The Kraken

Good smilies, but you sidestepped the actual question there.

Like for like will never happen. But, let's take a random example. Let's say they spend around £12M and get someone like, I don't know, Dan Sturridge. First season, 14 appearances, 10 goals, 4 assists. Second season, 29 appearances, 21 goals. No player is irreplaceable. Suarez is absolutely top class, but its not as if Liverpool are surrounded by sh*t or couldn't attract the best players in the world. To suggest otherwise would be monumentally stupid.

Why would you take 31 goals and 12 assists totally out of the equation? Are you saying Liverpool will sell him and not replace him with anyone?

Good job we have none of those worries of clubs poaching our top players. !

"Nothing without Suarez". Brilliant, even by your standards. Truly. And I don't even like Liverpool! Sometimes you have to take your hat off to mongboard excellence.

Even you're not thick enough to actually believe that nonsense. Remind me how they got on without him for an extended period at the start of the season.

It really isn't "true" by any concept. Unsurprisingly.

I see. If exclamation marks made it so, we'd be in with a good shout. !!

In a similar vein, Pete. If we lose Lallana, where are we likely to finish?

#ourdreamisreal

Saints' record Premier League season, you mean? The level of points over a season we've never seen since 1984? Yep, sounds as good a reason as any to compare us to Liverpool I suppose.

Yeah, I reckon there's a few other footballing and monetary incentives to potentially move for.

Where are the pictures of the Cortese glass elevator?

I imagine he would be a great addition, he's a star player and captain of a side who are 5th in La Liga.

I don't mind Glasgow, he's a likeable buffoon.

Before the9 shows up with his kit pedantry, that particular template has a solid red back and it's an old template. As I say, just for something different. As it happens I reckon we'll neither be with Nike next season, nor in stripes.

Here's a mock up I did and posted elsewhere, just for sh*ts and giggles. The photoshoppery isn't the best but you get the idea.

Forced or self-imposed?

When St. Mary's was built I believe I'm right in saying that we had the only perfectly level pitch in the league (all others had a camber to aid drainage).

I reckon I'm 3 or 4 years away from a flask of Bovril and a blankie. For now the Saturday afternoon beer jacket will have to make do.

I don't think Goaty has got the time for it, what with chasing Glasgow around most of the time. I need a nemesis who really puts their heart and soul into it for the long haul, not just a part timer with bigger fish to fry.

In some Spanish stadiums they have huge heaters built into the undersides of the stadium roof.

Also in the first half of last season we had Dan Fox playing left back and Lallana in front of him, which left us ridiculously weak at times. Lallana's fitness levels weren't quite up to it and he was fairly regularly subbed off in the second half (still is somewhat, to be fair). I remember a couple of games of the Fox/Lallana left side combo and it was just a nightmare. The transformation of Lallana as a player this season is incredible. He was always talented, of course. But he's added so much to his all round game now that there's no trade off to be had, he offers the skill and creativity while also putting in a bloody good shift and doing the defensive side.

I thought it was installed but never connected; the costs of maintenance and upkeep never justified it?

I thought it already had undersoil heating; installed when St. Mary's was built.