order to maximise return? No. http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/derby-county/transfers/verein_22_2007_default_default_alle_a_default.html According to that they had a net spend of around £15m. Alan Stubbs, Claude Davis (Over 3 million for Claude Davis!?), Rob Earnshaw, Kenny Miller..... they wern't shy.

Even compared to the previous 'smaller' clubs to have played in the Premier League; Blackpool, Barnsley, Oldham, Swindon..... yes, they would be without doubt the smallest to have got in. In terms of current stature though, could it be argued that Bournemouth are similar in terms of stature to Swindon and Oldham?

Way to bump a survey that's no longer taking responses. It's not so much the surveys themselves that are annoying it's more how contradictory and poorly constructed they tend to be. Also, being rude is hardly likely to help your cause.

Doing some digging and I rediscovered this article.... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1250700/Saints-winners-Why-old-rivals-Southampton-Portsmouth-bitter-enemies.html One quote in particular stands out. A recurring theme I keep coming across whenever I read about the rivalry is that there was no real animosity for the first 60 or so years, the complete bitterness and hatred in many quarters is a relatively recent thing that coincided with the rise of hooliganism.

Wasn't that in 1994? Despite being only ten at the time I remember it was quite funny.

Can understand it would be more intense within the cities themselves. Growing up within the catchment area but not the city (Colden Common.... Winchester and Eastleigh will always be red and white at heart) there was no day to day feel of rivalry in the 90's aside from that one game in the F.A. Cup.

I can relate, growing up in the 90's they simply didn't register. There was an awareness that they were meant to be a rival but they occupied a lower plane of existence, it simply wasn't relevant.

It's happened again, a screenshot was taken of the app store item I was diverted to, will try to upload later. For immediate reference though the item I was advertised was 'Wartune: Hall of Heroes' by a publisher called Kabam.

Quite frankly, nutshell. Any perceived history that lays the grounds for the rivalry from their perspective (dockyard strikes that never existed for example) is just groundless conjecture put into place to justify what is at it's heart simply a geography issue. The poor opinion from many Saints, myself included, is based on their club's very recent and utterly evident behavior as detailed above. Until the start of the century they actually barely registered and it was almost to the point where I didn't mind seeing them be reasonably succesful as they are another south coast side and it would only benefit the area for two clubs to be challenging towards the highest level possible.... like I currently feel about with Bournemouth. I have no particular dislike for any individual Skate but the collective lack of contrition and humility over their team's recent behaviour and continued trumped up and groundless belief that their club has a divine right to be at the top table just fuel's my hope that they do keep stumbling from calamity to calamity before eventually ceasing to be entirely. They have become a parody, it's best just to point and laugh before the joke gets stale.

In the same way Blackpool did on promotion, yes.

Fingers crossed for the Cherries, would be great for them and the profile of football in the area should they go up. Always had a soft spot for them.

1. Boruc 2. Lovren 3. Schneiderlin 4. Lallana 5. Shaw 6. Jay 7. Fonte 8. Rickie 9. Davis 10. Chambers

Que sera sera for me.

I have no love for Leicester as a place or a club, far from it, but delighted for Nigel Pearson.

Who won the West Auckland v St Andrews semi final?