InvictaSaint

At last some common sense; the hysteria on here is embarassing. I propose we merge S-Clarke and DUbai Phil and then maybe - just maybe - people will see why we just all need to be a little more patient.....

We have already spent more on one player than any other team in our league - a player who scored more goals than any other league player last season AP has already signalled his intent to bring in more players, 1 or 2 before Saturday's game AP and DW are currently having to do pretty much everything between them, whilst a decision on a sporting director is made Throwing money at Saints is not a recipe for success; we have seen before the folly of this approach. I think everybody needs to sit back and be just a tad more patient. It's becoming quite embarassing on here with the forum going into meltdown everytime our demands (spend £5M, get 8 more players in today, get rid of so-and-so) are not met. We have a club - something which was not assured only a few short weeks ago - and the people in charge are working their way towards getting Saints back where they belong. But this takes time; be patient.

http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~1756190,00.html

Can't find any info on this anywhere on the interweb.....

Rasiak on bench tonight (OS)

Teams in: Rasiak and Perry on bench, Lancashire and Lambert in.

Ha Ha! Great montage for Pompey's new man! If you understand the French it is even funnier!

Joe Jordan

Well now you really are ITK Ponty, as Ricky and I will be doing a celebratory tribute version of Renee and Renata's "Saving all my love for you" at the Red Lion karaoke night this evening (7.30 p.m. K.O - ROAR)

I don't know if anybody else has mentioned this yet, but Pinnacle's offices - if memory serves - were on the Avenue, just down from the Cowherds. Well, if that was the case, then it certainly isn't the case any more; walked past them on Saturday and no sign of Pinnacle anywhere.....

I thought that was rather good Arizona even if nobody else got it ;-)

I would add to this that I find it hypocritical and not a little ironic that people choose to single out immigrants for verbal and physical attack, labelling them as freeloaders, when every day I drive past many of this country's finest indigenous youth doing the square root of **** all and then complaining that their benefits don't stretch to 20 Marlboro a day, an XBox 360 and a Plasma TV. Perhaps we should look a little closer to home at a generation of British people either too lazy, or too comfortable to seek/do work whilst the immigrants they and others seek to criticise are actually trying to achieve something.

Why are we talking to Notlob?

If you liked City of God, which is indeed excellent, try and watch the documentary Bus 174 which chronicles the consequences of one individual's abandonment by Rio's authorities as he makes his way out of the Favelas to hijack a bus full of commuters. Absolutely riveting throughout.

Very good. Just in case anybody is interested - pauses - the extract is from a superb German film called "Downfall". Well worth seeing if you are a film and / or history buff.

Can we call it a schism? I feel we need some old school religious factions on the forum :-)

Possibly the most sensible, rational, intelligent, head-screwed-on-properly post of recent weeks and most certainly the most reasonable explanation of the current situation. Oh for a few more Pandas and fewer drama queens. Nobody minds a good debate - quite the opposite! - but some of the ill-informed hysteria on here at the moment is mind-boggling. We have gone from almost having no club to having a club with a successful owner and a brighter future. Incredible that anybody can find something to complain about in that respect.

They have always been my lucky charm on the way round the M25 from Kent down to SMS. The more "Saints" lorries I see, the greater our margin of victory. It's worked well for me, I feel.... :-)

Terribly sorry - didn't realise we'd been introduced. Judging from your intellectually astute riposte, you must be here to tell me which part of what I said is untrue; or did I miss that bit?

To my mind, not treating the supporters as morons there to sate a cashflow need, not referring to them [us] as customers, not holding up a piece of paper at an AGM claiming that it is a letter congratulating you on the wonderful job you are doing, and not going down the road of employing a fourth-rate, inexperienced coach whose hands are tied and who is told to play only kids, whilst at the same time not bull****ting the fanbase that we are destined for glory......is definitely evidence of doing things more professionally.

I don't imagine for one minute that ML has bought Saints simply to see it ticking over as a run-of-the-mill League 1 club. He has already stated his intention to see the club back to where it belongs (PL) and again I cannot imagine that he is naive enough to believe that this will happen wihout any investment whatsoever. My feeling is that when action is required (i.e. his manager comes to him and says that we desperately need such or such a player to push on) that he will listen, and in the majority of cases - since AP is his appointment - he will grant the request. This isn't going to be a short-term effort and we will need to be patient, but when push comes to shove I believe we will have more up our sleeves than any other team in this league. Thus far, I am impressed by what I have - or perhaps that should be have not! - heard from our new owners, as they get on with things quietly, efficiently and professionally; all of which we have almost forgotten about given the last 10 years of mismanagement of one sort and another.

Best call so far IMO; wasn't he canned by the FA recently though?

Waldorf and Stadtler?

http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/articles/crouchdealagreed270709.html P*mpey fans on their message board going bonkers about the fact the Spurs site put up this info before their own OS....

Not sure of motive for news embargo, but I doubt any of us could claim that there has been a steady flow of news coming out of SMS since ML took charge. They, quite rightly, appear to be keeping their own counsel on important matters until such time as a deal is done or a decision made. As for your second point Nick, I don't live in the Southampton area any more so don't know if there is more in the paper Echo than online but if I am playing devil's advocate I could say that the Cortese (sp?) quotations could have been delivered to a wider audience than just the Echo and picked up at the press conference. ALso, when re-reading the Oldknow article on the Echo site today it is noticeable that there is not a single direct quotation. All of which, I suppose, could lend a degree of credence to the original poster's claim of a news embargo. Just passing on what I saw. As I say I have no knowledge of the poster or his/her authenticity / reliability, but felt it was interesting and detailed enough to merit cutting and pasting.