I can't wait for us to get relegated.

[Secret Site Agent]

I can't wait. Lets get this season over and get back to the Championship. More chances of winnig games, and coming top of the league this time, with £6 million + of a parachute payment, and a team to beat any in the second tier of English football.

Yes, let's not even bother this season. Go to the bottom of the Premiership and lets stay there, then next season we can really let rip into some teams. Lots of 4 and 5 - nils for us next season.

We don't belong here in the Prem, teams too lightweight, Manager has no experience in top flight, press don't think we can do it, and we have failed in the transfer market. Even our best players as past it. No, we don't belong here. We are just the pretenders of the Premiership.

It'll be great to be back in the Championship. I can't wait for it. I wish we were already relegated.

[Glasgow_Saint]

Me too

[Thedelldays]

relegation to the championship was a really nice touch by the premier league....
however, the icing on the cake was the time we went down to league 1....amazing times

[Horley CTFC Saint]

Don't set your sights so high - we should go for Derby's record. Need to be careful though if we're thought to be not trying we might get banned by the Prem

[Glasgow_Saint]

Bradford got relegated a few years back....... Didnt do them no harm

[Lighthouse]

If you're being sarcastic you're a bit of a fruitcake.
If you're not being sarcastic think back to 2005 when we went down expecting to win loads of games 4 or 5 nil.

[SNSUN]

I can't believe we stuffed up our chance of getting into the fantastic League Two. Gutted I was. We had -10 points too and we stuffed it up. I hear that League Two is a brilliant league, according to my dad, the Torquay fan. I'd love nothing more than to see Saints get relegated three times. Pompey can do it, so why can't we? They've always done things better than us. Tsk.

[Thedelldays]

I can't believe we stuffed up our chance of getting into the fantastic League Two. Gutted I was. We had -10 points too and we stuffed it up. I hear that League Two is a brilliant league, according to my dad, the Torquay fan. I'd love nothing more than to see Saints get relegated three times. Pompey can do it, so why can't we? They've always done things better than us. Tsk.

my local side, Plymouth had it right...not only did they get to League 2...they nearly went bust too...good effort.

[Secret Site Agent]

If you're being sarcastic you're a bit of a fruitcake.
If you're not being sarcastic think back to 2005 when we went down expecting to win loads of games 4 or 5 nil.

Why am I a fruitcake? What is wrong with putting my cards on the table, but being more direct than everyone else. We haven't kicked a ball yet and were already relegated, so why not just miss out on all the ups and downs, the false dawns. We wanted to be in the Prem, we are here, but we've all changed our minds haven't we? Why fight to stay here, where we don't belong.

Back to the comfort of the lower leagues I say. I don't wnat to wait for us to build a team, I want success NOW. We aint going to get it here, so lets just drop back to where we desrve to be.

I have no mental problem. It's the rest of the residents of the bubble.

[ericb]

Having seen the away ticket prices i actually can't wait for us to be relegated

[Smirking_Saint]

Drunk on a monday ? Really ?

[The Kraken]

Why am I a fruitcake? What is wrong with putting my cards on the table, but being more direct than everyone else. We haven't kicked a ball yet and were already relegated, so why not just miss out on all the ups and downs, the false dawns. We wanted to be in the Prem, we are here, but we've all changed our minds haven't we? Why fight to stay here, where we don't belong.

Back to the comfort of the lower leagues I say. I don't wnat to wait for us to build a team, I want success NOW. We aint going to get it here, so lets just drop back to where we desrve to be.

I have no mental problem. It's the rest of the residents of the bubble.

What a very odd attention-seeking thread, in particular this post. Well done, you got noticed.

[Pat from Poole]

Are you lot going to be coming out of this stuff when we're in the, erm......, Champions League?

[Pat from Poole]

Or "with this stuff" , even.

[sad saints fan]

What a very odd attention-seeking thread, in particular this post. Well done, you got noticed.

Must be the construction industry mentality because I can see exactly where SSA is coming from.

[rshephard3]

Having seen the away ticket prices i actually can't wait for us to be relegated

Fair point actually. £575 for a season ticket and the best part of £100 all in for each away game. It's an expensive hobby. As for the OP, I thought I was cynical and downbeat but that takes the biscuit. I kind of take the point but being a football fan is about up's and down's. This season is just another chapter and I'm rather looking forward to it.

[cellone]

What a very odd attention-seeking thread, in particular this post. Well done, you got noticed.

As do you with that reply.

[The Kraken]

As do you with that reply.

And you too. Good one.

[cellone]

And you too. Good one.

We are all born stars, it's our self imposed limitations that stop us shining

[rshephard3]

We are all born stars, it's our self imposed limitations that stop us shining

Is that a fact? Are you ITK?

[Saint Frog]

i'm sure all the staff at sms will love getting relegated again, i believe around 50 lost their jobs after the last pl relegation. so would you be happy with that just so you can see a few more wins?

[Secret Site Agent]

What a very odd attention-seeking thread, in particular this post. Well done, you got noticed.

Yes, I just need Hypo, Alpine, shame no Dune, and Bitterne and I have afull set.

Obviously you need a lesson in irony.

[OldNick]

Many a true word said in jest

[scotty]

Be careful what you wish for....

[eharty9]

This thread is mingin'!! haha haven't got a clue clearly

[derry]

Having seen Ajax, Wolves and Udinese and seen the way the team is set up and the way three vital players in particular, Lambert, Rodriguez and Lallana are struggling to make any impression, I think that it is right that questions are being asked. I'm delighted to be in the Premier but question whether the players that are good in the systems we played last year are now automatically able to translate that to a completely different system. The Ajax game was almost like watching a slow motion replay, Wolves was a bit better and the Udinese game a whole lot better but that game demonstrated the deficiencies of a team unable to break out from midfield and predictably rely on slow buildups. Apart from Clyne and to a lesser degree Puncheon nobody ran at the opposition.

[Danbert]

I can't wait. Lets get this season over and get back to the Championship. More chances of winnig games, and coming top of the league this time, with £6 million + of a parachute payment, and a team to beat any in the second tier of English football.

Yes, let's not even bother this season. Go to the bottom of the Premiership and lets stay there, then next season we can really let rip into some teams. Lots of 4 and 5 - nils for us next season.

We don't belong here in the Prem, teams too lightweight, Manager has no experience in top flight, press don't think we can do it, and we have failed in the transfer market. Even our best players as past it. No, we don't belong here. We are just the pretenders of the Premiership.

It'll be great to be back in the Championship. I can't wait for it. I wish we were already relegated.

I can honestly sympathise with a lot of those sentiments. The Premiership (pants name) seems to have got even worse than when we were last in it and the only way to more or less hobble along as club is to have someone flush half their fortune down the toilet to make the team vaguely competitive. It's obscene (IMHO) and soulless. What's the point in succeeding if that just means the big boys will poach your manager and your best players next season?

[CWD]

But if we win loads of games, we'll just be promoted again. I'd rather we just kept losing and played in ever lower leagues.

Idiot.

[Thedelldays]

Do you really think the premier league ha got worse since 2005?

Really think that?

[Turkish]

Do you really think the premier league ha got worse since 2005?

Really think that?

Yes. It's average and most of the teams are no better than the top half of the championship. Add to this we are the most attractive team for a player outside of the top 4 clubs and we are nailed on for success.

[Danbert]

Do you really think the premier league ha got worse since 2005?

Really think that?

Man City? Rooney angling for a transfer? Even fStoke, QPR, Villa, Sunderland and f'ing Pompey are or have been throwing money around like there's no tomorrow since we were last Premier League. Maybe it's just rose-tinted spectacles but yes I think things have got a lot worse. Before it was just Chelsea that had gone down the soulless money-spunk route (if memory serves). All the people clamouring for more better and bigger signings remind me of Skates by the way. The market's ridiculously over-inflated at the moment. Some of the amounts changing hands for very average players with Premier League experience are obscene and obviously more than a sustainable budget can handle. Getting someone in who can improve the squad can be difficult in that climate - especially if the club runs a "we'd rather buy British" policy.

[ant]

Despite nearly drowning in sarcasm reading the OP, there's a sentiment at its core that I wish a few more of our fans would take on board.

Swansea are a case in point. Got promoted by playing football. Had only secured a few incoming transfers at the start of the season. Widely predicted to finish 19th/20th (plenty of evidence of papers/pundits of this online).

Not saying that we'll emulate their success, but it's far too early to panic.

[Thedelldays]

Man City? Rooney angling for a transfer? Even fStoke, QPR, Villa, Sunderland and f'ing Pompey are or have been throwing money around like there's no tomorrow since we were last Premier League. Maybe it's just rose-tinted spectacles but yes I think things have got a lot worse. Before it was just Chelsea that had gone down the soulless money-spunk route (if memory serves). All the people clamouring for more better and bigger signings remind me of Skates by the way. The market's ridiculously over-inflated at the moment. Some of the amounts changing hands for very average players with Premier League experience are obscene and obviously more than a sustainable budget can handle. Getting someone in who can improve the squad can be difficult in that climate - especially if the club runs a "we'd rather buy British" policy.

Soulless money spunk route
Did you have a problem with saints spending as much money on Lambeth as it cost the next 3 biggest transfers in that league that year?

Did you have a problems flexing our might over little old Dagenham, Yeovil, brentford. Just going around and blowing them out of the water with money and hoovering up their best players

How was if fair on Southend Who had no pot to pizzz in literally and we are wiping off £30m+ of debt and taking their best player for a snip??

But that was not soulless, unfair and money spunking?

The minute we are a brentford, it now becomes awful etc?

[This Charming Man]

I thought we were destined for the top half of the Premiership with our unique brand of football that other teams just won't be able to cope with? Then within the next few years, we were going to reach the Champions League by only signing Championship standard players?

Why the sudden change of heart on here?

[Turkish]

I thought we were destined for the top half of the Premiership with our unique brand of football that other teams just won't be able to cope with? Then within the next few years, we were going to reach the Champions League by only signing Championship standard players?

Why the sudden change of heart on here?

Quite. I thought all you needed was a good academy and a good manager to suceed where everyone else has failed in breaking into the top four and staying there. Dell sized mentalities seem to be overunning the asylum at the moment.

[Miltonaggro]

The push for Europe starts at Man City...

[Saint86]

Lock this thread and ban the above pompey supporter?

[Danbert]

Soulless money spunk route
Did you have a problem with saints spending as much money on Lambeth as it cost the next 3 biggest transfers in that league that year?

Did you have a problems flexing our might over little old Dagenham, Yeovil, brentford. Just going around and blowing them out of the water with money and hoovering up their best players

How was if fair on Southend Who had no pot to pizzz in literally and we are wiping off £30m+ of debt and taking their best player for a snip??

But that was not soulless, unfair and money spunking?

The minute we are a brentford, it now becomes awful etc?

That's a fair point to a degree, however, as a club with no debt we were throwing money around we could afford to pay back. Our business model wasn't unsustainable. Investing that money has also taken us up the leagues. What have Stoke, Sunderland, Villa, West Ham and Skatesmouth got for their spunk? What could they ever hope to achieve? There is no way for Premier League small fry to succeed beyond treading water. Adkins managed to get Colchester out of League 1, and keep them in the Championship for a season, but there's no way he could take Saints (a relative minnow in the league we're in as Colchester were in theirs) to the Premiership's summit. It just can't be done.

[Turkish]

That's a fair point to a degree, however, as a club with no debt we were throwing money around we could afford to pay back. Our business model wasn't unsustainable. Investing that money has also taken us up the leagues. What have Stoke, Sunderland, Villa, West Ham and Skatesmouth got for their spunk? What could they ever hope to achieve? There is no way for Premier League small fry to succeed beyond treading water. Adkins managed to get Colchester out of League 1, and keep them in the Championship for a season, but there's no way he could take Saints (a relative minnow in the league we're in as Colchester were in theirs) to the Premiership's summit. It just can't be done.

Man. Everest.

[Big Bad Bob]

Man City? Rooney angling for a transfer? Even fStoke, QPR, Villa, Sunderland and f'ing Pompey are or have been throwing money around like there's no tomorrow since we were last Premier League. Maybe it's just rose-tinted spectacles but yes I think things have got a lot worse. Before it was just Chelsea that had gone down the soulless money-spunk route (if memory serves). All the people clamouring for more better and bigger signings remind me of Skates by the way. The market's ridiculously over-inflated at the moment. Some of the amounts changing hands for very average players with Premier League experience are obscene and obviously more than a sustainable budget can handle. Getting someone in who can improve the squad can be difficult in that climate - especially if the club runs a "we'd rather buy British" policy.

May I please add Blackburn under Jack Walker to that list? Bought the title (just) and then fell away when he didn't want to/couldn't spend anymore...

[alpine_saint]

As with all good quality sarcasm, this works well because there is more than an element of truth in the sarcastic points.

[sotonian]

The next couple of years are all about getting more points than 3 other teams, which I am sure we can do, doesn't really excite me though, only renewed season ticket on the last day, hopefully it will be better than I'm imagining

[Cheese on Toast]

Is that you Dune? Is this me?

[sfc1971]

Having seen the away ticket prices i actually can't wait for us to be relegated

Me too. Upton Park £64 or £49 for restricted view.

[This Charming Man]

Me too. Upton Park £64 or £49 for restricted view.

Where have you seen that? Looks like away tickets there are £39.

If those prices are true, imagine they're for the likes of Arsenal, Man Utd etc.

EDIT: Just seen Cat. A away tickets are £49 for WHU and £39 for Cat. B. For some reason, we're only Cat. B. Aren't they aware how massive we are and will soon be in the Champions League?

[aintforever]

Only a fool would want us to go down but I wouldn't be overly bothered if we did.

We've signed the type of player that would probably hang around and do a good job in the Championship, we are financially secure and would bounce back quite easily IMO. Relegation wouldn't be the disaster it was last time.

[This Charming Man]

Only a fool would want us to go down but I wouldn't be overly bothered if we did.

We've signed the type of player that would probably hang around and do a good job in the Championship, we are financially secure and would bounce back quite easily IMO. Relegation wouldn't be the disaster it was last time.

That was the general consensus when we were relegated to the Prem last time...

[scotty]

May I please add Blackburn under Jack Walker to that list? Bought the title (just) and then fell away when he didn't want to/couldn't spend anymore...

Thats saved me some typing, my thoughts exactly. That was when it really got started imho.

[wokingsaints]

I can't wait. Lets get this season over and get back to the Championship. More chances of winnig games, and coming top of the league this time, with £6 million + of a parachute payment, and a team to beat any in the second tier of English football.

Yes, let's not even bother this season. Go to the bottom of the Premiership and lets stay there, then next season we can really let rip into some teams. Lots of 4 and 5 - nils for us next season.

We don't belong here in the Prem, teams too lightweight, Manager has no experience in top flight, press don't think we can do it, and we have failed in the transfer market. Even our best players as past it. No, we don't belong here. We are just the pretenders of the Premiership.

It'll be great to be back in the Championship. I can't wait for it. I wish we were already relegated.

at last a decent honest post. better to be a big fish in a small pond.....cheaper tickets, more chance to see the saints, less glory hunter w@nkers, more midweek football, the list goes on.....

[Secret Site Agent]

Only a fool would want us to go down but I wouldn't be overly bothered if we did.We've signed the type of player that would probably hang around and do a good job in the Championship, we are financially secure and would bounce back quite easily IMO. Relegation wouldn't be the disaster it was last time.

Are you admitting to be a fool, aintforever?
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