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One good memory was the surprise win away to Wolves, 6-0 with a Saganowski hat trick. Does that qualify for this Fred?

Crystal Palace away. Relegation season. We lost 3-0 to a Shefki Kuqi, yes Shefki Kuqi, inspired performance. It was bitterly cold and my Palace mate was lauding it over me all game. We were awful, the best player for us that night was a certain Jack Cork. My mate said he liked the look of our right back that day, Lloyd James. He laughed when I told him both our full backs were midfielders. Our team that day: Southampton: 1. Kelvin Davies, 2. Chris Perry, 7. Rudi Skacel, 8. Bradley Wright-Phillips (16. Romain Gasmi, 81), 11. Andrew Surman, 17. David McGoldrick, 20. Adam Lallana, 23. Lloyd James, 30. Jack Cork, 38. Jordon Robertson (33. Joseph Mills, 69), 41. Alex Pearce (10. Paul Wotton, 45). FFS.

Welcome Tadic. Looking forward to seeing him in action. A few more top signings in a short space of time would be mint, and start to make the squad look strong. I'd love it if Koeman could persuade Gaston to stay with the promise of more regular first team football, as I think an up for it Gaston would be like a massive new signing. I wonder what marketing ideas SFC will come up with for Dusan? I reckon something for the ladies, the Tadic Todger perhaps.

Id take Bendtner on a free if it were one of 3 striker signings and the wages were right. Ego or not he's shown previously he can get goals, and has experience now to boot. Although of course I hope for better.

Dusan, Dusan, he's our man, if he can't do it... ...we'll flog him to Liverpool for 3 times what we paid. I'm home from work at about 4:15pm. An announcement at 4:20pm would be delicious.

So Koeman plays 3-5-2? OK: Boruc -----Chambers--Fonte---Lovren----- Clyne--Morgan--Wanyama--Cork--Targett -------------Tadic-------------- ---------------Osvaldo------------- Not that I can see Morgan, Dejan or Osvaldo still here, and the futures of JRod and Ramirez aren't certain either. So really it's a moot team selection. Lots more outs and ins and outs and ins to come IMO, twill be an interesting couple of months.

Whatever happens in the next few years, we are in a far better place than we could have been, and all of that is thanks to our Markus. The basic structure of the club was in place, and Markus got it for a song, but look at how much his investment has multiplied over the 5 years. What an inheritance he has given his daughter. Long may she find interest in us enough to keep financing our dreams. The highlight for me was the JPT trophy win as I was lucky enough to be there, but perhaps the best thing we did was achieve nPC promotion at the first attempt. (Was it nPC or CCC? I forget.) Let's hope we can enjoy more ups than downs over the next 5 years. RIP Markus, shame you weren't around in person to witness what you wanted us to achieve.

In typical SWF fashion, I shall now proceed to slate Tadic before he's even put pen to paper. God waste of space, just when we needed a Lallana replacement and we end up with a De Ridder. Mumble, groan. Is this how much we've sunk? Relegation a certainty. Just for the lols. I'm actually looking forward to seeing him in action!

Is that a typoo? Umm, that wass a typo. So was that. It'll be nice to get this first signing over the line. Maybe the powers that be will get a liking for it and keep doing it. Like an addiction. An addiction to signing players. Just like anyone that plays FM ever.

I have it on good authority that if we spam the **** out of this thread and get it to 27 pages by 11pm, SFC will announce the signing tonight at 11:23pm rather than tomorrow. Go.

I've been sent a photo via the medium of Facebook of a Tadic sighting in the New Forest today: You tell me it's not authentic! I mean who else could it be? Bigfoot? HAH!

Im 33 and I had to look up that reference!

Ive written one. It goes: Lallana's a c***, Lallana's a c***, Lallana's a f****** c***, Lallana's a c***, Lallana's a c***, Lallana's a f****** c***. (Oh and we also signed Tadic.) It doesn't rhyme, scan or make any sense, but IMO it works. ;-)

The head of SWF posted and gave us all hope. :-)

I likes a bit of the old in/out.

Surely we can offer him the regular football anyway that Everton would struggle to guarantee? I reckon we might see our first signings in the next week. Not a moment too soon either.

Lovren can pi&$ off. Go and be **** at a Suarezless Liverpool. I want players that want to be here playing for the stripes, even if that means compromising on League position. I don't envy Koeman's job.

Dusan Tadic. There's an anagram of antacid In there. I hope he soothes the heartburn we feel after Lallana's departure.

Mid table. Even if we're struggling at Christmas time we have enough money to blow our load in January to strengthen.

I'm no bedwetter but I did shart in the night...

I think Rodriguez was a Sunday but I might be wrong. It'd be a nice surprise to have a signing this weekend though.

I like it, back to familiarity, but won't buy it. The good thing is bringing back stripes makes any old Saints kit I have look en vogue again. So why blow fiddy squid on the new one? I'll probs get it for Chrimbo any ways.

Cresswell is signing for Wet Spam. Decent addition for them. Wonder whether they'll persue Kolodjewskiezwzwzwiek...