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Gallagher is quality. How many people don't actually watch the team or follow the kids? The lad has a very bright future indeed and we will be seeing a lot more of him. As usual a large portion of the saints web massive need to catch up with the times... just like people questioning whether shaw was ready last season or stating chambers is rubbish compared to clyne etc etc... Gallagher has far more potential and ability than reed (a good player in the making), and has shown more of it in his brief glimpses... Yet some on here talk about reed as if he is the second coming waiting to happen... Just like the hype over warde prowse, who is a tidy technical player with a good work rate and can hit a tidy dead ball.... "the next gerrard" for some... We could do far worse than have gallagher up front tommorrow... Jayrod has yet to do it for the club as a lone striker, and after that I'm struggling to imagine something other than a 4-4-2 with Guly and Rodders up front Also if lambert is actually out, I wonder if young Ryan will make the bench, although Arsenal would be to much for him I suspect. Great potential in the kids, yet people write them off far to easily.

Rumours of Monaco being in for him to replace RF. Pretty sure they would pay a few bob.

I'd like sunderland at home, and for everyone to kick the actual crap out of their players.... propper cup tie like.... But with a score to settle. Injure enough of them and we can get fair payment for them, poyet, and hopefully get the bastard relegated.

always destined to go in one direction... He also doubled the ground capacity, built the countries top youth academy, got us to an fa cup final and Europe... All on a shoestring budget. His only weakness was that he scripmed on managers and wouldn't overspend until it was too late. People knock him fine, but where we are now there is little bad about RLs management of the club and a bell of a lot to be grateful for. He built everything that is positive about the future, the liebherrs could walk 2m and the club would continue because of what Lowe built. If only he could have kept( rather than fallen out) GS, GH or NP's class we would have done well. Yet ironically our fans refer to him as some kind of devil. A tad harsh.

Damit, I concede, thought I had you... schoolboy On a side note, what do you make of Inter pulling out of the exchange deal with Juve since osvaldo headbutted Fonte. Interesting no?

I'm afraid that's incorrect mathew... Honestly, tut tut! Sub fonte and shaw for fox and yoshi + resting adam after first half (3) Bring in Lambo + JRod + Morgan for Gallagher, guly and JWP (3) Bring in victor towards the end (1) Whichever option of the above you chose... its 3 subs, plus victor - that's 4 substitutions? Or am i struggling with 3+1 =3? Now.... On the subject of maths.... Following Osvaldo's headbut, inter have immediately done this... Is the deal back on with regards to the osvaldo-Guarin swap, or is this a case of 1+1 doesn't = 2?? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2545124/The-Continental-Breakfast-Juventus-furious-Inters-lack-respect-Vucinic-Guarin-swap-U-turn.html

Another thread where I have to disagree with you. Wellbeck can't hit a barn door at 4 paces half the damn time (If I wasn't at work I would look up the stats for you for both players!). As for chambers, the kid is class... to say he is nowhere near clyne's level is madness. There really isn't much in it to be honest.

So get rid and sign ings and top ince? What we should have done in the first damn place.

Can we not terminate his contract with immediate affect and sue him for subsequent losses?

Thats wrong for starters, there are countless examples of autocratic leadership bringing great success throughout all of history. The difference is not all succeed in that way and when they go wrong, they go wrong big time. That said, Cortese clearly knew what he was doing, and our journey to the top will not happen under KL.. You are kidding yourself if you think she will get someone in who can manager the club with the passion, ambition and cold blooded efficiency of cortese. The decline started when we where 3rd in the league, about the time that he handed in his notice funnily enough. The proof is that they knew NC was leaving and yet we have a team leader from deloitte as our new CEO.

The last 2 in table 14 for me. Prefer this years kit to stripes tbh. Makes a nice change, and we look like red and white wasps the way we press and hassle the opposition. Suits the new southampton tbh.

Found this article on Yeovil.... Not directly related to the cup but I think it encapsulates the spirit of the cup and the fight of the plucky underdog... I enjoyed the read at any rate http://theclassical.org/articles/yeovil-at-the-junction-the-hard-way-to-the-big-time-in-english-soccer

Its says the wanda group aren't buying us, but not their owner... Football clubs are the play things of owners, not corporations. The quotes mean nothing, other than the unusual measure taken to deny them on behalf of the corporation...

I like the current kit, like a lot of fans do. If we are to "revert back" it should be to proper traditional kits, not the stripes.

John Williams is the boy, if we can't buy success, lets be run by the guy in charge of pgmol! Winning through the back door!

Likewise I mentioned this when NC resigned... Not several days later. Its been going on for a couple of weeks, just not widely known. Leads me to believe its true.. or at least something in it. That said, all that has changed since I first heard about it is that NC has resigned and a guy called MLG started a thread online. I actually wondered at the time if NC resigned because club wanted to sell the club to a buyer who had no interest in involving cortese, although that appears wide of the mark.

Football manager didn't....

Glasgow, we have one of the smaller wage budgets and one of the smallest expenditures on agents fees - all despite buying pricey big name players... West ham are paying both Ravel morrison and carlton cole more than Lambert gets here, and would increase his salary by 25k just to sign for them if the rumours are to be believed.... Couple with the above strategy we have had a meteoric rise up the leagues and reached 3rd before injuries hit. If you want to swap all that for a bunch of 30 something mercenaries with higher wages and higher fees then I'm sure as hell glad you have next to zero input into the club.

You'd prefer he left in the summer? Causing turmoil In the club need to act to strengthen and defend itself in the transfer market? He's left us at the best possible time bar February the 1st... The club is safe, remote chance of Europe and shouldn't go down.... Time to get it sorted for summer.... Could also give him time to buy it. It KL to get a plan together for the future or also to sell. Bright side guys... The family that saved us now run us... They've done well so far with NC, they're good businessman/women and they support family values... Hard to believe right now but there is potential in this as well as a return to mediocrity.

If mopo goes i'd love Nigel to come back. A man who loves the club, not its boss. Still not convinced we've seen the back of NC of course. I am slightly concerned these rumours of a Chinese takeover are true... We've seen what Asian owners do to prem teams... Maybe KL wants to sell to them and Nicola is of no interest to them. Hence faking out from his point of view. We may be shakey for a bit. But the players are in it together and the great team spirit will show through in the end. This was not planned that is for sure, or if it was, cortese will be back in charge. I can't go back to supporting the old dysfunctional saints, if we fall apart again I dread to imagine what it will do for my love of football. Would be a bitter pill to swallow for sure.

Sadly guys, outplaying and almost beating the oil rich city with half a team and youth players isn't enough to be excited about for our fans. They want us to win the league and the fa cup this season, and then the champions league next season. Its like they think we have absolutley no chance of qualifying for Europe this year and the teams above us won't drop any more points.

All the people moaning about their being nothing on offer at the moment are pathetic to be honest. If you can't stand to watch us go in to any game expecting to get a result then you are probably among the thousands who abandoned the club on its decent through the leagues... You go on about it being much more exciting going for back to back promotions and winning the jpt at wembley, then moan that we achieve our short term goal of reaching the premier league. Utterly pathetic, I have no interest in glory fans who are only supporting the club when they are winning things... Bunch of jokers. We didn't need you in league 1, and we sure as hell don't want you back here moaning that we aren't winning enough now we are in the upper echelons again. No issue with anyone that the above doesn't apply to ofc.

As tom28 says..... Don't be an ignorant moron, that was just a bit late, but not at all dangerous, deliberate or cynical. We'll ignore the filth fouls on clyne or lala being scythed in half in mid air during the first half. Or his utter lack of control of time wasting and overalling linesmen and women to Gove incorrect decisions on throws and corners.

Haha I called Kelvin! Can't believe he is best mates with fox considering the lack of cover gives him Down the left