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I can't see Wolves being anywhere near the danger zone to be honest, and I suspect Fulham will pull away from it as well. I'll swap West Ham (Dildo Bros, & £110m !!) with you though for Newcastle. But lets not get carried away this time last season everyone had said Palace were nailed on certainties.

Josh Sims update:

Anyone in mind ? Can't be us as according to Ralph we're small.

Time to remind ourselves, in a Branfootesque way, "Southampton can't afford to live in the same street as (insert ...in this case)Bournemouth and our supporters had better get used to it..."

Wonder why this didn't catch on: WE seem to feature quite often in their best bits at Nottarf Krap.

So, Saints might have our fixture moved largely to accommodate Liverpool and Chelsea even though both have an embarrassment of riches in their squads and are likely to field reserve teams for the Cup tie.

Yes, good one but although I recall the goal and celebration that memory was overtaken the same night by the euphoria at the end, and the wall along the front of the terrace collapsing. Then a few thousand Saints fans charging onto the pitch (Oh, the follies of youth...).

Great memories Pilchards aren't they ? Thank you for bringing this topic up and giving the opportunity to dig these memories out of the archives. Reminds us that it hasn't always been sh!t following the club, especially in the days before Sky/corporate era.

Can we bring in a player out of contract still ? Presumably that is now precluded by having a 25 man squad already named.

Immediate thoughts: 1. Moran v Pompey 2. Gilchrist v Palace S/F 1976 3. David Armstrong last minute v Man Utd 1981 4. Ruddock last minute penalty 1980's v Newcastle 5 Stokes v Utd 1976 Strange that Stokes lower than Gilchrist's S/F goal but my recollection (quite young at the time) is that the S/F goal was great excitement that we might be going to the final. On the day itself, when we scored my initial reaction was a few seconds for it to sink in. Honourable mentions: Le Tissier v Newcastle 1994 - first and second one Channon - team goal v Liverpool 1984, and first v WBA FA CUP replay 1976(after about 30 seconds) De Ridder v Reading away (strangely random selection) Fisher v Villa (although never imagined where it would lead). Arm chair category - Lambert v Scotland An interesting thing here is that as a general rule the celebration factor increases with theimportance and lateness of the goal, enhanced significantly by pre-match beer consumption.

Some corkers in there. I thought Kornelius an unfootball like name but then spotted the following: Rio Kamil - stage name of a pornstar surely? Roland - how many more Rolands have there been than Ruperts? Caleb Cassius - don't find many of them around Siphesihle - shortened to syphilis by his friends

Do we need the nuns yet at this stage of the season?

Can't run, can't link the play up, now fails from 12 yards...

Next one might be his, although knowing our luck he probably won't be on the pitch at the time.

Why doesn't this surprise me ?

Not sure it's a change in the club's approach so much as calibre of player coming through. I doubt if we had another Bale, Shaw, or Walcott on the books we would have any hesitation in fielding them.

But was Waigo the 'new Chicken George' ?

On top of which the PL clubs are known to be awash with cash compared to other leagues. And any selling club doing their research will be prepared to up the cost believing our negotiating team have shown to be weak it seems. Shame that our targets don't embrace a VVD approach of to throwing toys and strops to get the move. Perhaps they save that trump card for after joining us. Whether Promes would have been a good fit or not, we'll never know.

On the Luke Shaw diet then, that bodes well.

Not sure that is within our style, even with Mark Hughes as manager. Romeu can be a bit overzealous in his tackling, and possibly Lemina, but apart from those two it's not an area we prosper in. JWP ?? If we do, then at what stage do we go down to 10 men?

Or a new (slimline) Wanyama ...

Doesn't come across as happy with the 'project' he signed up for.

Or £35m next summer if he performs for the full season.

I don't recall that, when things were going well he received a great deal of praise and equally was happy to bask in the reflected glory and media attention. It seems to me that the turning points were the Alderweirald fiasco - especially considering his public statements about it and interview before TA ****ed off to spurs - and then the souring relationship with Koeman. After RK left of course the criticism went up a level owing to two poorly handled appointments, and then sticking with the clown. Whatever 'credits' Reed may have built up have dwindled and now overtaken by two clusterf*ck summers with the appointments and signings in that period. To offer some defence to Reed though we don't know what limitations or brief he is working under from above.

Suspended surely? Wouldn't mind seeing Gallagher and Gabbiadini up front together.