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As i said above, when i first saw him i thought he was good, skillful intellegent but a lacking that burst of pace to be a top 4 player and a was a little bit lightweight, but he's bulked up a bit since then and would go on to make a decent midtable premier league player. I certainly never thought i was watching one of the best players i've ever seen.

Agreed. All this sh*t a few months back about is this the best Saints team ever as well. It's not even the best Saints team of the last 10 years FFS.

No, but i didn't ever think he was going to be as good as the best player we've ever had, only a div would do. I thought if he did well he'd be a good midtable premier league player, hopefully this season he will prove he is, he aint and never has been a top 4 player. Maybe you need to rein in your expectations..

That's the thing though, Barcelona do spend a lot of money as well. Alves, Fabregas, Sanchez, Maschareno and Villa cost well over £100m between them. yes they prodcue some great players from their academy, but they are complemented by top players who have been brought in for a fortune.

Just how f*cking good did you expect him to be? He's been arguably the best player in a side which was in the top 2 of the championship all last season. Nothing to do with him signing a new contract 18 months ago and saying he wants to stay here. THen playing for a team last season that were top two all season and are now a premier league club themselves? Says a lot i think.

Not at all mate. UNlike a lot of people on here some of us are not confusing ambition with ability. People keep going on about aiming for the stars and applauding Cortese ambition and drive, yet this might well prove to be our undoing. A man who has achieved successive promotions and taken a team into the premier league less than 2 years after being near the bottom of league one and got them there 2 years ahead of schedule should be lauded by the clubs owners, instead of that we are in a situation where he has been verbally sacked at least once in the last year and appears worried about his job, if rumours and stories from inside the club are true. We've got the chairman and manager telling players we are going to be in Europe and challenging Man City in 3 years time, yet the activity in the transfer markets suggests that they are either just words or an unrealistic expectation of the sort of players and fees they will cost to get anywhere near that sort of level. Whilst the other promoted clubs are talking about staying up, our management are going on about Europe, does anyone really think given what we know about Cortese that he'll accept a battle against relegation this season? If we are struggling Adkins will be gone and a new man brought in and no doubt will be given the same remit and the same scenario if we dont reach Corteses standards, we've all seen in the past what happens when clubs chop and change managers. I honestly think this club has a very bright future if people are reined in a little and ambition matches ability. Saying we are aiming to challenge Man City is utterly stupid when we are buying players from the championship, however good they potentially might be. I sincerely hope that Cortese isn't expecting anything other than a relegation battle this season but he is expecting more. We've seen him lose his rag with the manager when things are going well and we are overperforming and achieving targets ahead of schedule so god knows what he'll be like if we are struggling. We do stand on the verge of what could potentially be another golden era for the club, but we are also only a tantrum away from throwing it all away.

I'd be surprised if Adkins is still here this time next year. Corteses ambition could well be the downfall of this clubs progress and all you clowns applauding the embarassing "challenge Man City" comments and ' reach for the stars' attitude are going going to be in for a huge disapointment and rude awakening.

Does anyone else think Roger Daltry looks like like an old Glen Cockerill?

Where are the 10 policemen chasing the Brazilian and unloaded 50 rounds into him?

I'm half expecting Pete Doherty to turn up dressed as the child catcher to lead the singing.

He's never been that great a singer though has he, like Ian Brown, he's just a great front man for a great band and got it.

We need the smiths to do Girlfriend in a coma.

Wonderwall has to be one of th greatest songs ever written.

Go Liam. This is more like it.

I'd still love to smash Baby spice.

They won't. In two or three years they'd have disappeared back up their own a*seholes.

Christ, Tinny Templah.

This is an iconic dance track to be fair.

It's just wierd.

What's wrong with the first one? Can't see anything wrong with it.

well their academy has just been given cat a status so clearly they are spotting their own talent and building for the future. FC you're not that dim to think that SFC are the only ones capable of bringing through young players but if that level of delusion gives you an ego boost then enjoy it.

Because In post 18 you mentioned our win against Wolves and draw against Bristol City as a reason why we Haven't come up short in preseason. Yet you also say these results don't give an indication as to how we will do against Premier league sidesas they are in th championship.

I think they'll be In the relegation battle this season. However as their spending shows, they have shown ambition.

Excuse me? You said those results don't matter.However the other games are the tests. so our results in those "test" games show we are so way off.

Thank you. You do have your uses. So Franks Cousin is wrong as i suggested above and they have shown ambition.