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You know you're not supposed to respond to contrarians, don't you...?

He could always do what he did whenever we played Leeds in our championship season, i.e. largely abandon 'Russball' for one match only....

Cheers for the reminder.... Note to self: add popcorn to shopping list.

Hark... The clunk of Fabrice's laptop lid as he waits another week to post his "told you so" missive...

I'm saying nothing....

GOOOOOOOAAAAAALLLLLL!!!

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/southampton-fc/kader/verein/180/plus/0/galerie/0?saison_id=2011 Actually, I see a 16 year old Luke Shaw is also listed in the squad.... Add him to the list

Players in our 2011/12 promotion squad who were better than the equivalent players in our current squad: Kelvin Davis Bartosz Bialkowski Jose Fonte Morgan Schneiderlin Jack Cork Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain Dean Hammond Richard Chaplow Jason Puncheon James Ward-Prowse Adam Lallana Billy Sharp Rickie Lambert David Connolly Any I've missed...?

Damn... I had good money on @Lord Duckhunter being the author of this thread.... ☹️

What size?

We're talking about people's hunches here which, by definition, isn't based on 'facts' or 'sample sizes'. Your hunch is that our strikers are good enough; other people have the opposite hunch. Having the opposite hunch to yourself isn't "reactionary". Out of interest, what number of games do you view as a "big enough sample size"?

And makes your spelling look shite....

We're already the most creative team in the league...

Did Still say after the match that it's not the quality of our forwards that is the issue but the quality of the supply they are getting (or words to that effect)? But doesn't this stat suggest the opposite?

What aspects of the previous windows that our owners have overseen give you confidence that they'll get it right the 6th time of asking (or however many it's been)...? (Yes, I know you'll cite Spors as being the different factor this time around, which is fair enough, but guess which geniuses employed him....)

If you don't rate Still and would rather have Martin back, that's like saying you'd rather step in cat shit rather than dog shit. Whilst it's obviously far too early to write off Still, the more apt thread title would've been: "I'd rather have someone else than Still or Martin"...

Is Ings still a free agent? If so, just get him in FFS (If only for his knee slides for the upcoming game Vs Portsmouth Community FC)

Medal in the post! 😉 (You'll have to make do with patting yourself on the back in the meantime 🙂)

Despite @Matthew Le God reassuring us otherwise, none of our strikers are good enough for a club with automatic promotion ambitions. Discuss...

Early days but, alas, he's looking like a typical mediocre penny-pinching signing from Sport Republic. Are we ever going to splash the cash on a decent forward ever again? How many windows is it now since we haven't replaced Ings...?

Appreciated he's probably protecting himself, but Fernandes hasn't played anywhere close to £50m premier league level this afternoon

Game on!!!

We're bringing on a Brentford reject defender... If that doesn't salvage the game I don't know what will....