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Steady on, it was a decent team but Reading and Newcastle have both been promoted fairly recently with 100+ points. Anyway, Burley proved that having a decent squad in itself doesn't guarantee success.

I like how you say not that much, then give a figure pretty much double what he's worth. World Cup?! £50m?! He's a pretty limited bottom half player, in the £15-20m bracket I'd say. £20m just for being English.

Finally! Forgotten what it feels like. To think of all the points we've dropped playing the likes of Long and Davis, when we could have actually tried to win some games.

Standard 'Saints are winning away' injury time.

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The original Swing Low(e) coincided with the whole Sir Clive Woodward thing and was actually pretty clever by our standards. Now it just wouldn't make any sense. Lets just stick to banging the back boards really fast and supporting the team with song about Pompey.

All true I suppose. TBH I haven't put all that much thought into it.

It seems a higher number go into media jobs when they retire. Lineker, Owen, Henry, Shearer, Le Tiss, Merson, Nicholas, Dowie, Cottee, McInally, Mellor...

But we.... what?!

Nice to see Leicester not selling Mahrez has worked absolutely fine for them and has had no impact what so ever on the player or the mood within the dressing room. Why didn't we hang on to all of our players like this FFS!

Boufal, Austin. If they were banging them in, nobody would talking about Pelle and Mané. You're right on the other two though. How we've gone from a European champion to Jack Stephens being a regular starter I'll never know.

It's up there. He'd probably have the whole team shooting low at the near post from 30 yards, because those shots are impossible to save apparently.

If it was, that's the team MoPe would play.

McC Cedric Hoedt JS Bertrand Romeu Hojbjerg JWP Gabbi Tadic Guido Not rocket science, although I fully expect 10 possession keepers and Long.

A similar thought crossed my mind too. A couple of mind bendingly sh*te teams are going to stay up this season.

So he's decided to give strikers who can score goals a try. I must say I'm surprised, as playing a useless pace merchant against a defensive team sitting deep seemed like a foolproof plan.

No, it doesn't prove anything. Nothing MoPe has done, or will ever do, at Saints will change the past and what I saw under Puel. His position wasn't untenable but the pressure on him stemmed purely from the teams he played. In the beginning people accepted the low tempo football, mixed results and squad rotation because of the busy fixtures but once Puel had tamely navigated his way out of Europe, things just got worse. I remember belting performances from the likes of J Rod and Clasie, only to see them dropped from the match day squad for the next game. Playing for a 0-0 at home to Hull... f**k me sideways!

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2/10 Mostly because of the CB situation. A decent replacement for Virgil and it would have been 7. Promes or another attacking player of similar quality also needed for the full house.

Ha! Honestly hadn't seen that reply when I posted.

There should be enough in Carillo, Gabbi, Austin, Tadic, Boufal, Redmond, Sims and JWP to chip in with a few goals.... should. I'm far more concerned about our defence. We have apparently replaced Fonte with Bednarek and Virgil with Hoot.

Okay, I'm going to call it first - Hi Glasgow!

This. I can count the number of Puel games I actually enjoyed watching on one hand. By the end of the season we were playing for 0-0s at home to some bang average teams and aside from the cup final, we never really got close to beating one of the big teams.

Katie Price?

I'd have picked him ahead of Long. I'd rather try an unknown quantity with pace than persist with Shane.