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I don't smoke but I am partial to one of these now and again.

Millions.

Centros, yes. Was decent back in the day.

The Cenos, Lizard Lounge, Fez Bar, Orange Rooms, Rhino era was superb, all the helmets used to go to places like Yates and Chicago Rock and leave the decent places top of town and Bedord Place to us. Now with thst place that used to be Cenos, Varsity there and a junk trying and failing to be what the Rhino it seems no where is safe to escape the bulbs in Southampton.

I'm not being negative or cynical, just given the sort of person Adkins is and how we supposedly do our business, did anyone expect him to say he was worried? Its just the usual media trained, up beat stance he always take, not a fantastic positive interview which eases everyone concerns.

We did bid for Phillips, I was told personally by a friend of his who has known him since he was 6. Phillips wanted the move and handed in a transfer request. Blackpool wouldn't play ball. I posted a bit about it on here at the time and got about 50 PMs asking for information. f course because he never signed it must mean it never happened and we were never interested and Nixon and everyone else is making it up.

Did anyone really expect him to say he's worried about his job and he doesn't get on with the chairman?

What happened to it being possible because they said once man would never walk on the moon?

Must have got lucky again.

Phil the Octopus would have the same success rate.

Yes, because it would be entirely professional and sensible for a respected journalist to come out and state who his source is at the club, especially given what what you say is Corteses view on such matters, wouldn't it you prat. Like a lot of the clowns on here, happy to take what he says as positive as gospel, dismiss anything negative as bollo*ks.

According to some posters on here he knows f*ck all because he dared to say that we didn't know what centre halves we wanted a week before the window shut, despite all you correctly state above.

one thing is for sure if we get Rafa we can certainly gurantee the end to sloppy goals conceded and individual errors.

Are there? Apart from a couple on the internet i'm yet to come across anyone that does and certainly on one in the real world. The fact of the matter is there is clearly some tension and a lot of the speculation is that people expect Cortese to act quickly if things are going wrong.

Didn't we play a friendly against them and Ball was told he was available so snapped him up? Once he got here it came to light he need an op on his back, he wouldn't have it and there was some problem that meant he couldn't play in this country? Memory is a little hazy on this but definitely remember something to do with his back and an op.

Could be like Eklund and Le Tiss, hope it lasts longer!

I particularly like this comment on th first post "will be some almighty scramble for tickets next season" Err, no there isn't...

Yeah, obviously

What are you on about? He's got plenty of respect. It's just most people realise he was shall we say, limited. Although a fitter, more committed player you'll never find.

When we're only playing one up front is it sensible to expect our only striker to drop into midfield? I don't really understand what your getting at. Against City he came on and scored, set up a very presentable chance for Fonte and looked very good. Against Man U he scored one and set up one and for the first 60 minute won an awful lot in the air and looked good on the ground against one of the best defences in England, in around 100 minutes of playing time against the top 2 teams last season he's got two goals and an assist. Pretty good, no?

Lambert got no service against Arsenal. Funnily enough he also played well in a good team performance against City as well. It's obviously because kompany and Vidic stood off him and let him play and Vermaelen didn't.

Dodd was a good player, he'd have been alright.

Looked to me like Lambert dominated them and for the first 60 minutes was almost bullying Vidic. They certainly weren't standing off him.

We read lots of clueless nonsense during the summer about how it was an average league, our players would get more time on the ballso would all be fine, half our squad was good enough for England and so on. The fact of the matter is the premier league is still one of the best leagues in the world, every team has top quality players and a number of international playersin their squad. Even our squad, bottom of the league without a point had 5 players on international duty last week. The players get more time on the ball comment was a classic though, yeah of course the best defenders in the world stand off attackers and give them space.

And how I do.