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He was proper garbage I remember a game aginst Newcastle where we were 2 or 3 goals down very quickly with all of them being directly atributable to that waste of space and to think someone got him in to replace Benali, ridiculous.

Shame his career seemed to fall apart very quickly, a couple of injuries and some over exposure under the Dutch duo took what looked like a promoising upper championship midfielder and seemingly turned him into a non league player. Hope he does well and finds his way back into the football league soon.

Going to be a tough game I'm sure but I'd like to think we can turn them over at home going for a 1-0 win. Hopefully Richardson will be back and the defence with an extra weeks training together and a game in the dutch lads legs will be more together.

When exactly was he poor for us? Made his Premier league debut out of position at left back against Chelsea then got dumped at right back. The few games I remember seeing him actually at centre back like the Championship play off second leg he was outstanding.

Stupidly harsh on Claus nobody who is that crap would have appeared in as many premier league games as he did, seemes like the writer wanted to use that quote because it's classic Strachan so stuck him in regardless of ability the same is probably true of Carlton Palmer. The list is terribly written and misses out on one or two spectactular disasters that cost far more than our Claus, how about Sean Dundee 2 million quid 3 liverpool appearences no goals, Erik Meijer a fans favourite at liverpool despite managing 2 goals in 24 appearences or Ibrahima Bakayoko 4.5 million quid and 4 goals in an Everton shirt.

Hardly, I'd be happy to see him back in the red and white he is a class act at this level and would be happy to have him alongside Fonte.

Thats because your clealry not a real fan, before the age of 25 I had never worn anything but a saints replica kit, unless of course it was a side I was playing for which may or may not explain the picture of me in primary school wearing a liverpool shirt.

The only person really saying anything about us to the media is Warnock and he is a renowned gob sh!te who is probably hacked of that any player would even consider joining us over his mighty revolution at QPR. I agree this summers transfer dealings have been frustrating at times but I do like the fact we are being cautious with our money and only signing players that really want to be here. We could have spent the big bucks but thats a dangerous spiral I'd be fairly confident several of our top players have contract clauses meaning they get wage parity with any players comming into the club and if not I would expect a player like Lallana to be kicking the managers door down demanding a raise if we blew our wad on a player like Beckford. The team looks good and we are doing alot better than I ever expected this season, personally I'm happy to see Saints alive and stable and will enjoy what could be a few golden years in terms of on the field success. JP Trophy followed by a dramatic promotion and what is shaping up to be a great first season back in the Championship stop complaining and enjoy it life could be much worse we could all be Sheffield Wednesday fans.

I remember being well pleased with that bit of business, Prutton was Under 21 skipper and Higginbotham was just off the back of a brilliant spell at Derby and they were gutted to loose him. The club had a really positive feel around it in those days little did we know how soon it would all fall apart!

I think this season is viewed as one of consolidation and building with a bigger focus on promotion next season not saying that they wouldn't take it this year and I would expect if we are still knocking on the door come January we will see the cheque book opened a little. I'm not sure promotion this season would be ideal anyway as we would be looking at alot of new faces to stand any chance in the PL so I would expect an instant return to this level, with another season in the NPC we should have a team of players mostly ready and capable of playing in the PL.

Why we needed to rest Conolly and Chesterfield would much rather he arrive with some match fitness in his legs

Every time I read something like this I havea flash back to Sheffield Wednesday a few seasons ago when they hammered us about 5-0 half of which were Kelvins fault the crowd got on his back and he ended up giving us a 'nice salute' this place was baying for his blood after that. He's performed an amazing turn around!

The money could be much better spent elsewhere, obviously there is the slim possibility he will move to the championship and be a massive success by recent evidence from players making similar moves suggests not. We would be better off buying a proven league on striker or sticking with the ones we have as the quality level doesn't seem to be that different!

I imagine it will be a bit pricey for the average 'I'll have a pint of what ever is cheapest' football fan!

I remember when Strachan signed him there were a few grumbles but he came in and fixed our defensive issues in an instant he was a proper old fashioned rock at the back. Him and Telfer were inspired signings.

I would much rather we slowly built towards success than gambled vast sums of money and risked another spectacular and costly failure. Nolan would never have joined us he's only gone to West Ham besause Big Sam has some weird hold over him!

Neimi Dodd Svensson Richards Bridge Fernandes Le Tissier Oakley Bale Beattie Pahars Odd that that was practically our starting line up for a while, certainly the best side in recent times.

Our team in both seasons was good enough for promotion, we just made some terrible cockups, we ditched Redknapp and replaced him with Burley a decision that took us from just outside the play offs to the brink of a relegation fight and then in the following season Burley effectively dropped the leagues leading goal scorer from the side in January in all my time as a saints fan I've never been so baffled as I was by the sight of Rasiac warming the bench for half a season. Following that the wheels came off financially so we were basically screwed.

Would love to see him get a full season under his belt to finally show the club what he's capable of, he looked so gutted when he broke down again this season. Sadly I just can't see it happening I think his body is shot.

If thats not a very very happy boss then I don't know what is, if he looked slightly ****ed at the prospect of a pitch invasion it was probably only becuase he knows how much it costs to maintain probably the best pitch outside the top flight.

The Chamionship is full of big lumps playing upfront, just about every side has one be it Hiedur Helgusson or Jay Bothroyd last time we were in the champ the most common complaint on here was that we didn't have a massive out house of a centre back capable of dealing with all the big lumps we cam up against. I think Rickie will be pretty effective in the Championship especially against some of the lower ability teams.

Playing at his full potential Howard was one of the best players the NPC has seen in recent years if Adkins reckons he can get him playing close to that level again I'd be happy for us to take a punt on him. Plenty of experience, plenty of quality and believes he has something to prove to saints still.

Strange how his amazing throws didn't seem to be so effective last time he was here?

Everyone is just warming up for next season when the stripes return, if we hadn't sung it for a season most fans would have forgotten the words or doubled the pace or something.

I'd be very tempted!