Charlie Wayman

Looks good. Nice holiday camp atmosphere especailly the pool and recliners. Hey! lads! There's work to be done! Is it for exclusive use for SFC or will we fans be able to pop in for a Cappucino?

Oxlade-Chamberlain....

Good to read. What a change from former regimes. Nice one Nicola...

I have other things to do as well like earn some money to eat!

Everyone's missing the point that at least Saints are newsworthy once again even if this is yet another mischief making piece, which they have not been for years. £50m eh?

I was delighted to read that Addrers is learning to speak French so's e can have a better understanding with his players "who speak that lingo" Here are some helpful phrases for starters Nige. Practice these in front of the mirror before you try themem on Morgan and that new bloke who's name keeps me guessing! "gagner un match de football" "venir dans le bâtiment" "sur le bus" "jouer avec un sourire sur votre visage"

This was a woeful performance from which very few players can take any credit at all and that does not exclude or excuse the hapless Nigel Adkins who clearly had no idea at all how to organise the defence or plug the gaps or change the way we wee playing. If Mr Forte is his idea of a good signing then indeed we are in the ****. Only Chaplow and Lambert played with any sort of passion or commitment, the rest presumably thought they were just there for the TV appearance money, it seemed they couldn't give a toss whether we won, lost or drew. They owe is a huge effing apology for this shambolic display of ineptitude. It's alright excusing players on the basis that everybody has a bad game but this was collective shirking of responsibility on a criminal scale that underlines - as if we didn't know it already - that shorn of Lallana and Schneiderlin we are a very pedestrian long ball team; if we were ever to lose those guys permanently we'd soon be in the Conference where today's football belongs. Seaborne demonstrated exactly why Exeter were happy to sell him, waht astounds me and the rest of my pals in the bar was with Jaidi on the bench WTF was Adkins doing allowing the farce to go on and on and on and on. Tonight we will be a laughing stock all over the country, everyone knows that Peterborough under Ferguson are a basket case but Saints reputation has taken one hell of a hammering. Nobody will fear us again. How the hell are we going to win promotion playing like this? We'd never survive the NPC anyway with this excuse of a defence. I never thought the day would come when I would write that Ricky Lambert was our only player worthy of being kept on the field for 90 minutes but he was today. Adkins is now under the spotlight as never before, the honeymoon is over and the cracks are showing through. He is clearly limited in his vision, team selection and ability to change things around when the going gets tough. Alas from the body language of our totally disinterested players it seems we've got the wrong man yet again.

There's nothing worse than failed streaming with 5 or 10 before ko. Always dodgy but great if it connects. The alternative is the local pub but if there's a PL math on at the same time I doubt we'll get enough saints fans in to control the r/c. Once, last year I was in first and asked for our match, 10 minutes later a whole bevy of hotel guests came prancing in to watch Spurs v West Ham. To be fair not one had the cheek to switch it over and eventually they cleared off to watch it in one of their rooms I suppose. Scary moment 'though as it wasn't an issue I'd die for! Probably be the same tonight

Will any of these work with Apple Mac OSX 10.5? They all seem to require Windows

You are right of course but the lazy bugger's don't have alternative phone numbers to call. No way are they going to show initiative by getting off their arses at Nursling and making the effort to go 4 miles to SMS

The owner can refuse to admit whomsoever he wishes. It's a private club for goodness sake. Why did the bloke get himself banned in the first place, certainly not because he complained about the pizzas. If you play with fire expect to get your fingers burnt! Sorry mate sod all sympathy from me.

Dan Seaborne is OK but is lacks quality, his main strength is up-and-under to keep high balls out of the area. Not so confident on the ground and it shows. We don't have too many quality centre-backs in the building right now, Jaidi is experienced but getting slow - he can't turn or chase - and is probably only good for 60 minutes but you don't want to be switching centre-backs in a match unless forced by injury as it closes your options in mid-field and up-front. Martin is good at times but lacks experience and could be found wanting under pressure each match. He is one for the future and like Oxo needs a couple of good seasons behind him against top quality opposition. I'm not sure Hammond can get airborne long enough to be a CB. he seems to be more of a bulldozer just charging through everything in his way. Too many penalties from him I'm afraid if he was further back. I wonder if its worth risking Richardson there for a match or two with Butterfield at RB, this way you get them both on together, he certainly has the height and strength and speed. When it comes down to who gets on the bus it has to be Jaidi & Seaborne at the moment but we'll always leak goals until we can find a big lad with a smile on his face to partner Fonte

I'm afraid the only one guilty of that sin is you my friend!

On his day he can be mesmerising but he can be very inconsistent and you never quite know which version will turn up. He was automatic first choice under Alan Pardew but his bad luck really was the emergence of Chamberlain; somehow as a result his relationship with Nigel Adkins deteriorated to the point that he rarely made a start this year, perhaps understandably because he hates being thought of as second choice to a 17 yo kid. But Adkins has had no choice with our new 'Whizzo' Oxo as our new Chairman clearly wants to see the fruits of his investment in the Academy pay off in terms of young players making it to Saints first team and staying here for the long haul, unlike Walcott, Bale & Bridge who were gone as soon as they were out of nappies. He did well for Millwll and he'll do well for you if he can stand Holloway's mumbo-jumbo nonsense. Lots oh here have an axe to grind over jason Puncheon, I don't - he's a pretty decent player and like ll of us needs an arm around the shoulders from time to time and a whisper in the ear that he is truly valued. Ex-Saints players are littered all over the Premier League and the Championship, having moved on from here because "they were not good enough for us!"..... You work that one out. Good luck and I hope he helps keep you up, otherwise we'll see you down here with your first team next season.

As Gareth Southgate observed on ITV during the match. Adkins inherited a bloody good team who had already won a trophy and would have been in last year's play-offs were it not for the 10 point deduction whereas most new manager's are hired to sort out a effing mess. All the statistics about Adkins won't really matter until we get to the NPC when he will be starting from scratch. The jury is still out on his overall capabilities, whether can he find and bring in players who make a difference and turn them into a team. This is Alan Pardew's team like it or lump it and let's all go boo-hiss but Lowe discovered Morgan Schneiderlin and had the foresight to snap him up as a promising kid.

Let's be honest, a goalie rarely makes a difference if the defence is working well and ours is reasonably solid this year. Most goals conceded recently have been goalie cock-ups so why not give Bart a run he can do no worse that let one or two in but whats new about that?

Frankly with only 24 hours to the door being slammed we're going to have to come to terms with the fact that whatever has been going on behind the scenes no bugger out there fancies coming here, probably because they've never heard of Adkins. Would it have been different if Pardew was still the name over the door? Just a thought but not one to be dismissed too easily

I worry about Adkins, what's he on? Does he really believe all the crap he spills out at interviews. So, if we get beat 7-0 Nige who'ya gonna blame? How will you rationalise that. FFS we can't even beat Tranmere when it really matters. This is Manchester United were talking about Nige not just another bunch of losers from the north like Blackpool RESERVES. They think football like you think bull****. They'll sit back and let us play for about 15 minutes just so's the home fans can get excited, then once they've assessed the game and lost patience they'll stroll up our end, knock a couple in for fun then bugger off down the tunnel for tea and biccies before taking the **** in the second half by playing keep ball whilst our great heroes huff-and-puff themselves into exhaustion, meanwhile popping in the odd goal to keep themselves amused and stop Ferguson doing his usual apoplectic fit routine. And a bit of advice, don't waste your transfer kitty on a crate of Mouton Rothschild for the grumpy old bugger in the hope that he might say something nice about you and the boys to the press like "They definitely had the best jerseys" or some such patronising rubbish. This one we are going to lose mate and it's up to them how much they wish to embarrass us and don't forget these bastards kicked us out of the Prem so I'm not expecting any favours.

It amazes me that so many want to watch a reserve team game. By the way Man U will want to win it just to frustrate Arsenal's bid for all four trophies so 60th minute subs might well include a name we've heard of like McBucket or Skritchel?

Likely to be propaganda shots to put the sh*tters up Man U to make them think we'll play our first team which we won't of course and yeah like they're really gonna' swallow it. None of the lads in the pics will figure, match training was going on somewhere else off-camera. See who's not in the pics to reveal tomorrow's starting line-up. Giggs will be on in his wheelchair so one of you blokes in the Kingsland needs to bring in a long stick to jam his wheels.

Of course, what will actually happen is all our league rivals will win and we'll be embarrassed beyond belief and Chamberlain will get injured and out for rest of season and Davies will be playing in goal....

The closer we get to this game the less excited I feel about it - am I the only one? It looks like the visitors will send down their reserves and if Adkins has any sense he'll do the same and abandon any further distraction from a competition we could never dream of winning anyway - so one's left to ponder what's the point of it? OK Man U Old Boys are not Dagenham & Redbridge or Accrington Effing Stanley but they might as well be for all the interest it's generating in this household. There should be a rule that nobody over the age of 50 be allowed to play in the FAC! Honestly guys, right now there's a 50/50 chance I'll not even bother to go up there on Saturday. Bring on Chesterfield!

Not a snowball's chance in Haddes! FFS we are 8 points behind and they've lost 3 all season. Just because Nicola has demanded we win this league it is not our Given right as some on here seem to think; right now we look at best, good enough only to scrape the play-offs. If Lallana is out for any length of time even that might prove beyond us.

More or less how I see it too, quite a few fans will want out as well. This season really is beginning to shape up like "make or break", If Adkins can't get us up it's quite possible that Cortese will up sticks as well, then he'd sell all his quality players to get the books looking really good for a sale.

Is this worth a thread? Doubtful.