benjii

"Look", as an opener, winds me up. ****ing arrogant, idiotic affectation beloved of politicians, other media interviewees and frustrated managers desperate to demonstrate assertiveness. I blame Tony Blair. ****.

Probably find a bunch of Europeans / Africans with surprising lineage in the run up.

Quite right too. After all, it's been six world cups since USA hosted one.

Good to know the VAR will be wearing full referee kit in his little room.

It does look that way. Sturridge, Walcott, Shaw, Sessegnon, Tosun, Mawson.... which one happened? "Southampton’s scouting network is also active across Europe, especially in France where one potential deal is close..."

So, basically, he just wants to build some trashy golf resort there.

Every year!

They put salad cream on fruit salad too.

Well you started the ****ing thread!

I doubt Forster is on £95k. My info was that Austin and VVD were top earners on around 70.

I can hardly contain myself.

VVD was probably on about £70k, which is what our top earners are on roughly. Carillo is probably on £50k, at least. It won't make much differnence in comparison to the drop in revenue.

Would be gutted if we sold him this summer. Although Ralph's interviews recently suggest we will sell anyone who shows the slightest inclination to leave so I wouldn't be too surprised if we did.

Indeed.

We currently pay some people more than he is on at Stoke so it would really depend who else is interested and what they are willing to offer.

The Frankie Boyle programme on Russia is worth catching on iPlayer.

Good point. I forgot about Lee Todd. He was truly amazing. He would definitely get in ahead of Colleter.

I think he's a little over-rated, although it is surprising he's not in their squad. Goetze, scorer of the winning goal in the last World Cup Final wasn't in the initial party either.

GK - Forecast RB - Lloyd James CB - Davenport CB - Scott Marshall LB - Colleter M - Dani Rodrigues M - Jamie Redknapp M - Jason Euell FW - Maskell FW - Dixon FW- Speedie

Neville Southall's Twitter account is quite entertaining at times (although sometimes it's like an archetypal Welsh / Corbynista / "Tory bastards" political parody account).

You have a remarkably relaxed to attitude to people entering a country on false-papers for someone who appears pretty anti-immigration. Or is it ok if you're white?

Indeed. Crouch or Carroll would be more use as an option off the bench.

I wasn't thinking of Walkabout. That's round the corner. It was called something else under the stadium. Can't remember the name though.

Were you in the Ozzie bar underneath?

A big part of the euphoria of the Poch season was the realisation we could be a good team after a few years in lower leagues. We had a team with a freakishly high number of home-grown players coupled with players who had seen us through two consecutive promotions and fans felt a real bond with. We hadn't been raided by competitors at that point. We've seen now that anyone who does well will likely leave before long. Those circumstances of the Poch era are not going to repeat themselves.