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You did, twice It was nice that it only took you 15 minutes to reply to me, it's almost like a klaxon goes off whenever there is a post about your pint sized hero. You do know who put that AC Milan rumour out there don't you? None other than your diminutive, Cuban heeled, chum. The king of his own PR and you saps sucked it all up.

He can't he's already got a job. After tracking him for years when he was with us he's now CEO of AC Milan Oh wait.....

I always felt that achieving 8th place under Rupert lowes leadership was a massive underachievement and not something to celebrate. At that point we were the biggest club in Britain below the imaginary line from London through Birmingham up to Liverpool and really should have tapped into our huge catchment area to grow the brand. We also had great young players like Walcott, Bale, Jones and Jake Thompson chomping at the bit to break into the first team with Brett Ormerod and Paul Telfer blocking their paths. It was also a sad time in the history of our fans as an undercurrent of racism was sweeping the terraces of st Mary's demonstrated by try shameful scenes in Cardiff with fans mocking Scottish people, a people and nation who has been subject to years of oppression by the English, by wearing ginger wigs and kilts. Thankfully it seems those dark days are behind us, on the terraces as least. All in all the 2003 season will be viewed as a dark period for out club both on and off the pitch. a lowly 8th place finish, failure to play some of the most outstanding talent this club has ever produced, failure to tsp into our huge catchment area and most of all the disgraceful behaviour of so called saints fans.

The club are better at spin than Shane Warne. The recent article on Cedric was revealing. We got all this bullsh*t all summer about Van Dijk we were being strong, wouldn't be bullied by Liverpool, weren't going to sell to them. Turns out both Cedric and Van Dijk were negotiating moves away and they got blocked as we were being sold to Gao, of course the club then sold Van Dijk to Liverpool at the earliest possible opportunity in January, they couldn't wait to get their hands on the cash. All the stuff about tapping up, making a stand all bullsH*t. You can't trust a word that comes out of them, full of bol*ocks. All they've been interested in is making money. When you've got someone whose wiki page even says one of his greatest achievements in football was signing Chris smalling for nothing and selling him for £10m you can see why he's been promoted to the height of his imcompetence

The example of Nick Griffin isn't a particularly good one. He may be a complete tool but the panel and the audience that night was so rigged and bias he never stood a chance. Every time he opened his gob someone was shouting him down not letting him get his point across. It's one thing to debate between a handful of people with different views but when it's an entire audience and panel there with the sole reason to make him look stupid then not really a great example of freedom of speech. Just to clear before I get the likes of Verbal accusing me of being a racist BNP supporter, Griffin doesn't exactly need help to make himself look stupid. As for the rivers of blood speech, of course in a democratic society it should be discussed, the problem is that as usual it'll have the lefties up in arms shouting it down, accusing anyone who makes a valid point of being racist and not actually discussing it. People are happy for freedom of speech and debate as long as it's only something they agree with.

I would say our biggest weakness is struggling to score and being easy to score against If you’ve ever wondered what happens when a moveable force meets a resistable object watch a saints attack v defence training session

I’m really enjoying seeing 4 former saints players given Man City a run around smug in the knowledge we’ve made a £40 odd million profit and retained the net spend trophy again.

Scott Marshall wins that hands down Honourable mention to Richard Dryden.

The problem with them both is that they are both young and inexperienced. They'd both be much better playing alongside an experienced player which most clubs do. It's only our mental DOF who seems to think we can build a successful team around a load of youngsters who have no top flight experience. Stephens has only been in the squad a year and Hoedt has only been a regular first team player since he joined us. We've got two young players learning the position at the same time. Centre back above anywhere else on the pitch it's all about organisation, communication and leadership, you usually have one leader of the two who organises the back four, we don't have that, we've basically got two rookies in the position. I think that partially explains the reason why Hoedt appears ponderous. As for Stephens, he's a nice footballer but a terrible defender. I'm not convinced he's a natural central midfielder either, it's one thing to look comfortable bringing the ball out of defence with everything in front of you, quite another to do that in the hustle and bustle of central midfield with challenges coming in from all directions. He could probably do a job there as a short term fix but I cant see him being a long term fixture there.

A big problem for me is the spine of our team. Completely lacking in experience. You're meant to build your team around its spine and look at ours, only Romeu has played more than 100 games in a top flight league, he's the only one who has had more than one full season as a first choice player. The others have all been squad players or in the case of Stephen not even that. McCarthy - 20 first team premier league games before this season Stephens - no where near our first team squad until last January's bungled transfer window Hoedt - squad player for Lazio before joining saints 74 first team appearances in 4 years as Lazio and AZ. Less than 20 a season Lemina - before joining saints 84 appearances over 5 years and 3 clubs, in and out of our team too Hojbjerg - in and out of our side since he joined, 56 first team games in 3 years before joining, 39 of these whilst out on loan. Romeu - 63 first team appearances before joining 40 whilst on loan, a further 86 whilst at saints so the only one to have made more than 100 top flight career appearances and had a season or more as a regular starter. Its absolute insanity that we have a spine of a team that inexperienced. We've basically got a spine of our team which is only just getting used to playing regularly let alone being the basis of a team expected to compete in the too half of the premier league. You'd expect one or two, Hoedt to play alongside a seasoned centre half for example but to have two inexperienced players alongside each other there is just mental.

Called it over 6 years ago. As was common place back then anyone who didn't worship at Corteses altar, who dared criticise anything or anyone at the club was a troll with who had an agenda :rollseyes: https://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?40914-Les-Reed-the-cushiest-job-in-the-world

Beat someone who isn't west Brom.

THe first two pages on this thread are hilarious. A reminder of better days on this forum. Whatever happened to franks cousin? Notice he hasn't posted in nearly 3 years. I know he had a few issues he was dealing with, maybe its a self imposed ban after one too many drunken tirades.

Load of nonsense. That would mean for a claimed 32,000 sell out there would be 5,400 empty seats, which is roughly the capacity of the chapel or Northam. I'm sure there are a few season ticket holders who miss every week but not an entire stand full.

A Soviet spy, an IRA supporter and a racist walk into a bar. Barman says "evening Jeremy, the usual?"

Can you buy an adults ticket on a child's membership?

Was it you who used to play women's football? I think it was when you lived in a different country, can't remember which one. I'm sure you mentioned it once or twice though.

Well if you read the link to the document I attached above it's been agreed that it does. All central fund money to go directly to Macquarie from the premier league for 2017/18 & 2018/19. The only way we will be able to cover the wage bill is by player sales, no wonder they wanted the delay the van Dijk deal until after the take over went through, we need the money to pay try bills. Source before you ask - Cedric. http://readsouthampton.com/2018/03/23/cedric-reveals-he-was-negotiating-southampton-exit/ Very worrying times.

Have a look at the attachment on the charge from 27/9/17. Page 31 appears to say we have agreed to give all premier league money directly to Macquarie bank for the next two years. Looks like Gao took out a loan to buy us which is being paid back by premier league money. I'm no finance expert so please tell me this isn't the case. https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/00053301/filing-history

I agree, love it there, we went last year and are off back again in May. I couldn't name one place, lots of places for different reasons. I did a Safari in Tanzania a few years back where we did a sun rise hot air balloon rise over the Serengeti which was simply incredible. Few over a few feet over hippos, elephant, lions, Rhino, then the highlight was seeing a leopard running though trees with a cub in it's month, must only have been 10 foot above it. As part of the safari saw all the big 5, the highlight was when we watched a Cheetah stalk a gazelle (and miss!) Was an incredible experience. Personally I have a love for Italy, Venice, Rome, The Amalfi Coast, Sardinia, Bologna, Florence are all brilliant places. Cuba and Mauritius was great for beaches, the Red Sea for Snorkelling and diving. Love the Greek Islands. Even found Morrocco fascinating, the Atlas Mountains, Marrakesh etc.

Correct, I misread it at first. That's not great, but fair to reward those who went to previous rounds.

Fair play to them, no easy way of doing it but probably the fairest way by rewarding those who made the effort to go to previous rounds. A lot fairer than last year. Doesn't look like I will qualify via the club so will have to try another route.

We've just got to our first FA cup semi final in 15 years and still you bleat on having a go at the club for anything you can. I really don't think this is the club for you pal. Find a new hobby and additional source of income.

People being advised to avoid the m62 pal, it'll probably be shut anyway. I've just driven back from Leeds to harrogate, no idea how i got back unscathed. Couldn't get up a hill, so turned round, nearly slid into two parked cars at different times, I'm really not sure how i didn't crash.