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I've highlighted the key words there... I know it's human nature for people to latch onto the vocal minority but it often gets twisted into being perceived as a prevailing viewpoint when most people are happy to give players a chance, regardless of any reputation that precedes them.

My Dutch friend in Amsterdam is a Feyenoord fan and said he was the worst player he had seen at the club; right now he is my hero just what we have needed for so long and I can forgive his lapses in control as I think his brain is ahead of his legs!

IMO it's between Downes, THB, Azaz and Leo. Leo wins it for me. Kill anyone interested in him in the summer.

Dear SR We have something truly special developing at the moment. There is every chance we will get to the play off final and be promoted and many of this squad are more than a match for most of the teams in the premier league. But even if we miss out on promotion this year, do resist the urge to sell our top players. Their agents may encourage them to leave for more riches, but anyone can see this current squad enjoy playing for the club and we enjoy watching them. So it's your reponsibility to keep them as a unit and build something special at Southampton. PS. Ok, you can see Archer for a few bob.

With Larin I think the feeling was 'never heard of him, here we go again..' compounded by the Feyenoord fans' reports. He put some of our worries to rest quite quickly, didn't he! His touch may not be the best but he's just the physical handful we've been asking for, and he's done some delightful lay-offs with his back to goal in addition to his penalty area contributions. As for Downs, you do wonder what was going on, both with the player and with the scouting. Paul Moody bought from Waterlooville back in the day had more idea how to play football.

Ooo Peretz, forgot about him

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That's what I must have seen. Afterthe beers watching us against Wrexham my attention may not have been very focused..

Peretz, Scienza, Azaz, Bree.

Like a short Peter Crouch really

THB or Scienza for me...so far. Sciena is the best player in the league, THB has been superb since Tonda came in, proper leader too.

I would go with Azaz. Cant give a concrete reason, other than thinking he is actually rather good, he was just the man instantly thought of.

I think 84 points would just about do it. Anything less would be very difficult to imagine. Boro are in bottom half form so would need a big uptick to pick up 12 points from 5. Ipswich and Wrexham away and Pompey at home next where they always seem to crumble against shit sides Millwall’s run in is very easy on paper would need them to lose one they’d expect to win. W4 L1 = 84 points Ipswich have a big fixture pile up like us but some tough games, 2 home games and 5 away. Norwich away next where they’re notoriously bad. W3 D2 L2 or W4 L3 = 83/84 points. Could happen. I don’t think for a minute we’ll win every game, but if we do then I think it’d be enough, possibly on GD

Oops, so they are. I didn’t look any further than Southampton. I wonder why they do that? Usually they pu TBA or similar.

...so just taking what we've seen so far. Im indulging myself a little with this, mainly because I very rarely slag the players off, frankly cos I cant be bothered, but the one player I did publicly insult on a few occasions is now the one player who would be first on my team sheet, and thats Flynn Downes. Hes completely changed my mind about him. I took him to be a bit of a Harry winks type player....a bit blah, just a recycler of a football ( thanks Russ) and not much more than that, but his game has totally changed. Proper box to box midfielder with a bite in his challenges ( again, didn't think he was capable) and fantastic positional play ( probably from better coaching). Close behind for me is THB ( turning into a leader) and Breezy. A more competent right back you couldnt wish to have. Would like to see him given a chance in the top flight if we make it.

The thing is a few people clearly wrote him off before he had kicked a ball for us which doesn’t say much about their judgement. Let the player at least show what he has to offer before deciding whether he is rubbish/good. Most of the players we have signed over the last few years I’ve never heard of before, let alone seen them play and know what they are like.

Agreed we have to be hard nosed about it. The likes of Tadanari Lee and Lee Barnard were good championship servants but not good enough for the prem.

I was going to mention this a couple of weeks ago. I genuinely didn't realise what a very good footballer he is. I just thought he was a target man but his touch and movement and finishing ability totally took me by surprise.

If we’re in the PL I think we’re going to need a bit better than a 31 year old who has only ever once scored double figures on this side of the Atlantic, and that was in Turkey six years ago. He’s adding a valuable contribution on loan in the Championship but let’s not let our erections get too hard about him.

I said Cyle looked like a shit signing on paper when we signed him. That initial assessment was wrong clearly and I'm very pleased that it was. I sti think it's odd that some posters on here don't expect other posters to have initial reactions to signings before they have played for us. We've had plenty of signings I thought would be great who turned out to be shite and vice versa. Nothing wrong with that, it's a message board.

Arguably the best back to back wins since winning at Pompey in 1976, 3 days after reaching the cup final. The manager made changes that day but not just for tiredness.

Imagine if we had him instead of Damion Downs at the start of the season... I rate Larin get him signed

American capitalism is the worst in the world. I don’t mind it elsewhere. FIFA are in on it as well, every bit as corrupt.

Agree to an extent. There were 3 issues last time - keeping too many of the promoted squad who weren’t good enough, buying in a load of junk and sticking to russball. So I agree the outlook would be better than last time

The thing is Cyle hasn’t from what I’ve seen “copped so much shit “ At all, certainly not on here. The fact he scored for us with his very first touch in a saints shirt means the vast majority of fans took to him immediately, so that comment is total bollocks in my opinion