Ken Tone

Some reassuring stuff in that article too........ "Even if Lander and Gao are given the green light, it is believed there is more than one other offer on the table and Lander is not the preferred option.."

Renewed last week but couldn't renew parking season ticket at the same time. Sounds as if they're messing about with the car parks again. Puts off old gits like me.

Exactly. Should have been a free kick to us, not a second corner.

Exactly. And I have emailed customer services. Anyone else who feels the same please do so too.

Is it just me or was the p.a. system at St Mary's even louder today? The music before the game was deafening in the Kingsland .... uncomfortably so ... and it just killed any pre-match atmosphere. Couldn't hear any crowd noise at all until the game was kicking off.

Reminiscing was much better in the old days!

The days of regular 3pm Saturdays are long gone, and, far enough, other times aren't so bad IF we get reasonable notice . It's the late changes that annoy me. Makes it impossible to plan anything in advance during the season. Here we are now with 2 games to be rearranged before the middle of May and yet we won't know until the end of March at the earliest when they'll be played. Fans come last nowadays. One day football will kill its golden goose.

This comes up time and time again. The split singing 'end' is because of St Mary's being a new ground. At most clubs , as segregation came in donkeys years ago, the away support was placed at the far end from the already existing home 'kop'. At St Mary's the away support was and is fixed by policing issues, then with no traditional home end, the home fans chose to congregate around them. There really is no way to fix this now.

Yes, thanks. Had same email.

Thanks for the replies.

Have booked seats on a coach from Winchester as the nearest pick up point to where I live, and the tickets have arrived, but they don't say where in Winchester. Haven't been on an official saints coach since the semi final at Villa Park, but then they picked up on the Broadway , near the King Alfred statue. Does anyone know if that is the standard place in Winchester nowadays please, to save me trying to get through to the club on the phone? Got a vague feeling they used to pick up from the Tesco car park once upon a time?

i don't know anything about us bloke apart from having heard his name a few times. Genuine question ..... How does he come to be a free agent then?

good idea. Thanks

Had a fraught time myself. Got on to the website fairly easily, chose tickets, 'purchased' ,then at the final stage it said there was a problem with my transaction, my basket was empty but I may have been charged, and to contact the club. £230 maybe down the drain and no tickets apparently. 35 minutes of loud phone muzak later, finally got a human being who said the error message was wrong and we had got tickets. So, ok in the end, I *think*, but I'll be a bit nervous till the tickets actually arrive.

agree that the loan from Swansea was a weird one if true, but Howe was quoted on the BBC hours before the deadline saying that yes they had made a bid, but nothing like what was being quoted in the media, and it had been been rejected. Sky then spent several hours talks about an £18 million bid as if it was news, well after it wasn't. Their deadline day coverage is all about hype, not reality.

Looks like a good idea, though I see that there is only one train an hour on sundays. What's the parking like at/near the station please? btw ,someone else suggested Oxford parkway, but that's not a direct journey, you have to change at high Wycombe or Marylebone.

Credit to yoshida for playing on so well after his injury. He looked to be in quite a bit of pain at times.

It's not "nearly everyone". Those of us who rate JWP, and always have done, had given up saying so on here because we just get shouted down. He's a good young player who successive managers have rated highly, as have England managers. He's not an absolutely top class PL player, but he may yet become one.

Thought he did ok ,but really only ok. To to be fair, he Suffered from the way the whole team ,and crowd, were deflated by van Dijk going off, so even a top, experienced premier league CB would have looked poor in comparison. In that context he did pretty well.

What didn't make sense to me was that the lino didn't actually raise his flag. He made an odd signal with his left hand to the ref when the ref looked at him. Ref then came over to talk to him, awarded free kick and then the lino raised his flag.

it's even worse than that. The obscene wages figures that are quoted publicly for players nowadays are *after* tax. In other words they expect the club to pay the tax for them too. (Which incidentally is what Portsmouth failed to do, hence their huge debt to HMRC )

i can't watch the game, so please keep up the occasional reports.

But meanwhile, Rtan Seager is playing again ,and scored on his return to the u-23s. He's a natural goal scorer, and at nearly 21 is just at the age when he ought to break through into the first team, IF he ever will, and IF he is now really fit again.

In the modern game, no player has one club at heart. They may start out that way, but sooner or later, money takes over and loyalty goes out of the window. They're all mercenaries.

I think the downside of our many bargain buys etc is that many of our players, and arguably managers like puel, take time to adjust to the premier league. Mane, wanyama , etc were nothing like as good in their first seasons as they later became. I'm hoping Boufal will be better next year, once he has learnt when to try to go past 3 players and when to get rid. it feels like the same applies to Puel. He started the season with fixed ideas ....eg the diamond , Redmond as a central striker.. and now he's consistently playing 4-3-3, with redmond wide. His record suggests that he should end up a good manager in the EPL, but he isn't good yet. The question is ,how patient are the club going to be? I suspect that unless we drop close to relegation, the answer is 'very'.