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Jesus christ.

TBF there are plenty of sportsmen who earn more than that. He is however, not that good.

So Scudamore has gone on the record to say he was lied to by the club, in order to secure extra payments presumably. And the Skates wonder why we call them cheats?

Legends since I started going to matches (89/90) are LeTiss and Liebherr. That's it. Nearly legends are Dodd and Franny. That's it.

We're much bigger than Leicester! Prob Sheffield Wed too.

The German version of the Mali statement says, I believe, that he died in the night of Monday evening/Tuesday morning. So the first anyone at Saints would have known for sure would have been later on Tuesday. When I watched the Bournemouth highlights for the first time yesterday, I did choke up a bit... this is certainly the saddest I've ever been following a death outside the family.

Cortese never said he wanted a "Director of Football" IIRC. He said he wanted a "Sporting Director". I reckon this tends towards the Les Reed role more than the traditional, "some crusty old ex-manager sticking his oar in" role.

He has shown himself to be an utter utter unpleasant idiot of the highest order. He should be banned immediately. ****

Right, but you're not the one preparing for Saturday's match are you? As Stu Phillips Romsey Benson Saint Dave has said, if the club feel it is the right thing to do then it is the right thing to do. Stop being so selfish.

A statue and a stand IMO. And while we're at it, let's get rid of "Northam", "Itchen" etc and have a "Bates" and "Le Tissier" stand too. Most of all, I wanted a passionate, united fanbase roaring us to promotion. I'm ****ing gutted. Let's make his dream a reality.

Wow, what an amazing picture. That's put a smile on my face and a tear in my eye at the same time! As always in these sad situations, one's first thoughts are those of sympathy to the people most deeply affected. Next are the thoughts of regret that Markus didn't get to see his ambitions realised in full but thankfulness that he was able to give us, and more importantly that Saints were able to give him, a cup win at Wembley. I only hope that Saints can continue to give the same pleasure and pride to his family as they clearly did to him. As far as I'm concerned, there are only a very select few people who you could call Saints legends. I'm too young to remember Ted Bates in his pomp or to have seen Lawrie Mac's cup winning team or team of the early 80s but those two, along with Matty were my three legends. There are four now. Thanks for everything Herr Liebherr. We can never truly repay you now but I know I will be roaring the team on with more passion than usual the next time I'm at SMS. And I'll have a lump in my throat. Thank you.

Any adult who likes Dr Who has some problems IMO.

Just watched the highlights for the first time - we looked class. Love the kit too. Unlucky Saints.

Why do you need to watch them to form a very strong opinion about them?

+3.

You have to at the Bournemouth fans a bit. They will turn up, 3,000+ (fair play) all excited about their big cup derby in our impressive stadium, to find a ground about one-third full with the vast majority of those being blanket and flask Itchen/Kingslanders, a few spotty oiks to their right to make up the atmosphere and, hopefully, a largely second-string Saints team on the pitch. Bournemouth.... derby? .... Don't think so! With any luck someone will have a big "Welcome to the Cherries, our friendly second club" banner or something.

What a thoroughly embarrasing and pathetic first post. It does act, however, as a tidy little illustration of why I have not renewed my membership of this forum.

By the way chaps, we don't have a sponsor this year so what better time to try this?

Come off it. Since when did football operate primarily for the benefit of the fans? 30 years ago? 40? 100? Feel free to hate this photography policy but to bemoan the commercialisation of Saints, as if it's some new fiendish phenomenon is absurd.

Bristol to Paddington peak day return is about £160. Bargain, not, I don't think.

We will win plenty of games so stop being a hysterical plum.

I love the way people say, "same problems as last year", as though we actually had serious problems. That'll be last year when for the final three quarters of it we had top two form. That's not to say yesterday was amazing but let's not pretend there are serious inherent problems when there clearly are not.

Lol. We have people complaining we're taking too long to buy people and he's being too circumspect, yet you drag up past history to try and claim the opposite, whilst suggesting a player who had a good debut, is young and was picked up cheaply is part of this imaginary problem. Good effort!

But that's not a realistic wage budget. Your turnover will be less than that. Our turnover in the Champ was less than that and we are a much bigger club. Parachute payment are spoken for. You'll be lucky to turn over 9m IMO so good luck with the 13m wage bill.