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It is, but there's a danger you could win the battle and lose the war. There's a short term objective and a medium/long term aim to all this. It's a question of balance and judgement not black and white either/ or. We'd all love silverware, that's a given, but it seems the club has chosen to use the LC as a way of developing the squad and they're not the only ones to make that judgement. We have more invested in our academy than many others and potentially more to gain in the medium/long term. At the same time we want to finish higher in the league year on year. It seems a sensible approach to me much as I'd love to relive '76.

'Originally Posted by Olallana Tell me, how many great players were offering themselves to Wigan this summer? Originally Posted by Turkish So why did Ramirez and forren chose is over Liverpool? Please explain.' Maybe Liverpool chose not to sign them and maybe they were right.

That may be because we haven't in recent seasons played a PL side, one game away from the quarter finals. You can't prove a negative.

Delivery is very like Beckham. You can understand why the manager sometimes plays him on the right when he's probably better in the centre. Again similar to what happened with Beckham.

This season we're trying to get into Europe (I know the LC is a route to Europe...but there has to be more than one way to develop the youngsters and bring them through without compromising the first team and the manager needs to give the senior squad players game time).

Gus has made an immediate impact. Some classic Poyet time wasting in there. We've put out weaker sides in the LC for a while now and we've done nothing in the cups since the JPT. It's not Pochettino.

We've played weaker sides in this competition for a few seasons now.

As I read it, the article is telling us he got the sack because his chairman didn't have a viable plan.

They're different sizes. Palace, Fulham, Stoke, Tottenham have small pitches. Dembele was blaming the small pitch at WHL for their difficulty in breaking down sides that pack midfield.

Put the crayons back in the packet and tell us about Martin's head.

I think a journalist writes it from a conversation, probably over the phone, with Lawrenson.

Mourinho.

7 of our team are 25 or under. 6 of their's are 30 or older. Stats eh.

Agree, especially as many of them live south of the river and into Surrey. QPR, Palace of comparable size etc wouldn't have returned 1000 tickets.

Except that most of the footage in the analysis didn't appear in the highlights.

"I'm all for bigging up our players when they deserve it, but I can't be arsed with all this anti-big club players mentality just for the sake of it. The players you mention may not be world class, but then again none of ours mentioned are either." It's not about "world class" it's about the best players available.

I agree with your comments about Sturridge for Liverpool. He's learnt to play with his head up and links well with Suarez. I don't agree at all about Wellbeck. Since, as you say, his first touch lets him down he shouldn't, imo, be in the England team. Berkamp was interviewed on the BBC today and was saying its all about the first touch. Lallana's first touch is good. Has to be to give him time on the ball since he doesn't have pace.

Loads of them phoned up 606 moaning about Moyes. Only one of them with a Manc accent (actually he was the only one who was, as they all ought to be, supportive of the manager).

The fundamental requirement of a full back is to defend and Clyne is in my opinion a better defender than first choice Johnson. He has no international experience (at senior level) simply because, obviously, he hasn't been picked. Would have been a major risk to have put him in against Poland and quite right that he wasn't selected but there are two friendlies coming up. He should be given a chance in those.

Here it is. It includes a poll. 40% odd for the donkey. Unbelievable. http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?12867-Schneiderlin-Saints-Biggest-Waste-of-Cash-Ever/page3&highlight=Schneiderlin+Wotton#.UmLhzcu9KSM

He's always been quality. I recall a thread comparing MS with Wotton and incredibly many people preferring Wotton. Surely France can't continue ignoring MS.

“We live on the sea and a lot of Portsmouth boys go out fishing my way. I’d be out in my garden and I would hear the unmistakable accents. ‘You ******* scum, Redknapp.’ “I’d hear the abuse every day ringing out from the boats, even from our kitchen. They don’t hold back, the fishermen; they’re a tough group. Fishing for skates. Portsmouth to Sandbanks is a long way to row, or do they have a fishing fleet in Portsmouth?

Well it's all about opinions. Needless to say I saw it very differently. I don't see much of Swansea but when I have seen them they play through Brittan who is a neat player or as on Sunday through Shelvey who mixes it up with long as well as short balls. He's not Steven Gerrard but he stood out for me and I tend to be myopic when watching Saints.

The groans were low key. It was the sarcastic cheer when he passed to his own man which I found harsh. Sadly it was spontaneous.