The Kraken

Are you really surprised given that MLT was to many on here "just an employee"?

He's not average at all, he's been very effective at getting lower ranked sides amongst the higher placings in the PL. He may play a thoroughly ugly brand of football but, especially with what he did at Bolton, he was very good at his job. A club the size of West Ham is probably the limit of his managerial ability as better sides really don't/shouldn't be playing that way. But his managerial record is actually very good indeed, even if watching his sides hasn't been at all pleasing on the eye.

Good luck fella, hopefully sanity will prevail and you'll get your ticket back.

This is the only downside at the moment, but yes; we are a world away from the swashbucking side that came up two divisions. Much better set up to take on the top sides but we're now really quite a functional side.

OK, fair enough. Like you, I clearly wouldn't have the faintest idea which scientists (or specific websites and scientific papers) are credible and which aren't, so was just hoping for a bit of a steer in the right direction.

Indeed; but laymen like me wouldn't know where to start. Hence Chicken Banjo's suggestion of listing the most credible/influential seems a decent starting point. And if others representing the opposite viewpoint could/would do the same to represent their own point of view, all the better.

Arguments aside, I would be interested in this too.

The rush to expand was what got me. It was truly as if the notion of "wait and see for a year or two" was an utterly outrageous suggestion to a few people. Some of the justifications for building quickly and reducing ticket prices just as fast were equally foolish.

Ah, but as MLG told us, "relatively soon" could be many years from now. Bless him.

This thread was a doozy. http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?37346-St-Mary-s-What-we-might-expect-to-see-happen-(and-possibly-announced-soon)#.UkX2b4asjlU

Well Osvaldo clearly isn't going to score, as I've brought him in to my FL team. Although saying that my transfer in of Dejan Lovren 10 days ago was rather inspired.

Anything above 31k for this game would be a decent turnout. Looks like we might just get it, too.

Pretty sure the 80s movie "War Games" was based upon this premise. It starred a young Matthew Broderick, and the film starts with a simulated nuclear attack to see what the responses of the operators in the bunkers are; most of them don't retaliate so a computerised launch system is brought in.

For the first time in years Southampton city planners have had a decent idea. But being a good idea and a good final product are two different things. Ocean Village should have been our version of Gunwharf, but what we actually got was a disaster. I just hope lessons have been learnt and we actually get something good from it. But I think it will actually happen. With this and the cultural district we might actually have a city centre to be proud of. In 20 years time.

Exactly. As jeff himself said, the Saints fans didn't protest at the game after Adkins was sacked as they wanted to give Pochettino a chance. St. George has had a bit of a misguided swipe at how it all panned out. The decision itself was always much less questioned than the timing and manner in which it happened.

Echo some of the comments; when he first arrived he wasn't all that but IMO he's got better and better in his time here. And I think he definitely has a starting role to play, particularly in away games where we need to keep it tight and control the midfield. He's probably not the best option as a starter for home games, but a great option to have. My MOTM for the Rumbelows Cup game the other night too, he was excellent in posession and showed a bit more of his creative side.

Barry Sanchez.

And what would that prove?

Charlie usually watches the Gunners, so its an easy mistake to make.

Good point actually. I guess a picture of St. Mary's would be fair game but the badge, probably not. A way around that: perhaps use the "original" badge, with the 50's type football instead of the black and white one. Don't think the old one is copyrighted; the black and white football one was brought in to stop copyright issue. I always preferred the ball on the old badge anyway....

There's a few credit cards who'll let you upload your own personalised picture and print it as the face of your credit card, if you wanted to keep that part of it. Especially valid if the 10% thing is pretty much irrelevant for you with an ST.

We all have opinions, and pretty much none are right or wrong, just different ways of thinking (despite what the agenda accusers continue to peddle). I don't think I've lost patience with Ramirez, he obviously has talent and the ability for something out of the ordinary. Unfortunately I feel (especially after watching last night) that he's a level below our first team at the moment, and doesn't play the same way as the rest of the team. The biggest problem is that I don't see where we fit him in, Osvaldo seems to have pushed him further down the order. It's a conundrum. Given that MP didn't sign him, and given that Gaston has played a limited amount so far, I'm interested to watch how much MP will play him over the next month or two. If its not much then a switch isn't out of the question IMO. Right now I don't get the opinion that he's an MP type of player.

Judging Gaston right now. I take your point about coming in to a struggling team etc last season; but we're not that team right now. In fact, far from it.

What's your opinion were you to judge on just the here and now, and not last year? Right now we're a top ten side at the moment, very much a team on the up.

There's another difference in the level of opposition, so comparing like for like is a bit daft. Lallana was a 20 goal a season man at lower level. That's another difference.