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Staplewood, Grand Opening today.


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It was, same game the entire away was making the substitution gesture, felt very bleak at that point and i doubt most there could've predicted this now!

 

Ha ha ha, that was very funny though, remember it well. 3,000 saints fans doing that and chants of "make a sub" LLoyd James, Ollie Lancashire, Paul Wotton, Matt Paterson in the team. That night i genuinely thought we might go down again that season, we were dreadful.

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Was that the 1-0 loss with Austin scoring? No subs made until the 75th minute or something and Pardew moaning about how he had no decent options off there anyway.

 

*PEDANT ALERT*

 

Morrison, their centre-half, scored. Austin scored in the 1-0 a year later, when Wilkins was in (ahem) charge.

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Ha ha ha, that was very funny though, remember it well. 3,000 saints fans doing that and chants of "make a sub" LLoyd James, Ollie Lancashire, Paul Wotton, Matt Paterson in the team. That night i genuinely thought we might go down again that season, we were dreadful.

 

Yeah the sub thing was funny, but fu,ck me it was bleak! Remember the trip back in the car all of us talking about how we were going to be ****ed for a longtime, and one lad there saying that we should go all out to sign a player called Rickie Lambert. Obviously the rest of us wrote him off as a lower league journey man. Talk about being proved wrong....

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Yeah the sub thing was funny, but fu,ck me it was bleak! Remember the trip back in the car all of us talking about how we were going to be ****ed for a longtime, and one lad there saying that we should go all out to sign a player called Rickie Lambert. Obviously the rest of us wrote him off as a lower league journey man. Talk about being proved wrong....

 

????? Lambert was playing. :mcinnes:

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Tell you what, I can find something negative! I'd have rather had pictures of Ron Davies and Bobby Stokes on the walls than Gareth Bale and Theo Walcott.

 

A great mural to have on a wall would be the stages of the '76 cup final goal as you walk down the corridor, ending with Rodrigues lifting the trophy at the end.

 

Had a quick sneak round it this afternoon, after watching a relative play against the U18's in a friendly. There is a photo of Ron and another of Rodrigues, on players shoulders, with the Cup.

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Totally justified to name the pavilion after Markus Leibherr- it was nice that its just a simple steel plaque rather than some of ostentatious signage (though that seems in keeping with the kind of man he was, listening to what Krueger and Reed say about him).

 

And yes, he did save the club- from liquidation (nobody else came along and stumped up the cash, he did), and at the same time from being bought by loons (Tan at Cardiff, Assam at Hull) or chancers (SISU at Coventry).

 

To come on a thread like this and start an argument about what 'saving the club' means takes a special kind of tool.

 

WIFM!

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It is pretty interesting what we're doing. The dollar clubs usually spend on squad players we spend on markus liebherr pavillions & youth training. I read we have the smallest squad of senior bros in the Premier League, but I spose that is trade off to give route to young bros route to first team. I.e. I reckon we're gonna sacrifice Jack Cork in the summer to give more opportunity to Reed + Ward-Prowse.

 

Redslo should write a blog post on it, or whatever.

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It is pretty interesting what we're doing. The dollar clubs usually spend on squad players we spend on markus liebherr pavillions & youth training. I read we have the smallest squad of senior bros in the Premier League, but I spose that is trade off to give route to young bros route to first team. I.e. I reckon we're gonna sacrifice Jack Cork in the summer to give more opportunity to Reed + Ward-Prowse.

 

Redslo should write a blog post on it, or whatever.

 

What even after Morgan and big Vic have left for Arsenal and Citeh in the summer? Next year our midfield will be Cork, Davis, Reed and JWP plus 1 other that Ronald brings in .....you heard it hear first.

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What even after Morgan and big Vic have left for Arsenal and Citeh in the summer? Next year our midfield will be Cork, Davis, Reed and JWP plus 1 other that Ronald brings in .....you heard it hear first.

 

:) If we sell more of our best players we'll prob win the world cup. That is how it works at Southampton yo!

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It is pretty interesting what we're doing. The dollar clubs usually spend on squad players we spend on markus liebherr pavillions & youth training. I read we have the smallest squad of senior bros in the Premier League, but I spose that is trade off to give route to young bros route to first team. I.e. I reckon we're gonna sacrifice Jack Cork in the summer to give more opportunity to Reed + Ward-Prowse.

 

Redslo should write a blog post on it, or whatever.

 

I sort of did. It was the one that was too full of omissions for you to read.

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Apologies if this seems a stupid question.

 

Is Staplewood now called the Markus Liebherr Pavilion in its entirety or is it still Staplewood, with just the pavilion named after Markus?

 

I wasn't 100% sure at the time, but assumed it was just the pavilion that bore his name, but then read this article http://talksport.com/football/revealed-reasons-southampton-are-second-premier-league-141120125478 which talks about it as "The Markus Liebherr Training Complex".

 

Wouldn't be the first time Journalists got it wrong, but thought I would check

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Apologies if this seems a stupid question.

 

Is Staplewood now called the Markus Liebherr Pavilion in its entirety or is it still Staplewood, with just the pavilion named after Markus?

 

I wasn't 100% sure at the time, but assumed it was just the pavilion that bore his name, but then read this article http://talksport.com/football/revealed-reasons-southampton-are-second-premier-league-141120125478 which talks about it as "The Markus Liebherr Training Complex".

 

Wouldn't be the first time Journalists got it wrong, but thought I would check

 

I think it's called the Staplewood Campus.

 

The main pavilion building is named after Markus.

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