Pat from Poole

I think there's more chance of Cortese leaving before Adkins.

I want us to go up, as Cheats fans will be incredibly bitter about it.

Maple Leaff is open from 9.30am.

Have to say, as soon as the final whistle blew that day, I ran straight down the steps and sprinted back to the Maple Leaff for a few beers. Couldn't be doing with clapping the team after their pathetic second-half "performance" on that day against a United team who had nothing to play for, and I had even less inclination to want to hang around to watch adults crying in the stands, FFS.

I have re-read what you said. Regardless, I fail to understand why people faff about on their phones when other games are on. As Adkins says, "control the controllables", you can't control other games' scores, but you can help Saints by singing yourself hoarse and cheering them on and making it intimidating for the oppo.

Have to say, I wouldn't trust Nugent to do us a favour.

Just re-read what you said. About checking in on Facebook etc, this wasn't on getting in to the ground, this was through the last 15 minutes of the game when we were losiing and really needed to give the team a lift.

What other scores? QPR v Tottenham??!!!???

I thought Chaplow getting injured was a big turning point in the game, we had been pretty dominant from half-time onwards until he got injured.

Personally I was far more offended by being surrounded by a number of fans who spent much of the game mucking about with their mobile phones rather than vocally supporting the team. It totally baffles me why people travel all that way to faff about with their iPhones and Blackberry phones when they can do that any time of the week.

Suppose it makes sense given how soon the play-offs come round.

Completely agree.

They used to have a good pool team in that boozer when I used to play a lot of pool back in the day.

Another problem with the Prem. Our away fans would get more grief from stewards and OB at home grounds for standing up.

Really interesting. Common theme seems to be that whilst everybody wants the best for Saints as a club, a lot of us are pretty anxious about the reality of being in the Prem, mainly in terms of enjoying the day at the football. I have to say that I largely echo these concerns. Though from a personal perspective, family reasons mean that I've only been to about 10 games this season, and in the Prem every game will be available on the Internet, so if we go up I'll probably go a lot less than I have this season. And this could be Cortese's dilemma when it comes to ticket prices, as a lot of people may get alienated by the sanitised plasticness of the Prem. That said, I'll be really gutted if Saints don't go up this season.

Maple Leaff open from mid-day apparently; that's a bit late, so the Red Lion looks a more likely bet.

Lost at Cardiff with him playing, I'm sure of it.

Yeah, or before 6.45pm tonight, I was told this yesterday on the phone when trying to swap my Block 40 tickets for the Cheats game which I had ordered on Sunday for tickets in blocks 1-3, which they wouldn't let me do; even though the woman on Sunday on the phone line cocked up by telling me that blocks 1-3 weren't on sale for the Cheats game, when she should have said for Doncaster.

Maybe they were only on sale to people who went to the ticket office in person, I couldn't get them on the phone and had to settle for Northam block 40 instead.

Just rung up. Annoying that the Itchen Corner blocks are not being made available yet.

Think it was just his total lack of pace that did for him sadly. You could say that right-backs like Jason Dodd weren't that quick, but in terms of positional sense and nous, Dodd was a great right-back.

I was wondering about this. Does anybody know the answer on this?

I thought he looked very promising. Good movement, first touch, bit of pace. Better than I was expecting actually.

Oh OK, sorry, I didn't realised he had played for them. Apologies. To go back to your first point, who can predict? If our top players are coming back into a side which is low on confidence, then they may themselves may well not be so effective when they return. I just get the feeling that it needs something else to kick-start the season, a fresh face to really make a difference, Puncheon could qualify for this, but the bloke just seems so unpredictable I'd hate to have to be his boss.

With respect and all, this is utter hogwash. Relying on Puncheon and a Japanese striker and Spanish midfielder who have never played in England before to pull us out of our declining form is at best a very risky strategy.