The Kraken

It says the tree is for the nearby New Forest; I always thought it was a nod to the city centre parks and/or the Common.

Don't agree about RB, Clyne is quality there and needs to be the first choice, and we have enough cover there IMO. I would like another CB as I don't think Yoshida, Hooiveld and Fonte are top 8-10 starting quality players. Don't think it'll happen though.

Correct. I get the feeling that a lot of defences will have worked Lambert out and we also need another more mobile option up front. A new striker is still a priority for me, and if we could add a pacy wide player that would be a very good summer window.

Can't see much wrong with reserving judgement about our transfer activity right now. Firstly the window is still open and we'll probably bring in more players. Secondly, most of us haven't seen much of our acquisitions in action on the pitch. Making a snap judgement about them now rather than after seeing them over a course of games would be premature. So a slightly strange criticism to make, I feel.

Seething.

So where are Boruc, Yoshida, Gazzaniga, Steven Davis? Were they early or late? I need to know so i can decide if they were utterly sh*t last term or otherwise fabulous, I'm taking a strictly black and white approach to next season's thinking.

Season 2014-15 it is then.

Depends what your definition of "world class" is; but Ramirez doesn't get close to any of my benchmarks for the description, that's for sure.

Opinions Garrett. I don't particularly love Lallana, in fact I think he had a poor season last season. But in the PL I think he's wasted out wide but just the player we need in the number 10 role. Whereas I don't see a huge amount of improvement from Ramirez, he didn't have a great season either but I think Lallana suits our need much better. Different types of players, Gaston is a bit more direct whereas Lallana is a bit more tricky. If nothing else I'd like to see Lallana be given the chance he was being primed for before we signed Ramirez, just to see if I'm right or wrong.

Sorry Charlie, but I don't believe he is. And I certainly don't think we're as good a side with both of them playing.

For me its more a case of cutting losses; I've not really seen enough of him to suggest that he can consistently get on the ball and influence games as much as he perhaps should. Plus I'd prefer to see Lallana in that number 10 role, which I think would play to his strengths much more and bring the best out of him; that would also allow us to bring in some real quality to play wide midfield as I don't see persisting with Rodriguez out there as our best option.

Has anyone said that then? Overall they've done well; some good signings so far, some poor signings so far.

If that's the case, why did you not comment on the judgement of Clyne, Yoshida and Rodriguez as good signings? If you can't judge on bad transfers, surely you can't judge on good transfers either, and they were worthy of as much detailed commentary from you as the "bad" ones?

Good lord

I don't think anyone is debating that fact, Michael.

I went shopping in town last Saturday, through West Quay and the precinct. I must have been there for at least an hour and I didn't see one Saints shirt being worn; not one. After the first day of PR banging the sales drum it would seem as if they've since nose dived. Compare that to the sash shirt which was seemingly everywhere in the first few days. Failure all round really.

Agree with this. Apart from the "we are better than that" part, in certain instances.

Nor do I

I don't think you understand the concept of how best to improve the side by utilising transfers By your methods we'd still have the same team that won promotion from League 1

Dear me, I think the idea is we get ones better than we already have, thus improving the side

Well being as, according to the club spokesman, the person involved was banned from the site I imagine someone felt some effect. Being as the likely outcome is that the work will have been undone and made good at the contractor's expense, I'd hazard a guess that it was fairly unprofessional stuff to cause your employer such unnecessary expense and poor advertising. Being as its perhaps unlikely that that company will be retained in future, the long term effect on the company is not a positive one. Being as he's a Pompey fan I guess there's a few on here who wouldn't be surprised to hear that. It's one thing to try out a poor wind-up; I'm still amazed at the utter stupidity of all the hassle he's caused himself by filming it and publishing it before the works have been signed off and paid. What a complete helmet.

Of course it was; it was also unprofessional and thoroughly f*cking stupid.

Liverpool is one of the best cities in the country to go out in, so its a bit pointless to highlight that various other towns and cities don't come up to scratch. Its a bit like saying Southampton isn't as good for a night out as London.

We've already got one of those in Rodriguez. And plenty of teams play with "wingers" despite the fact that the role has changed somewhat in recent years. Walcott, Chamberlain, Valencia, Nani, Moses, Zaha, Lennon, Milner (cr*p); all examples of wide players/"wingers" from the top clubs.

I doubt we'll ever know what the true level of season tickets sold is; they've never been revealed under the new regime and that probably won't change. But I doubt it'll be as high as that post-Cup final / pre-Europe level. Anything above 20K is very decent, at a complete guess I'd reckon on 21k or 22k.