Barry the Badger

Very easy to say when it's not your money. We may be well off for this league but that doesn't mean we should just throw money around left, right and centre. Aside from the fact that you have no idea what the figures involved are, I think the fact that you are suggesting we pay an extra £100'000 to get a player a few weeks earlier is complete lunacy.

I dislike Ferrari and the way they try to bully their way through, but this is a lot of fuss over nothing really. It's a stupid rule.

Sorry legod, completely disagree. Where does pardew state we are haggling over a couple of hundred thousand. Read what has been written. He has identified good players but thinks there is a chance of even better ones, so is being patient. If that is the case, I think it's the right way to go.

You must be joking.

Will not be looking for anyone else at right back I think it means.

Or we would get Peter Crouch, everybody would moan that he was a cheap option going to be ****, and then he was bloody amazing!

Ah, but is that the standard picture of me, or the version with the stick on freckles for completion of a summer replica?

I guess that Centre Mid must be a very difficult position to fill. We need to find somebody with real quality for this division but can't even guarentee them they will be first choice as Hammond is the captain and Scneiderlin is the nuts. "Excuse me Nicky Bailey, I know you're too good for this league but would you mind awfully signing for us and then not being first choice?"

Do you keep them next to your trainspotters log book and stamp collections? ;-)

It's not ridiculous though is it? If, when we were in administration, somebody had've told you that by July 2010 we would have spent millions more than anybody else in the division, narrowly missed out on the play offs from a -10 start, won a trophy at Wembley, signed a whole new team containing many of the divisions best players, and were favorites to win promotion, but that you would STILL be moaning... you would have said that was ridiculous. You just can't stop yourself and I don't think it will ever change no matter how succesful we become.

...and if he said "we are going to reach the final of the Champions league in the next 4 years", people like you would be on here crying because he only said make the final.

I don't really think he means he doesn't know what to do with them, more just that we haven't seen that finished side yet, it's been a lot of chopping and changing as they make sure everybody gets a run out. But against Sutton we will see his first choice side.

This is true, but the club has moved on from that and so should we. Yes we were in a total mess, yes we've come a long way, but it's been over a year now and it's ok for people to adjust their expectations accordingly along with our progress rather than just be forever thankful we still exist.

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Saying Andy Murray hasn't won anything is just plain wrong. He hasn't won any Grand Slams is what you mean. That's like saying Chelsea haven't won anything, because they haven't won the Champions league.

You are mental btw ;-)

But I.... I..... I don't.....understand..... How have we been able to make a signing whilst Cortese is away from St. Mary's? It simply doesn't make any sense.

I really don't think Hammonds place is under any threat. He will be the captain.

I'm sure they checked it out for safety before they let the players do it.

Best guess, Puncheon.

This is tremendous.

Wow, I bet you were quite excited when you discovered that.

It will be Hammond.

I'm not convinced that he was, not at first. I think people were generally pretty positive about the idea of having the youngsters in the reserves playing the same system as the first team, and all the stuff that went with that. It was only when he started sabotaging it by alienating the few experienced players we had at the time, and putting blind faith in young players that were clearly not ready, that people turned on the plan.

Those would be some pretty bloody serious contract talks if they lasted two weeks!