moonraker

Yes, if we dont get one then you can treat yourself to something nice as compensation.

This, Chelski and City both have key first choice players for whom they do not have a comparable replacement and the long term loss of them would cause problems. I do not think we will loose any key players in January, as alluded to in the article it is a united squad with a common purpose and CL football mid season may not be as attractive as a LC Win and a top 4 spot (not a dream but a real prospect) with saints.

But they still have their club, which they own don't you know!

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If Garcia is claimimg his findings have been improperly represented or worse then in the long run this may be a good thing. Blatter and his minnions have tried to dress up a PR stunt as a credible investigation, it seems that Garcia will not stay quiet and be abused in this way.

I dont buy the small squad argument as much this season as in previous seasons. As has often been demonstrated on here we have better cover for many postions than hitherto. I dont see a great deal of strength in depth for Arsenal or Liverpool espeicially in defence. My biggets concern is strikers, whilst JROD is still to return he will need to get going quickly.

Are they also to far from Manchester?

I think Liverpool are in terminal decline. They overachieved last season mainly due to one player, now gone. Their talisman is finished but doesn’t know it or wont admit it. They overpay for players and then cant fit them in the team. Pundits continue to make excuses but the reality is they are not a top 4 club anymore and increasingly will find it difficult to be top 6. The defectors are getting their just desserts.

The attitude to Saints by Journos was summed up on Sunday Supplement when the guy form the express said, with sincere apologies, that when he looks at the table he looks straight past Saints to Citeh. I have no problem with this, let them carry on ignoring us the only thing that matters is what the players and fans of SFC see and feel.

There is no doubt that many of our players will attract great interest from the 'big boys'. However if we finish top 4 or more likely top 6 then the footballing lure to leave will be less and in Koeman I believe we have a manager who is more grounded than the previous incumbent and will stay and that is key.We cannot compete on the salary front and agents will not do us any favours. We have seen that we have an executive and back room staff that are determined and made of steel so if some are determined to leave we will get very good deals.

We have nothing to fear but fear itself

I went to Bognor once

Great Article, the few will never get it. They cannot get past their past and recognise the cheating and failure of multiple owners while they stood by and acclaimed their fleeting time in the limelight. They actually seem to believe that they are a beacon for the future of football !

That was a great read, thank you for sharing.

" we dont buy success, we breed it, we dont take short cuts, we earn it" absouloutly love it, should be plastered all around St Marys, and on few buses in Pimpley!

Awesome and fitting memorial to Markus.

VW I look forward to your learned brief! I do agree that backdating 5 years would be very damaging so I hope it is not allowed.

I believe this to be a fair ruling. As i understand the retrospective claims can only be for 3 months. It was not just about overtime, paid travelling time was also included. Employees seem to have been using overtime and travelling time as way of paying a fair rate for the job but using it to reduce their costs when staff are on their legally entitled paid leave, if the Union rep is to be believed, they were saving up to half of the going rate for the job.

Pelle was below par today.

That is exactly the sort of win that differentiates the good from the best.

We are playing away to solid side who have given as great account of themselves, we are winning what more do you moaners want.

They obvioulsy didnt get the info from twitter, i noted that SFC 285,000 twitter followers whilst the fishfiddlers have 47,000, but they are the bestest twitter followers in the world.

I think the smaller stadium is for when they draw lower league clubs in cups, where their is little home fan (palstic) interest and the away fans turn up on a motorbuke and sidecar, they are hoping for pimpley in rd 3 of the FA Cup to test it out.

I thought this was a thread about Staplewood, my mistake.

Very true and history tells us that it is the Torries who are far more likely to impose those cuts. They are quite happy provided they have a few pretty soldiers prancing around in Bear Skins and Jogging along on horses!