Give it to Ron

Yes but there are other factors.....ticket prices for the Prem and if you look at the Skates ST prices compared to ours you can see why ...although I agree as mentioned above the JCL's have started to drift. I worked in North Harbour IBM for a few years and the change was amazing when they started to do well.

Last season I paid over £500 for my 2 season tickets ...this season £330ish thats sensible to me as I renewed without thought.

The 15k we had supporting through thick and thin last season?

I think the Op may have been referring to this..... http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/4643446.Feelgood_factor_is_back_at_St_Mary_s/ The last paragraph is ridiculous IMO and why can't they let it all lie. Nothing to do with sensible ticket prices then?

Well as our stadium holds 32.5k and theirs only 19.5k it should really shouldnt it?

He would claim invalidity benefit off the National Health for Squirrels or NHS as its better known.

You obviously missed the bit where he asked everyone in the room if 5 years was unreasonable....everyone agreed apart from one..Perry queue his minor rant. Listen to the recording again. You are way off line here.

Really? That was not what he said at all and went to great lengths to say how KD arranges the fines, days out and time together! He mentioned that all the new faces are very professional and have not caused any problems and 'from the youngest to the oldest are working really hard " for him.

Pardew did mention pace and 'extension of the pitch' that still needs to be addressed. My thoughts were he realised how bad we were at the back at defending set pieces which in this league are regular occurences.He needed to sort that first and then work on the rest. We now have a spine. He also said that papa would hopefully address some of the issues but it would be madness to pin it all on one player. We are still looking to recruit but as we have a reserve team of professionals need to trim that down first.

In the suites upstairs. For a pint of Guiness and a half of coke it was a £5.

But surely this all depends on numbers the away fans bring? How many clubs bring more than a 1,000..maybe 4 clubs in this division? Many clubs will only bring 3-400 or Pompey 257 ;-). The club cannot afford to not sell a couple of thousand seats in the Northam just to keep fans away from each other.

But the club won't be in the current state when we return will it! Come on John - no-one thinks we are anywhere near that yet. In fact AP made it clear last night that we are trying to return the squad to the level it was last year after losing 4 very good players - he named Surman and McGoldrick as he watched the re-run of last years Preston game - which I thought a bit odd. We are starting to get the infrastructure right off the pitch with Wilkins and Downes. We now have a scouting network in place. We have a spine in the team now with Kelvin, Radhi, Trotman, Hammond and Lambert. The club was destroyed within with administration and cost cutting and Cortese, Markus, Oldknow and AP are rebuilding it slowly. In fact Cortese said last night it will take as long as it takes. Its the fans who demand instant reward look at those on here who were whingeing after just 4-6 games and ignoring the fact that we had no pre-season or time together as a squad to gel. Something Mark Hughes was talking about at the weekend with his defence. I left last night feeling quite warm and fuzzy (apart from the £3.50 a pint Guiness) with what I heard and the ambitions the custodians of our club have.

I am glad it came across that way on the radio - trust me had you been in the room with him you would of been as totally sold on him as I am now. He was very sincere, positive, forthright, honest and clear where we are now and where he wants to take us. He left me in no doubt that its going to be tough but he is addressing problems in this club slowly but correctly. He gave an example from the Swindon game where everytime the ball came into our box we were frightened - Trotman and now Jaidhi has hopefully addressed that and we no longer look as frail. He hasn't finished yet and I believe as soon as we have put a few out on loan we will see us further strengthened with pace up front.

He said because it was a good investment opportunity with us being where we are now and the opportunity to take us back to the Prem ....where the big money is. He said they realised the potential here and size of the club and wanted to be part of bringing us back to where a club this size(15th biggest club?) should be.

Steve Bulls younger brother was the guy at the front.

I took my lad to watch the training then went onto the forum. Jaidi is enormous up close...Papa looked lively but a bit erratic but very keen, Lallana was the most skilfiul, Bart looked a very good shot stopper and better than the last few games where he had missed most. I have seen 4 previous forums and believe me this was the best. I was told a couple of things about Pardew but trust me this guy knows his stuff and although on a full charm offensive his answers and honesty were so refreshing. Perry, O Callaghan and the guy from the Saints Trust all asked questions and were handled very diplomatically but firmly by the Radio Solent guy and AP. A couple of things off air....Holmes is playing for the Ressies tomorrow at Reading to get more match fitness. We are looking at someone from Newport...which was a response from someone asking about whether we looked at non-league players. I think Pardew is keen to do more of these as he said to the BBC guy we could do a whole evening show.

I think this is better on a different thread as this is about tonites forum and will be interesting to hear Mr Lowe's letter writer in action again ;-) I don't agree about your thoughts about our midfield 2 on Saturday - Hammond was the best player on the pitch IMO. He was everywhere and if he could finish some of the chances that come his way we will have a superb player. Our problem on Saturday was that we didn't have anyone for Morgan to pass to....Lambert was heavily marked - Saga was next to useless and we had no width for Morgan to ping the ball wide to. I watched Lallana for about 10 minutes before half-time and he was tucked in behind Lambert or in the centre and offering no width at all. James spent most of the first half camped in front of Thomas and the only crosses that came in were from about 10 yards inside their half and so easy to defend against. We are far too narrow and have no room to play.

The first one yes...the second one evens up the Stockport one it was handball but not deliberate. There have been many occasions when we should of had penalties in the last few years and not given and some givenj that were dodgey. Yesterday was our day and Yeovil can feel aggrieved by the decisions.

There was a Killer moment in the first half....the ball was played to the 18 yard line just by Jaidi who crashed in to a Yeovil forward taking the ball clean as a whistle leaving him in a heap! Thats the Jaidi zone and a very rare crunching tackle witnessed from a Saints centre half since we lost Michael.

Exactly...I will also add that we have sat and watched this club fall from top 4 beating Portsmouth 3-0 at home on Dec 21st 2003 WGS mystery hip operation through to the heartbreak of relegation with Redkrapp. To then sell any player that gave us any excitement on the pitch. We have followed that with a penalty shoot out loss in a play-off semi-final to then through the Burley debacle - Dodd/Gorman - on to the farce and comical Dutch revolution. We saw 7 pathetic loans last year and further relegation - administration -10 points and a difficult start. Is this wrong for me to have a little ray of hope that a signing will actually bring us some decent displays after all the last 5 years have thrown at me for being a Saint fan?

Thats fair enough but 4 was a bit harsh IMO as he made some good contributions when he was on. I would struggle to give anyone an 8 yesterday apart from Hammond.

He also won a few headers when he came on and put in a few good challenges. Come on we know he is no Beckham but 4?? Lets not go down the route of marking because he is not liked. When he does a good job lets mark him properly. I agree totally with your MOM as Hammond was everywhere and doing the job he was bought to do. Saga was abysmal...when will we have a striker that can understand that Lambert actually wins 90% of the flicks ons and gambles. Cheated for the penalty......poor game from him and at least Waigo gives us an outlet by hitting it in the channels for him to use his pace. I worry he maybe another BWP though with no football brain to look along the line but it was his first home game and just a bit too eager to impress. We won but played poor but solid some good headeing by Trotman and Jaidi means we can now actually compete. Now we need a winger to deliver to Lambert.

kicking off in Boogies was a regular occurance....just like its predecessor .

Does anyone know what the follow on target is???

I am due to meet Lawrie next week....I will let you know if he is rude or not!