Lighthouse

I wouldn't say we've hit the ceiling, Everton have achieved more with a limited budget. If we had a decent 20 goal a season man and a better reserve 'keeper we would be right up there with them and Spurs this season. In Lallana, Lovren, Shaw and Morgan we have at least 4 players Champions League quality. Then we've got the likes of Davis, Fonte, Cork, Boruc and Chambers who rarely let the team down. We just need more firepower up front and more consistency in our game.

When Yaya was Wanyama's age he was playing for Metalurg Donnetsk, a bunch of also rans in the Ukrainian Premier League. I can't remember much from Saintsforever back then but I'm pretty sure Mash wasn't on here telling everyone he was world class.

I think Chelsea or Man Utd will throw enough money Shaw's way to turn his head. Most likely Chelsea as Utd wont be able to offer Champions League football (will be a hilariously bitter pill for Utd fans to swallow, when targets start turning them down in favour of Arsenal, City and Liverpool). I wouldn't be surprised if some big clubs came in for Lovren too. Possibly Utd as they need a new defence and Vidic is leaving. If Lallana has a decent WC it will take a lot of money to prize him away. Chelsea, City and Utd are stocked for attacking midfielders. Arsenal will probably prioritise a striker and I doubt Liverpool would pay the asking price after what happened with Carroll. In short, I think he will stay. Guly and the out of squad players will leave. Osvaldo will eventually be sold back to Italy and we will probably lose a good couple of million. I think we will see some mild investment but in cheaper, young players. If I had to place a bet on Poch, I think he will stay. Mainly because I don't think he has done enough to get a big move away.

Wanyama can be a top player one day. If he can work on his composure and passing he can be the next Vieira or Yaya. It's a big if but he certainly has the physical presence for it and he's not just a clogger. With nothing to play for, the end of this season is the best chance he will get to assert himself on the team.

Thoughts on this one. I'm tempted to start with Gaston and Wanyama, just to see how they do. I know JRod looks lost when he is leading the line but so has Lambert recently. I'd be tempted to go with a front 4 of Lallana, Davis, Gaston and JRod.

You forgot Nugent. Averaged a goal a game for England before he signed, a true legend.

Was looking for a fairly decent torch to use at work and I came across one for £90 on ebay which could start fires at short range. It is completely unnecessary for my job so I didn't buy it, then one mysteriously turned up in the post a couple of weeks later. Checked my eBay history and it turned out I'd bought it at about 4am whilst steaming drunk after a night out.

If I had to bet I'd say England finish runner up in the group and lose the 2nd round, which would be 4 games. Baines will play pretty much every minute if fit. Shaw wont play. Lallana will probably be an impact sub or if not the first one subbed off if it's not going well. Lambert will probably be throw on with 20 minutes to go if we're losing. JRod probably wont go at all. All in all, I doubt the WC will be too exhausting for Saints English players.

Which is fair enough. If you enter a FIFA/UEFA (or anyone else for that matter) tournament, you should have to accept the other countries competing or not take part in it at all. It's hypocritical to say 'hey we want to take part but we don't want to play team X/Y/Z'. If you're in a Muslim country you should respect Muslim laws, so if you're in a FIFA competition you should respect FIFA rules.

So which 7 players wont be going to Brazil from that lot? I'd say: One 'keeper Cole or Shaw Cleverly/Lallana Stirling/Townsend Barkley/Lampard Defoe JRod Jagielka probably going to replace Caulker.

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For all of them and us fans. I doubt there is a player in the squad who isn't determines to get these four on the plane to Brazil (not to mention Gaston, Yoshi, Dejan and if Portugal get a couple of injuries, Fonte). We are a team. I doubt people like Osvlado or Kenwyne would give a flying f**k if their team mates go to a World Cup but our team is better than that.

Well Cleverly is still in the squad so the bar can't be that high. In fact Cleverly must be wondering just how bad he has to play to get dropped.

Fantastic. So proud. Let's pray the Saints all get at least a half each to prove their worth. Will be disappointed if we have to watch another 70 minutes of Cole, Rooney, Milner and Welbeck.

I just hope they get buggered senseless in the showers, given their beliefs it is probably much worse to them than death. You'd have to be f**kin' brave though.

Why the obsession with West Ham? I know SOME of their fans were a bit cocky in the Championship but that was years ago now. Every time we play them we get half a dozen threads saying, 'OMG look what they're saying on KUMB!' It just makes Saints fans look like a sad bunch of obsessed muppets. They won. They don't play attractive football but it is effective and they took their chance whilst we missed about 20. They deserved to win, move on.

It depends just where the political divide runs through the country. I don't know much about Ukrainian politics but it would depend on the loyalties of citizens in cities like Odesa, Mykolayiv and Sevastopol I guess. I can't see this ending any time too, Ukraines politics are just too divided. It will be a bit like Northern Ireland on a larger scale. Peace may be declared but the tensions will run for decades.

I always liked Vydra at Watford last year but he hasn't really made the step up so far. Would be interesting to see if HCDAJ in a better team than West Brom, if he was available at a decent price I'd take a punt. I think a lot of teams would like Benteke or Lukaku and I can't see us being their first choice. As dull as the league table may look, it's important to try and stay near the top teams if we are to attract top players IMO. I'm not sure about Michu. Maybe we could get the best out of him but I can't help but wonder if he was a bit of a one hit wonder.

I'm hoping to see Boruc Chambers - Fonte - Lovren - Shaw Morgan - Cork Lallana - Gaston - JRod Gallagher *Insert dull sarcastic comment about 7th being exciting, it was so witty and insightful after the Chelsea game. and the Burnley game and the West Brom game and the Sunderland game and the Yeovil game and the Arsenal game and the Fulham game and the Stoke game and the Hull game and the Sunderland game and the West Ham game

Kind of backs up Charlie's point regarding the general apathy towards the cup though. If people don't bother going to a game just because they have to sit in a different seat, it doesn't exactly scream cup fever.

If the rest were anywhere close to selling out, we would have opened the rest of the grandstand in a heartbeat.

That we've seen some absolute sh*t Saints performances in recent seasons. Compared to them, playing out a 2-2 draw with the Arsenal the result being pointless because we are so much better than half teams in the Premier League seems kind of fun. I enjoy many things in life, I doubt I will tell my grand children about 99% of them. Doesn't mean they aren't worth doing.

No, he's just a complete tit who spend most of his life on here pretending to be stupid in order to gain the attention he lacks in real life.

Right, we've done the 'sarcastically pointing out how exciting 7th is' routine for a couple of months. Please can we move on.

His positioning sounds pretty poor for a keeper. I'd say give that one a miss.