Lighthouse

Say what you like, I've heard Kane cooks a mean breakfast.

A - we won't get £20m for Wanyama, probably about £12m. B - Utd won't sell Morgan for £15m C - Morgan won't take a massive pay cut to come here when Spurs have much more cash and Champs League football.

Lambert would be nowhere near our greatest 11. I think the only player who comes close since we returned to the Premier league is Toby and possibly Virgil. I'm not old enough to have seen anyone pre-Prem era but those two have been absolute class. I'd have Beattie or Pahars ahead of Lambert, let alone Shearer, Keegan, Big Ron, et. al.

Strike him, Centurion! Strike him very roughly!

Celtic and Rangers fans aren't religious, they just use that as another excuse to go out and brain each other. There would be just as much violence if they were all Atheist, Hindu or Jewish.

Ah, the old 'act like a complete fruitcake, then act like the whole thing was all a big joke and you fooled everybody' routine.

Who threw that?!

It would be a draw back I admit. Perhaps every club could host a charity match on Boxing Day and NYD.

6 league goals this season, which is only one less than our new saviour Shane Long. Granted there was a penalty in there but he's been more prolific than the likes of Davis, JWP and Mané playing in a similar position. Not that bad for an 'out of form' player.

Need they necessarily be held in European summer time? Anywhere in the Southern Hemisphere would be early summer in November and December.

... It were an annual competition. By which I mean we had one every calendar year with the break coming in winter not summer. I think it would be much more enjoyable having away days in sunnier weather with longer days. More beer gardens, fewer games called off because of frozen pitches (more of an issue in the lower leagues) and probably fewer muscle injuries. Probably better attendances too as I'm willing to bet a lot of older fans are put off by freezing cold winter games. I know it's not going to happen, just asking who would prefer it.

Apart from not being useless.

David Bentley, Christian Benteke and Jim Broadbent for scoring in that Eveton game.

What exactly did Heath do wrong part from his job and score against us? If there's one moment in our history Saints fans seem to have an irrational obsession over its that semi-final and Heath's goal. For me it's Roy Keane. Anyone who, by his own admission, goes out onto the pitch with the intention of deliberately ending someone's career has got to be a grade A kn*bber. I'm struggling to think of others. Nugent always came across as a bit of a tool. Likewise Riccardo Rocha, for smacking the ball at a fan in our most recent South Coast Derby. I get much more peeved at that kind of tw*ttery than people doing their job and scoring against us.

A statement which could be made about pretty much any team or individual in any sport in history, if we're being honest.

Alaeddine Yahia scores an own goal for SM Caen.

That's the spirit! Surely the oldest football cliche in the book is, 'a game of two halves'.

Unlucky tw*tbeard

Why would you define Saints managers by their win ratio? Might as well grade them by their hair styles for all the relevance it bares. To put it into perspective, Van Gaal has a better W/D/L ratio than Koeman this season. Does that hold any bearing on who has performed better this season?

Humour us. What exactly are you suggesting his win percentage is evidence of? There are old men managing over 50s pub teams on a Sunday morning who have a 90% win rate. Would you say they are of a higher calibre than Burley?

In the Championship, with probably the biggest wage and certainly the largest transfer budget, yes it was. When you're out spending everybody but the other team is equal or better in more than half the games you play, you're doing something wrong.

On the whole though we do have a good record with developing players over event years. All clubs have flops but few have sold so many players at such large profits like we have and are likely to repeat.

No doubt he did achieve varying levels of success at previous clubs but with us he failed. To say he was better than a disinterested Redknapp, who had only spent £90k on the squad which got relegated really isn't saying much. If anything the second summer properly summed up his time at Saints. Okay he could do nothing to prevent the departures of Bale, Baird and Kenny but how he reinvested the money was just hopeless. John and Vignal were decent enough signings but his complete ignorance of our defensive frailties, combined with a midfield recruitment policy bordering on fetish was just bizarre. Having spent about £10m, he left us floundering in mid table, exactly as he found us 2 years previously, albeit with a huge wage bill which put us into administration.

I assume you're joking but on the off chance you aren't; Bale, Surman, Pele, Jones, Dyer, Baird, Kelvin, Rasiak, Guthrie and Best all went on to play in the Premier League. Prutton, Lundekvam and BWP all had previous experience. Not to mention Skacel and Saganowski.

We scraped into 6th on the last day of the season. Given the money spent on an already talented squad, it would be akin to Man U scraping into 6th this season and climbing it a success. Anyone half decent would have taken that squad up automatically, we had an embarrassment of riches.