Saint_clark

Weren't we lowest on agents fees when it was posted a while back? I'm sure we'd paid less than a million while Liverpool near the top had paid about £12million or something stupid. EDIT; here it is. http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/news/news/2012-13/dec/premier-league-release-agents-fees-nov-2012.html

If we're being honest, even with the £30million spend we're still millions worth of transfers behind most of the Prem.

In fairness, Paul Wotton spent 14 years at Plymouth, then four years at 3 different clubs before going back to Plymouth.

Whether it was spent well or not is irrelevant, it shows the backing is there.

Yes, with thousands staying away because of Lowe. And if people don't believe that just look at the huge upswing in attendances after we went into admin and he was gone.

Although there's a couple of pro head bangers in there. This needs to happen more often, ensure the next generation doesn't grow up liking Bieber and One Direction.

Fair enough, I guess he just missed the news that it wasn't called Southampton county anymore.

I thought yours would have been Lord of the Rings Bender.

Thanks for that.

And look at you, getting on your high horse about it.

Ignoring the fact he was born in St Albans and grew up in Bournemouth, how on earth is Ringwood consider an area of Southampton?

They can't move it twice, surely...

Yeah, look at the first post on that thread. Much more detail.

The one that annoyed me the most was booking Lallana for protesting after the b*llocks handball decision in the first half - whatever happened to the captain being allowed to talk to the ref about decisions?

Is money worth more or less depending on the quality of what you buy then?

Tosh, we argued against bad decisions just as much then as we do now.

He did anything but panic for god sake. The whole tone of that article is very cynical.

You mean like when he cried his eyes out after missing a penalty? How is expressing frustration showing that you've lost it in the head...f*cking hell.

So they have 3 shots on goal but we could have easily lost 4-0? Be a dear, and shut the f*ck up.

Absolutely, thinking back to the QPR game those two passes Ramirez f*cked up to put players through on goal just before he was subbed, I think Davis would have managed to get it through.

It seemed odd that either he or the club would commit for so long at his age, but makes sense actually. He'll almost certainly retire after this contract is finished with.

That would take him up to 10 years at the club and receiving a testimonial.

Agreed, but replacement doesn't necessarily mean they have to be a similar type of player. Other teams do just fine with different kinds of strikers leading the line.

We've been promoted twice and have a very good chance of staying up this season (it's in our own hands, despite the drama on this forum). So all in all I'd say the recruitment department has done it's job so far.

Football will last forever, even if it dies professionally.