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Where do you start? Heskey, Upson, Gerrard on the left, Rooney, taking King when he was obviosuly not fit enough to play a tournament, sticking with a system that did nothing for the team, not dropping Terry after that ill advised press conference....he wasn't helped by his players but he made a hash of it.

Alpine Saint in negative post shocker. It is mid July. A few weeks back you were bleating that we hadn't signed anybody and within a day we had. If the right players are available and Cortese sign the cheques I am sure more will come in. You sound like a man who has bet his mortgage on us coming no lower than 2nd, LOL. What does concern me though is that these are the type of signings we would have made a few years back. For someone so desperate for promotion I don't see Cortese splashing the cash - just solid signings, not spectacular. We do need a class goalscoring midfielder and they don't come cheap.

A few years ago, that... We would miss Owen Hargreaves so much? That Emile Hesley would still play? That Wayne Rooney would be one of the worst performers in an England shirt? That we would have one of Europe's top managers in charge, pay him so much money and that he would keep his job after making so many mistakes?

I feel sorry for Webb. What a lot of t*ssers. The only way they will learn is to be sent off but you can't blame him for wanting to keep players on the pitch. Torres must be the worst player in a World Cup to pick up a winner medal. Will we remember the Dutch for Total Football now are Total Thuggery? Apart from the odd game a poor WC. How do you win it with one decent striker?

I get that too. I think it is the way he runs. Good player but runs like an arse.

Poor old Alps, one less reason to moan. Mind you, if we don't sign 4 more players in the next week there will be another negative thread.

There is no way we will walk this league. We need to get the right players in and it will be tough. We have a good base but still need to build. Anyone who thinks it is a cake walk is living on another planet.

Aren't you the same person who was having a pop at national stereotyping a while back? Nice to see you that you have widened your net from the Scots/Northerners to the Spanish!

There is a difference though between someone else doing the job and reporting to you and doing both jobs yourself.

Classy

My money is on Nicola Cortese becoming our Director of Football.

Agree that the starts have not really shone apart from Villa. Some even look like CCC players in the competition..what happened to Torres? Messi is gifted but it hasn't happened for him at all. The Germans have been awesome but then they always find something extyra in tournaments whereas we go the other way.

All this talk about lack of technique...the problem with our side is lack of football intelligence. Rooney in particular plays like a kid in a playground. The Germans play it simple and easy and are showing everyone else up. We lost our discipline early on and lost our heads soon after.

Comedy gold!!!!

To be fair it it was going to affect the company financially you could understand it, but with the Echo story that Cortese freaked over and this, if it is ground improvements, that is hardly earth shattering news.....

I have it on good authority that there is a sweepstake at SFC about how long it takes Alpine to have a seizure over lack of transfer activity. Pardew and Cortese have both drawn dates in August.

I wonder what justifies your arrogance and complacency too Alps? That same team won a cup, beat Norwich at home and had one of thebest goal differences in the league...but hey, just keep looking at life through your sh*t tinted glasses eh.

I have been supporting the Saints since 1966. I can't remember many, if any, times we have made a shedload of signings in June/3rd July. If we start the season without the replacements we need then Alpine's impatience will have been justified. But that is not going to happen and we are just going to have to put up with more of these negative posts until we draw/lose our first match and then he will be negative about Pardew again.

Cortese out!

Why is it okay to use technology in virtually all of teh other top sports and not football? One of Durham's arguements is that it couldn't be used on Hackney Marshes. So what? You are lucky if your get nets, referess and linos! The whole object is to score a goal. It would have taken two seconds to confirm the ball crossed the line from Lampards shot without goal line technology if the 4th official had looked a the reply. I also had to chuckle at the way he and Ian Wright derided callers to his show saying England were going to lose against Germany. Wright in particular was well over the top in his support and knocking those who didn't blindly follow his patriotism. I support the England team but I am also realistic enough to see when they are not at the races.

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If you say so Wes, but I disagree

Things have improved football wise so that is something to be thankful about. Cortese is probably cut from the same cloth as Lowe and ceratinly doesn't have any PR savvy, but if we keep going in the same direction does it really matter? I was concerned about his apparent lack of support for the manager and lack of knowledge about football, but if he backs Pardew and lets him do his thing that is all you can ask of a CEO.

LOL, I thought this thread was about England v Germany not SaintsWeb v Alpine Saint. I am looking forward to next season when Alps looks for the Palace result before ours in his Austrian bunker so that he can have a pop at Burley.

That is becuse religion has very little to do with geographical boundaries.