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May be a bit harsh but surely Barnard has a future, Connolly only a past. DC's days are sadly numbered because if this on going injury problem that is going to blight the rest of his career. He will be useful to have around, fill in when injuries/suspensions come along and occasionally as a sub but with the way Barnard is now slamming them home it has to be Barnard.

Brilliant. Best post ever on SWF! Congratulations. Please, please post on a Pompey fans site!!!!

They will never find Peter Stories house - he hasn't got one. He lives in a caravan.

"This has been the case for years, since the Mandaric era the lack of real premiership revenue from a 30000+ seater has been highlighted. We as fans have sat through enough bull now from future prospective buyers. Unless Fratton Park is moved or increased, we will never be a true Premier club. It's a shame when moves have been made, our two bit council have made life increasingly difficult. Now they are very quiet on the matter..." Who else can we blame for the mess down the road? Oh yes, its the Council's fault of course!

Not at the game tonight PES? Any thoughts on the result?

But we were only ten points behind them at the start of the season!

Can you believe these stats? Incredible: Possession Norwich31%Southampton69% Attempts on target Norwich3Southampton5 Attempts off target Norwich1Southampton8 Corners Norwich2Southampton5

I am well aware of that! However, as we have seen, there is no consistency, there is one rule for some, other rules for others and some where they make up the rules as they go along. Sometimes they are heavy handed and then other times bend the rules ever so slightly when it suits. I guess that is why we have at least three governing bodies, each has derived from dissatisfaction with the other. Some big clubs did not like the FL so joined up with the FA to form the Prem and then they didn't like the FA Prem so set up alone. At the bottom of the structure where it hardest to survive we kick people when they are down, at the top when rules are broken we can over look it if it suits our agenda. There many examples of hypocracy, one rule for some and other rules for others, even within the same administrative structure. Money corrupts and it has certainly corrupted football, especially the Prem.

"Chester City are facing expulsion from the Football Conference after pleading guilty to five breaches of its rules." If it only takes FIVE breaches of the rules to be expelled from the Conference, how many does it take to get expelled from the Prem? The hypocracy of the football authorities stinks.

But someone forgot to pay the premium ....

I have done the Predictor right through to the end of the season and its true, we do make the play-off's on the last day of the season when we beat Southend and Millwall draw with Swindon. I would not have thought it possible (and it probably isn't!). Seriously though, we have to watch Millwall in 6th place and they have a much tougher set of fixtures than us and we have two games in hand so may be, just may be ... but then again, maybe not?

Carlisle beat MK Dons 5-0 today and have just beaten Leeds to get to Wembley, so I think that, in the context of the division we are in, that makes them a pretty good side rather than a pretty average side. Look, you are upset because we lost, we all are upset, but this is not the end of life as we know it, we are still work in progress and, and I may be the only one, will reserve judgement until nest season.

Facts of life: Attd at FP = 16242 Attd at SMS = 29901 I hereby declare that Southampton FC are duly elected as the South Coasts TOP CLUB! BiBi P*MPEY

Rickie is taking the corners tonight - is this a new innovation?

Sorry, but the top teams are going really well, 80 plus points will be needed this year to make the play offs and, with the two handicaps we have had this season with -10 to start and then ten warm up games, that is a very big ask.

I saw on the Echo site a list of seventeen players who are out of contract or their loans end in May. There will be mass exodus that will leave those we have recently brought in on permanent deals. I don't know why we all so worried about this. ML/NC/AP will worry about it if it needs to be worried about. However I am sure they will have a pretty clear picture of how much it will cost to sustain the current playing staff through to the end of the season and whether that presents a problem or not. The only people that need to worry are the seventeen who will be released, the prospects on the job market for them at the moment are not good. There are very few clubs buying and a lot needing to sell. Very few are likely to walk straight in to new clubs.

AP plans to win every game, its what he does. He will plan to win this cup tie but he will try and stop unnecessary emotion and tension get in the way. The team will go out prepared to win, I just hope they do!

Is this confirmed? I can't see it on the OS statement.

16th December 2009 - Saints Reserves v Swansea Reserves "Kayne McLaggon, making his return to Southampton after a recent loan spell at Eastbourne Borough, picked out Saganowski with an excellent cross which the Pole headed diagonally past David Cornell in the Swans goal to make it 1-0."

Isn't it the ultimate insult to an Arab to show him/her the soles of your shoes? In which case it was a very clever way of insulting our 'friends' owners ... well done who ever thought of it!

Saint Laird, the next goal will be so important!

Current stats: Possession: 34-66 Saints On target: 0-5 Saints Off target: 1-3 Saints Corners: 0-5 Saints Goals: 0-1 Saints Looks like we are on top!

I rather be a hammer than a nail ...! West Ham are the Hammers so P****y must be a nail. Was today's judgement the next nail in their coffin? Or is this all too cryptic? I don't know and I don't really care as long as we are OK.

Yes David, it was particularly irritating song by Max Bygraves played every week for years by Uncle Mac on Children's Favourites. It went something like: There's a tiny house (children sing: There's a tiny house) By a tiny stream (children repeat) Where a lovely lass (children echo again) Had a lovely dream (children ...) And the dream came true quite unexpectedly in ... Jonny Jonny Otsemobor-cassenella-vogan-by-the-sea. I hated the song yet I can remember the words some fifty years on - funny thing memory!

Here one for the over 60's: Jonny Jonny Otsemobor-cassenella-vogan-by-the-sea I think I now say "I'll get my coat"