CB Fry

I think you're being overly generous. Not that many "details" to be "au fait" with really, and if he hasn't found the time to be au fait with a tragic story of a good player from our recent past then he's not a very good leader of a football club with a history and a part to play in the community. And he's not a very good leader of a football club with a history and a part to play in the community. Efficient, yes, and will oversee a promotion I'm sure, which is the primary purpose and his decisiveness here is admirable and I support him for it. But tiny little things like this could be handled so much better.

Utter bo l l o cks. I, for one, expect Matthew Le Tissier's death to be treated in a slightly different way to Craig Maskell's. For emotional incontinence there was an avalanche of it not so long ago when someone who was associated with the club for half the time than Dean Richards passed on and various lunatics on this forum and beyond started demanding a renaming of the flipping stadium and erecting statues outside. Lots of stuff about "two seasons" here which is fair enough but you are missing the most vital bit of "context" in that the vast, vast majority of Saints fans in that stadium would have seen Dean Richards actually play, and bloody well too. This is very rarely the case for dead footballers. Your "two seasons" rule didn't seem to apply for a recent Saints related death that was, to pardon the pun, utterly flogged to death. That person got nowhere near "two seasons". Any ideas why that wasn't just bundled into "all Saints day"? And finally, no one is asking for a statue of Dean Richards, but a minutes applause is hardly a difficult thing to do. Our club is being run efficiently at the moment, but that doesn't stop the bloke running it being an absolute pig headed, obstinate, contrary c n u t. And my god he is.

I get what you're saying completely. But it really is the tradition these days, and a minutes applause for a very good saints player servant that the vast majority of the crowd would have seen play (this isn't Albert Hebblethwaite, inside forward from 1952, we're talking about) would have been no bother and worthwhile. There is a regime of pig headed contrariness at the heart of the club and it is rather tiresome.

To be fair, he has had a successful career. I still think he is the only manager to get promoted from all three divisions with three different clubs. He was genuinely successful at Brighton, Fulham and Leicester. Seems to be one of those managers that have lost their mojo, but his appointment at Sheffield United was a homecoming, he is a lifetime Blades fan so had a bit of romance to it. It's a real pity he seems to have completely guffed it up.

Also on the plus side we're still the fourth biggest scorers in the division with the second best goal difference. But hey, we've got some chronic goalscoring deficency, haven't we?

You don't think that "we the people creating money" would make the money that is already in the economy everso slightly worthless? Didn't you do GCSE history and the story of Germany between the wars. "We the people" giving each other a crisp £10,000 note each isn't actually going to make anyone richer.

The hypocrite strikes back. Your favourite pompous patronising routine used to be "money doesn't mean anything, money doesn't deliver success". Your usual pompous arse routine about money being meaningless when your boyfriend the pi ss ant Burley was at the helm. How much "money" needs to be "there" for a "major push" in League one? League frigging one. We're already the biggest spenders and the most expensive squad in the division by a country mile and now you're demanding more money spent for a "major push". Like a "major push" isn't already f u cking happening, we've got Million pound players in the team and said no to multi million pound advances for at least one of our players recently. How much more money? How much more "major push"? This kind of spend-spend-spend nonsense was the kind of thing you used to rail against when you had your head up Lowe's backside. Your feeble attempts to find a stick to beat the current regime with is pathetic.

Really? Lambert and Barnard are two of the best strikers at this level. Lallana and Oxo can, do and will score. We signed Chaplow a goalscoring midfielder and Guly was banging them in until we actually signed him. If you think we need to sign more goalscorers then you need a little dose of reality. If Nigel Adkins complained to any other manager in this division about lack of goalscoring talent in the team he'd be laughed out of town. And we're the fourth top scorers in the division with only one team (the freakish Peterboro) having scored significantly (say, 3 goals) more than we have. We've got goals. It's spirit, commitment and will to win we're lacking.

This was our killer game in hand, and we blew it. Winning our two in hand only gets us parity with Bournemouth now. Sounded like we should have wrapped this game up long before they scored. This is a result from a team heading for play off hell - quite good but not close enough to the level of consistency required to be top two.

One of several iconic Saints players brought to the club by Dave Jones. That man has the best record of acquisitions of any Saints manager in my conscious Saints supporting memory (Nicholl onwards). Richards was just class and this was really sad news. In another era, ie these days, he'd be an England squad fixture. Wolves v Spurs at the weekend is a fortunate fixture for a nice send off, but I hope Saints do their bit. His Saints career was him at his absolute peak and that ought to be recognised.

No he hasn't failed yet. I didn't say he has, and personally I think we will go up. My point was against the pitifully tedious yawntastic "too early to judge" brigade. It is not too early to judge. Nigel Adkins was employed to get us promoted this season. Judgement has started because this season is kinda like NOW.

I think he was trying to say that Adkins getting a team promoted after taking over in Novemember was completely down to him and proves what a brilliant manager he is. However, Adkins not getting a team promoted after taking over in September would be nothing to do with him whatsoever and it is completely unreasonable to make a judgement on how good a manager he is in that timescale. Got to love this forum. The pi s s wipes on this forum have to accept that Nigel Adkins was employed in September to get us promoted this season. Not build a team for a promotion push in 2014. Not to "settle in". Not to "bed down". Not to not be judged until three years in the job. Nigel Adkins was employed to get Saints promoted this season. Nigel Adkins was employed to get Saints promoted this season. Spare us the "it's so unfair to judge so early" b ol l o cks. Nigel Adkins as employed to get Saints promoted this season. Get over it.

What there was TWENTY ONE days ago was the usual emotional fan guff about "this could be our last match" which happens at every club ever and actually comes to pass at no club ever, save for the odd non league club. Plymouth Argyle were never going to disappear, so whatever was said TWENTY ONE days ago is neither here nor there.

So just to confirm you are relying on the Echo to help out with this very worth cause - well done the Echo say I. But you're having a pop at a club for not helping out an ex player when only days ago you were on your high horse droning on about ex players being nothing more than ex-exployees of a company not deserving of hand outs etc etc. Glad to see the Echo, the local paper, providing an excellent service here. Well done the Echo. They're good, aren't they, local papers, eh? Well done the Echo. When is this worthy cause going on your beloved Official Club Website exactly, by the way? And who is the dirty pig?

Football fans, more than any other purchasing group (outside of of nippers that go into Games Workshop, or pre-teen girl boyband fans) are the biggest mugs in Britain. The Shirt was a clever marketing idea. This is the age of marketing and definitely the age of mug punters.

Jesus christ. The Cortese cult in full effect. Shall we wait and see if any of the current squad or manager go first? 'not aware of any ban' is pretty lame spin you're swallowing there. Just put Rupert Lowe as the person aggressively distancing himself and the club from its own history. How much would you be tossing yourself off in joy then? Le Tiss packed it in a decade ago and could fill the mayflower by himself. Let's see in 2021 who would go to an evening with the greasy spiv you seem to hero worship.

Meh. This Le Tissier chap is nothing more than an ex employee of a local company. Nothing more and definitely not worth discussing here. Xavi needs to know the real Saints legend is our current chairman, as the real passionate Saints fans know.

Lies don't change facts either. I don't think it's condecending to point that out to someone peddling lies that they are, in fact, full of it. And you are. True to form for you of course, as I have seen beofre how jolly skilled you are at fact avoidance. Fabulous stuff on this thread people. The march of the Cortese cult goes on, and Matthew Le Tissier is nothing more than "an ex employee of a company" in the eyes of a select few in our fanbase. "An ex employee of a company". Matthew. Le. Tissier. If Rupert Lowe had said anything even approaching that in his time there would be absolute frigging uproar. But you lot have gone weak at the knees for some Mediterranean accountant like Shirley Valentine getting all wet over Tom Conti. And Le Tissier is forgotten like the abandoned kids of a 39 year old Portswood trollop who's eloped with some Greek waiter. Who needs players and heritage and history when we've got a wonderful chairman with 18 months service to swoon over. "Ex-employees" no longer welcome or needed. Nicola is all that matters now. Nicola is all that matters now.

And it's alllll Company A Alllll company A They're by far the greatest company The world has ever seen. That's why your analogy is possibly the most p is s weak thing you've posted on here. Which is going some.

You lot pick some beady eyed Italian sleaze ball. I pick Matt Le Tiss. See you all in ten years time. I bet my Saints hero is still my hero and still a Saints legend. We'll see if you lot are still knocking one out into a sock over some Chairman we once had. A freaking chairman. Matt Le Tiss will walk proud and tall in St Mary's once again, and shame, shame, shame on you lot lining up behind some swarthy beancounter against him.

Lee and Herring both concede that the Alan Partridge we now know is a creation of Coogan, Ianucci and others, notably Peter Baynham and the playwright Patrick Marber. Lee and Herring basically wrote the "comedy sports reporter" bits on On The Hour, which isn't quite the entire Partridge character. It was the source of a lot of friction between L&H and the rest of the OTH team for a long time with OTH CDs released without anything written by L&H on it. But all resolved now. Stewart Lee's book is superb if you like him and hate Top Gear.

Describing a season ticket as "getting a product at a discount" is stretching reality somewhat. Selling as many of them as possible is a central plank of any football club's business plan. Yes, the price per match is reduced, but there is a significant financial commitment from the fan in the first place. If there was no reduction in cost per match no one, except a tiny % of really loopy fanatics would buy one. Clubs want to sell as many as possible because it ensures financial stability and safe business planning. They're not doing fans a favour by "discounting" it. It's not some knock-down DFS sofa giveaway, it's a year long commitment from a "customer".

Correct. They might go into admin, but they won't disappear. Bet they don't. Just like Blackpool won't get relegated and the newspapers were 100% correct about Alan Pardew's precarious future as Southampton manager. You're wrong so often I feel embarrassed for you.

The vision of developing youth in the Lowe era was patently not done "on the cheap". Nice article in today's paper about that very thing: http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/jan/28/southampton-alex-oxlade-chamberlain Spunking money we didn't have on wages to keep us in the Prem was done "on the cheap", of course. But that's a slightly different thing and debate done to death. Once we changed strategy after "we got our club back" and allowed Burley to spiff money left right and centre on the first team we never looked back of course.... Chamberlain will be sold. Just like Bale and Theo. Don't kid yourself.

It's a good article, here's the electronic version. http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/jan/28/southampton-alex-oxlade-chamberlain The journo does slightly over-egg it - Middlesborough, West Ham and others could point to a similar production line. Nice couple of lines about Lowe that I am sure will stick in the throats of a few of the more swivel-eyed members of this forum.