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he'll have his hands full with Dickson and Lallana. We are on a great run at home and they seem to be in a little dip at the moment, i fancy us to win 2-1.

a chancer who has been succesful at every club he has been at bar One, The one being a club where he wasn't allowed to manage his way. Conicidence? Surely not.

You say it like being in the champions league is a bad thing. Leeds were incredibly badly run, gambling fortune they didn't have. Spurs by comparison have not spent that muchOr maybe because he really believes as do i, with a couple more players, ie a decent centre half and a top class striker they can win the league this or next season. the Premier league may be weaker than it has been since the mid ninties but you can only beat what is in front of you. It is a massive achievement to take a club from bottom of the Premier League to the Champions league in less than two season. Martin O'Neill couldn't do it in 4 years at Villa. I would also guess that Spurs will make more from the Champions league this season, should they get to the knock out stages, than they have spent in transfer fees under HR this season.

this thread sums uo the football knowledge of the majority of this board. Turning their nose up at Robert Pires FFS!

Into the champions league it would seem.......

taking Spurs from bottom to the champions league in less than two seasons??? I am no bigger fan of him than anyone, i dont like the bloke, but the myth that he spends fortunes and leaves clubs skint is nonsense and not backed up by facts. These stats make interesting reading and disprove the myth. People just need to get over it and accept that he is bloody good manager who failed here because of Lowe.... "Between 1994 and 2001 at West Ham, he signed 58 players for the Hammers, spending £52.09 million, bringing £77.01 million into the club." "In just two years at Fratton Park, 'Arry signed 41 players for £7.65 million and sold 41 players for £5.4 million." (first spell in charge) At Saints - "In just one season at the club he signed eight players for £2.57 million, but sold 18 players for £16 million as he began a clear out at the club." Second stint at Pompey -"It is worth noting that although Redknapp's time in charge of Portsmouth ended in a deficit of some £40 million, the club has since gone on to sell many of the players he signed while he was there, giving the club a staggering £103,940,000 million in sales in just three years. A massive profit of around £30 million for the struggling club." "look at his transfer record over his 26 years as a boss you find that he has spent £208.23 million and recouped £230.37 million A quick comparison with Rafael Benitez has the Liverpool manager spending £210 million since 2004 and only accruing £125 million in the same period. While in almost 24 years at Old Trafford, Alex Ferguson has spent £392.44 million on 89 players and made some £244 million by selling 216 players in that same time" Taken from this article http://bleacherreport.com/articles/368365-harry-redknapp-transfer-history-1984-to-2010-best-record-in-football

Lets bloody well hope not! Not saying MS is a bad player, he is a very good player, but as a pair in central midfield Chaplow and Hammond looked much better. Both holding and breaking forward and seemed to have a good understanding. Do you think MS would have gone down the right wing like Hammond did and put in that cross or would have been on the edge of the six yard box to stick it in the net? I cant ever remember him doing anything like that. I suppose its that case of the best players dont always make the best teams. And the other thing is MS is still only 21 i think, very rare for a CM player to be at his best at such a young age.

he did, played really well today. DIdn't really get any chances to score though.

nice ground though, they will fill it. Brighton could potentially be a big club. Similar sized city to Southampton with a huge catchment area. I think they'll get crowds bigger than Pompeys, now that would be funny, the third biggest South coast club.

so why is that at every game since Pompeys promotion and the first games against them in 2003 there was hardly any trouble at SMS, certainly nothing like the scenes outside SMS at the last one, and the Pompey fans have been kept in. Yet the one game they let them out at the same time there is? This cant just be coincidence. At none of these other games were there tales of lone Portsmouth fans being picked off as they went to their cars, large groups of saints fans lurking in alley ways looking for Pompey fans too attack or Saints fans rioting with the police.

I didn't got last week mate so cant comment on his performance. He's not been as bad as most make out on here, okay, not been as good as last season but then none of them have. Morgan is undoubtedly a better technical player than both Caplow and Hammond and probably a classic for one of those that would be better off playing at a higher level, but not cut out for league one. As a pair Chaplow and Hammond were much better, taking it in turns to hold or break and both full of running, breaking their play up well.

I thought he was MOM today although Caplow also deserved it. Those two in midfield together are so much better than MS. Football wise MS is probably a better player but with Hammond and Chaplow there is so much drive and energy. Breaking play up and giving it to players that can play, thought they were both superb today. ON another note, Holmes looked useful when he came on, maybe Pucheon is not the massive loss many predicted.

can someone transcribe or give us the jist of it. For those too poor or tight to join saints player.

I agree, Steve Williams was my favourite player as a kid, a brilliant midfielder and like you say, left us to play for his favourite club. How anyone can "hate" a player that broke into the team at 17 years old and gave us 7 or 8 good years and has his best period as a player with us is beyond me.

it didn't. Would the 70 year old skate that got a rock on his cannsiter agree that it was right to let him leave at the same time? Or would he have prefered to have been kept in the ground for 30 minutes then let out into empty streets?

no you are not alone, If the away fans are still inside the ground, not spilling out in the streets giving it large, then there is nothing to attack. End of. Dunes idealistic view that everyone comes out together and anyone that feels slightly intimated zips up their jacket and goes on their merry way is naive to say the least. As you will see from my posts above, i am in your camp Darren and in the camp of common sense and totally agree with your column in the pink last week, letting fans with a history of ill felling and who hate each other confront each other, with or without a flimsey fence inbetween minutes after a 1-4 home defeat is insanitiy. Yet it seems that their tactics have not even been questioned by the clueless majority. Even the echo when printing a report about the 5 lads aquitted headlined it with a "police praised" headline. Lets face it "police f*cked up" is not something they would be happy to publicise, given the fact that the echo had salivated over every word they had printed in this case.

I agree mate, but it seems he has his critics on here, unwarranted IMO. He was superb today, just want to see what the clueless majority have to say,

went down friday to get my ticket, said they are expecting the biggest crowd of the season, will be a cracking atmosphere if we can genereate on. Brighton travel well and will make a din, lets hope we can get behind the lads and get a win. Could close the gap to 5 points with a win, Brighton seem to be in a sticky patch at the moment, lost last saturday, draw today and need pens to beat Woking, they are there for the taking!

use the money you saved to buy you nipper a tshirt you tight f*cker.

what do you have to say about today? Superb performance, absolutely dominated midfield along with Chaplow, an all action performance. Chaplow and Hammond are a much better pair than Schneiderlin +1. Both CM'ders absolutely superb today, dominated midfield from kick off and the reason we won so well. Maybe some of you clowns saying Hammond doesn't do this that and the other and is not as good as Steven Gerrard will have a rethink today, divs. On another note, Fonte, superb. Why was Barnard taken off? Again! Played really well.

Indeed, these ones that talk endlessly about soap operas and Ex-Factor. The Loose women generation. Lives so unfullfilled they spend all their time talking about and judging other people or talking about other peoples lives on reality TV shows and made up programmes.

and GLamorgan Police, away fans locked in then escorted to the M4 at the recent Swans v Cardiff game. NO trouble at that one funnily enough.

and missing an open goal from 2 yards away at WBA. To be fair to him he is another one that had his best games for us when he didn't play. People slagged him off when he was on the pitch but moaned about how much we missed him during that ban.

Yep i remember that too, was whinging for his whole first season though, got 22 goals in his first season and got a bit big time, moaning about his contract saying he wanted to go to a bigger club then ended up at QPR.