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Surely the obvious replacement is Wooton. Given most on here thought he was better than Morgan anyway

As much as I'd like this to be true there's no way it'd happen. Much bigger clubs than us interested

I can't help but be reminded of this cartoon with the way people are defending these decisions, http://thesunshineroom.com/2013/05/30/bull****-rodeo/

On the march and the ugly were great early on. Proper terrace humour that you'd always buy on the way to the game. Shame the ugly went down the politics route really but I guess that was just responding to the way the club was at the time.

That was the lowest ebb i've ever been at as a saints fan, watching that game i was convinced we were stuck in that league for a long, long time. Gutless, terrible and ripped to pieces by Swindon. Their wingers were as brilliant that day as we were terrible. Though the worst ever day as a saints fan still stands as That game at Fratton.

Absolutely blinding post, couldn't have put it better myself. I've thought for a while the best thing that happened to us as a club was going down to league one and fighting our way back up. I absolutely loved those days out of the top flight, and loved even more that the people travelling to places like Gillingham, Oldham, MK Dons etc where proper fans. Sadly the longer we stay top flight the more sterile, boring, glory hunting and placid our support will become. But some of us will still remember those days, and keep our fingers crossed for a cup day away at stevenage over a "glamour" tie at home to United.

Except that you've just named four of the most sterile "atmospheres" in modern football, with most of their banners being club endorsed things that really highlight how sh.it and mickey mouse their once great supports have become.

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Well it used to be Forecast, anyone who can paid the amount of money he did not to do his job is a fu.cking genius if you ask me

Yup pretty much sums up how most people i know who were born and bred in southampton feel. I still won't forget the league cup game against them when they booed Ted Bates minutes silence. That day was utter hatred all around the city, with pretty much every local nutjob wandering around st mary's before the game. But then as you say the out of towners only really pay it lip service as they don't really understand it.

You've got bills you never pay scans better to be fair

Mainly because of the fact that we need probably another 4 players of quality at least, and a £10m+ winger would be on significant wages which would cut into the budget for the rest. Would love to be proved wrong though, especially with someone like Ince, but i guess to me i'm ultimately worried that if we stretch beyond our means we could end up in the same position as the skates.

Yeah that would be perfect but also probably the most expensive area to cover, there really aren't massive amounts of good wingers out there so i'd expect to pay around £10m+ which i think maybe beyond our means.

Happy with this signing, we obviously needed a center back (or two) so it's good we've got one who's probably at our level right now and should improve the side. Next step is to add a midfielder, striker and probably a back up keeper/full back too.

Well that rules us out then since we're HUGE and we're going to be champions league, if not champions, next season. At least that's what people here have said.

In a shock turn of events just before the close of the transfer window Barcelona will sign Ian Branfoot as a surprise manager and he'll offload Neymar and Messi to us in exchange for Guly and De Ridder, commenting to irate Barcelona fans that De Ridder will score more goals this season than the pair of them put together. We will then realise the error of our ways about Morgan and release him on a free to free up a squad place for Paul Wooton who will arrive back in southampton on an open top bus ride as a hero to the 5,000,000 fans waiting to fill the new Red Bull Solent All Stars stadium. At this point the FA will declare that the premier league is ours and since we don't need to play to win it we will instead spend the season building our global brand around the world like the Harlem Globe trotters. This in turn will lead to Southampton Solent All Stars franchises being set up in every country we set foot in. Matt Le God will spontaneously combust with excitement after claiming that we are about to build a Mega Stadium in a purpose built island in the Atlantic that will house half the worlds population. You heard it here first.

Remember that Millwall mid 80s one, as a youngster it was mesmerising and scary in equal measures, things died out in plain view by about the mid 90s, though Villa invading the pitch (and batman punching dowie), Forest at home and Cardiff reeking havoc around the common and the roads off the back of the archers also spring to mind as later examples. Away there was also the spat with Pompey in Covent Garden that ended with a pub being cs gassed, the police turning up late and arresting everyone in sight including an old man drinking with his niece That and the joiners, but that one's been done to death everywhere.

Wonder if they'll do a line of Adidas OG Gazelles Southampton

Was between Case and Armstrong for my favourite midfielder at that point, really is amazing to think the players we saw back then. Shilts, Wallace, Le Tiss, Case, Armstrong, Shearer...

No where near that amount. If I remember right there were more people in for supergrass a few weeks later

Surely at number one is perry groves

Equity or loan is semantics. A financial sum that size will be recouped at some point. Now that could be through the sale of the club or through money withdrawn on profit by the owners. All I'm saying is we should bear it in mind rather than getting complacent like the skates did

Interesting how no ones mentioning the £30m loan we took out and still need to pay back. That's there already so whatever we have to spend will he after that which means a lot less cash than people assume. As for rising quick as much as I want to see success having the soul of our club tipped out by us becoming a brand, getting glory hunting fans from all over the country (not to mention overseas) sits really badly with me. Diluting the atmosphere with another 10,000 people wanting to go to the club shop feels like a failure to me. Despite the success it'd bring on the pitch. Mind you maybe I'm just a relic of the dell sized mentality that liked being able to see a saints shirt outside of Southampton and be able to have a chat with them about our city. Since at the end of the day that's what a football club is, an extension of your civic pride.

All seems like reasonable aims to me, the good thing being that even if we fall short we'll be better than we are now which is something i can't argue with. Good to see a common sense approach in place too rather than a gung ho expand at all cost decision.

Thought their fans were one of the best down here all season to be fair. Only them, qpr and west brom made any noise. Yeah they were game fuc.kers but that's football (and we were hardly angels at spurs the other week)