miserableoldgit

Last season out of 46 League games we won 23, drew 14 and only lost 9 after another "traditional" slow start. 7 points from a play-off place after a 10 point deduction. That record would suggest otherwise. Please don`t play the old "turning draws into wins" card. If football was that simple or predictable, I would win the pools (do they still have those??) every week!

How do we actually KNOW that he isn`t?? Everything on this thread is rumour, conjecture and opinion. The FACTS are that we have dropped 5 points in two home games (unacceptable admittedly), and that the tranfer window is open for another few days. IF we are adrift after 10 games then APs position would/could be under threat but their is NO guarantee that anyone coming in will do any better. That is football - unpredictable. The club is as tight as a ducks ass now for information leaking out, and this has undoubtedly put some peoples noses out of joint. Even I have had information from inside the club that I have believed (and posted on here) that has proved to be wrong. By all means let`s have sensible (or otherwise) debate on here but let`s not continually analyse every word and nuance of APs interviews, put 2 and 2 together and get 5.

I don`t think that this is anything new. I`ve had an ST for many years and I think that has been the case for a long time.

David Rotheray - Life of Birds

Chewbaccy

But............. he...............has...........stopped..........doing....................this.........................................!

From last nights Speedway GP :-

Hermes

flintlock

Javert

Oscar

I think that you are being the insuting one. If Markus hadn`t turned up a year ago, I think that it would have made a whole shed-load of iotas difference to your Saints viewing. Heartless? More ignorant I would say.

More concentration I think!!

Lakota

One of the best posts that I have ever read on here. I am just a year younger than Markus and I have attended Saints matches with my daughter for many years. She is married with two children but even when her husband had an ST, she still sat with me because that`s what it always is to her - her and I going together - our time. I can relate to everything you say in this post.

How do they know what time that Sky will be there?

Do you REALLY think that people are doing this??

There is a middle aged, red-faced guy who sits in the Kingsland just off the halfway line and about 6 or 7 rows back who has been there since the stadium opened and who acts in the same way at most games. Quite funny really!

I have mixed feelings about this. Sure, I didn`t know Markus personally, but I feel very sad on a human level. Apart from the obvious gratitude that we all owe him for saving the club, he came across as a really nice genuine bloke and what particularly upsets me is seeing in my mind the picture of him on that day at Wembley wearing his Saints scarf, taking pictures of the crowd with a massive smile on his face. He was in at the start of what hopefully will be an exciting journey and now he will not be there to enjoy what he started. Over reaction? Possibly, but let everyone express their grief at his passing in their own way. There is no right or wrong way. And I make no apologies in saying "WIFM!"

I will always have a picture in my mind of Markus smiling at Wembley and taking pictures of the crowd. We only knew him for a short while, but we will always be thankful to him. My thoughts go out to his family.R.I.P

Definitely "Amen" to that!!

It`s chicken and egg though isn`t it? Do supportive fans lead to good performances or is it good performances that lead to good support? What AP was saying, IMHO, was that there is a weight of expectation on the team this year, which is possibly putting extra pressure on both him and the team. The team needs the crowd to support them even when things are not going well. Twice in the last four days part of the crowd has booed the team - firstly at the end of Saturdays game and secondly at half-time last night. This, IMHO, is very unusual for a Saints crowd. All he was saying is that the crowd needs to stick with the team through thick and thin if we are to achieve success. The majority of posters on this thread seem to agree with this so I see that as positive. I certainly do not see telling the truth as slagging off the fanbase the way that those who were booing were slagging off the team.

TBH Alps, I am not one of those who subscribe to the theory that you are just a troll or WUM. I always think of you as a miserableoldgit (!) - a glass half empty type, if you will, but I have to say the your post here sticks out like a sore thumb, on what is generally a positive and constructive thread - for a change. Can you REALLY see no positives at all in the the teams performances and AP`s management? Or is it REALLY all doom and gloom in your world?

Beige

A few years ago I was at a company do at New Place in Shirrell Heath. I hadn`t been drinking because I was driving. At the end of the evening I went to the bog before driving home. I was stood having a ****, and there was nobody else in there. I heard the door open and close and heard and "felt" footsteps walk into the toilet and walk around behind me. I really felt that some-one was there. I could see the entrance from the basin area (where the actual toilet entrance was) into the urinal area and it was obvious that there was actually no-one there. It was a weird but wonderful feeling that I genuinely was experiencing something paranormal - if thats what it was.