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Davis literally had no time to prepare a shot, and he's the smallest player in our squad (a big limitation when you're challenging for a header!), yet people are blaming him for our defeat. This forum deserves relegation.

Davis literally had no time to prepare a shot, and he's the smallest player in our squad (a big limitation when you're challenging for a header!), yet people are blaming him for our defeat. This forum deserves relegation.

Not so nice when it's not Nando's WestQuay is it Luke?

Not so nice when it's not Nando's WestQuay is it Luke?

I'm so glad we got this most awkward of all fixtures out of the way soon enough. Hopefully by the time they come down south it will all be forgotten as they sink into bench-warming anonymity.

I'm so glad we got this most awkward of all fixtures out of the way soon enough. Hopefully by the time they come down south it will all be forgotten as they sink into bench-warming anonymity.

Love how Davis gets beaten up for having a had as many chances as our three forward players. And I also find it hilarious that the "Southampton Way" delusion is still alive, meaning people find it insulting that we didn't improve on a player who has more national-level trophies in like 10 years than our club in all of its history. Wake up fellas, just because we've signed a few players, doesn't mean we have a better team than before, and if we sold 6 players for more than what we bought the new ones for, chances are we don't. For those saying Davis is terrible for quite literally the only thing he did wrong in the whole game, I remember Lallana vanishing from games and not making a single Cruyff turn, yet Davis was there picking him up with his passes. I remember us almost blowing away a 3-0 lead to a relegation-doomed Norwich, and there was Davis breaking away for Gallagher's first senior goal. I remember Lambert losing out on long balls time and time again, and Davis was there to pick the loose ball and find him a break. I remember Rodriguez running madly down the line, and Davis was the only one following him and able to leave him with a lovely return ball for a dead certain goal (remember Newcastle!). Our most regular, tidy, reliable and unfashionably creative player (I remember a few flicks, backheels and tricks that were much more effective than many by Lallana, Ramirez or Morgan) being destroyed by the gang for missing a chance while we keep dreaming of Ramirez, who now seems to have not been considered good enough for our starting 11 by THREE managers, and expect the club to sign the leading figures of CL teams. Sounds like we need a few videos of this summer to be sent to members of this forum, just in case they've missed it and don't realize who they support.

Love how Davis gets beaten up for having a had as many chances as our three forward players. And I also find it hilarious that the "Southampton Way" delusion is still alive, meaning people find it insulting that we didn't improve on a player who has more national-level trophies in like 10 years than our club in all of its history. Wake up fellas, just because we've signed a few players, doesn't mean we have a better team than before, and if we sold 6 players for more than what we bought the new ones for, chances are we don't. For those saying Davis is terrible for quite literally the only thing he did wrong in the whole game, I remember Lallana vanishing from games and not making a single Cruyff turn, yet Davis was there picking him up with his passes. I remember us almost blowing away a 3-0 lead to a relegation-doomed Norwich, and there was Davis breaking away for Gallagher's first senior goal. I remember Lambert losing out on long balls time and time again, and Davis was there to pick the loose ball and find him a break. I remember Rodriguez running madly down the line, and Davis was the only one following him and able to leave him with a lovely return ball for a dead certain goal (remember Newcastle!). Our most regular, tidy, reliable and unfashionably creative player (I remember a few flicks, backheels and tricks that were much more effective than many by Lallana, Ramirez or Morgan) being destroyed by the gang for missing a chance while we keep dreaming of Ramirez, who now seems to have not been considered good enough for our starting 11 by THREE managers, and expect the club to sign the leading figures of CL teams. Sounds like we need a few videos of this summer to be sent to members of this forum, just in case they've missed it and don't realize who they support.

Well it's only a matter of time before these lovely minorities impose their "multicultural" sectarianism in our territories. Unless a cheaply massifiable alternative to oil is found. I don't think Ms. Warsi's surroundings would've been too happy if she had left office for disagreeing with the Government's inaction on the barbaric, medieval progress of the IS.

Well it's only a matter of time before these lovely minorities impose their "multicultural" sectarianism in our territories. Unless a cheaply massifiable alternative to oil is found. I don't think Ms. Warsi's surroundings would've been too happy if she had left office for disagreeing with the Government's inaction on the barbaric, medieval progress of the IS.

I think it's a good spot by the club. Maybe expensive but he only joined hull a few months ago and did well. I can see him creating a few assists, knows the PL, is probably on the up after a few weird months at West Brom and can do well on the wing or supporting the main striker. Plus he sounds reliable.

If our CMs are not under judicial order not to shoot then I can see Davis getting a couple, maybe Wanyama who likes to have a shot out of nowhere.

I have family in Portugal who are regulars at Sporting's matches. Rojo is a very good CB, equally good LB which I presume is the position we were trying to sign him for. Don't be fooled to think Sporting don't want to sell him. The club are recovering from rather tough times financially (recently wound-up bank BES is one of their main creditors) and despite CL football this season still need at least a decent sale a year to honor previous debt negotiations. In fact, they've recently signed another FB and they've done that with their DM position too given the huge interest in their academy star William Carvalho (no offers as of today though). Their chairman may drive a hard bargain, but there is a very good reason for it: Sporting will only receive 20% of any transfer fee. The other 80% of the player's "ownership rights" (and therefore transfer money) belong to different people (mafiosos is a very adequate word indeed) from his agent, to a player representation agency (to which Sporting sold some of their rights a couple of years ago for cash), to his debut club in Argentina, to former club Spartak Moscow (a majority of it I'm told). Therefore, chances are that while Sporting would accept the original 10 or 12 million, the others don't, and of course Premier League rules mean Saints must buy out the total amount of his sporting rights (remember the Ramirez-Peñarol issues). And those other stakeholders would prefer an option where they can still earn money from the player moving him to a league where they are still allowed to "own" him, or else let him go but receive an extortionate amount of money.

We've lost our promising manager and best players and kept a number of players that give us a squad as good as Norwich's last season... In other words, not looking good.

We've read all sorts of stuff on here so I'm just going to assume your theory is that it was another horrible mistake?

Maybe the fact that the area is unstable, the French have been there for a year and their army are conducting the rescue effort? Are we just going to assume that from now on every plane that crashes is shot down?

AH5017 was operated by Swiftair for Air Algerie, a sort of Spanish version of Flightline (for the British airline market ITKs). It's called a wet-lease arrangement, where you pay an airline to operate with their crew and aircraft on your behalf. Extremely common practice around the world, especially in the summer months where the demand is higher but not enough to make it viable to expand organically, which is probably the case with Air Algerie. It's also common for start-up airlines to do it. Seems that a very bad sandstorm may have caught it...

Possibly the weirdest bit of business I've ever seen. You have to question Chris Hughton's credentials.

He was a bit more than that it seems, as he was basically attending boardroom meetings with administrators every day. I think he's got the best tactical awareness of our whole squad. The one-two with Clyne for our 2nd goal at Fulham shows what he's all about. Simple, fast, super sensible, reliable. If our midfielders weren't under judicial order not to shoot at goal last season I think he would've got a couple more! One thin I noticed about his passing, is that it can also be positively unpredictable. I remember a fair few times in games where he was on the ball, and picked out a passing option that got a few Uhhs from the crowd. He comes across as a bit of a brainbox.

Right guys, looking for a nice weekend break for me et partner. We've already travelled abroad this summer so we're looking for somewhere on these shores. We're looking for something in the South West, more specifically Devon and Cornwall. Because it's 3 days max. we're not too keen on little villages (maybe a bit unusual but we prefer isolated places for longer holidays). Therefore, we decided to look at a few seaside larger towns (not that many anyway). Out of personal curiosity I looked up and found some really nice looking things in Torquay, from which I've had good opinions from people I know, the last of which told me it was getting "better and better". I've never been, the area does look quite nice and I am fairly tempted to book something down there if we do decide to go ahead with the plan. Anyone been recently and has any advice about it or any other place around the coast? We're not particularly fussy, we like nice terraces to sit and have a drink, a nice enough seafront and a fairly long shore of sand to walk along so nothing special! Thanks in advance!

Is there a Dutch traditional equivalent of a B&B?

That map is not so weird when you consider that another flight out of the 10 deviated by exactly the same distance to the South of the main path... To see if it is that different, and to avoid the angry speculation of anti-Western Westerners in this forum, we need someone to find each airline flying Europe-Kuala Lumpur and their last 10 flight paths over the area.

I doubt we will ever know what happened, at least with the evidence required. The crash area has been compromised, it was ages before it was cordoned off (journalists broadcasting live from quite literally on top of the debris included) and the rebels were there first and are making sure people only see what they deem acceptable, as it can be seen by the troubles the first investigation teams have had in reaching the area. I'm sure the black boxes have probably been stolen as well as any possible evidence of a missile. They are probably still messing around with it as we speak. I know that it is common around the world, but I can't understand why the hell are planes allowed to fly over extremely active war zones. I know commercial flights now fly over Iraq and Afghanistan, but they didn't when the wars there first broke out and it took a good while before air routes were opened and I'm sure the resident pilots can confirm the immense restrictions that exist in such places (I found an old edition of the Airliner World magazine in my basement with a report on the reopening of the central Iraq air route). Less than a year in, I'd imagine IATA, ICAO and all the air travel institutions would've made sure that no traffic would cross that Eastern Ukraine area. Did they just think it was a minor thing a la Georgia? A final word to the media in the place. So fast to take pictures of bodies and on top of wings and ashes, and tweet it to everyone, yet no one thought about cordoning the area off with whatever they could find. Not much they could do if they had guns pointed at them, but yet there were no efforts to try to isolate the area until today. Speaks volumes of the press of today IMO.

Maybe add ons to take it over the 20 mark. I don't think he's worth that much money, which makes me think that we didn't really get such an offer. Maybe his agent was playing games, or the club trying to raise his price? Remember Shaw and Lallana were rumored to be leaving for a little bit more than what they did.

My bet is the eve of our match at Anfield, where he will be watching from the stands with Sky focusing heavily on him. My bet is somewhere between 15-18 million.