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I had the saloon version, cylinder went twice, alternator, cam belt, brakes, fly wheel, got to the stage where it was one thing after another. Got a 320d saloon now and its simply a different level of car.

Does that not suggest to you how hard and rare it is for a club to produce a homegrown player that is genuinely the quality of a top 6 club player? Yet some people seem to think we are going to produce a team full of them all at the same time.

8 out of 8.

Quite a few people have said the others too, not in the way I did obviously which was just to make the point, but have said people will come to Southampton because its a great place to live, near the sea, airport etc.

It's a bit odd that your last 7 posts over 4 days have all been about me or in response to me. Odd.

Yeah I remember us being linked with him, think it was last summer.

They even took the guy that get sacked on the apprentice last night!

Audi A4 or BMW 320 mate, they do cost a bit more but they are worth every penny. Plus far less things go wrong with them. I brought my first BMW 6 months ago and its a pleasure to drive and feels really well made, had no problems with it all so far. Compare that to my car before which was a Saab, £2k cheaper to buy but cost me £3k in repairs over 18 months.

I reckon if we put it on twitter and Facebook it'll be in the echo by next week and discounts will follow by mid June.

I've been offered a couple of jobs without being interviewed, that's what happens when you have a good name, reputation and contacts and they want you.

This forum has a history of outlandish claims about how easy it is going to be to crack the top 6. That all you need is a decent manager and a good academy, that our top young players will ignore the overtures of top clubs to stay here and play with their mates from when they were 11, that top foreign players will join us for less money because Southampton is a nice place to live, what with being near the new forest, thier wives will love West Quay and they can go for a walk and a cream tea in the new forest on days off. You need to learn your forum history before starting mugging yourself off again last time we got into a discussion sunshine.

So what we are saying is in the last 20 years only Man United and Barcelona in the entire world have managed to finish in the top 6 of their leagues regularly with half a squad made up of academy products. I can see why people think it'll be so easy for Saints.

Man City at home.

What MLG means is he isn't listed as a striker on Football manager.

So there we have it then, the biggest club in the world that won the treble with those players are the only ones in 20 odd years to achieve this feat which is entirely possible for Saints. This is what we are trying to achieve, most of these players that are Going to come through are going to have to be not only the best in England, but amongst the best in Europe if they're going to keep up in the top 6. We need 2 Bales for every Leon Best and Chris Baird and for them all to come through within 5 years of each other. To think this will happen and them all stay at Saints and not be picked up by the bigger clubs is incredibly deluded.

Now now Tajjuk, just because your comments are often made to look idiotic, don't get upset and resort to the usual 'trolling' accusations BTW can you name the teams that have finished in the top 6 in the last 20 years with half the squad column through the academy which people are claiming is entirely possible for us to do?

This is a good read on the UI from Tijuanua Tim, who became good friends with Ron. http://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/southampton/fb_mb.php?m=v&t=81743#9

What a strange post, We don't have over half of those players.

Di Matteo turned us down twice, in the summer and in December.

Hilarious how everyone is slagging off Hughes, seems to be another mboards classic of writing off a manager without looking at the reality. He did an excellent job with Wales and Blackburn, where they finished 6th and 7th and qualified for Europe, reasonable jobs at Fulham, where they finished 8th and again got Europen football and Man City, where is was widely regard that he was harshly sacked. The only place he's done badly is at he train wreck that is QPR and even then he did no worse than Redknapp who spent another £20 odd million in The January transfer window. Mark Hughes makes perfect sense and has done very well with two clubs of similar size. Still, keep writing him off mboard.

How many other clubs have produced and kept half a squad of players from their academy which gave been good enough for top 6 finishes?

Why, are you just about to bore us with some more stats.

Probably wants something off Cortese and using the press and social media to strengthen his position. Good work MP.

So just to confirm you DO NOT need to get it serviced every 20,000 in addition to this, just as and when the service indicator lights come on get that particularly thing sorted?

You think we'll produce half a top 6 squad from our academy?