Jimmy_D

If we get to the stage that we're challenging for the top 5... We'll also be at the stage where we're challenging for the top 1. I hope I live to see the day we have more trophies than Pompey.

That's a heck of a bit of necroposting there... Funny to see how ours and Pompey's respective takeovers have gone since then... It makes me shudder just remembering how bad things were back then until this takeover happened. And it's flipping amazing that our biggest concern these days is whether Owen is going to sign for us

That's a good point. Serie A might be a good place for us to spot potential targets we're going for.

There's another one around now that hooks into about a dozen different things in the registry (including the shell, in effect windows itself) so it still loads up even in safe mode. My cousin got it, I ended up having to manually hunt through the registry to get rid of the hooks so I could then get MalwareBytes going to finish it off. That was fun!

I heard Umbro have new designers this year. Until someone actually sees it, we're having both stripes AND a sash kit this year. It's Schrodinger's Kit.

Ouch. That's pretty much like it'd be for us if Lambert decided to leave on a free for Pompey...

2005 Until then I believed that Saints were inherently a top flight club... they had been all my life and I didn't think that was ever going to change... The sheer number of points we lost late on, not always deserving to... being safe as things stood at half time on that last day... it felt like an utter injustice that we'd been relegated at the time, I kept expecting something to happen that meant we'd still be in the Prem lol

The light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming train...

There's already a tiny little thread in The Lounge for this...

There is a fairer way of doing it I've seen someone else suggest, that still gives the league the same number of games for the money. 5th plays 6th over two legs, with 5th placed team at home 2nd. The winner of that plays the 4th placed team over two legs, with 4th placed team home 2nd. The winner of that plays 3rd at a neutral ground in a winner takes all match. This way the teams finishing higher actually get an advantage for their higher position in the league.

Huddersfield deserved it over the season, considering how many points ahead they finished.... But Bournemouth deserved it on the night. Ref should have sent two Huddersfield Town players off and their last goal was after the half time whistle should have gone in extra time. And their goal on half time was after the whistle should have gone!

Great penalty!

Can't see Bournemouth winning now. Long long way back...

Can't believe how nervous I am watching as a neutral! (Ok, maybe I slightly want Bournemouth to win for the derbies next season... and the almost guaranteed 6 points) Can't think what I'd be like if it was Saints playing.

Will be passing through Southampton http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13391986 Also, there's a chance for the general public to be a bearer. http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23951172-thousands-given-chance-to-run-in-olympic-torch-relay.do

The cheeky gits have stolen my idea https://twitter.com/#!/the_saints/lists In any case there might be a few links extra in there for those of you interested.

New contract for Jaidi. Good news I reckon, He's earned it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antti_Niemi_(ice_hockey) Maybe it's the name that makes a great keeper One of the best players we've ever had... they say a good keeper is worth 10 points a season... Antii was worth more than that to Saints I'm sure.

Threads merged Have to admit I thought we'd know what it was about by now, have the echo managed to annoy the club again?

You know... Considering he's not saying this is huge news and is almost downplaying it... I'm almost expecting us to sign Messi

I suspect the £10M offered by Arsenal would have been £5M up front and the rest add ons. Still a huge amount of money, but less than we want (or need!) for a player so highly rated. It does feel awfully good to be in such a position of financial power.

Read the OP £15M isn't what has been offered for him, it's what we were apparently asking for him. No one has been prepared to match that (yet).

Someone said in the last couple of pages that they'd been pushed back by the judge's previous case taking longer than expected, so that could be the reason.

Great news that the media is swarming around a move to several different clubs. We want rid, and this will only push the price up.

All talk of Owen being seen/already having agreed deals/going anywhere is ridiculous at the moment. Don't you think he might have bigger things on his mind? Like a Champions League Final?