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A rollercoaster ride of peaks and troughs with the peaks removed and replaced with deeper troughs.

Sandwich Saint surely you don't carry data re the heights of former saints players in your head. Tell me you had to research that, please. A question for you - I met a Saints fan in my local in Faversham the day we lost 4-0 to Chelsea (approx 5 years ago) who was on his way home from the match and described for me how Crainie scored a peach of an own goal (bullet header from corner) on what I think was his debut. That man told me he came from Sandwich. I can't believe Sandwich contains many Southampton fans. Was that man you Sandwich Saint?

Paul Hughes? Was at Chelsea, looked promising (and scored what I remember as being a quality goal for them) then got badly injured. Could be just my imagination but I'm sure I remember reading we had signed him after his 'recovery' but certainly don't remember him playing.

Sadly Killer, the brilliant defender who was the bedrock of Strachan's 5star best saints team of the last 20 years is never coming back and was never realistically going to after his first comeback failed after a few games in our first season in the championship (last match that season the 3-4 against Leeds? please confirm statto). Players such as Michael Svensson, Marian Pahars, Ronnie Ekelund - brilliant players struck down at their peak by injuries that take more than 2 years to get over, never really get over them - and deserve our utmost sympathy and, particularly in Michael's case, respect for trying so damn hard to do so.

Made me laugh that. Well done.

'I never wanted to leave, and simply could not wait to sign a new contract (once it became clear that nobody else wanted me, and I therfore had no other option)'

All valid points DP. Too ****ed to contribute a credible response but I can't believe it was a plan to sign him then loan him to the first enquirer, especially one from the same division as us. Also why didn't SU sign him him for nothing 2 months ago when he was out of contract?

Really cannot believe this one. Not in the least bit bothered about Dyer going away, never rated him. BUT WTF is going on with a club that (re)signs a player on a full time contract (thereby indicating they want him at the club) then loans him out to a team in the same division barely 2 months later? It's either bizarre management (chairmanship?) or our financial situation is deteriorating so rapidly that the modest plans that were deamed affordable at the start of the season are now unaffordable. Either way our club is a total and utter mess.

That was Kenny G. Stevie G sang late 80's dance 'classic' "Dirty Cash" which mentioned at length how 'Money Talks' which, as we all know to our cost, is true and is the reason we cannot afford to buy massive stars like Anthony G.

Regardless of possible release clauses etc this really is depressing. Oh wait a minute, If the sale is enforced by such a clause and we wouldn't have sold if the clause didn't exist then we'll no doubt be spending all the money on a replacement(s), so its not that bad after all. :-({|=

Don't worry about it mate. Everyone is entitled to their opinion.

All you have done is raise valid concerns about the ability of this young team to grind out results and there is feck all wrong with that. The only thing I can think of that might explain the aggression in the responses you've got is that maybe you might have been aggressive to other posters on here in the past. Could this solve the riddle?

Late late goals. So often a feature of our matches, so fecking rarely scored by us.