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maybe he wants Harte as the playmaker in midfield to sit in front of the back four - he can defend and he can certainly pass the ball I'd like to see us get another centreback to play alongside Fonte though - although I think both Seaborne and Martin will be good enough in time. I have a feeling we might bring one in on loan once the premiership clubs have finalised there 25 man squads - someone like Andrew Davies from Stoke for example.

we're being linked with Jermaine Easter on the Transfer Rumours site - its probably not true - but there you go I suppose he'd do a job for us if we did sign him - but he's not exactly the type of signing I was hoping for - at 28 he's an old pro but we already have those in Lambert, Barnard and Connolly - I was hopig for some pace, power, youth and potential I'd rather see Waigo back if we are going to sign someone of that age I'd like to see us get Antonio back for some pace, power and potential and then bring in some players like Matt Phillips and Adam Le Fondre as well I have to say I have been very underwhelmed by our transfer dealings so far this season - and I don't think my expectations were that high anyway. Permanent deals for Waigo and Antonio, a first choice right back and cover for Harding at left back, a playmaker in central midfield, as well as cover for Lambert were the minimum I was expecting really - and so far we haven't even done all of that Dickson, Richardson, Butterfield and Do Prado is it so far - and we've let James and Gillett go - and still got Pulis, Wotton and Holmes! I'm not quite sure where Do Prado fits in - as a winger, stiker or attacking midfielder? I've got my fingers crossed in hope that Cortese and Pardew don't let us down though

Is Harte a centreback or left back nowadays!? Perhaps he's going to be our play maker in the middle - he can pass and take set pieces but he has no pace

Jaidi seems to be on the verge of being past it he also tries to be too clever with the ball when it should be a case of safety first - and his passing is not always great either Seabourne and Martin should be pushing for the starting position alongside Fonte - but I have a feeling Martin will be the better of the two in the long run!

you missed the bit about moving to St Marys, the years of constant sell-outs in a 32,000 seater stadium, the 2003 FA cup final, being in the UEFA cup, being the 7th largest English club in terms of revenue that year - and the 10th on attendance over the season and how it took a lot of incompetence and mis-management to take us from there to here - where we are now - the 3rd division in less than a decade!

The team as a whole is just not match fit - pre-season was a joke. The first team only really played 2 maybe 3'very friendly' games. That's why they are off the pace and not scoring. It also means the new players like Dickson had no chance to bed themselves into the team. If Lambert, Puncheon and Lallana were injured it wouldn't have helped either I guess. Still we got nothing on the bench to change the game and no pace in the team. In terms of signing players we needed to make a strong challenge for promotion and putting together a decent pre-season programme Pardew and Cortese have let us down. Now they are going to have to pull some signings out of the hat and hope our form picks up before it's too late. With Hudds and Sheff Weds as well as Peterborough, Plymouth and Swindon in the running this division is already much harder than I think they thought it was going to be - and promotion let alone automatic promotion is far from assured. We needed to start the season running at full pace - at the moment we don't even seem to be jogging along. We're still missing a playmaker in CM and possibly a decent holding midfielder as well. We also need pace and possibly one or two wingers and a fast striker. We also still need another big centre forward to cover for Lambert. And it now looks like we need another CB to play alongside Fonte.

we should go after Matt Oakley instead

I'd love to see us sign Adam Le Fondre but I think it will more likely be one of Tom Craddock, Matt Phillips or Michail Antonio

Matt Phillips

I have a feeling it all comes down to policing costs - either the club or the police are saving money by not closing the road for 20 minutes

one player!?!? we need about 3 or 4 if not more! Adam Le Fondre and Tom Craddock, Antonio and Waigo, plus a CM or two at the moment I feel really let down by Cortese and Pardew after all their talk at the end of last season - its time to deliver on all that easy talk now boys!

pre-season was a joke we should have played 3 decent teams in Switzerland - and then come back home and played 3 decent teams at St Mary's in a 4 wat Ted Bates Cup! We should also have taken the Eastleigh game a bit more seriously as well the team look like they are still playing pre-season friendlies to get match fit

to be honest I think both Pardew and Cortese have to take the blame for our slow start to the season - which looks like it will cost us automatic promotion coz at this rate it will be the middle of September before we've got our team sorted out - got the players match fit that is and brought in the players the squad is missing to challenge for the title that is - and that means we'll probably have lost 12 or so points we really should have put in the bag today we looked at least five players short of a squad good enough to win League One - 1 CB, 2 Wingers, 1 RB, 1 LB, 2 CM and a CF we've started this season much weaker than we finished last season without Waigo, Antonio and a clutch of midfielders gone - on top of that the players aren't match fit and team hasn't gelled yet pre-season was a joke - the first team played 2 possibly 3 half hearted games - whereas we should have played at least 6 if not more semi-competitive games so they could hit the ground running there are massive gaps in the squad - which I believe will be filled - but it could be too late by then! at the moment we are not evening running - we are walking into trouble

we should sign Pitman - he'd be a great back-up for Lambert

From a rumours site: "It looks likely that Michail Antonio & Nicholas Bignall will move from Reading to St marys. Antonio will sign a three year deal for around £900,000. Bignall will sign on a year long loan deal. Both deals will happen once the club is back to normal following Markus Liebherr's death. A deal to bring ex-Saint Matt Oakley back may still happen also. Alan pardew is still hopeful of landing Las Palmas striker Saul too. A fee of around £400,000 had been agreed. But Las Palmas are also trying to persuade Saints to buy centre-back Samuel as well for around £350,000." We've also been linked with ryan harley (midfielder from Exeter), matt phillips and jon obika (striker from Spurs)

It's because most clubs are in financial trouble I expect - players earn too much at all levels - season ticket sales are probably down due to the recession we're in - and if the HMRC win the case on image rights a lot of clubs are going to owe the tax man money they don't have! And the FA do sweet F A whilst football rots from the inside

he has a bad attitude - a lack of commitment if you like he still chickens out of 50-50 balls and fails to go the extra yard for the ball a big time charlie

I thought it was just our usual pre-season friendly against Bournemouth - and at £17 I thought it was a bit too much to watch that lot from the beach/retirement village on the other side of the New Forest its not exactly a derby is it - half of Bournemouth support Saints anyway last time I watched Saints play Bournemouth at Dean Court there were far more Saints fans in and around the ground the ground than they were Bournemouth fans - so many of us that an awful lot of Saints fans were stuck outside the ground still the Bournemouth fans were fairly unpleasant until they realised they were massively outnumbered - and I'd only gone as Bournemouth were desperate for the money from the gate receipts to keep afloat - that's gratitude for you! its like being hated by the little old lady down the road with a zimmer frame and no teeth - when you've you know the blue few at the other end of the road - dirty cheating lying violent ASBOS living in the squat with the burnt out car in the drive and the mouldy sofa on the lawn - hate you with a passion

I would have thought that was more 4-2-3-1 than 4-4-2 or at least a 4-5-1 does that mean we've only really got one fit first team forward tonight?

From Football Rumours (I know, I know - but I couldn't help myself) Southampton 2010 2011 1 Kelvin Davis 23 Tommy Forecast 24 Bartosz Bialkowski 2 Frazer Richardson 3 Dan Harding 5 Ryan Dickson 6 Jose Fonte 12 Danny Butterfield 15 Radhi Jaidi 17 Aaron Martin 18 Joseph Mills 19 Dan Seaborne 25 Craig Dawson (Rochdale - 800k) 37 Jack Saville 4 Morgan Schneiderlin 8 Chris Lines (Bristol Rovers - 800k) 10 Jason Puncheon 14 Dean Hammond 16 Paul Wotton 20 Adam Lallana 21 Lee Holmes 27 Oscar Gobern 28 Callum McNish 29 Ryan Doble 30 Matt Phillips (Wycombe - 275k) 31 Emmanuel Frimpong (Arsenal - Loan) 32 Michail Antonio (Reading - 500k) 36 Anthony Pulis 7 Rickie Lambert 9 Lee Barnard 11 Rowan Vine (QPR - 750k) 22 David Connolly 26 Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain 33 Ian Thomas-Moore (Tranmere - 200k) All the transfers look and sound reasonable it has to be said - I'd rather get Waigo and le Fondre in upfront though!

Maybe we should be looking at League One and League Two players then - Matt Phillips from Wycombe, Adam Le Fondre from Rotherham, Brett Pitman from Bournemouth for example. I still think we'd have a chance of signing Matt Oakley to cover Midfield if we tried - I'm sure he'd like to finish his career back at home - he could move back to the house he built then - and he's due a testimonial from us for over 10 years service so we could throw that into the deal as a maker! I would say that most players would come here if we paid them enough - but they would probably expexct a bit more for dropping down the divisions as compensation - and I think that's the problem - we're not prepared to pay it

Adam Le Fondre please! Along with Matt Phillips, Michail Antonio and Waigo! That's not too much to ask is it! Get rid of Wotton, Holmes and Pulis to pay for it if we have too!

Ian Moore is 33 - no thanks! I'd rather We signed someone with potential like Adam Le Fondre

Benjani supposedly is just about to sign for Brizzle Citah!

The set up has to be right for that manager to succeed - he needs the right chairman or chief executive behind him and the right environment for example Lowe and Redknapp was never going to work whereas Hoddle and Lowe worked well Sturrock was a case of wrong man wrong club with Strachan everything was right for short term success and he looked a better manager than he was managers need the right squad to start with or time to build the right one - pardew never had the time or money at Charlton