Matthew Le God

Mount Rushmore was built on land stolen from the Lakota tribe in an aggressive act. I don't think we should be copying the idea, unless we can find a cliff to carve it here...

A non smart recruitment policy would be dismissing a player purely for how well his team did in a season. A player should be judged on his own merits, not his club's.

Can you give a potential example club for that scenario?

You think we'd pay £30m to £40m for Butland?

On what is that based? There is a significant difference between dignitaries like politicians/royalty not going and the England squad not going.

One of them already has.

Eight 5-0 defeats in the league leading to relegation and you'd give him a new contract? Surely there has to be some bar for him to reach to earn a new deal!?

When was Oriol Romeu 'in favour' with the Spanish senior team? He is not a Shakespeare character...

Really? He has already shown he is beyond League One level with numerous loan spells, he is 24 years old (older than Hoedt), so isn't an up and coming youngster anymore.

That couldn't be done without Birmingham's permission.

5 year sponsorship at £5 per year

Why would they lie about it? No need for conspiracy theories.

It isn't £2m, that was Alex Crook plucking a figure from thin air. Reliable Saints journalists have put the figure closer to £1m.

He was born in Ruabon... the 2001 census has only 13.6% of the population of Ruabon having some ability in Welsh. Even if he did learn it in school, that wouldn't make it his mother tongue. As he'd already know English.

Can you really use that as a stick to beat Black with? It is for Pellegrino to decide ultimately the intensity levels of the training... not Black (who was not even Pellegrino's assistant manager... he was just a 1st team coach!)

After 2 years of Claude Puel & Mauricio Pellegrino, the Mark Hughes pre-match press conference today was a refreshing breath of fresh mountain air!

Only 19% of the population of Wales speaks Welsh according to the 2011 census, I have my doubts Hughes speaks it fluently as his mother tongue.

If that was true why would they be spending money on improving the shop?

It is closing for a month for a major refurbishment, I'm not sure why you think that means it is closing down. Announced last week... https://southamptonfc.com/news/2018-03-09/westquay-store-refurbishment-march-april-2018 They (like every other club) always do huge discounts towards the end of the season, because very soon the number of people wanting 2017/18 season merchandise will drop sharply.

He was 34 years old on the day he signed for us. Very much on the decline and his legs had gone so he dropped into central midfield.

I'm puzzled how you worked that out? Plus when he played for Saints he was used in midfield not as a striker and it was at the end of his career. He played as a striker at Man Utd, Chelsea, Bayern Munich & Barcelona for good reason... he was a very good striker!

This isn't new 'news'

How would Targett make any difference in that situation?

Such as...? Any examples of predictions for these easier opportunities?

and Gabbiadini