The boy done well

Agree with this. NC saw the opportunity and brought in ML. We've just had a really enjoyable season with an even better one and a great future to look forward to. The whingers are obviously not on board and may be more suited to a lower league non-ambitious clubs which could well be what we'll be again if NC reads some of these threads and takes them seriously. Hopefully he won't. If all of StuRomseySaint's mates are not now going to get season tickets or refuse to renew that's up to them but in all honesty are they really Saints supporters with so much to look forward to. Aldershot might be their solution. I would guess that it's the defaulters on the instalment plan who have caused the club to pull the plug on it. I would also guess that most of the defaulters are the ones who can't get 12 months 0% credit cards to buy their season tickets this time. On the suite names like one or two posters have said I can't see that much (if anything) has changed. Certain people seem to have an agenda. They make a point and then repeat it over and over again so that any sympathy turns into total irritation. You wonder just what they might come up with next.

Christ! Can you guys find anything more to whinge about. Every thread is being hijacked by the same individuals moaning about everything they can possibly find to moan about. It's just plain boring and is wrecking the forum. You have to read through post after pathetic post before anyone has anything half interesting to say. I'm a season ticket holder in the Kingsland Centre. I've got no problem with the ticketing policy for the Bournemouth game which I'm very much looking forward to attending. If I can't get my exact seat it doesn't matter. Give it a rest.

Tony Husband on South Today earlier thought that Griffins weren't necessaily in line to take over the administration. He implied that it was more likely that their report would be used as a negotiating tool to force AA into making a better offer.

If it meant we were challenging the top 6, in Europe, going to Cup Finals, I think I would. This may or may not be beyond us (NC is very ambitious) but surely this is what we should be aiming for. Back in the Prem must be our priority and if we have to pay a good deal more to watch it then that goes with the territory. I said on another thread that some of the posters on here are destined to be supporters of a League 1 club for ever. That's not where I want to be and I suspect I'm not alone. Sorry but we've heard what the whingers have to say but enough is enough. Every thread is being hijacked and ruined by them.

God, no!

This has been a great year with next year likely to be even better. I am extremely grateful to have my club and one of the main real passions in my life back. Then some guy called Dune comes on and hijacks every existing thread and starts new ones bleating on about the lack of an instalment plan and a surcharge on buying tickets. How is he going to cope when we're back in the Premiership with Season tickets costing a lot more than they are now. Some teams will always be League 1. Sad though it is so will some fans. Give it a rest, Dune. I had some sympathy for your predicament initially but you've made yourself look daft. NC and ML are obviously at one. Without either or both it's League 1 for good which would maybe suit the very few. Not me though and I suspect the vast majority. It's wonderful being a Saints fan at the moment.

Not sure what we would want with a 5ft 9ins striker who played 50 games for Torquay and scored just 6 goals. Not really a stand in for Lambert you'd have thought.

One bonus must be not having to go to the New Den. Prison cage into the ground and then 30/40 mins in the same cage under police escort to get out. Doesn't do a lot for the match day experience.

Radio Solent reported at 7.50 this morning that they are going on a summer tour of the USA. 3 different destinations including San Diego. They said that the trip would be "cost neutral". Having a job getting my brain round this one. A CCC team currently in administration owing over £130m and off touring the States at no cost to them at all? Can that be? If I was the taxman owed £34m I think I might have something to say about this.

1. Real ale; 2. being able to pre-order a drink (as long as the beer/lager's worth bothering to order which it's not at the moment) so that you merely have to collect it at half time; 3. at least one TV in the concourse behind/above the bar which always shows the game until half-time only then switching to Sky Sports-get in the queue at the moment at 38/39 minutes and you miss the rest of the first half plus added time because the TV's located 5/10 yards before you get to the bar and doesn't always show the game anyway; 4. improve the decor and comfort of the concourse areas. They are very basic at the moment.

Nothing to rent I'd think

Why on earth are people moaning. What does it matter if they're a bit later with season tickets. Cortese and Liebherr may well keep their cards very close to their chest but just remember where we were a year ago. Sit back and enjoy the ride. The plan is to get us back to the top. They won't accept failure. Let them get on with it.

The Mail can't be making this up. Why would they bother. Someone must be feeding them the information. Could it be AP's agent?

If Bournemouth had a very strict embargo for a debt of £1.5m what kind of an embargo are they like to get for debts of £138m-ok, scaled down by the CVA but still huge. I doubt if the football league would allow them to add anyone to their squad except in dire emergency for years.

Totally agree save that I'd replace Palace with Derby and Leicester. So important that we start to think big because potentially we are.

Why on earth do we want any of Preston's cast offs. Come on chaps aim a bit higher.

Yes, but are the likes of Harding and Jaidi (who'll be about 36 the season after next) going to be the kind of players to take us to the top of the Championship. There's a pretty big jump in quality from League 1 to the upper echelons of the Championship similar to what there used to be between the old second and first divisions. While the likes of Xavi and Messi may be out of our reach (just!!) we have to aim so much higher than many on here (not all by any means) are advocating. Let's look towards the top of the Championship and, also , some in the Prem who aren't quite cutting it but are hungry for another challenge. I know nothing about Hayden Mullins who has been mentioned on here (other than that he's with a club that cheats) but maybe we're looking in the right area when players with current Prem experience are being linked to the club.

I don't understand most of you lot. You set your sights so low. Championship and League 1 players will be released in most cases because they are not good enough for their respective teams. What on earth do we want them for. We're aiming to be fighting for a place in the premiership the season after next and it's that kind of potential quality we have to be looking for while strengthening the Academy for the future. We have a very wealthy owner for FFS. He's hardly going to want to waste his money on a load of rejected journeyman from elsewhere is he. Anyone for the likes Stern John again!!! God help us. Everything about us at the moment is pointing upwards. We have to be ambitious but if we sign some of the players being advocated on this thread I'm not going to rush to places like Gillingham and Stockport again in a hurry.

Yes, it's Pinnacle all over again. Start with wealthy backers who then mysteriously disappear to leave an impecunious taxi driver. He carries out due diligence (in our case thought to be at Leon Crouch's huge expense because our administrator wouldn't accept £5000!!) hoping that once he's done so he can find some mug he can back it out to quickly (as due diligence will have been done already) and cream off a percentage himself.

Agree completely with Markr27's post above. From where we were seated you really couldn't get much idea of what was going on in the first half. It was miles away. It was pretty obvious though that we were playing a very narrow 4-5-1 which left us having to resort to the usual ploy of whacking it up to Lambert with the midfield never finding much space and the wide midfielders having to run to the wings rather than being out there in the first place. In contrast they seemed to play with width on both sides. Although we improved in the second half, it wasn't until the substitutions were made and we then played with real width that we took control of the game. I don't really know why we didn't start that way. We are much too cautious away from home. It's not the pitches-the surface last night was ok-it's the formation we're set up to play with. By the way, had no problem with the ref last night! Shame we'll almost certainly have to go back to that dreadful stadium next year.

I've always been a supporter of AP but something's not right. We have a better team on paper than probably all of our rivals and often completely dominate games only for the opposition to make a switch (frequently at half time) and immediately put us on the back foot. I'm thinking of the games away at Exeter (we lost control in the 2nd half), Brentford (again 2nd half), home to Leeds where they negated our complete 1st half dominance in the 2nd half and might just have snatched a goal, and Swindon where at half time I think most of us would still have been expecting a win. It may have been the same at Tranmere (I didn't go) and other games too if we go back. My point is that when the opposition change their tactics we don't seem able to change ours. Putting Waigo on for Barnard isn't a tactical change nor is James for Thomas. Maybe this is the weakness of our present regime.

Would suspect that Cortese's been leaning on him after that performance at Wycombe. Today's performance was AP's response. I heard the interview too and didn't think there was anything particularly unusual about the questions Adam Blackmore raised. AP sounded pretty angry but made it clear it wasn't with the fans who he praised more than once.

There was one quite extraordinary caller on that Solent programme-I think he was the first on the phone. He suggested to the panel that the best thing the club could now do would be to terminate the contracts of all of its present players and to send its scouts out onto the local park pitches and select 20 players who could shoot well from at least 25 metres and play 11 of them instead as there just wasn't enough shooting in the game at the moment! It was left to Steve Claridge to say that this was the quickest way to the Conference but I'm sure that anyone listening must have been wondering whether this was the kind of moron that watching 5 years of Premiership football at Nottarf Krap has produced. Are they all like that? LOL

If you put the constant moaners on "Ignore" you come off this forum feeling decidedly happy. I'd recommend it to those who feel depressed after reading their negative rubbish which often comes from those who never go. Fantastic result and performance today. Roll on Tuesday.

Don't disagree with this. Put in context I, though, think I can live with going to away games and getting a draw as opposed to losing. Wasn't it Brian Clough who said win your home games and draw away. Well, since I felt that we might be turning the corner when we won away at Southend in early October, haven't we more or less done that ie averaged around 4 points every 2 games.