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But its not Burleys fault he was given money to spend! Blame the board for that, ANY manager, will want to improve the team, buy what they think are better players. You can criticise who he bought but you cant blame him for spending the money that the board authorised him to spend. Like it or not we were very close to a PL return, knocked out on penalties to the team that went on and went up with Leon Best scoring the most spectacularly ridiculous own goal you'll ever see.

OKay, thanks for the pedantacism (is that a real word) he didn't pick the team that night, i know, even if he did you could hardly blame him for the shambolic performance given he had only been there a day, which is one of the worst i can remember. However it was still his first game as manager. The point is we were awful and Pearson improved us.

I'm not saying Pearson didn't do a good job, i remember well his first game against Plymouth, lost 0-2, could and should have been 0-6, we were woeful. But overall Burley didn't do as bad a job as everyone makes out, he didn't spend the money, he told the board the players he wanted and then the board transact the deal, its not his fault we we got in debt every manager worth their salt will always want to improve the team and spend money made available. The players we had that season Surman, John, Safri, Skacel, etc should never have been in a relegation battle and under Burley they weren't, they were midtable. Add to Burleys record taking a relatively small provincial club like Ipswich to a fifth place premier league finish and Europe, 4 (?) play offs, an average scottish PL team to top of the table when he left, no he hasn't won anything, but not may do.

He wasn't that bad!!! When he left we were midtable, by the end of the season we only stayed up with a win on the last day and the season and Pearson was branded a hero by some for that, season before one kick away from a play off final. Give any manager money and he'll spend it, he only identified the players the chairman agrees the contracts, Ewells bonuses FFS!!! WIth the boardroom battles going on at the time i think any manager would struggle in those circumstances.

You get too worked up Stu, i was going to get a season ticket this season, as there is no installment plan i'm not, i'll just buy per game, as i have done for the last few years, makes no odds to me either way, i'll still go to games. In some ways it better not to have a season ticket, you can sit where you want, if you cant be arsed to go then you do feel obliged you go because you have allready shelled out for a season ticket. I think people seem to think there is some sort of status associated with having a season ticket, that it in someway makes you a better fan and they have to have one, like they have to have a new kit not only that but have to have it on the day it comes out, then announce it to the world on here, that they queued from 6.30, did this that and the other. How often when you ask someone if they are a Saints fan do they reply 'yeah, season ticket holder' when a simple 'yes' would do? You have a choice to go to games or not, if it doesn't suit you or think you are being fleeced, dont go. Its not like fukcing council tax which IS a rip off but you've got no choice but to pay it.

I dont agree, for once the club and I it seems shares the view that i have held for a long time that what goes on on the pitch is more important than anything else. More important than burgers, pies, beer, radio stations, half time entertainment and pandering to the whim of every one that will always find something to moan about. Decent players, playing decent football and actually showing abit of ambition and try to win something, if we have to pay a bit more for a bit of quality then i am all for it, thats why i buy my clothes at Sakks and not primark.

working- what i have been doing to be unable to reply to the above, which by no coincidence at all, not what Jelle Van Damme is doing, as he is on a mid season break.

U - upset, what Dave Benson Phillips seems to be with the continiation of the tenuos A-Z threads

S - Stampdee, what Jele Van Damme would be caught up in if he was in the serengeti when a herd of angry elephants all ran towards him.

N - Numb, what Jeele Van Dammes mouth would be shortly after a trip to the dentists for minor dental surgery.

M - Multichannel - what Sky package Jelle Van DAmme probably has.

Kryptonite - what Jelle Van Damme would have a weakness too if he was born on planet Krypton and was sent to earth by his parents in a small spaceship earth when the planet was destroyed.

jam- possibly jelle Van Dammes favourite topping for topping for his toast or alternatively one of his two favourite bands, which contain Paul Weller singing and song writing.

I - Irked, What Jelle Van Damme would be if he went camping for the weekend and was trying to get to sleep and a fly or wasp got stuck in his tent, he couldn't find it due to the dark and the buzzing kept him awake all night.

H - Hilucinations- What Jelle Van Damme would have if he took acid or any other hilucinagenic drug.

Cholystrol - What Jelle VAn Damme would have a high amount of if he started eating lots of burgers and chips and stopped excercising.

Bleed - what Jelle Van Damme would do if he acidently nicked his finger with the garden shears whilst cutting his hedge.

I'll start us off- Aprehensive- What Jelle Van Damme might have been as a small child when he was learning to swim and he got in the water for the first time with no arm bands on.

HOw about all dressing normally and sensibly and trying to be crazy?

Some might call it disrepect, i'd call it realism.

I am playing Football manager at the moment, i'm in 2017 and Dickson plays for MK Dons in league one and is valued at £12k so obviously ****. Interestingly he signed for Saints in 2011 on a free. I am a bit concearned that he has not played above League One standard on FM so cant be that good and surely only a stop gap. By comparison Dan Harding plays his whole career in the CCC and is still going strong now, in the CCC for Southend. I'm really worried that we have signed Dickson now :smt009

I wondered how long it would be before someone started going on about Davis for England. I'd also add to this Harding must be considered for left back berth now Bridge has retired from international football and i think Hammond could play the holding role with Lampard or Gerrard and from what i have seen Milner is no better than Llanna so maybe he could play down the left? If we signed a few more English players we could be the first club to provide all 11 starting players to the national team for Euro 2012. What an achievement that would be.

and wigs. Although that would be the crazy ones...

yep, thats right, i form all my opinions based on what i see and hear in the media, especially what they say in the Sun and News of the world.

Rather than using tall thin manakins to parade them on, I dont understand why they dont use manikins which are an accurate reflection of the average football shirt wearer. Slightly sad and geeky looking, about 3 stone over weight with a massive gut and have a hot dog in one hand and a pint in the other, that'll give a more realistic feel as to what it'll actually look like on.