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Perhaps this thread should be rerun tonight at the close of the transfer window.

Can't say I hate Pellegrino as a bloke, feel sorry for him that he is woefully out of his depth. Hate the fact that he was selected by Reed, and is still with us.

Wouldn't want Hughes at the club, so if the four points is correct I hope they're wrong on his potential replacement.

.. or the effectiveness of Les Reed ,Ross Wilson, and of course the Black Box.

Agree. Contingency management - how bad did results and performances have to be to bring about the sack ? Like you I expect the next two games will decide - but a bit too late in my view.

Is that an FA Cup weekend ?

I remember everyone being amazed when we spent £225,000 on Peter Osgood in 1974. I don't think anyone expected to see Saints spend so much on a single player. I think it was our first six figure signing. We felt we'd joined the big time when it happened. And we were relegated at the end of that season by the way.

And blind to the need to improve the GK dept as well.

Plus the fact he had a fairly public bust up with the national coach some time ago. I don't know if he has featured since.

Won't the release clause prevent this? Not to say his club won't look to change the terms of a deal ie more upfront at the last minute, but I thought the fee might be set as the release clause.

ITK ?

Channon's recollection:

Channon after 90 seconds as I recall, and Gilchrist's a spectacular over head kick. 4-0 at half time.

..and I remember hearing they beat us in the 5th round when they won the cup in 1968.

Would be good if we could get sufficient ticket allocation but that seems unlikely.

Glad to see Adkins in the next round. Targett came on as a halftime sub for Fulham today.

Can we really expect to defend a 1-0 lead for 86 minutes ?

.... it gets better and better

Or first minute of injury time.Every match.

What isn't, Mawson ? No great surprise as that never looked to be on the cards. Or do you mean any CB at all ? That would be disappointing when its a position we need to upgrade on. But if we can overlook the GK issue for two seasons it probably shouldn't come as a surprise.

Are they even similar players though ?

Far too ambitious and obvious for for Reed. Buying someone with a WC winners medal doesn't have the same appeal as buying a reserve player no one had heard of a year ago and watching him develop in order for the media to fawn over the fabled black box.

At £19m, I can't help thinking we could have done better for our money. Van Hanegem mentioned a Feyenoord striker linked with Newcastle. Having looked at the brief Youtube clips (yes, okay I know can't be relied upon but..) and read about him he did seem to have a bit more about his game than Carillo. Although to balance that perhaps Carillo hasn't had as much opportunity to showcase his talents at Monaco. So just have to trust Pellegrino's judgement.

Redmond reminds me of Danny Wallace, but I think it's more a recollection of Wallace in a Rank Xerox shirt than much else. Pretty sure I've seen Nick Holmes out there this season as well a couple of times this season.

I remember him playing in the first couple of seasons I followed Saints, and that he was a highly respected player, several older relatives saying he had been an outstanding right back and very unlucky to miss out on a place oin the World Cup winning team. Respected and dignified as a manager as I recall, and he was definitely an authoritive voice as a summariser on radio. One of the "voices" of football, and one of the gentlemen of the game.