Matthew Le God

I'm aware of that. Hence my wink at the end of the first sentence.

Don't leave it like that! Tell us more, without leaving yourself liable to legal action.

Edited slightly because it looks good coming from you. It is a slight tangent, I'll give you that. But it shows how (some) Saints fans either have rose-tinted glases and ex-players are the best thing since sliced bread, or are the worst player they have ever seen. Little middle ground.

Did you go to many games over the last two years with Saints in the 3rd tier? Do you not think the managers of Dagenham & Redbridge, Stockport, Walsall, Tranmere, Wycombe, Torquay, Northampton, Yeovil, Southend, Cheltenham, Shrewsbury, Eastleigh, Carlisle, Oldham, Hartlepool, Leyton Orient, Brentford etc etc would bite your arm off to have a striker like David McGoldrick in their sides (if they could afford him)?

Don't get me wrong, I don't think he was that great either. But if you offered him to pretty much every side Saints have played in the last two seasons in League One, he would be their number one striker. Thus to call him "one of the worst players I have seen" is a little odd. Unless of course you didn't watch Saints in the last two seasons and didn't see the standard of many League One strikers.

All I did was add the second sentence, nothing was removed.

Turning on your own kind? Not a good sign when that happens.

SuperMikey said he was "****", he didn't say in reference to what he was "****". Most likely it was a comparison with other strikers in the Championship in the 2008/09 season, but we don't know as he didn't say. You however said "one of the worst player I have ever seen". There is a significant difference between the two statements.

You say that as if you think making statements like that will change me. It won't, surely you have worked that out by now, given the numerous times you have done so. I wasn't the one making ridiculous statements like "McGoldrick is one of the worst players I've ever seen". Which is clearly nonsense, yet you make comments to me rather than him.

I think this thread has come to its natural conclusion. The End (p.s. someone remind me when the day comes to collect from DellDays the £100 to go to a charity of my choosing )

- Saints have been in League One for the last two seasons. - Saints have been playing non league teams in friendlies for his entire life. - Saints have been playing lower league teams in cup competitions for his entire life. Unless he has seen very little football (only at Premier League level) and very little of Saints, he would have seen many players worse than McGoldrick. Even in the last two seasons, McGoldrick would be a regular for pretty much every team Saints have played against in League One.

Try harder? You were the one that said McGoldrick was one of the worst players you had ever seen. That is quite a statement, he is a professional footballer that although not great, has been a regular in a Championship side. Surely you have seen far worse?

I find that hard to believe.

Only by two goals in 2008/09 (having played more games). And McGoldrick has shown himself to be capable of playing for a top six Championship side last season.

I know, my point was that he isn't untested at that level (as suggested in the post I quoted). I didn't comment if he was a success or not. In any case 10 goals for a relegated team isn't that bad tbf.

He was a Championship striker as recently as the 2009/10 season.

Chingachgook

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tbf He joined Pompey as a youth player and was later let go. I'm sure he is delighted to have a second chance to play at Fratton Park, having spent a number of years trying to do just that, even if he is a Chelsea fan.

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As I've said before, many fans are casual and simply don't care in the same way many on here do. The prospect of Premier League football is what attracts them in. Many of those that had season tickets/membership/regular match goer in the Premier League years aren't interested in League One/Championship football and don't go to many games. They flood in at the first hint of success, hence why the Walsall game sold out ahead of matchday. Just because he said it, doesn't make it true. Whether that game had 24k (as it did) or sold out with 32k, it didn't make a difference to the survival of the club. The club needed an investor, the extra money those 8k would bring wouldn't have plugged many holes. The match in terms of the clubs financial survival was pointless. Look back the season before to 2007/08 and you will see the club sold out the Sheff Utd game, the fans knew that the club could stay up on the last day. In 2008/09, it was out of the players hands if they stayed up or not and out of the fans hands if the club survived or not and thus less appealing to the casual fans.

Every penny didn't matter, most fans knew that. If Saints didn't have a buyer it didn't matter how many turned up to the stadium against Burnley. Just short of 24k is a huge figure all things considered (administration, 2nd tier Saints team that was awful vs a 2nd tier opposition, impeding relegation to the 3rd tier).

I'm glad you approve Glasgow.