Polaroid Saint

Redmond is perfect. Plus Ings. ?

I hope it wasn't a red panda in that ambulance, thorpie?

I also agree with this.

Ooh, a new edition? Perfect holiday reading. I will Amazon Prime it. 7? Is this about beards?

I try not to have a fixed stance on THAT sort of thing. However, if one down-stairs carpet style has a benefit over another, then I would not be adverse to (cautiously) giving it go. If successful, I would of course demand Saints force the entire squad to adopt it.

I know, I believe you are right; there was always a genuine and obvious passion to the man. Nowhere near the worst offender of the Golden Shower Generation (see what I did there?!). Only being harsh because of his (typically inane) statement that he 'enjoyed every minute'. Would have been decent and honest for the out-going captain to have acknowledged the hard times and disappointment of his tenure as captain and time as a player.

My attitude to Gerrard's England career can be summed up by looking at Gerrard's attitude to his England career; The Liverpool midfielder said: "I have enjoyed every minute of representing my country. It's a sad day for me." Here he is 'enjoying' one of those minutes: and another: and another: and one of those 'enjoyable' minutes captaining his country versus Germany at South Africa 2010: 'Enjoying every minute' from Brazil 2014: And one last one, enjoying 'an England minute' with a 'team mate': In summery; I am glad you enjoyed every minute Stevie. Unfortunately, I, for one, did not.

It's okay Minty; this year we are going with neat minimal facial hair. Gone are the days of Lallana Under Beards, Cant-be-arsed-Stubble Strikers and Lumberjack-bearded CenterBacks (well, as soon as Jos gets sorted). Still hipster, but clean shaven hipsters!

A bit of Town and Sun? No better place than Bridport (and West Bay) IMHO. It is a good base as it is a bit 'funkier' than most west coast towns (always good gigs on, odd stuff happening, great food n booze). But you have Eype and West Bay for beaches etc too and Chesil / Lyme along the Jurassic Coast too. Check out these 'much-higher-production-values-than-you'd-reasonably-hope-to-expect' promo videos. http://www.bridportandwestbay.co.uk/whats-on/news/286-the-bridport-videos.html

I like this.

Now we are getting to the nitty gritty and important stuff. Yes, he did, but (as was widely reported at the time), the world reached 'peak beard' in mid April - around the same time Saints' campaign began to stagnant. Coincidence? I think not. We need to be ahead of the times here - I'm not saying forget training and the sports science - but come on Saints, sort it out; there must be a decent Turkish Barbers in Southampton somewhere?

Everything! Are you mad? Facial Hair is everything. For starters; the Lallana 'Under Beard' should be banned from the training camp immediately. I saw one or two youngsters wearing it last night. To give Jos his dues, I think he has sported the beard longer than most - but this may point to its origin. I agree; off with the beards! Saints Squad should be clean living clean shaven nice young men, not yobbos with hipster beards and intricately shaved stubble designs, YMCA n all that. (Moustaches are, of course, fine and to be encouraged).

It is well known that the Manchester Evening News have the best 5-a-side team in the national Journo league, the cheating båstards!

Some very eloquent and quite rightly indignant posts regarding the EPL and what it has done to our sport. I am not trying to counter any of those, but the question was specifically about middling success. It could be argued that it would be much more than a mild success if Saints retained 8th next season (regardless of summer activity). In fact it would be a massive success for any club of our size/recent history. If the ceiling for a club like Saints really is 6th, then, maybe, we'd rather compete for that position with other 'mildly successful' clubs than enter the murky world of becoming a Yo-Yo Club? Even the excitement of a 'winning season' in the Champ'ship soon fades against the frustrations of a season being the whipping boys in the EPL. So, yes. If 'Mildly Successful' means Southampton FC battle between 6th and 17th each season, I think it is worth it.

Lol

I cant work this out! It's either absolute genius, or a crying shame, "shame on you lady, shame."

To be fair I didn't click the link at all. Just liked Killers Knee's calm and rational look at our current squad, the player movement so far and what, in his opinion, was the more important areas for us to improve. I have long given up trying to find 'factual information' about football finances online: some are surely more accurate than others, but even the 'authoritive' sites are, at best, educated guesses cobbled together from other sources.

Will people stop posting erudite and sensible opinions? I'll forget which forum I am on! V.good post sir.

Aha. So Morgan followed Spurs on twitter. Got it now. As I say, Simon Jones showing his superb 'insider' knowledge!

Oh. Did I miss something? What did Morgan say on twitter then?

Not a single quote in that 'article' from Morgan. Just Simon 'Lazy Bones' Jones earning his corn with aplomb as usual, flinging any old sh;t in the hope some sticks.

Nothing. But I haven't made an announcement at my work to say I will be in tomorrow. (However, I did say to my boss on Friday that I wouldn't be in if I won the lottery this weekend -I just hope he isn't sat at home panicking!) It's about attitude as a fanatic supporter; pessimism is all well and good when you are three nil up against Norwich and they score two in a minute, but a waste of time this early in the off-season. All the attributed statements were from a while back. A week is a long time in football, or something!

Very good point; I think I sort of knew that somewhere in the back of my mind! I guess I am trying to say that when figures for transfers are bandied about in the media they often vary, and when an amount is quoted we (the public/fans) can never be 100% certain how that is made up (fees, add-ons, part-payments, sell-ons etc). £20m (for example) could be the total value of the transfer incl all the above, or the net figure the club receive. Despite it being pored over on here; I still can't work out exactly how much was paid/we received for either Lallana or Shaw!

The most sensible thing said on this forum for a couple of weeks at least!

Though the logic is sound; that having a former CB as a manager would mean we are likely to have good CBs... ...it could be argued that Saints had their worst set of Goalkeepers (and trouble signing GKs) when we had a former keeper as a manager! (Okay, different class but still, it was a blind spot!)