angelman

I know it is about opinions, but when those opinions are based on seeing 90 minutes (and I suspect that many of the whingers didn't even make it to SMS yesterday) and not working in a professional capacity in football, then surely they can be disregarded. They may well be prophetic but that is more luck than knowledge.

I don't see what's wrong with people questioning his ability either, except when they do so on the back of one game and when they have no other qualification than having been to a few games or, even worse, from their armchair.

Don't see much point in stumping up £5 any more as it is full of ****, and depressing pessimists that I can well do without.

He might be.... http://www.espn.co.uk/football/soccer-transfers/story/2929370/jose-fonte-talks-begin-as-man-united-target-southampton-defender-sources

Not even going to bother getting over excited by a meltdown thread, save to say that I thought up until Pierre-Emille came on, we lacked a bit of width which struggled to break down Watford's back 8.

So does that mean if we all post ****** (like this post) and get to 100 pages more quickly, then that will speed up a signing?

Why would Schlupp leave LCFC for WBA (apart from money of course)???

Agree 100%. Bored ****less of it and has ruined my looking forward to the season.

Will they if we are playing at the same time as Utd and WHU?

That's a shame - you'll have now to come up with another excuse not to get married

TalkShîte had a piece on it!!! So talkShîte were living up to their reputation of talking shîte

How about the hyphen police?

It's not "the guy" as apparently, and unless I am mistaken, quite a few people got the letter.

Ah, if it's the OP being referred to then it's its as it's possessive. And good that Tadic signed on. I would love to know the Tadic/Koeman relationship and what the problems were.

Would Everton really want him now they have Williams? With Man U spending £100m on a player, would they really look at Fonte?

In fairness, he is the patsy in all this. It's a bit like Oyston's behaviour at Blackpool. If that happened at SFC, I would tell them to shove it. If you can't take criticism then you are in the wrong game.

Actually as it isn't possessive, then I would have thought "it's" is correct. It's is the contracted version of "it has" or "it is". "Its" is the possessive form of it.

I'm with you on this

Tadic done and dusted. 4 years

It's not his job to inspire you, so belt up.

What do you want from a manager - someone who manages the team, or is good in front of a camera?

Benteke in - means Berahino out??

My heart bleeds for Pochettino. I am sure he couldn't give a **** about how "Very disappointed" Saints felt when he poached him. What goes around, comes around.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-3734138/Olympic-podium-no-place-cheats-bans-four-years-missing-link-Pogba-business-Manchester-United-FIVE-POINTS.html Point three: about Southampton's chances this season Every year I enjoy Martin and the boys going Saints-blind. He lists managers going head to head from teams like West Ham, Everton, Liverpool and Chelsea and as usual Southampton don't get a mention despite finishing above all of those teams last year. Fair enough, we're used to it now but you would think that finishing eighth, seventh and then sixth in the last three years would at least get us a mention. How high would we have to get to be mentioned? Third? Would we be visible then, Martin? Sonicboom 208, Southampton. The piece you are referring to concerned the interest in the season that stems from managerial personalities, and Slaven Bilic, Antonio Conte and Jurgen Klopp at least are all compelling characters. Equally, Ronald Koeman's mention was an acknowledgement of his success at Southampton last season. I don't think I would have included Everton in the list if Roberto Martinez was still in charge. I take your point about Everton versus Southampton, certainly because they have now sold John Stones – which hadn't happened at the time the column was written. But I'm not Saints blind, Sonic. I just don't fancy them very much, because they keep selling their best players. Now I know they keep proving me wrong, and I'm very happy for them to do that again. But I do think that eventually it will catch up with them. They'll sell one too many, the new arrivals won't be good enough, the new manager won't be as smart as everyone thinks, there will be a run of injuries, something will go wrong. Happened to Wimbledon eventually, happened to Tottenham before Harry Redknapp turned them around, it has even happened to Arsenal at an elite level, if you think they haven't won the title since 2004. Selling comes with a price, and at the very least it makes Southampton an unknown quantity again, with a manager, Claude Puel, experiencing the Premier League for the first time. I hope it works, because I like the football they play – but I wouldn't place them among the contenders, if that's what you want. Shame that Samuel can't be honest about his feelings about Southampton, and unfortunately you can't leave a message on there pointing out that he had lost a court case against Saints, thus why he is so jaundiced.

I think that they might be suffering from believing in a little self-aggrandisement and players don't see Everton quite the same as Everton see themselves.