today is precisely why i hope we dont go up !!!!!!

[StoweyR]

Southampton spent £30 mill on players

And Southampton have a renowned youth/academy system.

[MYU]

I think it's the coaching that's our problem.

[vespa]

ad 3 quality signings and we will compete with the bottom 6

And that is the best we can hope for ,selling our soul for that

[James1979]

we are not a big enough club or have the manager/playing staff to become anything but premier league whipping boys!

got to hope we can one day match or better beat these teams. Isn't this why we support a team?

[Factamondo]

Facto's on the wind up!!

im not dave...i love to just watch us winning games.....in a 38 game premier season in all honesty we will always lose far more than win!

[superhoop67]

1st season up , just hope there are 3 worst than us ,then start building

[maidstone_hoop]

Initially if we do go up we need to compete with 6-8 teams!! That's not unrealistic with our backing a previous experience on our side this time.from.mistakes made!!
I'm sure we will get hammered a few times!! But premier league Is where it's at and where we all want to be!!

[Factamondo]

sadists the lot of ya!!

[QPRDave]

And Southampton have a renowned youth/academy system.

Which is exactly what Tony is trying to introduce here, but you do nothing but run his efforts down and poo poo all his plans.
Btw if the youth academy is that good at saints then why spend all that money. Must be pretty clueless bunch down there

[DeepcutHoop]

Parachute payments only last for so long.

We need to go up, this season or next. We are royally screwed if we don't do it as soon as possible.

[superhoop67]

it's catch 22 win lots of games in championship .means promotion .then hopefully don't lose too many

[Factamondo]

so we sell the very potential existance of our club to the 'devil' that is the premier league!

[Kevin Mcleod]

im not dave...i love to just watch us winning games.....in a 38 game premier season in all honesty we will always lose far more than win!

Even with Yakubu leading the front line?

[James1979]

so we sell the very potential existance of our club to the 'devil' that is the premier league!

think you'd need to go lower than the championship to have your "soul" back. League 2 i reckon

[StoweyR]

Which is exactly what Tony is trying to introduce here, but you do nothing but run his efforts down and poo poo all his plans.
Btw if the youth academy is that good at saints then why spend all that money. Must be pretty clueless bunch down there

I have never diminished TF's efforts/intentions - he has long-term vision and can, hopefully deliver success (relative to that of Gregory). Southampton have followed the nuanced approach of skilful youth and targeted external signings in an intelligent approach to long-term success.