Charlie Wayman

Pathetic. You are the enemy of football and should be ashamed of yourself. You are so bigoted you probably don't know what I am talking about. Moron!

'Cos they were broken!

Me too. It was nowhere near that. Hull must have had about 65/35 in first half alone and we certainly did not have anywhere near 100% in the second

"You're so southern, you're practically French!" just love that from Hull's fans... Class! We must beat Doncaster on Saturday... we must! No excuses this time or Hammers will be above us and we still have to play them at Upton Park.

Not 45000? Good round number, 44000 is far too specific a number to have any meaning. Oh well, as has always been observed many many times, it isn't size that matters it's the noise they make!

It says 'payant' in that window so it doesn't appear to be free streaming

Hawkeye have years of experience in Tennis and Cricket where a much smaller ball travels at 100mph and it has not been faulty at all so footie should be a doddle

It's the problem that Arsenal have and increasingly Man U. When it comes off it looks a million dollars but far more often nobody wants to take responsibility for the last touch, so to speak and as you say we all get bloody frustrated - as witnessed in that increasingly desperate shout from the crowd "S-h-o-o-o-o-o-t". No pleasing us is there but I love the "softly softly, catchee monkey" approach or am I not allowed to say that?

Hawkeye are based at Winchester so it makes sense to do the proving trials at SMS especially as it is a FIFA endorsed stadium. Not much to dispute 'though when Lambert, R gets on the end of one!

Excellent work. Brighton didn't really have a sniff of a chance at goal all afternoon. These international breaks seem to have a negative effect on our team, we lose momentum; the first half was very slow and laboured. It took us a while to get back up to speed, from then on it was always one way and we should have scored three more but Harper was too good. Maybe we should sign him for cover?

If you read between the lines of Nigel's interview on the OS he isn't really expecting to win this weekend... Hope the sentiment doesn't infect his players. I guess all you guys have had games where you felt beforehand in your gut that it was going to be dire, that's how I feel this week. Maybe it' s what comes of having too many breaks and not enough momentum?

Hard to disagrre with that sentiment, as we now even paly like the effing Italians... 1-0, 1-0, 1-0, 1-0

Wish I could get excited about watching this lot on Saturday but fear that Poyet will just park the bus in front of goal and rely on hitting us on the break. Dreading a nil-nil and the more likely 1-1. Fast open game it will not be, Seagulls are in poor form right now and Poyet remains a prize sulky ***** of a spoiler! Still if we could mange a 5-0 we might rid the league of the bastard.

The real worry is that after 5 years or so Bialkowski has been unable to demonstrate his sufficient worth to oust an aging old codger like Davies especially as youth is very much vaunted by the present management. Let's be honest, Davies van makes a few howlers that are clearly age related. This is what should worry us - if he's good enough, he's old enough! Nobody has come in for him either and in this age with Hart already a veteran between the sticks for the PL's top club and his country surely Bilakowski should have made it into saint sfirst team by now? Time to move him on and new lad brought forward onto the bench... For sure, Davies loves to have Bialkowski as his deputy as there in no threat whatsoever to his tenure in the saints goal. Don't give me crap about 40 year old GK's in the PL either, as Friedel and Schwarzer are from a different planet.

Of course not, you can always get tickets for away matches one way or another

Football finances are about as transparent as a black plastic bag at midnight in a thick fog so it might be a tad unfair to single one bloke out and send him down as a lesson to the others when probably hundreds of others have been doing similar or far worse things. We need to separate our emotions about Redknapp leaving Saints from the pending legal proceedings of Customs & Excise that affect football. Spitefulness is inherently childish and does no credit to the people who are so blinkered in their outlook.

that should have read "neither STs or Members".

These things tend to be self regulating. When I bought extra tickets for the Brighton game earlier in the week some guys in front of me were refused tickets because they were either STs or Members, in other words club restrictions were in place to try to be fair to real fans and that's how it should be. Some friends of mine who are not supporters are just interested to come along to see the odd match to see what all the fuss is about. Nothing wrong with that as long as they are last in the queue as it helps swell the crowd and the coffers, it's only the same with theatre or shopping trips to London which you do once or twice per year but no more. Resentfulness is unfortunately part and parcel of being a real fan, we can and do get jealous of our club through a rather misguided sense of 'esprit de corps', like a group of old comrades who've been through the trenches together - as indeed we Saints fans feel we have - with a subsequent resentment of those who turned up after the fighting was over to help share the spoils.

Balls too small

I was surprised to see Hoskins go out but not at all surprised to see Forte go, after all Phil Brown has been making inquiries about him according to press snippets so that one looks like a done deal. But then I was surprised when Gilllett went off to Donny and Lloyd James went off to... etc. No doubt Adkins and Co have assessed the lad so maybe he just doesn't have what they're looking for? I don't buy this "out for experience" lark, how many lads come back and make it to their first teams? You tell me Welbeck, I'll tell you Cork etc

This has developed into a fascinating discussion which I could not participate in as I am a three-a-day non-subscriber (accepting the epitaph - "bloody miser"). Lowe's decision to limit the stadium to 32500 when we were doing well in the PL disappointed all of us at the time but clearly was based on very effective research at the time, as the number of times we reached absolute capacity since then has been minimal. I know some will argue that people might have been deterred because the stadium wasn't big enough to guarantee people getting a ticket at the last minute, but by and large Lowe got it about right (for once!). This time it is different, we are in the deepest recession that any of us alive have known and it is set to get a lot worse before it gets better. £40 a ticket is going to be way beyond the means of many blue collar fans who might be worried about their ability to stay in work and keep their heads above water. In 2001-2 when SMS opened we were on the crest of the biggest bonanza wave that our economy ever experienced and every one felt good and rich and it was in that era of relative prosperity that Lowe made his decision and got it about right. For these reasons Cortese will take his time over any decision to expand the stadium even if we get to the PL and the "Wow!" factor is enough to fill the ground for the early part of next season. If the momentum lasts the whole season and we survive in reasonably good shape of course he'll reflect again but one guesses he will want three or four seasons of sustained sell-outs to even consider taking the project forward to cost study phase. This suggest we will be at around 2016/8 before anything is even likely to happen. If we really do well in the PL and the recession has passed through by then, that is when it might be worth taking a risk but for now "risk averse" is the order of the day.

It's worth reminding people that a loy of people were denied a seat at The Dell during the last few seasons simply because of the restricted abvailability there. This led to a pent up demand which was satisfied only when SMS opened and may explain why we sold out so often in those early days. There was the 'novelty' factor for many of just being able to buy a ticket at last afetr years of disappointment! Now that that novelty effect has well and truly worn off there is less demand for most matches and only certain clubs can offer enough appeal to attract 32000. Certainly Bolton, Blackburn, Wigan, Wunderland etc are hardly worth getting out of bed for so it won't be 32000 every week even in the PL as some opine on here. Maybe four times per season - no more, so a bigger stadium will remain a pipe dream for some time ahead.

Don't be surprised to see us establish ourselves in the top flight and be on a par with Spurs, Villa & Everton, rather than struggling against relegation Nicole Cortese is an ambitious bugger and won't be settling for anything less. Expect to see young foreign players from Italian Serie A clubs and France in January. If you're looking at the likes of Billy Sharp you'll be looking in the wrong direction. If the British guys from lower leagues were good enough they'd be with the top 8 clubs by now so ergo they won't be good enough for Saints.

This is the sort of snooty ******** talk that football just doesn't need. It's a bare arms and spades business not an effing literary convention!

The headline is a joke isn't it? Guly and Schneiderlin have always oozed talent, it's just that many people on here used to think people like me were loonies to keep saying that Guly and Morgan would be our future big stars and the two players most likely to be targetted by the bigger clubs. Now it seems everyone is coming around to the same opinion