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Serious question, does anyone know if ANY of Hoddles "Lost boys" actually been taken on by a team yet? Also didnt our accademy beat them anyway? :-s

Was doing pretty well for Scunny this season by all accounts!

Of course that would fly rather well if we hadnt then signed Morgan and our selection of ****e loan signings!

Alps, what do you personally get more benefit out of? The football team or the paintings? What do the majority of rate payers get to see more of? Self serving certainly but in our situation any solutions worth considering if we get to keep a club next season.

Just so you can quantify John ... why exactly was it unrealistic to have tried to move onto the next level. Now the next level for us wouldnt have been anything as stupid as the champions league but we clearly had the chance to be a solid top ten side and potentially challenging for a uefa cup spot, with a few extra decent squad additions. We had good crowds and were doing well in the league as well. As for that article, complete ******** imo as others have said ive supported saints my entire life ive never "demanded" more than us to stay in the league we're in and to occassionally have a good go at the big boys. As for merging with Pompey only a real journalistic moron could come up with something like that its almost as clever as suggesting celtic merge with Rangers or boro merging with sunderland and the toon.

You'd have thought with his undoubted business acumen e.g. being worth 100 million that he'd have known better than to blow a quarter mill on a company that was clearly just about to go into admin! Lets hope he wants to spend 50 million on us and help us take league 1 by storm!!!

Sorry mate if you're happy with that level of effort no wonder we're on the way to league 1 apart from the last 15 minutes the effort of our lot was dire.

I would say about 50 people around me walked out at 3-1 with what? 20 odd minutes left and again more still with 10 mins left when it was back to 3-2 madness! As for the games itself we failed in the midfield department TOTALLY. Nothing going forward and when we inevitably lost the ball no one bothered to track back and get in a tackle, thats GET IN A TACKLE not get goalside and assume thats enough! Their 2nd and 3rd goals were both top finishes but couldnt help but feel we had ample chances both times to get the ball away had we gone in 100% in the tackles. Both goals we had nearly the whole defence in the box when the ball came in shocking!! As for scores; Kelv 8 - Positioning maybe slightly off for the 2nd goal but excellent today as usual this season excellent saves and a penalty save that gave us all hope Thompson - 7 Thought he got forward well and defensive work seemed to be fairly decent Saejis - 6 got caught going forward a few times which left us short at the back but NO midfield covering left him open Perry - 7 Good work in covering the other defenders continually built the much bigger kandol in the air Skacel - 5 Dived in too often giving them chances didnt get forward much Wotton - 2 seriously whats the point of this fella? Lallana - 2 Drifted inside leaving Thompson alone with the marrauding Charlton Left back and left winger , not sure i saw him doing anything going forward deservedly taken off, if you cant hold a position please dont bother turning up on tuesday Surman - 4 Ok first half but lack of tackling and getting stuck in = him being taken off at a time we needed all our experienced players on the pitch dragging us through! DMG - 5 Ok first half didnt seem to be doing much 2nd half though raised his game abit once at 3-2 However EXCELLENTfinish today Saga - 6 Some good play holding up the ball but really a lack of any link to the midfield didnt help him out Euell - 6 Same as Saga not good support from midfield left him battling 2 or 3 defenders on his own Subs BWP - 8 looked interested actually everywhere top finish as well Smith - 5 lot of the ball didnt do much with it though can anyone in the chapel corner tell me if that tackle on him near the end should have been a penalty?!!? Liptak - Asub to protect the GD near the end? What hurts the most about today is that it took until the last 8 or so minutes to really see any passion and desire to win or at least get back in the game, big let down for all the returning fans cant see that many being at the next home match. :-(

Just over 22k sold as of about 10 mins ago. All corners are now open for sale.

Not doubting what you're saying but is there anywhere you know of where this was quoted? I remember Crouch offering 2million if the other two directors matched it but thats about it!

Any ideas how much the Darlo number raised? I wonder how many people (based on this forum) would be willing to put money into this? Would it be a little bit like propping up Lowe et al? Poll mods - yes or no?

That or everyone knew we were up **** creek and offered ridiculously low money making any transfer potentially unhelpful to us, buying an extra few days out of administration gets us no where.

Complete waste of paper and ink ... still maybe he can do a job for us in League 1? Seems to have lots of prior experience in NOT playing that division as well though

Aside from the FACT Birmingham really didnt look anything special ... good call :-) Definately needs to be full on motivational, but how does MW still consider Ryan Smith to be having good games is beyond me? Personally Id prefer to see our talking done on the pitch till the end of the season!

Pele cost us one goal .... Bestie cost us two so go figure ;-)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/n/nottm_forest/7960639.stm Damn you beat me to it! People have moaned for ages that we would be better with him would be good to get him back seems a decent striker when I've seen him against us!

Really? Best I can remember us being was 4th. I think there were several games were we could have gone 2nd or whatever IF we'd won ... same old saints always suggesting the possibility of more and never quite pulling it off!

Cant say we sounded too "in" that game from Radio Hampshire. No real chances after the first 15 minutes and putting euell in midfield seemed to kill us. Would have brought on Wotton instead of patto and stuck Drew of Morgan in the hole. Aw well didnt expect anything from that game really so onwards to tuesday!

Not sure why people DONT rate him if I'm honest. Seems to be the only decent thing to come out of the JP era. If he were to stay fit im sure he'd pop up with a few goals and assists. He may not be the worlds best winger but hes far from the worst player on our books Smith anyone?. In a standard 4-4-2 formation I'm sure he'd be a big asset however would he be able to nail down a position in the current incarnation e.g. diamond formation I'm not so sure. Shame really!

Question is will he get his contract renewed if he keeps up these decent performances? Personally I thought he was excellent in last seasons run in and his experience is proving invaluable ... rupes please take note thats EXPERIENCE!

"Now go on go ... walk out the door and take your lowe now ... 'cos you're not welcome anymore!" Well we can hope!

Branfoot? The man we all LOVED to hate :-)

To be fair Pele was a fairly decent MF player looked decent in our best winning sequence of the play off season. Far from the worst transfer Burley ever made.

I in turn would suggest he would have burried a significantly higher preportion of our opportunities than david mcgoaldrought ™. His work rate alone make him worth having in the team. Granted I do agree he works well with a partner up top could Euell be the man?!

Good shout Thorpie lets hope the lads actually pull this one out of the bag ... Preston havent lost in 9 games or so though :-s