Daren W

Oh my god.... http://www.afcb.co.uk/page/LatestTicketNews/0,,10324~2174114,00.html How embarrassing...

PMSL laughing, as your club will never ever get anywhere near any of our dubious achievements. You talk about our shoddy stadium? Feck me, we've got a bigger training ground than the Fitness First stadium, it even sounds like a training ground.. The Dell? Still twice the size of your current ground... Biggest attendance of the season? It's October you retard.... Transfer fees? Your record transfer fee is £210,000: Gavin Pea**** from Gillingham August 1989. Not exactly setting the world on fire since eh? and finally, a bit of cut and paste.... "It just embarrassing...You have no history you see ,you never even made the quarter finals of the FA cup, never made the semi's of that trophy and never played in Europe apart from a bit of beach football" Seriously, if you're going to mock us... at least have a point... You mock the Johnstome paint trophy and yet it's the ONLY trophy you've won... Christ almighty you make Pompey fans sound intelligent.... pmsl...

1) Please inform us of your top flight history.... Oh sorry, you don't have one. We spent 27 years in the top flight with a 15,000 seater ground punching waaay above our weight. You're punching above your weight even in this division. You got found out on Saturday and will no doubt be found out many more times this season.... 2) We have a history and some of the best names in English football. Keegan? Shearer? Channon?? Le Tissier? Paine? Worthington? What have you got? A club whose fans sang, "Que sera sera, what ever will be will be, we're going to St Marys, que sera sera..." when you got promoted... That is the extent of your ambition and you've been spanked twice.. and could still be playing now and not score... 3) You can't even list your top players, you just mouth off about history. This coming from a fan of an identikit football club, averaging 7,000 fans in a glorified training ground that cannot sustain a club as you dipsh1ts don't go that often... You're a joke, your club is a joke... Now pass the begging bowl, and feck off.... Big issue? I think you have plenty....

Boyer played for Bournemouth as well didn't he? **** me, we're doing Ossie's job for him... Mind you he has disappeared pretty sharpish..

That would be one more than your lot.... Seriously, a club that hasn't won a major trophy sniping about an FA cup final win.... pmsl In the meantime, please name ten famous Bournemouth players.... Now that will take a while....

It's like having your leg humped by a little Yorkshire terrier.... You try to shake them off but they carry on humping your ankle like crazy...

pmsl It'll be the only thing you won't be boasting about... We took 50,000 fans to Wembley, isn't that the total population of Bournemouth who are under 60? But please don't let that get in the way of you making a tw @ out of yourself....

Fiver says we getter bigger crowds than that this season... You're not that important and there will be bigger, more important games for us.... That said when you get about 8,000 fans at home it must really have appeared busy yesterday... As for our cup final? Had one last year, won it too...

The irony of that chant was that on the way to the ground it was being sung by the fattest Bompey fan you could imagine... I thought, no... Our ground's too small for you....

To be fair, that's daft point... Would you rather be 3rd or 15th? not really much a of a point is it? Now if you'd ask which team would you prefer then you'd have a a question.... and the answer would be Southampton all day long. Massive gulf in class yesterday and I fully expect the positions to be reversed in a few months time...

I was chased by a group of six bompey fans... Their mobility scooters bruised my shins to ****....

Oh please do me a favour. I was stuck behind a large group of Bompey fans in Brittania Road, all of them mouthing off and looking for "trouble" I think you'll find the people who posted on here about your asswipe of a chairman were actually there, unlike you who's defending it on seeing absolutely nothing. I was in the Itchen and that 's absolutely what happened... Fact... That makes you (ewe) the ****ing sheep not us... Personally "Premier League you're having a laugh" and "We've got more points than you" must rank amongst the lamest chants ever heard at St Marys... Ever! No doubt in a years time you'll be passing around the begging bowl again... You time, you can f@ck off....

Can't help but feel this is a whole fuss about nothing. Mitchell has already indicated he was deliberately paying the bill late by complaining about the service. Personally after the crass way he told the press that Howe had turned Saints down, just to get some kudos at our expense, I'd not give the *** a bean... If people on here can't spot a shameless self promoter at work then god help us... Give Cortese a break ffs, I'd "ban" the ***** as well....

So it's not disingenuous to suggest attendances might increase if something might happen. As it happens attendances are decreasing and results have gone against us.... and this is a season in which I would expect attendances to soar past last seasons... Let's keep this based on reality rather than what might happen....

Nothing wrong in anything you've posted there, completely right in all aspects.... Bar one.. The highlighted part, what you have heard, third or fourth hand. A lot of those comments are made in private and then posted on here. A lot of the time these comments are a lot more forthright and not meant for public re-printing. How many times have any of us said one thing in company and then a more watered down, tactful version later on? We're far better off with a single decision maker but let's not forget Lowe was a single decision maker at one stage too. Let's not be afraid to disagree with Cortese and say so tactfully and politely. Personally I think we should stop printing other people's views on here third hand. Unless the likes of Matt or Mike Osman say it's ok, let's respect their right to express an opinion privately....

Now part of me agrees with this... up to a point. But what you're effectively saying is that you don't want to hear something that you personally don't agree with. No everyone thinks the new set up is as rosy as you. They have a right to be heard just as much as you do. I'm heartily sick of hearing people writing off Le Tissier's or McMenemy's views as people being bitter without listening to their concerns... And for the record, I'm more pro Cortese than anti....

Problem is that people don't want their petty blinkered agendas ruined by facts. Mike Osman is a top man, a really nice guy who gives a lot of time to charity. More than can be said of many of his detractors... I'd much rather spend my time in his company than all of the snide, sniping, miserable, sh1tbags who have a pop at him put together...

Thanks for that. Here's the article in full. I'm starting with a Parachute jump, eight of us, in tuxes, jumping out of a plane for Cancer Research.... God help us! "Goodnight And God Bless...." Beautiful South Article September 18th by Daren Wheeler on Sunday, 19 September 2010 Dear Reader, I had planned to write about Nigel Adkins and his arrival at Southampton this week but on Sunday my mother passed away after a long, long battle against cancer so excuse me if this week I’m totally self indulgent and write about her. Everyone’s mother is special, even those who appear on Jeremy Kyle; at one stage or another they make a conscious effort to bring life into this world and, even if somewhere along the line it goes wrong, for at least one moment in their life they had one moment of inspirational love.... something that men sometimes cannot claim to have done. All mothers are special. My mother wasn’t just special, she was exceptional. It was about seven years ago she was diagnosed with breast cancer. I say about seven years ago as time seemed to blur over the years but I can remember as clear as day the moment she matter of factly told us she had cancer. “Right, let’s get on with it...” she said and she did. Breast cancer was a revelation, life changing even. Any arrogance or selfishness there was in me was beaten out by the extraordinary courage shown by a 70 year old woman. There was one occasion where apparently there was a build up of fluid on the breast that meant a nurse had to physically kneel on her to force it out. She came home physically and mentally shattered, most of us would feel at least some sense of self pity but my mother shrugged off a day that most us would mark as “the worst day of life” and moved on. She enjoyed a respite and beat breast cancer, her hair grew back and life was good again. But three years later the pain in her neck became more and more noticeable and a visit to the doctors told her the cancer had come back and had spread to her bones. The cancer this time seemed to take more out of her, the chemo seemed harder and more sapping and, despite her assurances to the contrary, my brother and I felt a sense of foreboding about it, as if this time there was no happy ending. Chemotherapy took a huge toll on her, the hair loss, the use of a wheelchair for the first time, the sheer fragility of it all lead me to believe that this was one battle too far. Her doctor told us to enjoy what time we had with her, which hardly endured him to us, and we braced ourselves for the worst. Three years later she was still with us, defying the odds and displaying a sense of fun and bravery that could only be described as awe inspiring. We all find the smallest things frustrating or annoying, rain when there’s no umbrella, queues, work, money but when you’re in pain and you don’t want your son to worry or you smile when you want to cry, then those small things mean nothing; Less than nothing, amoebas on fleas on rats and Frenchie said in Grease. When the doctors stopped her chemotherapy in June the writing was on the wall. In the end her health deteriorated rapidly and within two months she was bed ridden and so weak she could barely talk. During the last few days of her life she drifted in and out of consciousness, one of the last things she said to me was how I rated Nigel Adkins. I told her he'd be the man to take us up. She smiled. She passed away in her sleep two days later... I mention all of this as two and a half years ago I wrote in these very pages of my desire to raise a million pounds for cancer research. I had contacted the club to ask for their help to raise that money. I never asked for money, not even time but help in regards to collecting money on club property. I’d written a letter and several emails and phone calls but never received so much as a photocopied “thanks, but no thanks” letter from the club and when I did receive a letter from them it was a season ticket renewal form. It destroyed any faith I had in the club. It took the arrival of Nicola Cortese and Markus Leibherr at the club to restore that faith and bring me back to St Marys. The joy they brought to my mother when she attended her last game at St Marys, the pre season game against Ajax, was immeasurable and for that I will always be grateful. To Nicola Cortese I issue a challenge; more than ever I want to raise a million pounds for cancer research. More than ever I want to deny some family the same pain and utter desolation that I feel right now. More than ever I am prepared to dedicate my time to do that. I ask Nicola Cortese, could you be too? Could you help me to help someone else? My email address is darenwheeler@yahoo.com and my phone number can be obtained via the Echo. Help me to make some sense of the unutterable pain I feel right now. Cancer robbed my mum of her who she was, it took her identity, at times it took her dignity and in the end it took her life. But it never took her soul, it never took her sense of humour, her sense of life and above all it never took that light from her eye. I pray to god, dear reader, that it never takes yours... Goodnight Mum, and god bless....

Then I think the club were a bit liberal with the truth. Why has Pardew said nothing? Maybe because he he can't without looking really bad? I think Reed is a red herring here and the more I hear from reasonably credible people, the more I think Pardew had to go...

Agree Wes, the silence from Pardew is deafening... but so is it from Cortese. The more I hear the more I believe he was right but he has to say something if not to just clear his name. The fact that we've heard jack from Pardew tells me the rumours are right (from Saints AND Hammers fans..) I won't be boycotting, I'll be there on Saturday as for me, I think my mum would want me to. Nothing will be gained from staying away from St Marys...

But it's not though Alpine is it? You did criticise fans for not budgetting and having to prioritise without remembering that the club had promised fans that installment plans and half season tickets would still be available and did so right up until the prices were released. Why are people being labelled as anti Cortese when they question him? I am in no way shape or form anti him, if it were not for him we'd have no club, and that's a fact. But that doesn't make him faultless and mistakes have been made.... Season tickets probably the worst of them... I'd remind you that people on here cricised me for saying the sacking of Pardew "de-railled" our promotion bid. Having heard something about the issue on here I'd agree with the dissmisal but not the way it was handled and I think it has well and truly blown things for us.. The truth needs to be told there I think, to hell with reputations... And before some tosser accuses me of "enjoying the plight" I'd say I want us to not only to win it for Markus, but win it for my mum... And Alps, your timing sucked but I appreciate the words... Thank you...

How do I feel? I feel disgusted, anyone would, that's not the issue. Did half season ticket holders default? Oh no, they paid in full. Did the club not promise to uphold those payment options? Yes they did Did the club not give fans no time whatsoever to find the funds to pay for their season tcikets? They they did. Did you, quite disgustingly and shamefully, berate fans for not being able to magic £400 out of they backsides for tickets and lecture them about managing their finances? Yes you did. Those are the issues... Don't try and paint me as some deluded irrational anti Corteseite as I am not. I'm simply someone who has the balls to point out if something's wrong rather than bury my head in the sand and not question things. How do I feel? I feel that if Nicola Cortes makes a wrong decision I will say something. When he makes a right decision I will say something. What I will say is that despite the fact I'm grieving and in absolute pain, I won't rise to the bait and seek an argument... That's what I feel....

It is with the very greatest sadness that must advise you all that my mum passed away peacefully in her sleep on Sunday after battling bone cancer for the best part of 3 years. No pain, no suffering she just quietly passed away in the home she loved so much... A season ticket holder for 15 years until cancer robbed her of her ability to make it to games, her last game was the Ajax pre-season match from last year. A fair few people on here knew her and everyone who met her at St Marys will attest to her love of Saints. During the last few days of her life she drifted in and out of consciousness, one of the last things she said to me was how I rated Nigel Adkins. I told her he'd be the man to take us up. She smiled. She passed away in her sleep two days later... I will miss her fun and laughter more than I can possibly describe. Goodnight mum and god bless...

So let me get this straight, the chairman sacks a manager 3 games into the season, won't tell a soul why (if it's gross misconduct or lack of ability), doesn't utter a word as to when his replacement might arrive, offers the job to Adkins but refuses to pay any compensation leaving said manager rather stuffed... and we're annoyed at Radio Solent for upping our expectations??? Jesus wept... Just what will it take for some people on here to question the chairman?

You do make me laugh, you are without a doubt the most ridiculous prat on this or any other messageboard. You lack of self awareness is staggering. Chip on my shoulder? You've got a fricking field of potatoes on yours! How on earth can you criticise anyone for being whiney, moany, negative or having a chip on their shoulder??? Amazing.. I actually laughed at that one.. You sit on here, with the benefit of not going to games, criticising players you've never seen, commenting on games you've never watched and telling us the gospel according to Alpine Saint, starting threads and generally wallowing in the notoriety you generate. You love the attention but hate it when people snipe back... It's pathetic. And before anyone leaps to Alpine's defence stating his location is irrelevant, let me say this... The moment you start to criticise the club, the players, the managers then I think people are fully entitled to criticise you. The fact that this moaning whinging **** doesn't even see the games/players/managers he criticises just makes his points ridiculous. It's like me saying the new Brad Pitt film is crap just because Jonathan Ross said so on Film 2010. How many times have any of you been to a game, quite enjoyed it only to have someone on here savage it as the "worst game he's seen in ages"? Surely you have to see a game to say whether or not it was shyte? You have to see a player before you determine he's rubbish surely? Not in Alpine world you don't... Now I'm not saying people who don't go to games are somehow lesser fans (That's always their retort when you criticise their attendance and they run and hide behind other fans) but surely when it comes to having a go and starting threads rubbishing players/managers/games you have to have seen the game before you pass comment? Even if it's on tv?? As the9 stated, there are other things going on in a game that commentators often don't pick up.. In the meantime I'll just thank Alan Pardew for one of the best days out of my life and wish him the best. I pity the next manager. For all his faults, Pardew was one of the better managers we've had over the last five or six years and yet has been the victim of truly vile hate campaign from the likes of Alpine and co. No proof, not one jot of actual proof and yet he's some sort of sexual athlete who ****ged half the first teams wives and deserves the sack. If he did then yes, he deserves the sack but we have people on here slagging the man off with no actual proof other than "Mate of a mate who works at St Marys told me..." Did he make mistakes? Hell yeah. Was he this terrible manager that deserves a whole thread devoted to criticising him? Hell no. Not even Poortvielt or Wotte got that. He did an ok job, he picked up a club that on it's knees, devoid of any confidence and had a losing mentality engrained into it. To turn that around, avoid relegation, overcome a 10 point penalty, win a trophy and come that close to a playoff place is something to be admired surely? Every sports journalist in the country thinks so, Alpine Saints doesn't.... How every sad and how very predictable... Who knows more? Sports journalist who to a man have criticised Pardew's sacking or some twonk in Austria who never watches a game?? Sometimes, from the behaviour of some posters on here, I really do believe we get the sort of club that some sort of fans deserve.... Hang your heads in shame...