Charlie Wayman

Brilliant Signing. Looks like Capello will want to be seen around SMS quite a lot in coming seasons, indeed he may want to play our whole squad if this goes on. Offer he couldn't refuse? Nothing to do with concrete and boots one hopes?? Just need Carrick and Barry now and that should do it!

Oh dear! I don't have time to read more than an Executive Summary old boy! We had to watch the Johnstone's Paint Trophy dry last year, is this to be the year of waiting for concrete to set? Please bring the shutter down on this thread, I knew more about Snr Corleone before.

Many a true word spoken in jest. But don't tell the children just yet!

Glad he's not gone away for good. We may need him again one day soon?

This has all the makings of a huge wind-up. Be realistic guys, what on earth could be announced by the club that could possibly justify this amount of speculation. Certainly none of the guesses offered so far. The only BIG issue for fans is the future of Pardew. A bigger SMS or a new stadium up the road somewhere? Who cares? A mega sponsor like Nestle worth £45million per season... Yawn! Swipe card tickets... oh! so yesterday. A super sra palyer signing? After the fiasco of this World Cup they are two a penny and over-rated even then! We can't buy our way into the Premier League either so it's not that. See what I mean, there is nothing big enough that can surprise us. You can bet if any announcements will be of more interest to the running of the business than its impact on the team or fans.

I'm sure the "we'll accept anything" brigade on here will still call us moaners if we keep highlighting waht's happening at our club. Gentleman, wake up and smell the coffee before it's too late. We are suffering one insult after another as has been listed on here repeatedly, Comes a time when even mushrooms won't grow if too much ****e is shovelled on them. We are being re-invented step-by-step just like Wimbledon of yore. Chances are the team we support will end up in a fantastic new stadium in Basle or Geneva if this carries on... Point is, what will there be left of our HISTORIC SFC CLUB when this bunch of winkers have finished with it? Success at any cost? I don't think so and certainly not for me. We have been truly disenfranchised and nothing we say or do seems to have any impact on slowing the momentum being built secretly in the boardroom and beyond. Heed the warning! The most discontented fans live in Manchester and Liverpool with private rich foreign owners, which cannot be a co-incidence. How long before the statue disappears? How long indeed. If I were living closer, I'd pop round and see if it is still there every day. BET it turns up on the new charity Auction Site soon. I am really wondering about sending my new ST back, really, really wondering.......

Well done everyone on here for forcing the Club to announce its pre-season fixture plans at last - about bloodee time too. I am not sure how we are going to get down to Interlaken to see the games 'though, perhaps Snr Corleone will lay on a double-decker Airbus from Eastleigh Airport, there must be enough of them around lying redundant? Looks like poor old Ted has all but been forgotten? Exit the Ted Bates Trophy, I know it was a cr.ap trophy for a cr.ap match and nobody gave a t.oss but hey! we are really quite good at winning cr.ap trophies! Now the lads are up for a bit of mountaineering and male bonding although I fear they will be well and truly knackered when they get back home, one hopes we will be spared the OS showing us pics of the beggers snow-balling each other starkers. Not a word to the womenfolk mind you.

Simply Bridgey because Snr Corleone plans only to allow Saints to play home games - we're much too posh to visit third world grounds and allow peasants to see us in our new sashed finery. B*llocks to away kit........

I agree with Alpine, surely the principle is "Get in first" not "wait and see who's left" or "keep our powder dry". I'll wager nearer the truth is the infamous "there is no money" as Liam Byrne kindly pointed out to David Laws. We've already missed David Villa and if we're not careful, Fernando Torres will have re-signed for the Scousers as well, then where will we be? Strangely, now that Roy Hodgson is at the helm I will be wishing and hoping Liverpool have a great season. You can't fail to love the man and admire what he has achieved. If only he fancied us! I hated that arrogant idiot from Madrid who gladly was hoist on his own petard at the end.

Fans are stakeholders in the Club and should have a voice in running it like any other stakeholder. True or False? That works just fine for plc's for without fans there is no income. Now, we Saints fans are part of a different world, that of the privately owned business. ML as sole owner has a serious wedge of folding stuff (we are told) so NC as his executor may feel sufficiently adequately supported by ML's pile to play home games in an empty stadium if he so wished and still run the Club successfully. In other words the dis-empowerment of the fan stakeholder of popular management theory. You can come along and enjoy the spectacle if you wish but don't expect a slice of the pie; when the promised land is reached certainly do not expect to rub shoulders with our new found 'prawn sandwich' friends. Daft? Well, we don't appear to need a shirt sponsor... This scenario may or may not be realistic but could offer one explanation of his apparent lack of interest in fans.

The lack of communication is a growing concern, it is certainly disdainful of fans and smacks of the arrogance of old fashioned 70's style top-down management - "take it or leave it, your views of no interest to me" At least Rupert Lowe had the guts to stand up front and tell fans to their face that their views didn't matter a golden toss to him - I was all for hanging that barsteward! This new man did not seek inputs to kit choice; fans had no say in the ticket fiasco that will hurt and alienate many fans and there is less and less information on the OS and more and more corporate bull**** and money grubbing crap! Yes guys, you should be worried. This may be a new era but not necessarily one that'll make you feel part of it. I'll bet in two years time if this goes on you won't feel like a Saint at all... Oh yes and Bring Back our Stripes!

Been away - went to West Quay today - saw the new kit - it looks cheap and cheerful - it looks like sh*t*- I am depressed, very, very depressed - just paid out a bucket of smackeroons - to watch blokes I hardly know - run around in gym kit - for a whole season - what's the reason? Ugh! Ugh! Ugh! - what a mug

Nor Schneiderlin???? Well you can't please everyone, I hate the bloody thing, effectively we're playing in white! For how many years did we support the "Save our Stripes" campaign? So what was that all about. I suppose we'll end up with a Swiss cross and speak in German... "Ich hasse dieses blutige Hemd!" - Yep! I did get a German 'O' Level with distinction.

Ridiculous fuss about EFF all as usual! Let Cortese get on and manage the club the way he wants. Fans have two choices as always, accept their outcomes or sod off to support another club. This is not about loyalty or principle it's about interference. If fans want a surefire way of ****ing off Cortese it'll be by constant Effing nitpicking at every thing he seeks to do. Then we'll end up back at square one or is that what sh*t-stirrers like Illingworth wants, you do wonder sometimes? As I said if people don't like the way Cortese runs the show then they can Eff off. Illingworth & Co certainly don't speak for me!

Chnaces are Pardew is in Cape Town with BBC or ITV as a pundit. He won't be thinking sh*t about Saints right now only how to improve his own dosh flow and making contacts that could land him a big job.

What I hope most is that Saints ARE one of the contenders! Let's not get too carried away, the new season starts in August and if we get off to our usual indifferent start we may be some way behind the pack y end-September and chasing - and chasing to catch up is never easy as we discovered last season. Our biggest enemy will be complacency, becoming over confident and lazy thinking we're a shoo-in for the title and underrating other teams. If we start like that it may take a few weeks to come to terms with the idea of having to work for it as reality to kick us up the Rrse and force a rethink...

Won't be a priority for sure. The midfield is where we need to spend, sure we have numbers of people there but we need real quality, a man with vision and intellect. The one player whose absence really affects our whole performance is Morgan Schneiderlin. When he's out through injury or suspension we are mediocre. Hammond is great at getting up and down and hustling but is more a link player than a creator. Despite his jinky skills on the ball, Adam really would not claim to be the architect of move building, seeing the right pass before the rest of us - only MS seems to have that gift and hanging on to him will not be easy re: St Etienne.

That may be ageist old boy, I've got a S2000 that's been well breathed on, an Impreza with 300 bhp and and i_Pad.... I'm a bit older than you and probably faster!

Me too but there was nobody up there at 10.30 this morning when I went for mine. Not exactly fighting through crowds to get to the ticket office, more like 6 lads smiling so I would choose them! Is that bad or what? Maybe the instalment plan issue is going to cost them big time.

Went up there this morning to collect my ST, more accurately I paid up the dosh and got only a receipt for my pains. The STs will be sent out in July. Never mind, done and dusted. Top marks to the bright lad on the box... "I'd like to renew my ST please, same as before.." handing over last year's wallett He " Do you want the same seat again?" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As I said before WAIT for the beginning of the second financial year. It's obvious that the first yaer was unusual, the second year will be the (Cortese's) first year of true income and outgoings

Is that Empire down by the station?

So why doesn't he want to come back? I thought he loved us? Surely there are better places than Wolverhampton to settle and bring up kids? If he's your pal then shout in his ear!

On the day and on their second half season performances, it was a fair result and there can be no complaints. All season Millwall have been the team that has matched us result by result and indeed bettered us on the run-in when they pulled away and ended with a better record, discounting our -10 situation. They almost upset the apple-cart by overhauling Leeds but overall the best three teams have been promoted. Our job is not to be envious but to make sure we play them again in 2011-12. Right now my hope is that we start where we left off and build a winning lead in our division by Christmas. Like most of you guys it will be a strange feeling expecting to win and knowing we shouldn't lose on paper but even so not sure how I will react if we are not top from the off. My guess is we'll be uncompromising barstewards on Pardew's back the minute we drop any points or don't make top place early on. We won't be the only ones either... Mr Cortone will be watching... er! I mean Mr Cortese. Silly me!

No disrespect Alpine old-son but this is about Grass growing and the World Cup. You were told last week why tickets are not on sale yet so go back and read and do your homework properly and stop trying to divert the rest of us talking utter b*llocks about things we know nothing about but like to bulls*ht anyway