The Kraken

Bright start for RL but seems to have gone into his shell a little. Come on Rickie lad; get in that box and knock one in.

Should have had ribeye FFS.

If it's anything akin to what I have heard (and much of which is in the public domain) its along the lines of the role Richard Fry played by being the exec at Barclays responsible for cutting our overdraft (and hence sending us into administration), then subsequently becoming a partner at Begbies Traynor, who were our administrator. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-1197918/Charles-Sale-Whats-Fry-cooking-Saints-now.html It was also somewhat fishy that, after lowering our overdraft during the season from £5M to £4M, Barclays couldn't/wouldn't wait another month or so to allow us to make the summer transfers that would have reduced the overdraft level to comfortably within the newly set parameters.

I spent half a season in Tignes; its one of my favourite resorts, absolutely fabulous. High resort base so its very snow sure (at the beginning of another winter season I skied Tignes on 1st December in glorious conditions). Linked with Val d'Isere so the ski area is absolutely massive. A huge variety for all ability levels from wide, easy, long beginner runs, excellent cruisey blues and reds, decent black runs plus some phenomenal off-piste. And the snow parks are very good too. I'd struggle to find a fault with Tignes aside from the fact that the buildings and architecture is a bit ugly; but really, who cares about that? One thing to be aware of though. There a 5 separate villages to Tignes. Val Claret is the highest up the valley, which is linked by bus (and the slopes of course) to Lavachet and Le Lac. Les Boisses and Les Brevieres are further down the valley at lower elevations and are much smaller villages. Still good access to the skiing but just something to bear in mind, the bus services to those two aren't as extensive as those of the upper three villages, which makes going out for drinks in the evening a bit more of a challenge.

Did they benefit from playing at the highest level? Or did they just benefit from playing games at a fairly young age? Beckham to Preston, Lampard to Swansea, Defoe and Rio to Bournemouth, Ashley Cole to Palace; five England internationals with hundreds of caps between them who all benefitted from going to a lower league club. The current loan system just acts as a flag of convenience for clubs to lash out millions on players they don't necessarily need then recoup the wages by having the player turn out for another side. Take that facility away and maybe we might see a bit more frugality and less recklessness in the transfer market.

Agree with the general consensus so far; loan fees should be abolished and loans between clubs in the same division should be prohibited.

Too early to say for sure but I'm not sure if the intent is for Rickie to make way. But then as i said I really have no idea what our first choice XI is going to be; our forward options look rather disjointed to me.

Who would you drop to do this? Lallana seems to have made a good start to the season and stepped his game up from last season. Osvaldo is providing a bit more competition too. and as much as I thing Rodriguez is below par, he's about the only option we now have that offers some genuine pace and some form of ability to get on the ball and put defenders on the back foot. I'll be honest, I don't really know what our best starting line-up is since Osvaldo arrived; only to say that it seems to have pushed Ramirez backwards if anything.

Have they? Where was this written?

Actually a Spurs fan but with Saints leanings due to his time down here.

I played golf yesterday morning, as it goes Phil. A very nice stroll around it was too.

That part is correct.

38 games in a Premier League season, plus 3 this season = 41. What happened to the missing two games?

Either Cerrrrrrraig David or Pinder, I'd have thought.

There has always been a negative reaction on the forum after defeats. Always. There were doom laded threads in the old SaintsForever days, they're not any worse now on here.

And check out their forum, it makes this one look tame, pretty much every other thread bemoaning either the team selection, lack of signings or Moyes in general..

Yep; agreed. Kind of puts it in a bit more perspective.

Just for reference: MP has now been with Saints for 19 games. He has a record of W6 D8 L5. Over the course of a full season that would yield 52 points, typically enough to secure an 8th place finish. Quite clearly that is very good. Although I do share the concerns of the last few games and that the progress we have made under MP seems to have regressed somewhat.

Pretty much sums it up for me. At the back end of last season we beat Liverpool, Chelsea and reading in succession and MP's stock was sky high. Since then we've regressed and scored just 8 points in 9 games against West Ham, Swansea, West Brom, Tottenham, Sunderland, Stoke, West Brom, Sunderland and Norwich, while also becoming very predictable (as our low scoring record indicates).

Come on Benjob, you asked the question.

Benny! A genuine question other than following me around and just playing the child! I feel honoured, so I'll answer. Now, the quote that I answered in the first place was: Marco decided to question this. Now, if you could please just point out which goal Saints have scored from open play this year, we'll go from there.

Shurlock; as the northerners would say. Bob on, son. Bob on.

Well I'm fairly sure it's the direct result of the ball being played in from the dead ball, give or take a deflection or two.

Hurrah!! Benners has got his obsession back on again!! Welcome back Benny!!