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To be fair, he's already had 2 seasons in the PL - one with Wolves and one with Norwich, so he's done better than Lallana in that respect. I doubt he regrets leaving looking back on what he's personally achieved since, although I know he didn't truly want to leave at the time. If we'd have been bought by Markus 2 weeks earlier he'd have stayed and been part of the journey back, pretty sure of that.

Bugger..!

The same Marin that's already signed for Chelsea? I assume (hope!) that post is tongue in cheek anyway!

Hammond, Harding and Guly?!?!?!?!? Have you been following us at all prior to the last 3 years???? Trust me, those 3 are world beaters compared to the dross we've had in their positions. Bit disrespectful to select them as well due to the contributions they've made to our turn around.

. There you go, i've got our worst tactic from the wilderness years in there too. Might need to find 6 more central midfielders though tbf..

Stoke really are the former Saints aren't they? Quite funny how they've assembled most of our former team in there. I reckon there's a chance they could fall the same fate as us next year too, they've been treading water most of this year...and there is always one team that gets sucked into the relegation battle from the season before, who were 'comfortable ish' the year before.

Yep, got him in my team. We played him on the left in a couple of the games so i've stuck him there. Although my team doesn't really have much of a formation tbf.

We didn't have much need for him in the end, he was thrown into the team when we were at our lowest point though. We had no spine to the team and were patched up all over the show, so he didn't exactly have the best opportunity to showcase his talents...but whenever he did get the opportunity in those short 45mins he looked incredibly lightweight and lost. I'm sure there's a good player in there, but you also have to question why he's moved around so much.

Christ, forgot about O'Halloran. Whatever anyone says, he was signed as a promotional move for the up-coming U21 friendly we were hosting. It was no surprise to see his face used in the posters. Harsh on Belmadi Colin..? He was outstanding for us when he played, but that was the problem - we didn't see enough of him. But when he did play he was often a class above.

Doubt there's much in that...!

Bit harsh on Sarimento as he barley played for us, so you can't really make a judgement. To be fair, in the one cup game I watched him in he looked quite handy with the ball....but that's all we saw. I'd have Phil Ifil in at RB in place of James, but the CB's are fair. Can't really argue with LB either.. So... Kevin Miller Phil Ifil Lancashire (could have easily been Liptak...) Bennett Molyneux Thomson Euell Ryan Smith Jordan Robertson Peckart Patterson Manager - The dutch duo.

He's done a good job at Newcastle, and he doesn't deserve any criticism from us regarding his time here. He built the base here and allowed us to push on from that, and for that I'll always be grateful. Adkins has taken us on, but Pardew started the journey.

To be honest, what happened to us needed to happen. We may have kept bumping along in the PL for a while, but eventually we'd have been relegated. We'd still have the stadium debt over our heads, a listed company on the stock exchange, directors and share holders fighting and disagreeing over the running of the club. Going down has allowed us to rid of all the crap. From the players through to the debt and to the management/directors. It's enabled us to have a fresh start and kind of rebuild this club from new. I'm with most when they say the last 3 years have been awesome. They've been the best of my Saints supporting life, that's for sure - but it's given us a bright future as well.....

To be fair, I don't think we really have any deadwood at our club these days. Forecast and Forte are probably the only 2 you could state as current dead wood. Everyone else played a part at some stage this season, fair enough - certain players may struggle next season, but it's a bit harsh to say they're dead wood already.

He's the guy we snapped up from MK Dons, and I believe he's replaced David Burke in the role of head of recruitment - or similar.

It really depends on how the club price it. They could keep it affordable and easily sell 23/24k, but if they give everyone massive increases in price then I'd imagine it will be below 20k. Last seasons prices weren't too bad, and it was thought that they would be through the roof - so I think we'll be competitively priced next year.

Leicester are looking to bring in Southampton winger/striker Guly Do Prado for £3.5 million. (ok...it's come from football rumours so it's not true, but the price is hilarious.)

Yep, true. http://www.soccer-blogger.com/2012/04/18/lasse-schone-ajax-nec-midfielder-joins-on-free-transfer/ no idea who it is we're looking at then! probably someone that hasn't even crossed our minds.

Lasse Schone? a 25 year old Attacking goal scoring central midfielder who plays for NEC. I've noticed his name crop up on a couple of 'rumour sites'. Out of contract in the summer I believe.

He'll be down to the bare bones f'sure.

According to reports all over Spain today, a £25-30m fee has been agreed with Spurs to take him to the Nou Camp. Such a shame we don't benefit from this at all....

at home, Live on sky Super Sunday against Arsenal We beat them 2-1 with a goal in the last minute, after being battered for the majority of the game.

Would agree with that, although exceptions seem a bit skewed on this thread. With our current squad as it is with no additions we would struggle, just as we struggled at places like Blackpool, Cardiff and M'boro......times that by 1000. We will add though, that's obvious, but still...if we stay up next year I'd take that. Then progress further the year after.

Don't get me wrong, it's a great facility. - But all this development does is bring us up to standard with the likes of Stoke, Villa, Everton etc. To be fair, Villa's is much more impressive than ours.

Newcastle are a bit of a poor example to use to be honest. They were relegated with some excellent players in their team, and I was surprised they managed to keep hold of Collocini, Gutierez, Enrique etc.... They came back up with a better manager who was able to get the true potential out of those players, and they've built on that. We don't have those level of players as a start-base, so what Newcastle did isn't going to occur to us anytime soon.