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Mate got a flag with 'Lordshill Village' made for Steau game in 2003. Still has it

I believe he has proven that over recent seasons and has delivered year on year improvement. Sorry, what am I saying! It hasn't been Reed at all, think the consensus is that it's either been luck, MP, RK etc... Seems there are a number of posters on this forum who are more looking forward to the opportunity to say they were right and he was wrong than actually watching the games and supporting the club! The pessimism of this forum every transfer window astounds me. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Been out the loop for a while. Is he hinting at Blind from Man Utd ?

Exactly that. Its no coincidence that majority of his best performances come from when he plays left side. Lets hope RK realises it too.

Not sure on that - Just a bit better than BT Sport on the telly, beer with the lads! Two nights in the Dam is good but its all about the football.

Totally agree. Just would be nice to get in the stadium Off to the Vitesse website it is then....

A shame. don't think that is anywhere near enough tickets. Oh well, will have to try for a ticket with home fans - not going to waste flights & hotels in Amterdam

My only concern from reading his preferred positions is that its another predominately left sided player. When Tadic first signed he played on the left and put in some of his best performances. Then Mane came in and struggled on the right so he and Tadic switched as Tadic was considered more flexible. As a result, the performance of Tadic has dropped. We then signed Elia who is also left sided. Now we have Djuricic who plays through the middle or left wing. Worried we may struggle with a bit of balance to the side because Tadic really doesn't look comfortable on the right and neither does Mane.

Have also heard that he (and his partner) want a move to London (although hadn't heard the bit about being recognised) via friend of friend. Certainly don't think he will end up anywhere near Manchester

One of my earliest memories of the Dell was the chant 'Oh no Mick Mills' Was relatively young then so not sure if it was ironic or if he was not well regarded by the fans

One thing I couldn't understand from the last game is why he became a victim of the boo-boys. As far as I'm aware, he didn't try to force a move and his leaving has ensured Clyne no.1 RB spot (something that Poch wouldn't guarantee Clyne) which in turn has given Clyne an opportunity to improve this year. We also banked a tidy sum of cash (which could end up covering transfer fees for Bertrand & Toby) Don't recall Walcott or Ox receiving the same treatment

He is a more proven goalscorer at that level than Jay Rod was and yet we paid 7.5m for Jay and he turned out OK If the club have the money and are willing to pay it then I don't see a problem. Would consider it less of a gamble than likes of Ramirez, Osvaldo etc..

Its not just Owen. Majority of pundits use the phrase 'entitled to go down'. Phil Neville used the phrase recently and he was playing/coaching only a season ago so so that should give an idea of current thinking amongst players & coaches. So when you talk of putting a panel together to review this, with the current mentality I can't see how anyone would get punished !

This Always remeber the jokey question asked once of Abbey Clancy along lines of, what was it about the multi-millionaire footballer Peter Crouch that first attracted you to him. Same could be applied to outgoing players - what was it about the Champions League / Astronomical wage paying Liverpool that first attracted you to them! There are no FACTS available to us fans as to why these players chose / are choosing to leave but IMO I think the offer of huge wages and chance of playing for a high profile football club plays a much bigger part in their decisions rather than being upset by Cortese or MoPo leaving. To think otherwise is pretty naive.

Difference of opinion on here today. Majority very disappointed with AL, a few dismissing all rumours and trying to be 'supportive' of AL. Personally I beleive a lot of the problem with fans reaction is down to the fans themselves, we are wrong to place these young men on pedastals and hold them up as icons. In football words are cheap! Fans seem happy to believe what Lambert wrote because it sounded all gushy and warm yet don't like what Lallana wrote because it is short and condescending. The only 'fact' is that we have no idea about what has gone on with any players departure. There is so much debate & speculation as to 'why' these players would want to leave - personally I think its easy to see, they have moved to 'bigger' clubs on bigger wages. Same way that everyone understood why Chaplow, Hammond, Barnard etc... were let go because they no longer met the criteria for an improving Southampton. Whilst AL, RL, LS etc.. were here, they had my support. Now they are gone, I don't really care what they do. As some have said, time to move on. I am looking forward to the seeing what new management team can do, looking forward to seeing who they bring in and looking forward to my days out to St Marys to support whoever will be on the pitch next season.

Very hard to convey sarcasm when writing, sorry! Basis the original comment, neither Smalling or Jones have improved the England team or have improved at Man Utd. Similar could also be said of Welbeck and many other young English players who have moved to 'big' clubs. In my opinion the players are more likely to improve by leaving Man Utd as nothing is greater than regular game time in a regular position. Take Jones, he has played as Right Back, centre Back, Holding Midfielder etc.. What he needs is a regular position and games. Welbeck is the same. Look at Zaha, was seen as a great prospect but his move to Man Utd was a failure. Everton now have a promising batch in Stones & Barkley, again it would be best for them to play regularly at Everton. This would improve the options for England. Unfortunately England Manager and Media would rather see players at the 'big' clubs, until ths attitude changes then England will continue to struggle. With regards to Luke Shaw, yes the money being offered is huge but don't really believe he will improve significantly more at Man Utd compared to staying at Southampton. Only thing that will be greater is money and exposure and unfortunately they seem to be more important to most.

They could have a point. Look how well the England team has benefitted from the improvement in Phil Jones & Chris Smalling

It is so difficult to judge the tone of someones post when you only have the words to read and not the tone in which its spoken. Mr Turkish appears to be one of the best at posting on that line between sarcasm / mock seriousness / serious. This is another one of those posts and I think I know what tone he is trying to take with this one. All I would add to this one is that there is nothing wrong as such as taking the p*ss / not taking it all too seriously / taking it seriously - whatever yor preference. For someone who no longer subscribes and only posts occassionally, the main reason is because it all seems to be too many posters 'playing the poster' rather than the post and quite frankly the constant d*ck swinging is so very boring. There was a comment that if moderated properly, these type of posters would be dumped to the muppet show. In my opinion that would be a travesty. As a 'closet lurker' to that section, I tend to find that the regular contributors to the muppet show whether posting there or in the main forum tend to have the best balance. All in my 'not too serious' opinion of course

When he was rumoured, I looked at his record for his last club (Feynoord). When you read various reports the consensus was he inherited a club in a bit of turmoil and not a lot of money. Therefore emphasis was working with the youth team. As such, his work at Feynoord resulted in the club finishing consistently in top 3 as well as producing a number of players for the Dutch national side. This seemed to fit quite well with what Southampton seem to be trying to achieve (although not expecting consistent top 3 finishes!) Surely thats the way most fans would judge the appointment ? A bit harsh to suggest otherwise - in my opinion. For balance, at the time, I was not initially impressed with the appointment of Gordon Strachan and sceptical with regards to the appointments of Adkins and MoPo and they worked out fine. As mentioned previously, there are no guarantees that Koeman will be a success but for the reasons i mentioned above, on paper, it looks a very promising appointment.

This constant '**** swinging' or whatever you would rather call it is killing this site. It really is all about one upmanship. The bedwetters / doom & gloom merchants / happy clappers / realists etc.. FFS we are all supposed to be Saints fans, think that FACT (another term that gets thrown about a lot to enforce an opinion!) seems to have been forgotten now. The 'game' on here is becomming quite tedious.

It works or 'Stay calm and support the Saints' Little winkey thing included this time in case thoughts taken too seriously

Think you need a banner along lines of ' Owners/Managers/Players are temporary but Fans are permanent'

I would say that all media are the same. You made a point of defending Adam Blackmore the other day over Luke Shaw. That was an old story and I thought it was issued deliberately cause trouble or unrest as it was same time rumours came out that Man Utd were switching their attentions to Alba. The announcement from Ben Smith & Adam Blackmore was phrased to suggest that Shaw had reacted to this and had made a renewed request. I would class that as mischevious. That basis, would suggest Echo do not have an exclusivity of **** stirring

It can't be that bad as MLT and Benali haven't commented on it yet ! If NC had done this i'm sure there would have been comments from both of them all over the place. Then we could have classed this as a meltdown.

Dan Petrescu