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SPot on, i dont want to see us sign 7 or 8 players. THe core of the side is decent, in Fonte, Lallana and AOC (if he stays) we have arguably the three best players in their position in the division. I also think MS and Guly will be effective in the championship. I'd like to see us add two or three quality players now and then a further one in January. Evolution rather than revolution. Good teams are built gradually and overtime by adding quality, not ripping it up each summer and starting again.

I remember seeing him in a cafe in Leeds once when he was playing for Huddersfield, very good looking, well dressed chap as well as a nice guy and great player. In contrast i give you David Lee. One of the worst and scruffiest players to ever wear the stripes. What was going on with that hair cut? Bald bast*rd on top, Micheal Bolton at the back. Lasted about 20 games then loaned out somewhere equally as poor as where he came from.

I really dont know what people are expecting both in terms of signings and league finish. Surely this season should be considered a season for stability, establish ourselves in this division with a respectable finish of midtable and building a side for a push for play offs/automatic at a push the season after. Anything more is a massive bonus, anything less is a bit of a faliure. Anyone expecting more than that is in for serious disapointment.

No, that was Chris Nicholl, Adams was signed at the same time as Barry Horne iirc.

Do you like Friends and find Micheal Mcintyre funny?

It wasn't so much his play that annoyed me, but the way he walked off the pitch when substituted, kind of strutted off full of attitude. Always felt a bit sorry for him as a player, must be tough leading the line on your own in a sh*t team run by clueless jokers.

I nearly skirted over this without a second thought but f*ck me, we finally agree on something!! I always knew we had the pontential to be good mates. I've just found you and added you on facebook and wondered if you wanted to start hanging out together. You could bring your guitar round and we could strum along to Kasbian tunes with gay abandon and i'll sign up to your club and we an go ghost hunting together, no trying to trap me in dingy rooms and try your luck though you naughty boy!! Now where do i sign up for it?

I've been thinking about this today and i agree. With Romsey, Winchester and Eastleigh near, Cortese investing, the new kit, season ticket installment plans returning, no fans boycott this time round, being on the up, no Rupert Lowe, Chelsea now getting 40,000 after getting 10,000 in 1984, Wolves expanding, West Ham moving to a new ground, Sunderland getting good crowds despite being being smaller city than us, Liverpool only being 4 times bigger than Southampton and having 3 clubs in the area all these factors coupled with them saying man would never climb everest, lead me to think you are not mental but that there is every chance we could get 45,000 every week if we were in the premier league.

Torres has lost it, give me Villa everday of the week.

I'd agree with you on your assessment there bessie. Dont forget Connolly as well, if he can stay fit would be a good squad player. We definitely need a bit of pace up front and feel we missed a trick with Tyson.

Careful pal, only one post left. What a wierdo, using up all your posts on me. I'd be flattered if it wasn't so odd.

Obsessive? Sounds like you you wierdo, commenting on pretty much every post i make. Get over it.

i dont buy the Pearson was the new Ferguson which some on here do, but he inherited an awful team who were in a massive decline at a club in termoil off the pitch. I dont believe he was the miracle worker some do but under the circumstances i think he did a decent job and he certainly addressed the flaws in the team at centre half, we were much more difficult to beat under him.

How do you know? How do you know there wasn't better? I dont either for a fact of course, but do you seriously believe there wasn't a good championship level centre half available on a free or low transfer fee who would want sub £10k a week? I'm not talking about a world beater, just a decent pro. Of course we brought in Christian Daily in late September when Burley had sobered up enough to realise what most fans knew, that Makin was not a centre half and Bennett belonged at Wycombe where he ended up.

Lets just hope we get one of them FFS.

Of course the team was weakened by the loss of Bale, Jones etc. That season midtable was more realistic, but it was blindingly obvious through the previous season and the summer we need a big strong centre half. The money was there because we spent £1m on Saganowski and Safri, and then later £1m on Andrew Davies and £14k a week contract to Euell, et Burley failed to address it, something Pearson did immediately by signing Lucketti and Chris Perry, same budget....

Yet he signed Safri & Saganowski for almost £1m between them and Jason Euell on £14k a week. You cant tell me there wan't a free agent centre half available that would want half that.....

Okay i stand corrected on where we were in the spending tables. Regardless, £7m is a f*ck lot of cash in 2006/07 championship. The money he had spent and the players he signed should have done better than scraping sixth place on the last day of the season.

Yes he did but the we started the season with Makin and Alan Bennett as our central defensive patnership when an idiot could see not just that season but the season before we needed a comanding centre half.

He signed good players, but for whatever reason they never performed consistantly as well as they should have.

and spent more than any other manager that season. I was delighted when we got him, though he was a great manager. The side was good enough to go up automatically but Burley just talked all season about getting in the top 6, we scraped in when we should have at least made a good shot at top 2. Then in his following season he ignorned the fact we were crying out for a decent centre half and just signed midfielders FFS.

Is probably one of the greatest quotes in football history "Dixon and Speedie will score more goals than Alan Shearer this season" Shearer got 30 odd and Dixon and Speedie got one between them. Shame, i was a big Kerry Dixon fan as a kid when he was at Chelsea,but they were awful for us. Inigo Idiakez was a big let down for me, saw him at Derby and thought he looked a quality player, was pleased when we signed him but he was awful for us. Ones from the past, Scott Marshall, highly rated centre half signed from Arsenal, after his debut was clear why he'd never played for them. Stuart Ripley, simply awful and a tossser to go with it

I'd love to see Haye win, but if he does it'd going to have to be early. The longer it goes on the longer i can see Klitchko keeping him off with his jab, Haye getting frustrated and opening up and kitchko picking him off. Think it's going to be the fight of the year and hoping for a Haye win, but my money is on Klichko in the 8th.

What? I dont understand, how can this be when we are the most attractive club outside of the top 4 clubs in England, can get crowds of 45,000 every week and they said man would never climb everest?

Seriously you clowns, is there nothing more important in your lives than this? If you dont like the beer dont buy one, you aren't there to drink FFS.