The Kraken

I'm fully expecting 2; a striker and a centre back. Any more would be a complete bonus. Can't believe the 5 year plan will still apply after all this though. Significant investment and I'm sure pressure will be on NA to deliver. The future is bright, the future is red and white.

Totti de Carvalho is the shiniest man I've ever seen.

Ours? Maybe; but then we were second in away attendances, only behind Sheffield Wednesday. Couldn't say off hand what the Championship was like, but there is a definite north-west skew for professional clubs. Take a map, find Huddersfield, draw an 80 mile radius circle with it at the centre and see how many football clubs are inside it.

Its not quite that simple though; yes they're smallish towns but look at their geographical location and just how many potential away games they have within a hundred miles. London games for us are seen as almost local, and that's 80 miles or so.

A Bournemouth fans forum quoting a twitter rumour. Hardly cast iron. But if we do bring in a CB it looks like Seaborne would most likely be the one out of the door. Martin is one for the future, Jaidi will likely be number 3 if a new man comes in, if not he'll play his fair share of games with Fonte.

Perfectly put.

Nonsense; Jose Fonte is dreamy.

Your first paragraph, of course I completely agree. Yesterday I was branded a Cortese-hater, a Lowe-luvvie, and told to go support another club; all by the same poster!! I'd like to think I take a balanced view on all things Saints, but if one random nutcase needs to look at life that way then it's really not going to bother me, there are plenty of other good people on here who are capable of engaging in rational debate. I take slight issue with your second paragraph. There seems to be a way of thinking by some that this whole situation is designed to exert a level of control over the type of content that gets distributed by the media outlets at football grounds; a sort of censorship, if you will. I'm not sure (yet!) whether I go along with that. I think it really is, as you very rightly point out, commercial exploitation. IMO the clubs are not looking to restrict any media outlets from coming to grounds, and publishing match stats, information reoprts etc. They're just looking to make sure that they all pay the club to do it. So really the clubs are just trying to squeeze ever-more money out for themselves. And I wholeheartedly agree that it is not good for the game, because the costs will mean that the choice on offer will become vastly diminished.

Well done for changing your mind. I assume you're talking about me as having an "anti-Cortese" agenda. Strange then, that I was supportive of the club in that very thread. As I have been in various other threads. How very odd.

Please stop with your ridiculous wind-up charade will you. It's thoroughly tedious, as are you.

It's worthy of a bump, just for a laugh.

Will you promise to stop being so utterly tedious, predictable and boring if he actually does?

To be fair, that thread was started by Professor and consisted of him being a tw*t and most people shouting him down about it and telling him to get real. EDIT: Here's the link: http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?31091-Ambition-where-s-the-evidence Quite funny really, barely anyone agrees with the quite obvious nonsense he was spouting. Spitting and wailing in early June that we hadn't made enough transfers; where have I heard that before? A certain OP was curiously totally in agreement with him on page 1.......

We are. MLG will be along soon to back it up with facts, and reasoning why we need to start building our 50K stadium right now.

Me too, I can see plenty of gaols this year.

Opinions! I asked my Celtic ST holder mate and he said he's quality and should do a very good job for us.

Edit: forget it, I read your post wrongly!!

Camel Kosowski

None whatsoever, you or I could create an account in seconds under any given name and make up bullsh!t to our heart's content. There are obviously a few who have form with being proved right (fourth official is decent) but many, many of them of are just whackos looking for a bit of attention.

I think there are plenty of people on here who genuinely thought we would be targetting a mid-table place. Most would have accepted it at the end of the season of course, but there were quite a few who said we should rule out promotion and consolidate! NA and NC look to have played a blinder as far as transfers are concerned (so far), and if we do get a new striker and a Jaidi-like CB come on board, well, that would be amazing.

Just how many "agents" are there on twitter absolutely gagging to spill the beans about every deal going?! :lol:

You realise we won on the opening day of the season, right? And that we won on Tuesday, correct? Couldn't have been too far away from being "ready". Obvious WUM is obvious.

Ewe Rosler

Why not? Even is he doesn't leave Brizzle it could happen.

With AOC the club have known he was going since Xmas. Christ, even I knew it was a fact he was going to Arsenal back in March (although the usual suspects shouted me and others down about it at the time....). So they've had 6 months to prepare for exactly what they need to replace him and strengthen the squad. Good work all round and well done NC and NA. Now get on with it and get the other two on the bus, pronto!