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You've seen Pardew's phone?

Hi Danny, Thanks for taking the time to explain the mechanics. I'm what you might call a middle of the road Saints fan - in other words I tend to see both sides of any discussion point (or, as my wife calls it: 'sitting on the fence'! I hear what you say about 'SISA' or the 'Saints Trust' being treated the same as any Saints fan who declares an interest in making their views available for media publication but the point people are making about these 'organisations' are that your average reader WILL attribute a significant element of gravitas to the views being portrayed by such an 'organisation' as it is human nature to see an acronym and or name of a group and make the logical leap that they are formally representing a significant number of fans. I can believe it when you say that the Echo don't overtly set out to raise the profile of these so called organisations when you represent them in an article but it's all about public perception and when the public see an article quoting these organisations they will perceive them to be officially recognised institutions whether you set out to portray that or not. Perhaps the best thing to do for balance is to print a footnote at the bottom of any fan initiated article with a one liner along the lines of: organisation 'x' has 'n' members so that people can clearly see how many people then purport to represent. Just a view from a fence sitter!

The more important question is: do they genuinely believe they are representing the views of saints fans (i.e. A form of delusion) or do they know they're not but for some kind of personal crusade consciously decide to carry on as if they do?

Ask Danny who posts on here?

I wrote this on the match thread after the game last night: We've had these post match player rallying call articles on the OS since the advent of time. Not predictable in the slightest..... sigh..... p.s. It's the cat I feel sorry for when I get home from work this evening....

Would be interested to know the reason for the relatively low goal tally between 2006 - 2008. Maybe he was out injured? A more informative list would be a percentage 'per game' strike rate.

I do like a shrewd manager.... ;-)

Indeed. Here was the official saints twitter message at half time: officialsaints: Half time from stadium:mk MK Dons 0-0 Southampton. Somehow level at the break, Saints playing with fire in their bellies! #saintsfc They didn't send one out after the game funnily enough!

Yup

Assume we kept the receipt from the medics for a refund....?

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/berr.gov.uk/whatwedo/consumers/buying-selling/sale-supply/page8599.html

That's exactly the type of player we're missing! Cheque book time Mr Cortese...

Do you ghost write those player OS articles per chance...?! ;-)

Look on the bright side....we now stand a better chance of playing Pompey next season....

If there's an OS article tomorrow from a Saints player saying "we must do better, it's down to us, it's only a matter of time before we go on winning run" I will kick the cat into next door's garden. Don't wheel out any players for a hollow rallying call until we've won a few games.... FFS.

Twitter before the game: officialsaints: Aaron Martin misses out today with a back injury. On the bench tonight are Bart, Jaidi, Wotton, Mills, Holmes, Dickson and Guly #saintsfc

How did we beat Bristol Rovers 4-0 the other week? Can't we simply play like that again?

Didn't we outplay them in the first half though?

Get your cheque book and phone out THIS EVENING Mr Cortese. FFS

Ffs

What station?

Little old us? Giants?

Benali.....didn't he used to play 'leftback'....?

Was 'leftback' there......?

I've just checked and it's bloody £52 quid to see Chicago at the theatre tonight. I was going to go but that's just a rip off for 2 hours of entertainment.....