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I'd drop Kelvin for Bart, Jaidi for Seaborne and Harding for Dickson and start with Holmes on the left wing

problem is at the moment we are not the same team that finished last season - we really missed Antonio and Waigo today - for the pace they bring to the side and as something different to come off the bench we also lack cover for Lambert - which was proved beyond a doubt today and without Schneiderlin or Hammond we have no one to make the play in central midfield at the moment we've got weaker - whilst Huddersfield have got a lot stronger - Sheff Weds have strengthend and Peterborough and Plymouth hae kept their squads together so they will all be in the running - and then there's Swindon, Charlton and Brighton who could all be contenders as well automatic promotion is a big ask at the moment and a slow start to the season with a couple of losses or draws will cost us at the end of the season - those 3 points lost today could make the difference between finishing 2nd with atomatic promotion or 3rd and going into the play-offs in May - and the play-offs are a lottery

Whatever people want to say about the game today we badly missied Lambert or another big centre forward to cover for him. We also missed the pace Antonio and Waigo gave us - and options off the bench with those three in the squad we probably would have won today - and drawn at worst

but its still full of Americans! and isn't Florida a Republican state with a Bush as governor - so that means its full of redneck americans - not the West Coast or New England style americans we're used to seeing over here! the first time you actually meet an average american it's quite a shock - insular, fat, badly dressed, right wing - but mostly depressing as you realise these people dominate the most powerful nation in the world!

Jidda are after Craig Dawson the centre back not Stephen Dawson the midfielder - who has already signed for Leyton Orient. I don't think we need another centre back anyway really

Didn't Stephen Dawson sign for Dagenham a couple if weeks ago

Adieu to you too

I can't believe they got away with it!

Any sign of Waigo?

but with Antonio its all about potential - he's only 20 - and he will be on the fringes of the Reading squad this season - whereas with Saints he knows he will play and maybe win something! I think Reading took up the option of an extra year that was in his contract mostly so that we would have to pay more for him - rather than us get him on free transfer and then have an U23 development fee set by tribunal. It's hopefully just a case of brinkmamship and negotiations now! Whats happened to Waigo though? It sounded like he was going to make a return. If we end up with Waigo and Antonio coming back - and add Matt Phillips as well that will be a great news! Options of the bench indeed!

Sigining Michail Antonio, Matt Phillips, Andros Townsend and Adam Le Frondre would make me very happy!

its unbelievable really that they didn't sell all of their high earners back in the January transfer window - but nope they actually bought players in (Owusu and O'Hara) and played them against us in the FA cup when they couldn't even afford to pay them I've had the 'you were cheating' argument with my Pompey brother in-law many times since then!

I think that's because we are all feeling the pre-season tension!

Vignal used to run forward with the ball 20 or 30 yards and then long ball it diagonally to nowhere time after time! he was quite vicious in the tackle though! Wouldn't really want him back - Harding is far better - and I trust Dickson is too! A Spurs fan who lives locally said to me today that all the Saints fans he's spokent to seem very downbeat about the new season at the moment - I had to agree with him and said its probably because we haven't made the kind of signings we were expecting as yet - and have no illusions that anything other than promotion this season will be a failure - and that its not going to be as easy as we hoped with Sheff Weds, Plymouth, Peterborough and Huddersfield in the division! I think we need to see a marquee signing to give us all a boost in the next couple of days - and see first teamers like Morgan, Lallana and Puncheon on the pitch against Reading or Eastliegh so we know they're not going anywhere are going start the season!

If he's Italian it's got to be Del Piero or Totti! If he's Spanish it's got to be Ivan De La Pena

Double Agent Wotton!?!

Javier De Pedro?

I don't think the first team is any weaker than last season - or should I say the starting 11 - and I can't see any of these players leaving either. But we do have less strength in depth without Waigo and Antonio in the squad. And as yet we haven't added that extra central midfield general we need. If rumours are to be believed we have tried - or looked at signing a number of players - Freddy Adu, Jeremie Aliadiere, Nicky Bailey, Neil Danns, Brian Stock, Michail Antonio, Albert Adomah, Simeon Jackson, Nathan Tyson. So far it seems the pull of the Championship or are refusal to be held to ransom over wages and transfer fees has put an end to most of these. Some of them still might come off though so you never know. We currently have Darren Carter on trial to fill a hole in central midfield and according to some have already signed Tyson. Waigo may also make a return according to others. We also have Essajas (?) on trial. And I expect there are one or two other players in the pipeline as well. I have no doubt that by the end of August we will have a stronger squad than last season! And then I think we'll top it off withsome very good loan players!

the PA system definately needs fixing! how about we 'proclaim them': I would walk 500 miles and I would walk 500 more just to be the fan who walked a 1000 miles to see Southampton score .................................... ...................................... ................................... (no idea how you write the 'da da' bit) or something like that!

Aaron McClean would be a good signing for us - strengthens us and weakens a promotion rival with one stroke of the pen!

I think we'll know a lot more about where we need to strengthen when the first team play against Sutton on Satyurday. We do need to step pre-season up a bit though! Although we have a great first 11 - at the moment we don't really have any strength in depth - and not that many options that can change our play off the bench. Antonio and Waigo gave us that strength in depth going forward and options off the bench. We need to replace them both if nothing else.

We should withdraw from NATO and sign up to a Western European Military Treaty organisation based on the EU to replace it - with a common purchase and supply policy to cut costs. You never know it might act as balance of power between the USA, Russia and whoever else! Their is no special relationship - only an abusive one! Make Trident an EU or European Nuclear deterrent - not a UK deterrent - thereby spreading the cost. Stop legitimising the USA's aggressive and negative foreign policy by no longer acting as there military lapdog. Base are armed forces on the Japanese Defence Forces and create one combined command structure. Pull out of Afghanistan and Iraq.

I don't think you actually get many Romani in the UK - there are a lot in Spain and Eastern Europe though! Jesus Navas the spanish winger - and I think Antonio Reyes - are both from gypsie backgrounds. Not totally sure if they are Romani though but I think they are. Then there are travellers which I don't think are an ethnic group - and then is it 'tinkers' which are from Ireland - the clan with no home or something like that! I think they are the one in Snatch! They're a bit like scallys and scousers really - only with wheels! They are a couple of people that travel around the country lanes of Hampshire in traditional gypsie wagons with horses - you can see them around Farley Mount country park or out towards Alresford or Micheldever sometimes. They nearly always way hello as you drive past thinking blimey I bet they have a lot less stress in their lives than I do what with the mortgage, the missus and the boss! Maybe they've got the right idea! I'm not keen on the travellers that seem to park up anywhere they like though in their big motor caravans or trucks - and then leave a real mess behind them when they move on! And don't get me started on the new age travellers! They are nearly as irritating as those middle aged middle class people that tow caravans down the motorway doing 40! Have they not heard of that 21st century invention - the hotel - or even a holiday cottage! Caravans - I'd ban all of them myself unless they are on country lanes and pulled by a horse!

I didn't see them advertise it anywhere - he must be an old contact of Cortese's! Job for the boy!?! Its not the best picture of him really is it? He looks a bit like Simon Pegg off the TV - Run Fatboy Run! More so than Jason Donovan anyway! I hope he's not as deluded as the last Scotsman to get involved behind the scenes at Saints though - Jim Hone. His business model was straight out of the City - and I mean that in a going bust kind of way! He's obviously got the contacts but I have my doubts that selling sponsorship rights for the Champions League is anything like marketing a League 1 club in England. It also mean he's one of the people responisble for the slow death of football in this country - where the sponsors and SKY TV come a 1000 miles before the supporters and the game itself! Do you want to watch 22 english men kick a football around? Yes me Wenger I do - especially if it means I can afford a ticket to watch my team at 3.00pm on a Saturday afternoon every other weekend - and know that some of them might even get to wear the three lions on their chest one day!

I'd still like to see us bring Vokes or Juktiewitz in on loan - as local lads they would give that bit extra! I have a feeling we will see 2 or 3 bright young players join us on loan from Chelsea or Arsenal just before the season starts. I can see Jacob Mellis coming back on loan from Chelsea for a start and maybe players like Simpson or Eastmond from Arsenal joining him as well. There's still a chance Waigo and Antonio will be back as well!