SaintBobby

Weird substitution.....

I reckon it's a must win match. Even this early in the season. It really is....:-)

Spurs. The QPR. Hear the Liverpool thing, but wld take a win at SMS.

Like it. Just the player we need. I don't begin to understand the £. In 20 years time, it will be £20trn for a player

Beyond mad. Just no. Does any remotely sane Saints fan want us to buy him? As I say, beyond mad...

Love the way the term "invest" is used in general, and on here ....it actually means "spend". This evening I "invested" in 5 pints of beer and a hamburger. I nearly considered "investing" in super-sizing my McDonalds meal. But I think that would have been an "investment" too far.

OMG. This forum is now just beyond belief. The trolls can't even really be arsed anymore.

Possibly the worst ever subject tile for any thread in interweb history....

At the Brighton game, both Wanyama and Fonte split their shorts down the crotch. Wanyama changed his shorts at half time. Fonte's wardrobe malfunction happened in the 2nd half and he manly played on without a change of kit. Was the thing the two girls I was with were most excited about in the entire math.

Very good performance indeed, albeit against an utterly dire Brighton team. Big upsides for me: 1. Wanyama was utterly dominant, ran the middle third of the pitch while he was on and now seems to be able to pass well too! 2. Isgrove (90 mins) and Targett (45 mins) both looked very good indeed. 1st time I've seen either of them play for any measurable period. 3. Tadic. Flashes of real quality. 4. Clyne - amazing in the first half. Basically a lethal winger. 5. Steve Davis - maybe he will a sung rather than unsung hero soon? Downsides: 1. Pelle. Not awful. But a bit meh 2. Cork. Not his best game ever....looked a tad off the pace. 3. Design flaw in our shorts. Both Fonte's and Wanywama's split at the crotch!

I fear we may struggle this year. But please, please can we top his "asset stripping"nonsense? If you have £100m worth of players and sell them, your asset is worth £100m less. This isn't a cunning plan to sell all our best players and hope a new buyer fails to realise we are now short of laying talent. If you sell a part of your assets for £20m your overall assets are now worth £20m less. I hope this is simple enough for the non-mathematical posters.

I think we're a good bet to be relegated. If you can still get 20/1 on us finishing bottom, those are good odds

I'm relaxed. Best guess is that we will end up around 12th-14th. Staying up will be okay.

Good prices. Hope we re-spend it well though. V easy to waste £100m in football.

We will spend about £65m.

Game over. Relegation certain. Remember the last Dutch duo? This will be worse. (NB: Im actually delighted, but someone had to say it,right?)

Koeman to be appointed by Thursday.

Not really. Every player has a price. If you think, say, Lambert is worth £5m, then the club are better off having £6m in cash and losing Lambert. If I have a genuine van Gogh hanging on my wall in my flat, then obviously my flat is worth more with that painting than it would be with an empty wall. That doesn't mean I should keep the van Gogh though.

God. Student politics, basically. Spare me. I remember being at uni and the student union voting to write letters to various world leaders, print placards and march down various streets and sing chants. Pathetic, self-indulgent, "look at me" nonsense - but for 18-21 year olds, in all fairness. Anyone older than that has no excuse at all, though.

I'm looking for the "Supporters Relations Manager" job they advertised on the OS. It seems to be fulfilled.....or disappeared....anyone have a link?

Sleep well...

Not surprised that we lost Poch to Spurs. I am surprised that the new era of "reaching out to the fans"......"communicate honestly and directly" has been soooo badly managed. Ralph Krueger promised to be open and talk more to the "community" (whatever that is) The official club site is a joke. The board will look like a joke soon....

Hmmmm.... major story by the look of it (7 hours later). Seems not only to be in the Mirror and on its website, but now also across the entire mainstream media. A very impressive coup by that investigative journalist. Very, very impressive.

I have a modicum of sympathy for the Echo's complaints. We are reported to have received bids from both Manchester Utd and Liverpool for two of our star player, but the club doesn't even seem to have acknowledged or denied whetehr these bids have been received - let alone whether, when or on what basis they will be accepted,rejected or negotiated. Probably don't want the club providing a "running commentary" but the alternative to that isn't total silence.

It's mainly the collapse in away fans. Obviously the huge teams (like Man Utd on Sunday) take the whole gig. But the middling teams are selling, sway, 800 seats rather than 1,500. The way St Mary's has been set up (maybe wrongly...as others have said re: Northam) means this hits attendance. Falling away attendances have been covered a lot in the media...I think 5 Live did a big piece on it a few months back. Additionally, wider TV coverage, internet availability and a sluggish economy haven't helped attendances.