Polaroid Saint

Sorry I should have added a smiley; it is a joke (satire even!) in reference to you mentioning the Falklands in response to my mentioning the Malvinas. If you don't get the comment, I am sure others will.

I like Gaston a lot and hope this is a cracking season for him. I also really like his Special Tea and hope that, following a successful season for Ramirez, I can buy a Saints branded 'Mate' bowl.

GOTCHA!

I think context is important. The fact this country and Argentina went to war thirty years ago and still have unresolved issues concerning the sovereignty of the Malvina's, then one might suspect an element of distrust and hostility to creep into casual language use, particularly slang. Its all about the descriptive noun or adjective accompanying the word, but in general I would say derogatory terms change depending on who is speaking, who they are speaking to and where and when they are saying it. But enough of my kike reasoning; here is Tim Minchin to put it all in context properly.

Paddy and Mick both have a long history as derogatory terms.

Not in Australia it isn't; Paki is used all the time in Oz to no offence.

Perhaps he'll get Puncheon's old squad number?

Obligatory YOuTube clip of this Fonte fella. Looks like HCDAJFU at CB. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqtX9cjE4LY#t=37

I'd like 'the bored' to refute the suggestion Saints is a "provincial club". Southampton is the City at the centre of the sixth largest urban area in the UK. Its football club cannot, sensibly, be referred to as 'provincial'; unless you are going by the definition of provincial as 'outside the capital' which would make all clubs barre those in London 'provincial'. Cheers n that.

Hope so. Bertrand, Taider AND Ings? Interesting deals (loans etc) but I am 'pretty sure' these are three players Saints have been linked with for some time, i.e. before the end of last season. Are these amongst the 'mythical' targets Uncle Les mentioned? They don't solve the CB problem or account for the 'exodus' but they make sense as improvements to the squad, regardless of what subsequently happened. The manager will pick the team, but who assembles it? Is RoJo Reed's CB? Koeman has his two new players in, maybe he'll get another one, another CB? Oh, and hopefully a GK; Dave Watson's choice?!

We are all misanthropic.

Genius.

Normally I draw a straight line and talk about points A and B; how they form a single measurable relationship of a shared distance. This distance can be described with a dimension tag, for instance 'width'. I then move onto a third point C and how that now forms two further measurable relationships with points A and B. These can also be ascribed dimensional tags in triangulation. Often this set can be described as having two dimensions, we might call it 'depth' for example. I then talk about moving one of the points off the page and up, this could then be ascribed the dimension tag 'height'. Suddenly we have three dimensions. I give these dimensional tags names like 'height and width' but I could ascribe alphanumeric tags (x,y,z is common). I would then talk about 'time' as it is another measurable relationship shared by two or more points, for example the 'time' taken to draw my example or for you to read this text. Alas, it seems, time can be easily wasted.

Always! :-)

Oh crikey, yes!

I hope that, when it is finally completed, the club take the chance to announce it properly. Like this:

I predict Saints to go 1-0 early in the first half up thanks to a Tadic screamer. Liverpool will then dominate the game but will huff n puff and won't score until Licky comes on as a 65th min sub and pulls one back. It'll all be Liverpool until the 88th minute when Saints get an unlikely corner... ...resulting in a Lovren O.G. to win the game for Saints. Lallana will then accidentally get on the supporters coach back to Southampton. You heard it here first.

This^ Gawd, I can only hope some of our, ahem, 'less patient' posters never have to try to sell/buy a house. It may well kill them.

Aye. From a global perspective FFP is just another in a long line of poorly thought-out regulations with which football can maintain the status quo. It is not just (these) regulations that govern Saints (and 98% of other clubs) ability/inability to 'compete' and such regs are not new phenomena. The 'best' clubs (my own objective agenda) ate always looking for a competitive edge in an increasingly closed market, for example in Saints case, the academy was always seen as a way to 'level the playing field' against opposition with more spending power. I think it is good that this geeky/murky football finance stuff has gone 'over ground'; as the more fans of more clubs that are aware, the more we can claim our clubs back as supporters and not be led blind by promises in either direction.

I meant no direct offence OldNick, you just posted an example of a certain way of thinking that comes with age. We are all guilty of it: Gradually we become less able, and less willing, to grasp new ideas and more vehemently stick to the ones we know. It is human nature. For example, here I have entered the conversation about football in general, the FFP and how it all currently relates to Saints. But then you start banging on about how I am 'desperate for RK not to be misleading' and that I am 'grasping at straws'!? Completely missing my point and my stance. I have been talking about this, posting about this and writing about this for a lot longer than either of the RKs tenure at our club. My interest in this goes beyond Saints, yet you still only think narrowly about your club - which is fine, but exactly what I said the problem was - it is forcing you to see things skewed, when a little perspective would really help you see things clearer. Believe what you like, but I am not holding Redslo's blog up as some sort of 'justification' at what is happening at Saints, I just feel if more people were educated to the facts of football then they would say less naive things like 'selling the family silver' in regard to player transfers and be more open to different (new) ways of running a football club.

The football club possibly, Mali for sure, DMWSLML90210 of course, KL no doubt, But the owner taking money directly out of the club, no! Please don't give any creedance to SaintRichmond, that is not what he meant!

You really have NO IDEA about football finances do you? Or even the corporate structure of the club you claim to 'support'? If you did you would not post such childish nonsense (I appreciate you may actually BE a child, in which case I apologise).

Blimey. A football blog that actually attempts to makes sense and looks at the wider picture. Good work Red. And thank you. Some of us have been trying to get this sort of info over to our fellow Saints for some time now. To varying degrees of success! Be nice to get the proper figures for some of the wages (Not sure FM ia the no.1 source for wages - sorry MLG!). And it is, of course, only one aspect of the modem game, allbeit currently the most important one. There is no conspiracy, all of this has been quite apparent for a while! Red has put it nicely in his blog and there are a few posters on here have alluded to such things. Alas it so often gets utterly ignored and dismissed; either by doddery old farts who can no longer entertain novel ideas (see OldNick completely missing the salient points in his post above!) or arrogant and wilfully ignorant fans who cannot entertain the idea that their club is subject to the same (though varying) pressures as every other club.

Its as much of a dig against Liverpool as it is us though, so fair enough!

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.