Redslo

True enough but there is less of an opportunity to read the feces writing since the mental patients lack a web site.

Almost makes you wish he was still with us.

What about Osborne?

Targett, Isgrove, Reed, McQueen, and Rowe not on Transfermarkt's squad list so we are not as short as it might appear.

If you think this is true, please identify a sufficiently good striker we could plausibly have signed for significantly less that Long cost us.

In my blog I have discussed how difficult it would be to catch any of the teams above us. (http://redsloscf.blogspot.com/2014/08/how-close-were-we.html) It has to be a long term project. If players like Lallana and Lovren wanted Champions League Football now, we could never offer it to them and holding four or five unhappy team leaders to their contracts was never a reasonable option. But, if true, isn't that a good counter.

I just posted a new blog entitled "... And After (Updating Many Things" in which I update many things based upon the closing of the transfer window.

I have posted a new blog entry entitled "Great Moments in Recent Southampton FC History (Part Six)." I have been out of town and unable to blog for about six days but expect to post several more things over the next few days. Edit: I have just posted another blog entitled "My Scouting Report (Update)"

He seems to pick beyond that--8 players in most recent squad.

Qualify for Europa cup This year? Win Europa cup next year to qualify for champions league?

How can you possibly win it without using bounties?

Can we all just agree that he is not a premier league caliber player in Football Manager?

Manchester United's leveraged buy out has also helped keep the league competitive. And while FFP has locked in (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lock-In-John-Scalzi/dp/0575134348/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=undefined&sr=8-1&keywords=scalzi) the current elite, it did so in a way that favored Manchester United and Arsenal more than Chelsea and Manchester City who would have been happy to continue their unlimited spending. I sometimes wonder whether FFP would ever have come into existence if it were not for Manchester United's leveraged buy out.

4. Every player we sell is an overrated traitor whom the board should have held onto at all costs.

I'm working on my analysis of how the Millwall victory is a disaster. Also, a few people have asked me how I, an American, suddenly became a Southampton FC fan. I have posted a somewhat self-indulgent blog entry answering this question which I have cleverly entitled “How I Became a Southampton FC Fan”. This may disprove the theory that I am Ralph Krueger, but probably not. After all, it does mention ice hockey.

As long as we are engaging in wild speculation, I think we should sign Alexandre Lacazette.

Excellent work as always.

I have published a new blog entry entitled “Color Me Confused (and Rambling).”

I have just published a new blog entry entitled “Concussion Update.”

I have posted a short new blog entry entitled “Great Moments in Recent Southampton FC History (Part Five).” I haven’t had time to write anything more substantive since I have been swamped with work the past three days.

Surely this was a piece of performance art right from the start.

If he is still here after the transfer window ends he could be loaned out until January with the right to recall him in an emergency.

According to FM 2014, summer of 2016.

Baseball is very much a stats and numbers game and we still don't know the final league positions before the season starts. Stats and numbers give us a basis for analyzing things in a potentially informative fashion not a way to predict with certainty the results or any particular outcome which, in any case, would be highly dependent on chance and other unknowable factors. The cup tournaments would be unpredictable, for example, because of the random draw, injuries, and the unknown question of how seriously each of the big clubs is going to take any particular competition. "How Close Were We" was an attempt to determine roughly how much Southampton's team of last year would have to improve to compete for Europe. I would hardly suggest that I have nailed it exactly right--in fact a fair reading of the blog makes it clear I didn't claim that. That being said, to suggest that soccer is completely unquantifiable in some mystical way, is an untenable position. When Bill James first started writing about baseball, baseball insiders knew that he was blithering nonsense and that their knowledge of what did and did not matter on the baseball field was perfectly accurate. Time has shown that they were wrong. The same thing is happening now in soccer. That being said, I agree. I don't fully get soccer. I think I have made the limitations of my knowledge quite clear. I don't write match reports pointing out that Clyne was out of position and that led to Liverpool's first goal. I heard the commentators claim that and I could see what they were saying in the replay, but I did not see it for myself and, for all I know, Clyne might have been right were here was supposed to be. I learn more each time I watch a game but I will never catch up with people who grew up playing and watching the game--just like no one who grew up in England and stated paying attention to baseball or American football in their 50s is ever likely to get those sports like I do--even though I am not an expert by my own standards. Finally, I don't understand how the comment about PR peeps has anything to do with me.

I don't know. I just figured if I added to this message whenever I posted a new blog, it would pop up on people's radar. At the time I started doing that I did not realize I would be blogging once a day on average. If the people who set board policy here want me to post this somewhere else I will. Also, I apologize for this post popping me up to the top again without a compensating new blog entry but Dangermouth did it first. Just to be clear, that last remark was a joke not an attempt to start a feud.