Barry the Badger

What sort of player do you envision doing the job we need? In which ways does Guly not meet up to this?

http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~2131709,00.html Is it just my eyes, or do those images look slightly photoshopped? wierd. Edit: On second thoughts, maybe it's just where they have artificial lighting on them.

Well the article on the OS says "he will add a controlling and inventive presence to the centre of the park", which seems to suggest they see him as a centre mid. However, the fact he has been given 11 rather than 8, seems to suggest otherwise.

Just remember to ask if they want a drink with their burger and you'll be fine.

Well done.

Dickson was pretty much common knowledge

Great work MLG, that's a terrific tribute. Poignant and really well put together. May I ask what software you used to create it?

This is the first time I've ever done a double take at a post :-)

I suppose at the end of the day this is all academic as we just don't know yet what the Liebherrs have planned. All I will say, and to an extent you've alluded to it anyway, is that for every club you can mention that's had a positive takeover, I could come back and name another who've had either an asset stripping shark (York City), a financial numpty (Leeds/Cardiff/Southampton), or just an away with the fairies type (Darlington) take over. If the Liebherrs want to run Saints as a business, on sound financial principles, that's fine by me and I don't want to be thinking about Saints getting sold. To be honest I would rather be a sustainable club built on strong foundations playing in the Championship, than be the play thing of some egotistical billionaire in the Prem. (Clearly Markus appeared to be the best of both worlds being both wealthy but also down to earth and building the club professionally, but he was something of a one off in my opinion).

The grass is always greener. Except, it usually isn't.

I think everybody accepts that we will always be weaker without Lambert. What people are hoping for is a backup player which minimises that weakness.

So would spelling his name right ;-)

In which case what better time to get this backlash out of the way now, whilst nobody cares, so that by the time we're in the premiership it's all blown over and papers are buying our photos.

Well that really would make things interesting if Doctors joined the fight to see who is most deserving. I mean, would they team up with the nurses against the soldiers? Or go it alone making it a 3 way fight? They could certainly do a fair amount of damage to an opponent using a stethoscope or a syringe, but still not as much damage as a soldier with, say, a gun or a tank.

Andy, how is your idea of everybody receiving the same education even workable? Even within the State sector there are massive fluctuations in the quality of resources, teachers etc from school to school. How on earth would you go about making sure everybody received the same education? If you closed the private schools, people would just get private tutoring for their kids if they could afford it.

Come on everybody, it really is very important that we sort out once and for all who is better and more deserving of free tickets out of nurses and soldiers. Perhaps a big fight would sort it out? The soldiers would definitely have the advantage in hand to hand combat, but the nurses would be better at fixing themselves up and getting back out into the battlefield quicker. I just don't know.

A reasonable thought, but I very much doubt that Markus would've been saying "go and negotiate with a player, get it all sorted, and I will transfer the money at the last minute". Even if he was bankrolling the transfers I can't see him just transferring millions of pounds on an ad-hoc basis.

Oh come on. Regardless of your personal feelings towards the army, you cannot possible compare the job of a nurse with that of a soldier. I don't think anybody is trying to claim that soldiers could be given free tickets as they can't afford them, more as a gesture of thanks for the job they do.

I think the troube with using the phrase must win is there's no context, why do you think we must win? Is it.... We must win because 6 points will be too far behind to catch up? or... We must win because if not the players confidence will suffer and it could lead to more defeats? The first is a bit over the top, but the second is a pretty reasonable statement IMO.

Was going to reply to this earlier, but couldn't stop laughing for long enough. Must win? Seriously?

:-)

The comment in isolation is not a problem, but that particular forum member has spent the last 2 days continually telling everybody over and over and over again that he isn't really that bothered about Markus' death. I get the impression he's just trying to push peoples buttons, and it's wearing a little thin.

Sorry Hypo, I know you are not that cut up about Markus and that you're just putting your opinion across, but I really don't think theres a need for you to do it over and over. All you're acheiving now (intentionally or not) is to somewhat belittle peoples emotions on this matter.

To be fair, he had a massive crowd singing 'One Marcus Liebherr' at Wembley stadium, and cheering his every appearance on the big screens. I'm pretty sure he was aware that we held him in high regard.