Fitzhugh Fella

I hardly dare say this but I agree with Dig Dig. I don't think the OP was demanding anything - merely expressing a view that secretly lots of others probably share. I should'nt wonder Martin O'Neil is logging onto Saints twitter every 5 mins so desperate he must be to find out. Yes of course everyone understands the importance of keeping certain things under wraps but that should also be weighed up against keeping your customers at least vaguely informed. NA is always warbling on about our great medical team but what how can we judge? People forget sometimes that this is still effectively a spectator sport - some one might like to buy a ticket to specifically Lallana play. My son has asked me every day what is the news on Lallana - sometimes the club takes the fans for granted in the way it behaves but there again I guess we lost those sort of rights the day Marcus reached for his wallet.

Wow, what a day but delving amid the debris of a particularly nasty (but oh so enjoyable) 24 hour car crash, my main question is just what the hell was/is Birch up to granting preferred bidder status to REL who so obviously could not fulfill their pledge. Reminds me of our own Mark Fry who dived head first into Pinnacle without checking with any depth if they had any dosh. Poor old Leon copped the fallout ie a cool half a million and I remember so well a few days after Pinnacle collapsed he rung me to ask if I had a mobile nos for the money men behind Pinnacle. How come people like Birch and Fry fall for these idiots while at the same time the companies they work for laugh all the way to the bank. Birch should truly fall on his sword but can I just say.... thanks Trev you have been a star!!!!!

I had a long chat with Lee Holmes today - doing ok at Preston - and he had a similar injury here with us in his first season. He said he was rushed back after a little over 3 months but it was too soon and the injury quicklyflared up to rule him out for the rest of the season.

Oi!

don't forget the driver

I seem to remember many moons ago when soldier boy Guy Whittingham bought his way out of the army to join the largest club in the world it was reported he had been a Saints fan and even had a Saints tattoo?

Take that big time

Your handle sort of sums your post up. But just to clear things up I started this thread because I am genuinely intrigued that Puncheon's contract is nearly expired. How you deduce from that that I am attempting to damage the management team's reputation actually says more about you than it does me. And if you think I post thinly veiled agenda ridden tripe why do you bother to then contribute to it. Why don't you just ignore what i post. Serious question - or secretly can't you help youself?

Bee in my bonnet? No I think this is the first time I have commented on Puncheon's contract but don't let this get in the way of having a dig at whatever I say. Thanks for buying the book but I would have hoped you would then have realised I only care about the club.

I don't know, that's why I posed the question on here. Sorry if it offends or upsets you. I thought the fact that the most influential player over the last few months could leave us for nothing v shortly was something that could be debated without accusations of agendas. Obviously I am wrong.

The club never leave it this late - if you read my post properly you would have seen that. Your bed wetting remark is pretty unnecessary - why don't you try and just and debate without insults?

Apologies for starting a new thread on JP when there is one still active, but that one is not addressing the fact that next month he is free to talk to other clubs as his contract expires in the summer. On that thread someone (ITK?) is claiming that Punch has not had a new contract offer, a fact if true, and I think it is, to be worth a a thread on its own. To add further fuel to the debate, the respected PA journalist and Saints fan, Simon Peach has today, on his twitter feed, said that when interviewing JP after the Reading match one subject he did not want to dwell on was any new contract offer. So has the club decided its "thanks and goodbye", or has Puncheon decided to look for pastures new? He once crossed NC and got a second chance which suited both parties but... was there a decision or agreement made then that there would be a parting of the way when his contract run its course. My view is that it would be a shame to lose a player who is talented and becoming increasingly influential because of a spat that was solved........ albeit superficially. The club love to announce extensions of contracts but on this issue the silence is deafening.

Wonder if one has been offered yet?

So with Puncheon able to talk to other clubs in January and his contract expiring in the summer have we offered him a new contract and will he accept it? Our match winner's future is very much in the balance.

But his contract runs out in the summer and he is free to talk to other clubs in January so the million dollar question is Are we or have we offered him a new contract and if we have will he accept it?

I think there has been an exaggeration at the level of booing brought about perhaps by a tv mike in the wrong place. I am on the edge of the Northam and although there were a few groans and muttering when he appeared on the touchline they were drowned by the subsequent chant for his name. No Saints player should be booed before hand - at the final whistle maybe if it is deserved.

Went to see "Sightseers" in Harbour Lights cinema this afternoon, Ben Wheatley's latest black comedy thriller, and in it is a scene of a load of hippies and new age freaks/shamens wildly dancing around a camp site bonfire. When another camper complains about the noise of the drums the camp site owner apologises and says they can't help themselves "they are all from Portsmouth". That line raised the biggest laugh from the cinema audience throughout the whole film.

I think Stuart was made redundant earlier this year

This - I can't believe how Lee was so bad tonight. He was so ineffectual

Got to say Lee was dreadful and Mayuka not much better, neither contributed to one memorable incident.

There is a hint of sadism in your post - I like it!

What a shame you have to resort to including a few insults with your views; "childish"? Moi?

Trouble is there is so little public information coming out of SMS these days his post match interviews are the one chance we might actually learn something about our club. I was confused on Saturday having read all the negative reports from those at the match and then listened to his interview which left me with the impression that we had actually got something out of the match. I felt he was patronising in his responses - a bit more honesty and reality would not go amiss. I don't mind losing but when I hear my team have hardly mustered a shot on goal all afternoon I expect the manager to be at least as ****ed of as me.

Have you ever tried the subtle approach? Just asking

His post match interviews now to me are utterly worthless, win or lose. He just goes into a zone that is meaningless. Beginning to lose faith and the players must be too. Sorry I know he is a great bloke and has worked miracles but am increasingly thinking he can go no further