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Beddytare said:
Just a thought....but maybe that is just what we are lacking perhaps someone with experience?? All the Saints best teams of the past have had at least one or more older experienced players in them.
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Can't see him ending up at any of the mentioned clubs (including us) .....if he came back to the prem I can see him ending up at West Ham.
 
saintrichie123 said:
Can't see him ending up at any of the mentioned clubs (including us) .....if he came back to the prem I can see him ending up at West Ham.
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Yes fair enough......I wasn't trying to suggest that we get him to be honest.....it was just a general observation........
 
Beddytare said:
Yes fair enough......I wasn't trying to suggest that we get him to be honest.....it was just a general observation........
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I agree we could do with someone of his class/ experience......but when was the last time we bought anyone that age? I can't think of anyone recently.........because to fit our model we like to have at least some sell on value which of course someone that age would bring very little.
 
saintrichie123 said:
I agree we could do with someone of his class/ experience......but when was the last time we bought anyone that age? I can't think of anyone recently.........because to fit our model we like to have at least some sell on value which of course someone that age would bring very little.
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yes to be fair I was going back a bit...........Keegan was one, wasn't he 31 or so just after he arrived from Germany?? There was a couple of others too...another scouser midfielder whose name I forget....+ others. Alan Ball perhaps Osgood weren't they in late age when we got them?
 
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The difficulty in getting decent, older players now is that, unlike in the past, they no longer need to extend their playing career to fill up their bank balance, to survive retirement, so no need to step down to smaller clubs.
 
Beddytare said:
yes to be fair I was going back a bit...........Keegan was one, wasn't he 31 or so just after he arrived from Germany?? There was a couple of others too...another scouser midfielder whose name I forget....+ others. Alan Ball perhaps Osgood weren't they in late age when we got them?
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The scouser midfielder - i assume you mean Jimmy Case ? A fine player and gave a few good years to Saints, deaf as a door post but what a footballer. In those early 80's teams, that achieved good things and played terrific attacking football we had quite a few older internationals who were playing at a very high level - apart from Keegan and Ball there was Dave Watson, Peter Shilton, Mick Mills, etc.
 
saintalfie said:
The scouser midfielder - i assume you mean Jimmy Case ? A fine player and gave a few good years to Saints, deaf as a door post but what a footballer. In those early 80's teams, that achieved good things and played terrific attacking football we had quite a few older internationals who were playing at a very high level - apart from Keegan and Ball there was Dave Watson, Peter Shilton, Mick Mills, etc.
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I do indeed mean Jimmy Case...and thanks for the reminders for some of the others. We need players of the like imo if we are to do what we want to. That is to be a top 10 team.
 
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Beddytare said:
I do indeed mean Jimmy Case...and thanks for the reminders for some of the others. We need players of the like imo if we are to do what we want to. That is to be a top 10 team.
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Oh Beddy i would give my back teeth, not that anybody would want them these days, for some players like those guys now ! They were all cultured, skillful but hard footballers and pretty decent guys when out on p... too. Another of that time who would do wonders for our present team was Ivan Golac, bandy-legged football legend that he is ! We also had Spike Armstrong and rank Worthington. When you throw in some of the younger players we had back then like Stevie Williams, Steve Moran, Mark Wright and the later on a bit the Wallace brothers and others - christ we have had some wonderful players and teams who thrashed the best teams in England and Europe on occasion back then. Now im worrying about Bournemouth away on Saturday !
 
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mowgli said:
Oh dear this all makes for some depressing reading. Maybe it’s time to state the obvious which you all know to be true.

Supporting any football team requires a commitment that goes way beyond common sense. You expect so much but inevitably end up disappointed. The manager never seems to pick the team or formation that you know for a fact will win the league and the players that do turn up never seem to give the commitment you expect.

But somewhere deep down inside you love them all and you’ll continue to fork out your hard earned cash to turn up in the cold and wet yelling your lungs out while everyone around you sulks with their hands in their pockets.

It’s been the same for as long as I can remember - back even to the days when we had no idea who the owners or directors actually were - we only had the players (and the ref) to blame.

It’s a bumpy ride with lots of heartache but every once in a while there is a moment of sheer joy that stays with you for decades and makes it all worthwhile.

Just try and enjoy the ride.
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It's the reality that kills you
 
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