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Get the WAGS to do a Walk of Atonement! Shame! Shame!.......Shame!

Don't bother. We'll be relegated by Xmas!

Nah. It's an internet message board where Saints fans come on and talk ******, most of which is harmless opinion and speculation. A debate is something which happens face to face unlike here where insults by keyboard warriors are cheap and can be made with little or no consequence.

It was always going to be thus. The only people who think SFC have any relevance or right to be anywhere near the top table are us. Get used to it. Hope VvD and FF are Saints players come 1st Sept, but not holding my breath. Not the club's fault, mainly agents looking for a payday. Everton wanted Koeman, they got him. On GOT they stated that if they wanted him they would get him and they were right. Liverpool fans at work told me Mane was signing for £30 million next week, they were right. frustrating as it is we will never compete. My advice, enjoy Saints for what they are, not what they can never be.

No-one likes a bad loser, but it cuts both ways. Perhaps that is something those crowing over the victory to leave would like to reflect on.

Game of Thrones is better

Lallana is pure quality but as he did with us he lacks a decisive finishing touch.

One of the main reasons I joined the club was to do add a social element to riding after a good few years as a 'lone wolf'. Saturday's ride was a bit quicker than usual averaging around 17mph mainly because there were only 10 in the group. Headed out to Odiham and through to Old Basing via Upton Grey and then on past Tylney Hall through Rotherwick to the A33.From there it follows what the club refer to as the Italian Loop (No idea why) anyway it was a great ride in quintessentially English countryside.

265 games and 60 goals. Some people really need to get over themselves. He moved jobs ffs. To put it in perspective, he played more games than Bobby Stokes and scored more goals.

You have indeed hit the nail on the head with this post. You have put out a reasoned response to the hype, and you have pointed out one of football's most irritating groups of supporters, the click-bait fan. Shame I will never agree with your views on the EU. From a swivel eyed loon!

Three years with us so I reckon he's done his bit. A transfer to a club in the Champions League probably suits his career progression which he is entitled to pursue, just like anyone else. Move on.

Dutch company!

Good player, as he was with us. Occasionally unplayable. Inventive with good feet. A lack of pace and shooting ability are his achilles heel. Just left us under a cloud.

Agreed. Not before time either. He has been less effective as a striker over the last couple of years and it is a natural progression for a player with his football brain.

MLT on Talk****e again this am. The large headed Scottish buffoon asked him about the new manager saying that we would miss transfer targets now the fixtures were out without someone in the hotseat. MLT was his normal laid back patient self and explained again how the club wasn't necessarily dependant on this being in place at this point in time. He said that the club would recruit as they had before finding the right manager to fit the style of play that the club were aiming for rather than the other way round. Brazil then went on to quiz MLT about specific names. He was very diplomatic when asked about the possibility of Moyes coming in, saying he wasn't perhaps the best fit in terms of the style of play the club are after at which point Brazil using his extensive imagination moved on to Roberto Martinez as a potential manager. I think Matt just about gave up at this point, pointing out that we would like to defend rather better than Martinez's teams do. It is easy to be dismissive of Brazil but he is of his time. It does demonstrate once again how little pundits, broadcasters and print media understand about the philosophy that Saints have. They are stuck in the past where the manager (often a big personality) brings their own style to a club rather than the other way round and they struggle with the idea that our recruitment process isn't plastered over the back pages or in the public domain. Everton/Koeman anyone?

Saw my first game in 1963 as a nipper so the first big change was Lawrie's appointment ten years later. Manager appointments then were never the subject of speculation, they just happened so I didn't really have much of an opinion on his appointment. By the time we appointed Branfoot I was living and working in Reading and was horrified when he was appointed. He was around at Elm Park on a few occasions when I was there watching kids I taught playing for Reading Schools FA. Came across as a complete k u n t. He got everything he deserved from us!

It never ceases to amaze me how the media just don't get us. BTW the co-host was Ray Wilkins. It's not just the media. A Liverpool supporting colleague this morning asked me what I thought about Koeman and his departure and was quite surprised when I said I wasn't bothered by it. I pointed out we'd lost a lot better manager in Pochettino and kicked on from there and improved in successive seasons under Koeman and would continue to do so under whoever was appointed. He asked me who I wanted as manager and was surprised when I said I didn't really care as the club would have a succession plan in place as we did two years ago.

On a few occasions our club Saturday social ride we have set off with upwards of 25 riders which is way too many, especially on the roads of north Hampshire and Berkshire. It is not easy to maintain group discipline especially with riders of different levels and a policy of no-one being left behind. We don't tend to be more than two abreast when roads and traffic allow, and it is the responsibility of the ride leader and 'rear gunner' to respond to traffic situations as and when we need to ride in single file. It tends to work OK but it doesn't alter the fact that a group of this size is way too it is too big. That many riders even doubled up represents a moving hazard at least the length of an articulated truck so it pays to be as user friendly to other road users to avoid horns honking/close passes and other driving behaviour that puts cyclists at risk. General opinion is that 12-15 is about the maximum number for a group ride.

Yeah! Doping git! If it this guy will he be as shiite as his namesake in games taking place in high mountains?

Le Grande Boucle is almost upon us again. Time for predictions. Think that Quintana will run Froome close again but he looked in superb form in the Dauphine, plus Froome has trained more specifically to peak in the third week this year. Add to that around 55K's of ITT and I think he will have the edge just. Will have to look out for Romain Bardet though. Think we might see a different Cav this year. A la Robbie McEwan in his later years, but don't see him winning a drag race with Kittel, Greipel, Bouhanni and Caleb Ewan as of old. Yellow Jersey - Froome Green Jersey - Sagan Polka Dot Jersey - A Climber White Jersey- Alaphilippe

Is he bringing his bike? Wrong Valverde.

Has gone down like a nasty turd with Reading fans I've spoken to. Predicting them doing a Bolton next season. That'd be funny.

I think Everton have looked at our success and see it as a quick route back to where they were a few seasons ago. Having thrown the financial 'kitchen sink' to get our manager I can see the same tactic being used on our players. Hopefully we are contractually and financially strong enough to resist, we ought to be. The organisation is robust enough to ride this one out, but there again this is football, and if nothing else the Koeman defection shows us that there are no certainties within the bubble in which football people exist.

Time to move on! Exciting times. Pochettino has gone on to prove that he is a really good manager even if his team managed to come third in a two horse race, I'm not sure that Koeman is of quite the same quality as a manager and as such much less of a loss. FWIW I think he'll do OK. As for all the willy waggling over which is the bigger club I look at it as him taking over one of football's 'sleeping giants' whether he has the qualities to awaken it sufficiently is open to considerable conjecture.

Must be big news if its making Game of Thrones all jittery and confused.