Alain Perrin

My brother works at the printers. There was a **** up with the order and they didn't get done. NC was mega ****ed apparently.

It smells fishy to me. The bigger the debt gets (boosted by newly declared interests by Gaydamack / Chenrai etc.), the smaller the percentage that creditors like HMRC hold becomes. The upshot of this is that HMRC will have less ability to block a CVA - hence, I suspect, why it passed.

In fairness I'd welcome a Dodd / Gorman dream back over Pardew any day of the week.

I reckon we make about £7.5m per annum from tickets. I seem to remember a stat that said the average take from tickets was £15 (once you take into account concessions etc.). It would be interesting to know what the wage bill is but as we're not a PLC anymore I'm not sure we'll find out that info. I wouldn't think we're paying more than £8K a week to top names, but it is a crazy sport, so who knows. I think the Ward experience probably tells us we're on the sensible side of extravagant. Not having a mortgage clearly helps, as does hospitality and balti pies etc.

To suggest their is some referee conspiracy to do Southampton down is laughable at best. There are good referees and bad referees and they get assessed like you wouldn't believe to try and moderate them to a consistent enforcement of the laws. But they're human and will be standing in the wrong place, looking in the wrong direction or make the wrong marginal call. It happens, suck it up. We've had marginal calls / bad decisions made in our favour, but it's natural that we wouldn't remember them as much as the decisions that rile us.

he's a private man, leave him be

The replay shows the offence starting outside of the box (just) so it rightly wasn't a penalty. Close call though. Regardless, it was a great free kick.

My selfish reason for wanting Pompey to survive is that if they don't we don't have a real derby.

It's immoral to suggest Saints shouldn't have a points deduction this season regardless of who/what/where/when triggered administration. Effectively our new owner got a £x million reduction in the asset value of the club because of the administration. That saving means he has more to budget for players etc. So, in my opinion, regardless of what the rules say, a ten point reduction which has an impact (not something meaningless a la Pompey) is fair and proper.

Ain't going to happen. Sent by my c*ck, using TappyB*llocks.

.. but he does look like a monkey

Agree. Trade descriptions act and all that. It's not like it's rocket surgery either.

I think it's a disgrace. I won't be satisfied with 100%, he needs to be 110% committed at least.

Oh and Kevin Phillips is an overhyped player. One great season with Sunderland and then the premiership defenders found him out. I was dismayed when we signed him.

How accurate is that though? Or rather how much is myth put about as part of the Lowe slagfest? I'd heard two versions: - DD was being touted around at 1.5m, and RL would only approve 1m. - Strachan rejected Drogba because he 'was too similar to Beattie'. Without hype or prejudice I'd like to know the answer. Does anyone know the truth?

I think it is too simplistic to say 'you should always play x-x-x', sometimes different formations suit different opposition / available players / surfaces / weather conditions. We've developed as a team over the year so to declare two 'early' defeats (Swindon & Huddersfield) as 'case closed' over 4-5-1 is a bit premature. I think Saints do, with the players available (specifically Morgan) play better as 4-4-2. This doesn't however mean we should play it every time.

I think the booing is understandable, but not for the reasons you are getting irate about. It is quite obvious that Cortese is Alpine_Saint. Let's look at the facts: - Veiled criticism of Pardew at every opportunity. - They both have unrealistic expectations - Austria / Switzerland - what's the difference - 'Alpine_Saint' knows everything about how the team played (even though he's not there - the only explanation is that his alter ego Cortese was watching). Q.E.D. - Alpine_Saint is Cortese. That's why I was booing.....

The stadium wasn't actually as expensive as people make out. Pound for pound it cost about the same as the Millenium stadium. The main difference being that: - the land for Wembley cost £250m. - roads and workings around the ground another £200m In Cardiff there weren't those costs as all the land was owned by the council already. Also the contractor got stung for a large part of it because they had a fixed price contract. That hurt, especially when they ordered the wrong sized steels expensive mistake!

I agree. He should have read the teamsheet when it was made available to him last Wednesday.....

I'm sorry to ask the obvious question, but were you there? I will never suggest Pardew is the messiah, but from the above your understanding of football seems to be lacking. Swindon's game plan was to put two men on Lallana / Puncheon as soon as they got the ball. This stifled the outlet for the midfield leading to (Hammond in particular) hoofing it. Pardew's issue is that the team plays well a particular way and they need to add variety to their locker. That's not something they've done to date, but it's something they'll have to do to succeed next season. First half we were all over them and unlucky not to have one or two (a different game then), second half we got rattled and rushed things. One thing is for certain, if Pardew had subbed Lambert after his knock (from which he recovered) then you'd have been slagging him for taking off our top scorer. In reality he did what he could - he brought on Papa for pace and James for a more atttacking RB option. Neither worked out, but those were constructive changes.

You clearly missed the first half then. We were all over them, hit the post, the bar, had 4 cleared off the line. Crucially we didn't score. Lloyd James is not as good an attacking option as Semi. However, he is a better attacking option than Thomas. He wasn't match sharp though and his crossing was woeful. I do feel that was a throw of the dice though.

Excuse my spelling - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panna_cotta

Swindon weren't the better side on Tuesday. They survived an onslaught in the first half and then got their noses ahead. That said they were professional, put two men on Puncheon and Lallana whenever they got the ball, battled and, with a little luck, deserved the points. There will always be poor results, even in a league winning side. ManU got beaten by Leeds for example, Chelsea by Wigan. To think that you won't or can't lose, will result in you losing. If you take the first 10 games out of the picture, our form has been excellent. More blips than we'd like but, with a bit of tightening, enough to do a Norwich or a Leeds (FWIW I think Leeds will end up in the playoffs). However, to answer your questions. There's one thing we shouldn't do, and one thing we should. Shouldn't: Ditch Pardew. Anyone who suggests as such is more reactionary than Rupert Lowe. A new manager would bring instability, want to play in a new way and require new players / gelling time etc. etc. Should: Vary the system. This is the pana cota. We should be able to play a different way than relying on Pucheon and Lallana. An approach for cancelling play like Swindons and for turnip patch pitches. Easy isn't it.

Tell that to my brother who lost an eye from a stone thrown at him by some tossers rucking at a Wolves game in the 90's. He was just passing, hadn't even been to the game.

The first part of your post was informative. Pity the second part decends into negativity.