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where it matters on the pitch. In two seasons in the league P92 w51 D22 L19. One promotion and one trophy in the cabinet. Surely the best record of any chairman in our history. You can say all you like about lack of information from the club, delays in season ticket sales etc his record on the pitch is impressive at any level. Won over 50% of games and lost 20%, this whilst we have rebuilt a squad, a first team, a management structure. the club is unrecognisable from the one he took control of less than 2 years ago. We have an amazing chairman who is delivering on and off the pitch.

To be fair, anyone that posts a "Is life really all that" thread On New Years eve is asking for it.

Stop fretting you bunch of mugs. It's over 2 months until the season starts FFS!!! Why are you all so desperate to part with your hard earned?!! Would you join a new gym and then tell them you want to pay for it all upfront but dont want to use it for 2 1/2 months FFS!!! Chill out, enjoy the summer, get some other interests FFS!!!

Thank god he is our manager and not Pearson then. I bet Cortese has the highest win % of any of our chairmen. come on Nicky, check it out lad League games only, P96, W51, pretty impressive at any level FFS.

I thought it'd be cricket actually. I hope you're not expecting him to read this Jamie, he only uses the lounge, no need to use a football board on a football forum.

I support the new Barcelona.

he won less than 25% of his games with Saints, that's shocking at any level.

I got a two week ban after recieving numerous infraction points for pointless comments, if that is the case 90% of the posts on this forum should incur infraction points. However, this also coincided with a forum pussy, who will remain nameless, crying to admin about upseting him when he dished out abuse but couldn't take it. At the time when Baj wanted to flex his cyber muscles and show who is boss, i think we all know Baj runs this site and is the godfather of it, cross him you'll get a cyber bullet between the eyes. I wouldn't say i was one of the top 10 whipping boys though. Dune gets it more than most, he is often tag teamed by the forum superstars on here because he has an opinion which differs to theirs. The abuse he gets ranges from the quite brilliantly hilarious and ingenious play on user name insults such as "June" and "Dunce" to other more sinister things. His forum nemisis preach tolerance and freedom of speech as long as it's what they believe in. He is the main whipping boy on this forum sadly, as i like a lot of his posts and if we had a more opened minded forum they would provide some interesting debate rather than the usual Dune bashing which they lower themselves to.

the fact that you life revolves around what 11 men do on a saturday afternoon suggests that it'll take more than simply next season coming for you to get it back.

No, it's what Mickey said to Rocky Balboa in Rocky 2 when he taught him to fight right handed in order to beat Apollo Creed, "What's cant? there aint no cant" Look what happened then. We are at the beginings of learning to fight right handed, ie do something different to challenge the worlds elite. If a street fighter from Phillidelphia can win the world heavyweight boxing title, why cant a middle sized English club win the Champions League? There aint no cant.

I feel we can match Barcelona for architecture & nightlife. They may have the Sagrda Familia, which they haven't even bothered finish yet, compare that to the bargate and the City wall and all the history that goes with it, i know which one i find more interesting. I've been to Barcelona serveral times and the nightlife in the Ramblers and the Sea Front is not a patch on Bedford Place on a busy night. The Pensioners, Revolutions, the Rhino, all quality places and better than anything Barcelona can offer. Plus if its your bag, we have in Poletrix one of the best strip joints in the world. What with West quay shopping and the developments around Guildhall Square, Southampton is very much a city on the up, lively and vibrant whereas i feel Barcelona hasn't really progressed in the 10 years or so between my visits.

so surely that should tell you Antonio worshippers something.

If it's good enough for the Italian Stalion, it's good enough for us.

Indeed, he'd never what to join a club where he couldn't get first team football behind Owen and Ricky "better than Torres" Lambert.

People have suggested we need speed to stand a chance of promotion. Chicken chasing was how they did it in the old days, t'is an ITK fact that if you can catch a chicken you can catch lightening. Chicken chasing could become an important part of the developement of our academy, as well as providing the players with fresh free range chicken raised inhouse to have at lunch times. The only player exempt from chicken chasing is Jonno Quick, as it's quite clear from Niges words that this would be no challenge to him. There aint no cant.

Clarke Pilkington Rhodes I wanted Hudderfield to win but i just remembered after the game the up there when i was on the train back to Leeds and some know it all mug who i nearly sparked out giving it large. I thought i'd be friendly and said to him i thought they'd played well today and looked a good side and he went off on one about what a great team Hudderfield are, much better than us, they are going to win the league, Barnard is getting sent down etc etc. Shame the cameras didn't show him. Clown.

attitude + aptitude = altitude Um. Just remember in 1976 an unknown Italian American was given a shot at the world heavyweight title of the world against the unbeaten champion, although he lost on points the first time he dusted himself off and adopted a new tactic and changed everything, he learnt to fight right handed and went onto win the title in a stunning upset. The similarities between us and Rocky Balboa are there for all to see. An underdog, Italian links and on a journey to greatness after being given a shot most can only dream of. Remember in Rocky 2 when Rocky said that he couldn't learn to fight right handed, Micky responded, "what's cant? There aint no cant" I think our super chairman should pin that to the wall of every changing room, toilet, office and cupboard in St Marys. We are the Rocky Balboa of the football world.

I really hope this isn't true. Berbatov is slow, lazy and has an atitude. The new Barcelona dont want players like this, we could do better and should be aiming higher than this has been.

I believe i can fly. If Saints believe they can fly and Cortese clearly does there is no telling where we might end up.

that's not one word. So you argument is already flawed. Why not? Our super chairmans has a vision. Believe.

Same thing happened to me as a kid. One of the biggest in my year at 12-15 so was captain of my school and sunday side, played for Soton Schools, watched by Pompey and bizarrely Norwich. I played centre half and centre midfield was fairly good tehnically, not outstanding though but could bully my way through games due to being bigger and also being able to play a bit. Trouble was when i got to 16 and the other lads had caught up i was f*cked and the better players were now the same size and as good as if not better than me technically and i couldn't just bully my way through games anymore by intimidating opponents, so went from being one of the better players to fairly average college/saturday league player. At school the ones that played in the school team were the biggest and quickest and the smaller ones who were probably more skillful didn't get a look in. The two most used phrases at school and tyro league level were "get rid of it" and "get stuck in" that just about sums up the mentality of kids football back then, sounds like it hasn't changed much.

The thread isn't about beating them, it's about us becoming the English Barcelona. We have the best academy in England, why cant we spread out wings and have the best academy in Europe? We have a fantastic chairman with a vision, a wonderful history of developing young players and a promise of investment to create the Southampton style. We are not starting from scratch we are half way there already. And if we need to demostrate in the square against our corrupt council and Hampshire constabulary to aid our cause then i'll be the first one there waving the flag of Southampton in the faces of the clowns.

From small acorns Beatle, from small acorns.....

at the same age Lallana is better. i think he has a better football brain than Messi, who often just looks for the simple pass after he has got himself into trouble by dribbling too much. People go on about him scoring 50 odd goals this season but it's easier to score in Spain, just look at Forlan and Kanute for proof of this, they couldn't do that in England. I cant imagine Messi would score 20 goals in England like Lallana did last season. Add to this Lallana is physically stronger than Messi then i think there can only be one answer as to which player is better.

He saves to the left he saves to the right Bart Biaowkowski makes Gordon look shi*te