The Kraken

Danny Fox

On the issue of transfers this summer, you have been a stuck record. We should have bought in early June, repeat ad nauseam. Judge the transfers made at the end of the transfer window. I have no comment to make about your Hoddle-weirdness, because its as boring as it is irrelevant right now.

Brilliant! That was a good one, well done you.

And yet again you entirely miss the point; it seems you want signings just for the sake of it, regardless of quality. It's been said before, it'll be said again. Sometimes the right signing just isn't available in early June. We'd all like transfers to be completed by then, but often it just doesn't happen. If we have to wait until late August, but by waiting it ensures we get a much better quality of player, then we'd be complete idiots not to wait.

You keep telling yourself that you're right, you tedious bore.

Posession: Southampton 51%, Millwall 49%. Have another go, genius.

Always thought Kasabian's "Shoot the runner" would work quite well.

I'm guessing Bobby was being just a touch sarcastic.

Yeah, I think we'll see a fair bit of the barrier this season. With the likes of Leeds, Millwall, Cardiff, Pompey of course, and a couple of notable others I'm sure the Police will mob well up and be on their toes.

At The Den it is aboslutely true; there is a huge amount of policing and if you use the tube the fencing arrangements and police barrier mean that you are kept completely away from the home fans all the way to the away (enclosed) turnstiles. Same treatment for the way out and you're pretty much escorted on to the tube, you can go the whole game, before and after without brushing shoulders with one home fan. For our home games the police are on top of their travelling support with escorts from the station etc. You can expect to see a vastly increased police presence throughout the city tomorrow.

That is true now, but there is still a stigma attached which I also believe may put some people off. I think it'll be less than 25K.

I'm Brian and so is my wife.

Jesus, you know things are bad with 'elf and safety when the police have to get involved over a big bit of cloth.

What a weird statement. Despite SaintsWeb not actually having a collective voice, and a few people in this thread suggesting he would be a good signing, you came to that conclusion. Very odd.

So likely to be another complete waste of time then? Cheers.

Heard from who on twitter? Dave the cleaner? Or someone who might actually know?

Of course you could argue that the boom in further/higher education has led to a dearth in number for more hands-on trades such as engineers, plumbers, electricians etc. Nothing wrong with further learning, just a shame that the stigma of a university degree was placed much higher than previous Poly qualifications and other youth training schemes.

I don't think any of Cork, de Ridder or Fox were signed on a Friday. So the law of averages says I'm definitely correct this time round. Edit: Hmmm, it seems we signed de Ridder on a Friday. I may be onto something after all....

I'm going to predict that, in our style for announcing signings on a Friday, J-Rod will be unveiled as a Saints player tomorrow. Watch this space......(or not, as is more likely).

That's not really true, Connolly has been taken off around 60 or 70 minutes in the games so far. And that's with only Steve de Ridder available to replace him. I get the feeling NA is extremely reluctant to risk Conners with 90 minutes of football, which is not a great place to be with a supposed first choice striker. Any new signing is immediately going to be pushing for a starting position; Connolly has been doing well but in now way will have cemented his place in the side as Lambert has.

The Government have nothing to do with the actual sentencing.

First of all, I don't think there is a someone that could do the job AND be happy to just be a back-up to RL. We already have Connolly and Barnard who are fairly similar in style; the strikers we're being linked with (Rodriguez, Maynard) are different again, and you could see them them playing with either Lambert or Connolly/Barnard, so it opens up a lot of different options. If we did have to cover for Lambert then out of our current players the only person I could see to getting close to doing it is Guly.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/7862734.stm The beginnings of the protests against Lowe. I don't know why I'm bothering, this whole argument from both sides is a bit pointless. But this was one of the earlier protests which then led on to boycotts of home games, that's just a fact. Edit: Might also want to read this article from the Daily Echo: http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/saints/news/4066097.One_fan_s_despair_for_club_he_loves/ about a season ticket holder encouraging fans to boycott the next home game.