exactly my point im not saying I predicted all the results as they have been. I thought we would beat sunderland and west ham at home. I did think we would be roughly in this position. A strong position come january will help Nicola and MP persuading top players come. lets not forget its a world cup year so players on the fringes of national squads will want to come and play, this also works the other way. Gaston for instance would want game time and I cant believe that jack cork is happy with his game time currently.
You need another dose of Cortese mind therapy young man The strength in depth will be provided from the academy. Chambers is our reserve RB. Love him or hate him but Fox is LB until Targett is promoted up next season. We don't really play with wingers but Guly, Ramirez, Rowe & Isgrove are there if required.
This is how it has to become if Saints are thinking about being in the Champions League. I will laugh when the day comes where a Saints fan doesn't quite know where the stadium is. I won't show it though, because we're going to need these people if Saints are going to become a worldwide brand.
Chilco, there's a part of me that totally understands CBK, and ideally, I'd like to go back to the beginning of the 1980's and stand next to Keegan, Channon and Lawrie and shout into the ears of the board members of the time, because back then a club could still be very competitive by making that choice transfer, like Saints needed to do, to have the chance of winning the league that season. But Saints wouldn't and while they killed the club's ambition for that season, they also killed it until St Mary's was built. Perhaps they even killed it until now. Nowadays clubs that are close simply can't compete in that way any longer, and haven't been able to for at least a decade. I've said many times before, I'm fed up with mediocrity. I was exhilarated by the Saints teams of the 1980s. I want some more, and I'd very much like this club to reach higher, if anything to banish the memory of that under-ambitious boardroom from the Keegan era.
I'm totally with you TSS, as you say, the investment required back in the early 80's to win the league was minuscule compared to nowadays, and you could have managed it even at a ground like the dear old Dell. Now, though, you can't sustain a challenge without a bigger stadium, even with the TV riches around. And to fill a bigger stadium the fans have to come from somewhere, why not South London, Bristol, or even Birmingham?
