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Happy enough with that...would be nice to be able to buy it though.

Big respect! Loud all the way through and giving Lovren that at Anfield was superb!

Loving this thread...great afterglow - and another thing I love. That clunt Lovren being pass-nutmegged by Jay for the home goal and being left like a lead-shod carthorse by Shlong for the second, Karma

Great news, great player - majorly stepped up this season and really drives us hard. Good leader on the pitch too..doesn't let anyone take a breather!

Not sure on what the expectation is of how many will break through and to what level but I do see us maintaining our position in this league despite selling players that probably received the same welcoming 'expert' opinions as espoused above when they broke through the contract/debut stages.

Good to see...watched him in the 7-0 annihilation of skate-youth three years ago when he looked about 12 and he dribbled rings around them. Seems to have added tackling back in to his game too in ...persistent little bu**er. One of our own - great news!

Yep, I didn't believe that either.

As the song says - 'Used to be a skate but he's all right now' - Difficult to be a skate season ticket holder when you're playing Southampton Academy football every weekend from age 8. I ferking hate the skates but the lad has a Saints shirt and he plays his heart out every week and has done for nearly 15 years, he'll do for me...particularly as I don't subscribe to the view that because he didn't 'burst on the scene', rather has developed under our noses that he isn't Improving all the time - we're lucky to have him.

Encourage that thought...it's the hope that kills them!

Been great for us - thanks Jose! Dropped a league to join us, dropped a level to join WHam...thanks for the great years, thanks for the profit.

Goes with my thanks...been amazing for us in our rise and he and the club have been great for each other. I'd like him to have finished his career here but if that's not to be then £8 million at his age is good both ways. I think he has stepped backwards but then maybe I would. Good luck Jose...I hope your form and fitness continue to decline! :-)

Rusting tin fence of noise maybe....

Not to do with our ambition, it's all about Jose wanting away and his form, though adequate this year, and demeanour suggest his heart is not here. If the club are talking about him going I'd be pretty sure his replacement is lined up. At 33 he's not going to improve, one more payday for him and us...goes with my thanks...one million to buy, two promotions and some great seasons later we get ten times that -what's not to like?

Thread with the funniest answers for a while tbf :-)

But then he did see it...and goes regularly...and is accurate in those statements. Positive is under 'P' in the dictionary - look it up?

OK, I was there... It was cold! We were not good but infinitely superior to Norwich who were awful Martina was awful McQueen, Stephens, Maya were good, Clasie ok, Oriel and Redmond added forward impetus when they came on No booing any stage...apart from decisions! Very few left early, less than a norma;l league game I'd say Some of you feckers who do all the moaning should take in a game once in a couple of seasons perhaps...thought the crowd, sparse though it was, tried to lift the team in the second half as we struggled to get going and stayed with the team...supporting it's called!

Logical and well-reasoned post with which, from an almost identical length of time of having supported Saints, I agree with. It's called perspective.

Probably is worth discussing but we all have the option to vote with our typing finger or fingers for those who type better than me. I do avoid logging on sometimes because I know the tone, know the phrases pretty much, that some posters will use on here after a defeat or a poor performance. The forum gives the anonymity to those (I, of course include myself) who want to post their opinions, feelings, suggestions etc and I occasionally have a good look at myself when I voice opinions, criticisms, about how people who have spent their life in football gaining experience to be where they are in football. What I do object to about that anonymity is that it gives a platform for those who are patently not Saints fans to set up an 'alter ego' that can post as if they are a genuine Saints follower...there aren't many and, in the past as with Barry whatever his pseudonym was, the moderators do the difficult thing and ban them. Is Glasgowberg in this category...? I think that an interesting experiment that I don't have time or enough ability to perform, would be to filter the posts that are supportive of Saints to those that in some way undermine (and I choose that word carefully) a genuine Saints forum - perhaps he would like to answer? My gut feeling is that 90 -95+% would be attacking some aspect of the club, players, management or support? That to me is not what I read a Saints forum for nor do I think it should be acceptable to the many, in my opinion, genuine contributors. In my more paranoid delusions I imagine he's a skate having fun with a puppet name that he doesn't have to equate to his own affiliations but that's probably, possibly, maybe not the case. I think that I accept that Alpine is a bit of a one-off...I feel pity (not that he'd crave it from a name on a forum) that anyone could have such a negative outlook on anything in life but have to accept maybe he finds some joy in the misery...it's a long time since I studied psychology....I do believe, for what it's worth that he is a Saints fan...just glad I don't have to be at a match where he is. Batman is a wind-up merchant in his page persona...the opinions are not consistent enough to be taken seriously and maybe that's the way it's intended to be....I've experienced service life briefly a long time ago and know that weeks are lived through a constant barrage of mock/real abuse that means very little but helps the world go round... Probably the biggest mis-analysis that I'll ever do but like I said...thought it was maybe worth discussing. My apologies for anyone who feels left out, I just went with three who were named and who had caught my attention presumably for the same reasons...like I say, we all have an option to be on here and what we say or do about it - to the moderators - I thank you for the opportunity!

Well thank you for your insight! Nobody is denying we need to score more goals...it might come as a shock to you that we lost our principal goalscorer midway through the close season on transfers. Who knows if we can find someone in January that can fill in...at a price that doesn't threaten our pay/youth channel structure...all I do know is that if we do or when Charlie is back we are a team that creates a shed load of opportunities whilst playing good football. This is what it looks like when you don't panic!

And that side for Glasgowberg is not Saints!

I just watched a game where we were the better, more attacking, pleasanter to watch side....we had more possession, shots, corners and we were beaten by a deflection from a free kick. We came up against a well-organised side whose keeper had his second inspired game against us of the season. I'm not sure what Puell can be blamed for? The only player from their team I'd sign is Heaton...he was good, we were unlucky. Bring on Norwich

They never go to matches!

Winner!

Is that not your default position whatever time of year or at least until we hit 40 points?

I'd like us to finish in the top half this season but using it to bring through some youngsters who are capable of kicking on a level - the latter is what I understand Puel's brief to be. I'd like a couple of cup runs, I was disappointed not to qualify out of the group stages and I don't think we really did ourselves justice in performances but, as other have said, it was the finest of margins and I've lived long enough not to expect to win every game. It's easy to forget where we have come from..and I don't just mean the last few years. I loved the Dell years but, in reality we punched way above our weight for many of the Division 1 seasons and a successful season in many cases was not having to win the last match to stay up...I remember the vague feeling of anti-climax when we were actually safe with three matches to go. I'm not saying that we should lack ambition...every decade or so there's a Leicester, an Ipswich, QPR etc...but the lack of reality expressed by a number on here is so arrogant and ignorant of any perspective. We can qualify for Europe again but for a club our size. well run as it is, it has to be a bit of a 'perfect storm' in having our own squad playing together at it's best before we are raped by clubs that can offer more than we, sensibly, can and the others around us having the sort of 'in-between' season as happened last year. I'd say to those screaming for change, wailing that we aren't as highly placed as we were last year (we pretty much are actually) aren't playing like Barcelona or a rose-tinted version of the Poch and Koeman seasons - remember where we have been, take a look at the history - we finished second to Liverpool in the highest placed season in my supporting life, a win and a draw away from being Champions - should we have expected to be one better the next year? Thanks to Markus. Kat, Cortese (yes he played his part), Les, Ralph and all the playing side we are eating at the top table....the pies at Rochdale were far cr*pper than I'd been led to expect. Be real, be grateful.