Matthew Le God

And as I said... How Danny Fox did in the Premier League is irrelevant to Virgil van Dijk, you should judge a player on their own merits. Fraser Forster, Victor Wanyama and Steven Davis all came from the Old Firm, did you pre-judge them based on Danny Fox?

I was responding to people calling him "turd" and "dreadful", its relative to the situation the club find itself in. How Danny Fox did in the Premier League is irrelevant to Virgil van Dijk, you should judge a player on their own merits.

He was not "turd" or "dreadful" when you look at his signing in context. - Danny Fox was signed by Saints to get us out of the Championship. - Saints were promoted out of the Championship in the season he signed; with Fox playing in 41 of our 46 league games as a regular member of one of the best defences in the league & he had 11 league assists - He was then out of his depth in the Premier League, but he performed a very useful role in the Championship promotion season. A successful signing, he did what he was signed to do.

Was that on the internet or parchment & delivered by carrier pigeon?

I joined this forum at the same time as you and was on the Saints Forever forum before it evolved into this one.

Give it a try, whats the worst that can happen?

You've finally seen the light and ummm... joined the dark side!

There is no maybe about it. That is how you count!

There are 7 teams at shorter odds than Saints with bet365, so that makes Saints joint 8th favourites (along with the others at 33/1).

None of those bookies show Saints as joint 4th favourites.

The Vitesse players didn't look to be happy to be playing Southampton after watching the draw, can any Dutch speakers translate what they said afterwards?

Jason McCarthy ‏@JasonMcCarthy32 15h15 hours ago Another good weeks work! Can't wait to get out to Holland tomorrow ! #saintsfc Joshua Debayo ‏@JDebayo96 5m5 minutes ago Holland

From the ticket section of the Saints OS... http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/20150713-ticket-information-southampton-rcd-espanyol-friendly-2543034.aspx#2bCDu6wClJkeVirm.99

http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/20150713-ticket-information-southampton-rcd-espanyol-friendly-2543034.aspx#2bCDu6wClJkeVirm.99

Southampton vs Chelsea Reserves (Vitesse Arnhem) - A (Stamford) Bridge too far?

A flight from Holland to Newcastle isn't as bad as it could have been. Travel wise its pretty good for us.

Ticket news is found in the ticket section of the website... http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/tickets/match-tickets/

[video=youtube;XICoCI20o-E]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XICoCI20o-E

In terms Saints getting van Dijk, Celtic going out of the Champions League as early as possible would speed up any potential transfer. Even if they reach the group stage that doesn't mean they won't sell him this summer. If he helps them to the group stages Celtic benefit from both his transfer fee and also the Champions League group stage money. They want him to stay long enough for him to help them into the group stage. Quotes from him stating he wants to leave... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3119299/Virgil-van-Dijk-drops-bombshell-Celtic-Dutch-defender-says-wants-leave.html

It was bull**** that he said he couldn't reveal his source. The information was already in the public domain on the Brighton forum and Brighton newspaper website at the time he created this thread. By making the following posts he was suggesting he had contacts feeding him info and couldn't reveal who they were...

Yes, the English don't use "roster" for football teams, its "squad". The reverse is true here, using roster doesn't sound right. We invented the sport and language! Americans are butchering both!

Why pick me up on that and not the thread starter who was trying to make out he was ITK? All I did was expose the bull****. .................. Expose bull**** = get petty childish insults thrown at you Create bull**** = feel free, go ahead, pretend to be "itk" The Saints Web way!

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