Greenridge

Saints Web may be a new board but the same posters chanting out the same rhetoric. Cutting costs is very very easy. Cutting costs whilst maintaining similar or superior performance is not.

I don't always see eye to eye with Alpine but on this one I do. And why the attitude with the post? Saga is / was a 'bit part' player due to mismanagement by Burley during the course of last year however he really seems the best option we have to fit in with the new formation. As with many, I have massive doubts of DMG being our number one striker and a few pre-season goals won't change that opinion. Saga's amount of clubs is worrying there is no doubt but I still see him as the best option. The whole scenario, as confirmed by JP, doesn't have a lot to do with ability but solely costs (wages). If you believe anything else you are in cloud cuckoo land. If we can get the equivalent for less then absolutely that is sound business sense. However if it results in a team that is unable to maintain it's CCC status then it is quite clearly not.

Faint.....and if DMG gets a hatrick I'll be looking for a hat and some salt and pepper.

Thanks for posting David and good luck with your goal scoring attempts for us this year. I tried reading your previous post but with so many asterix's it was a little difficult. I agree entirely regarding Lallana and I believe he could become quite a player in the future. If, as you said, and I tend to agree, we need a certain type of player to fit in with the new style and formation then for me it has to be Saga up front. He's shown what he can do but suffered at the mismanagement of Burley last year.

Hopefully in time we will see numbers back to something like it was on TSF however for the moment it is pretty disappointing in terms of user levels...

I'm looking forward to 12 o'clock. As for the rest...each to their own but who was at the helm when the 7 million was so 'wisely' spent by Burley...

Did you think about what you were going to type before making this post? Obviously not. So Rasiak didn't score a hatful when he played during 06/07 and John didn't score 20+ in 07/08. Of course we could rely on the goal machine that is DMG.

Would you like to tell us where this occurred..Port Vale perhaps?