Legod Third Coming

LOL - I reckon that qualifies as mad!

Er, we know that you muppet - G L A S G O W S A I N T.

I don't really know why, but I suspect I will probably stop going to games so much if/when we reach the Premiership. I am not a mediocre man (well I probably am, but I mean I don't aspire to mediocrity). But I actually love League One football - yes, even though I consider it a God-foresaken wasteland - places like Wycombe where Guy Ritchie could happily film his latest East-end gangland ruck - Sheds, Freds and Two Smoking Stewards... But something about watching this level of football, well it appeals to me immensely. I can really celebrate when Rickie or Barney score because somehow they make me think I could be out there. Whereas, a Ronaldo would just make me wish I spent longer in the gym and begrugde the little terd my cash when he stiffs his 599... Am I going mad?

What excuses you? Good behaviour!! In years past I gladly missed games...

That is what I love about coming onto this site, having your German corrected!!!!!!

You could be right, but I think Heskey was once quicker than he is now!!! Some players are just Premiership 'types' and some not. Don't get me wrong, I love Rickie and would love him to play at the highest level, but there are some strikers who just strike you (pardon the pun) as not quite Premiership standard. In horse terms he's top class but not high class... like Steve Bull maybe. I hope you are right mind!!!

He is. He is deceptively quick and incredibly powerful. Lambert is a better striker of the ball but Fuller was and is underated by many Saints fans (me originally included)...

So do I, but can I choose between Pulis and Lambert please?

I'm not trying to be funny my friend, but do you think the players or manager actually feel that a loss is acceptable/good enough? I think it's pretty inherent in sport that the aim is to win... And I wonder who is more upset at the defeat, NC or AP? I agree with you though, current form is good enough for automatic promotion so it ultimately depends on what objectives NC has set AP and the team. This we can ask him now... I personally seriously doubt he set him a promotion/play-off ultimatum but who knows...

Was he not present when Premiership Southampton were dumped out of the cup by Rotherham of European football elite fame...

Whereas he sat in his pad in Tuscany gazing out on his infiniti pool with his gorgeous wife in her monokini when the call came through from Lucerne... "Nicky, Nicky, 'ow you, mein fruendin." "Si, Si, Markus ciao bella." "Nicky, Nicky, I vant you buy me fussball club jah?" "Bella, bella, bellissimo da game of looove..." "Jah, jah find me schmall club mit grosse potential jah.. and den... wollen sie de trophy gewinnen." "Bella, bella, si, si, the leaguo de Campionis..." "Was? WAS? Nein, nein, DAS JPT Trophy!!!!!"

I would like to know NC's plans for sustainability but I think plenty will ask that question... Without 'debt' and given the cup runs and gates, I actually wonder how far off break even we are? I guess it depends on how ML has 'funded' us as to our debt... Still I'm guessing he's not laundering gun money or fuelling the pockets of agents... but I could be wrong!!!

Lol, great question.

I suggest we take Wycombe's groundsman.

Hence the word 'currently'... which we should remember and enjoy.

I would go further, we are the tenth highest spenders in England and luckier than all bar the top four teams in the Premiership. It's time the TEAM started to behave this way...but few of our players have probably ever been in such a position so I extend them some patience to LEARN about how to live with expectation.

Quite, see Lambert up front with Rooney do you? The new England dream team

No, Steve Gibson is worth what £100 million? We can afford to outpay any of the clubs in the Championship - if we want to. I doubt we would, because it would not be good business sense. The point is more whether he would want to go. But be under no illusion, football's finances are f u c k e d and we are one of probably five clubs in football who are 'currently' immune from this.

I can see the top four/five clubs basically marooning the rest of the Premiership. So few clubs can afford to pay wages - Hull, West Ham - look at Gold there, he's already told them come what may there will be wage cuts next year... There just isn't any money in the economy any more for football clubs to borrow to pay wages. I think salaries will come crashing down!

None of them can match our ability to pay wages.

The only CCC clubs that could match our ability to pay wages are QPR and Newcastle. So it depends what sort of salary we pay him and how much we want to keep him.

I honestly don't know Phil, but if you work on the basis that the average Premiership wage is 40k a week, then it would be easy to see how an 'average' League One wage could be 5k... Not for much longer I think the way football's finances are going! Weren't we paying Championship wages of £15k a week to the likes of Mule??

Lenny Lawrence already said when he left Bristol that Lambo had been made a 'life changing offer' trebling his salary and with a signing on fee... he might already be on £15k a week...

Well, there's more crap spouted on here than a Southern Water treatment works. Not a soul on this board knows what's in Nicola's mind.

The guy makes one statement about our league form not matching our cup form, which a blind man could see, and now he's in Pardew's office every day asking him to win the league by May...