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Hey SaintsfanNYC, it'd be totally awesome if you'd buy a southampton saints Soccerball road shirt! I know the colors don't reflect the traditon of the Soccerball club but hell, neither does having some many fans in the US of A! So get your order in and lets bring this one home!

There used to be a mid season five a side tournament, in fact saints won it in 1985. Vaguely remember seeing it screened on telly as well, which might sound much now but considering back in the mid 80s hardly any live football as on telly it was exciting.

£40m for those two, £40m for a training ground worth £20m, countless legal costs, a decline in commercial income despite climbing two divsions to play in the most watched league in the world. An outstanding businessman, it's no wonder AC Milan courted him for so long them snapped him up when he was available, oh wait....

Ahh bless, you're hurting. Although your determination to post about CB or me at every opportunity is slightly worrying. Do you open every thread excitedly hoping to see a post from one of your heroes?

Yep, the clubs PR machine is in overdrive feeding stories to the media to make Mane look bad and soften the blow when he leaves. They are doing the same with Koeman and his contract, deliberately feeding lines to the press about it so that Koeman quits and we don't have to offer him a pay rise. This is more evidence of the LACK OF AMBITION from the penny pinching board.

A 53 year old man who spends his life slagging slagging people off on an Internet forum, never contributing anything interesting or constructive then getting all upset when it's pointed up he's a

You're such a Bellend. Its koeman a team, koemans tactics. Its a perfectly reasonable question given we've lost 7 of our last 9. Sums up your contribution to this forum pal.

This is Koemans fault as he's not able to improve players. If Pochetino was still here he'd have improved him so much this season we'd be able to sell him for £30m to a champions league club. As it is it looks like we're stuck with him.

so what's the latest??

Spend Loads of Dosh and play Sam Gallagher. We're not a club without it.

Okay so that's fine. Amongst your cliché players such as your mythical 15 goal a season midfield leader how about you thrown the 20 goal a season striker as well? Maybe we could go for both of these as they seem to grow on trees as well. Although I must confess I'm confused as to what you want. On the one hand you're championing the signings of bigger name players dropping in the likes of Cabeye & Bojan as part of your "15 goal a season midfield leader" checklist, even though neither not the other players you mentioned actually are. Yet further up the thread you're expressing how much you'd be dismayed if we didn't sign Sam Byram, who if there is on bill that he fits is the cheaper, unproven squad player signed from a lesser league that you seem so dead set against. Reading between the lines your wish seems to simply contain players who signed for other clubs in the summer and have done a bit better than Okay, or other players you read somewhere might be good.

None of which are 15 goal a season central midfield leaders.

Needs a second to make it a long road back for them. They won't be as bad second half.

We could have signed Fabio Borini, Adam Johnson, Brown Ideye or Ross McCormack for similar amounts of money. WTF are they doing?

The problem with the helmets on here is that they can't recognise what individual players bring to the team. Long adds pace, movement and running to our team, Pelle adds strength, hold up play and a traditional big man up top. Both have their pluses and minus but both are good players and would be the best option depending on who we play. long and Mane were perfect to play against Mertersaker tonight, a decent defender but as slow as Mr Snail with cramp. Pelle will be better suited to other games, I don't think he'd have had a lot of joy tonight. But in mongboard world one or both are either brilliant or sh*t, the messiah or the devil at any one time. They're both decent players, not world beaters but good signings for a club of our size. I've always said I thought long was a decent signing and as usual I've been proven right. He is proving himself to be an inspired signing and so has Pelle, both give us options and the ability to play more than one way, which is no more than fans of a middle sized premier league club can ask for.

What a marvellous signing Shane Long has proven to be. He adds pace and movement to our front line which simply isn't there when he isn't. He of course for a long time held the proud record of saints winning every time he scored. Since that record has gone, through no fault of Shane's, he's this season proving his worth by being our most prolific attacking player with more goals v minutes played than anyone else in the squad. He really has turned into a key player for us. well done Shane and well done Les, a magnificent acquisition.

Oh no pal. That was you, all you. Your stock reply whenever you saw I had questioned Cortese on anything was the hilarious "when are we marching" line, Interesting you're now trying to turn it into something other people said. It was as equally hilarious as your other gag from that era, calling me part of the "Mitty gang" insisting I had several logins. Maybe it was more that people thought Cortese and yourself for that matter were a bigger div than most people realised at the time. Good to see you're still using my name though given all the effort you went to find it out.

I feel for people like bridge to far at this time of year. Imagine the conversation she had with her grandchildren this morning explaining that while their friends will be excitedly unwrapping their presents this morning they won't be getting any from her as religion is disgusting and Britain isn't a Christian country. Saintandy666, MLG and verbal should refuse all their presents as they hold a similar view and have openly stated that view over the years on here. I'm sure persons of such strong beliefs, intelligence and integrity won't bow to pressure and will maintain their stance today.

Morning hypocrites. Presumably a lot of you who will be greedily stuffing your faces with turkey, Drinking to excess whilst spamming Facebook with pictures of your presents to celebrate a Christian festival will spend the rest of the year telling everyone that you aren't religious, even claiming the bible is a book of fairy tales and god and Jesus didn't exist. Enjoy your day and wallowing in the filth of your own hypocrisy.

Because spending your life following someone round replying to virtually every post they make telling them how dull they are and how much they dislike their posts is so much more exciting, yes?

That's all we need. A league one level keeper back in goal. [facepalm]

I had the pleasure of attending a Q&A session with Alan Ball about 20 years ago. He was a smashing bloke, afterwards he stood at the bar with me and my mate chatting over a pint of Guiness like old friends. My dad called me at that time and when I told him I was stood next to Alan Ball he didn't believe me, so Alan Ball took the phone off me and stood there talking to him for about 5 minutes about the old times. Was a great evening.

Good stat Brett. 9 draws from those fixtures as well which gives us 45 points, over a 38 games season that equals 47, so enough to finish around 11 or 12 based in last seasons table. Maybe things aren't as bad as you and the other helmets on here like to make out.

He's got him mixed up with that other class young striker that spurs loaned us a few years ago, thomas Pekhart, which is an easy mistake to make. And yes, we looked terrible in the highlights, again. Sloppy goals and poor finishing, yet again.