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What do you want to bet he just made up some quotes? That or he has a dossier on all of the above posters.... call the police!

The same best english right back who is being kept out of the team by young chambers? Honestly, we don't even thrash the worst team in the league and all of the sudden Southampton are going to win the world cup. This place swings from depression over cortese to we are unbeatable after beating a soon to be relegated side.

I personally prefer the new kit (minus the gold)... The era of hapless southampton has gone, we are now the red and white wasp like team, hassling the opponent at every turn and buzzing with energy, enthusiasm, hard work and attack attack attack. We are not sunderland or stoke... and stripes was not our original kit. Therefore, new dawn, new kit. Lets rumble!

You are asking the wrong question.... Name decent english qualifying ball winning midfielders... Jack Cork, Morgan, Gareth Barry? James Milner I'm stuck In all seriousness.... Jack deserves a cap in one of the upcoming friendlies... However, if Poch is going to drop him for the kenyan donkey upon his immediate return to fitness what chance does he have of playing for england.

JWP will not reach that level. And wilshire will never reach his potential. Has a ready made excuse for everything, plays up all the time and has an all round horrendous attitude. I honestly think you are more likely to have a mixture of AL, JC, RB, JW and AOC in england's midfield. Prowse has good technique, next carrick maybe (Spain, just like barcelona, must be shivering at that prosepect )

Whats wrong about a lunctime kick off? Beats being stuck on a train platform at 3am surely?

Please stop quoting Barry.

Quite excited! In fact, haven't been this excited about a first start for a saints player in a long time!

Gallagher is quality. How many people don't actually watch the team or follow the kids? The lad has a very bright future indeed and we will be seeing a lot more of him. As usual a large portion of the saints web massive need to catch up with the times... just like people questioning whether shaw was ready last season or stating chambers is rubbish compared to clyne etc etc... Gallagher has far more potential and ability than reed (a good player in the making), and has shown more of it in his brief glimpses... Yet some on here talk about reed as if he is the second coming waiting to happen... Just like the hype over warde prowse, who is a tidy technical player with a good work rate and can hit a tidy dead ball.... "the next gerrard" for some... We could do far worse than have gallagher up front tommorrow... Jayrod has yet to do it for the club as a lone striker, and after that I'm struggling to imagine something other than a 4-4-2 with Guly and Rodders up front Also if lambert is actually out, I wonder if young Ryan will make the bench, although Arsenal would be to much for him I suspect. Great potential in the kids, yet people write them off far to easily.

Rumours of Monaco being in for him to replace RF. Pretty sure they would pay a few bob.

I'd like sunderland at home, and for everyone to kick the actual crap out of their players.... propper cup tie like.... But with a score to settle. Injure enough of them and we can get fair payment for them, poyet, and hopefully get the bastard relegated.

always destined to go in one direction... He also doubled the ground capacity, built the countries top youth academy, got us to an fa cup final and Europe... All on a shoestring budget. His only weakness was that he scripmed on managers and wouldn't overspend until it was too late. People knock him fine, but where we are now there is little bad about RLs management of the club and a bell of a lot to be grateful for. He built everything that is positive about the future, the liebherrs could walk 2m and the club would continue because of what Lowe built. If only he could have kept( rather than fallen out) GS, GH or NP's class we would have done well. Yet ironically our fans refer to him as some kind of devil. A tad harsh.

Damit, I concede, thought I had you... schoolboy On a side note, what do you make of Inter pulling out of the exchange deal with Juve since osvaldo headbutted Fonte. Interesting no?

I'm afraid that's incorrect mathew... Honestly, tut tut! Sub fonte and shaw for fox and yoshi + resting adam after first half (3) Bring in Lambo + JRod + Morgan for Gallagher, guly and JWP (3) Bring in victor towards the end (1) Whichever option of the above you chose... its 3 subs, plus victor - that's 4 substitutions? Or am i struggling with 3+1 =3? Now.... On the subject of maths.... Following Osvaldo's headbut, inter have immediately done this... Is the deal back on with regards to the osvaldo-Guarin swap, or is this a case of 1+1 doesn't = 2?? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2545124/The-Continental-Breakfast-Juventus-furious-Inters-lack-respect-Vucinic-Guarin-swap-U-turn.html

Another thread where I have to disagree with you. Wellbeck can't hit a barn door at 4 paces half the damn time (If I wasn't at work I would look up the stats for you for both players!). As for chambers, the kid is class... to say he is nowhere near clyne's level is madness. There really isn't much in it to be honest.

So get rid and sign ings and top ince? What we should have done in the first damn place.

Can we not terminate his contract with immediate affect and sue him for subsequent losses?

Thats wrong for starters, there are countless examples of autocratic leadership bringing great success throughout all of history. The difference is not all succeed in that way and when they go wrong, they go wrong big time. That said, Cortese clearly knew what he was doing, and our journey to the top will not happen under KL.. You are kidding yourself if you think she will get someone in who can manager the club with the passion, ambition and cold blooded efficiency of cortese. The decline started when we where 3rd in the league, about the time that he handed in his notice funnily enough. The proof is that they knew NC was leaving and yet we have a team leader from deloitte as our new CEO.

The last 2 in table 14 for me. Prefer this years kit to stripes tbh. Makes a nice change, and we look like red and white wasps the way we press and hassle the opposition. Suits the new southampton tbh.

Found this article on Yeovil.... Not directly related to the cup but I think it encapsulates the spirit of the cup and the fight of the plucky underdog... I enjoyed the read at any rate http://theclassical.org/articles/yeovil-at-the-junction-the-hard-way-to-the-big-time-in-english-soccer

Its says the wanda group aren't buying us, but not their owner... Football clubs are the play things of owners, not corporations. The quotes mean nothing, other than the unusual measure taken to deny them on behalf of the corporation...

I like the current kit, like a lot of fans do. If we are to "revert back" it should be to proper traditional kits, not the stripes.

John Williams is the boy, if we can't buy success, lets be run by the guy in charge of pgmol! Winning through the back door!

Likewise I mentioned this when NC resigned... Not several days later. Its been going on for a couple of weeks, just not widely known. Leads me to believe its true.. or at least something in it. That said, all that has changed since I first heard about it is that NC has resigned and a guy called MLG started a thread online. I actually wondered at the time if NC resigned because club wanted to sell the club to a buyer who had no interest in involving cortese, although that appears wide of the mark.