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Adam Johnson would show we mean business, even if it is a loan and he would be a quality signing. After persuading Buttner we're the best option for him, I have renewed faith that we could persuade pretty much anyone we want with our set up and vision.

Get well soon Whitey. I hope the hospital food isn't too bad!

I'm weird. (As if you hadn't noticed.) I started going to games more regularly when we'd dropped into League One. I went to the odd game before that, but due to shift work, financial issues and a mild case of agoraphobia I really couldn't make that many. This season we're back in the Premier League, and I should really be looking forward to going to games, sadly I'll probably only make a handful. If I could get to every (or nearly every) game, I would with bells on. I'd grasp my season ticket excitedly in my hand and I would be off to St Mary's joyfully. Sadly that will never be the way as long as I do shift work. To me, a fairweather fan is one that doesn't feel anything when we lose but celebrates the wins. A passion for your clubs says you get behind them no matter what, and you truly feel it when bad things happen. You can't turn off your support when a run of losses occurs, or a key player gets sold, or administration happens, that's for the plastic Manc fans of the world.

Wasn't Jake Sinclair the next big thing? Or do we have to we wait for our first season back in the Championship to see him in the first team? (Ducks)

I buy my suits from there. Good quality and the MandS in Camberley is so massive they have a great choice for shopping, especially if you have a large invenTory of goods to buy. My favourite coat came from there too. It's a good place for clothing (and up to a point food too) if you're not into labels.

Good for Corky, so long as he doesn't knacker himself out or get injured. I hope this will speed up the midfield strengthening too. (Sorry, I'm just itching for signings!)

The most annoying advert on telly is changing. Currently they have a countdown pictured at the end of the advert with an angry person that cannot change the channel, and the billboards have been changed to look like they've been graffitied. Apparently something's happening to them tomorrow. Hopefully they'll kill the tenor off and have decent ads but I doubt it. Any ideas?

I went to Kavos on a 2wentys holiday years ago. It's basically one strip of bars and clubs (with a fork at the end) and one strip of beach. Quality weather but the main thing you'll notice is the smell of shiiiiiiiiiiiit. It stinks. But hopefully you'll be so drunk you won't notice!

Eek your right! I've only been married 3 weeks and I've already forgotten my anniversary! :-D

The dirty Skates could only dream about having quality players in quality shirts in quality poses in quality massive billboards on the quality wall of a quality stadium. All they have on the walls of their stadium is graffiti.

I know it's been only two weeks since we signed Jay, but I'm itching for another signing! Will we see one next week I wonder? Hmm...

This. As it stands, we're getting relegated. Ask again mid-August when we will have a new GK, CB, RM and possibly CM.

That's a walkable journey! :-D Seriously the key here (and I say this sneakily lest is get me into trouble) is that Oyster are basically crud. We hate dealing with them in ticket offices and yet we are made to issue their products. We used to have a staff Oyster number with a bunch of scots answering, none of which seemed to truly know what they were doing. In the end they automated the number and it's been much easier to deal with! If you go to a ticket office, you'll be told you have to contact Oyster if you have a problem with your card, which is true - it's their problem (or the customer's...), but in doing so you have to ring a premium rate number, and when you are querying a few quid, it's probably costing you that much in phone bills. My tip is to go straight to Customer Servicces for the Underground (based at 55 Broadway at St James's Park, contact details in every station) and bloody moan your arse off. Customer Services have an allocation of vouchers they can use for legitimate complaints and they seemingly freely give them out. The same applies for any delayed journey - even by a few minutes - most people don't know that it's in our customer charter that you can claim your fare back, Seems pointless if you're making a £1.40 journey between say Earls Court and Heathrow, but every little helps, it all adds up, and people come to my window with fricking dozens of these vouchers. If the unresolved journey's still on the card, pop to Heathrow 123, I'll sort it! (Although it sounds like there's a couple of faulty journey's there, and we can usually only correct one.) (Also, if you lot know you're making more than three journeys in one day, just buy a travelcard, don't bother using your Oyster, it's just safer that way!) :-)

I like stadium decorations, it livens the place up. I heard Tottenham are installing Gazza shaped urinals, so that when you do a wee, it looks like the dentist chair celebration.

London Underground. Stupid useless tossers. :-D Oh, tis the Lounge. Ok, truthfully my worst experience is Vodafone a few years ago. My dad's worst company is worse though - nPower. He went to an ideal home exhibition and was interested in what they had to say. He asked to be sent some more information, and as an ex-copper he made sure he didn't sign anything. A week later and nPower had changed all the power in his house to nPower. Furious he was, and my dad has a calm nature. He ended up calling all kinds of Ombudsmans to report them. Now he tells everyone he meets not to use them. I can't vouch for some of my colleagues, but you'll always get good customer service by me on the Tube. (Unless I don't like your face, Uggo.)

We need a new CM to challenge Cork and Morgan but I'm fairly glad it wasn't Guthrie. Better out there, although on a free he's a good signing for Reading. Pogrebniak likewise, both on frees though, worth noting.

My missus wants the red shorts. It'll help with any period embarrassments. (Joke - she's a canary and shorts don't suit her.)

I may buy two, for when one is in the wash. I'll also be waving my programme furiously before each game to try to win the signed shirt...

Without trawling through the thread (yet), my view is that I like it. Smart pinstripes, and the red in our two colours was always my favourite. I think this is a kit that may grow on people, but even if not, next summer the club turns around, says it made a mistake, changes the kit and reaps the rewards of a whole new bunch of buyers that also bought this years' shirt. Granted, it's not as good as the sash IMO, but nothing will be. That was unique. It probably helps though that i didn''t like last year's shirt. I'll be getting this.

I hope there are no Saints players in that team, present or future. We need them fit and focused for the new season.

I see one link has us turning our attentions to Fraser Forster if we fail to bring in Butland. I don't know about you lot, but I'd be happier with that signing...

Surely there's a Southampton Academy joke in there somewhere...

Newsnow has a link (http://www.clicklancashire.com/sport/blackburn-rovers-fc/1212784-norwich-city-and-southampton-rival-blackburn-rovers-for-newcastle-united-striker-best.html) saying we're interested in re-signing Leon Best. Hope not.

I make no bones about being an Saints fan first and an England fan a distant second. Patriotic, sure, but outside of tournaments I have the 'Meh' factor with regards to England. I follow England because I have to, I follow Saints because I LOVE to.

I wish. I'm married to a Norwich fan. :-(