once_bitterne

Talk about getting worked up over nothing........... We were one of, if not the first club to start doing the poppy shirt thing and have raised more for the charity than just about any other club in the land. But this year, as we are in the financial mire, the club cannot afford to make the gesture and so are in fact saying that charity begins at home and are looking after themselves first. It might just be ok for you to start going on a crusade about this if we were the only club of the 92 in the leagues that aren't doing poppy shirts but the brutal fact is that we aren't!!!! Only a small minority of clubs did it this year. In the Arsenal - Man Yoo game the Arse did but Man U didn't and while Blackburn had poppy shirts, Chelsea didn't so if you feel a need to continue your inane crusade then I suggest you start by contacting Chelsea and Man U, two clubs with far more financial resources than Saints. Or is this really just another opportunity to lay into SFC?

Nah, Obama's about as black as TT! (f'sure....)

Growing old?

He used to come to quite a few of our games as Lowe's guest during the WGS era. Not sure he visits quite so often now that we are in the CCC!

Jeff Stelling lives in Winchester and is good friends with a Mr R. Lowe who I believe works for the club.

eh?

Indeed! Bennett came back and played very well for us. Our best CB pairing last season was him and Davies. They were immense when we were hammering Hull 4-0 at home....

George Barley and Lawrie McMoneyme (or McEnemy) were two of my favs.....

The only way to survive with a tiny capacity stadium in the Prem if yoy have a rich sugar daddy financing the club to run at huge losses like Pompey and Fulham. In case you didn't notice, we have never had this luxury so we had no choice but to leave the Dell.....

It was no one 'fault' Alps, that's the point. In this country it is now virtually impossible for a club other than Chelsea, Arsenal, Man Yoo and Liverpool to crack th top 4. So ALL other clubs Prem clubs are mid-table ones or relegation fodder. As a Saints fan I had no problem with this at all. Being a mid-table Prem club, with the ocasional good cup run and sometimes beating one of the Big 4 at home was fine by me. I honestly wanted no more from club and tbh I don't think I would like it if we were taken over by a billionaire and became the next Chelsea. (and time will tell if Man City can reach the CL even WITH all their money....) However from a manager's point of view he WOULD want more than this. The best WGS could do with SFC is the same as he already had done, top 10 and good cup run. Ground Hog Season over and over again. So he left, just as Alardyce left Bolton and Jewell left Wigan. And fair play to him, he has pitted his wits against the managers of Barca, Milan, etc and won league and cup trophies in the country of his birth. From a personal point of view, it was terrible for SFC that he left and was the start of the decline that sees us where we laungish today but can I blame WGS for leaving and wanting to persue a new challenge? Of course not? And blaming Lowe for WGS's departure makes no sense at all. (unless you are on a mission to blame a certain person for everything up to and including the credit crunch and England losing the Ashes....

Lowe's biggest mistake was, and always will be, letting the mindless vocal minority who got on their collective high horses about Hoddle coming back after WGS left and put enough doubt in his mind that he ended up appointing the shambing Sturrock. Listing WGS and Bridge and a 'Lowe Mistake' is insane. WGS left as he correctly saw he had taken the club as far as he could and wanted a new challege managing a club which was competing for league titles and playing in the CL. Unless Lowe could magic £100m+ from a hat (and bare in mind that Spurs have spent much more than this and still not cracked the top 4) this was never going to be something SFC would do. Ditto for Bridge, he was a player who saw the chance to play for the Big 4 and so went. Whenever one the Big 4 in this country come in for a player they end up going there, the player's club, manager, chairman all have no say in this at all, sadly. Blaming Lowe for Bridge leaving is totally inane.

It's always difficult to integrate a player that has had cruitiate knee surgery into the side.

In a Westwood-esque fashion you mean?

Easy Easy We want 5 We're only here for a season, here for a season, we're only here for a season.....

Nice that he's got a job scouting for talent in young boys.

Can John Terry keep up with Ronaldo, Adeybayor or Torres? No of course not. Playing CB is far more about strength and positioning than about pace. The only time a CB will need to use pace is when they have got something wrong and have been caught out of position. If pace is such a factor in playing CB then how come we got great performances last season out of the aging Lucketti who has the pace of an asmahtic tortoise.

I must have missed the bit where you need decent pace to be a CB! Does Perry have that?! I would have thought CM involved a huge amount more running that playing CB.

With Lancashire suspended I assume it will be Wotton in at CB.

Richard Lee fact.... He was on Dragons Den and him and his business partner won backing from one of the dragons for their cap selling business 'Dr Cap'.

Not unless he can defend a corner.....

Shutting the on-line ticket office down for most of the time between out last game and Watford won't help things....

The only way crowds will go up is if we go up... the league table. Lowe being here or not being here is having zero effect on the size of crowds.

What a waste of a thread!!

Singing at half time? Were the players Thomas and Skacel! In which case I wouldn't imagine they would speak too highly of JP. (or indeed neither would BWP, Euell, or any of the other 'senior' players now out of favour....

:smt043On my aching sides.......