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Terry Cooke? EDIT: Yep.

It's good......but it's not quite Carling.

There are many TOTW but seems the one the OP is talking about is stat based by Opta. http://sport.uk.msn.com/football/premier-league-team-of-the-week-27-august-2013-122321#image=1

? JWP got in the Bleacher Report's TOTW fwiw.

Relax, even Notts County scored against Liverpool. We're just giving the Barnsley faithful something to cheer. That should be the kick up the bum we need to go on and get 6.

He already has some. You can't see that they're arseless chaps from the front...

They're never truly happy though unless they're planning something evil. They're an evil species. Look at how evil they are... ...so fwiw they deserve to be punched. *So that photo isn't one of our family parrots, but demonstrates perfectly how evil they look. They crouch down like a velociraptor. See? If Pompey win the JPT (which they won't), I would definitely smack them. I wouldn't, however, smack a velociraptor. :-)

I still partake in the art of Polly-bashing, but with our continued rise up the leagues they've been a lot more jovial these past few seasons!

Oops, wrong log in! ;-) So I utter: "Congratulations good neighbour upon your marvellous success in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy!" Then the ruffian from Portsmouth was heard to say "Forsooth neighbour, for it is one more trophy than you will win this season." Regrettably, anger overcame me and I muttered "While you are most correct good sir, I can take some small comfort that my wealthy team purchased Italy's International striker and are now enjoying the fruits of his labour whilst you attempt not to soil your knickerbockers over whether our former striker David Connolly gets injured." I am ashamed to say I made the poor chap cry... Better?

I be all like "well done Skates" and they be all like "more than you lot gonna win this season" and I be all like "you right bruv, guess I just make do wiv watching Italy's national striker bang em in that our millions of pounds bought us while you try not to crap your pants over whether David Connolly gets injured or not" and they be all like crying and ting.

I've longed to touch human flesh for years... then last night it finally happened.

In a way I'd rather it didn't get worldwide press. It's bad enough the top English clubs know how good our academy is (and repeatedly try to buy its products) without the whole world cottoning on. (If they haven't already...)

Very winnable, but equally very loseable as Norwich will be all the more determined to get that first win. The wife and all the in-laws (Norwich fans) will be going to this one, and I'll be stuck at work (as usual) so I really hope we pick something up. I'd take a draw, but while Norwich are learning how to integrate their new signings into their team, it's a good time to play them to pick up all three points. I heard Norwich described as awful against Hull. This pleases me.

...and some people were stuck at work while everyone else enjoys the B/H. Don't forget the shift workers! :-( ;-)

http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?46422-Barnsley-vs-Saints-Build-Up#.Uhl0ixuyDpc

I would love to see Isgrove in this one and see what he truly has to offer. Before Puncheon left, I thought we are an attacking midfielder light, and now he's gone I think we're two AM's light, but this is Isgrove's chance to show he can be the answer for one of those AM spots. For the other, hopefully Pochettino and Cortese still have an ace up their sleeve. Can there be any result other than a Saints win here? Well sure, which is why I hope we don't make wholesale changes. Something like: Davis Chambers Fonte Yoshida Clyne Morgan Cork Isgrove Davis JRod Lambert Subs: Gazzaniga, Jos, Fox, Wanyama, Ramirez, Lallana, Mayuka. Do we include Osvaldo or give him another full week working on training with his new teammates? Coming up with a team for this shows we're starting to have a good squad. Resting everyone who started today, our team would be: Davis Clyne Yoshida Hooiveld Fox Cork Davis Isgrove Ramirez Guly Osvaldo which would beat most sides in the Championship IMO. (Isgrove's unknown contribution aside...) I think we'll see a team more akin the the former than the latter though.

3-1 Home win

I don't think we're going to "smash" anyone this season by a big scoreline, but I do think we'll win MOST of the games we're expected to win, especially at St Mary's. We're stronger defensively than we were last season and now we have Osvaldo, hopefully we can put away some of the many chances we create. To that end we should win tomorrow, but Sunderland are so unpredictable at the moment with all their new signings. Lawrenson asks on his predo league whether Di Canio is a genius or an idiot. I'd suggest the latter, but with all those new players, they should be fighting hard for a permanent starting place. I'm hastily going for a 3-1 win, Lambert to carry on his goalscoring form with a brace and a slammer from Wanyama. (Heh, that rhymes.)

Not too depressed with missing out here. IF we're after another attacking midfielder, there are better options out there. What a day for WBA fans.

Reading this thread, I actually hope we get relegated just so we can play in the Championship again. I'm going to poison the Saints players' food just before kick-off each game so that the players get the sh!ts on the pitch and play badly. Shove Osvaldo up your arse Cortese, I miss the days of signing Danny Fox and Jos Hooiveld.

If that's true I sincerely hope we renew our Banega interest. Would be a top signing in the same vein as those we've already brought in. We were told, and have been shown this summer, that we're only after new signings if they're better than what we have. With Sinclair that was questionable, with Banega it would seemingly be true. I trust the Guvnor though. Sinclair would still be a good signing, I just wonder whether the management has something impressive up their sleeve.

I think I heard we're entitled to a development fee of about 1% of the transfer fee. So if he goes for £90million, we'd get less than £1million. FAR less than the £10-15million,I guess, that we've given up... Is 1% accurate? It may have been more. EDIT: Ok, above post says 5% so more like £4.5 million. That's a good sum of money then - covers the Mayuka transfer and the loss from the Forren transfer!

I wonder if there's a recall clause - for when we're battling Palace for that 17th spot close to the end of the season and we don't want him influencing them to survival! Ha Wummery! From me! Dat's not usual! (Meh, it was a poor attempt.) Anywho, on a serious note, I thank Punch for what he did last season. After his hissy fit in his early Saints career, he seems to have overcome his demons (although that probably helped with us playing in a higher league) and put in some good performances. His goal against Chelsea will be remembered for a long time to come. Best of luck at Blackpool. It'll be interesting to see who we bring in to replace him (as I assume we're looking at doing...)