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I've always said i hear almost zero about signings, players leaving or managers going on the other hand you tend to get a lot more leaks about, mainly because the players at the club tend to talk fairly openly so it filters down as rumours. The times you tend to hear about players coming in is when it's leaked from the other team, which does happen occasionally. Some of my sources are fairly high up in the club, but they're normally the most tight lipped.

Wages in the region of £120k p.w and a fee of about £50m would be my guess.

Actually that's not true of Walcott. Doesn't mean he will come of course, but he would consider it.

I'll make it simpler for you, all of those things have been wrong as long as long as i've been alive, as has blackface. If you didn't know that then you've either had an incredibly sheltered upbringing and never met a black person in your life, or you're just a bit f*cking thick.

Nah the view at Craven Cottage in the away end is good from wherever you are, it's normally a decent away day too as there's loads of pubs worth drinking at around the ground and in the past a few clubs have even done the river boat from waterloo as it serves beer.

It's crazy isn't it? Imagine a world where i can't do something that's been unacceptable in society for at least 30 years and has long connotations of racism. Honestly it's political correctness gone mad, just the other day i was calling a coloured chap should go as the king of spades because i was referencing the deck of playing cards and he punched me repeatedly in the face. Then there was the time i suggested a gay person i knew should go out dressed as Mr Brains rather delicious faggots, and he got angry at me, political correctness gone made i tell you. Almost like that time i suggested that an arab friend of mine go to a party dressed as a mad bomber, i don't why but he kicked me in the nuts, political correctness has gone way to far i think.

Been saying this for a while now, there's a handful of players with too much power that need to be shipped out.

I might have two to pick up on the day but won't know until the end of the week

We dodged a massive bullet by not going to Stoneham, an out of town ground would've been horrific and instead we moved back to our roots and in area walkable from the station for away fans and surrounded by pubs. In terms of locations i think St Mary's is probably one of the best located new grounds in the country to be honest.

It's taking circa 3.5hrs to get from where i live in London to Southampton as a result of this, with no guarantee of a seat due to the shorter cars. It's just not worth coming down for a 12pm kick off that's on TV to be honest as it'll be a 7hr round trip on a Sunday.

The fact it's on a sunday only makes it worse, the engineering work is still in place and SWT are going to be running 5 car trains instead of 10 (which they do on a saturday). Have to be honest i've been annoyed all season with the mess on the rail, this will be third game i'm missing as a result and it's taken me less time to get to Huddersfield from London than it has to Southampton on more than one occasion.

According to the club it's not just lines in from London that are affected, it's all train lines in the Southampton area, absolute f*ck up from South Western who seem to be having a fight to the bottom with Southern as to who can be the worst train operator in the country https://southamptonfc.com/2017/12/05/travel-information-ahead-of-southampton-arsenal-clash-premier-league

Rail replacement between Eastleigh and Southampton Central, plus for some unknown reason SWT have only been running 5 car trains on that line on a sunday recently. Going to be an utter nightmare for anyone coming from London.

It's just pandering to their fanbase who are desperate for it to become a derby game. It isn't and will never be our derby, and i think most Bournemouth fans know that which annoys them further. Howe feels he has to talk it up because it's what they expect, i'd prefer it if our club made no reference to it to be honest.

Personally don't like the chant and do think it's a good thing people are trying to get homophobia out of football but also think the sentence is a joke and way over the top. Seems the lad was badly informed by his representation to be honest and i hope he doesn't end up losing his job as a result. Also don't forget it's world cup season, so the police will be looking to up arrests and bans to justify their money. Before any world cup/euro's the amount of FBO's go up massively.

There's no way MLG wouldn't have argued with the judge that he was simply stating a fact as there were women and probably gay men there, and then would've lectured the judge on the potential of Saints to qualify for the Champions League in the next five years based on the state of our coffee machines in the Chapel stand.

Shop window game for VVD this so i expect him to play his game of the season so far, still think we'll get beaten comfortably though. Not sure i'd bother risking Lemina or Austin for this, Bournemouth is far more important so rest them for that one. Can see Redmond coming back in too so half expect Boufal to be dropped (hope i'm wrong).

Well that's total bullsh*t (other than the meeting part which did happen)

Man City L Bournemouth W Arsenal L Leicester D Chelsea L Huddersfield D Spurs L Man Utd L Palace W Watford L i make that 8 points, although i think i might be being over confident.

It's a new thing that stupid people who've been caught out in their stupidity say when people put them right so they can pretend they meant it as a wind up along. The online equivalent of your dumb f*ck school mate who'd laugh and say they'd wound you up when they said something racist because they were too embarrassed to admit what a f*cking bellend they were

Whereas stupid would be missing an entire joke and taking it literally

Armstrong was/is one of my favourite ever Saints player, what i'd give for a player like him now.

Everyone will be made up. I've never understood this thinking that you can't change your mind, i doubt any Saints fan wants him to do badly, most want him to be good as it's means we are. Sadly nowadays there's this really backwards belief that you can't change your mind on things and everything's black and white. It's f*cking bizarre if you ask me.

Pretty sure this isn't what you're going for but that sounds pretty good to me, you make it sound a competitive league that's totally unpredictable, less boring sideways passing and more upsets. Yeah imagine repeating the same thing over and over despite a complete lack of facts, i mean it's like saying our ambition was the top four or we're a bigger club than Everton or that we'd sell out a 50k stadium

There is literally no point arguing with him, he's proven time and again he has absolutely no understanding of what being a football fan is, you may as well shout at a spreadsheet on your computer