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cheers chaps. Anyone taken them to an away game? I'm half dreading that last minute McGoldrick winner that keeps us up and sends them down (I predicted this three months ago to annoy my brother in law that comes to Saints games, slates McGoldrick, but is a massive Forest fan) as I'm normally like zeberdee when we score and that could **** my knee up for keeps. What can you do?

I'm having a knee operation the week before. I wonder if anyone can tell me if they have ever taken crutches into a football stadium?

Can you tell me what security Barclays have on the overdraft?

This IS Holmes we are talking about? Jesus, the guy has a left foot but beyond that he is garbage. No pace, no trick, doesn't tackle, win headers, score goals...I think you might have been blinded by his white boots/socks cos he never gets them bloody dirty. For me he just about justifys his transfer fee.

from what I have seen a large percentage of fans leave it till last minute to book away tickets these days so I'd expect several hundred more fasn to go now its pay on the gate.

why have we been given the lower tier? I thought they only ever used the upper tier these days and as this game marks teh anniversary of the dissaster it seems strange to open it now.

have we not got scouts?

slow and can't head. Serious problems for a fullback in my opinion, but his composure on the ball is a delight as to is his crossing and passing. I'd like to see him get to the byeline though once in a while. Having a real right midfielder that covers him when he does would help.

Over the last oh I don't know how many years there seems to have been very little planning done towards the end of the season for the following season. Being almost relegated, actually relegated, almost promoted and back to nearly relegated has put paid to that and this summer looks even worse with no idea if we will exist or what division we will be in, never mind what budget is available. Having said all that the show MUST go on and I wonder if our notoriously useless scouts (giv us a job) have unearthed some out of contract, to be released, available for nothing, free transfer, on the cheap, young or experienced prospects that we might lure with the prospect of a Leicester style turn around in fortune (assumng we are relegated) in front of large crowds? Relegation will no doubt see another cull of our own out of contract high earners (Davis, BWP, Saeijs, and Euell) so a few squad positions will come up. Now is the time to be thinking about this and start negotiating otherwise we are going to be left once again with the dregs like Wotton and Holmes. For instance has Dany N'Guessan's agent been spoken to? He is goal scoring 21 year old available on a free from Lincoln. I'm sure there are countless others that we should at least enquire about on the assumption that we will go forward. Even if a deal can not be concluded we can show our interest and that might help us down the line.

over the course of the season perhaps, but not on that showing. We totally outplayed Palace from start to finish.

disinterested? What a load of ********. He certainly looks lazy at times (his running style doesn't help him there), and at other times he really is lazy, but disinterested is not a term I'd use about any of the players yesterday or maybe even all season. Don't confuse lack of quality with lack of interest. don't agree at all about his first touch. The only ball he miscontrolled all day was the through ball early doors that was just too far to reach. His first touch is his best attribute IMO. I do however agree that Lallana should get that front of the diamond role and have been saying so for months.

behave. We were good, they were bad, but that still doesn't mean every player in our side had a great game. Wotton gave it everything as usual but should we survive I'd like to see him shown the door in favour of a player that can run and pass above the standard of my five a side team. By the way I've been here all the time.

he's **** but he did well today. Great attitude, poor technique.

back to his best today. Looked much fitter for some reason and he dived into every tackle possible. I have to say we played it a lot shorter than we have in recent weeks and that must have made all the difference as he actually saw the ball rather than just watching it going over his head. He also moved into a more central role as we playerd narrow in the second half. As I haev been saying for months this is where he needs to play not out wide.

spot on marking. Saeijs had a stormer. Nice to see McGoldrick score again, might get a few more of you off his back for a while.

lets hope its Dyer's transfer fee that pays for the administrator

I thought these stadium loans tended to be secured on future ticket sales.

I'd argue that he's not worth a place in the side anyway.

as I keep saying they are paid by the hour and they certainly won't be rushing to complete the process. Our of interest I wonder how much the PLC spent on advice about insolvency from the company's lawyer as Lowe stressed that they had regular contact to ensure the board were not breaking the law. Fans often ask where does all the money go, well wages on managers, players, accountants and lawyers seems to be the answer.

He (Smith) clearly can dribble the ball and he looks to have the confidence to go at the fullback. I perhaps have been overly harsh on him seeing as he's only been here 5 minutes, but if you are not going to work back, tackle or head then you aer going to have to be bloody effective when you do get on the ball and so far he has done nothing. I'd like to add that on all the occasions that I have seen him he had been very lightweight and often appear to have not switched onto the game at all (not on his toes, not hungry for the ball etc.). I've watched Dyer a few times for Swansea and he hasn't suddenly become a world beater. He still falls over his own shadow, can't kick it 30 yards and more often than not runs straight into the defender. He's scored a couple of goals but I wouldn't start worrying that we have some world beater out on loan when he should be here.

At the end of the day you are only going to make money out of the club if we are in the premiership and businessmen know they are going to have to spend a few bob to do that. As fans thats exactly what we want - someone to come in and speculate to accumalate. The concern for me is that the new buyer will just spend till the cows come home but using money he is lending the club in the form of a loan that at some point they might call in and leave us back where we started - desperately seaking a buyer to prevent us from going into liquidation.

I'm tempted to move back to Block 1 Itchen from my Bock 4 seat but I read on here that the atmosphere was poor on Saturday. Anyone confirm?

the accounts information you have been reading about is last years and since then they have received the next sky installment as well as a small fortune in transfer fees for Diarra £20m, Defoe £15m, Muntari £12.7M and Mendes £3m with about £16m going the other way. As for the salaries, 15 players are out of contract in the summer so they can reaccess should they want to downsize as we did last summer, but with more sky money than ever before they should have no problem in covering them. Relegation would cripple them but I don't see it if they survive.

What are you talking about? I was quite clearly suggesting that Pearson was more expensive than JP. As for suggesting Pearson would not have been able to have bettered JPs results with the same set of players, why do you think that? Pearson had turned a sinking ship around, had the layers respect and as he has shown at Leicester he is fully capable of handling youngsters and senior pros alike. Contrast also the performance of Pearsons 21 year old signing Michael Morrison with that if JP's (or whoever it was) signing of Morgan Schniederlin or Robertson or Pekhart...perhaps ig Pearson had stayed we wouldn't have had so much ****e to work with.

paid by the hour, why rush?