Lighthouse

Unconvinced but if Nigel rates him that'll do for me. This doesn't however prove any fan who doesn't rate him to be clueless, Strachan really rated Paul Telfer. Guly was inconsistent in the Championship so whether he can step up another level, like a glass coffin, remains to be seen.

I can't believe Pompey will be asking for a transfer fee for any of their players. Surely they need to get rid of everyone now just to stay afloat.

If Lowe took them over I would cry with laughter.

Plenty of options up front, reckon they could do quite well.

Surely that would just make a centre.

If we're forking out an extar £1m to avoid paying maybe a 20% sell on clause in the future, we must be confident of selling him for well over £5m in a few years. I hope you're right and that the kid is THAT good.

1. We can sign Clyne now, the tribunal fee is agreed at a later date and isn't negotiated between the clubs. We got our fee for Gobern several months after he went to Udders. 2. With your Cavalier attitutude towards finances, perhaps you should try and buy Pompey. Tribunal fees aren't based on value, they're based on the cost the parent club put into developing the player. Doesn't matter if it's Gobern, Dickson or whoever the fee is pretty much the same, just over half a million normally. That's what we got for Gobern, Dickson and Best and it's likely what Palace would get if we took them to a tribunal.

That's bullsh*t. Why would we pay £1.5m when he can leave on a free and they'd get about £0.5m in a tribunal?

If you can say one thing from that video, it's the lad can't half shift when he wants to.

WTF? They don't need to, he's out of contract. Maybe they mean we've agreed a compensation package to avoid a tribunal.

Puncheon has no link with Palace, whereas Butters does. It's not impossible, just less likely. It depends on the player. Butterfield is 32 and has 1 year left on his contract. Maybe he would prefer a 2 year contract and regular football at Palace, rather than being frozen out at Saints and looking for a club in 12 months.

There's always the chance we could offer them Butters as compensation to stop it going to a tribunal. Would make sense, decent Championship RB who has a good history with Palace. Wouldn't be needed here either.

I've been abducted and had several probes inserted about my person. Wasn't bad actually.

At this rate, the average name in our squad will be Dan Davies.

I'd love to be at Pompey's training ground for pre-season training. 13 first team players and they're publicly trying to get rid of all of them, except 2 teenagers in Harris and Webster. Edit: Oh, and a trialist called 'Must-have-a Dumb-Buyer' You couldn't make that up.

I'd have said that was the mark of a good team, rather than just a defensive one. Last season we had a decent defensive midfield with the likes of Cork, Morgan, Dean and Chaplow all working hard and tracking back to protect our defence. We had the second best defence in the League but we were still the top goal scorers because we had a good, well balanced midfield.

No, Brum got relegated because they couldn't score goals (lowest in the Prem when they went down). Their defence was comfortably midtable. Blackburn had several tallented players, including Dann, but were terribly managed. I'd be very happy if we got him.

lol Rant over.

Yep. Might as well ask them to find Shergar, Lord Lucan, Iraqi WMDs and the lost city of Atlantis.

I'll take a guess at the squad being: 1. Davis 2. Richardson 3. Buttner 4. Morgan 5. Hooiveld 6. Fonte 7. Lambert 8. Cork 9. Rodriguez 10. Do Prado 11. Sharp 12. Butters 13. Fox 14. Hammond 15. 16. 17. 18. Chaplow 19. Lee 20. Lallana 21. 22. De Ridder 23. 24. Davis 25. That's my rough guess at squad, with numbers. Room for another 6 signings in there, plus there will be a couple of young players like JWP and Shaw with squad numbers.

I was sat in the Itchen North. I remember most of the ground singing, "you don't know what you're doing" when Burley put Hammill on.

The worst Watford game I saw was the 3-0 defeat at St Mary's under Burley. That was the angriest I've ever been at a football game. It was complete managerial ridiculousness, retardedness if that's even a word. Appartently playing Euell at LM and Jermaine Wright at LB was better than playing Vignal and Skacel. It really was a case of shoving Wright in the team at absolutely ANY cost. JW must have had photos of Whisky George knobbling Leon Crouch's missus or something. We went 3-0 down with about half an hour left and Burley just sat there like a lemon, then in the 88th minute he decides to stick Hammill on to rescue the game for us. Appaling.

I didn't go, but what about Stockport under Pardew. Probably the worst team Saints have EVER played in a league fixture and they got an injury time penalty to draw 1-1. Think that left us about 12 points from safety and without a win in half a dosen league games. When I saw that result I honnestly thought we could end up in League 2.

That Leeds game was definitely the coldest I've ever been to. Think it was about -5 most of the day, it my uncle hadn't brought a spare hat, JustMike would have no ears now. I think it was one of the few games to actually go ahead in the FL that day. Remember meeting loads of other fans at Leicester Forest services who were on their way back home because their games had been called off. Had to listen to the Skates beating Liverpool on the Bingo bus on 5live, early kick off. I think the only highlight of that day was leaving the stadium on the bus and a big fat Leeds fan fell flat on his arse on some ice. He looked up to see 4 coached full of Saints fans giving him the sign language.

Why would they get £2-3m for a player who is out of contract? He will leave for free and Palace will get a small amount of compensation due to his age, usually about £0.5m. We don't need to agree anything with Palace, we can just offer him a contract.