Give it to Ron

Fair comments but why cant we have two decent defenders, a mobile ball winning midfielder who can pass to his own team, two pacey wingers who threaten defences rather than programme sellers and a big forward in the Howerd mould supplemented with the odd Lallana type..thats all I ask as am sure that formation would get us up to the play-offs its worked for quite a number of teams! Ok there are odd exceptions like Swansea but for every one of them there is a Burnley/Stoke

Winchester and the QA are not in town centres either are they nor is Poole! I will tell you why most don't use the Genral park and ride facility......40 cars damaged by a nutter going on the rampage! Why should people be charged £6 to park their car - its utter bullshine to say its to discourage other people parking their - what other businesses are sited near the hospital? The cemetry and people are dying to get in there!

But Wotte was part of the management team with JP that bought in that useless bag of ****e we had on loan last season. Whatever anyone pretends he was here all last season and in a managerial capacity selecting players - if there is an archive left on the OS have a look if you dont believe me they were championing Wotte and JP as a team. What contacts will Wotte have in this league? How many players has he bought over from Holland...one thats hardly a network of talent. The thought of Wotte's paceless diamond formation fills me with horror again for next season.

Good summary, no pace, no width and no quality summed our season up for me.

Since when has the Soton General been in the town centre yet charges astronomicallly for visitors and out patients!

Well we are not in a position to add anyone yet are we? Until Pinnacle have actually taken over and I am still deeply concerned it may go wrong our squad will not be sorted. Players are mercenaries and will go where the money is...Gareth Barry is a classic example of that why Man City and not Liverpool or stay at Villa who finished higher? I am 99.9% certain Forest wil offer far more than he will be getting here plus its no secret McGoldrick wants to move back to Nottingham.

I heard a couple of weeks ago that Surman was off. If a player and his moneygrabbing agent decide its in his best interest then he will go. I understand what you are getting at GM, that even if we have a multi-millionaire the exodus of quality is still happening. In the Lynam letter it stated that the club will have to be run as a pretty much self sufficient - I expect to lose Surman, Lallana, Rasiak, Saga and Schneiderling at least its the law of the jungle as we are now Div 3 and spent years raiding other clubs for their talent and now its our turn.

Saw them at the BIC last year...brilliant live.

Also on BBC tickertape

I see that Kaka is off to Real Madrid for £56m.....they could of bought us 4 times for that much!

How can one backer be a consortium?

Please don't I hated that Blackpool ****... Anyone that needs a drum can't manage an atmosphere. I have heard SMS rock several times withoutand musical instruments like Norwich, Wolves in the FA cup, Sheff Utd, Arsenal in the 3-2 win, Tottenham and the 3-0 Skates win so the place can be as good as The Dell. My advice is to ignore web forums ;-) people state stuff due to anonymity and wouldn't dare say it to peoples faces in real life. Most of what gets posted is said for effect and response to get post counts up.

Well they had a massive part in it that they are! Who replaced a decent manager with 2 jokers and relied solely on youth? Who alienated the senior players telling them they "were surplus to requirements"? Who changed the whole atmosphere at the club from positive and together to alienation?

The one major problem in all of this is agents...leaches, vultures and the biggest culprits in why football is insuch a mess with wages IMO. All can see the 10% signs flashing before their eyes from their clients who have been relegated and feel too good to play in the 3rd division.

Didnt Burnley get up with playing, agressive, committed football with a game plan? I didn't see too much tippy tap passing in the games I saw them play on TV or at SMS.

Funny how we cling to things like signs...I posted the other month that driving by The Saints pub in Millbrook there was a sign - Under New Management re-opening in May.

As a knuckledragger can you explain when did we exactly play a beautiful passing game in the last 2 seasons? All I had to watch this season was 25 passes to get out of our half and the ball ending up with our keeper!! Why can't we have a mixture of aggression, committed, ballwinning and skillfull players all playing to a game plan? Whats wrong with 2 great big decent centre halves, a ball winner in the middle, 2 pacey wingers a lump of a forward and someone feeding off him? What do you preferr 25 passes and the ball with our keeper or 5 passes and the ball in their net?

Add Leandre Griffet to that list...he scored against Blackburn from the subs bench and was then dropped totally. Ok he could be a bit of a knob at times but I watched him loads in the Ressies(remember this was when we were playing against loads of Prem sides) and he was on fire. KD needs the North to feel at home and settled and WGS didnt see this - although to be fair KD was one of the laziest bast8rds in the squad at that time.

I can think of one very close to here that did Ok though. Some managers just fit in at places...others don't. I have a bet with my dad that if the UAE take over he will be back by Christmas ;-)

NP Duncan football is all about opinions and am not surprised some players hated him, look at Kevin Davies who never responded to WGS run/run/run type of training yet thrives on it at Bolton. People moaned about Sir Alf Ramsey and his wingless wonders. Like I said he won't come back here anyway and will have bigger club chasing him.

I think this may now be on hold as Martinez may be off to Celtic - approach has been made

No defiantely my one...tell the Echo.... From there they strolled on to the harbor where they posed for photographs in a small boat before sailing to Stewart's luxury yacht "The Lady Ann Magee". http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSL1627018220070617?feedType=RSS

Sorry FF that is wrong IMO, I get Setanta free as part of my Virgin package and have watched loads of Celtic games. I have been impressed with the way they pass the ball about, Ok we all know Scottish football is not as strong as the PL etc but you still have to play the right way. Strachans team had players like Nakamura, McGeedie, McDonald who are hardly built for hit and hope players. Celtic didn't do too bad in the CL considering the budget they work to compared with the other clubs in it. Not for one minute do I think he will come back and just maybe we are better remembering the good times and not ruin it. I never did enjoy going out with a girlfriend the second time...never ever felt as good as the first.

Wasn't this one then ;-) http://www.charterworld.com/index.html?sub=yacht-charter&charter=lady-ann-magee-1222

I have been championing Bishop for ages on here but he has just gone in for a knee op ...not his first either so too big a gamble IMO. I would definately get in Graeme Murty from Reading who has just been released, local club so doesnt have to move, a good player and make him captain.