benjii

Tired truism of the day award goes to Andy Durman.

Can he still afford to pay them?

I think this is largely true whether we'er promoted or not. Whilst we no doubt want to build over time, it might be considered likely that Jaidi, Perry (age), Trottman (back to Preston), Murty (age/injury), Lallana (sold), Connolly (injury), Papa (doesn't stay for some reason) can't be relied upon to be stalwarts next season. I might have done some of the older guys a disservice there and hopefully they will be raring fit and keen to play on but whatever happens this season it seems likely that we still need to conduct major surgery again either next summer or in January if the market allows.

I agree with that. In fact it is more in homage to what he's done that we need to sign another striker as if he gets injured we're in trouble (or at least we will have a completely boring second half to the season)!

Pardon?

I expect we are much better than them and if we play to 80 or 90% will win comfortably.

What the bejeezus are you talking about? Pearson gave him his debut in the penultimate game of the season IIRC. Burley, Dodd and Gorman had not seen fit to pick him before then and I believe he had also suffered injury problems. Please don't try to pretend that Pearson misused Lallana. You might as well blame Gordon Strachan for failing to pick Walcott or Bale.

Just watched the highlights. Great goal.

PMSL at the list of players sodding off in Jan and also at The Guardian article. They really are a complete joke now. I actually think the end could be nigh for them.

I'd love to know what people expect from a right winger apart from goals, assists and a tremendous work ethic. Keep up the good work Papa, those of us who know what we're talking about appreciate it.

The "luxury player" tag is completely misplaced. He puts in a hell of a lot of work defending. Reminds me of Kachloul who was also not appreciated fully IMO.

We must be intending to sign another striker in January. It's unrealistic to expect him to play every minute of every match and we don't have anyone else who plays his role.

Don't worry, the frankfurters containing the cash are sat in Dover waiting release as we speak.

You don't become a billionaire by being careful with your money. People become billionaires by being visionary and daring. By taking risks and seizing opportunities. (Although, I admit they could also inherit it, which I think is what happened to Markus, but anyway.... ) Anyhoo, how much he is willing to spend is irrelevant. Clearly he is willing to spend enough to give us a great crack at promotion, otherwise we wouldn't have signed Lambert and Jaidi. If people think we did that in accordance with a sensible budget based on our income then they are wrong.

I also lol at the fact you seem to think we still play "tippy-tappy" whatever that means. Shows how much insight into our matches you actually do have (which isn't surprising, all things considered it just makes it all the more annoying when you assert things that you have no knowledge of).

That may well be true but has absolutely no relevance to your claim that they "worked us out" tactically.

St Will, Alpine sticks to the rules even if he does talk nonsense a lot. You, on the other hand seem to have made it your personal mission to spoil every thread on the main board on which he posts. Please stop it. We all think it's pathetic and annoying.

Shots on target Leyton Orient 2 Southampton 9 Shots off target Leyton Orient 4 Southampton 8 Corners Leyton Orient 5 Southampton 13 They sure did give us a tactical masterclass. I long for the day when we can tactically wallop someone to the extent that the we manage two shots on target (one of which was in the first minute).

No, they haven't. Is your brain really that simple minded or are you just posting beligerent guff for the sake of it?

You think a team with a defence of: James----Lancashire/Thomas---Perry------Molyneux/Mills would be in the top 6 in League One?

That's because you were completely wrong.

I think it depends whether we are competing with Bristol and Plymouth or whether we are a potential additional bidder along with those two. Both will have bids far in advance of ours and regardless of how much better Southampton could be it will be tough to make up that ground. We are also assuming the political will is there. It would be quite easy for local politicians to say how they would back the bid, knowing full well that there is no chance we would be allowed to bid....

I agree completely with MLG. That kit and badge looks infinitely better than the current piece of cheap ****. We haven't had a decent kit since 89/90.

If you genuinely enjoy missing watching the match in order to stand in a dank queue full of smelly blokes in order to pay an inflated price for a ****e lager in a cheap plastic glass, which you then have 15 minutes or so to see off, despite having already paid over the odds to watch the thing you're now missing then fair enough. If, on the other hand you do this purely because it is ritual or you and your mates feel you have to because, "it's football" or, "I need a pint" then you are sad. IMO.