Tamesaint

How about getting Surman back - on loan to start off with and then buy him back permanently?? So far he has made 1 substitute appearance for Wolves in the League and made 1 appearance in the CC Cup. His Premiership season has lasted 25 mins so far and the only way that he is likely to get injured this season is if he finds a splinter on the Wolves's substitute bench. Rumour had it he didn't want to leave in the first place. Wouldn't it be great if he was prepared to "do a Kelvin" and forego Premiership wages and a life on the subs bench for matches with the team that he and his family have always supported??

If only,if only ..... Crouch appointed Pearson Lowe appointed Gray and Wigley and Sturrock and Rednapp and Poortvleit and Wotte. If only Lowe had made his managerial appointments in a Croucesque fashion we may not now be in the third tier of English football.

"one and only" ?? I suppose you mean Nineteen Canteen. How about Sundance Beast? Flashman at the Charge loved Lowe. The Fourth Bear did as well. I even think that Speculator was another Lowe luvvie. One and only?? There are loads of them!!

Funny. I was also thinking of Goebbels when reading the latest guff from Nineteen Canteen. That man has some serious problems.

Excellent post!!

Interesting. I agree with the view about our inglorious and tiresome recent history but .... I do think that the the anti Rupert demonstrations played their part in the Barclays decision making. The demonstrations were pooh poohed by the Lowe apologists on here and were ignored by Lowe and co. But a big difference between our position & Pompey's was that a percentage of the Pompey crowd were not demonstrating against the owner. Barclays could see how the fans felt . The writing would be on the wall for any business if a large percentage of a business's "customers" were unhappy with the direction the business was taking. This has not been the case at Pompey.

I presume thats your golf ball that you are referring to.

Thats the best thing to do with Talksport.

I agree with Hypo. Towards the end of last season, Charlton started to put together a decent run. It was almost as if they had written off that season and decided to concentrate on getting their team togehter for this season. They beat us 3-2 at the beginning of April at SMS and looked a pretty good team. They definitly had momentum at the end of last season and have built from there. The fact that we are still looking for signings & have made 3 signings in the last 2 weeks shows how settled we are. Our acquisitions may well be better than their predecessors - but it will take time for them to be absorbed into the team. It will all take time ... but we are still in August. Lets be patient.

I still feel genuine sorrow and concern for you. Get well soon.

But a couple of months ago you told us about your issues !! You wrote about how sometimes you even wondered about the point of going on with life. I cannot find the post (history on this site seems to be limited to 500 posts and at your current rate of posting that is only 6 weeks ago) otherwise I would quote it. I felt genuine sorrow and concern for you. There are not enough saints fans out in this world and although at times I do wonder about your allegiance to Southampton, we need all fans to be in good health - mental and physical. Your recent change of avatar brought home the turmoil in your mind. You clearly enjoy taking the opposite view to the majority - which I take as a sign of your illness. As I said earlier this week , your postings on this site are a win / win if you find your postings help your personal issues as they certainly help to liven up this site. So , tell me. What is Justin Fashanu up to these days?? ;-)

In the strange world that Numpty inhabits, MLT is an egoist. But Lowe isn't.

It wasn't you that I thought was Rupert's bum chum. It was Sundance Beast :-) :-)

But he stayed at the same club for such a long time that surely by your reckoning Ted was a failure. After all lack of ambition was a crime for MLT in your eyes.

One very sad individual.

What do MLT, Lawrie Mac and Leon Crouch all have in common??? They have all been targets for our mate Numpty Canteen. What amazes me is how he has missed the obvious target for his bile - Ted Bates. I mean staying at the club all those years - tsk he had no ambition. Getting us into the First division - tsk if he was any good he would have been England manager. Getting us into Europe - tsk he never got us into the European cup. No trophies won - tsk even Lawrie Mac could win the FA Cup so it must have been easy in those days. He was given an MBE - tsk at least it wasn't a knighthood. I am amazed that Numpty hasn't started on him yet. Ted is wide open for a Numpty character assassination.... and just think. If Numpty really wanted more attention he could always chain himself to the Ted Bates statue!! I hope he gets better soon!!

I wonder if the bookies will pay out early?? You never know Pompey may be so far adrift by February, the bookies may pay out early!!

But for every team that concedes a goal, another team scores a goal. It may be statistically proven that more goals occur towards the end of a match but why are we not the team scoring them? I cannot remember the last time that we scored a goal in the last 15 minutes. Was it at Watford last season - about 15 games ago?? So not only do we concede goals in the last minute but also we never seem to score them. I think that the OP has avalid point - we do have a fitness problem / problem coping with the end of a match.

He has confessed to having a mental problem. Don't worry about him. His opinions liven up this forum and if writing on here gives him comfort then it is a win win situation!!

I am just amazed that Paul Wotton had the opportunity to post on here just before kick off.

Thats a crazy midfield.... and the bench looks uninspiting. Mind you Lambert and Saga up front is a proper partnership. Pity they won't get any service from the midfield.

... and 19C is back to one of his favourite topics - slagging off our fans. On the attendance thread on Friday, he announced that he did not expect to see the total attendance to top 17,000. He even promised to give up his slagging of our fans if it was in the same ballpark as we achieved against Millwall. The total attendance was over 19,000 - not as much as against Millwall but still 10% higher than 19C predicted. It was higher than the gate at a Premiership game featuring the League champions. It was higher than the average that will be achieved this season at several Premiership clubs. Yet 19C was disappointed!! I suppose anything to have an argument!!

I would sincerely hope that the players who are getting a bit p***ed off go before Pardew does. It was the players who got rid of Luggy when he was here. It has been the players who have got us relegated twice in the last 4 years. Good luck to Pardew if he is now kicking a** and is trying to sort things out. As the OP said (good post by the way 19C) the future is bright if we have patience. Fortunately I believe that our new owners are also the sort of people who have patience in the management that they appoint.

So if the crowd is above 17,000 will you admit that all your incessant pontificating about the fickle nature of our fans is wrong??

Silly old me. I thought that a thread entitled unrealistic expectations & which was started with a well written post would be about the unrealistic expectations of the fans this season. But no. Some people just love to cause unrest amongst the fans. I thought that we had learnt the very hard way what happens when a club is divided but some people just love dissension. Quite quickly this thread has degenerated into a slagging off of the biggest hero this club has had over the last 20 years . Its almost as if some posters just hate the thought that supporters are united. I bet that when they were kids these people picked away at the scabs on thir knee after they fell over. My biggest hope for this season is that the club sorts itself out. Lets get united behind the team and lets hope that the team gives us some performances to get behind. Lets hope that we start to move up the table. Lets hope ..... oh s&d it . I am going to join the moaners..... I walked past MLT and he smelt .... I heard that MLT does not .....