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nervous? cos he is young. If he was African I guess everyone would be saying his mistakes were 'naive'. I think he could be a future captain

Sounds like a **** - glad he isnt in the building

So many embarrassing posts and no doubt Portsmouth scum ridiculing it on their forums. I hate the word skates - nearly as embarrassing as Poopey. or any other mention of fish. They are scummers - embarrassing how we have dropped it. The reason we hate them? Cant believe such a basic question from what must be a Johnny come lately and also others wanting to analyse something inherent in football - it's basic tribalism ffs. Swansea hate Cardiff. Newcastle hate Sunderland, Villa hate Birmingham etc - Basic of basics. Next question why is there war and not love peace and harmony? Added to tribalism is past experience - I remember plenty of pitch battles at Waterloo, Covent Garden. They used to come to Soton often as well trying to pick off Saints boys. They were the only f*ckers at Italia 90 who wouldnt bury the hatchet when Millwall, WHU, Chelsea et al were all happy to get on for 4 weeks. I don't personally hate all Portsmouth fans and plenty of reasonable sorts around and so many Saints ***ts that are worse but definitely 'hate' them collectively.

Attendance prediction league anyone? I have to agree with Crab Lungs 24304 for sure

Depends what you do with the £60million. There are numerous examples of parachute payments not stopping the financial haemorrhaging. Pretty much every club that gets relegated thinks the Championship will be a piece of ****. It is harder than ever this year with plenty of clubs having 'Premier League quality' players - and many with more than we possibly have. Also one impressive friendly is far too early put de Ridder in that bracket. World of difference between Fonte looking total class in L1 than him having to deal with likes of Rooney, RVP , Suarez etc so wouldnt assume any of Crab lungs mentions could do it in PL - even Adam. Not saying they wouldn't but not a given As others have said bookies are best indicators and any predictions from papers are not any more informed than any or ours - WHU, Leicester etc for promotion and everyone picking off Barnsley and Doncaster for relegation. Anyone could write it! Will still be stupidly backing Saints to win nearly every game though! Much better to be perceived as also rans although agree with one of the Sundays that Rickie may struggle with goals in Championship - hopefully I will be embarrassed by that statement come May!

how else would Emirates gate be consistently around 60000 when clearly many empty seats?

Mirror today says £500k + Gorkss - bite their hands off I say if true but they are even under 7% i'd say http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/transfer-news/QPR-looking-sign-Jason-Puncheon-Danny-Webber-while-sending-Kaspars-Gorkss-Southampton-in-part-exchange-deal-article776929.html

Excellent that he is on Twitter and just noticed Jack Cork as well. Hope he is more Joey Barton than Michael Owen Mind I could only work out one word from his most recent tweet! @RuurdEngelaar whaha w@nker! Aardig emotioneel mailtje dat je stuurde...:s

No offence meant old boy

You should go on the Apprentice

what were the new beers on sale at SMS on Saturday? sorry couldnt find the existing thread but then i am lazy

How come we are playing a WBA XI and Rochdale played WBA last night. Looking at the line up for Rochdale game they were the 'XI' as i always though that meant the youth, reserves mainly not the regular starters - could be wrong though.

Yeah that is all that matters age, no need to worry about who is the better player just get the youngest

yes website is so poor considering investment in club - on tickets page still have links detailing info on 2010 sales. Seriously cant understand why they dont revamp it. Just outsourced to the company that seems to have cleaned up. I too struggled to find much info about tournament

It was a good game - guess you don't go to many games and used to seeing 10 mins condensed highlights?

Not a thread that will run and run but according to Mirror's 10 things about Chambo He is 5ft 11in tall And his OS profile backs this up. No way is he an inch off being 6ft surely?

So many sanctimonious pr1cks on here. I'm talking about andy_porter and sandwichsaint on this thread but plenty more around. Whenever anything is raised they like to point out how people are tinged with bitterness. I have no bitterness towards Howe just amusing that we appear to have more pulling power than the team he appeared to want to manage more. Couldnt care less how Burnley do and happy for him to do well Fck me this forum has enough banal threads and post as it is with no real football to talk of just the odd rumour about players, beers, season ticket sales. Anyway my point is that you two are boring dull d1cks. Love you bye

yes the link states their media manager saying that but 'offer' includes a transfer fee to club and wages to Jack. Anyway you look at it we had more clout and were more attractive. Happy days

Quite amusing how Burnley couldn't match our offer for Jack. what with parachute payments and all http://nonaynever.net/4547/burnley-bid-1m-for-cork/ Did you join the right club Eddie? Glad you didn't come here but you wouldn't have even had to relocate and had a bigger budget. just saying

Too right - fckin embarrassing how bad the site is. Just renewed mine and isnt even any info to say no option to mail them - Comical the fckers running the club. Joke and so many mugs like 'Fan the Flames' here like to think they aren't moaners and accept this bs. Spineless twt! Poor from start to finish.

I only agree with post #9 not post #14

The point is do any other clubs have such a ludicrous window of 5 weeks. Can safely say Chelsea and Man City don't need the cash injection but assume they treat their fans with more respect. Don't go quoting Chelsea's exorbitant prices!

Just read the bumpf on the OS about tickets today - is there any other club in the league that limited itself to a 5 week window only and 2 weeks for renewals in the holiday season? Unbelievable and sure they have taken advice but cannot see one benefit of such limitations. Sure others realised before and has been posted about already but question is has any other club else followed this model?

Neil Danns on a free would have been good business. Shame Leicester got him

From their official site, a statement from the club: The Hearts Board of Directors has issued the following statement in relation to outside influences on players and the club. "What's happening with the club today is not a new thing. For almost 7 years we have been fighting to shield the club from crooks, criminals and thieves. Many of the top players at the club have felt the bitter results of the swindles that have been carried out with them on their own skin. Skacel and Webster have returned to the club after realising where these 'football patriots' have led them. "Over a short space of time 4 players at our club have been on the wrong end of the law. We note that 3 of them are represented by the same agent - Gary Mackay - who has been so vicious in his attacks against Mr Romanov. "Taking into account the facts that have been omitted by the media it can be presumed that each of these cases is not a coincidence, but the result of targeted actions of a mafia that wants to manipulate the club and the results. "Every year Hearts fights to be in the top 3, but even last season in the last 12 games of the season it was almost like someone replaced the team with a different one. Whose fault is that? Players? Manager's? Or it is mafia. "Stealing players, bad games, problems with the law - all of that on top of record SFA fines. Problems are just shifted to another level. "Mafia are dragging kids into the crime, in order to blackmail and profit on them. It is not possible to separate these people from pedophiles, and you don't need to do that. Each year we are forced to fight against these maniacs harder and harder. We are standing in their way not letting them manipulate the game of football in the way they want. As such they undermine us in every possible way they can. "The task of the club is to tear these kids out of hands of criminals." Ok still bored and nothiong to do with Saints although was a reference to Skacel but makes Cortese's references to undermining seem pretty mild paranoia in compariosn.