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does that really matter? How many kids leave home at 18 to go to university and never return to their home area? In any case you can be in Coventry in 2 1/2-3 hours from Southampton on a clear run anyway. Maddison would already have known Ward-Prowse, Target, Redmond and Stephens from England U21s so it's not like he's moving thousands of miles away to play with a bunch of strangers. The fact of the matter is Leicester are a considerably more attractive option to us at the moment and they are spending but doing it wisely. Not many better centre back pairings outside the top 6 than Macguire and Evans for example and they cost around the same as we spent on Hoedt and Bednarek.

Agreed. We've always done better with those sort of players and as Shurlock says if you can perform over a 46 game season then mentally and physically you don't need to adapt too much. He would be a great signing.

Good to se Les exerting his influence on the transfer committee again. After two years of foreign managers wanting to bring in the likes of Carillo, Boufal and Pied its refreshing to see Les flexing his muscles again, working closely with our manager to being in young British talent. Well done Les.

R - Reed. Done so much for the club. Absolute legend. Back to back promotions, a cup final, 2 European campaigns and 4 consecutive top 8 finishes. He’s brought some of the finest players ever to play this club through the doors and made the club huge amounts of money. Without question the greatest director of football in premier league history.

Don't forget the mysterious list of managers we are constantly tracking, which is constantly updated and only Reed has access to. AKA, the currently list of unemployed managers.

Bas Dost William Carvalho Rui Patricio Gelson Martins Bruno Ferandes all available on frees after terminating their contacts with Sporting Lisbon!

2 series - why? BMW seem to be trying to solve a need that isn't there, really don't see the attraction. merc C Class - had one - it was awful. Like driving a tank, sluggish pulling out of junctions, poorly equipped inside. BMW One series - The best of a pretty woeful 3, decent enough but pretty dull and uninspiring. If you aren't bothered about owning a car then lease, provided you're not to fussed about what you get. You can get some amazingly good deals leasing, a lot of the guys at out work use nationwide vehicle contracts. If you're looking at a c class then you might as well pay the extra £50-£75 or so a month and upgrade to a E class coupe, far superior car, as I mentioned, I wasn't impressed by the C Class I had. Pluses of leasing, it's a brand new car, you wont be stung be depreciation, and you don't have to worry if anything goes wrong with it. Minuses you'll never own it, you're essentially renting it. Be realistic about your mileage and be aware that you If you scuff up the alloys or get any dents or scratches then you could be liable for the cost when you hand it back. I'm seriously considering leasing next as I can get a decent car allowance from work so it doesn't cost me any money out of my salary, in fact if I get a decent enough deal i'll actually make a couple of hundred quid a month. However I've would always say the best thing you can do in terms of cost effective which is depending on your mileage is get a 4 loan out and buy a car 2-3 years old. It's already done the bulk of it's deprecation by then and if you're mileage is low enough (c10k per year or below) in 3 years time it will only have depreciated by another 20-25% of what you paid for it, meaning you'll be better off in your pocket. My current car is an A5, brilliant car, great drive, looks good, quick for it's size, very comfortable. New price c£38k, can pick one up now 2 years old with lower mileage than mine has for C£22k. Add another 30k miles on you'll still be able to get £13-£16k for it. Clear off the remainder of the loan and you'll have about £8k left over to put down on your next one. Bingo. One more tip, if you want to remain single carry on only worrying about getting golf clubs in the back of your motor, if you want to get a laid then try not to play so much, I don't mind a bit of golf now and again but most people who play a lot are incredibly dull people, who spend far too much time playing it and even more time boring everyone about it FFS. the only hole a 29 year old single lad should be thinking about putting into is the available ones on the courses on a Saturday night, there is plenty of time to clear off for the day with your golf pals when you're married with kids.

Your second last paragraph hits the nail on the head. In the 90s and 00s a day out was interrupted then ruined by the football. From 09-16 you had a good day out and enjoyed the game. Now we’ve reverted back to type. The major difference is now clubs are only interested in TV figures or fans who will turn up politely clap whatever the score, will buy stuff in the shop and feed their chubby little faces with as much horrific food as they can stuff in it. There really isn’t any point going to premier league games, as someone else said it’s a league of 6 Harlem globetrotters and 14 Washington generals. We are on of the teams served up as lambs to slaughter for the fawning tv audience. If you dare to defy them then be prepared to feel the wrath of Crooks, Redknapp, Murphy or any other ***** paid a fortune to tell us how great the self titled greatest league in the world is.

The problem we have like in 2005 is we’re paying a hell of a lot of money to players either not good enough or not delivering Stephens is supposed to be on £48k a week i know he’s over rated on here but no way should be in our best starting 11 Target 2nd choice left back also meant to be on £48k a week Long - c£60k how much does that work out per goal? Austin £70k a week and only fit for half a season Boufal, Carrillo, Forster, all probably +£50k a week and not starters You’ve got the best part of £500k a week in wages there for players who either aren’t starting regularly or shouldn’t be.

I remember when people used to say that about Papa Waigo and Tanadari Lee.

Absolute bargain that. The sort of player we need. Can’t believe we weren’t interested.

People forget that we’ve got world class Goalkeeping coach Dave Watson to get the best out of Hart. Look at what he’s down for Alex McCarthy. In 19 games Turned him from a figure of fun to the new Peter Shilton.

One of my funniest memories was Swindon away that season. It was about our 3rd or 4th game. We took about 3,500 filled the away end, lost 1-0 and were absolutely dreadful. I came away thinking we might actually be relegated again in L2. I remember the whole away end almost laughing at how sh*te we were and everyone singing make a sub at pardew doing the gesture physios make to the bench when a player is Injured

83/84. Must have been amazing for those old enough to have been there. The win at Fratton Park, 2nd place in the league, heartbreak at Highbury. I was only a kid but that was the season I got into football and with saints challenging for trophies with a great team i thought it’s always be like that....... 89/90 for me is the best one in my real memory though. A brilliant attacking team scoring loads of goals. le Tissier, Rod Wallace and Shearer up front with Rideout at times playing 4-2-4. We seemed to score 4 goals regularly then. 4-1 win v Liverpool the highlight, Le Tissiers hatrick in the 4-1 v Norwich was special.

I can only imagine the scenes at the first meeting as the there elected saints voice members passionately debate the best position for club branded mugs in the mega store with the club representatives.

It’s got better. I really struggled to follow England when it contained the likes of Terry, Ferdinand, lampard, Cole etc many of which admitted later on that they let other factors influence their performances for England, it’s almost like it wasn’t obvious. But I do agree with Griffo that it’s odd anyone who isn’t bothered by the World Cup. I can only ever remember one occasion when I’ve not been bothered by an England loss, that was when Italy knocked us out on penalties a few years back. We’d some how managed to keep the score to 0-0 despite them absolutely murdering us, we were so outclassed it would have been embarrassing to win on pens. I like gareth Southgate a lot, see him a lot in my local gym. He’s a great guy and deserves some success. He’s at least made up play a more modern game unlike the Hodgson inspire dross before him. The players now seem to care for England as well. I’d take saints winning anything over England any day but still find it wierd any football fan who says they don’t care, friendlies perhaps but the big tournaments, seriously?

Forget the squad. Your biggest challenge this tournament is to stop your son logging onto your lap top posting on here pretending you be you when you nip to the kitchen for another multi pack of monster munch sunshine.

In surprised no one has mentioned the arrest and jailing of Tommy Robinson. Whatever you might think of him as an individual what do all you lovely people make of a man being jailed for reporting on the rape of young girls by grooming gangs?

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Jealousy mate. If you’re ITK they hate it. They don’t like anyone who knows more than them, they’re desperate to shoot you down. This place is like a pack of hyenas, they’ve driven many other ITKs off here. Don’t let them win mate some of us appreciate your posts and snippets you provide. We aren’t all bitter and jealous.äll

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/liverpool-supporters-union-spirit-shankly-12521110 “European cup finals are special, we remember them by name of the city they are in and the stand out things that happened. Istanbul and the comeback, Paris and Barneys chip, Rome and Bruce’s spaghetti legs, Brussels and the disgraceful behaviour of our fans which directly led to the death of innocent Italians” Oh wait they didn’t mention the last one. It’s like it never happened. Even if it did it wasn’t their fault anyway, it was the police, the stadium, the authorities, the BNP! How anyone can ever support that vile club and it’s vile fans in any game is beyond me.

Maybe it doesn't have a bottomless pit and some players will go. But I fail to believe a club that has racked in a profit from transfers for the last 4 seasons, has had record income from TV money and only 4 months ago sold a player for a world record fee, whilst recording tens of millions of pounds of profit last accounts hasn't got a least a few quid to spend without having to sell first. You say the van Dijk money sent just sitting in the bank,there are instalment payments, agents fees, managers to pay up, running costs etc, but guess what? Every other club has those as well. Every club pays transfer fees in installments, why are we any different? I simply dont buy this BS any more, you can only blame Corteses over spending for so long. We recorded huge profits last year whilst the club got away with relegation. They seriously need to back Hughes or whoever comes in, the squad needs and injection of quality and experience and I don't believe the money isn't there to do it, maybe the desire is though.

He works for Football Manager FFS. If you think people who play it have no grip on reality imagine how bad it is for someone actually involved in the damn game.

This ain’t what you used to say. You used to say we were the most attractive club for anyone outside of the top 4 back in our league one days! I remember when you would argue until the cows come home that we were a bigger club than Everton with more match going fans, that very soon we’d be playing with a team full of superstars mixed with academy graduates in our newly expanded 50,000 capacity stadium And anyone who said other had, what was it again? Oh that’s it, such a Dell sized mentality Matthew!

And not a word on the five pledges!