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That's quite a handy site to know about. I actually found my last couple of teams on Gumtree.

Equally though, shouldn't all teams be able to scout from the same amount of square miles? It's not really fair that the reach of coastal teams is reduced by roughly half.

Buy the Isle of Wight, ship all of the current residents to Bath and transport all prospects at the satellite academy with their families to our new footballing utopia. Can always extend into The Channel since that's where half of our catchment area is. Job done.

Hmm I've been near the edge of Row V for a while now, will be a bloody shame if that's true. In League One when when the ground was less full the stewards used to be up and down the stairs a lot asking for people to sit down but I can't recall them bothering with Block 42 at all over the last couple of seasons. External pressures?

Fairly plush looking pack ruined by the amateurish use of typography. Two fonts maximum, unless you're going to be very clever. That isn't! The punctuation's not great either... The wireframe panels look better when twinned with our badge so at least the ticket itself is better. Little details, but if Cortese is going to pride us on supposedly being a premium brand then our marketing ought to reflect that. Last season's offering was much more classy.

Enough said? There seems to be plenty of room on all screen resolutions above 1024px wide, not sure how it would be handled on smaller monitors.

Well that hit me right in the feelings. Another vote for getting Ron into the banner at the top of the site.

Very sad that we never managed to get him back to see us one last time. Way before my time, but I think everybody knows the significance of "Give it to Ron". R.I.P.

Sadly I imagine many are put off by the perpetual bickering, knee-jerk reactions and those who assume their opinions become more special if they post them in every thread, regardless of relevance. Adding some diversity of content would probably render this place a horrendous time sink, so I guess it's swings and roundabouts.

I'm the polar opposite of a bedwetter It was built up as some big reveal, the least that could have been done was to prepare an image befitting an announcement. Perhaps it's just because it jars when compared with the brand-centric approach we've become accustomed to under Mr Cortese's iron rule. I hope they spent a little longer on putting the kit itself together, that's all!

I was more concerned with the silly black blocks behind each logo (the silver version of ours would've had plenty of contrast), but yeah the artifacts around what should be sharp edges looks amateurish too. Bodes well for the quality of the kit (and yes, I'm well aware it'll probably just be a template with our badge/sponsor affixed)

That announcement image looks like it was thrown together in Paint! Somebody didn't have the source files for the logos...

Those willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.

I'm assuming this is the Twitter source since nobody else is talking about it? The tweet from 10:52pm last night? https://twitter.com/Saints_team_bus No-nothing, nonsense account.

Pass either of these and the so-called terrorists win.

Seeing as it was getting to the end of the season I sold my main PL squad to buy our in-forms. Previously I had this one (4-2-3-1): Lloris Sagna Vidic Kompany Cole Gerrard Tiote Silva Suarez Mata Van Persie Also a Russian League side (4-2-3-1): Akinfeev (IF) Anyukov Alves Bocchetti Criscito Witsel (IF) Denisov Boussoufa Doumbia Honda Eto'o Mostly via pre-order/EA season ticket bonus packs - got ridiculously lucky a few times!

We're currently awaiting completion on the purchase of a 2 bedroom property in Hedge End as first time buyers. Dealt at £157k which is a few grand lower than others in proximity have been going for but still achievable. Happy with everything we've seen and heard about the area and not too much bother to get into Southampton. Apart from a brief spell in Southsea while my girlfriend finished her degree over there, I've lived in central Southampton since I was a student and have just about had my fill now. Wanted to remain close in order to reap the benefits but it surprised me how little resistance I mustered when the lady suggested moving to the 'burbs. I work in Fair Oak and it's dead as can be, albeit pleasant enough. House prices seem inflated there however, same with the likes of Bishopstoke. Obviously there are still plenty of nice places in Southampton so it doesn't have to be outskirts. We preferred to pick areas and hunt from there - otherwise it became tempting to compromise in order to get something bigger that was in a less than ideal location. With a budget of 180k I'd say you'll be fine as it seems to be above the tipping point for a well-located house in decent nick.

The guys dressed to the nines in the Itchen stand have done it for several years on the final day. I believe it's to mark the death of one of their fathers? Something along those lines.

Yeah, after taking that screenshot I swapped Luke in. Have been using Mayuka as super-sub as I can't get over Lambert's strength on the ball. Loving the rage - won 5-2 against a star-filled Div 1 team the other night

I'd say it's testament to the fact that we had some decent players on our books in the mid-2000s - we were just never in a position to keep any of them.

Ripping it up on Ultimate Team with our squad/in-form players at the moment: Normally swap Fox out for Shaw mind you as Luke has better defending stats (that figures).

Missed the point completely. Clearly that's a valid opinion - what went OTT was your repeated need to rip shreds from anybody that dared suggest 10th or above was achievable. At the time you were banging on about it we had a roughly equal chance of achieving a top half finish as relegation. Even now it wouldn't take a ridiculous set of results for us to settle thereabouts. For my money it's the people that bang on about the same thing in every thread on here that make legitimate points of discussion a chore. On which note I'll leave it there

Number 4 in the WUM category comes to mind. Just thought it was interesting that you jumped straight to discredit the thread's worth, that's all. Fact of the matter is that the truth rarely exists at either extreme and tends to settle somewhere in the middle. Similar to our likely finishing position actually.

Change the record... Did you not see the interview with him from the club awards night?

Comes across as more posturing to me. Sounds like Cortese is putting forward a business proposal for the next couple of months in order to prove his worth and has used MP as his mouthpiece. Even so it's a solid plan in many respects, especially if you're the sort that gets het up about completing transfer business in the final month of the window. Fingers crossed there'll be the opportunity to implement it with our current personnel. I'm also quite relieved about the news regarding Lambert. If he's been struggling with an injury that's a little more comforting than performances simply tailing off. Doesn't say a lot for our alternate striking options mind.