Ken Tone

Actually, he will have been made a "member of the civil division of the *most excellent* order of the British Empire". And, yes he's a good bloke, who I imagine will have been rightly proud to accept it when he was asked a few weeks ago.

Quite, plus Giggs's character and reputation wouldn't fit with a family club, even if he were a proven manager. I can't understand why his name is being bandied about

Who said anything about the reserves? Just make him stay and pick him for the first team. Like I said, he's not going to refuse to play, or sulk for 5 years.

No. If they've signed a 5 year contract, then **** 'em yes, but by making them stay. What he's going to do.? Refuse to play for 5 years?

Think thee was some talk previously that Lander were hoping for a rule change to allow their takeover to go ahead.

This ^ . Mcqueen offers more going forward IMO.

not clear when that article was written? (There's a reference to the current campaign nearing the end) but but in any event it does makes sense that puel's future is linked to the possible takeover. I can't see any other reason for this speculation to be allowed to continue .

Time he had a song.

This

It may well be true that Bertrand and a dew others want out. I have no inside knowledge. However, I imagine that EVERY club has a few players who want out, every season. This is football, not real life.

FFP doesn't seem to be working. If you're rich enough, you'll find a way found it. And yes, there's easily enough money coming into football for PL clubs to be self - sustaining, but not to progress into the the top few, especially with some others clubs spending way above their sustainable means. We get sucked into the players wages 'arms race'.

Some reassuring stuff in that article too........ "Even if Lander and Gao are given the green light, it is believed there is more than one other offer on the table and Lander is not the preferred option.."

Renewed last week but couldn't renew parking season ticket at the same time. Sounds as if they're messing about with the car parks again. Puts off old gits like me.

Exactly. Should have been a free kick to us, not a second corner.

Exactly. And I have emailed customer services. Anyone else who feels the same please do so too.

Is it just me or was the p.a. system at St Mary's even louder today? The music before the game was deafening in the Kingsland .... uncomfortably so ... and it just killed any pre-match atmosphere. Couldn't hear any crowd noise at all until the game was kicking off.

Reminiscing was much better in the old days!

The days of regular 3pm Saturdays are long gone, and, far enough, other times aren't so bad IF we get reasonable notice . It's the late changes that annoy me. Makes it impossible to plan anything in advance during the season. Here we are now with 2 games to be rearranged before the middle of May and yet we won't know until the end of March at the earliest when they'll be played. Fans come last nowadays. One day football will kill its golden goose.

This comes up time and time again. The split singing 'end' is because of St Mary's being a new ground. At most clubs , as segregation came in donkeys years ago, the away support was placed at the far end from the already existing home 'kop'. At St Mary's the away support was and is fixed by policing issues, then with no traditional home end, the home fans chose to congregate around them. There really is no way to fix this now.

Yes, thanks. Had same email.

Thanks for the replies.

Have booked seats on a coach from Winchester as the nearest pick up point to where I live, and the tickets have arrived, but they don't say where in Winchester. Haven't been on an official saints coach since the semi final at Villa Park, but then they picked up on the Broadway , near the King Alfred statue. Does anyone know if that is the standard place in Winchester nowadays please, to save me trying to get through to the club on the phone? Got a vague feeling they used to pick up from the Tesco car park once upon a time?

i don't know anything about us bloke apart from having heard his name a few times. Genuine question ..... How does he come to be a free agent then?

good idea. Thanks

Had a fraught time myself. Got on to the website fairly easily, chose tickets, 'purchased' ,then at the final stage it said there was a problem with my transaction, my basket was empty but I may have been charged, and to contact the club. £230 maybe down the drain and no tickets apparently. 35 minutes of loud phone muzak later, finally got a human being who said the error message was wrong and we had got tickets. So, ok in the end, I *think*, but I'll be a bit nervous till the tickets actually arrive.