Pat from Poole

I haven't been to that many home games either, less than half-a-dozen, got two kids and my wife works Saturdays, was at Brentford away though. Cold night, if memory serves.

This is so true, and yet it's the best song we've had for years. It's not that hard to learn 5 lines FFS. Difficult to imagine Scousers or Mancunians having this problem, but they're hardly more intelligent, are they?

I have to say I would be surprised if Cortese was here for the long-term. He's a pretty effective operator and I'm sure that bigger outfits will be having their eye on him as a potential CEO. Unfortunately we'll probably only really know how good he actually is if and when he goes and how significantly it impacts on us.

"Only" 21,000 is a lot in Division 3. We were getting 15,000 in the Prem 9 years ago. You're always going to get a lot of people wanting to go to Wembley, particularly as we hadn't played there since it had been re-built.

Orient's support is very small, given their proximity to West Ham entirely understandable, I'd be surprised if they brought more than 1,000.

We don't have enough fans who instinctively sing, even if they have had a few pints. You can't blame the ground for that. At home games it's probably no more than 10% of the fanbase who sing through the game (though our away support is generally very good). Watching the FA Cup game against Pompey back on Sky Plus, our support was really fervent and passionate, but there wasn't much actual singing across the ground. We don't really do singing as such. We were surrounded by mutes on Sunday, if it had been a play-off final game which was of huge significance I would have been livid at the lack of vocal support, as it was "only" the JPT, it didn't seem so big a deal and I think it was more of a day out where it was nice to win.

I used to go on some of the minibuses quite regularly 10 years or so ago, and I can't believe I've only just made a link. There was a guy called Tim who used to go on the buses with Clive and Phil England, along with the likes of Graham (the Ravanelli lookalike), Stuey and various other hardened Saints fans who often followed England all over the world as well; I saw Phil for the first time in years on Sunday on the train home, top chap. Tim used to have two young nippers on the bus who would often be scrapping with each other which used to amuse the rest of us. Would one of them have been Sam Vokes??? Real shame that he isn't playing for Saints if so.

I think this was due to a problem at Bournemouth when the train divided in two. They couldn't get a driver to carry on from Bournemouth to West Dorset apparently. I was on the 20.35 from Waterloo, which got in to Poole three and a half hours later. Painful.

Mmm, the irony is that a lot of the people who like the Mexican wave are those that would be critical of the Northam lot and the regular away fans who stand at games. I can't stand the Mexican wave. I should imagine that watching that on the TV would have been by some distance the highlight of a miserable weekend for Skates fans.

Too right. What a despicable turd, how he had the nerve to show up was beyond me.

It was one of the few times that being a Saints fan living in Poole has its benefits. We were dead lucky that the 6.50 train from Poole started in, er, Poole. It was standing room only by the time it got to Totton. I think if it happened again and I lived in Southampton I would have a night out in Poole the night before, stay in one of our nice hotels, and then get the train from Poole in the morning. Just so long as not too many of you do it, cheers........

We went in the Wetherspoon pub in the O2 shopping centre by Finchley Road tube station both before and after the game. Was good in there, no probs getting served and at very reasonable prices.

Jesus, if there's 5,000 people on my train (the 6,50am from Poole), I'll consider reviewing my will tonight.

Methinks Colchester are going to regret their recent slip-ups against Walsall, Brentford and Wycombe. Two points from those three games is really not good.

Tough game, this one. They're in decent form at the moment.

If memory serves, Wycombe did the double over Millwall this season (God knows how), and they need the points so anything is possible on Saturday.

I struggle to see how you are not going to be waiting for about 15 minutes to get served in this Silverspoons place. And £10 a ticket to get in ain't cheap, it's not as if the beer is that cheap in there either.

It is a good price. If it wasn't for the probable horrendous queues after the game and that it would mean not getting the opportunity to take over Trafalgar Square to celebrate winning this magnificent competition I might have been tempted.

I believe the Falmer stadium won't be ready until the season after next according to Late Kick Off on Monday night. By which time one would imagine we could be two Leagues above them.

I think this calls for the return of Pirate Paul and the stall he used to have on Milton Road / Wilton Avenue. He used to have a lot of good stuff on his stall.

God I was there that night. Beyond shocking.

Much though I hate to empathise with them, I think a lot of Skates fans have tired of the novelty of the Prem and having to pay £35 - £40 to watch a game of football, which is an obscene price really.

Nonsense though, isn't it? What else is on the telly on a Wednesday night? On a Saturday at the end of May most people will be out on the lash and watching a boring United v Chelsea game is the last thing on their minds. Come on Barca.

Rickie Lambert is a very very good striker who has pretty much all the attributes to be a top-level striker with the one exception of pace. I don't think there's much at all between him and say, Kevin Davies, who might have had a shout of getting in the England squad a year or two ago.