Ivan Katalinic's 'tache

Saturday is fast becoming the day, before the day, before the day when ridicule must be faced due to the football team I support.

Even Dickie Davies would do better than this current lot.

Why wait? Next home game?

F**k off Rupert, f**k off Mike "Traitor" Wilde, f**k off Jan, f**k off Dutch total football and f**k off seamless transition of youngsters into the first team. And, yes, I'm f**ked off too.

We, the fans, have always given our all but, with continued disappointments like tonight, it becomes ever harder. Unfortunately, the seamless transition of our youngsters into the first team stretches to not giving a sh*t about performances too.

Bring on Heaney, Watson and Shipperley. Only way we'll get 3 goals in the last 5 minutes again...

What we need is an ambitious, young British manager. There's a bloke at Leicester doing well, Pearson's his name, I think. D'oh... Sorry Jan - it's looking like you've wasted your money buying out your Helmond Sports contract.

Just checked the Premiership and Championship tables and can't seem to find Rotherham in either! Yet they seem to be beating us?! Cup football, eh?

He actually said we were going to try a new cistern to make sure all our hopes truly go down the pan.

Fame! I wanna live for ever...

As far as I remember, Burley got rid of Ricardo because he was on Prem money and, with only 1 year left on his contract, he didn't want to offer him a new, equally well paid deal. He had other, much less talented players to squanders those funds on! I believe he only got a mighty £100k-£150k for him, too, which is wonderful management all round really.

I can't seem to recall Port Vale's desperation to hang onto him, last year, I must admit.

I'm just glad there's now a seamless transition for youth team players to integrate fully into the first team. I just hope the scholars are able to make the leap and attain the standard set today.

Absolutely. Anyone who runs toward his own goal, looking like the petulant kid who deliberately scored own goals at school, has a serious attitude problem. God knows how he'll react if the fans were ever to really get on his back, as happened to Ricardo Fuller.

Nope. Just won't raise enough. Maybe if we throw in Rupes and David Jones we might raise a quid. What we really need is a mega rich oil billionaire (who's also willing to throw in free petrol with each season ticket bought).

Robert Mugabe, you say? He must have a few quid. Needs must and all that! No way I can sit through much more of today's tripe.

Since when did any of our recent boards have a plan?! If they have done, I've not been able to spot it!

Did anyone else there today see McG's first half tantrum? It came after he shot rather than crossed and there were chants about him being a greedy b*st*rd (I think it came from the Barnsley end but I'm not sure!). First he booted the ball away, then he dribbled towards our own goal (admittedly pursued by 2 Barnsley players but with more purpose than he did toward their goal all game) and then he stood on the halfway line, refusing to join in with our next attack. After the game, Jan mentioned on Radio Hants that one or two of his players are "a bit sweet on themselves" and they needed to lose this if we were to progress - I would presume this was aimed at McG's behaviour today. He does seem to have this air of arrogance but, seemingly, without the substance to back it up, on today's showing anyway.

It's not looking good is it? I thought the idea was to use young, less injury prone players this season, instead of the usual old crocks, but it seems that, to be a first XI Saints player, you need to know how to get injured above everything else!! Given this new (depressing) news, I'd go for: Davis Hatch, Cork, Perry, Surman Wotton, Gillett McG, Lallana, BWP Pekhart. Subs: Bart, Mills, Thomson, Dyer & John

You ask any of those clubs doing ok in the Premier League, without a home grown player in the squad, and they couldn't give a monkeys. I've got to say that I'm the same. Don't get me wrong, it's great when we do have players who come through the ranks but it's not the be all and end all for me. Equally, the style isn't that important either. Although I can't say that I'd want us to be playing as Stoke do or Watford did but I would at least accept the modicum of success they've had in doing it. Winning is everything!

Agreed but he's just had 2 weeks without a game. Might have been better to play him today and against Ipswich and then rest him against Barnsley. Or are we starting to choose our must-win games already???

Bad challenge and, whilst I've seen many an other get away with worse, it was a red. Not a good day for Mr Lancashire; a definite contender for the "Alan Bennett worst debut" award when you also consider the poor defending for the opener. Hopefully he'll learn from it, though, and come back from it stronger, as Bennett did.

Just had my pre-match team news text message and it said the above two might be in for tomorrow? Is this true or usual pre-match text BS?

For me 3 classic moments: the triple save against Arsenal, the shot against the bar against Fulham and the shoving match with Prutton against whoever it was. Fantastic keeper, great personality - shame his career was ended by injury and not on the high it deserved (i.e. coming back here and getting us promoted!!!).

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