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Ben Haim as well, he has been their best player apprantly.

Plus you might struggle to get through the metal detectors, if there are any. Nice hat at Cov.

I take it you'll be going dressed as a guitarist from a midlands based rock/indie band?

so who has got something wacky planned? We got some great fun loving fans, i met one at Coventry who was wearing a hilarious comedy coppers hat and said he does something mad like that every game, apparantly he was planning to go dressed as Captain America for the next away game, gutted to miss that. We've had people dressed as Arabs and in red gimp suits at previous games and there were some funny, mad fans in wigs at Donny on saurday. So come on everyone, who has got something mad planned??? There must be some of you.

obviously you think we are still in 2004 and just off the back our best season since 1984 going by your constant ramblings on here.

You North Hants boys are all the same, hard after the event. Not so brave when it was all on top for you though were you. Running up the stairs to the other platform as fast as your chunky little legs would carry you then trampolining from the safety of the other platform giving it the big one. Is that what is considered a result these days??

I take it you haven't learned from the hiding I gave you at Donny station Saturday evening.

Is this in real life or championship manager? You seem unable to separate the two.

and who say "on the bus" at every opportunity.

None of the ones who have played them before will have played at Fratton Park or in that sort of atmosphere before. The look of frighten rabbits of the players in the tunnel that last time we played there still haunts me i'm afraid. We lost that game before a ball was kicked. I think and i hope this team are made of sterner stuff.

I agree. I was confident until a month ago but they are decent at home we aren't good away. Most of our players wont have played in an atmosphere like they'll be in for. If they come out of the blocks quickly and get an early goal it's going to be a long afternoon.

We clearly aren't selling the area to them enough, Maybe we could take them out on the solent on Corteses sunseeker and show them reruns of Howards Way, they'll be sure to sign then.

Seeing a badly dressed fat man offends me. Especially if he is wearing a shirt designed to be worn by an athlete, not someone who seems to have got lost on their way to a darts match.

*stamps feet* But But But we are the new Barcelona. We'll be playing in the champions league soon with a team full of academy graduates. We've got the next Beckham and Scholes coming through. Man United have proven it can be done, why cant we do it? Everyone knows all you need is a good academy to make the champions league and all the players will stay forever ignoring more money and bigger clubs to fullfill their dream of playing in the champions league with their mates at Southampton. We'll be able to attract top internationals now because they'll buy into Corteses vision. They'll all want to join because we are near the sea and the new forest, West Quay is great for their wives to shop in and Highfield school is one of the best in Hampshire for their kids to attend. I really dont who why anyone would question where the internationals are going to come from.

We should probably sign a couple of San Marino and Litchenstein internationals, that is all we'll need along with our academy players.

Not my word WC. We've been told on here in the past that all that is required to be a top 4 club is a good academy and a good manager. We dont need to spend £100s of millions doing it, that is all we need to do. Man United have done it, they won the champions league with the home grown Beckham, Giggs, Scholes and Nevilles. Why cant we?

Why? THey look great on middle aged blokes, especially ones that are at least two stone overweight, it shows of their beer gut nicely. It's also a staple fashion item to be worn over a hooded top.

Of course the irony being that so many were quick to slag off West Ham fans for being arrogant only a couple of weeks ago for talking about being in the premier league. In anycase, we've already been told on here in the past we dont need to spend big, all you need is a good academy, we can rely on that apprantly.

I love the way our internet experts know who we can afford and what our wage bill and cap is.

What an utterly pointless thread. If we get promoted which international players could we sign. FFS. Do people really have nothing better to do than think about this?

Including Jos H we spent near on £7m this summer, hardly modest.

Lets hope Burrows has the decency to at least explain and retract his comments as he seems to have p*ssed quite a few people off with this, me included. We all know how much he hates people being offended dont we. I fear not though.

This cant be true. Hypo said Cortese said we had too much money.

What else would you expect? we are the new Barcelona.

Like he did when the police *****ed up in Feb 2009 letting them out at the same time? How was Bradford a police failing? How was Ibrox? This is blatently a PR exercise to scare people into supporting his bubble. It is extremely bad taste to mention 150 people plus dying in disasters as a way of justifying a decision made by local police.