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I see now that those who do not support the bombing will be deemed to support the terrorists!How do you figure that out Dave?

Which is all very well but how do you target these individuals?

I think "The Southampton Way" was a smoke and mirrors phrase dreamt up by The Don to hoodwink the fans into thinking we would dominate world football under his guidance.

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That rumour surprised me no end given that another rumour suggested that we had offered Morgan £60k to stay! Gotta love a good rumour!

Some Americans with the same (unusual) surname got in touch with my uncle a while back asking for information about our family tree. They sent him what they had found and it seems like we were Germans back in the 17th C and eventually came here via Ireland with the Huguenots. Probably explains my unique marching style.

We were thin on the ground squadwise and needed a bigger squad for Europe, although that didn't last long. Anyone can come on here and say the club needs to spend money. That has been going on for years. The difference now I think is that, having seen where running the club badly financially gets you, many of us don't fancy that again. It is not what you spend that is important it is who you spend it on (Osvaldo and Ramirez for example). Everything changes on here when we lose a game or two. It was only a couple of weeks ago that the forum was saying that we had a poorer first team but a stronger squad. Now it seems we don't because we have lost two matches on the spin (despite us only just losing our unbeaten away record). There is no shame in being a mid Premiership side with ambitions for Europe which is exactly what we are. As for the three players mentioned, up until recently Romeu was seen as a decent addition to the squad and Ron has always talked of Juanmi as being one for the future. Martina is just a short term make weight who probably wouldn't be here if it wasn't for our short lived Europe campaign. VvD and Clasie are both quality signings and Cedric is not a bad player. Stek has been an excellent addition to the club.

I get the desire to do something to show that we stand together, but Obama tells us that the French have been their buddies for far longer and he is holding back on doing any more at the moment. If they could prove that by bombing Syria they will make things safer for us in Europe I would have some sympathy, but the chances are that those who are going to commit the next atrocities are already in place and all the bombings will do is escalate the situation.

I heard that he was on £70k per week but be it 70, 80 or 100 all of those amounts seems well north of what we pay at the top of our scale.

I am struggling to understand what "Call me Dave" hopes to achieve with air strikes. It is all well and good to talk of "degrading" ISIL but what have the hundreds of missions that have already been completed achieved? It smacks of doing something for the sake of it rather than a well thought out policy to deal with the range of complex issues that we face in the Middle East.

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You don't have to be two footed to play on the left if you are right footed though. Premiership players are at the top of their profession and players of that calibre should be able to adapt and do a job for the team. I played for several years at left back despite being right footed.

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Playing at the back is the easiest position in football, You have the whole game in front of you and any decent defender should be able to play anywhere across the back four if needed. It is all about getting your positioning right and your awareness of where your team mates are as well as the players you are defending against. This is what lets Yoshida down. He gets away with it more when he plays at CH because he has players either side of him but he still manages to get himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. As for dithering on the ball the other day, again, his brain doesn't seem to engage quickly enough at times. As Whitey said, you rarely if ever see a Premiership footballer lose the ball like that. It was a schoolboy error.

Given that he rested Clasie too I tend to think that it was a tactical move and that he is saving Cedric for tomorrow.

That will please Batman. Is probably on his list to Father Christmas!

You haven't seen the support for him then when he has c*cked up at RB?

This is crucial. All successful teams have a consistent back 4. You can tinker all day long in midfield and up front but changing the back four for tactical reasons doesn't really work.

You are right. Yoshida has had a lot of support on here. Certainly up until his last c*ck up, although there were still some saying that he was a decent CH. Sadly Yoshi clearly does not learn from his mistakes. He is fine as a squad player but really shouldn't be starting in a Premiership team.

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