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You plonker Rodney............................why do you always call me Da........................................

I would say that's pretty good pricing on the whole, doesn't affect me as I've ditched my ST but will just be paying the going rate on the day when I choose to go. Any mention of safe-standing that was meant to be introduced this summer? Probably another victim of relegation.

I quite like it like that, there's enough red in it this time, white sleeves and collar looks OK to me. I'd go the dark blue shorts with that too.

I think it will be interesting to see whether Selles is sent packing or if part of the deal for whoever's coming in is accommodating him in some kind of coaching role, hence the low bar with names linked. Clean sweep needed but beginning to sound like just more of the same tedious tactics. I'm not feeling enthused.

Well there's the new club moto, right there! 'exeo durus vel exeo domum tu otiosum cunts'

I only mentioned the Police Box because that's where visiting fans already are, and they ain't moving them. Safe-standing was mooted as being only in the Northam for both home and aways but if they did stick in the Chapel for home fans then the only realistic area they could provide rail seating for aways is in that corner so not to obstruct the view of those sitting down either side of them. But very unlikely.

I'm onboard with Viera, would be a big deal in the Championship and a chance to rebuild a reputation that's taken a knock at Palace.

I agree, make the Chapel safe-standing. I could be wrong but believe some safe-standing needs to be provided for visiting supporters, if so, just make it a small area in front of the Police Box in the corner seating. But the club would have to entice home fans to move, they'd need to make the much-maligned stand far more attractive to a younger fan. Start by renaming it and make it easier to get a pint at halftime!

Could it be that the only reason Selles got the job was that he was willing to stick to Rasmus' playbook come what may? Is he really sitting on the touchline watching the continual shitshow while really knowing it's just turgid and totally ineffectual but can't go against RA's whacky theory on the game? He just seems to be talking too much crap after yet another defeat, surely he can't really believe what he's saying. To change with the approach we're now taking would also take Rasmus to accept he's fucked up and got everything wrong, unfortunately I can't imagine him doing that.

Agree with this, far more effective further forward. I also don't think half of these players are entirely useless but, as you say, just playing to instruction. Get too adventurous and you're likely dropped. They're obviously prohibited from speaking out against tactics, so must be frustrating and easy to lose heart in playing in such a stifled side. Having said that, they should also remind themselves they have a lifestyle and getting paid salaries most fans can only fantasise about. Yep, for playing football.

This will be a third relegation for most of us 60-plussers. I'd only been going for 2 or 3 seasons when we dropped in '74 but within 2 years we were starting out on our best ever era. From winning the FA Cup, getting to the quarter finals in European competition as a second division side and then promotion in '78. Another Wembley cup final the following year, then Keegan (as so many other big names), more European football and missing the League title by 3 points. Bring on the relegation! (as long as it's not another 2005-onwards one!)

If little changes I think our new motto will be more (as someone famously once said) "where are you?" and "let's be 'aving you...hic!" We're guinea pigs for Rasmus' little experiment that's failed spectacularly - selling the club as a stepping stone to players brings little commitment and when it's also too many kids not ready for the PL then it's, as proved, a recipe for relegation.

We're where we deserve to be... "At the start of April, there were only four points separating Crystal Palace in 12th and bottom-of-the-table Southampton - the least amount of points between the teams 12th and 20th at that stage of the season in Premier League history....The gap between 12th-placed Crystal Palace and bottom side Saints is now 13 points" Premier League relegation: Which teams will drop into Championship? - BBC Sport

Ah, there's the problem..................................

In an ideal world. Wouldn't be a particularly good look for the stadium with all those new shiny-red rail-seats in amongst all the pink ones!

Expensive when your income has been drastically hit and priorities lay elsewhere. But as 'Pat from Poole' suggests, if the club still go-ahead with it, they may see an opportunity to finally rid Blocks 1/2/3 of ‘rif-raf’ standing and being feisty in front of the boxes. With crowds down and very likely far less season ticket holders in the Championship, it may be easier to relocate Chapel regulars and the Family Stand to the Itchen North and Northam and put safe standing in the Chapel. Edit: Do the rules say they would they still need to provide a percentage of safe standing for away fans in the Northam?

Ah right, just took on the debt rather than clearing it - hopefully serviceable in the Championship

And Barry the Briefcase, gone but not forgotten. Barry the Briefcase Rides Again?! - The Lounge - SaintsWeb

Wasn't that wiped out as part of the buy-out? Thought they got the club, for little more than £100m but cleared the debt?

...just ahead of Harry, Beatrix and just about every other Potter in the phone book. Even that fella on the Great Pottery Throwdown who's always blubbing would be more likely. GP just looks nailed on for Leicester.

Can't really see anything but a torrid 90 mins in prospect, Forster to have a quiet afternoon. Hope I'm wrong. Watching Saints hurts my eyes.

15,000 could make a bit of a racket at the Dell in those troubled days of the 90s, about time the fans turned up at St Mary's with the twice that number, doesn't happen often enough but now's the time to step up. Two home games that could turn our season.

Tbf (and it's kind of understandable) neither could us fans - in numbers or 'support'. We're a mess top to bottom.

Hang in there, isn't March season ticket renewals? Ahhhh...........

For the first three decades supporting this club it was mostly ONLY the home form that kept us up (although I did witness relegation in 74) - as shit as the Dell was it was an asset when the going got tough.