Saint Mikey

Who the f**k is Déjàn Lovren? Who the f**k is Adam Lallana? Who the f**k is Pochettino? When the Saints go marching on, on, ON!

Faux anger? What about the people who have acted with their feet? I thought the club were taking the p!ss by putting STs up again this year after getting £80m in TV money and jacked in my ST. I know quite a few other people who have as well. Clubs will continually expect fans to bend over and take it, until people stop going. Then the prices will come down, but not massively...

I'm more concerned there's no place for Ian Marshall, Jan Aage Fjortoft or Trevor Morley! FFS.

How many pro-contracts have you signed? None, I'm guessing. Clearly Forecast was good enough at one stage for a number of coaches to believe he was worthy of not one, but two pro-contracts. So, he must have had some talent for his age. Seems like he threw his talent away, rather than working hard and developing it. Not unheard of in football. Is it his fault we decided to give him a 5 year contract?

Really? I don't know a single fan that doesn't rate Cork. All appreciate his qualities and many think he should be in the team ahead of Wanyama.

1. Barcelona 2. Berlin 3. Athens 4. Prague

One of the worst decisions I've seen is Fonte getting a pen v Brighton despite clearly being outside the area.

Looking at the midtable sides and their backup, they're all much weaker with their 2nd choice: Hull – Harper W.Ham – Jaaskeleinen N’Castle – Elliot Palace – Hennessy Swansea – Tremmell S’land – Pantillomon Villa – Given You could argue that only Chelsea, City and Spurs have a like for like replacement. Even Utd, Arsenal and L'pool have very definite deputies and undoubtedly weaker when they play.

Do you really think they bought Lambert for a role he doesn't really perform? Do you think the scouting goes like this: Rogers: We need a target man. Scout: Lambert's a target man. Rogers: Is he? Scout: Papers seem to think so. Rogers: Good enough for me - get him in. Despite the fact that Rogers also got rid of Carroll because they don't play with a target man. But yeah, other than that - I'm sure that's what they bought him for...

You'll have to sell him well before he reaches anything like that value. That's the value of a young defender that's had a couple of outstanding seasons in the C'ship. If he does well in Lge 1, should you go up - someone will take him off your hands for £1m-£1.5m tops.

Did you go to the Dell when Branfoot was manager? You would have needed this at HT after seeing Dixon and Speedie ('they'll score more goals than Shearer') play for 45 mins.

Also, how bad were your eyes in the first place?

Champ Man lingo.

That’s never going to happen, imagine if they did? Imagine what demand would be like, there’d be a massive waiting list, plus a bun fight every time tickets were released for home games (as tickets would be, what about £15?). You’d get family members taking over ST’s even when the holder has died (as happens at Utd and L’pool). It would annoy more people who couldn’t get an ST, than are annoyed now because they are priced out. You can’t just breeze in and chop something by 50%.

Brighton apparently enquired last season and reportedly didn’t want to pay the £18-£20k p/w he was on. If Barnard landed up on £14k due to our rise to the Prem. It must have been around this reported figure, at least.

Just been on SSN that we've made an a enquiry for Shane Long. Would cost a pretty penny given he only moved to Hull recently. Could be a good signing though.

I agree to a certain extent, but what era would that have been? The 70s or 80s? As a kid in the 90s I watched as for successive seasons our best players were sold: 1989/90 - D. Wallace 1990/1 - R. Wallace 1991/2 - Shearer, Ruddock, Horne 1993/4 - Flowers 1994/5 - Kenna Not only that but replaced with utter dross in most cases. Whilst this season is akin to losing all these players in one go, would we really have mounted a title challenge at any point? Even if we'd kept our best players? With the might of the top clubs, I find this doubtful at best. Football bought into this direction the moment it whored itself out to Sky. The big clubs were always going to benefit from the Globalisation Sky could facilitate and the small clubs were always going to suffer. As fans we've all bent over and taken it, lapped up all the live games that were never there before. As a club our size, the best you can hope for is to stay in the top league. Anything else is a bonus. You can have no expectation or ambition - that's the sad position we're in.

All I can see Les jetting back from Portugal with is 'una botella de vino rojo', not much else...

I agree with your sentiment, mostly. However, there were plenty of whipping boys in the Dell relegation battle era. Benali, Cockerill, Dowie, Beasant (when he first came here) all got loads of stick. TBF though, I can't remember fans booing their own players when they came on or giving ironic cheers when the GK caught the ball or anything like that...

If I didn't know your posting style, I'd think you were being serious...

Not quite the same is it? 1) Shaw, Ward-Prowse & Clyne had already made a number of appearances the season before. 2) Wanyama cost £12m. FFS. 3) Reed made a couple of cameos and is yet to make his full league debut. 4) Gallagher made little impact and looks too raw for the EPL at this stage. Chambers is the only player who came from nowhere and established himself. Are you expecting 3/4 to do it this season?

A player who can play more than one position? I think Forster has played CB before - cover in case Lovren goes?

When I heard Rooney touted as the next captain, I thought - Really? FFS. Then I thought, who is there with any level of experience that should be captain? Cahill? Is he captain material? Was he at Bolton? Jagielka's not good enough. There's no-one in CM with any experience now. I wouldn't give to Hart either - he needs to concentrate on GK'ing. Flags up how poor our squad is at this moment in time. As the English fan loves a player that runs around aimlessly showing 'heart' - maybe Rooney is a good fit. Either that or call-up Lee Cattermole and make him captain...

Norwich signed Snodgrass, Johnson, Howson & Becchio from Leeds over a few seasons. That worked out well...

A nice gesture no doubt. However, the England team donate ALL their money for EVERY single international to charity. Not well publicised though is it? That's because it's a bigger story to call them overpaid, greedy, lazy etc. etc.