Alain Perrin

Bull****. If you know a way to play two players in one position please do tell, because I'm sure Fergie could use your services.

Decent enough, but I think he's a bit of a red card waiting to happen.

What a crap thread. I wasn't there either. My seat was empty, have I ripped up my seaon ticket? Feel free to speculate. Stuart Dennis isn't my cup of tea, but he does a job - better than Osman in my opinion. Personally I think we hit a new low when that bloke from Eastenders was crooning on the pitch. It's no wonder we went into admin when we were ****ing money up the wall on that. Bring back the Saintettes I say, our lowest days started when they were removed.

I'm off to text Solent to ask why Bournmouth get less coverage than Saints when they are above them in the table...... oh......

With respect Alpine that's got **** all to do with it. Games are 90 minutes and no team wins every minute - it is the score at 5pm that counts - you fire up the Adkins out / Saints are crap / we're doomed band wagon if we lose the first throw in. All we are saying is give Saints a chance.

Why do the suicide squad (Alpine et al) think games only last 30mins? There were people commenting on how **** Saints were even after 30mins - get a grip on reality FFS. COYR. Sounds like Fonte and Guly had a good game today and hopefully Lambert's strike is the first of many in 2011.

Referees get a bad rep from fans when (most of the time) it is down to players using kidology to win penalties, get players carded or sent off. Witness the Sky commentators bemoaning the fact that the ref 'fell for that' when a player dives - why isn't the player being criticised. Yes, refs make mistakes but they don't have the benefit of super slo-mo replays - and get grief no matter what decision they make. It's not something I would want to do.

Totally ineffective. Can't tackle, plays too many square balls. He went missing today and didn't make enough runs into the box.

Agreed. We should get rid of that Kelvin Davis guy too. His goal scoring record is abysmal. There are few facts in life, but one that is undeniable is that Saints fans never appreciate a defensive midfielder (Matt Oakley was the worst player to grace the shirt (la, la, la) until he was injured and left). You don't want your DM to be 'getting forward' a la Chaplow - because it leaves a big hole if the attack breaks down. The role is never going to be spectacular, but it is important. I rate Morgan, I don't think he's the greatest in the world (to compare to Scholes or Svensson is stupid), but for our level and above he's a very good player. He's still young and will play at a higher level, hopefully with Saints.

LOL at the most stupid statement ever.

Pity. I liked the Pardew Sacked article. I miss it.

That's not really the point Steve on two counts: 1) It matters not whether something is being used if you sold it. I don't begrudge the salesman who sold me my car if I don't drive it (but I do if it won't start). 2) Having an old news item on the frontpage (particularly one so obviously old) effectively says the site is shut for business, therefore the forum suffers as well. The casual visitor won't bother going beyond the front page. But, in fairness, it's not as if much newsworthy has happened since the Pardew was sacked.... oh....

Forum posta in bad gramma slur shock

Does anyone know a way to get the Saints Player to work on the Iphone. I've got Fstream which should allow me to, but finding the URL of the stream has proven difficult. Any ideas?

Shilts probably had a tenner on it...

1) Stadium - regardless of the why's and wherefores, Lowe had a significant part to play in the construction of the stadium and, as someone else pointed out, it's that infrastructure that made us an attractive prospect for investors. 2) Negotiation - we got some bargains under Lowe and also sold for top dollar. Probably lost a few too by playing hardball but who really knows. Personal favorite cash cow was Kevin Davis plus Theo Walcot (good value for a player out of contract although his parents probably had a lot to do with that) 3) Played by the rules - It didn't get much publicity but Lowe paid Swindon £100K from Walcot's transfer owing from when we took him from them. They'd forgotten about it and, considering they were cash strapped, it helped a lot. 4) Turned Saints in to a business - Unpopular, yes. Necessary, certainly. 5) Cup Final 2003 - every member of the club deserves credit for their part in this. Thanks for the memories. Yes there were plenty of negatives too, but a balanced, dispassionate view says RL delivered a lot for the club. At the time of his ousting I remember several people saying I wish we had so and so instead (Simon Jordan's name came up more than once). Most of the names mentioned there were chancers who are long gone leaving their teams with memories of big names but a ****hole of a stadium. At least when RL left we had an infrastructure we can build on.

We could map it. Or we could move on....

It's despicable. Cortese should have come out cleanly to the paper saying that Pardew's position was under consideration, it was likely that he would be sacked and that he didn't have the full support of the owner/manager. Then he should have kept him on as he did..... 'cos that would be good wouldn't it? What happened is called playing the game with the press. I would expect every chairman / owner to review, every year, whether the manager is doing the business. They then make a decision on that. What I wouldn't expect is for the contents of that meeting to be in the press because it would be twisted to make a better story. Best therefore to say nothing / ill-informed / **** off. Semantics, but if the situation had been considered and a decision made then any speculation as to his future is ill-informed because the matter has been resolved. So in reality it's not even lying.

Your golden balls aside, I do think the fact that Joe Public can't post has/is killing the board. It wouldn't be so bad if the mods posted a statement of accounts let the fee payers (of which I was, but am no longer) what it is costing to run. Sadly I think they are too busy sunning themselves in Barbados on the profits from this golden goose (hence why the website is still reporting Pardew sacked). It's well known fact that they spent the recent subs on numerous nights out in Southampton's premier pole dancing establishment. Now is that libel or humour. It's a fine line

Face facts losers. Kingsland block 30 is the new Northam. It's da bomb.

I disagree. There are plenty of opportunities to fund the forum that don't involve a standing charge. I know it is only £5 but it is a barrier to entry. I don't know how many paying users and I don't know how much the dedicated server is costing. However, there are but there are plenty of hosting options that could deliver a board of this size on ad funding / adhoc contributions and, especially now, cloud based solutions that would scale with demand. It doesn't matter how dedicated your server is if you've got no visitors.

Personally I think the death knell of this forum was sounded when it started charging. That in turn stopped occasional posters starting threads and just left the diehards (often with their agendas). It's a vicious circle that reduces the throughput of the forum. Just my opinion. But forums are all about critical mass.

To be honest I don't know any of you from Adam. However, I have deduced the following things about being a poster on here: - you need an ability to be selectively outraged - you need to be blind to motives - you need to see things as very black and white - you need to believe gossip as fact if it supports your opinion - you need to be able to not only jump on, but steer a bandwagon to your desired destination. And, at the end of the day, you need to be able to argue like schoolgirls over next to nothing. For the record, Manji (who I do not know), refered to Mike Osman as a freeloader relating to the time Wilde, Crouch and Hone (or Hoos-ever it was) were in charge. Much as it suits Derry et al. to claim, I don't think that Manji was commenting on the very valuable charity work MO is obviously doing now or then. I believe there were (unsubtantiated) claims about how much he was being paid for his pre-match work and, equally, LMac was also under fire for that. Was their pay justified? I don't know Is it largely irrelevant now? Yes Is being frozen out likely to irk them a little / a lot? Almost without doubt. Just like posters on here, L.Mac / MLT have opinions - often in areas of which they have little informed experience. But, unlike posters on here, their opinions have consequences. Unless they have substance as opposed to hearsay, I'd like (more in hope than expectation) for them to moderate them for the good of my club.

I suggest listening to some music. "Have a Little Patience", "Rome wasn't built in a day" etc. We're having a blip. A disruptive blip, in an important season, but a blip. Last year we went through with a minimum of injuries / suspensions and this seems to have caught up with us. However, given the money we have spent and the players that showed their ability last year, I am still confident that we will prevail. Personally I wouldn't swap our financial position, infrastructure, team or setup for any other in L1. Happy clappy? Maybe. I call it realism.

Nice to see them teaching you how to use the internet though.