The Kraken

Plus these: http://www.sportsmole.co.uk/football/southampton/news/cork-keen-to-extend-southampton-contract_136200.html http://www.tribalfootball.com/articles/cork-seeking-southampton-contract-talks-4006658 http://english-football-league.co.uk/news/premier-league-southamptons-jack-cork-hoping-for-contract-extension-1391865806/

Depends what you're asking, doesn't it? Are you asking why MoPo picked VW every time? Or what that guy thought in his post? The guy you quoted suggested a reason why VW might have been picked over Cork, time and again. The "sometimes passing is less important than having a brick **** house in front of the back four." He also expressed an opinion that, in his opinions, there was room for both players. The "I don't see it...." part was that. Edit: Why am i explaining things here. I thought that was pretty clear.

I reckon it might have been the part you didn't highlight in bold from his post. This part: Having said that sometimes passing is less important than having a brick **** house in front of the back four. I don't see it as a one or the other but more horses for courses meaning there is a place for both Jack and Victor in the team. Not that that's necessarily my opinion, but his was fairly clear, I thought.

Foiled! You dastardly villain, you.

Are you actually incapable of answering a simple question? I was under the assumption this was a public access forum.

Which bit(s) were made up from GS's statement?

Of course it is all of those things.

Sober as a judge myself, Nicholas. Don't tar others by your own expectations. And the choices you lay down aren't mutually exclusive. The team picked wasn't full strength. The team picked didn't perform to their known expectations. The reasons are unknown, but it all led to a completely lacklustre display in all departments. Not sure what else there is to say. I'm also not sure why it causes such ire in others that some people have a wish that we had put this match as a massive priority.

Tick.

Reading the past few posts back again, it would seem that Frank has been on the red wine again tonight. He does tend to get a bit aggressive when he's been on the grapes. Chin up Frankie, old chap.

Pretty much season over then, if that's the case. A real shame.

No. It really isn't, and if you truly believe that you're a bit simple. The FA Cup was the only realistic thing we could have won this season. A trip to Wembley in the semis and/or the final was at stake. Neither Sunderland nor Saints prioritised it and both put out sub-strength sides. Just because people have a different opinion to you as to what they would have liked to have seen prioritised, its pretty sad you have to resort to childish accusations of dark and mysterious "agendas". If we had put out a full strength side and lost then, fair enough, we weren't good enough on the day. As it was, we didn't do that, and some feel that we left a bit out. My opinion on MP is that he's a very good manager for us, I hope he stays, but he didn't prioritise the FA Cup for this season. If you think that's 100% wrong then you might want to look deeper in the mirror for who actually knows feck all about football.

Who is saying it was a dead cert?

It's a leap of faith to think that we could have gotten to Wembley had we gotten past Sunderland? Ok then.

:lol: 9 points clear of 11th place with 9 games to go. Not been in the bottom half all season. Top work there, Aids.

You just said 8th was your expectation of where we'd finish. Was it your limit too? You expected 8th, but we'd finish no higher than 8th? You said "I don't think it's a huge achievement getting this squad of players 8th." But OK Aids. I went and looked. Right here in the SWF season preview. http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/content.php?456-SaintsWeb-s-2013-14-Season-Preview Now admittedly you and your I'm never wrong opinions didn't make into that collection, but it's just the first review I found. So it would seem the general consensus from that was 8th - 12th. Not exactly your minimum expectation of 8th, really.

Agree with that Doggo. I don't remember too many people at the start of the season saying that 8th was the minimum benchmark. 8th would be an excellent finish, anywhere top ten would be a very good achievement, both from the start of the season and also from now.

If this is anything like the standard of your posts (which is does seem to be) then, quite frankly, good. Whine, whine, whine, just because others have differing opinions. On an internet forum. Where the point is to express your opinion. Not sure what alpine was expecting more from this season, apart from the FA Cup which was IMO an inexcusable display. But top ten is a good, very good showing for a club like us. We're not going to qualify for Champions League. We likely won't qualify for the Europa League either, except with a cup win. I wonder where people genuinely think we can go from here. We're a club that puts a benchmark on finishing 8th, and a supporter base that laps that up, many of whom prioritise that over a cup win.

Probably because we could have been. There's also multiple threads on it because it was the only thing we could likely win this season and people see it as a missed opportunity, for a number of reasons.

No infraction can best the legendary "stamping on people's dreams" handed down by Jimmy D to the Turk. Not so much harsh as utterly sad and desperate, to be fair, but it's top of the pops for M-board fractions IMO.

That would be my fear. Steve raised a good point about David Luker, but he was able to apply customer comments to the management of his own team. Still, I see it as a good thing that club want to show they're listening, so I'm going to choose to view it as a positive step.at the very least it's worth trying.

You only have to look down the road at Micah Hall to see how this type of role just doesn't work, and is a hiding to nothing for the incumbent. saying that I applaud the effort to open a greater dialogue with the fans.

Classic thread. And some people accuse Barry Sanchez and Glasgow of ruining the forum.

Er, Ted. You haven't fixed the drainage. In the lower field.