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To be fair in a pretty poor season I found that comment to be one of the uplifting moments ... gave me hours of laughter :-p As for learning lessons I'll believe that when I see a tight well defended 1-0 win without any jitters in the last 10 minutes, the referee blowing up exactly on the right amount of extra time and seeing adam L stay on the right wing , oh and hope against hope Dave McG not missing another 1 on 1 :-p

To be fair hes played once in 2004 ... Ricketts played 1 game for England it doesnt make him a player we'd want to sign. His scoring record according to wiki is not exactly immense 24 in 94 games for NEC and 2 in 10 for FC Twente. Its not the fact were not signing the worlds best players , were saints fans we know thats not going to happen, its the fact were signing more no marks to get on the end of non existant Ryan Smith crosses when we have better players out on loan!

I'm sure they said us getting Stern John was a seperate deal to the Kenwyne Jones one although clearly there to seal the deal. BBC is currently quoted as Spurs having bid 15 million for jones so it would be nice to see 10% of that 9 million might pay the wages for a week or so :-)

Totally agree just seemed to be finding some form and game time at Sheff Utd before he came back only to find him gone a few hours later to another team above us ... now im not a manager but it stands to reason if he can make it into their teams e.g. teams better than us he should be brought back and played asap :-)

Question is, if Wotte wasnt good enough to be manager first time up e.g less suitable than JP what makes him more suitable long term now?

What a ledge "Ive caught the southampton bug" Good man top keeper this year certainly earning his money at the moment!

I think the difference is that last year we still had a proven and consistent scorer in Stern John last year. The loans of the likes of Rasiak and John whilst leaving us with untested DMG or the failures that were Robertson and Pekhart is where Lowe is getting slated.

Unfortunately I can't see Mr Wilde being big enough to post a response to that. When the "chariman" of our club doesnt even bother to attend a highly important AGM and leaves with the team only 1-0 down does this show a level of care that you'd expect from an executive let alone a "fan" and I use that term loosely at the moment. Heres some more questions for him if he cares to prove me wrong ... 1) What input did you have to appointing the new manager? 2) How do you justify spending x thousand a week on no less than Robertson, Smith, Gasmi, Pullis, Forecast and Pekhart yet loaning out our top scoring strikers Surely you cant be suggesting that a Rasiak or John could have achieved LESS in the same space of time as the above SIX!!!! players? 3) What efforts have been made to help JP out or in fact considered replacements now that its clear he isnt up to the job?

Just to make a point on Holmes/ BWP Dave Armstrong was saying he could see Holmes asking to be switched wings when he realised it wasnt working and was given a big thumbs down to this idea. JP seems like a decent bloke but hes suffering burleyitus, several people have told me they didnt see him in the technical area very much 2nd half is this true? If so remind anyone else of Burleys hiding vs Watford last Jan when he realised he no longer gave a fook?

Can anyone actually explain those subs to me? Holmes looked pretty decent to me to be replaced by that inept mug Smith and as for taking off Perry for (in my mind) the ineffective Lalllana god only knows what JP was schmoookin this afternoon :-( Going down I reckons

Cant be arsed to look through 5 pages of no doubt "stimulating" lupoli based conjecture but the sun has a "club sources" quoted as saying no meeting between us and lupoli or his agents has happened. Add this one to the list of ****e rumours then along with dos santos? lol

Extra fitness doesnt seem to have done them much help in the winning games stakes ;-)

Get the **** in there! 1-0 DMG!!

Seems a bit silly to have dropped Skacel completely our bench looks a little inadequate to me but only time will tell. I'd prefer to see Skacel on the left wing and Holmes on the right with BWP up top instead of Mcgoldrick. Euell also might be a decent bet up top with saga as he could hold the ball up a little better and with the crosses from Holmes and Skacel ... who knows, might even have scored a couple. What we would do for a Rasiak knocking in those crosses!

Cant be any worse than mcgoldrick really can he! Personally id go for Davis James Perry New Dutch dude Skacel BWP Euell Surman Holmes Lallana Saganowski Subs: Bart Moleyneux White Smith Gasmi

Nice to see our vaunted young "stars" of the future have been tied down to long term deals :-p

No one ... how about we all put in a couple of quid at the next home game should pay off his contract. After all he is the cheap option right!

http://www.manutd.com/default.sps?pagegid={F9E570E6-407E-44BC-800F-4A3110258114}&newsid=6624552&page=1 Thats the utd side of team news. Only mentions he "might not" play Ronaldo but as already known tevez, ferdinand and evra definately not playing. I wouldnt be suprised to see utd with a mix of 1st teamers and youngsters who have already been around the 1st team like silva or wellbeck, with an extra strong bench on the off chance DMG manages to blag us a goal in off his arse! Id go for; Davis James Lancashire Perry Molyneux Holmes Surman Spiderman Skacel DMG BWP

Just to hijack this thread ... Anyone know which pubs, if any, are showing the game in the town centre? Thanks :-D

Hate to be a pedant ... but the Leicester cup game was a 3-2 win. They came back from 2-0 down. Ive no idea how well or badly smith played though!

Surely it would have been a percentage of any further profit chelsea made on bridgey? So lets say 10% on 5 million, even so yes a useful amount of money but seeing as we got million up front for him + Le saux's wages subsidised I imagine we've sort of had our moneys worth out of them. Does anyone know if Chelsea funded any of Cork's wages?

I noticed Duffy (Right back) at Portsmouth is supposedly off on a free, had lots of championship experience with various loans and played at Swansea before that. Can't comment on how good he is anyone else got any idea?

Wanting administration? Yep that seems like a reasonable thing to say, nothing would stop Lowe buying back in on the cheap ala Ken Bates at Leeds and then we're back to square one except on minus points and in a lower division. I appreciate your right to an opinion Stanley but at least have a considered one! Lets face it can you see saints doing a leeds and knocking off those 15 points in quick time or doing a bournemouth and taking till xmas leading to another inevitable relegation?

Fortunately were not on Sky heart says we could up it and shock everyone with a draw head says anything that doesnt start Southampton nil will be a good result! Lets hope they treat us in a complacent manner and we have spiderman back!

Don't think he has the fans either any longer which IMO is probably worse and should lead to him getting the boot ... it wont though, but would be nice to think that if you do a crap job for OUR team you shouldn't be kept on! The team for today was a complete joke and if that clown comes on after sundays defeat and bleats about too many games in a few days he should be laughed off the air. I thought we'd seen the last of stupid excuses and dumb team selections when we brought in Pearson, cracking job on his non renewal Mr Lowe! I see something like 8 of our players today have less than 10 games at League standard, can't say I was suprised to see us lose, I dont expect us to steam roll anyone really but some heart, effort and passion would be nice.