Charlie Wayman

I think Adam Leich's statement is only one of those generalisations that everyone makes from time to time and to be fair to him whilst we may indeed be fairly well off as a club taken overall in the Championship (no doubt two thirds of them running on empty), we should not let our ambition lead us to believe that we have the buying power of the top 6 or 8 clubs in the premier league for example - so whislt we may have a few million to spend wisely we probably don't have a 'pot of cash' to spend in those terms. Our owners for all their ambition are not oil soaked Sheiks from Arabia but honest-to-goodness Industrial Engineers from Helvetica whose business profitability is measured in low % terms - and spare a thought that this global recession is hurting manufacturing industry across the world. These are not the times for reckless spending on hobbies and never forget that Saints are a Hobby pursuit of the family.

Nero?

You have and so have I and we are constantly derided.

Nails on the head old boy! It is all too often the case that incurable optimists are always at a loss to know what to do when events turn against them. Same in any business and usually leads to their downfall. After all anybody can manage the good times.

Very poor. Away form is simply appalling for a so-called top team (12 from 30) and nowhere near good enough to win this league. Limitations of many of our players now becoming more obvious as the season drags on and other teams have wised up to how they play. Good players find ways of dealing with close marking but it seems most of ours haven't got a clue. Looks less likely now that this group of players will be able to hack it at the higher level, We need to buy one or two really talented people in January to have any chance and Sharpe is not the answer he's as one dimensional as Barnard, de Ridder, Holmes & Fox. Lambert was just effing useless today and Chaplow a complete waste of space.

Football teams either evolve quickly or die in today's competitive conditions. Saints of today bear no relationship to the Saints who struggled to survive in this division only 2 1/2 years ago. Managers come and go quickly if results aren't forthcoming. Once a manager is changed a team changes so past form is nothing to go by in that event. Bristol City were in the play-offs not long ago so their bottom-of-the-league position with the same players must have been false. Donnies this weekend should offer no such surprises and on form we should whack 5 past them.

Terrific news. Always last to leave the pitch after home matches, always a smile, never in panic - a True Saint if ever there was one. Hoover is well named always sweeping up at the back!

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.