Katalinic

Probably with a non-promotion exit clause I would imagine - sensible move for all concerned.

Are you Pardew and Burley's love child?

What they fail to grasp is that this thread has just been an amusing interlude to kill the time as the balance of power of the south coast shifts back to where it should rightfully sits. So you have finally been taken over? So what, I am looking forward to over taking you again - you know it is going to happen.

Although a very decent man I think what he went through has made many fans forget the situation we were in at the time of his departure - when he was put on "gardening leave" many Saints fans were calling for his head following some poor performances, topped off by a complete collapse up at Newcastle. I don't think he was doing a particularly great job at the time of his departure and like it or not, Hoddle came in and improved performances significantly.

Sorry if this has been covered but notice we have had a new GK coach for the past few games - it looks like Jim Stannard, can anyone confirm?

The standard of Scottish football summed up in a sentence.

The last decent corner taker we had was Le Tiss and since leaving The Dell our corners have been awful. Under successive managers since the move to SMS our corners haven't improved one bit - I doubt we have averaged more than 1 or 2 goals a season from them. The last thumping headed goal I remember from a corner was against Wolves a few years back by Alex Pearce when he was on loan from Reading.

Excellent Smithers.

Excellent Smithers.

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I still think it is too early to judge him Hypo and competition is healthy - if and when he gets a chance it should make him more determined to take it. For what it is worth I thought he had a great first half when I saw him against against Plymouth and out in some dangerous crosses. Quite a few people wrote Guly off after about 12 minutes of football in 2 games so you never can tell which way it will go for Dickson. I would imagine Joseph Mills has more to worry about.

Delgado with more pace, better touch, no dodgy knees and not precious about us remembering his birthday.

A good post and you can certainly put the likes of Mitchell in the same category as Carr - shepherds have them.

It was, I simply want to know which he thought was the better player.

Just interested to know which one he rated over the other.

Who was best, Fonte or Fletcher?

Craig Maskell

Jon Gittens and Graham Baker

How long does it normally take for the interviews to be put on the Solent website?

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Not exactly rocket science Turkish.

Spot on, RL is forced to spend far too much time out wide trying to get the ball - when he does there is never anyone in the box.

Genuinely, I can't think of any battling players in our squad.

We never win with a new manager, we always lose against an opponent with a new manager. If an opposing player is on 99 goals I guarantee they will score against us, if an opposing player hasn't scored for 20 years I guarantee they will score against us. We always concede goals against players who used to play for us and those with ridiculous surnames - Akinbiyi etc etc. It has become part of the Saints' Law.

Kelvin doesn't command his area and is indecisive on crosses imho. If there is to be true competition for places then nobody should be immune from being dropped.