Charlie Wayman

How odd! He was in West Quay about three weeks ago hanging around outside John Lewis presumably doing what we all do, trun up to meet our shopaholic other half's at the agreed hour.. You know 35 minutes, late no sign of... He's an ordinary bloke for all that..

I watched the first half and put the whole thing on disc for posterity. What you gain is replays of the near goal incidents. Thomas & Waigo (2) should be stretched and flogged for missing easy sitters through it has to be said naivity. They didn't have enough skill to see the chance and convert it all i the blink of an eye which is what better class footballers would do instinctively. Not something you can teach.... If we'd had a Michael Owen we'd have been 3-0 up at least.

We all have view on our best side so for me for Norwich Bialkowski James Fonte Seaborne Harding Hammond Schneiderlin Wotton Lallana Lambert Waigo

I go to every game and Tim has got it more or less spot-on. We are a 70 min side by which time the old 'uns are finished and the young 'uns are knackered. That is more or less all there is to say about this year's team. All the comments about Lambert seem fair, just what is AP up to? The one free kick he didn't take on Saturday ended up being headed into the net by RL. AP most definitely has got that wrong as indeed he has leaving James on the bench and playing Antonio & Waigo together. So AP is far from perfect and Saints are far from the finished article. As far as the rest of this season is concerned, forget it! Our season ends at Wembley. The league is now dead. Sixth placed team will now need at least 80 points to be sure of the play-offs. We have 34 points with 18 games to go; we need to collect another 46 points minimum from 54 which means we have to win 16 of 18 and even then might miss out! Ask yourself if you'd wager even £100 on that one let alone your house? Just relax, look forward to next year, go shopping of a Saturday afternoon for the sake of peace and harmony if you have to and watch the situations vacant board for a new football manager. At least we won't need to listen to Dave Merrington anymore this year so there is a silver lining....

Well, put it this way, 1.Nobody in the CCC or L1 can pay him more than us 2.13 teams in the BPL cannot offer him the prospect of medals 3.The other seven ManU, Chelsea, Arsenal, L'pool, Villa, ManC & Spurs don't need him as they already have better people 4. He'll never be in the frame for Engerland If he's happy here under Alan Pardew what is there to move for? He's first on the taemsheet every week, never gets subbed, we are on our way up - not this year obviously - but next. I think faced with all of that he might sta. I know those pr**ks at ITV are trying to undermine our success already - no doubt you heard yesterday's comment about Rickie lambert? "The BIG clubs are beginning to show some interest in RL" The Big clubs !!!! WTFITAA!!! Big Clubs? We are a BIG club down on its luck, they mean clubs in a higher league. Somehow I doubt Rickie Lambert is the sort of bloke to have his head turned by the many block-brained managers that plague the higher leagues.

Capello's deputy and Brooking were in the director's box today presumably looking at Calamity. I guess he did well enough. They left before Ricky scored so it looks like he's not in the frame even on 24 goals.

Our lads must understand that a game of football lasts 90 minutes not 75 and they need to train harder to stay fit physically and more importantly mentally for the full 90. They gave their all for sure but ending up knackered at 75 minutes and not being able to run with their opponents is downright criminal. Mind you with a back four whom will soon be eligible for their state pensions we were always likely to end up with egg on our faces against Pompey's lightning strike force. On the whole Pardew gets it about right in his post-match piece but we can't get too relaxed as Pompey are the worst team in the Prem by far and really only of mid-table CCC standard. If we had serious aspirations for the CCC next year - which I have always doubted - then this demonstartion of last-ditch rugged determination rather than skilful ball-play surely underlines that such aspirations are fanciful. The back four today were unpardonably awful, they got away with it for 60 minutes only because Lallana, Hammond & Schneiderlin bossed the middle of the park so not letting Pompey get their act together. Once that trio were knackered the back four were overwhelmed and their limitations cruelly exposed. Thank goodness it's only our reserve back four these days. Otherwise, trust An-bloody-tonio to forget to turn up for the ONE match that really matters most to us lot. We might have done better with 11 but there you go!

Two likely outcomes.. A fix to generate more desperately needed income for Pompey from a replay so 1-1 or on form and position Saints 1 Pompey 4

Is that fact, wishful thinking or incitement? Be careful about what you say even in jest this site will be monitored.

They'll probably buy Johnston's Paint if we win.

He did indeed Stu, if we get 45K tickets it'll be interesting to see how many "fans" we have. It will also tell Nicola Cortese whether it'll be worth considering a stadium expansion in te future. Aren't we just a teeny-weeny bit sad down here 'though setting a new crowd record for the JPT? Nobody else gives a terrapin's terd about it except us that's why MKD brought along about 800 to see a 'Final' last night. Shouldn't we be a bit more proud and set our sights higher or is this as good as it gets from now on?

Great result! Effing awful football from two effing useless teams devoid of even the most basic ideas on how to play football. Entertainment? My Rrse! Kick and Rush Up and Under Get stuck in! Give me Strength! Jan please come back... Ah! but I forgot, it's all OK as long as we win.

Once the play-offs are out of reach (defeat at Norwich will end our misery) and we get beaten by Pompey, there will be no reason on earth for Cortese to persist with Pardew. Cortese will want to be ready to hit the ground running for next season and that means a new manager will need time - you've guessed it - to assess his players and do a SWOT analysis before bringing in his own players. Yep! I have been a moaning Minnie but unlike 20 year olds I don't have 50 years at my disposal to wait for more Glory days.

And you still have me down as negative? It's flaming obvious that he won't be very happy. haven't you guys sussed yet that Pardew's rhetoric has changed? H's under real pressure now to deliver and his Monday morning meetings with Cortese in all probability are becoming more and more acrimonious as success eludes him. I still bet evens money he'll not be given anew contract in the summer. It's great to have a few million to spend but as that **** Hughes proved at ManC you've still got to spend it wisely. Just buying old bangers is not the way to do it. Who would you have bought out of all the guys who've come here in the past year. The best of them like Scneiderlin, Lallana and James were already here or came here on frees to end their careers.

Pardew's your man. He's the one who's been shouting it from the rooftops. It's obvious to the rest of use that he's protecting his Rrse!

F**ing awful! At this rate we'll need a hell of a lot of luck to avoid relegation We should be glad that Pardew only has a one-year contract. If he hasn't resigned by the summer, Cortese won't have to worry about compensation. Hope Cortese is already working on a replacement because as things stand we are going nowhere. At the moment I can't see any point in attending the remaining home league games with nothing left to play for. Why do they always let us down?

All I'd say is where was the coffee when we ST's were queuing for our single tickets last week. Get the picture? Fairweather 'fans' welcome, old lag ST holders **** off. Remember how we couldn't get our own seats for the early cup rounds? It's OK to woo potential new customers Nicola but don't forget the loyal band who've stood shoulder-to-shoulder at SMS during these past few years trying to prevent our beloved Saints from dropping into the abyss.

I bet Cortese will try to sign up Nestle as shirt sponsor next year and if rumours of the red sash are near the mark for next year then maybe the swiss red cross the year after is not quite so fanciful have some on here have posited. I hope this isn't the end for our red & white stripes? The First Workld war started for a lesser reason..

We would all like that to happen but it won't simply because in each division it will be necessary to build a team that first of all can compete well enough to stabalise our position at the higher level; secondly to re-build again in the higher division to form a side that can outperform everyone else. All other things being equal (which as we will see below they are not), each step of that process can be expected to take between 2/4 years, so we would be looking at between 6 years (very best), 9 years (reasonably) and 12 years if all the cards start to fall over to achieve this goal. These are long periods of time, if we went through it without at least one or more regime changes at pitch level and in the boardroom, we'd be very lucky indeed and somewhat unusual in the modern game. Meanwhile, many of the players that we have now who may get us out of this division will fall by the wayside through injury, age, limited ability, dissatisfaction or even greed. The wastage each year could be quite high because of the rigorous and uncertain demands of the modern game and of course other teams are trying to do exactly the same thing as us. The pool of real talent from which we might hope to build our tomorrows is like a lake of prime fish, everyone trawling for them eventually with finer and finer nets even if one is lucky enough to own a trawler - what happens to the guy with only a fishing line? - so that when the big fish are depleted even the youngsters and minnows get trawled, too early and quickly discarded when 'dead'. The big fish naturally cost more and more as success becomes mandatory for survival so success on the field will have everything to do with economics and virtually nothing to do with ambition or wishful hunches. For these very practical reasons we would do well at present to content ourselves with the ambition of a reasonably quick return to the CCC and establishing ourselves there in the upper half. As a 5-year objective that sounds about right although we may not wish it to be so.

No so. We have parted company with Flybe so who* else would be willing to do away shirts only. As others have opined this is a business decision first and foremost. To go it alone is a very brave decision but I hope we are not just building debts against future income as we did in the past. Even we do not have a bottomless pit of money and comparisons with Aston Villa and Barca are superficial as they are backed by considerably more funds than we have at our disposal and substantially more income including the near certainty of gaining even more through European football. * Draper Tools just Maybe?

I hope this is non-story but 'smoke and fire'? First, Cortese denies he's going anywhere, now Pardew... I worry about these rumours, it is wishful thinking just to dismiss them out of hand, rumours start for a reason. As was evident on the BBC Football League show, some jealousy of Saints spending power is emerging in media circles (snide comments from presenters) so maybe a gang of enemies is already forming up with the intent of trying to de-rail our project. You just have to look at the adverse reaction to the Man City advance by the football establishment, so maybe some powerful people are seeing a real threat to their future well-being emerging down here on the south coast? Or maybe Cortese really is thinking of going to Italy and ataking pardew with him as well as Marcus Liebherr. Like all you guys I hope and pray it's all fluff in the wind but don't dismiss these things from your mind - two in two weeks.. another 'story' in February will signal that something is very much up!

Surely you realise the team is being built around Morgan Schneiderlin??? What more do you want as a future midfield-general? Wotton is there as father-figure extrodinaire whilst MS gets up to speed. "He is the very essence of a midfield gen-er-al" as the old G&S song has it! This lad will be captain of France in about 5 or 6 years and we'll do very well to keep those leeches of North and West London off his skin even if the magical £10m is offered. We don't need it anyway, who knows maybe we'll start buying their players for a change... Anybody fancy Terry for starters? No, thought not...

But I was there and all theguys with me had the same opinion. We can't all be wrong?

For 45 minutes this seemed like a life sentence what with freezing weather and long-ball up-and-under kick and rush drivel. Only Antonio seemed to know which way to go and the singing of "We've got Antonio" was fully deserved. Now I am sorry Mills but you are crap with a big C and have no place in this team. Nor has that great lumbering clod-hopper Lambert - wake-up at the front, yes, you! OK, OK, the defence was pretty good generally and Wotton has become a man on a mission. Make him skip at least he knows all their names and can shout a lot as well as put it about. Well, whatever illegal performance-enhancing substance Pardew put in their tea at half-time it worked, suddenly we were playing higher up the pitch and our mid-field got on top and the rest is as they say "history". The difference was Papa Wacko and boy wasn't it great to see Papa and Antonio running together, surely must have put the sh*ts up their back four, Play Papa up front every week and he'll blossom just like Antonio, so why now do we need Pincheon and how will James and Hammond get back in? And as for Lee Barnard, what the Eff-ing dong-dings is he here for? Pardew may be able to find decent defenders but sure as sheep-turd he couldn't spot a striker in a Post Office Depot in December. Oh Yes! we took three points and I'm content with that but gve me style over functionality any day of the week.. MotM? Schneiderlin for me or Wotton.

I wrote a long letter to Rupert Lowe stating a very similar plan in 2002 and received an interesting reply about the long-term ambitions of the Club for the immediate area around the stadium and down to the river but of course that was then and this is now and it's all the dust of history. I agree with you entirely but 10 years on nowt has happened so another 10 years on... ? Probably will be all forgotten again. Football is all about quick fixes, fast bucks and publicity and virtually f**k-all about community, environment and destination.