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AOC is a valuable commodity. We don't need to sell therefore we don't need to accept any offer just because it has been made. If he is going to go we hold out for the highest bid and believe me there will be intense competition to sign him. I really think that that if people on this board had been responsible for transfers we would have made £3m tops in the last ten years.

We know your opinion on Guly - there are plenty who have expressed disagreement - me included. Can we just leave it at that. Your opinion does not become more valid through constant repetition.

?????????? -this response does not seem to accord as a reply to the quoted post. I'm puzzled.

Sadly, some of our support only see mistakes. In fact they sit waiting for them just so that they can shout abuse.

Yep - and our support really helped him out of his bad spell!!!

Indeed. Guly played well until he got into the box where he looked like a player who had lost his confidence.

Yes. I've enjoyed your posts. Goodbye.

I agree with most of that Phil but I do not believe that double sessions imply harder work. My most successful year as a distance runner was when I did two sessions a day. However, I did not do a greater mileage than I had before but a varied considerably the distance and intensity of each session. My two key sessions a week were 3 or 4 repetitions of between 1/2 a mile and 1.25 miles at above race pace with jogged recovery and a 9 mile session at or near race pace. (They were hard work).The rest of the sessions were fairly steady. I also gave myself two days off before really important races. I was never a world beater but I ran to a good standard and I believe that I achieved what the limits of my talents allowed. There were clearly, for me, real benefits to the double sessions. In football, for example, one session could be fitness (varying intensities) and the second could be skills and set plays.

Yes - there is that old coaching/sporting maxim "No Pain, No Gain" and it is perfectly true. What seems to be less well understood is "All pain, limited (if any) gain". Hard work is needed to bring about fitness improvements but it has to be properly balanced with recovery phases. There has been a lot of physiological work done which indicates that the muscle and other improvements happen during the recovery after hard exercise. Continued hard exercise inhibits that build up. Cortese was implying that his other coaches were saying that Pardew had got that balance wrong. Not in itself a reason for sacking but I suspect it may have been how he reacted to being told this that was the problem (Just my guess).

Yeah - but we can all see how good people on here are at negotiating. Lets just give our players away. We think they are **** so they must be. Funny how they all look so much better playing for other people.

I am really glad that no-one on this board is responsible for negotiating transfers. You'd probably have sold Walcott for £500k because he was just a kid and any money for him would be a bonus. We don't need the money so why sell? If the "big" teams want him then they'll have to cough up. Its not what he's worth to us that counts in this negotiation - its what he's deemed to be worth to them.

We don't know how many people he interviewed but I would hazard a guess that he went for the person whose vision of how to progress the club most closely aligned with his own. Is there anything wrong with that? (and I am assuming here that he didn't simply say "This is my plan for the club - do you agree?" - which would be a bit pointless really!)

In all honesty, I don't think that it would change the ground capacity. The "steps" (tiers?) would remain exactly as they are except along the front there would be a barrier and you would probably need approximately the ground area that a seat occupies to accommodate a standing person. The problem is that the space created would be in the depth of the step and I do not think that they would allow two people on the location of one seat. Or maybe they would - I am only speculating. The main thing is the choice - not the increase in capacity.

Simple - in the designated area(s) of the ground take the seats out, put numbered squares on the ground in their place then put a barrier all the way along the row so that people in one row cannot move from one row to another. It will cost money - but not that much.

I have had an encouraging response from Caroline Nokes (Romsey). My letter to her was an amended version of the template. Her reply was: "Thank you for your email regarding Don Foster’s “Safe Standing” Bill. I am the first to admit I am not a regular attender at St Mary’s, but I do go occasionally and my secretary Jo is a season ticket holder and there for every home game. Like you, she is happy sitting, but has been making the point to me repeatedly that there are many people who would prefer to stand. I have not received a great deal of correspondence on this Bill, but another constituent raised it with me at the start of the week, and I did have a quick look at the content and the comments made by Don Foster in support when he presented it. I certainly have no objection to his Bill, so will support it when it next comes before the House. I very much appreciate you having taken the trouble to contact me on this matter."

Steve,The problem is that while I want to sit, I strongly support safe standing for those who want it both because I think choice is important and because they won't stand in areas where most people want to sit. The poll does not allow me to say that. BTW - the thumbup icon looks more like a w****r gesture

You appear to miss the fact that he is injured.

H'mm - the sum total of your analysis is "he is **** because I say he is!". I should apply to be on Match of the Day if I were you.

SS, I don't understand your defence of SRS (he of not very blessed memory). If 25% of the fans paying by DD cancelled their direct debits then Cortese was absolutely right to suspend it until a foolproof system could be installed. Just what is the justification for SRS's rants?

You are very naive if you think that he will say anything at all about Pardew's sacking. Also, I suspect that if you were fired from your job you would not appreciate your boss broadcasting his reasons for it to the nation.

He didn't come across as paranoid to me. Anyway - to quote Woody Allen - just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that they are not out to get you.

And I assume that the star they are following is Lallana

I cannot say that American owners have covered themselves in glory so far. Their track record has varied from mediocre (Villa) to abysmal (Liverpool) when not ripping off supporters (United).

In this case I suspect a pub somewhere in Skatesville. Does it occur to you that most "rumours" are just made up to wind up some target group or other. How many rumours reported on here have actually come to pass?