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That's not all that much of an ask when you're worth £160m. Short of buying his own Formula 1 team or aircraft carrier, Beckham has more cash than he could probably spend in 2 lifetimes. Giving away his salary for a 5 month contract at PSG, whilst commendable, isn't really all that special.

I thought you were being serious until I got to this bit. I wouldn't take a point now, I would be happy enough if that was the result but I think this game is winnable.

'Arry on SSN talking about the Samba deal. "I don't know nuffink abaaaaat the money, naaah guv, nuffink to do wiv me guv, I don't know nuffink abaat that. All the chairman"

In your previous post you implied people with a different opinion suffered from Down's Syndrome, yet you are not claiming to be more intelligent than they are. I believe the bit in bold when you can find proof of people saying, "We need to sign someone, anyone I don't care how good or bad they are." As in a credible post not one of our resident forum lunatics or some sad muppet trying to be funny.

Which isn't unreasonable. However there is a large difference between wanting to sign players with Premier League experience and going down the QPR/Redknapp route of players like Samba for £12m on £100kpw. KRG is suggesting people just want to sign players for the sake of it, which is clearly not that case.

Not as good as a rumour someone made up about Pompey last year. Some idiot on twitter was claiming they had signed a player called Must-have-a Dumb-buyer. Can you believe that.

Claiming to be more intelligent than other posters is one thing. You've taken it one step further and invented some ficticious posters to take the moral high ground over. NOBODY wants us to sign old has beens on ridiculous contracts like QPR have been doing. NOBODY is saying we should sign any old LB/CB/GK/AM or whatever out of desperation. NOBODY. My personal thoughts are that another AM would be good if the right player is available at the right price but we aren't desperate. I think we are more likely to see a couple of players leave, probably on loan. Depending on who goes we might need to find a replacement. Fox for example would need replacing as Shaw is the only other LB on the books. Chaplow not so much as I can't see him getting in the team anyway with 4 decent central midfielders already here. GK I think we will be alright until summer. Maybe a loan out for Gazza.

It's a must not lose match as much as anything. Just don't give away any ground to the teams below us and we should be okay, same as when we go to Reading and possibly Newcastle. Having said that, this game is very winnable. Would be tempted to start with Lallana if fit and Shaw too.

I might be up for that. Wasn't going to go as I was on my own and it's a lot of petrol for one person. Don't have a ticket obviously either. Will know for definite if I can go tomorrow evening.

I work at SOU and have just seen Chappers boarding a flight to LBA. Had all his training kit with him too. Sorry to see him go, good look fellar.

In the easiest fixture they will get all season. Still doesn't mean they are anything close to being safe.

Weren't Newcastle too good to go down in 2009? I don't see how you can call a team below us who have just lost their best player, 'safe.' You can't really rule out anyone in the bottom half. IF results stay like this and IF we were to beat Everton, we would be level with Fulham and a point behind Norwich and Wham.

Get your wallets out and empty it all on an Everton win. If I was one of our players I'd be gutted and not the least bit focussed on this game now.

F**k you Cortese!! F**king ridiculous.

Whilst we're waiting for Forren to sign, how about some foreign signs?

Rasiak left about a month into the season, Saganowski left in January I think.

Signing Gaston Fonte and Puncheon turning out to be decent when I had doubts in the Championship. Coming from 2 down to get something at the Bridge Steven Davis proving to be a disappointment. I thought he was our shrewdest signing of the summer at the time.

I never got the signing of Seaborne. I know he was young and left footed which vaguely fit the bill of what we were looking for at the time but he wasn't exactly what you'd call 'good'. Even the Exeter fans didn't rate him that highly and were completely bemused as to why a team with Premier League ambitions would sign him. Good luck to him though, he put a decent shift in which is more than you can say about some of the garbage we've had.

Gordon Bennett what a game that was. Luckily I'd had a few to numb the pain and the weather was really nice, in the low 20s for an evening game in September I think. Seem to remember everyone chanting for a substitution for about half an hour before Pardew eventually sent on Rasiak and Saganowski with 5 minutes left. I reckon that was pretty much the lowest Saints sank to. Losing at home to Bristol Rovers a couple of weeks later was pretty bad but at least we were in that game.

Has Jos done anything to deserve being dropped for a complete unknown? From watching the goals tonight, neither of the ones we conceded were his fault. Infact for the pair of them he put in a pretty strong challenge to deny a goal scoring opportunity moments before. I'd be tempted to give him a chance for now, until he puts in a stinker.

Has anybody said, 'get in there' yet? I think I might say it. Get in there.

It's normal for a new aircraft to have a few glitches. The 787 is more revolutionary in its design and construction than most previous Boeings so there will perhaps be a few more that with others. As long as this doesn't end up falling out the sky, like the Comet, the DC-10 and the Electra I'm sure they will sort it out. Airbus have had similar issues with the A380. Cracks in the wing structure and an engine demolishing itself in flight were perhaps a bit more dramatic than normal. Edit: Speak of the Devil.... http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/16/boeing-ana-idUST9N09U05C20130116

Sodium has better tits IMO.

Anyone made any good jokes about signing 'Forren players' yet? Can't be arsed to check the whole thread.

I think the days of electronic media being bought in shops are limited full stop. You can already download all the music, TV and film you want online. I honnestly can't remember the last piece of music I bought in a shop but it must have been 10 years ago. Why go all the way in to town (when the shops are open) and buy a CD for £2 when you can browe and buy any song you want on itunes for 99p. Surprised HMV sell any at all. I think eventually printed media will go the same way. Most people will have some kind of tablet, smart phone or kindle type device and will download all the books and newspaper articles they want on to that. It's here already, you can already subscribe to some newspapers on itunes. The Sun for example is £5 a month, about 18p a day and marginally less than the paper format. Once that becomes the social norm newspapers will pretty much die out. HMV as a high street shop has been living on borrowed time for a while. It's just natural high street evolution, eventually they will be completely obsolete.