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Just because you are negative does not mean you a wrong, after all if you say someone is going to die you will be right eventually and will be able to say 'I told you so'. That appears the only way for you achieve any joy at all, but if you are negative all the time it is not clever nor smart because sod's law says you will be right sometimes, but you are unable to see the benefit od any doubt. Sad really.

So much for this supercilious git then. Just love know-alls don't you.

I really don’t understand why everyone gives this guy any credence. He has obviously never played football, he doesn’t watch games every week and gives the impression of being a poopey fan. He works on the premise that if he says someone is going to die he will be right one day. He stated “Very bored with hearing about this, seeing its being top at the END of the season that counts, a fact that seems to be over the head of a lot of contributors on here, and especially when considering our relegation form over the past 6 or 7 games”. This is incorrect on a number of counts, but more relevant is the point he is bored of hearing that we are top of the league (how can any true saints fan be bored of hearing about them being top of the league?). Our recent form indicates that we are in a difficult league, but has still kept the pack behind us. Any mention of relegation when speaking of saints at the moment is plain idiocy, and it should also be pointed out that the pre-season favorites for promotion are still three points behind us. I have to agree that being top, or second, at the end of the season is important, but not more important than the next game. (Unfortunately I cannot attend due to other commitment). At five o’clock today the focus moves to the next game and so on, as watching your team play, or supporting if you are unable to be there, is more important than who they play as has been proven by many thousands of fans who supported us at our lowest ebb. It didn’t matter what league we were in we still turned out in our thousands to support our team and loved it because we were winning more than we lost. The predictors among us must be in turmoil as few would have predicted us being top at the turn of the year before the season started. It must also be difficult or embarrassing for those who predicted us to finish below half way etc, but these people do not embarrass easily and still maintain their ridiculous stance. This nonsense about signing someone on the first day of the transfer window also shows a lack of insight to what really happens in football. The majority of those early signings are loans and as far as I can remember we don’t want loans unless they are likely to lead to a permanent move. It does appear that we have signed this Japanese guy, which would also disprove some of his statements about lack of work in the background, but we shouldn’t need to keep disproving these ludicrous statements, which are always very negative and show little belief in our club. So come on Alpine and your like, let us show a little more faith in those who have been blessed in taking care of our great club and if you must come out with a rubbish statement make it a nice one, which we could laugh at rather than our current mood with the doubters. COYR

I renewed my season ticket on Tuesday and had to wait about 35-40 minutes, but was not charged in the car park. I had to go to QA hospital this morning for a 0900 appointment. I arrived at 0845 and waited until 0920 to get into my appointment. I actually left the car park at 0950 and it cost me £2.60.

What a shame you decided to reply - I though and hoped that we would all ignore him, particularly as he knows so little about Saints.

This bloke is still on the free transfer list - Jeremie Aliadiere as is James Scowcroft and Darius Vassell

Boy this has taken me back. I loved the dell and started going regularly early 70s and got my first season ticket in 1978/79 season. I can remember swapping my season ticket for a family enclosure ticket in 1980/81 so that I could take my son every week, he was nearly six. I still retain two season tickets now, but he seldom comes as he lives away with his own family. When he became too old for the family centre we swapped for some brilliant seats just opposite the dug-out and nine rows back - this is important as we received the benefit of the roof when it rained. When he went to university I took my youngest daughter for three seasons, which was also very nice, but she also flew the coup. It was either get rid of my spare ticket or drag my partner kicking and screaming to our home games. She now loves football and to emphasise that point she went to the last game at the dell vs Arsenal on her own as I had complementary tickets for the cricket at Lords that day. She kept ringing me to let me know how we were geting on. Now I am in the Kingsland with my partner, which is great, but not quite as memorable yet. The atmosphere could improve if the Northam allowed other parts of the ground to sing rather than either trying, and normally succeeding, to drown them out or joining in but speeding things up so everyone else just drops out.

As can be seen by Matthew le Gods earlier post we have produce quite a batch of young players that currently ply their trade in pro football. We used to produce youngsters such as Shearer, LeTissier and the difference is that today we start them in the first team or sell them on a lot sooner than we used to. Shearer made his full debut, after one sub appearance, at age 17 years and 240 days. LeTissier was 17 and 291 days and Benali was almost 20. Walcott was the youngest ever and he beat Danny Wallace, but Wallace only debued as sub and only made 3 full appearances over the following 2 seasons. Now it is difficult to compare as we are div 3 and we are talking div 1 with the like of Shearer, but nevertheless the current list is very long and we still have our share of youngster scattered around the leagues. The youth set-up did suffer a little when Gorge Prost left and we do not seem to have replaced him. We are talking about youngsters that have come through the acadamy, but we also have quite a few that came to us where a small fee was involved, but they were still nurtured through the toughest years of their football lives by our set-up. We still have one of the youngest squads around though, so the Illingworth quote was not valid, IMHO and I think the extra resource being put into the youth set-up will pay dividends in the seasons to come.

Fonte's flagrant breach of the three legged football rules.

Zola Martin O'Neill Nigel Adkins

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A73718436 In response to being asked earlier if I could contact my source to find out why Downes and Murdoch were sacked too, I have contacted my source, the result of which is below: I have just spoken to my source having come out of a meeting this afternoon with Dean Wilkins and Senior Staff. Here is an extract of what I received: " Nicola is saying he will not rush appointment , there was a fight incident at the training ground between Pardew and Player A and a couple of other players and coaches - Cortese turned up and the result was Pardew being sacked. Cortese told him to take his "drinking mates" with him and leave Southampton. He was warned about this at the end of last season. His drinking buddies and him had been getting out of hand for some time. It all came to a head with the whole issue with Player A's wife." So we are not rushing a new manager in. Paul Hart rumour IS NOT true. NO ONE HAS BEEN APPROACHED YET, we are in the process of receiving CV's, then manager's will be chosen for interviews. (For those of you asking 20 questions about this) Players are glad to see the back of Alan. Get Behind Wilkins and Let Cortese Find The New Manager. DoingTheLambertWalk

Not quite sure what team you are watching as I don't think we have played 'hoofball' and as for Pardew underachieving he has a very enviable success rate of 53%. Are you sure you are talking about Saints? I am sad to say that with supporters such as you we deserve all we get - so it is Hart for manager.

I am reminded of Monty Python with some of this. "He nailed my head to the floor." "Why on earth would he nail your head to the floor?" "Oh I don't know, but I must have deserved it!"

Having lived through most of the same things as the original poster I struggle to understand what he actually expects. Our expectation in the late 70's, the 80's and 90's was to get at least one place above the relegation zone and perhaps have a little cup run. Most of those two decades we languished around in the bottom six, with one or two exceptions. We did not have the internet, but we did have similar conversations down the pub and in the main we accepted our lot. We would be over the moon when we signed an aging star to join our ranks and would accept that the majority of our players would not get into most first division teams, but we now have to accept that today's football is about teams and having a star player does not give you success. Now we have been through one hell of a journey in this decade and are where we are, but many of our supporters will not know any different than supporting a first division team, whereas I can remember when we were rubbish before 1976 and we seem to be there again. We cannot do what we did then as football is now so different. It would not do us much good if we managed to find a couple of aging stars to sign, such as Wotton who is revered by Plymouth supporters and dropped down a League to join us, because the fickle supporters we are think he is rubbish. We talk of signing really good players who are in their prime, because we can nowdays because of the internet which makes us all braver and yet sillier, but we all fail to realise that those players do not want to consider joining a club in our position. The talk was of players to understudy Lambert and we were talking of young, good players who are currently plying their trade in the divisions above us. The internet is not real, Football Manager is not real, players like that are not going to join a club in our position unless you are very lucky and find a Wotton or Connolly, who we appear not to like. We are four games into our season and we have won one, drawn one and lost two. That cannot be considered a good start by any stretch of the imagination, but surely it is a bit early for all of this moaning and wailing about how doomed we are. Last night we were playing a First division side and had the roles been reversed we would be moaning about our lucky win against inferior opposition. We were not expected to win by the realists and rightly so as Bolton are doing quite well in the top league and us not so well in the third tier. We were very unlucky against Plymouth and Orient probably deserved the draw, but there lies the rub - one very rarely gets what one deserves in football which can be the cruelist of GAMES.

I wish you would get real. Wotton came from a CCC club and that is going to be the type of player we can attract as cover for our first team. In almost everyone's opinion he is not good enough, but where are we going to find better to take his place on our bench? We are league one for goodness sake and you go on and on about finding someone equally as good as Morgan to sit on our bench and that is not going to happen. We may be able to find some youngster or some journeyman, but the likelyhood of them being better than Wotton is remote.