SaintBobby

Correct!

No, but close.

Remember, it's a two part question....

See above, Chez...more recent than that.

Nope. More recent.

Not Saints-related, but Stoke at 3/1 to be relegated or Chris Houghton at 20/1 to be first manager to lsoe his job both appeal to me.

When did Saints last fail to convert a penalty at St Mary's? Who fluffed it?

I think you need to declare a winner for the last round, Turkish.

Aye. Maybe I'm imagining things. Wouldn't be the first time...

Nah, he's 24 - nearly 25. Too old :-)

Wasn't Grobbelar also a former waiter? Or maybe a barman.

So, who won that then? Dowie/Bennett/Lambert Am I the first to get all three? :-)

Must be a fair few former waiters who have played for Saints?

That was Lambert..the otehr two, hmmm.....

was brighton I think, but Turkish got there first.

Do overall decent signings always leave a bitter taste? How bad does the taste get if we make an average or mediocre signing? Utterly mental.

Kanchelskis

I like our recruitment policy - but can't really explain why. Is the idea we keep these players for 8-10 years or that we always have players in the early to mid 20s?

Agree there's a big IF as to whether an expansion is a white elephant, but putting that big IF to one side, expanding because of business reasons makes sense. Sure, a sugar daddy and TV revenues are the big income streams, but that's not a reason to overlook ticket/merchandising/hospitality revenues. I mean it's not as if they don't give a damn what the ticket prices are...they do...they're trying to make money.... Similarly IF they could make additional cash, by expanding the stadium, building a hotel, having a monkey petting zoo or whatever, they'd do so!

If you have a rich benefactor, it's a capital outlay. You don't need to worry about the "immediate budget". It also doesn't have a "minimal long term effect on turnover". If (HUGE if!), you spend c£150m now as a capital outlay now for an extra c.£15m per annum, it neither "drains your immediate budget" nor is the long term effect "minimal"

Very true. But it's not an either/or situation

The club will expand the stadium, I think. But they aren't going to jump the chasm in two leaps. Basically, a small-ish expansion is very expensive (per extra seat) and a big expansion is only quite expensive (but much less so, per extra seat)

We're useless. We would have had more time to gel if we'd signed Lovren a week ago. I'm furious. And think i could run the club better myself. From a PC. In the Swiss Alps.

Are we spending our transfer budget too early. I mean, what's the hurry? :-)

Good point. This sort of comparison has never been discussed at all. Sigh.....