Viking Saint

anyone know when the draw takes place??

true, but the thread title refers to whether we're sending out a marker, not to whether we're going to win the league....after 4 games, we're unbeaten, playing attractive football, are top of the table, and are winning plaudits for our style of play and attitude towards the game from neutrals and opponents alike.... by these tenets, we are indeed laying down a marker.....I'm not presuming for one second that we are going to win this league, but so far, so good, and a lot of things in this club seem to be going right.....after all we've endured in the last 5 years, where is the harm in enjoying the moment??

and, as an ex-pro rugby player who played under Sir Clive, enjoyed playing for him and respected him hugely, I still didn't feel you could transplant what he'd achieved in rugby into football.....the two are very different beasts and the inherent structures are incompatible

monumentally overblown self-improtant f*cking t*at........Rupert Lowe, with his extensive Football knowledge from his days playing hockey at Radley College, obviously the Messiah we were after.....it actually hurts me to think my club sunk to this depth.....we have an awful lot to be grateful for......Thank you Markus....

humour probably a bit beyond anyone who doesn't speak Norwegian!!

and lest we forget, Robbie Keane, international and proven Premiership goalscorer, is waiting to see if his move to LA Galaxy goes ahead for a 'mere' £3.5 million.....why aren't we throwing our hat in the ring there instead????

I feel he's the right kind of manager for us, and given the ups and downs we've had over the last 5 years, it's good to have our club back as one we can be proud of that goes about things the right way.....for years, we were a lot of people's 'second' team, or at least one which other fans admired for the right reasons, stability, family atmosphere, passionate but respectful.....it was a huge backwards step when we lost our way and our sense of direction in the Lowe years.....yes, it's far too early to be talking about promotion but results speak for themselves, there's a great feeling around the club and we're all on here generally being positive about our club so I think it's as good as it can be at the moment....

and Cortese has actually restored some much needed integrity and self-respect back to our club, which was utterly beyond RL

yep, and then refusing to reinvest it back into the club for new players!!

at least Ostlund was actually a fullback!!

yep, it's highly debatable whether Lescott was worth £26 million but he, at least, was a proven Premiership standard player and full international when he went for stupid money......AOC is neither and £12 million for a benchwarmer is a risk for Arsenal and very shrewd business by us......

agree....we should be laughing all the way to the bank!!!

Southampton born and bred but live in Lancashire, just got back from camping in Cornwall, bloke stops me as I'm leaving the pub as he'd spotted my Saints shorts and chats about the coming season, and the little nipper in the tent next to ours had the shirt from two seasons ago......however, nothing tops the Fijian bloke I met on a remote island in the Yasawas in Fiji wearing the hummel Denmark style shirt from the 80s....we are everywhere!!!

Matt Upson seems to have been ignored on this forum, and I'm pretty sure he's been released by WHUFC....any thoughts????

is this really worth a forum topic???

Elmander or Carew could easily do a job up front at Championship level and Upson is on a free....

agree entirely, would support any English team in Europe with one exception.....

can't argue with any of those really....

sizeable fee up front, plus sell-on fee or appearances/International caps fee, plus Owen coming our way please....can still do a job at CCC level.....

This one's for you Markus.......

its good to be a Saint

goal back, I still reckon we can hang on though ;o)

Forte off, Lallana on

there remains a monumental hypocrisy and double standards that fans can shout and scream whatever they like at players without fear of retribution or punishment, and yet if a player responds in kind, there's a campaign to hang, draw and quarter them......

********, Peterborough 2-0 up...not hitting 4th today then....(