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Agreed - Mouldy coat is on something special, that or Alpine has a new account.

Cardiff at home - guess at the 17th

Loads have, even sky had us linked with him for circa £8m yesterday... Looks like we are very interested.

The lucky phew have been granted their first Cup final of the season, as the lowly Bournemouth take on Former FA Cup winners and recent premier league side Portsmouth in the first round of the League cup... Can the cherries rise to the occasion and overcome the noise generated by the mighty fish army (50people).... In fairness, Sky overlooked this match, it is one of the biggest ties of the round... and since there is no longer a serious derby between Saints and skates, surely they should have made more of this. Bit disrespectful to Bournemouth in all honesty.

Not exactly Neymar's goal vs Japan, won't be getting too excited just yet. I do think he has a solid premier career ahead of him, but he needs some quality first team experience to develop.

He is a total prat by all accounts, do we really want him at our club. And yes, I have you tubed him destroying Barcelona and Athletic.... he really is immense on the field. Do we want all that comes with him. Will he be our suarez or tevez?

The ground will be expanded in the next 5 years, people are kidding themselves if they think its not going to happen. Also, yes, the TV revenues dwarf the Turnstile income... but to argue that the club shouldn't invest increasing its profile, gaining more fans and improving its long term income is non sensical. If you can't capitalize on our current successes and the objectives we have, then when it ends, it will all have been for nothing. Bayern have record merchandising turnovers which put them on a par with the best in Europe despite having a much small tv rights income. The premier will not always attract the current market, other leagues will develop which will detract from it, and club merchandising and turnstile income will rise in importance. That is how I see it. The club can not and should not stand still, all routes of improvement should be utilized. And I want a St James' park style stand to go to!!!

It could also mean - "Man Utd... **** Off" - as an aside.

In fairness to the lad, having watched most of his interviews..... he is pretty damn slow. But then he is getting paid for his brains on the pitch, not in the real world with the rest of us.

No. That is just plane wrong. I think you'll find he is signed until he is 20 years old. 3 years from 17

There is nothing wrong with the likes of Andy cole, curetan, stewart, Ellington, hales etc... considering the clubs in Bristol are small in stature and struggle to compete rubgy, they have certainly produced some decent players. Don't let that stop you though, please carry on making us look like ignorant "arsenal/man utd, $hitty or chelsea" fans... good job.

Are we interested in John Guidetti? I have just heard a rumour to that affect, although it was over lunchtime drink and given with a sly smile. Dare I say this on this forum, but is there actually anyone on here who is in the know on this? Braces ones self...

Sorry fonte - championship/league 1, but my meaning doesn't change.

Sorry, come again? Who other than Steven Davis and fox had premier league experience.... Lambert had never played above league 1, lallana and morgan had a handful of games at championship. Hammond - league 1 Fonte - League 1 Jos - No english experience what so ever I could go on... what a joker... How you can slag the man off I will never know.

I think bridge could do a good job for us, he was the best fullback in the championship last year, and look how jayrod and clyne have stepped up from that level. Plus we all know that bridge can hack it in the prem anyway. His wages would be the key factor. Another point to consider, is which young players are we going to sign to be an understudy to an 18year old? I think this is key, because unless we stick with fox (shivers) then bridge is exactly the kind of player we will be targeting - older player with experience to impart on the youngsters. Also, who better to persuade the young shaw to stay at saints than someone who went to chelsea and city and wasted his career.... He also comes back to Shefield English now and again, so still has roots here. I also would like to think that he would be interested in repaying the club and fans where he made his career... perhaps that is expecting too much. The other issue ofc is Nicola's view of all things pre-take over are bad, and should be shunned or just never mentioned

I get fed up wtih people banging on bout heritage and demanding stripes. I want us to wear a miss Southampton kit next year... THAT KIT WAS AMAZING. Even watching it now I think how stylish we looked when we played our samba league 1 football! I also think that most people who bought this years kit are selling out the clubs traditions. The last good kit we had was the championship one last year! This years is a disturbing non entity.

Horrendous trolling surely, all those players joined the club between the ages of eight and 12.... Ergo they are products of our youth academy. Cesc was a barca youth product, ramsay was a cardiff youth product.... I mean how the hell can you say that and then count oxo as our player... By your argument he is an Arsenal youth product.... WTF

Percentage of the ground wise. A small minority want it. Personally, if people want it, the take all the seats out from northam area. The rest of the ground stay seated and are happy that way.

I thought Torres played for Chelsea? At least some of the time!!!! He's so ineffective I must have missed him playing for West Ham.. that explains why he only gets on the pitch every other game at least!! Also, is this another eample of West Ham cheating their way in the world... double registration of a player at 2 clubs at once, tut tut.

This is one of my pet hates at home games. Our players had slipped over 8 times in the first 8minutes yesterday. It is definitely worse for us that the opposition as well. Usual culprits are clyne, Big Jos, lallana and fonte. I think cork went over a few times yesterday. I don't know if it is our studs or our style of play or what, but i think it has cost us goals this season, at both ends (i.e lallana through on goal yesterday)... Needs sorting out for next season.

Change the record. Lallana has had some great spells this year but has been injured and subsequently in and out of the team and has lacked match sharpness. He had a great game vs stoke yesterday as well. Personally I would replace Lambert, and have JRod up front, lallana , punch and ramirez/davis

The lad got injured and found it difficult to get back into the team plus he has niggles on and off. This has culminated in a lack of match sharpness. Fans should be supporting a club stalwart rather than knocking him for me. He had a great game yesterday against stoke and we looked far blunter after Lallana and davis came off.

Good news and never in doubt. Ill go one further and say we should be seeing stadium plans this summer... If they trully exist anyway. Would be very telling if we don't.

When it comes to manipulating the fans, I honestly think that Nicola is a master. He has played us all beautifully on this one... when it came to Adkins' sacking he readily took all the flack and pressure by not attending the press conference... so much so that few people knocked Poch for effectively taking the job from underneath Adkins. He played Le Tiss into being a fool when it came to their "agreed" meeting - and numerous other examples with Le Tissier, so that the fans now side with NC over Le God... I don't think Cortese has made a single move at saints that he trully regrets in hindsight. This is just another example now, he is making a power play, and all of sudden "Mr behind closed doors" has whipped up a media frenzy for his won benefit. I have no doubts that NC is a ruthless genius, I honestly think at this point that he has intended every media interaction that has occurred, and the ones that may have gone against his plan are to small for him to care about. Ultimately, Its Nicola's plans, and he has not done anything wrong yet... so he if wants to take on the owners then good luck to him!

Worked pompey, chelsea and man city in fairness.