CB Fry

They did the business at the back and up front. It didn't happen for us. We're still going up despite what the divs on this forum are going to say about us losing the next three in a row.

You used the specific phrase "hard data" my old son. Actual sales is pretty much the only hard data there is. Everything is aimless speculative hors e s hi t from internet nut jobs like you.

You mean the hard data where we achieved nowhere near the level of season ticket sales (let alone anything like a waiting list) that would justify expansion. You are right there is plenty of data.

It's going to be absolute agony on here next season with the parade of utter dipsh it s on this forum with their "media conspiracy against Saints" routine. Anyone still saying Claridge has somethng against us after everything he's said about us this season (and the pastings he's dished out to that lot down the road) really are a waste of good oxygen. Utter, utter, utter morons.

Who did "glory glory" first? Spurs or Man U?

I think I'd rather drown. More peaceful than being burned alive.

Didn't you say automatic promotion hangs in the balance on saturday night. You suck the life and hope out of everything you touch on here so please spare us all the dressing down. You did fu ck all for the 99th anniversary, or the one before that. Or the eightieth. Or any, ever before. You don't even look like you are actually doing anything yourself this time. Self righteous empty rhetoric from one of the most negative people on here.

Southampton Football Club is part of the history of the city but that doesn't mean it needs to appropriate every other piece of history of the city. Maybe the club should turn Tudor House into a club shop, and get Kelvin and Ricky to practice penalties in the gateway of the bargate of an evening. Southampton FC has had 99 previous years to mark the passing of all those people on that boat, its a bit late for people to start complaining now.

This is a great post and sums it up beautifully. There is a lot of frothing at the mouth from the usual suspects who I suspect did naff all to commemorate the 99th, 98th or 80th, 75th or any other anniversary of this tragedy but are working themselves up in a frenzy about the club potentially ignoring it when it is being covered and marked comprehensively for anyone who wants to get involved elsewhere. The Titanic commemoration is not "remembrance" - it's a civic history event marking a convenient historical landmark, which the council are marking. Portsmouth can (and do) mark similar things relating to the Victory or the Mary Rose. It's the fabric of history, not the remembrance of anyone anyone alive actually knew. It is not required for the football club to do anything, much like the football club weren't required to send a hot air balloon up when the Balloon festival used to be on. Let the city mark the event.

My point is a hundred years ago is a remarkably long time to wait before deciding this is something a football club needs to mark. Sure the council are doing stuff but that is as much about civic history rather than "remembrance" entirely. My point is it would resemble something that Ashby parish council (or whoever) would do about Bosworth. This is not remembrance really because no one remembers. Its History and human interest, which is all good. But in that scope I don't see any obligation from the club to participate.

How come we only get to mark it once every hundred years. Was it not as important last year and is it all forgotten again in 2013? Either this is really important to the people of the city or it isn't. And I don't remember any minute silences for it before. The point is the club could do something or they could do nothing. They will do what they like. But a minutes silence seems to me ill fitting. Especially as there are no survivors left and the vast vast majority of people in the ground wont have even met a survivor. To me it's like having a minutes silence at Leicester City for the battle of Bosworth. So I have no objection for something but I fail to see how a minutes silence is the only option.

All I can remember from January David was you saying "there can be little doubt that the club will spend thirty to forty million" in the last transfer window. And funnily enough spent nowhere near that.

Anyone from our old guard remember any memorial for the fiftieth anniversary? Or the 75th? I don't recall anything for the 80th or 90th. Can't say I am bothered either way, but I don't think the club have any obligation here.

So for that to happen we would then have lost, at best, three from four. After undefeated in twelve and top two for the entire season. And we've won without Lambert this season too. Seriously. Chill out. It's in the bag.

Why are Saints going to lose all these games but West Ham are going to win all theirs? Would you be saying the same if it was Saints in third having just been tonked at home by the team in second?

As well as us ballsing it up, it would also require West Ham to go on a wonder run. The miserablists seem convinced that WHU are now going to win every single remaining game. But if it was Saints in that exact position they wouldn't be saying that at all. They'd be saying "thats it then. We're definitely going to finish eighth." Why are the pessimists about us always such raging cheerleaders for every other team, with breathtaking optimism for any other club that isn't us?

April fool? The FA don't dish out the golden shares.

Well I'd disagree. Pretty much every team in our peer group - second tier big city clubs - have either been in financial trouble, been relegated (sometimes twice) or quite often both. Very few of them were posting profits in the premier league as we were. I would hazard a guess to say none of them did except us. I know Blackpool did well out of the Prem but they are not comparable as they had the "small club wins lottery" one season wonder approach. Those profits ultimately didn't get us anywhere of course but it did make us unique.

Err. No they weren't. Leicester, Bradford, Sheffield Weds, Bradford, Forest. The list goes on and on. Well done on a pretty lame attempt to rewrite history. Yes we bought too many average players which ultimately saw us down but we were the exception when it came to balancing books.

Obviously an April fool, although the dopey bint on the Andrew Marr show believed it.

That Leeds game in August really did set the standard for the season, and no club has matched us since. Look at it that way.

Come on you bunch of fannies, lets have none of your grizzling. We played terribly, boo hoo. It happens. It's an off day. Six points clear. We're going up.

Here he comes...

15,739 of the bestest I see. What a massive sleeping giant they truly are.

....is the right answer.