St Paul

Even in a capitalist model certain industries need tightly regulating. The banks being one of those (although the airline industry is free market, it is still regulated tightly) and for hundreds of years it was the BoE who did the regulating. Who changed this and introduced the tripartite system that replaced it? Well here's a clue the same guy that sold our gold at rock bottom prices. Personally, I believe that whilst guaranteeing the general publics money, Nothern Rock should have been allowed to fail (it wasn't because it was in the Labour heartlands). That would have been the "blood red tooth and claw capialist model", because the very nature of it means that the weak have to fail.What we have now is capialist profits and socialist loses(us). The facts the banks were allowed to get into this state was down to regulation, or a lack of it.It did not happen under Thatch's watch and that was the so called "era of greed".

Every Labour administration has left office with Taxes higher and having spent all the money.We are going the same way with Brown, and like Thatch, the next Tory leader will have to clear their mess up again.What sums up Labour is the Working Family Tax Credits. A system where a worker is taxed out of his income and then gets a tax credit back via his bank account. Anyone with half a brain, would cut out the middle man and reduce the tax taken out of his wages. If he's entittled to £10 Tax Credit, then tax him £10 a week less. However that would cut down on bureaucracy, which Labour loves, and people in "non jobs" dishing out the Credits would be out of work (Labour supporters).Labour's way is to create more and more layers of bureaucracy and jobs, so they can control everything from the top down.

How is it a great story? I could name 25 semi finalists that have been a better story. "Premier league side wins quater final at home" it's hardly the Matthews final is it?

I dont normally get involved in debates like this, but this is rubbish.It was not designed to help the rich. Is the TV licence designed to help the rich and yet that is a "poll tax". lord Montagu pays the same for his TV licence as the Milbrook family. The old rates were generally accepted as unfair and cumbersome. Thatch's idea was that whoever uses the services should contribute the same amount, regardless of income. Wrong in my opinion, but a policy thought through and consistant. If people really wanted a fair form of local taxation based on the ability to pay, then a local income tax, is the only fair system. A lot of idiots jumped on the poll tax demos, to cause trouble, not out of any big principle. If there was a prinicple involved why do they pay their TV licence, which is collected on the same basis?

I have never ever met a Saints fan anywhere who doesn't think Lawrie's a legend. Apart from Sunderland fans, most other supporters I've met respect what he did for us, and consider him Mr Southampton (a title that belongs to Ted, but none the less, shows the respect people have for Lawrie achievements)

I work some Saturdays so a S/T is out of the question, although I paid out £40 a year for memberships for my family. If you think a system where you only have to have been to one game previously (as long as you registered) and buy a linked ticket to be treated the same as someone who goes to a dozen every season is fair, than I wondar what you deem to be unfair. I get to about 14 games home and away each season, and I have no problem with people who go more than that getting tickets ahead of me. However, what ever anyone says, this was just not a fair system. It should have been S/T holders-1 only People whove been to 5 or more away games. People who have been to 5 home games. In that order. In this day and age that would have been easy to sort out (dare I say it, but Rupert did a good job for the Cup Final and Semi's) I would have had no objection to missing out if the above was used, but this today has left a bad taste in the mouth.Will it stop me supporting the club, of course not, but the fact the Club haven't rewarded my loyality dosen't sit right.

What about Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvVirT4xX88&feature=related

I thought Shilts should have been higher, and there should have been a place for Bobby Stokes purely for that goal. Other than that a great article.......

"with the directors content for the club, then below Shankly's Huddersfield in the Second Division, merely to get back to the top flight "and go along three or four places off the bottom". ; directors regularly meddled in team selections. Funds for transfers were rarely forthcoming". Bloody hell, Rupert's methods weren't so revoultionary after all.

Ringo Starr doesn't live in Liverpool or visit very often, he's still a Liverpudlian legend. Van Morrison runs down Belfast every chance he gets, but he's still a legend. Comparing Mac to Ramos and Redknapp is just insulting the man. It wasn't just one cup win, it was a decade of overperformances and wonderful players. KK was European footballer of the year who signed for Mac. In your "level playing field" era, he could have signed for 22 other first division sides. Therefore this was an even greater coup that I first thought. Makes you wonder how Mac got all these players in, I always thought that paying a good salary (compared to other sides) was one of the reasons, but 19 has made me realise that any club could have signed them (level playing field). WOW Mac, must have had some pull. Is Rupert a legend 19?

This was posted on 606 from a Sheff Weds fan. Papa waigo, is a great signing for you! I have seen this guy play many times as i follow fiorentina a few times a year. He plays like kanu, and can strike a play very clean, at times he may be lazy for league 1 football, but is a cultured footballer....having said that hes also played full back for fiorentina on a few occasions, one been against barca in a friendly last year. Wish we (SWFC) had signed him to be honest, as im sure he will easily cut it in your league and ours. After all hes played for a very good fiorentina side, and never looked out of place, his only problem is hes down the pecking order against 3 class forwards! Good luck on your come back guys, we always have a good trip to the saints when ever we play you!

Dont know if this has been posted, but it's quite funny. http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/football/early-doors/article/196379/

These things will happen away from home, it's the crap home results that make it look worse.

James is another one who is totally overrated. These guys, Lallana, Morgan, James Thomson, Paterson, Gillett are just not good enough. Just because we've produced great young players before and this group did well at the younger level, does not make them good players. We are deluding ourselves here.

Lawrie Mac Stand Matt Le Tiss Stand Terry Paine Stand Bobby Stokes Stand Ted Bates St Marys Stadium.

He can do for us what Steve Howard did for Leicester. If there are no offers for him and Rasiak, then they are good enough to play. We had enough of trying to force high earners out last year, and look where that got us. Rasiak and Saga will be one of the best forward lines in this League next season, why break it up and have to buy replacements?

If it falls through they'll finish with less points than Derby did. They'll then fall through the leagues ala Leeds. Please let it happen.

It's the FL, but the point is spot on. My personal opinion is the only chance the League have of saving face is with regard to the transfer of the Golden Share. They can impose whatever terms they want (as it's their comp) in respect of transfering this. That is how they got Bates to accept the -15, and his appeal was to other FL Clubs and not via a court of law (he signed away that right). They could be telling Pinnacle, "give up the right of appeal or we wont transfer the Golden Share".

Sorry, you're right. I would like to give a belated goodbye and good luck to Ian Branfoot. You always gave 100% Ian and it was hardly your fault you were hopeless and your arrogant behaviour towards the fans, was just misunderstood. Thanks Ian.

Good Luck? Well Done? What's all that about, he was hopeless and completely out of his depth. Have we sunk so Lowe, that he is now considered a good Manager .

If that was a good job, I'd hate to see a bad one.

So did Branfoot.

Everyone seems a bit blasé about the whole thing. It's as if we've seen it before so many times. Club goes into admin, reports state they could be going out of business, white knight comes along and saves them. People need to understand these are different times we're living in. Who would have thought 2 years ago that Banks will need bailing out by Govt and Companies like AIG near to bankruptcy. We are the first Club of any size to face these difficulties during the present finacial climate and that worries me greatly. If I have to put £20 of my hard earnt money towards paying Wayne Thomas ect wages, then so be it.Of course they dont deserve it, but I want a Club to pass onto my Grandchildren. By attending this game I may need to miss out on one round of golf this week, but that's small beer compared to having no Club to support. If a local businessmen has helped in this way, then our thanks should go out to him, and he should be named. I think we all suspect who it is, and I'm sure we all know who it isn't.

Nobody would defer their wages working in a normal job. However, football is different, they would have to receive every penny they are owed back due to the football creditors rule. If Woolies or MFI staff had defered their wages, they would now be creditors and chances are would have lost most of what was owed. Whatever our players defered would have been paid back in full. With football being a very short career, provisions will have been made for their future and money saved up for their long retirement. They therefore do not need every penny to live day to day, like most of us do.They could have defered some of this, safe in the knowledge that they would get it all back. They could have easily defered half their wages and suffered no hardship, the fact none of them did confirms what I've thought of this sorry lot for a number of months.Players from other Clubs have done this in the past, the fact that not one ppears to have done so, shows them in a very poor light.

They were still trying to offload him at the time of the Man Utd game. Hense why he didn't play.... Sorry, I meant.. His International Clearance didn't "come through on time".