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It all depends on which team they are going to watch and support. If i go, undecided yet as it will bring out all the part timers and mongs, then i will be going to watch Southampton. It'll be interesting to see the crowd for this one. My one big hope is that rather than the embarassing "Liverpool" Chants to the Utd fans last time the 20k regualars that will be at SMS, sing to the 10k part timers in the home end "You only came to see Utd"

do you think there will be a purchasing restriction. Obvously STH's first but what about people like me? I am a loyal saints fan but due to work, money and 48 family funerals, birthdays and Barmitzvahs i couldn't afford to go this season or to the Charlton game originally on that day but now we have Man Utd i have managed to find £30 from somewhere, do you think i'll get a ticket?

Very good.

Exactly my point, i'd love us to sign a player or two better than what we have. Unless it's someone that is going to improve the first XI then it really will be signing players for the sake of it. THere is no need for all these cover plays some are obsessed with.

Read my comments above, no squad is perfect. I have answered your questions in repsonse to Alpine in thread numbers 53 and 70 on this thread.

People need to get over it, Antonio is not coming back, Chamerlain is twice the player he is anyway and Gully is proving the same with Waigo.

Modern football crowds just reflect the average modern British man, gone soft and metrosexual.

His loan doesn't end until the end of the month, in true Saints style we will probably announce it at the last possible moment. Plus there is all sorts of issues such as visas and work permits that take time to sort out.

a interesting comment from Daily Echos Simon Carter in his article in todays Pink about the Saints squad. The starting line against Exeter contained 5 £1m players. 4 signed by Saints in Fonte, Lambert, Schniderlin & Davis and Chaplow signed by WBA not long ago for £1.5m, add Lallana and Chamerlain and you have a side on paper as good as any in third division history. Kind of puts it into perspective. Another point of note is that we made 8 changes from the side that beat Dagenham and Redbridge we won comfortably. In effect yesterday was our squad players v a premier leagues side squad players.

There is no point getting into an arguement about it, something i have done. Alpines opinons are based on nothing more than perception and reading what other people say. I LOLed just now reading his comments on the Schniderlin thread about not being able to make up his mind about him and Chaplow adds more to the team. Based on what?! How does he know?! Has he seen them play? Or is it just on what Saints player and this forum tells him? I just dont understand how someone can have such blinkered, arrogant and vociferious views on something they know nothing about first hand. On another note, 90% of people on this thread seem to agree that we dont need to sign all these new "cover" players and i think i am correct in assuming a high percentage of these will have seen the team this season. yet the one who is so aggessive and vocal in his claims that we need all these new players and trying to shout other down wont have seen the team this season. Based on this simple factor I think we all know who is talking b******.

both of them.

Well thats good then, seeing as how he isn't be used as a target man.

No, no, i do it get it. Man Utd, Rooney gets injured, what then? Chelsea, Drogba gets injured what then? Barcelona, Villa gets injured what then? Injures can happen, thats football. These clubs dont have poorer like for like replacements sitting around waiting for someone to get injured and collection a big wage. They'll adapt their system to suit the players. Having a bloated squad full of "cover" players is not the answer. Having other formations, 4-5-1, todays 4-3-1-2 to compesate for injuries and suspensions is. What would you rather a smaller squad of 20-25 good players, or 35 average ones? Adkins has said he will sign players better than we have, not just for the sake of it, which i whole heartedly agree with. No point signing a player of the standard we need to sit on the bench in case someone gets injured. It seems we wont be having the old policy of "one for the squad" like we did in Lowes day with 35 average pros and we all know where that got us dont we, or perhaps you'd like a return to those days,?a massive squad low on quality. Or prehaps we might be better following the transfer policy of successful clubs who do sign players better than what they have to continue to progress, although maybe you know better than Fergusson, Guardiola etc? And your doubts about the team are based on what? What is your first hand experience of seeing the squad in action to form this opinion (which you bleat on about in every transfer window) that strengthening is essential or promotion will not happen?

Every club in the world needs to strengthen, Barcelona, Real Madrid, Man Utd, Chelsea etc will all look to strengthen all the time. It doesn't mean that Barcelona aren't good enough to win the champion league now, it means that teams are always evolving, developing improving, there is no such thing as the perfect squad. In the same way we are good enough to win L1 now with the squad. So yes we do need to strengthen but if we dont right now it's not a disaster as what we have is good enough to win promotion. Is that clear enough for you? I know it's been a tough few weeks for you what with us winning 4 in a row and signing our best player up on a 4 year deal.

At the end of the day Adrian, there is no point getting wound up by it, because Alpines opinion is irelevant. He bases his opinions on match commentries and what he reads on here. He has zero fist hand knowledge of any of our players, team or performances, in fact i do wonder when the last time he saw us play live was and indeed if he has ever seen any of our players play. I find it wierd that someone with so little first hand knowledge of the subjects he constantly discusses has such strong views but despite his vocifirous and arrogant views and postings his view means f*ck all as it is all entirely based on perception and heresay not any solid personally gained knowledge, therefore IMO, his comments mean nothing.

How do you know? When was the last time you saw the team play? How can you have a balanced & realistic view on something you have never seen? Also there is no such thing as buying plays makes the title a nail on certainty. Just ask Chelsea when they sign Shevckenko and Ballack and Man City now.

I dont recall, i dont remember every post, especially not ones from 5 months ago. I do remember your constant bleating for us to sign back up for him though, appears we aren't doing to badly so far without it and with him not being on form or fit most of this season.

Not it isn't and no one said it wasn't. However we are 2nd (might be 3rd now) with him out of form, just think where we will be when he hits top form again.

it is good to have another formation other than 4-4-2 the players look good in. "the hole" has long be said to be Lallanas best position and looking at Gully think probably his as well, so why not use our best player in his best position, particularly as he is now ours for another 4 1/2 years.

Bang on mate. It is a fact that every club in the world needs to strengthen, no manager will ever think he has the perfect squad and it cant be improved, if one does then he should be sacked for being so complacent. You are spot on with what you say though, if we dont go up he can say "i told you so" if we do he can say as you said "it would have been easier if we'd strengthed" So yes we do need to strengthen, like any club in the world, but our squad now is easily good enough for promotion. Anyone that knows anything about football can see that.

Quite possibly the gayist thing i've ever seen in a football ground.

I cant believe you are being so arrogant. :lol:

Shhhh, it's not allowed for Alpine to be wrong.

i am amazed so many "supporters" want us to lose.

They are going to be in for a shock, can't see his being the messiah, poor team, been out of the game for 10 years or so and not great in his last job, he did well there 20 years ago as a manager but so did Ron Atkinson at Villa, dont see their fans demanding his return.