Micky

Looking at this, it's probably for the best that France never got hold of us in the final. Sent from my SM-T580 using Tapatalk

Surprised the Marines never broke any of them to be honest.

They really didn't. They offered him what they thought was a fair deal and he declined. This is pretty normal business practice and each party had to make decisions based on business acumen, not loyalty of what had gone before. Fonte was a monster for us, and the fans will always acknowledge the part he played in our resurgence. But to say that he was massively slandered by the club is way off the mark. We just didn't see eye to eye on the terms of the final contract therefore we went our way and he his. Move on.

As you would. It's not about our squad, it's not about SFC, it's not even about football - it's about people in every walk of life. If you are offered 'more', 'bigger', 'better' you'd be foolish to dismiss it out of hand purely on a 'loyalty' basis. Would you? I doubt it. Yoshi has been outstanding in his application, and in later years, his performances for us. If a bigger, better offer came in and he decided the time was right then that's his prerogative, I wouldn't begrudge him in any way, shape or form. Naturally, every so often a VvD will come by, and I agree that fans deserve much better than what he gave. But, luckily for us and football, he is the exception rather than the rule.

For Saints fans, easily sorted...!!!

I'm sorry but I'm just not having that, for a man of his size he is about as imposing as the 3 week old kitten the my bloody wife has just bought into the house. As for commanding in the air, you're joking, he's never in the air, his feet are permanently planted, by virtue of which makes him a decent shot stopper if the ball coincidentally hits him.

It did, and god they were boring. I remember being at SMS watching them beat us 0 - 1 with an 80 odd minute goal, their only attempt on target and actually feeling sorry for their fans...!! It worked for us the season before and god we were boring, got to eight, a cup final and sacked the manager.

Tend to agree. It's not just about understanding we got to a WC semi-final, it's understanding that the opportunity only comes around every 4 years and it's highly unlikely we will get such a favorable draw for many years to come. We started well yesterday and were in pole position, even going into the second half we were one nil up in a 'next goal wins' game and we blew it. If we had got a second I think we'd have done it, but as soon as they scored you knew how it was ending. Credit where it's due, we did well to get that far, but under analysis, you'd be foolish to think that we are close to the real top sides.

Tend to agree with the OP, we do look weak up top. Perhaps we're thinking that if we shore up well at the back we'll be difficult to beat and only need to score the odd goal to take the points. Risky strategy, need another Pelle type player up top and hope that we are more creative in midfield than the last two years. Sent from my SM-T580 using Tapatalk

I thought Rashford was awful, also, why was he taking free kicks. Surely he should be looking to get on the end off them. Sent from my SM-T580 using Tapatalk

Does anybody else think that Roy Keane is very, very orange? Or is it just my TV set? Sent from my SM-T580 using Tapatalk

True dat...! Sent from my SM-T580 using Tapatalk

Fair assessment really. We're all pretty disappointed I guess and it's easy to be critical of players. Easy passage no doubt, but guys done good overall. Sent from my SM-T580 using Tapatalk

And the real kick in the teeth is that we now have to play the biggest 'nothing' match in world football. Sent from my SM-T580 using Tapatalk

Terrible goal to go out of a world cup on. Sent from my SM-T580 using Tapatalk

For every dream there's a nightmare. Sent from my SM-T580 using Tapatalk

I think we have a good 11, but after that we are pretty ordinary, which is not good going into extra time. Sent from my SM-T580 using Tapatalk

Thanks for that, really boosted my confidence levels. Sent from my SM-T580 using Tapatalk

No idea, looks slow of mind and body to me. Our weak link. Sent from my SM-T580 using Tapatalk

Trippiers value must have increased some during this world cup. Sent from my SM-T580 using Tapatalk

Shot to pieces and we haven't even kicked off yet..! Sent from my SM-T580 using Tapatalk

If I've learned anything in this close season it's that we have some quite strange people on this forum, I think it's quite sad though when you have people who actually talk to themselves. I only use this and 2 other message boards on a regular basis, the other two being music orientated. I have never experienced any trolling of any sort on the other message boards at all, it just doesn't happen. I know they say that there are trolls all over the internet but this is the only place that I've actually experienced it. But whatever floats your boat I guess, but I feel for some people on here really. Sent from my SM-T580 using Tapatalk

Oh argh, so are you saying that Les hasn't lost his powers at all, that he can still fly and see through walls...! Heisy babys not gonna like this, but it looks like SuperLes is back. [insert one of those giffy, animated picture thingies here] Sent from my SM-T580 using Tapatalk

Just as bad, you can get yours as well...! Sent from my SM-T580 using Tapatalk

Do you have a coat? Sent from my SM-T580 using Tapatalk