CB Fry

Yes, but that was when we were relatively poor side amongst gigantic clubs in the biggest league in global football. We're now the biggest spending team, with the best paid manager, one of the best stadiums and best crowds in a tiny division. We are Man United. We are Liverpool. This idea that "wouldnt it be just super, simply wonderful if we could scrape survival in this division" is just lunacy. Ohh how dare we expect anything else against the likes of Oldham and Swindon. And anyway, our current manager told us he was going for promotion this season, so why don't we judge him by those standards, as opposed to the standards of a manager from five years and two divisions ago?

Who is running down the manager, the owner or the chairman? Who, and on what threads (apparently "every thread", but I haven't read anything of the sort). I think the only trolling going on is from you, making things up and then getting upset about them. As for running the team down, well zero wins in six league one games, I think they deserve it. And as for running down other fans, being that the likes of you are just making stuff up and then moaning about it, why not? You're clearly bonkers.

Where's this then? I haven't seen one single post from anyone "demanding" (or even asking) for anyone to be sacked. NOT ONE ANYWHERE. Bet you can't find one either. What is on this forum are a million dullard posts like this one ranting on and on at people for not dancing congas of gratitude in the streets for a team that is rock bottom of the league and would be even if we didn't have a points deduction. No wins in six when Yeovil, Exeter, Bristol Rovers and Gillingham have managed to win games in this league. It isn't this incredibly difficult challenge that the management team need six months to work up to. John Barnes can win a game at this level for christ's sake. Stockport County can win games. Walsall, Oldham, Leyton Orient can win games. It's not the holy grail of football and how dare we demand such unreasonable impossible things. It's winning games in League One. People should be complaining. They'd be mad not to. Get over it.

We're doing as badly as John Barnes' Tranmere team, and everyone knew Barnes was going to be an abject failure before a ball was even kicked. And Tranmere haven't spent a million pounds on a midfielder, a million pounds on the best striker in the league last season, and have a million pound keeper and million pound defender already at the club, plus internationals, plus players rated at six figure sums that we can afford to turn down. Oh, and managed by the best paid manager in the division who has had his way with player ins and outs and his hand picked backroom staff and the biggest feel good factor at the club since the cup final. Zero wins in six in those circumstances cannot be patronising compared to Leonardo putting together a masterpiece and the plebs slagging it off. Zero wins in six. Get over yourself.

I personally preferred the suggestion of Waaaaaigo Papa Waaaaaaaaaaaaaigo sung to the tune of Day-O. The banana boat song, or the Trio chocolate bar song, if you're my age. Second line to be something fairly generic like "he play for Saints and he score some goals" Not sure that gets sung at many grounds, so it would be at least original. Failing that a few verses of "there's only one Johnny Hartson" should suffice.

In retrospect. £6m for Jones on the day we did the deal was a fantastic bit of business for Saints. It is immaterial whether he scores 500 goals for Sunderland including a hat-trick in the FA Cup Final for them and they tear down Bob Stokoe and put a twelve foot Kenwynne up in its place. On the day it was excellent business for us. Not least because the mardy t*at was on strike.

This Peter Storrie chap was the chief exec of PFC during all this time, was he not? His quotes make him out to be the valiant hero battling to save the club while skilfully swerving the fact that he signed all the cheques to get them in the plop in the first place. Anyway, Corp and co have been telling us that Pompey have less debt any other club on earth and are the most financially ship shape club in the Premier League, so presumably Storrie is just making this all up.

Arse achingly boring one nil to us. But that's what we need a few of. Winning 4-0 would probably do more harm than good to everyone concerned, fans and players alike.

And we've turned down bids for plenty of players in the past as well Beattie, Pahars and Lundevam being pretty high profile examples but there have been others. Believe you me, a Leibherr owned CCC level Saints would not have stopped Kenwynne Jones leaving. The way some people think you'd think Saints kicked him out the door screaming and bawling his way up the A1 with a saints scarf round his neck.

Now we are only four freak goalkeeping injuries from the most LOLtastic situation since the dawn of the Champion's League era.

Media outlets like the OS overhyped it with a "deadline day update" article. I think we would all have been happy if the three additional players Pardew has been talking about for a week had arrived last Thursday, but they didn't. No one asked Pardew to "wait until Tuesday" in my recollection. Pardew certainly talked about things in terms of the window, he didn't say "all the players I want are currently out of contract so I don't care about the window". If anyone has over hyped anything then the OS and our manager has. PS - no one is blaming the OS for not signing players, just not providing something to explain why what the manager told us was going to happen didn't happen.

Sorry, today nothing happening is something happening. Pardew was quoted at the start of the day (and last week) talking about three signings and at the end of that day (and the transfer window) we have no additional signings. I think a couple of lines from someone at 6pm would have been a courteous thing to do - the club knows there are lots of fans scratching their heads. Disappointing.

Solid mid table at Christmas with a bloody good run at the play offs ending in noble failure. Oh yes, we're going to finish ninth. And all the people berating everyone for having "unrealistic expectations" for "expecting" to finish in the top half will be precisely the same people who in April will berate anyone who says we can't make the play offs when we are bumbling around tenth/eleventh. Precisely the same people. Mark my words and it will happen. There is a little switcheroo that happens on the forum that turns the "realists" (we'll be lucky to finish in the bottom four get a reality check etc etc") into the loony optimists ("if we win the next three and so and so loses two in a row we'll be four points off the play offs etc etc") around about the end of March. Trust me, it happens every season.

Current scoreboard: people who want Pardew out: zero, none, no one. People pompously grandstanding against 'all the people that want Pardew out': about thirty-five. I look forward to these divs coming out when we do win ranting on with the old 'see? SEE? Told you so' routine to a load of people that DO NOT EXIST. People call TDD an attention seeker but he's not arguing obsessively with a non existant view point like some of you lot.

Err - dopey posts like this is precisely why TDD started this thread. Up your own arse lectures railing against 'people who want the manager out'. But there ISN'T anyone who wants him out. You're pompously lecturing figments of your imagination. Shut up. Thanks.

I think the big money approach for Nyron Nosworthy shows a frightening level of intent from the new regime. I can't see Sunderland resisting for too long, especially when Nyron starts making waves in the dressing room if they deny him his dream move. A shot accross the boughs of the rest of the Premier League. There's a new kid in town and good god, they mean business.

Indeed. My view on any attendance debate is always "do what you like" but I had to laugh at JamiSaints post which is basically saying "I'm not going anymore because I am a better fan than those that do go". Really rather silly. I don't get the idea that people can't quite see the connection between the fact that we have been losing, a lot, in the last couple of seasons and the fact the fan base is ever so slightly disgruntled. Look at the attendance figures, look at who is still pouring through the turnstiles despite us being rock bottom of tier three. And then tell me our fans are rubbish and negative and "not as good as what I am". This is an utterly absurd debate.

I didn't realise Tommy Smith was 29 already. Makes Nugent look like a right glamour signing.

This will be the same mega-positive Geordie fans that walked out of St James Park rather than applaud the last-game lap of honour Bobby Robson's team gave because they were disgusted they "only" finished fifth in the league that season? And not a grumble, gripe or even slight complaint has been heard by any Toon fans since. Not a whisper. Football fans in grumbling at conceded goal shock. It's an outrage and has only ever happened in Southampton. Ever.

Yes, your new owner does exactly that. I knew you were a bit "special" but you are outdoing yourself tonight. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2008/09/02/arab-billionaire-dr-sulaiman-al-fahim-pledges-540million-for-manchester-city-players-115875-20721189/ Small Extract:The man behind yesterday's sensational takeover of Manchester City has given manager Mark Hughes just three years to win the Champions League. But billionaire Dr Sulaiman al-Fahim - frontman for a mega-rich Middle East business group - will hand over an astonishing £540million to bring the world's top stars to the under-achieving Premier League club to help achieve the quest. Sulaiman said in an exclusive interview that he wants to buy 18 new players - at a cost of £30million each. He added: "I need to meet the manager but the best players in the world average £30million. We need a minimum of 18 players at that level. "Without that you can't win the Champions League." Subsequently he then "published" his Man City business plan for "all and sundry to peruse" which, if memory serves, included his intention to purchase world class galacticos like Christiano Ronaldo, Sameul Et'o, Franck Ribery and Tommy Smith from Watford. Good luck in next year's Champion's League final by the way.

At least our struggle will be witnessed by more fans through the turnstiles than you can scrape together in the biggest league in the world. And you're still obsessively posting on Southampton football club forums then? Absolutely besotted with us you bitter little man.

Err - we are all already are pointing and laughing at you because the deal is completed. It's absolutely hilarious and the sooner you appoint Diego Maradonna the better. You are easily the divviest of the Pompey fans on here. I think we might be due another 900 word essay of "argument" from you as to why your team is, like, better than ours.

You've forgotten the hottest piece of real estate this side of the Palm Complex development in Dubai. That millionaire's playground, the Fratton Park car park. The best thing about this fred is it started with pointing laughing about the Dr's deal falling through and is ending with pointing and laughing about the Dr's deal going through! The giggles just keep on coming.

What is the FAPL? There is the FA and there is the Premier League. There is no such thing as the FA Premier League and there hasn't been since the mid nineties.