Paul merson

[Roger]

Turning into a liability. When we were covered on soccer sat Matty was talking about our new signings and all Merson said was cant believe the price tag and talk about how to put urself under pressure Adkins. Then going onto say about the empty seats. he really is becoming so negative towards every club. Then talking about local paper ban, how negative.

[S-Clarke]

The whole feature on us was bizarre, but we mustn't get into this debate as we cannot question how we're covered in the media apparently.

[Roger]

The whole feature on us was bizarre, but we mustn't get into this debate as we cannot question how we're covered in the media apparently.

 

Why not? I adore Matty but even he wasn't that great. If it goes wrong after 2 months then go for us but not before anyone's even played.

[ozzmeister]

Thought he seemed like a right tool, let's beat arsenal and villa then see what he says!

[LGTL]

Bizzare is absolutely the right word. I can't stand the whole "media bias" call, but Merson is a skate knob and therefore exempt.

[Papa Shango]

Merson is a dribbling mess who hasn't got a clue about anything. One of the worst managers of all time. His opinion is worthless.

[Glasgow_Saint]

He was right about the empty seats vs Wigan! Poor show from us

 

Also surprised we didnt sell our allocation away at City or last season vs M'boro

 

Not got the fanbase some would like to believe

[itchen_dan]

Anyway. He's a negative, fat git.

 

Edited 1 September, 2012 by itchen_dan

[the colonel]

Couldn't work out if he was scoffing at the player not being worth £11m or the fact we can afford to pay £11m for any player?!?!

[manji]

Matty has been faint for his praise for us ever since Cortese took over. Anyone remember that pathetic Jeff Stelling rant against us with MLT sat in the background smiling smugly. I wouldnt be at all surprised if Merson had been primed about the empty seats too.

[Rebel]

The empty seats were few and far between at the Wigan game apart from those in the away area where the tickets were returned by Wigan

[beatlesaint]

Merson is your typical thick footballer. He's a laugh simply because he is so thick and illterate. Cant take anything he says seriously.

[SaintRichmond]

The empty seats were few and far between at the Wigan game apart from those in the away area where the tickets were returned by Wigan

 

Which always looks worse than it is because it's virtually behind the goal, and "easy" to spot on TV

 

Why they have empty seat areas behind a goal beats me

 

Our Northam Fans should go right across IMHO, with away fans on the corner(s)

[VectisSaint]

The empty seats were few and far between at the Wigan game apart from those in the away area where the tickets were returned by Wigan

There were a lot of empties in the Itchen/Chapel corner. But we do suffer from having the away supporters behind the goal at the Northam end when the away team has shocking support like Wigan. The TV picks up huge empty areas and the casual TV viewer/Merson assumes its our lack of support. I think this season there will be a general drop in attendances, not just a Saints issue. Prices for games are getting really silly. I'm actually surprised we got 29k for Wigan, I bet if it had been in November we would have struggled to get 26k.

[obelisk]

The empty seats were few and far between at the Wigan game apart from those in the away area where the tickets were returned by Wigan

You have to remember that a lot of people will have been on their summer holidays as well. Thought it was a reasonable turn out myself. If you want to see empty seats have a look at Wigan when they're at home.

[Roger]

Matty has been faint for his praise for us ever since Cortese took over. Anyone remember that pathetic Jeff Stelling rant against us with MLT sat in the background smiling smugly. I wouldnt be at all surprised if Merson had been primed about the empty seats too.

 

Yes but Matty has a right to feel aggrieved over that for all the good he has done for our club. He's also paid for a season ticket this season a true saint.

[Pugwash]

He was a speaker at a St Marys' dinner a couple of years ago. He does the cheeky-chappy, lovable co-ckney rogue so well it's no wonder he got on with 'Arry. Tells a good story - usually about drink, drugs, gambling or being generally 'nawty', and readily admits he was a crap manager. He lives in the past and is out of touch with the modern, more intelligent and athletic game that football has become.

 

Bit of a knob really.

[Colbury]

He's a clown. Did anyone see his sky predictions for this week? He thinks our game is at Old Trafford.

[Nigel=God-Poyet=Sod]

Just seen it and it's just the usual that you get from a thick idiot like Merson. He can't speak two words of English, and then starts going 'I mean' all the time. Take no notice of what he says and I actually thought Le Tiss did well in sticking up for us.

Yes, also it was £11 million you complete bellend!

[Sidney Fudpucker the 3rd]

Yes but Matty has a right to feel aggrieved over that for all the good he has done for our club. He's also paid for a season ticket this season a true saint.

 

True.

 

Merson is a tit but I can kind of see where he's coming from. It's a lot of money and a huge risk as there were other parts of the squad that desperately needed attention. If GR struggles to fit in or can't settle here then we're gonna look a bit silly.

[sperm_john]

as adkins has always said, focus on us, we did in league 1 and championship and it is exactly what we need to do now we are in the prem, where there will be even more attention, people like merson giving five mins of dribble shouldnt even feature on our radar

[Frank's cousin]

I dont believe there is a media bias or agenda against us - that sort of paranoia is a bit silly - what there definietely is though is a great deal of ignorance about the club in general - OK a fair bit of that is Sky and these pundits focus of the prem and the top 10 clubs, which you can understand as its who their target market is - the armchair fan. So whenever they 'comment' on us, they tend to use old cliches etc as they dont really do enough homework. Add to that that controversy is better 'telly' and you have your answers.

 

You could also argue that we probably dont support the media in their need for good stories - the 'Swiss' way tends to be more closed with a desire to treat business as confidential and private - Which while I agree with it, will mean we will be subject to a) more speculative stories, as ther is less word form the horse's mouth, and certainly while we sit in the bottom quarter of the table some 'mocking' usually agin based on ignorance. If we do end up progressing up the table, then our actions will speak louder than any words as they say... which would be just the way i like it!

 

Merson, Lawro et al, simply ignorant about us and dont have any real interest in us either, so its alwyas nice when we prove them wrong!

Edited 1 September, 2012 by Frank's cousin

[the colonel]

I believe there is a media bias or agenda against us - that sort of paranoia is a bit silly - what there definietely is though is a great deal of ignorance about the club in general - OK a fair bit of that is Sky and these pundits focus of the prem and the top 10 clubs, which you can understand as its who their target market is - the armchair fan. So whenever they 'comment' on us, they tend to use old cliches etc as they dont really do enough homework. Add to that that controversy is better 'telly' and you have your answers.

 

You could also argue that we probably dont support the media in their need for good stories - the 'Swiss' way tends to be more closed with a desire to treat business as confidential and private - Which while I agree with it, will mean we will be subject to a) more speculative stories, as ther is less word form the horse's mouth, and certainly while we sit in the bottom quarter of the table some 'mocking' usually agin based on ignorance. If we do end up progressing up the table, then our actions will speak louder than any words as they say... which would be just the way i like it!

 

Merson, Lawro et al, simply ignorant about us and dont have any real interest in us either, so its alwyas nice when we prove them wrong!

 

And to be honest do we care, as it will be even more of a surprise to them when we win the Premier League in a couple of seasons ;-)

[Frank's cousin]

Yes but Matty has a right to feel aggrieved over that for all the good he has done for our club. He's also paid for a season ticket this season a true saint.

 

Fair point, but cant see that relationship mellowing or Matty being welcomed like a long lost son, whilst he still works in the media - I suspect that part of the reason that our old guard such as Lawrie and Matty were 'shown the door' was precisely because they are often called upon by the media for comment and NC wanted to stop the media being used to play out our business or dirty laundry. The recipe for the NC/Liebherr cake needed eggs, so quite a few were broken, but its just a shame that those eggs were very close to the hearts of fans.

[Frank's cousin]

And to be honest do we care, as it will be even more of a surprise to them when we win the Premier League in a couple of seasons ;-)

 

Sorry, my first line should have read 'I DONT believe there is a media bias against us...'

[pingwing]

He was a speaker at a St Marys' dinner a couple of years ago. He does the cheeky-chappy, lovable co-ckney rogue so well it's no wonder he got on with 'Arry. Tells a good story - usually about drink, drugs, gambling or being generally 'nawty', and readily admits he was a crap manager. He lives in the past and is out of touch with the modern, more intelligent and athletic game that football has become.

 

Bit of a knob really.

 

That description covers the majority of football pundits in this day and age.

[Frank's cousin]

Hopefully will change in future - This is teh last generation that probably still moan about not earning enough out the game compared to today - although they did Ok, many ' peed it up the wall - will be interesting to see, if others like Neville come on board when they retire as they dont need the money any more to do media work - but I daresay Sky like the 'characters' in that Gillete Soccer Saterday - the better pundits (no disrepect to Matt) will end up commenting on big games at grounds, not stuck with Stelling in teh studio - where they are looking for thsoe who make watching monitors for 3 hours 'entertaining'

[St_Tel49]

Yes but Matty has a right to feel aggrieved over that for all the good he has done for our club. He's also paid for a season ticket this season a true saint.

So did Cortese and the Leibher family.

[harwellsaint]

Why not? I adore Matty but even he wasn't that great. If it goes wrong after 2 months then go for us but not before anyone's even played.

 

 

oh yes he bloody was, the greatest player to ever grace earth, that man did things with a football nobody before or since or after will ever be able to do, and get this bit, he was/is a saint, i can only imagine you never saw him play, pure genius, mlt i love you!

[Roger]

oh yes he bloody was, the greatest player to ever grace earth, that man did things with a football nobody before or since or after will ever be able to do, and get this bit, he was/is a saint, i can only imagine you never saw him play, pure genius, mlt i love you!

 

I meant on his comment today which was fine. Matty is my hero and the best player I ever saw. He was amazing not talking about that at all.

[Dalek2003]

The best football commentators and pundits are on 5 live imo. Sky particularly panders to the plastics.

I personally have never have and will never will subscribe to Sky, although they try and get me to sign up often enough !

[thefuriousb]

He was right about the empty seats vs Wigan! Poor show from us

 

Also surprised we didnt sell our allocation away at City or last season vs M'boro

 

Not got the fanbase some would like to believe

 

Stiill, at least our attendance won't drop by a third for our second home match of the season!!!

 

The fans are the soul of the club and won't let it die, huh?!

[saint_bert]

The other week Merson said that if City win the league, Ferguson will not be remembered as a great manager.

 

He gets paid to say this stuff. Good for him I guess

[lordswoodsaints]

Unless you are one of about 6 clubs then the media/press are not really interested or knowledgable enough to form a decent debate about how good or bad we are,it's just the way it is.

Everybody else outside the big guns is 'plucky little (add team here)','lowly' or 'underdogs'.....when Ramirez signed there was a lot of negativity and little air time for us and him but if he had signed for one of the big boys the media would be all over it,drooling about what a bargain he is and how he will do great things in the prem.

 

I gave up reading newspapers a long time ago as they are basically bull****,half truths and twisted views....no matter what we achieve we will never be the darlings of the media whilst the likes of Merson,lawrenson and all the other out of touch,lazy dinosaurs are allowed to spout their bile.

[CanadaSaint]

Unless you are one of about 6 clubs then the media/press are not really interested or knowledgable enough to form a decent debate about how good or bad we are,it's just the way it is.

 

Exactly, and we should be used to it by now.

 

I just hope we're not going to have whinefests about people like Merson and Lawrenson all season long because it's not going to change until we establish ourselves as a Top 8 side.

[dronskisaint]

Merson is a dribbling mess who hasn't got a clue about anything. One of the worst managers of all time. His opinion is worthless.

 

This!

[scotty]

Merson is a dribbling mess who hasn't got a clue about anything. One of the worst managers of all time. His opinion is worthless.

 

 

:lol:

[Dearne Valley Saint]

Love GSS but today Jeff and the panel really annoyed me. Made it sound like we'd sign 3 nobody's and dismissed us out of hand. We've proved our ambition and should be commended for this. Mentioning the Echo dispute was just pathetic from Jeff Stelling.

[cryoman1965]

Love GSS but today Jeff and the panel really annoyed me. Made it sound like we'd sign 3 nobody's and dismissed us out of hand. We've proved our ambition and should be commended for this. Mentioning the Echo dispute was just pathetic from Jeff Stelling.

 

This summed it up for me also. It seemed to have been stage managed to be a total **** take session from the start. The only time anything positive was said was MLT sticking up for us regards the attendance.

 

On the Lawro incident the Irish Host (Insert Name as I forgot) stood up for us saying It would be great if he came to saints instead of L,pool or spuds. Some like to see the under dog/newly promoted do well and have no real club bias. Heard 5live have been positive also. There not all anal inserts.

COYS

 

Where is Truckie?

[The9]

Turning into a liability. When we were covered on soccer sat Matty was talking about our new signings and all Merson said was cant believe the price tag and talk about how to put urself under pressure Adkins. Then going onto say about the empty seats. he really is becoming so negative towards every club. Then talking about local paper ban, how negative.

 

He's a rambling idiot. I'm sure they only use him to made the rest of them look competent.

 

He's not wrong about the empty seats, though it would be helpful if the stadium and tv cameras weren't configured to point at Blocks 43 and 44 (usually segregation and the last section to go on sale), as well as the club for some reason not selling the front rows of Blocks 1-4 until last, along with the seats behind the Chapel goal. They do the same with the Itchen/Chapel corner but they're not showing as swathes of empty seats on the bloody telly every time a team attacks the Northam end !

 

PS I will concede defeat on the Lambert/Sharp appearance prediction. Mayuka and Rodriguez instead now.

[The9]

I meant on his comment today which was fine. Matty is my hero and the best player I ever saw. He was amazing not talking about that at all.

 

Are you sure ? I can think of another one you like a lot...

[mulletsaint]

Turning into a liability. When we were covered on soccer sat Matty was talking about our new signings and all Merson said was cant believe the price tag and talk about how to put urself under pressure Adkins. Then going onto say about the empty seats. he really is becoming so negative towards every club. Then talking about local paper ban, how negative.

 

I thought he came over a total knob. However I do wonder whether it was just done to poke fun at Matt. They always tend to pick one of the guys in the studio to wind up about their old team. Phil Neal gets it quite a lot.

[ALWAYS_SFC]

The best football commentators and pundits are on 5 live imo. Sky particularly panders to the plastics.

I personally have never have and will never will subscribe to Sky, although they try and get me to sign up often enough !

 

You could get a job as a pundit for sky then as you talk crap for the majority of time

[SuperSAINT]

I thought he came over a total knob. However I do wonder whether it was just done to poke fun at Matt. They always tend to pick one of the guys in the studio to wind up about their old team. Phil Neal gets it quite a lot.

 

Right club, wrong Phil

[OldNick]

He was right about the empty seats vs Wigan! Poor show from us

 

Also surprised we didnt sell our allocation away at City or last season vs M'boro

 

Not got the fanbase some would like to believe

I thought considering 2 of those games were live on Tv the distance and the timing of them, made it a remarkable turnout. Look at the pathetic following by QPR at City yesterday and they had signed 12 new players! i doubt that will get picked up on/

[LostBoys]

He is just an idiot and kept on the programme just to look as stupid as he is and give everyone a good laugh

[Puddings and Monkeys]

I thought considering 2 of those games were live on Tv the distance and the timing of them, made it a remarkable turnout. Look at the pathetic following by QPR at City yesterday and they had signed 12 new players! i doubt that will get picked up on/

 

Even by some of our owns fans it would seem, who take some odd pleasure in knocking us all the time.

[mulletsaint]

Right club, wrong Phil

 

Oops, Thompson of course.

[goneawol]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/premier-league/9515826/Do-yourself-a-favour-and-give-Soccer-Saturday-and-Paul-Mersons-nationwide-arena-tour-a-wide-berth.html

 

Merson is moron-in-chief, the Grand High Moron, the Moron With The Child In His Eyes. An incontinent mouth, delivering slavering invective on seemingly very little knowledge and even less research, Merson appears to regard paid punditry as a noisy interlude between fried food breaks.

 

On Saturday afternoon, a discussion of Southampton’s new midfielder Gaston Ramirez was interrupted by Merson holding up a piece of paper, exclaiming: “Does that say ELEVEN MILLION?”

 

Merson, you see, was only now learning of a Premier League club’s record signing, via the crib sheet that had been placed before him. That’s the sort of calibre we’re dealing with here.

[Saint Without a Halo]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/premier-league/9515826/Do-yourself-a-favour-and-give-Soccer-Saturday-and-Paul-Mersons-nationwide-arena-tour-a-wide-berth.html

 

Merson is moron-in-chief, the Grand High Moron, the Moron With The Child In His Eyes. An incontinent mouth, delivering slavering invective on seemingly very little knowledge and even less research, Merson appears to regard paid punditry as a noisy interlude between fried food breaks.

 

On Saturday afternoon, a discussion of Southampton’s new midfielder Gaston Ramirez was interrupted by Merson holding up a piece of paper, exclaiming: “Does that say ELEVEN MILLION?”

 

Merson, you see, was only now learning of a Premier League club’s record signing, via the crib sheet that had been placed before him. That’s the sort of calibre we’re dealing with here.

 

What a great article and sums up Merson to a tee!