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Didn't Butterfield recently get a new deal? Perhaps Adkins sees another year out of him as back up until Stephens is ready to come in. As for Hammond, I'd actually be very surprised if he left. We need some modicum of consistancy and while we don't think Hammond is Premier League quality, he shows fighting skills and has been our captain for three seasons so Adkins could see him as a decent back up player. Norwich kept Lappin for instance, who's not Premier League quality, and Swansea kept Tate and Monk which people would perhaps have thought were not Premier League quality. If we go up and get relegated after one season, we'd potentially lose the Lallanas and Morgans of the world too, and Hammond would become invaluable to us. The Kraken's list is about right, with question marks over Harding perhaps.

Or the nervousness of being the only promoted club in two seasons to have been relegated... The only Southern team I care about is Southampton. West Ham can do one. Come on Blackpool.

Care to paraphrase? I only read The Pink at Winchester services on the way to home games, and even then I don't pay for it.

Ours. If what happened to City happened to us, I'd be running around St Marys going mental and grabbing ladies' bewbs in celebration.

Lallana voted POTS with 23 goals from midfield, Lambert with 35 goals for the season and 6 caps to his name, and Guly getting goal of the season with a reverse chip over David De Gea in our 4-1 demolition of Man Utd at Old Trafford. Funnily enough you'd think one of those players would be Southampton fans' POTS, but summer signing Jonny Evans from Manchester United is an ever present rock in the heart of defence.

Unfreakingbelievable. And to top it all off, Bolton would've stayed up if they'd held on to their lead. Can you imagine the City fans celebrating and the QPR fans gutted though? Harsh. Wonderful finish to a season I've not been paying attention to until I knew we'd be in it next season!!!

Bolton every day of the week, and they're doing their bit by winning. Bloody QPR winning though too, but if there's one team you don't want to be holding on to a lead against when down to ten men, it's Man City. Not over yet...

There's a hole in your defence, Dear Nigel Dear Nigel, There's a hole in your defence, dear Nigel a hole. Oh, this isn't the "chants I hope we NEVER sing" thread?

Barton, while a half decent player, was a massive tempramental risk, Wright-Phillips is massively overrated - his talent is based on pace, which he'll lose quickly in his early thirties. Young is past it and Ferdinand is not brilliant either. Add to that Zamora, Cisse and Taiwo and you've got a wage bill that will eventually cripple you. Especially if they go down tomorrow, which unlikely, I hope happens.

I agree with others, Defoe is a class act and perhaps Englands second best striker. It doesn't surprise me he finds himself out in the cold with Redknapp as his manager though. Whoever he goes to will have a good player. I'd rather we sign good players than names though. The Norwich style of signings over QPR's anytime please.

I've been re-re-reading MLT's autobiography and Ball as manager brought about his best period. A manager that knew a good player when he saw one and had contacts in the game to boot. Should've stayed, as Hoddle should've. Bugger stats, Adkins is the best for me. Two promotions in two seasons, I'd like to have seen the others manage that.

Was that the sponsor on Kevin Keegans shirt in his time playing for us? Mark Zuckerberg is older than he looks.

We "lucky" Tube workers got driven around the Olympic village on a bus as a "treat" and I must say it is a god awful structure. A real eye sore. It's supposed to represent the Olympic rings but it doesn't. Mind you, I think Modern Art is pants, in my uncultured way.

Lidl/Aldi, or in even more run down areas, "independent supermarkets" serving food from around the globe. (Especially Polish.) I was in Hounslow today as you can tell. CCTV on every street. Police that prefer doing paperwork. Litter next to a bin. (The bin may or may not have been set on fire.) Bus Stops that smell like fresh sex. A general smell of wee or poo.

I wouldn't be surprised if Adkins and Pardew were fighting it out for the England job in a few years too...

Despite not being from Hampshire, on my oft family holidays to the area (Hampshire and Dorset) I used to love listening to Radio Solent - especially this song they used to play on match days. Loved the song ever since.

http://www.oldfootballshirts.com/en/teams/s/southampton/old-southampton-football-shirts-t40.html There's a few old shirts on here. My personal favourite is: because dspite it being blue it was smart and went well with jeans. :-D I also like: for it's simplicity. As long as it's not:

Big bet on West Ham next weekend, a sort of 'happy either way' scenario.

I was actually chuffed when we he joined, because he was a high profile name for a League One side. (Especially one that had a challenge as we did of the -10 points.) He had money at his disposal, and he signed the players he thought could do the job of promotion. They did, and he will always be the manager that signed Lambert. He also guided us to Wembley, and won us a trophy. However I do think that any manager worth his salt could've done just as good a job as him, given the finances Markus had afforded the club, and ultimately after things started going stale, Cortese made the correct decision to appoint Adkins. Pardew would've gotten us promoted IMO, but not as quickly as Adkins did. What Adkins has done is nothing short of miraculous.

What has happened to us, the downs downs downs then the ups ups ups, in the last 3 years have, weirdly, been good for us. But the best way to have spent it would have been in a coma, just waking up this summer after, say, the summer of '04. Had we stayed up though, I do think we'd have strengthened over that summer and done better the following season, especially in defence. Also the likes of Walcott and Bale would have come through. Perhaps less early than they did, due to restricted chances, but they would. Harry Redknapp though would never have left had he kept us up - we'd have ended up worshipping him due to him pulling off a great escape. (eeeewwwwww I feel dirty for saying that...)

Up to a point I'd agree - Cork and Fox have been consistant if unspectacular, Jos was a masterstroke (although I admit that could have gone both ways) and Sharp was inspired (although anyone towards the top of the table could have seen he'd do a job for them.) - but they've been far from very poor. They have all strengthened the squad to the point we got promoted, and only two other nPC managers can boast that. I agree Pardews' signings were more successful in the long run, but I would reserve judgement until we can see what he does this summer at a level he's not used to.

Even £2 million is too much. Based on his age (he's no spring chicken) and his form in the second half of the season, we'd be lucky to get a million for him. Perhaps if we had sold him in January we'd have got £2mill, but not now.

He is indeed. He should never have left us.

I won't question Falque's talent, it's hard to judge based on one cameo, but I do think it was a bit of a panic loan. We'd had a bad run of games, players were dropping out injured and he was brought in to solidify things. Wasn't that the spell where Fox was playing at centre back?