Charlie Wayman

It's not OUR club anymore, once it was bought up privately it became the expensive plaything of the owner, nothing more nothing less. B*llacks to all the revisionist "fans are important" rhetoric being churned out on the OS with the same monotonous regularity as Saints banging balls "up the channels" in the vain hope that some bright spark up front might fancy chasing after one. Who do you think you are kidding Mr Cortese? Fans have been systematically sidelined and marginalised under this regime so that your views and mine are worth the candle any more and if you don't like it do what i am doing VOTE WITH YOUR FEET! Once the revenue dries up you'll be surprised how quickly things will change. And will it really matter if this lot sells up and moves out? We're not excatly spending like Man C or Chelsea so we can't be that flush, debt-free for sure and grateful for it but floating on cash? I don't think so.

Here is a rumour you can believe. I will not be attending another match until this mess is sorted, which means a new and respected manager in place and the team firing on all cylinders and that cretin Wilkins nowhere to be seen. Yep! it means my ST will be wasted each week, so what, that's life but what's the point of watching ***** if no pleasure is derived from it. If the wrong manager is appointed, i.e., somebody with zero reputation and zero experience then I'll be phoning in for a refund on the balance and be off for good. At my age there are plenty of other things to waste my money on, it's time that is precious and at the moment waht is going on up at SMS is a complete waste of ******* time.

Once again all eyes will be on the royal box to see who's been sneaked in by Snr Cortese for a butcher's. Last week as some know but many may not it was the Lloyd Webber brothers (FACT by the way) but before rumours spread about takeovers and selecting our team on a TV show, they sat in the 'O's' bit of the box not ours. Nevertheless, don't be surprised if somebody shows up in a Phantom mask....

Of course they're going to tell anybody who calls in, without even a rudimentary check on who they are and why they need to know. Honestly mate if that 's the best you can come up with, I'd stick to selling balloons in the Above Bar precinct

Amen to that and just about everyone else mentioned on this website. MON or nowt! Houllier will do as well

How very effing depressing. I hope this is a nightmare 'cos if it's real life and one of these cretins gets picked I'll personally hurl large lumps of brown stuff at the director's box

That'll be Taffy Hughes for sure or that Wigan bloke who may want out before he's pushed

Look guys, make sure to take your binoculars along tonight as we've been turfed out of the Itchen - only Kingsland and Northam open - so we won't get to see all the comings and goings in the director's box or hospitality boxes. Even' bet there will be some managerial hopefuls along.... If Phil Brown shows up put the word around so that we can all leave! "What is brown etc.... Or, chant out the names of any you see so we can all get in on the act

We are clearly modelling ourselves on Chelsea and Man C. Just look at the sins that Hughes and Mourinho committed, like winning titles, not conceding goals and winning 1-0 most weeks. It wasn't that they were not playing winning football but their teams lack of style in winning was 'what done for them'. Although we know this to be a results driven business, clearly results are not all that matters. Entertainment is equally important; many on here have failed to spot that on average we are not playing to anywhere near capacity gates at SMS - as Norwich did last year for example - and this would be a BIG worry for Cortese and his henchmen. The manager's job is not only to win football matches but fill stadiums as well; for sure we will not fill SMS with hoof-ball from Davies, slowing the game down every time we are in possesion and aimless square passing. It will be this as much as results that will have hastened the end of Alan Pardew. It's a shame he's gone because in my view he would have got us promoted this year for sure but clearly if we have to earn a penny before wes pend a penny tne it is obvious he wasn't doing that well enough and hence the lack of transfer activity. Best wishes Aln and better luck next time 'though Randy Lerner may not be particularly tolerant either. Maybe better for you in the long term to get a proper job

It'll be Sven Goran Erikson, prviouly of Notts County ame - if he is willing to do th eFourth Division, he'll jump at the Third. Then none of your sisters will be safe!

But what would you have said after Rochdale beat us 2-0 next Saturday under Pardew? I don't agree with you at all, lots of people have been calling for Pardew's head for months, now they've got it. Sooner rather than later is good for the club if we want it to progress. Let's face it we are not playing very attractive football most of the time and I for one am fed up with long aimless balls up to their box. I suppose a few players will bugger off now that Pardew is out but there are better ones around and Cortese has made sure that he didn't give Pardew more money to squander.

Hate to say "told you so" in any case most of you probably didn't read my two comments last week; (i) A very closely connected ex-player hinted to my pal that Pardew was 'on his way' (ii) Pardew's coldness towards Guly suggested to me that Guly was appointed by Cortese and not Pardew - suggesting Pardew was no longer in charge of recruitment. Ah well, we old lads don't always get involved in the rumour rounds but we do have enough savvy to understand how these things work and what is a real story and what is not.

Makes you wonder if he has fully recovered from the pre-season injury that helped fuel the debate about him leaving the club. It will be a test without him but if we are good enough to win it then we should expect to be able to cope with the inevitable absences during the season of Lallana and Schneiderlin through injury or red cards

Roll on Tuesday night!

I think you are quite right in your prognosis of the state of affairs at the club. Everything has changed despite the reassuring rhetoric emanating from up stairs. Cortese may not feel the same way about Saints now that Marcus has passed away - in fact he may never have been as fanatical as Marcus but was prepared to do his master's bidding. Although he is wise enough not to be disrespectful to Marcus' legacy and quit immediately it must be a realistic consideration after a decent period of time has elapsed. In which case he will want to leave a legacy of a sound business free of debt and unnecessary cash flows such as additional wages for decent players. It will ease his way out leaving fans on a high note and more importantly raise the stakes for bidders in a sell-off of Saints. The present squad may be good enough to take us out of this mess called L1 as you suggest but would not be good enough to get us much further. Nevertheless, if we are on a good course by the end of the year, it will prove that we didn't need more players and Cortese may feel ready to hand over the baton to a new owner whose job it would be to rebuild the team once we are in the nPC. Every one is a winner and we will all feel good again - provided of course that Rupert Lowe does not leap from the bushes with £25million to buy the club.

Correction mate, we battered their second team, which would be about lower nPC level. Get real!

What is the difference between a prediction and a lucky guess? Can you make a WRONG prediction? We need to do some work on semantics.

Surely, the Club have to pay the police to attend matches so presumably this was not an initiative of the boys in blue. If anybody has a problem with it why not get onto Club Security and ask a few direct questions about human rights and so on? Innocent fans have a right to be indignant and concerned at this incident; questions need to be answered. Of course if you tell the blue lad to stick his camera up his tunic (ever so politely) you'll be in trouble for harrassing him but it shouldn't be like that. Innocent until found guilty but guilty of what - calling a referee a winker?

Maybe it's me but did anybody else notice during Pardew's comments pre-Bolton on Tuesday night the detached and emotionless way in which he referred to Guly when describing how he would fit into the team? Very unenthusiastic would be my interpretation, which led me to think that maybe the Italian connection has come to the fore once again. Was this the work of Corteses and his pals in Italy? Maybe Cortese is now deciding who comes in and not Pardew? You never know, maybe he takes the view that very few of Pardew's buys have been a huge success. Shades of Delgado and Lowe...

Good to watch. OK, Bolton played their second string and we matched them but it was mainly Brit players v Brit players; if foreign imports had never happened this would have been a good measure of where we are. However, Bolton 2nd XI as seen last night will be about lower nPC level, if we do what we are supposed to do this season that's where our level is as well - so, no surprise at all that we about matched them but couldn't best them. What Buit the reality check for us in the Itchen was how far removed we are now even from the 'survival' level of the Premier League e.g., Fulham or Everton. Coyne's post match remarks were chilling when he said the CC competition begins seriously in the next round, suggesting that Bolton were strolling last night using the opportunity to get some of their second string match fit - and we still couldn't match them! Pardew seems to be seeing some very positive signs from this game. I'm not so sure, plenty of the same old flaws but Mills and Chamberlayne look like good prospects on their late showings. Rumours linking Lallana to Bolton won't have been assuaged by his 90 mins of daring-do - part of the courtship intended to impress Bolton even more? Come and get me in January?

What a load of old bull****e! Why these blokes expect us to swallow this crap is beyond me. If this spiel is a measure of his football quality as well don't raise your hopes too much. At least we can be honest and say "Who???" TFIH?

Slight correction "We are nowhere now!" "Playing the waiting game" is a not too subtle euphomism for the reality of our situation that the effing idiots who pass themselves off as scouts haven't got an effing clue about who to buy or which positions need filling! Either Pardew has targets or he has not. What on earth is the use of picking up any old player who just happens to have been released by a higher division club, whatever his pedigree. FFS we are supposed to be building a team to storm this league not just than handing out a set of kit to any bloody journeyman who happens to take the King's shilling? Somebody please tell me it's only a dream.

Today's 'word' from somebody who is friends with a former-player is that Pardew may be on his way. Don't shoot the messenger!

Not very helpful Mike, as you must realise real life isn't like that. Most people won't walk 20 yards to use a crossing. What is wrong is to knee-jerk to immediate conclusions about any links between this accident and the decision to allow normal traffic flows along Northam Road. The accident may or may not be related to non-closure. Pray for the lad's recovery...

You'd have to say on balance this was a woeful performance from players who are supposed to be the envy of this league, truth is we are just not good enough to win this league or gain promotion despite all the pre-season hype and bookies nonsensical odds. The only lad who acquitted himself well today was Lee Barnard and typical of Pardew no prizes for guessing who got taken off? Not his poster boy of course nor that cretin Puncheon. We struggled just like this last August, then it was blamed on the 10 points deficit being a 'mountain to climb'. What are the excuses going to be this time? Now if I was Cortese, I'd be clicking on 'Contacts" this evening. I remember Third Division football from the fifties and sixties and this is just like those days when you realise how difficult it will be to escape from it.