InvictaSaint

It's barley worth arguing about to be honest.

Wonder what spin the increasingly desperate OS will put on this result? After all, in the week there was a piece about 'all' the other teams we have played telling us how we were the best opposition they had come up against this season!! Yeah....bet they were saying that all the way back to the coach with three points in the bag!! Absolute joke. Stalin would have been very proud of our OS....

If we ever get back to the Prem I am sure I would 'enjoy' it whilst it lasted. But let's not kid ourselves, the PL is now so far removed from what it was even 3 years ago, it's not true. Money talks at every level, competition is minimal, enjoyment is for the top 3 and those who manage to survive. It is, however, just another example of capitalism gone mad and just like the South Sea Bubble, it will eventually pop. If one is so shallow that the superficial glamour, hype and plain b******t that surrounds the PL floats one's boat, then fine - enjoy. But to pretend it is anything other than a money launderer's whorehouse is blinkered beyond belief. The CCC may not be numero uno in the quality stakes, but its honesty and the affinity its clubs have with their supporters is refreshing in such money-oriented, superficial times for football.

Am still 'happier' to have seen some Saints players wh have affinity with the club trying their hearts out until the end. As Sky said, their heads never dropped. But this is VERY worrying. As others have said, we don't seem to havea plan B and we look incredibly lightweight. Even in League 1 I could see us struggling playing this type of football. Great to watch - our goal being a prime example - but just so horribly incongruous with what it takes to compete in this league, never mind win it. I can see us losing to Ipswich and possible even a battle-hardened Barnsley (rather like Blackpool), at which point the total football revolution may be seen for what it actually is....great with experienced players, a massive gamble on the future of the club with kids. League 1 beckons I fear....

5 league games, 4 defeats, Svensson probably crocked, Lancashire suspended for 3 games now....they are going to have to learn quickly in this league, but I am afraid I just can't see it happening quickly enough to save us.

Top left looks like Hoddle if you ask me...

Calm down all - once this new super particle accelerator kicks into gear next week, the black hole it's bound to create will see an end to the recession, the credit crunch, Lowe.....welll, pretty much existence as a whole actually. Nice knowing yers all..... :-)

What's Macedonian whiskey like. Anyone?..... :-)

I wouldn't call Wilde's answer to Stephen Squibb's question as open or frank, TBH. Neatly side-stepped, like an accomplished politician.

Do you know, I was just discussing the very same thing with my better haf. Football officially died - at least at Premiership level - for me last night; watching Sky Sports News creaming their pants over voyeuristic images of Berbatov at Man Utd and ticker tape news of Robinho going to Man City for £32.5M (what would persuade anyone to swap Madrid for Moss side? Ohhhhhhh yes.....) made me sick to the core. Premiership football is not only out of touch with the average fan, it's positively stratospheric in its distance from ordinary supporters. How can they have any affinity with 'their' team? The money is obscene, end of. Nothing can justify it, nothing. Give me local lads who give their all for Saints any day of the week. If we finish bottom with 3 points, at least they will be my team, and will have played with effort and heart. That will do me.

Ahh, but had he not visited Redknappicus's feather & wax emporium, how different the story might have been.....

It's certainly a breath of fresh air after GB's 3-year negative diatribe. I'm with 66East - am liking JP more and more. Good luck to the guy.

Who's up for getting in touch with this fine fellow?! :-) SU4ERANIO SU4ERANIO is offline Registered User Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 1 Default Assume you will be selling out for Saturday, yes? Glad this game came up early in the season, as Jewell deserves a first win...and we all know that you are a soft touch when you play us!!!! Dont have to worry this year about facing Moore and Howard, so your softies wont get any bruises to moan about. Your only worry will be chasing our shadows. Krissy Commons hatrick. 3-0 to the Rams. Promise not to go on the pitch and celebrate (as dont want to upset you again)...even though its been nearly a year since we won a league game. C U Saturday

It's amazing isn't it? Every other bu.gger gets forced into working on a Sunday (whether at their place of work or at home), but apparently it's too much for some pen-pusher at the FA to get into work for one single Sunday just to make sure the fax machine doesn't run out of paper. Incredible. Who said the FA was still stuck in the 19th century.....

According to Michael Wilde in Saturday's match programme, the club is now "back on track for a more stable and successful future" [sic]. Doesn't exactly smack of somebody who knows that unless we raise £4M by the end of the month, then the administrators are on their way, does it? Unless of course he has been taking lessons from the White Star Line school of maritime management.......

I heartily concur. I don't think I have been as enthused about a Saints performance as I was yesterday; not because we won, as clearly we didn't, but because every young man in red and white gave his all in a display of impressive football, and because every Saints player played for the team and put in maximum effort. When was the last time we were able to say these things? There was a guy on Radio Hants after the game - Jamie, I think his name was - who absolutely hit the nail on the head. This season is about supporting the team, getting behind the young players, not criticising them when they fail (as they will at times), watching them improve (which, on the basis of yesterday they surely will), and ensuring the team remains in the CCC ready for next year when they will have a year's experience under their belts. This has to be a long term plan; we are skint, and the situation maybe worse than we imagine, so we have to support JP and the team to the hilt. Indeed, I thought the support yesterday was spot on, particularly at the end when in the past the reaction might have been negative (anybody hear the Everton fans at the end of their game against Blackburn?!). All in all, a much more heartening display than I have seen from a Saints side for a long time and one which, in the context of the club's current position, gives much hope for the future.