dubai_phil

Did I mention Deja Vu?? Sure this happened the last xxx times we were on telly... WHERE IS MY FRICKING TAXI??? Shouldda been in the warm up pub 45 mins ago FFS

I never get time to finish a chapter. I get in from the pub late, have to get in the queue way before anyone else to get my Pie & Pints at HT and then there is the Fire Alarm Drill

I raise my glass to that one

http://www.englandfootballblog.com/2011/09/27/lack-of-english-players-in-the-premier-league-september-26/ English players account for around 30% of all those playing in the PL. Remarkable though it may seem, not all of those play for the top 5. Also, under FFP regulations the ability to sign a James Milner on 200k a week will reduce. Norwich have 14 English players in their match squad - they haven't ALL left for bigger clubs. An Academy will produce SOME that will go straight away and will produce some that will stay.

The things one has to do to earn the brownie points.... Just back from an afternoon shopping for a dress for FMDP to wear to Daughter's wedding. That now takes us up to 7 of Dubai's finest Malls covered in 2 days... I'm knackered. IT BETTER BE WORTH IT - Nige - 'ave a word with them mate, out the blocks as fast as Eric when he spots a trolley and we'll be fine So time for a quick power nap, then off to a warm-up bar before hitting Goodfellas and our JudderVision coverage. New Lucky Shirt Debut tonight - All aboard the Little Red Bus (Oh and no we haven't found a farking dress yet )

Obviously the absolute "World Class" players produced will get poached and even Man U are losing Kids at the moment. BUT The academy is producing an average of one every 3 years at the moment. That is the sum of it's output and that is NOT worth investing in. What IS worth investing in is to get the Academy to continue to find a gem BUT to get it so that it can find an Adam Lallana EVERY season. Not good enough for Barca or Manure at the moment but good enough for us today and probably in the PL. Now IF we can produce 1 for keepers each season in our first team and 2 or 3 squad players then THAT is a target worth aiming at. Cliche - if you don't set a target you have nothing to aim for and, well we can see from up the M27 where that leads

Wimp. You need to attend the Ohio School of SaintsPlayer Listening

Thing is, it is actually really that simple. Over the coming years the FFP rules will come in, making it "less easy" to splash crazy money around ala old Saggy Chops to fill up a squad with expensive mediocrity. Having your own supply of squad players will allow you to focus your spending on the first team whilst creating the occassional Bale/Walcott & AOC. Then you just keep a positive attitude and make being a part of the whole squad "Fun" and it will be easier to hold onto decent players. Squad player having fun at Saints or squad player earning just a bit more at somewhere else. It all helps. Follow Ryan Dickson on Twitter, although he's been out on loan all season and not likely to come with us to the next level, a great many of tweets are still about "US" or retweets from our players - very few about the ones he is playing with now - there's Something Going On down in the Forest. And as NC says. We WANT to go up this season. But if we don't then next year we will just have to be better, as long as we stay ahead of the plan. BUT if we are the best we can be tonight - we'll give Reading a football lesson....

Oh Alps. It may all seem a bit fanciful is the line you are obviously referring to. And then you clearly stopped reading the line below that starts with "BUT THEN" You must have been a Journalist in a previous life, taking one line out of context of the whole to make a point

Now that reality has set in, it will be interesting to see how the players respond in their next game. Nah, it won't, they're even thicker than many of the few, probably couldn't even read the report - "it's more than 140 letters innit"

I think we should ask the Council in Marchwood to change the name of the road outside Staplewood to "The Southampton Way"

Cracking article already have that tweeted, FB'd and I stuck it on the Staplewood thread but it really needs it's own. It's still gonna take us lot a long time to think the same way or even to believe that 1) It is what we are trying to do and 2) that we could do it.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/9201250/Southampton-using-Barcelona-as-template-for-success-as-they-stand-on-the-cusp-of-Premier-League-return.html We ARE the new Barcelona The Southampton Way. Crikey what a cracking article

May not have been many, but we still had more than an average poopey home game

Deja Vu AGAIN FFS.... Recovering from possibly THE greatest exhibition of musical ability I've ever seen on a stage - The Eagles last night - and of course an associated hang-over, and have ONLY 12 hours to reciver before heading down the pub again this evening to meet up with our new Dubai Massive. Goodfellas 2 Tecom from 9:30 ish to those passing through here All I can say about you lot in the ground and the lads on the pitch Take it to the limit.

I have no idea just seen The Eagles in concert & aving trouble focusing. Can I answer that 2mro? maybe insh"allah

oops double post sorry

It does not matter what Genre of music you like. It does not matter were you live on this planet, BUT, if they EVER come your way, drop everything, sell your Soul or your ST and see The Eagles in Concert - Seriously, Take it to the limit, one last time

D_P in another "told you so PTS moment" And there it is boys and girls, in writing, in the Public Domain. Very clear and very specific, Not Football Club, Not Stadium and Club Stadium and related assets are up for sale.... Oh that'll make our resident Moneyfields advocate Appy

As a rule I think you will find that both get used

I know some of you can't wait for the next set of good news from down the road, and have all sorts of RSS and other feeds streaming into your mission control. So here is a new link to keep a watch upon http://www.edwardsymmons.com/online-auctions/current-sales?view=auction Yep, Edward Symmons; OnLine Auction page. reckon it will be only another 16 days before you can see Norris, Varney, bunch of Lawn Mowers and some Antique Tap Fixings come up for auction to the highest bidder. Perhaps we could buy a souvenir as PTS and bury it in the foundations of the new Tescos on the site to express our gratitude for the past years of fun? Paypal should work

Oh dear Well, seeing as that is the only hope left it doesn't say very much if even he is not prepared to gamble 2.50 on trying to save them

We need Trousers for this. He holds the TSW Earlobe tester software

Good article. People will mention Rupert but always forget the REAL driving force was Georges Prost (who helped us get Morgan) and the people he had around him

What, you mean one that spent money that was not real? Was a part of the imbecilic Iceland Bubble that developed in the crash that will harm all of us for many years to come? Signed players that they could not afford on long contracts that never played due to injury? Sold out their Heritage of Their Academy for Freddie Lundberg and other crocks? Cheated with a Player ownership? Got fined 30 million but to date still have not started to pay that fine? Sold their soul of their historical style of play for a desperate hoof and run game? Bought ludicrous amounts of mediocre footballers in a desperate life or death gamble? The ONLY differences between WHU & the DFCSB's are Trevor Brooking's job, London based Jouornalists and the fact that WHU haven't (yet) gone into Admin Yeah they are a right proper club.