sandwichsaint

Surely we need to change our mentality to the home team? Get control in the middle of the park (VW) and release the FBs to get fd and get some service into the front players. I don't expect RK to sit back for 45 mins and try and neutralise their 10 men. We will keep it tight for another 15 mins but then we need to stretch their 10 men to tire them and force mistakes.

Rattle off a win here and we will be second, a couple of goals on the GD and we will likely be top right through the weekend.

I hope that's the other way round!

If we get to HT at 0-0 we ought to go on and win this, RK has been very adept at fashioning changes and improvement in the second half.

First one wasn't far off a red on its own, thoroughly deserved.

Decent words, what's the tune?

Methinks the greeting-card copywriters' loss is the photocopying-and-stationary world's gain .

Mane, so we say He's got a good club with more pay and he's OK, Saints are on the up, Pompey are on the dole Think he'll score us another goal, Mane! Pink Floyd.

You might want to re-phrase that last sentence?

Keegan?

I'm in, never been able to get tickets for the Emirates but been to Highbury plenty of times. Wanted Arsenal/Fulham/Palace away (in reverse order) so can't really complain..... but we will need two of yesterday's second halves and their squad/youth X1 will need a massive off-day for us to go any further.

29,350

£9.5m ... Les's final take-it-before-Friday bid.

Don't make stuff up, it's probably 50/50, I'm quite happy to have him, I can't be bothered to dig it out but I would have had him in January.

We could probably get SRL back for 14 million ......

Tricky tie, will def go if tkts are reasonable, reasonable=

Reality check - this is where we are now, just another mid-table, also-ran Prem team. Once we had disposed of half of one of the best, young, mainly homegrown teams the Prem has ever seen, we were left with a pile of smoking ruins and a big pile of money. We can't attract players from the first or second tiers (we can't pay the wages other bigger clubs play and we can't offer much prospects of glory or trophies on the pitch either), realistically we are left with third tier players/young players/cheap unknowns. In the circumstances we have done 'OK' so far, the jury's still out in that we haven't played any real games yet (!) but in the circumstances: Forster - potentially very good, should get a number of good seasons out of him and will maintain value Bertrand - could go either way but no big fee committed, option to buy if he does well Tadic - hopefully will be very good for us, should maintain value Taider - excellent squad player/utility player, no big fee committed Pelle - probably the biggest risk, we need to find a system that creates chances for him Shane Long - decent honest pro, potential to form a double act with Pelle, I've seen him live several times and I've not seen him have a poor game. Saints could be the making of him. The price is ridiculous but unfortunately when you must have a striker, this week, and you have a pocket full of cash you are going to get burned whoever you try and buy. Did people 'really' think we were going to take £100m in sales and buy 5x £20m players?

Les-lie, Leslie, He comes from Hack-nee He f===ing hates Pompey Les-lie Les-lie (Alternatively - 'You don't know what you're doing ....'

Will come out on top in a relegation battle? Nice work ....

This, once SRL was allowed to go pre-WC the rest is inevitable; rank amateurism from our board. If SRL wanted his dream move to his spiritual home he should have been made to sweat it out in pre-season then dragged all around the dutch non-league scene, then to Swindon and B'mouth then we'll think about it (and then let him go!). He was the domino, other players looked and said 'What's stopping us?'. I'm taking MS and JRod as givens and I will be 'astonished' if VW or JC are here for the L'pool game. The board have built a house of cards and it's all fallen over... it's not impossible that it's all part of a cunning master plan and RK will be given the wherewithall and money to sign 10 PL players in the next three weeks but somehow I doubt it. At this rate I will be surprised to see RK last much beyond the first 5-6 games.

Consider yourself spared, when I was there they just reached behind for a scratch.

Adam Scott for me then Rory E\W

Gosh, an outbreak of common-sense and moderation seems to have fallen over the mong board. Could Saints have got more than £1m for their shirt sponsor? Almost certainly yes, but that may well have involved going with a casino/online betting/money-sharking payday loans company. The silent majority seem to think that for a marginal couple of extra £m they would rather not besmirch our shirts with that type of tat. I expect the owner's values may well come into this side of things too. Are the new Carlos Kickaballs 'better than Lambert and Lallana?' - it seems most people are going to forsake the you-tube option and wait until they've a) seen them play, and b) seen them play at least a good few times. I can guarantee that this question would have had a completely different answer one or two summers ago.

Maybe we will travel to Euroean games on car ferries?

Richard Wright was excellent in his time with us.