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You can be sure that had it been us signing those players instead of Leicester for the fees that they paid for them those signings and others would have been dismissed as cheap replacements from a board lacking ambition. We'd have had post after post from certain people starting with their favourite line of. "you can't expect to sell your best players every year and replace them on the cheap and hope it works out" imagine if we replace Mane next summer with a £750k signing from a French Ligue 2 side, the meltdown would be something to behold.

Fair play to them, been excellent again tonight. A team playing with energy, aggression and confidence with their two best players bang in form. A squad of relatively cheap signings with many players who haven't made it elsewhere. I'll be amazed if they keep this up over the season, theyll pick up injures sooner or later but great while it lasts.

I don't think its that mate. I think its that by and large most people that got to football these days, especially those that post on Internet forums are complete and utter helmets. Although there is much wrong with modern football, the rise of the mongboard over the last 10-15 years has given even the most clueless dinlow a voice which provides me with endless hours of humour. reading the views of the self styled genius tacticians, motivational gurus, finance whizzes, physiotherapists, scouts, legal experts and so forth that inhabit this forum keeps me grounded good times and lifts my spirits in bad times. I'm never quite sure if this place excels itself in good times with the deluded ramblings of those who believe we are English Barcelona trapped in a stadium far too small for us or in bad times with the wrist slitting, everyone is sh*t hand wringing.

If you think that is the case then case how arrogant have we become? Do you really believe that to win away at Palace we simply need to turn up? They are a very good side and have been for all of this calendar year. Pardew has done an incredible job and they've done very well in the transfer market. People accuse the big clubs of arrogance yet here we are claiming that we should be able to brush aside decent sides like palace without being at our best. Kind of sums up why so many are in meltdown at a few bad results that all clubs will have this season.

"Bloody hell fans are so ungrateful" Well said Nick, I quite agree. We should be grateful for all the the Liebherrs have done for us. All this whinging makes me worry if Kat will pull the plug on us. It doesn't matter if we go down anyway because we achieved the five year plan in 3 years meaning we are now 1 year into the next 5 year plan so that gives us 4 years to make it there. Remember where we were 7 years ago everyone!

Another example of how far we've come since Cortese was rightly ousted from his position. Cortese held us back in so many ways including match day announcing. 2 years ago benali wasn't welcome at St Mary's now he is back with open arms. With his daughter employed as the official club team announcer the complete match day experience can only be enhanced. Credit to all involved for respecting our legends as well as brining the next generation through.

Oh no you make yourself look stupid so easily yourself my tubby little friend. Credit where it's due though the troll from Tyrol still gets bites a plenty Don't worry though pal a kings sized mars bar with a red bull chaser will soon have your buzz back.

The sort of "innovation" "attention to detail" and "standing still for too long" Was it the innovation that was going on here? http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?50319-Adrift-on-brown-stuff-creek-without-a-paddle http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?54157-Our-On-the-Beach-mentality-is-a-f**king-disgrace http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?43548-MPs-quot-pushing-up-quot-tactics-are-they-easy-to-counter http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?37211-We-dont-quot-do-quot-the-big-occasion The standing still we were showing here was it like when it was an "intolerable situation", settling for the play offs, chocking in the championship or going down as we don't belong in the premier league? http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?54565-Between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?49711-Genuinely-worried-about-next-season http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?49096-A-season-that-held-so-much-promise http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?41043-We-dont-belong-in-the-PL http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?44802-We-re-going-down http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?34235-Championship-Chokers http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?29036-Let-s-settle-for-the-playoffs I'm not sure why you're wonder where Cortese is it was just as bad under him, crappy B&B wasn't it? http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?46964-For-future-transfer-activity-lets-avoid-Serie-A http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?23072-Different-Ownership-and-Managment-same-old-summer http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?45266-SFC-still-run-like-a-crappy-seaside-B-amp-B And as for Man United budget, well we should have given up anyway shouldn't we?? http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?50540-220M-transfer-fund-reported-for-van-Gaal

Who exactly is going to be "put at risk" by you rambling on about what goes on in Pakistan on a Southampton football forum overrun by wierdos that no one gives a sh*t about?

/\ good to see 85% of fans not buying food or drink inside the stadium.

Glad you got all your autographs pal. Did you ask them to sign your shirt as well?

You're not wrong pal. They love being lefties, wear it like a badge of honour. They can be narrow minded hypocrites because they're lefties which means they're open minded and respect everyone's opinions as long as everyone agrees with them. The ones that protest against things are allowed to be violent because they're opposed to violence. They can justify the behaviour of some Muslims because we should tolerate their religion, even though much of their religion is opposed to tolerance. You've only got to look at the nonsense spouted on here regularly by the likes of Bridge Too Far, typing furiously from her middle class village miles away from any mosques that despite the most recent terrorist attacking in London being carried out someone shouting "this is for Syria" the poor bloke might be misunderstood, he might be mental. He needs to be sit down and understood, we should talk to him, help him then send him on his way to be a honourable member of British society.

Seen in town afterwards absolutely smashed on two vodka red bulls.

The lad clearly has talent, remember the MK dons game? I get the feeling he might suffer from Tanadri Lee syndrome whereby he's so much better than the players around him they make him look sh*t because they aren't good enough to pick out his runs.

All those teams turning into Stoke. Who'd have thought it.

Not that different, they'd still be in the relegation zone.

My team would be ___________Britt Mugabe--wood----debeyo--Targett -----Gape------Flanagan----Reed McQueen---Seager----Hesketh Subs sims Little Isted Barnes Johnson Ward Prowse It's what Poch would have done.

Only one man for the job, a man with experience, good at bringing through youth, charisma and charm.

Is your missus gash still loose from the pounding it got by the Crewe player?

So what cross roads was it people claiming we were at then?

We can't compete with the top 5-6 clubs financially it's as simple as that. For a club of our size that policy had to be right. People can go on all they want about the TV deal meaning we've got more money to compete now but guess what, so does everyone else as well. Our aim should be to be an established top 10 club who has a crack at the cups every season who every now and then with a fair wind and a bad year for one of the elite can have a crack at the top 6. If people think that's boring and lacks ambition then they're deluded. We aren't a mega club just a 10,000 expansion away from becoming the man United of the south. We're a middle sized premier league club. If we finish 8th or above this season it'll be a fantastic achievement again. Not many clubs of our size and stature have achieved 3 consecutive top 8 finishes especially whilst losing 7 of our top players along the way. So I don't see us as at a crossroads at all we aren't going to push on into the top 4, we aren't going to spend £40m and£200k a week on single players. What we might get though is the odd season where we do challenge at the top which might convince our better players to stay a bit longer. But the reality is our best players will move on for big money but that's also the reality for all but about 5 clubs in the world.

Yet still you continue to whinge that players from the youth team aren't being picked in the first team which is top half of the premier league. It's almost as if they aren't good enough for it is it.

To be fair he has a point. As a scout you don't have to be much of a genius to pick up a full international costing north of £6-7m but playing in a different country as a recommendation. The real quality comes from finding the likes of seamus Coleman for £60,000. People rave about or scouting set up but look at celtics, brought in van Dijk, Wanyama and Forster for less than £6m combined and sold them for over £30m. Now of course if we were to have sold Clyne last summer and replaced him with the next Seamus Coleman then fans would be in meltdown at the lack of ambition. Fans are as guilty as clubs, big fees + fancy names mean we're signing superstars, Lower league players = lack of ambition. I don't know why more don't bring in a few top performers from league one as squad players. We've all seen how it's possible to make that transition. I'm sure there is a better right back in league one than CuCo Martina that can play as a last resort and who knows one or two of them might surprise us all.

Saints centenary game v champions Everton. It was my first game and like so others in the 30 years since would end in defeat. I remember the match reasonably well. We lost 2-3 after Glen Cockerill gave us an early lead, Gary Linekar levelling to send the teams in level before Everton taking control. A goal from Steve Moran, who was my hero at the time, right in front of me at in Milton Road end got us back into the game but we couldn't find an equaliser. It was a special day, 100 young fans chosen to be mascots from 10 schools, sadly I wasn't one of them. I also remember reading in the match day programme a fictional story about the next 100 years when Saints would be playing in a European Super league in a 50,000 all seater stadium. As deluded back then as they are now it seems. Anyone have an pictures from the day? Fitz, I'm looking at you

It doesn't matter what he thinks mate, just go around calling everyone a complete penis that doesn't agree with you. That's how it works. The funny thing is all three if the ones dishing out the abuse then defending their behaviour have moaned about others doing the same to them or how this forum is going downhill. The first person to dish out abuse on this thread actually posted on another one that Yoshida is a liability and always makes mistakes when he plays right back, so he might well have agreed with your point. Clearly it doesn't matter what people say on here, it's who says it and you're free to abuse people who comment if you don't like them, however valid their point might be. As for knee jerk reactions, how many goals does Yoshida need to cost us before saying he should never play right back again isn't a knee jerk reaction?