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FIVE things I got wrong whilst supporting Saints.

 

1. Speedie and Dixon would be good for us.

2. Keith Cassells looked a good acquisition .

3. Souness would take us to new levels.

4. That Morgan won't cut it in the Prem.

5. Cortese does not know what he is doing ...oops!

 

What's your top five?

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This thread will get locked. Its basically the same as the busted myths one that did.

 

The other threads would have just ended up with posters sniping at each other, then defending themselves, and then bringing completely unrelated things into it like levels of optimism and pessimism. We've seen the exact same thread a thousand times before.

 

This one, inviting people to own up to their own mistakes, is far more likely to be constructive. I like it!

 

I remember confidently telling a mate that the Poortvliet/Wotte experiment, playing the kids, would see us playing the best football in the division and get us promoted… >_

 

Have to admit, I was one of the people convinced that Paul Allen was about to take over as well.

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Oh, where to start.

 

1) Lallana is far too lightweight to succeed in the top flight.

2) Kelvin Davis will be good enough for the top flight.

3) No more Rupert Lowe, he's gone forever! (Circa Michael Wilde's time in charge, Aug 2006.)

4) Callum Davenport is a superb signing.

5) The Poortvliet experiment will see us fine.

6) Ryan Smith will come good.

 

And many more!

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Way more than five....

 

Burley was the ideal manager to get us promoted.

Having just gone up from League One, we'd be lucky to finish in the top half of the Championship.

NC was wrong to sack Pardew and wrong to sack Adkins

Gaston Ramirez would turn into our best player ever

Rudi Skacel would turn into one of our best ever players

We'd walk the Championship in 2005/6

I'd probably never see Saints win at Wembley in my lifetime

Moving to St Mary's was a mistake, because although the Dell was just a bit too small, we'd only ever attract crowds of 17,000-19,000

We'd almost certainly be relegated in our first season back in the top flight (only started to change my mind after we beat QPR away)

Yoshida would replace Fonte as a first chocie centre back this season

 

The list goes on and on...

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Mayuka was an absolutely superb signing

 

Marek Saganowski would be a massive player for us when he signed permanently

 

Paul Wotton was absolutely useless *****il I saw him play live, press the opposition and work his socks off for 90 mins in a game even with his limited ability)

 

Dexter Blackstock would develop into a PL striker

 

Kelvin Davis should be sold and Bart should be our number one (during KD's bad spell for us under Burley)

 

and one from a friend of mine - Leon Best will be fine taking the first penalty against Derby in the play-off semi final

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Another one that probably applies to most fans in the county... the number of times I've gone nuts celebrating a goal... only to find out it was offside/in the side netting/saved on the line/actually went in and bounced off the advert boards... and not given.

 

The worst one for me being when I was still celebrating as they went up the other end and scored :facepalm:

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Oh, where to start.

 

1) Lallana is far too lightweight to succeed in the top flight.

2) Kelvin Davis will be good enough for the top flight.

3) No more Rupert Lowe, he's gone forever! (Circa Michael Wilde's time in charge, Aug 2006.)

4) Callum Davenport is a superb signing.

5) The Poortvliet experiment will see us fine.

6) Ryan Smith will come good.

 

And many more!

Extra maths classes?

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Having Greenwich Saint convince me that Leandre Griffit would set the Premiership alight :)

 

I can still hear the drum beating now. :)

 

I said JWP "hadn't shown signs of improvement" in early August, described Matt Oakley as "the best CM in the Premier League" circa 1998 and there was that Billy Sharp thing from thinking Lambert would be increasingly injury prone from 2010 onwards.

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Lambert wouldn't be mobile enough / trim enough for the Championship (let alone the PL!)

Suggesting going to start queueing for FA cup quarter final tickets when 2-0 up at half time against Spurs in 1995

Kenwyne Jones would get us back up the Prem single-handedly

Boruc was fat, lazy and disinterested

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A few years ago now, being particularly impressed at seeing a fine example of the defenders art, I did shout out at the very top of my voice "well played Mills" only to then realize that actually it was Dan Harding I was directing my praise at.

 

No one in the Chapel was so impolite as to said anything ... but I well knew what they were thinking!

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