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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.

The way I see it this now opens the floodgates for Pompey to buy Riquelme and Ribery and stroll back to take their rightful place as League Champions in 2011. After all, they won it in 1943 or something which makes them pretty much part of the big four already.

Back in the old days this used to be called "investing in the team" and people would whine for weeks on end about why we didn't do more of it. Funny how things change.

28 goals in 76 games, often in a poor team is hardly "the odd glimpse". Rasiak is proven at English second tier level beyond any doubt. But granted - Saga has struggled to maintain his "please give me a permanent contract" form since signing said permanent contract.

Well, Markus did come out of the blue at the last moment, and while Pompey are still a Premier League club there is nothing to stop some Arab or other lumping in, especially now the blue few have been asset stripped to buggery and are desperate ergo cheap. So this time tomorrow a new and rich owner is perfectly possible. But any passing billionaire would be much better off buying Everton. They've genuinely got a fan base and are based in a real football city.

This would be the same George Burley who effectively had the longest pre season in history (from the minute he took over from Saggy at the end of January) and then another full pre season the following season....which got us nowhere. But I am sure there is another boo-hoo excuse to write all that off under.

Got to love that ever flowing fountain of excuses. When was the last time Brentford had a million pound goalie, a million pound centre back, a couple of million pound midfielders, two million pound strikers in their team? How could we even dream of beating such giants with our boo-hoo pre season. We don't stand a chance Southampton Football Club. More hard done by than any other club in Britain. Ever. Never, ever, ever expect anything other than a defeat, and anyway we have more excuses that a amnesiac schoolboy with a very hungry dog addicted to excersize books at home. PS - St Mary's is not part of the problem. It's one of our greatest assets.

Like where? I can't see any posts calling for Pardews head. People powered by their own sense of smugness are creating a Pardew Out campaign in their own heads so they can self righteously rail against it, the above quote being an excellent example.