ooh it's a corner

I can't imagine they'd have to form an orderly queue to get into St Mary's.....

Forster coming back predominantly..... Who has he got in goal up there? A shocking second string to the departed Howard....... Forster will be his first effort to raid us, hopefully we'll tell him to jog on....

A move to Everton does defy all logic for him, at this stage in his career, unless he wants to stay there for longer than his typical three year stint. It defies all logic until you put a lot of zeros onto the pay cheque...

How does this work with FFP? Revenues of the premier league clubs outside of the top two/three are 150m-200m ish. How can Everton spend £200m ?

I couldn't agree more. He only stays 3 years anywhere. So what does he expect to achieve? Top six next season would be unrealistic from the squad he is inheriting. Maybe top six the year after, then final year of contract..... To be considered successful there, with £100m+ kitty, he needs to win some silverware and go some way into European competition. That's a big big ask

it will be interesting to see how many star players stay at Leicester this summer. Vardy talking to Arsenal already. Players rubbing shoulders with international team-mates..... It's just a current pecking order thing. We've lost players to Liverpool, Spurs, Arsenal and Man Utd. Looks like we will lose our manager to Everton. We're not losing players to teams whi historically are a long way below us in the pecking order. It is inevitable as Leicester will find out this summer

If you think he is going for ambition, answer this question: Would he go and work for Everton if they offered him £50,000 a year?

But that's because we're a bigger club, and which ambitious manager wouldn't leave Bournemouth for us, especially when we can pay them more money...... oh.

so we force him to break his contract and then he is liable to mitigate our increased cost for next season in bringing in a more expensive replacement? what's not to like?

In light of the noises coming out of Everton, would you; a) Match the money Everton offer Ron. b) Significantly increase the current contract deal, but fall short of Everton's offer. c) Stick with the current offer and plan for life after Ron, should he choose to leave.

that'd be an interesting poll on here. should we match a high salary offer from a competitor or stick to a wage structure. i bet it would be close to a 50/50 split

he should stay, win the europa league with us, then get whatever move he wants... #ifonly

it will be easier for Ron to improve Everton next season than it will to improve Saints. Koeman probably losing his bottle and taking the easier, and more lucrative, option. Disappointing if he goes there. But if he cites ambition as his reasons for going we'll all know he's telling porkies

I think he'll sign an extension with us and then we'll all have cream egg on our face

It's all speculation. Either that, or Koeman's new agent has got us by the curly wurlies

There's only three choices; 1) He doesn't sign and leaves this summer 2) He doesn't sign and leaves next summer 3) He does sign and leaves at some point in the future. The only absolute certainty is that Ronald Koeman, at some point, leaves Southampton. He's been brilliant for us and I hope he stays forever, but that can't happen folks. So, next to that, I hope Ronald's successor is more successful than he has been. Whenever that comes.......

Forgive the lazy colouring in, but a bit like this?

It's not often a post get's me significantly motivated to post, let alone re-post, but please re-read this. Football management and boards will quickly get the blame when things go wrong, but seldom get the accolades when things go right....

In fairness to them, I really enjoyed our league one days. Maybe it was the first time being the big fish, but I'd like to think it was more about an absence of foreign footballers who are only here for the profile/wage cheque of the premier league, plus the added bonus of not seeing players roll around after every kick on the shin. Good honest football. That said, I wouldn't trade sixth in the premiership under RK for League One........let alone League Two......(I would however trade bottom three premiership under HR for League One).

Hope she's alright....

I'm in. Mods - can't we sticky this for 24 hours? They need another £530 for target and given that Mary's meals has a club connection, we ought to be able to see this over the line?

yes it was. Thanks very much....I could picture him, but not get his name

What was the name of the referee that sent Jimmy Case off at Old Trafford, for chasing Bryan Robson? The players were about 5 yards apart and Robson trod on the ball on the half-way line and Case got sent off. Who was the ref? I ought to know but can't remember for the life of me.... ta, in advance.

I was at Ayresome Park Middlesbrough in the early 1990's. We lost. Jimmy Case got sent off, I think. There were 89 of us there that evening. I know, coz I counted everyone.

Eastleigh won, so fingers crossed for a blinding draw......