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He isn't though.

Very good and very fair. Yes, we should be doing this.

Exactly. Rate £25-£30m and it buys you a quality replacement plus one other quality player, stronger overall. although as we've been told tonight Matt Targett is ever closer to the first team maybe we won't need to replace him!

Which is what?

Yeah come on Jamie, they get paid big bucks they know the risks, that's life and that's football, surely?

and?

As a premium club offering a premium product then i am glad we are not devaluing the overall quality of the said product by giving away some pathetic, fatuous gesture like free coach travel. Aligned to the fact that the club are thinking of the health of their fans by not offering free food to the already fat framed average football fan to gorge themselves on. Supporting Southampton is not something that is to be taken lightly and is an honour not right. The chosen ones should be happy to dig into their pockets to follow this incredible football club. I applaud Cortese for keeping this club an exclusive brand and not giving way to the pressure of the give it to me now, want something for nothing generation.

Given that when in 2012 MLGs explained that him expecting the ground extension to be announced "relatively soon" could be any time in the next few years, i'd imagine MLGs assertion that Targett is "getting closer to the first team" means that he is now only several years away from breaking into it.

Walking is free.

Very, very well said. Pretty much sums up my views on everything perfectly.

Spade face or The Romsey Retard as he is affectionately known.

He's another labelled with the 'terrible manager' tag on here because people don't like him and he never took Birmingham Wigan or Sunderland into the champions league.

Why would we sell to one of our champions league rivals?

That part is the only bit that is true, apart from Dubai Phil talking sh*t of course.

This story is not true.

Maybe he was and personally i started to wonder this a few games into the season, however the guy got us two promotions and we were 15th when he was fired, making the club millions on the way, he did eveything that was asked of him and then some. In many ways he was a victim of his own success. Had we done what was expected of us in the championship and consolidate the first season and push on the second then he might well have grown with us. It probably was the right decison but the way it was done and then to not even give him a word of thanks was a disgrace.

And in 2013 WBA finished 8th, Swansea finished top half. Where were they in 2004? As for your hilarious dismissal of Arsenal winning the league, this would be the skin flint policy which saw them win the league with Dennis Berkamp, Tierry Henry, Patrick Viera, Freddie lujenburg, Robert Pires, Sol Campbell and Ashley Cole all in their prime. I wish we had that skin flint policy.

I don't like the bloke, but I think he's been very successful at some smaller clubs. Credit where it's due, that's all. How many other British managers have been as consistently successful with clubs of that size in the last 20 years?

Wouldn't you say Newcastles was down to having 3 managers in a year in Keegan, Kinear and Shearer? We know from experience how that pans out. As for Blackburn he left them when they were 13th. Ask Blackburn fans what they think of Steve Keen, who funnily enough was the man to take them to the next level and was talking about champions league football the season they went down.

Fat Sam didn't have one of the highest transfer budgets in Europe when he was at Bolton, so we aren't comparing like for like.

Oh right so we discredit his achievements there because using pure speculation 10 years on we think he might not have done as well. Do you hold this view on McMemenemy? How about busby? Shankley? Are we to write off what they did because the game has moved on since then?

Newcastle were midtable when they fired him, they were relegated the following season Blackburn were midtable when they fired him, they too were relegated the following season. He took west ham up at the first attempt and they finished midtable last season above us and were never in any danger of going down. What exactly were you expecting from them?

I wouldn't want him here either but you can't argue with his record. He's not an international manager or one for a big but because he's a bit of a knob and people don't like the way his teams play he's dismissed as a terrible manager. Do you really think he'd have had the success he had at Bolton by trying to get limited players and a limited budget play sparkling champagne football? Strachan is viewed as a hero by some here and achieved far less. We hardly played sparkling football under him, it was all about work rate, tempo and fitness.

6th, not 5th apologies. Top 8 for 4 consecutive seasons. More than we've ever done in the premier league.

Well on this thread alone Jamie and Kelvinsrightglove went into meltdown on the day Adkins was sacked, yet now describe it as "par the course" and "that's football" so yes, those two do have short memories. They won't be alone as 99% of the people who posted on the day he was fired were outraged and said it was a disgrace.