Pat from Poole

Just heard this call of Mitchell's on the Solent sports news at 7.15 this morning. Rise above it, people, he just loves the publicity. I will admit the guy has done a very good job, but it's an example of how a transfer embargo imposed on a club (allied to having an outstanding young manager) can actually help a club, with the team spirit which gets generated from a small squad which pretty much picks itself every week.

I think we do pretty well on Solent, to be fair. I remember the old days when they didn't have full match commentaries and all you had was a god-awful ditty when a goal was scored at one of the three games and you had to pray it was a Saints goal or a goal scored by the opponents of Cheats FC or AFCB. And the music they played was godawful. It's a million times better than that now.

Think I was at that Crewe game. Re simultaneously quite good and incredibly crap, I would also suggest Carlton Palmer.

It is possible in hindsight that we did stitch Reading up when they foolishly bought him from us. Which may explain why they wouldn't let us have Antonio back.

This is fact. I liked him a lot. Think he set up THAT Rasiak goal in injury-time at Pride Park.

This is undisputed fact, and makes me really wonder about Dave Jones, given that he signed him for two clubs. A genuinely shockingly inept "footballer".

He did go from hero to zero pretty quick, mind. But admittedly an inspired signing by Jones for the season that he was good.

I would have expected you to be a little more perceptive than that.

Megson would do very well there, that would not be good for Saints. He was much maligned for actually doing a decent job at Bolton. He gets players running till they drop, bit like Strachan was with us. Plus he played for Sheff Wed so will probably be popular there. I'd far rather they went for a marquee appointment and got Big Ron back.

Completely agree. Some of the cowardly bile aimed at Nick Illingsworth on his thread from people who have never met the bloke is a joke. The "I'm all right Jack" mentality is alive and kicking amongst Saints fans.

Must have been very recent, he was still at West Ham when they lost to Birmingham in the Cup in midweek last week.

I note that the ever-unreliable Transfer Rumours site has tonight linked us with WBA striker Simon Cox (loan for season with a view to buy in summer) and Michael Duff from Burnley.

Quality goal celebration, but borders on obese.

Why? Did they sign Calum Davenport and Jakobsen?

I thought clubs only got about £60K at most each time they are shown on SKY. The away club only get something like £10K, I believe.

It's a poor draw and doesn't excite me in the slightest; not as if we haven't played them recently. I lost interest in the Cup last night when Cheats FC lost, the chance to get revenge on them for last season's exit was the only thing I wanted from the FA Cup this season. As for the United game, I'm just pleased that it will hopefully fund a couple more new players which would seal promotion, the only thing that matters. The result against United is irrelevant.

I'm not into egg-chasing, but did you hear the interview given by the Saracens' guy on Saturday? Heard it on Talk Sport last night and it was very funny. Link as below:- http://sport.iafrica.com/rugby/news/694210.html

I also parked there last season and would recommend it. Very handy spot.

I think you've got a bit carried away and misunderstood The9's post. Methinks he's not slating Adkins himself, but merely putting forward a piece of questionable logic that he was anticipating Adkins-slaters would be using.

Sounds a plan. Bournemouth are skint. They signed him at a tribunal for £60K, plus £40K to come. I reckon if we offered £250K they'd snap our hands off.

Completely agree. Told it how it was with no waffle, articulate guy. After Strachan and Hoddle, our best manager of the last decade.

Rofe??? I remember the Carlisle away game last season, Merrington was unavailable, Solent got the Echo guy Adam Leitch in. I actually thought he was very good and insightful. Hadn't previously realised that he lived in Scotland, which seemed bizarre.

I am beginning to think that leftback is an agent representing a currently disgruntled player (Lambert possibly). Why else would disclosures be made about Guly being the top-paid player? There seems to be a lot of knowledge about Lambert's contract talks over the summer as well.

He means Crosby, Adkins' assistant.