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Same old same old. Winning would feel weird anyway! Quite clearly we still have gaps in the team. Pace, experience, centre backs and wingers. Get these, win league. Simples.

Defenders please! It's quite clear we need two centre backs, please please please AP sign them by September! We also need wingers it's true. Lallana is no left midfielder. We'll still win this 2-1

In Reading's record breaking promotion season a few years ago, they let Musty take a penalty on the last day, because he was the only member of the outfield first XI that hadn't scored a goal all season. He nailed it too. Ergo, I can categorically confirm that I know Musty has taken one penalty successfully. Good enough for me!

Ordinarily, you'd look at this game and think, well Huddersfield are probably going to be a top 10, we're away and with a new striker that's already scored, and think we'll lose. Even with the memory of last season still lingering where, correct me if i'm wrong, we won more times away than at home. We're Saints, buggering up things when they're going well is what we do. But this is the new improved Saints. Yes the team's not finished, but what we have in the first team is good enough to beat anyone. Ergo, i think we'll win this. 2-1 is my prediction, regardless of who we sign before Saturday, with Lambert, on his way to scoring in 9 successive games, and Perry on the scoresheet. Major suprise of the game? Umm, Pulis to start.

Southampton football club is a joke. Talk about sexism. Not ONE female player, coach or chairman. Let's get some tittage into the club and prevent this moral sexist chauvenist piggery. Secondly, ticket prices. Far too low. If we want the club to do really well, we need to charge triple the current ticket prices in to generate income for the hard working board members. I'm sure the fans would happily pay thrice as much if it meant we could keep Lancashire on the books. Thirdly, is it so hard for Mr Liebherr to pay for flights to bring back the various Saints fans from around the world? They deserve to be here as much as him. Fourthly, St Mary's is poo. Ground sharing with Portsmouth (a very fine football club) is the way to go surely. Fifthly, I'm glad to have Lambert on board. To make room in my wardrobe for his shirt (which was dirt cheap - should be thrice as much), I had to burn my Matt Le Tissier shirt. Just as well, it was far too big for me. :-D

I'm wasting my last post of the day to say I lol'd at that. I actually think the club is being run very badly. I'm sat at home, glued to SSN and the internet, and nothing. Where's the bloody drama? As a Saint since 88, I've never experienced such a lack of drama and quietness. It's boring. I was so bored the other day in fact, that whilst watching SSN, I had to crack one out at Millie Clode just to liven things up a bit. YAWN! If our next signing doesn't have a double-barrelled name, I'm shaving off my pubes. Double barrelled names are the way to go from now on IMO. Never should have let Dutton-Black go. A fine double barrelled name there.

The way I see it, the squad is thus: GK: Davis (Forecast or Bart as cover) : SORTED RB: Musty (James as cover): SORTED LB: Harding (Mills or even Molyneux as cover): SORTED CB: Thomas, Perry (Wotton and Lancashire as cover?!?! F*** that) 2 NEW SIGNINGS! RM: Lallana, James? NEW RM WITH PACE IMO CM: James, Schneidelin, Gillett, Lallana, Wotton SORTED. LM: Holmes (with Mills as cover) NOT ESSENTIAL BUT COULD BRING IN A NEW LM if available... STR: Lambert, Paterson, Rasiak, Saga, IF RASIAK AND SAGA GO, WE NEED 1 or 2 MORE. To be a top of the table team, I still think we're 4 or 5 or even 6 players away from having the strength in depth to challenge at the top of the table. That said, if we count this as a conslidation season, and can keep the squad together next year, we don't have to add them all this summer or on January.

In Bungle's defence, Eelpie did highlight the wrong bit...

Ummmmmmmmmmmmm.................. Ok, I'll admit, I went two weeks without, got drunk, left the club I was in as their fag machine wasn't working, walked about half a mile to newsagent, walked back to club and paid to go back in! That's bad, I'm ashamed. On the up side, I have cut my intake right down to 4 a day, and I didn't have to make conversation with the missus for 2 days afterwards because she wasn't talking to me! :-D

Was reading the Beeb's review of the League One season and they picked out that 21 year old captain of Stockport as the player to watch for them. Centre back too! Hope our links with him are true, though bigger clubs are supposedly looking at him. Happy with links to Lambert too!

I think the Premiership just goes down to 19 teams for the season, with one less relegation spot. That seems most logical. No fan deserves to see his club fold, not even our greatest rivals.

Very impressed with: Davis, Thomas, Musty, Harding, Morgan, Patterson. Played well: Perry, Wotton, Saga. Must do better: Lallana, James. Thought Thomson looked ok when he came on, Gillett and Gobern not so much. Overall i think it was a fair result, though the ref wasn't brilliant. It's clearly obvious to everyone we need strengthening, but i believe we can put out a starting eleven to beat anyone in this league currently, on our day. If we keep hold of Morgan we could have the player of League One this season. A class above in my opinion and my man of the match for Saints, although i thought Thomas was brilliant. A key player for us if he stays fit. Lallana is lost on the left, and then the right. When Patterson came off he should have pushed up to support Saga. Musty's experience showed, he knew exactly what he was doing, and a good long throw to boot. A good first game, fitness will come. Bring on the transfers!

Damn, we miss out on Jamelia! We could always sign Will Haining and get Michelle Marsh! (Come to think of it, he's a CB, experienced, not too old and available on a free! Sign him up AP!) Then Marsh would be reunited with Lucy Pinder and we'd have a secksy St Mary's! On the topic of Brentford, now they've added Kabba I think they've done very well this transfer window. Wouldn't be suprised if they were the team to do the successive promotions this season...

I wouldn't go as far as saying i crack one off to my Matt Le Tissier shrine, but I do love the Saints. We all do, or we wouldn't put ourselves through such punishment!

I'd buy him- because with reports like that, he'd be worth ten times what we pay for him in a year's time!

Channel 4 digital teletext has us listed as finishing 14th today. I'd agree with that currently. Heart however reckons we can be 8th-12th

If we get a statue of ML our saviour, can we employ the guy that did the first TB statue... In all seriousness we're not the first and certainly not the last club to suffer through finances. I don't want us to splurge to achieve success, steady growth is safer.

It's an interview with Chris Perry. They're going to experiment on him with a new stretching technique to make him 6'5''.

Looking forward to signing old Ruddy Juddy. Next stop the Champions League!

I'd actually say, with Rasiak and Saga due to depart, we're more in need of strikers than defenders, but I'll be happy to see anyone come in.

I think we have one or two of the best 50 players in League One this season, but if i could bring one in it'd be a goal machine. Beckford.

Everyone seems so scared of Millwall on Saturday that they simply MUST be champions this season.

Spose, would be nice to have Jamelia knocking about...

I genuinely think this is one of the biggest problems of some of the negativity of the fans on here. For far too long Southampton FC has been under a cloud, near-successive relegations and poor performances have done nothing to raise a Saints fan's spirit. We've become a bunch of complainers, of bitter, ripped off fans who have paid through the nose to watch tripe. And I applaud those who have. Without them the club would've been gone long ago. Now however we have a new dawn. It's almost the end of Southampton FC as we knew it, and in its place we have a bright outlook, a well run club with a good young manager and financially stable, but with the same Saints spirit, will to be better, and to top it off we still have Premiership facilities and a decent academy. The team will come. Sure, it's not perfect, and there is still some question over the more saleable assets of the team, but now is the time to be positive. Support from the fans is key, not because I or anyone else says so, but because we should support the inanimate object in our lives that we love the most. (Except those of you with mansions and sports cars etc!) How relieved were we to find out we'd found a buyer, someone to save the club and prevent us from spending our Saturday's in B&Q because of a lack of excuse to give the missus/partner. I understand the gloom, but patience is the key. Rome wasn't built in the day, the wars weren't won in a week and even Matt Le Tissier took 16 years to hone his craft. Our time will come, unity is the key. UTS! (Rush of blood to the head...)

We must all chip in to buy this piece of Saints history. Then, hopefully, if there is any of his DNA on it, we could make a new Ali Dia, combining his DNA with Matt Le Tiss's. Then who'll be laughing at us... :-D