Saint Mikey

Clubs show absolutely no loyalty to managers or players when they reach the end of their shelf-life. See Adkins, Hammond, Joos, Sharp etc. for all the people we chopped when getting to the promised land and deeming they weren't good enough for us. It's football, it happens. I couldn't give a flying f*ck and I look forward to the new manager and players.

The bookies must be laughing their asses off this season. All the money lumped on the Top 4, straight in their pocket. Also, stories like this one will mean an increase in these sort of bets in the following seasons (more than usual). The bookies also love an underdog...

I'd rather use Smalling/Stones as RB cover, giving us more options upfront/midfield. Clyne has been poor this season by his standards and has (IMO) never really played well for England (even when with us). Walker has been much better this season and has more experience. Realised I didn't even include Lallana in the squad! He's been very poor this year, so a shoo-in.

Hart, Butland, Forster Walker, Bertrand, Baines, Stones, Smalling, Jagielka, Cahill Henderson, Barkley, AOC, Sterling, Alli, Dier, Wilshere, Milner, Walcott Kane, Rooney, Vardy, Sturridge This would be my 23. One thing's for sure, he has the biggest squad selection headache since he came in, and for any England manager for a while. There are players like Carrick/Jones/Welbeck/Shelvey/Delph/Gibbs and injuries like Shaw who could all miss out. We have cover in most areas apart from CB, where we are incredibly weak and I'm not even sold on our first choice pairing.

Surely nothing's changed since good old Cecil's time?

I'd say Forest getting promoted, then winning the League in their first year back ranks better. That and the fact they then went on to win two European Cups in a row.

Where did this 'met her in a club' line come from? Was this peddled by his camp, when he was arrested? All seems a complete load of rubbish now, the evidence is overwhelming. His career is over, ala Ched Evans.

All buy burgers and throw them at the players on 5mins, to signify our displeasure at quality and price?

The major point here is that it is all the laws of supply and demand, particularly as football has shown itself to be completely elastic and non-price sensitive (i.e. you can continue to the push prices up and people will still go). These economic laws don't take into account if your Dad's Dad supported the club. All these laws care about is what you can charge against how many people will pay. It seems that ceiling has yet to be reached. You can't hark on about clubs creating a buy-in a 100 years ago, as it's completely irrelevant. If prices were suddenly £20 a ticket, there would be so much demand that the clubs would be over-run by demand, it would also make Premier League football extremely accessible and the PL don't want that. The product remains a premium product due to the price that is charged and the exclusivity that generates. I'm sure everyone would like to walk around in Armani, but not everyone can afford it. So, I'm sorry, but you think it's too much - don't go. That's what I've done. I had a Season Ticket for 5yrs from Lge 1 to Prem, but jacked it in as I didn't think it was worth the money. I'm pretty sure someone has taken my place - the law of supply and demand and I'm not crying about it.

This is a completely fictitious brand of football. Dreamt up by delusional fans, supporting a club, who in reality have won f*ck all in their history.

If it was fantastically run people would still find things to moan about. The club could set up a set-up a service where each customer was noshed off by a beauty before each match and people would still moan that some other matey's bird could deep-throat better...

The fact that we struggled to have anyone decent in centre midfield for years, after he got injured - shows how good/consistent he was. It took til League 1 and Morgan/Hammond to get a similar consistency in that position.

Scoring one goal means nothing. I remember Jordan Robertson scoring an absolute worldy at a much higher level (C'ship) - have a look and see how his career has panned out.

I think we signed him due to the various injuries. With Gardos out long-term, Bertrand out short-term, no-cover at RB with a new untried RB coming in and a youngster as cover at LB, it made sense to try and sign a utility player (just should have been a better one). We couldn't have been that convinced, as he only got a 2yr deal - didn't he? Which is strange for the PL at his age and goes against the general policy of improving the squad. He'll end up on loan to a Dutch club next season.

Which frankly, is a load of rubbish. I don't remember any Saints/Pompey fans getting their throats cut. The added religious element to that derby makes it much more hateful and dangerous. http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12602416.Celtic_fan___s_murderer_preparing_for_release_from_jail/

At a time when we were utterly woeful, Chris Perry did a fantastic job for us.

Whatever you do, buy separately off the net and get someone local to install. I've had a composite door installed this year, which I bought from the net and got someone local to put in. Cost half as much as I was quoted by a number of companies who were asking ridiculous cash. £1.3k upwards, for a door?!

An update on this. I've just had an email offering me 50% off for a year, plus a £50 credit. In between I also filled out a questionnaire as to why I was leaving, intimating it was the price and I could be swayed back. Lesson here is hold your nerve!

It's difficult to judge people when you have no real idea of what it's like to be in their situation, i.e. women throwing themselves at you left/right and centre. I'm more surprised when footballers get married or have long-term GF's, especially when they're young. Not taking advantage IMO.

You can add Lescott, Arteta, Pienaar, Rodwell to the list of players that would have wanted to keep in recent times. In terms of the players they've kept recently. Baines isn't good enough for Top 4 (you can see that in his abject England performances) and is too old for the money they want, otherwise he would have gone. Barkley is too inconsistent for the money they want, as soon as he shows consistency - he'll be gone ala Stones.

I put a cancellation in to Sky, in the expectation they would offer me a deal and reduce my payment. However they called my bluff and just put me through the process! Of course I can reinstate before the end of the 30 days. Is anyone likely to phone me up and offer a reduced deal? Do I need to hold my nerve, or I will I have to go back with my tail between my legs?! FFS.

We bought Fox to replace Harding in the 1st team, which he duly did and kept his place. Fox wasn't up to Premier League standard, but that seems to mean people forget how good he was in the C'ship.

He really wasn't. Harding was brilliant in Lge 1, but couldn't get in the team past Fox in our C'ship season. No need to re-write history... Kudos for flaming the Skates though!

Got mine. Free beer for the 1st game of the season too. I'll be getting there early...

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