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its strikes me, that apart from Mandick, it's only the players that have walked off with the bankfull of cash. You the fans weren't suffering when they were taking you to the heights in the league and cup. Are you actually suffering now or just feeling sorry for yourselves that your club is falling back down the pyramid? I didn't feel as though I was suffering when were were in the ****. I felt like the directors had ****ed up gambling on promotion and now I was taking my medicine for that over ambition.

no composure? Merrington is entitled to his opinion, but that's all it is. The lad lacks pace which means he doesn't have that extra bit of time you need to settle yourself and plant it in the corner. Without that time you have to hit things as they come and that often means a bouncing or bobbling ball on the wrong foot. He shows great confidence to go for things even when they are not quite there. A lessor player will stop the ball, bring it onto the right foot and then the chance goes. He's not clinical, but no one ever said he was a striker. He's a talent that is going to get better. He might be 22, but he was out for a long time with his heart problem. This must be taken into account as must the situation we were in two season ago that prevented Pearson gambling more on him. I'm not sure what you deem `coming to much' but he'll play CCC thats for sure.

the Fratton Park land must be used for recreational/leisure purposes so that restricts development

Lightweight thread I know, but the half time penalty shoot out done by Wycombe (and Northampton when I went last) was light relief from a terrible game, and in stark contrast to the `two men running 30 yards after an oversize beachball' embaressment we serve up. Come on SFC lets go back to basics and get a penalty comp at SMS and stop making ourselves look tinpot. While we are at it can we ban the `lets get ready to rumble, work the crowd up into a lather' MC work. Doing this before the derby game was a total embaressment and not needed. The atmosphere was red hot (as it always is for these games) so to come across as desperate like this was cringeworthy. Football has survived for well over 100 years without the need for made up ******** half time games that no one ever seems to win or ****s on microphones trying to convince us that we need to `get behind the lads'. Lets try to show some class, tradition, maturity...

I was pretty cream crackered after a long day at work, followed by a mad rush drive up there, followed by a tough old drive back in the rain. On reflection I'm glad I saw a Saints game at Adams Park for the first time, but other than that it was a complete and utter waste of time. If we had spent **** all and had the side that played at the start of the season it would be understandable, but we've signed Jardi, Semi, Harding, Fonte, Hammond, Waigo, Antonio, Puncheon and Barnard since then. With that sort of expenditure at this level you have to expect to win most games or at least dominate games, don't you? If you don't you are aiming too low IMO. Don't for a minute think that I am not extremely happy that we survived as a club, have won a fair few games this season and of course got to Wembley in the painting competition, but at some point you've got to put the problems of the past behind us and ask why are we not doing better. I guess come the end of the season I'll reflect on a half decent season considering the start, but anything but promotion next season will be a failure.

for me he was appauling in the MK Donns game. In his defence he was coming back from injury which meant he was miles off the pace - which is a problem for someone that is slow anyway. He was better last night that that game, but still not all that.

someone is going to have to go out the door surely before we sign anyone else.

there is a serious lack of a plan b since we moved to a 4-4-2, but there was Waigo on the bench, and he has been in terrific form recently. Pardew though chose to stick with Lambert for the 90 minutes, again.

he was one of my suggestions in the HCDAJFU thread I might add.

most of the moans were for the linesman who didn't give them much. Harding did however cut their winger in two and was rightly booked. He is combative and not afraid to foul when needed. Home fans don't tend to like that. I do. Another solid game from him last night.

agreed. Why on earth can't we just do that at SMS? Northampton away in the cup a few years back they had a pen comp with fans coming on the pitch to take them against teh reserve keeper. Perfect entertainment. What do we do, have two clowns run 30 yards with an oversized beachball hoping that one falls over so the club can make £250 from you've been framed. Total ****e. Embaressing in fact, as is the MC'd "raise the roof, lets get ready to rumble" bull**** before games like we did before the derby game - cringworthy. Lets show some sort of class.

I've not read every post from those that attended, but I don't see any that say `AP out'. Is it not you that is overeacting? Edit: I looked a little further back and I apologise. There are some pretty overeactive posts.

Morgan is not the messiah, but how often do we play well when he is not in the side? yes we play badly on occasions when he is in the first 11, and yes he has bad games himself, but I honestly can't remember many decent games without him. We always go longer, and we tend to give the ball away cheaper. Simple things like getting the ball from the thrower and turning and spreading the play - as apposed to throwing it down the line, Lambert flicking it on to no one and the ball handed over to the opposition. That happened about 20 times last night.

could not agree more. Lets leave two up front at corners. We have Jaidi and Fonte and Hardign and Hammond and Wotton to win headers. When it is cleared we might be able to make it stick up front and perhaps scopre the on the break. You never know. Lambert taking free kicks to chip into the box is rediculous.

The worst game I haev seen this season by far. I've never seen the ball kicked into touch so much in my life, especially by us. The pitch was bad but it doesn't excuse some of the woeful passing. It does excuse some of the terrible control, and perhaps even the hoof ball to a degree - it was next to impossible to pass through the middle, but when there was time to bring it down, we invariably didn't. Hammond is usally great at bringing it down and getting us going, but even he played it safe more often than not. It pains me to say it but Wotton actually showed more composure than Hammond last night, although he did get caught in posession deep in our own half that could have turned out worse. In the end though you have to look at Lambert's and Lallana's misses and say if they had tucked them away, as they should, it would have been job done. Lambert was pretty poor on the night IMO, he won a fair few headers against quite a small centre back, but his all round game was poor. His passing pathetic, almost everything was misplaced. IMO he was extremely lucky to stay on the pitch. We don't have to play the lad the whole 90 minutes AP. Waigo should have got far far longer. Davis 6 one tremendous save, some poor kicking, almost let one in through his legs, not a great deal to do. Semi 5 never gets tight and talk about economy of effort. Maybe its just his casual style that I don't like, but he just never looks `on it' and a few times he just decided he'd pass on the 50:50. All he has is pace and even that doesn't seem to be enough to stop the winger crossing it in with ease. Fonte 7 worst culprit for smashing it into the stand. I guess he was playing it safe but very frustrating all the same. Pretty solid though and handled pace well. Jaidi 8 won everything and even when stretched by pacey forward never let him get past. We looked safe as house to anything arial. Harding 7 Solid again. Nothing going forward though. Antonio 3 miscontrolled a few times and then was subbed because Puncheon couldn't be trusted in the middle so someone had to make way for Wotton. Hammond 5 hoofed the ball and thats about it. Ran around a lot. Puncheon 3 (first half at CM) 7 (second half at RM) When at CM he underhit some passes in the mud that put us in trouble. Pitch didn't help. Looked dangerous out wide and our most creative player, but final ball not the best on a few occasions. Lallana 3 Get out wide for ****s sake. Derry I am with you at least when taking last nights game in isolation. Tucked in all night. Not once did he hug the line to give Harding an easy out. Great chance put wide when he looked certain to score. Ran hard but totally ineffective. Lambert 4 won some headers and gave the ball away a lot. Chased loads and load of **** hoofed balls. Missed from two yards. Barnard 5 started brightly and touch looked good, but never any threat and touch slowly went. No service at all. Chased lots of crap and played deep chasing them. Is that what we want our stiker to be doing? Wotton 7 One of his best games. Got the ball down and passed it to other Saints players. Thats more than most of the side could manage. Waigo 6 Bright. Not on long enough. How about trying him alongside Barnard at the end of the game if the hoof/flick on tactic isn't working? Looked sharp and a threat. If I was him I'd be out of SMS as soon as possible as AP clearly doesn't rate him and even in a game that cried out for a change he still only gets 15 ****ing minutes. Thomas - got a minute or so at the end up front.

having sold Kaboul and the keeper two minutes ago, how can they not afford to pay the £3.1M wage bill this month? Those two deals can't have seen much money up front can they?

yes, but fortunately he moved to Chatham and learned to read and write.

an Asia Cup you say, that certainly balances things out a bit.

park in the stadium car park. Go on I dare ya. I will be arriving late so I want to maximise my chances of finding a spot slightly away from the ground. I wonder if the lower demand than expected (ignoring the other factors like Wembley tickets etc) has something to do with not knowing where Wycombe is. I didn't and I travel up and down the country. Oh. Just me then.

and there's me thinking he spent way more than the club brought in, but he recouped the excess when he found a Gaydamak looking to launder his money.

1900-600=1300. Nice. Can't wait. New ground and hopefully a win that will start to get us all thinking there is an outside chance of a play off slot.

it cost him £5m for the shirt, cap, few games and redicule.

the South Africans are not paying real money for the club, its free, they are just agreeing to take over the debt. I wonder then what proof of funds you need if the asking price is £0?

A quick google search... http://www.foopets.com/topics/show/28592?forum_id=1&page=5551 well over 110,000 replies... we are some way short.

personally I didn't as it looks like speculation on their part. There is so much of that it is hard to know what is accurate and what is not.