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And once again a poster and fellow Saints fan has been flamed for expressing a heartfelt view. It's not Barcelonasaint who should be hanging his head. What a place this has become.

Good post...agreed.

Nah.

Guy needs to wake up and smell the coffee...he doesn't deserve to be dining at the top table of football in England or anywhere else. Loan him out of here real quick and get a decent replacement in pronto. I didn't want to say anything, but I never trusted his beard anyway. There...said it now.

We will win on penalties after a 2-2 thriller.

We should saunter into the next round, even with our 2nd string out. But the cup usually turns that logic on irs head. I cannot imagine we will risk 1st team players with the Arse on Tuesday, so the road to Wembley might be somewhat slippery on saturday.

You see you've made your usual mistake of not reading exactly what you've quoted. You said I made a ststement when in fact I asked a question - so if anyone has demonstrated a lack of intelligence, I'm afraid you've scored an own goal there fella. And you did try to shoot down my comment by comparing Negredo...but that's ok I can understand why you would be embarrassed by that. Anyway, point I was attempting to get over was that IF JRod was back in the Championship now, he would not be worth anywhere near the suggested £20m even though he might appear to be better than he is now.

I dunno, perhaps, just perhaps, he seemed like that becuase he was up against a lower level of defender? Don't get me wrong, I think he's got a lot of potential and he's certainly improved with MoPo, but he's worth nowhere near £20m at the moment.

So based on overall skill and results, you place JRod at the same level as Negredo??? What???

Lets put it this way, if JRod wss plying his trade in the Championship now, how much would we expect pay based on his current form? Not £20m...I would argue more like £5m to be honest.

Mmm, interim eh. In my experience the appointment of the CFO, even on an interim basis, is a sign that all is not well in camp SFC. I would wager we're seeing the 'swan principle' in action here...beautiful on the surface...paddling like fook below.

+1 - well said - don't hold your breath though. Trouble is, some posters have learnt that the only way to get a reaction on here is to make a contentious statement and then it's a troll feeding frenzy.

I've always wondered why the stadium was not called The New Dell or The St. Marys Dell. Far better than anything else IMO.

Very well delivered communication - said what was essentially needed without too much waffle. Time will tell in terms of her ability to maintain the momentum. One possibility that nobody seems to consider is that KL is acting as an Executor to her Fathers will. Perhaps Marcus made clear provisions about how the club should be run and she is ensuring this is the case.

Be careful what you wish for springs to mind for some reason.

Good summary.

I hate Brown - absolutely terrible player and how he didn't walk for what was a cynical two-footed, studs up, through the ball to player challenge, I really don't know. It looked to me as if Lovren's injury could be his Achilles gone when he extended his leg - not good? Hope Boruc has not gone and injured himself too. Two weeks will be a good rest opportunity with Kelv in goal for Yeovil. Lambert - incredibly - was for me the worst Saints player in the pitch by a long chalk - just hardly made an impact. J-Rod as a striker is hot'n'cold - one minute a fantastic goal, next a string of awful misses when it's on a plate. Onwards and upwards - the good news is we're not being challenged yet for the ninth slot. We do need some fresh blood in the camp though, although Wanyama and Osvaldo will be like two new signings I guess.

I think there's far too many people trying to put a spin on this that actually doesn't exist. FACT - KL has publicly stated that she tried to keep Cortese in place right until the last minute. This was no sacking. FACT - Cortese was more than just a business contact to Marcus...they were close friends and I would imagine that his family including KL have known of Cortese for quite sometime. FACT - Cortese had been working notice for some months, but was still in situ...not on garden leave. That tends to suggest to me that KL trusted him completely and that despite possible wishes to change the corporate governance of the business, there was no ill-feeling between the two. So yes, the OP has revealed a personal case where Cortese has not agreed with his POV. So what? As Duncan has so rightly said - it's peanuts in the grand scheme - but actually more to the point, it has zilch to do with Cortese leaving the club. These people live and operate in a different world to nearly every forum member (including myself) I would suggest...one that many it would seem do not understand. It would not surprise me to find KL hosting a dinner party for the Cortese family over the weekend frankly.

LOL.

The word from the monkey petting zoo is that times they are a changing. Make of that what you will.

Well kind of...I have provided the criteria for us getting 3 points to be fair. Depends on who the players respect the most perhaps...NC or MoPo?

Indeed. Likely though?

The whole thing smacks of either... (a) Cortese has a role lined up e.g. at AC Milan, or (b) KL wants to sell Luke Shaw and Cortese wanted to keep him here or he would leave. Or both. So perhaps we shall see the departure of Luke Shaw and possibly others such as Lallana and Schneiderlin before the end of the January window. Unless of course, the vision for the football side of the business was not Cortese's atall, but that of Les Reid - the chap that has for some time wanted to see a special club like Saints nurture top English talent for the England team. And of course if KL wanted to sell the club, would it not be better to sell it with the best players in situ? Perhaps there's more to this than meets the eye.

'Like'.

Would really love this to be true - I think this lad is a class act and would fit in well with the system. It would give us more depth in the attacking midfield area for certain and would mean the likes of Guly could be off-loaded.