Lighthouse

Oh dear Tw*tbeard.

I'm watching on Swedish TV and the bottom one would put me in A&E inside 10 minutes. As for the game, why is Champions League football regarded as a necessity to play for England by so many people? I don't remember seeing Saints play a team this sh*t when we were in League 1.

No in a word. We stopped when the numbers dropped off.

Needs to be introduced IMO. Katie Price has just dropped another sprog and named the f**kin thing 'Bunny'

Thoughts on this? They have obviously made a very strong start to the season and going by MOTD they outplayed Chelsea in their own back yard for the first half. Clearly will be a very tough test of our new team, possibly more so than Liverpool on the opening day. The good news is the physicality of Costa caused them a few problems and I'd like to think Pelle could be equally effective given decent service. Should we stuff the midfield with Morgan, Cork and Wanyama like we did second half yesterday or go with the more attacking formation and start with Long? Away to a tough side, I'd be tempted to go with the former.

Only if we can find someone better. The days when Fowler, Ian Wright, Andy Cole and MLT couldn't get near the team are long gone.

And here we see everything that is wrong with football. Chambers puts in a string of excellent performances for Southampton and is completely ignored. He plays two f**king games for Arsenal and boom! England squad. Still it's two more than Walcott when he got taken to the sodding world cup in 2006.

Whenever an England player touches the ball in the penalty area, Clive Tyldesley shouts his name like he's just scored the winning goal in the WC Final. Mildly irritating. On another note, f**k me this is dull.

Worth £60 not to listen to Adrian sodding Charles. Watching this game but mostly out of pure boredom. I think Rooney will score and be hailed in the media as an inspiration performance by our new captain (against the mighty Norway). I would probably rather Forster is left on the bench. He is never going to be first choice whilst Hart still has 2 arms and I don't want to risk a pointless injury in this non-event of a game.

To be honest there was very little by way of mixed messages from the club. Most of it was from random weirdos on here and twitter claiming to be ITK. I don't regard the club's PR as being particularly poor either. What do you really expect them to do when players are leaving like that? We could have had tweets from the club along the lines of "OMG Lovren's agent is such a greedy bastard," or we could have hired Tariq Aziz to come out and say, "Everything is fine, nobody is leaving." I wouldn't expect the club to say anything on transfers other than confirming their departures. They don't need to make the specifics public knowledge and if they do it will only fuel rumours.

I used to live there and I can't think of many countries on Earth with a more diverse culture. I know not all of it is good and a lot of their history centres around killing the natives but it's not as bland as places like Belgium.

Southampton Redsox, it's the future.

I would give more credibility to the things mental patients write on cell walls in their own feces than anything published by Fox.

FWIW Suarez is overpriced too but then the value of players seems to go up exponentially the better they get.

Useless Safri scored an absolute belter once. The rest of Shane Long's Premier League career would suggest he is anything but prolific. Everything he has done to date would suggest he is a 6 or 7 goals a season player and for £12m that seems pretty disappointing to me. Yes, we could have hot dogs instead of Forster but I think Forster was decent value for money.

Obviously I'm not suggesting it as a serious business proposition. I'm just illustrating to the people who say 'well it's not my money so I'm not that bothered' (I'm not aiming this at whelk specifically) that transfer fees ARE important and that the bottom line on the balance sheets is always the fan's wallets.

If it meant another £12m to spend in January as we see necessary then yes I would. However there are better options out there for that amount of money. For £12m we could have given out 20,000 free season tickets. I'd rather we did that.

I can't put into words just how grateful I am. If there is anything I can do to say thank you, don't hesitate to ask.

Yoshi has done alright but I can't imagine Toby wont go straight into the starting line up. Mane probably on the bench.

The only disappointment for me is signing Long for £12m. However you try and dress it up with regards to Gaston's loan fee, £12m is double what he is worth and it stinks of a panic buy a bit to me. Overall though, very positive. I think overall our squad is stronger and we've made a profit of about £30m to balance the books and pay for the developments at Staplewood. I posted this in the locked thread, so I'll share it here again. Tadic replaces Lallana Pelle replaces Lambert Mane replaces Gaston Alderweirald replaces Jos Gardos replaces Lovren Bertrand replaces Shaw Long replaces Osvaldo Forster in Chambers out That's a pretty decent window IMO.

So Tadic replaces Lallana Pelle replaces Lambert Mane replaces Gaston Alderweirald replaces Jos Gardos replaces Lovren Bertrand replaces Shaw Long replaces Osvaldo Forster in Chambers out Not bad overall I think.

Do you lot seriously think we'd have let Jos and Gaston go if the deals for Mane and TA weren't all but complete? Patience.

Ignore him, he is a complete plank who posts nothing but meaningless nonsense.

Probably has double the shelf life of Defoe.

Not sure about James Beattie's shirt and tie combo. Looks like an extra from Anchorman.