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Finally! We only need to convince a few thousand more and we're there! SASH ARMY!

Sash army!

SASH ARMY! (I'm going to keep saying this until it catches on)

top right for me

never mind

Sash army!

that is a thing of beauty

Perhaps, but they will lose out more than him eventually. He still remains in charge of a football club, and basically nothing has changed in that respect. The Echo, by contrast (and rightly or wrongly) have angered quite a few fans and perhaps reduced their readership. They may not have explicitly done anything, but it is clear that the paper has been less than positive about Cortese, rather than Saints. Whilst they continue to do this there will be no chance that they will become a favoured source again because Cortese is the decision-maker.

If they can't perform journalistic excellence they should be doing all within their power to get information of genuine quality that the other nationals cannot. Like it or not, that requires a working relationship with the source of that information. They don't need to only print nice articles, but the articles do need to have more of an insight into the club, otherwise what is the point? I may as well read a national.

Not wanting to start that argument again, but the role of a local paper is different to that of a national. The Echo is not competing with The Mail et al for news about Saints- people would have still purchased a copy a day later because it would have included more detailed information than a tiny column that the nationals will provide about a League 1 club's training ground. People don't buy The Echo for news about Southampton instantly, but because it gives a deeper insight into goings on at the club. Despite reading about the training facility in a national, I would have definitely bought The Echo a day later as they could run an exclusive interview etc with Cortese about the plans for the club. I think that people would sacrifice a 12 hour wait for some information of genuine quality, rather than a carbon copy of something already in The Mail. I don't know anybody who would have refused to buy a copy the following day because they'd 'already read 200 words about it in a national'...

it will be a nightmare because of all the fitness and running they'll have to do, if they don't follow the fitness plan throughout the summer they'll be found out either by the coaches who notice they're looking fat and can't run, or by opposing teams who are fitter.

you get my vote

Absolute rubbish.

interestingly both positions held by kaiser sose!

i don't think us fans deserve them. we have to be some of the worst fans in football, anybody else would kill to be saved from the brink and been catapulted toward success.

ultimately stu, why does that matter? we are fans of the team, it is only a mild interest that we take in other aspects of the club by comparison. it may be irritating, but we've just won the jpt and nearly got into the playoffs, why can't we leave the business side of things to people whose job it is? in the grand scheme of things, is not announcing season tickets (surely something that has been done for a reason rather than to wind you up) a rather small matter? we will get season tickets, they will allow you to go to all of the home matches. same as ever.

i'm with you, people talk of making short-sighted decisions, but to side with a replaceable manager against one-of-a-kind billionaire owner and chairman would be the most short sighted decision of all! we're not in the premier league, we are in league 1, there ought to be plenty of managers who could get the highest spending team out of the league. I repeat, pardew has done well, but plenty others could with these resources.

what do you mean giving him too much power? he's the chief exec, he is effectively making all of the decisions. the stupid thing is fans thinking they have the power to dictate what the chief exec should do. complaining about the man who has saved our club (after all, he proposed the idea to ML) isn't going to make him think twice about decisions, it'll just make him like the club a little less. pointless.

PEOPLE, calm down! If Pompey were claiming that Hughes was about to take them over, somebody on here would have posted the link and we'd have all had a good chuckle at the dangerously high levels of self importance. The chance of us getting Mark Hughes is tiny. We are in League 1 ffs, there are plenty of sides that he would go to before us. If Hughes had taken over at QPR everybody would have been a little surprised, so let's get some perspective. Pardew has done a great job here, turning around the team to looking like next season's league winners. But let us also remember that it is the support of ML and NC that has made this possible, the negative (and empirically unwarranted) abuse that NC is starting to get makes me wonder if we are so used to hating the man at the top we can't see when we're acting like spoilt children. Most fans would kill for our set-up, so let's enjoy it a bit more. Finally, the fact that Pardew has done an amazing job here does not make him a better manager than Hughes. Tactically, Hughes is fantastic. He could set up that Blackburn side to beat anybody on their day, and is still the only manager to really get anything out of David Bentley. Pardew is good for Southampton, but that doesn't mean he is THE BEST for Southampton. It is possible for him to be worse than other managers, we don't have to argue that he's the new Fergie.

there's no group that love some gossip and intrigue as much as us saints fans! not a few hours after the end of the season and already it's rife, this is going to be one hell of a summer! my bet is that hughes will sign, bringing carsten jancker with him.

Lynch is a genius!

kindred spirit!

which is why i haven't asked you to describe it IN DETAIL.

Can you give us a not detailed description?

If you want to be pedantic, the opening post was discussing the Times Rich List, but he linked the Forbes list. Anyway, it doesn't matter. Our owner is loaded and life is good!