Charlie Wayman

Totally agree with you,very succinctly put and a voice of common sense and levelheadedness. The issues have not changed at all, it is very unlikely any of the newcomers expected success in their first season here. If we end up next season in mid-table then it's a whole new ball game. Niggling at the back of my mind is the new threat of the CCC breaking away from the FL and going it alone as a sort of Premier League Lights. We need to get back there fast to make sure if there is another huge cash bandwagon about to roll we are aboard. Nor can we expect Herr Liebherr to hang around for long if effectively LI and LII become even more disenfranchised fro the main action in England.

Apparently a lot of you lads are "in the know" through insider contcats at the Club so... Any steer on when we'll be sent Season Ticket apps?

In 1898 the owners would have just choosen the shirt upstairs; it wouldn't even have occurred to bosses to think of asking the opinions of plebs and serfs like us. But... this is 2010 is it not and you'd be pretty confident that a modern sensitive democratic owners would have half-a-dozen mock-ups printed and photoed and shown to fans in a poll to test the water before they make any judgements. Hang on a minute 'though, what's that? The new owners are Swiss? By any reckoning it's still about 1899 over there..... Oh! Dear!

We are supposed to be building for the future not constructing a mausoleum. I know that 36 seems a young age for most fans but it is pensionable for a footballer. Being 36 AND Lee Carsley is like "Nightmare on Elm Street". Beam me up Scotty!

What is annoying me more and more every day is Pards' constant carping about reaching the play-offs which he knows as well as we has been beyond Saints' capabilities since the start of 2010. What game is he playing? "Who do you think you are kidding Mr Pardew?", as the old song goes... It's an insult to fans to treat us like juveniles and try to jolly us up so that we will keep turning up and forking out at the turnstiles. Fans ARE NOT idiots as we saw on Tuesday with a low turn-out. After that performance they'll do well to get 15k in tomorrow and maybe only 12k. Talking up a dead horse's chance of winning the National smells of desperation. Or is it Cortese he's trying to hoodwink?

Will you live long enough to see it 'though?

About four weeks ago, I predicted that this would happen as Zola is bound to get the boot under their new owners and Pards was the best manager they ever had and is a ****ney throug and through. I think he'll be asked even if they stay up. Still, what does 'old' Charlie know! Double his pay and he's gone! ANd he'll take a few with him... Lallana, Schneiderlin, Hammond and Lambert for sure. Lets face it he's not always seen eye-to-eye with Cortese especially as Pards 'wanted' only cups this season whilst Cortese wanted the CCC!

A typically inept and feeble Saints display when the chips are down and it really mattered. A performance without quality or imagination. As always the loss of Schneiderlin exposed once again the sheer lack of ability in our team, without him it is difficult to see how we could progress with this bunch of players. It was not that difficult to see last night why most of these guys haven't cut the mustard at a much higher level. We were let down very badly by some players, notably Otsemebor who looks ever more woeful with each appearance; Puncheon who is typical of these "mazy" wingers in being selfish and without vision - just like Dyer and Fernandes used to be - all tricky jigs and dances but no idea of what to do after that. Paul Wotton was out of his depth, every time he got the ball he looked clueless, surely his day is over. And where was Lallana? He keeps going missing in action, he should be done for deserting his post! Who would you keep for next year? Davies - Yep! Fonte - Yep! Harding - Yep! Hammond - Yep! Lallana - Yep! Lambert - Yep! Barnard - Yep! The jury must be out on the others who played a part last night. I really feel most sorry for Lloyd James. Pards did this to Mills earlier in the year and it must absolutely crush any last ounce of self respect they have. Last year Lloyd was one of our heroic fighters who did everything he could possibly do to help keep us up, now what future for him?

Dream on sunshine, dream on! Meanwhile we'll leave the coffee brewing for when you wake up!

It is all very tiresome isn't it but to be fair who amongst us can remember more than 25% of the teams in our own division this year? Go on, try it! I can't that's for sure so not knowing about Bournemouth will not change anonymity of the other 75%. They'll come up here once, so we can all avoid that weekend and - end of story. I don't even know where they play and I'm in Bournemouth every week.

I don't remember you being quite so philosophical and magnanimous about his performance earlier on in the season, isn't this what politicians call positive spin?

1-0 eh? It'll do. Listening to that on RS was not good for the old ticker. I agree, Merrington was off colour today but the other bloke was utter reeking horse turd personified, took him about ten minutes to spot we hadn't started with the blond mop-top up-front and when the cavalry arrived I thought we must be playing with 13... wonder if the ref noticed?

Obviously a quiet day Stu. Even Liverpool's owners want out after only three years so the thing we should wish for most over 5 years is ownership and management stability. There are unfortunately far too many unforeseen hazards in football to feel easy about planning 5 years ahead. What we must not do is get carried away by a couple of 5-1 results in the Third Division, where half the clubs are semi-pro, on the verge of being stony broke and just glad to survive from one year to another. Putting it bluntly, we shouldn't be down there in the first place and with our money, set-up and players we ought to win EVERY game 5-1. Rather than worry about battles yet to come with the great and good of world football we should anguish over the fact that next season we will likely be entertaining Aldershot & Bournemouth (WHO TFAT?) teams that only a year or two back didn't even show up as a smudge on the radar of Saints fans.

I'd like to hope that you are right and I am wrong, of course but cannot Millwall achieve that objective irrespectively of what happens on Friday? I think so. Believe you me if the announcer says Huddersfield 2 Millwall 3, I'll be the first to the bar.

Chances are Millwall who are safely in the play-offs will not bother against Huddersfield simply because they'd fancy their chances against them in the play-offs more than they'd fancy playing Saints. So the best strategy for Millwall will be to make sure Saints don't get there and they can do that easily by letting Huddersfield win. I'd say it's 95% certain Huddersfeld will win 2-0 or 3-0 on Friday for this reason - of course nobody could ever prove it was fixed - so don't bother staying up late to catch the score.

Not sure your optimism is fully justified Stu. We have some very good players for this division but they are not world beaters otherwise the likes of the lads you mentioned would not be wearing Red & White and sitting on a park bench in rural southern Hampshire. And, we are likely to lose one or two in the summer as Dave Merrington has observed and explained simply, because it will be another two years before they can hope to play Championship football with SFC, let alone aspire to the Premiership; the best of them are naturally ambitious guys who want to maximise their income and international credibility in what is for many an all too short career. Thirdly, if Schneiderlin in particular decides to go, well... you've seen how we perform when he's not around and Fonte is another who is already too good and too old to hang around for long. Then there's Barnard who must be pretty ****ed off at not being an automatic first choice on the team-sheet and frankly looks the part in recent matches. It's a mistake to assume we can pay enough to keep them happy, as Maslow observed Money may be a motivator but is NOT a satisfier. If we can only hang onto the middling players and the best leave, why would Pardew hang around especially if he too gets irresistible offers over the summer from above and what betting even that we might end up in the worse position of all with Pardew off to West Ham and taking Lallana and Schneiderlin and Lambert with him? So it is unwise to suggest that everything will be even better on August 7 after one or two even stronger additions to the squad. I agree, that's what we'd hope and pray for but we've been a selling club for so many years now that the top 6 or 8 clubs may even see us as a kindergarten for nurturing THEIR rising young stars, ready for plucking when it suits them. Once you've earned a reputation like that it may be mighty hard to shake off; you can't ban scouts from St Mary's.

Basically, Huddersfield need 8 points from 4 games so they MUST win 2 and either draw the other 2 or win 1. 7 pts won't do it for them as we'll murder them on GD. Meanwhile we have to win ALL remaining 5. On balance the odds are in favour of Huddersfield who can afford a couple of not too serious slips whereas we cannot. Of course we discount Colchester at our peril, we've not passed them yet.

Well done lads! Now the same at Yeovil please. I did not like Dave Merrington suggesting we could lose half our current team in the close season "... would be hard to hang on to them.." Who's side's he on?

I've given up on being entertained. A perfect day for all who believe only the result matters. We should be building for next year not fighting for scraps under the table.

Oh Yes! Oh Yes! Oh Yes! Oh Yes! Oh Yes! Oh Yes! I remember it well - we whooped their Rrses, Best, Law, Charlton and all!

That's pretty much everyone's first pick team including Pards, so no prizes for that but the jury is still out o Otsemobor and why not give Lloyd a run out at RB, at lease he gets forward and can put in decent crosses; unlike Puncheon Lloydy can take useful corners. I am looking forward most to the game being played in nice warm spring sunshine for a change so we can turn up in lighter clothes and not huddle together to keep warm.

In comparison to Paul Lambert he has not distinguished himself that's for sure. The problem for fans 'though is placing his 'failure' into context. Compared to what came before - since in fact Strachan buggered off - the stability that Pardew has brought has been very welcome and for many fans just stabilising the ship has been a achievement enough for this year. But... memories are short and the more you succeed the greater you raise expectations and this is where he has failed in my view. He has consistently and disingenuously promised us a team with a winning mentality, that we are 'probably' the best team in the league; that the play-offs are achievable when he knows better than most that none of this has been true. We have been at best this season a better than average side for this division that, until one or two matches recently, struggled all season to beat anybody in the top half of the league. Better had he kept his powder dry and not promised what could not be delivered; a guarantor of turning people against you. So like many including NC, I end up feeling disappointed with the season when in fairness to our recent history we should be feeling delighted that we have made first base in pretty good shape and we can springboard for there. Having oversold - for whatever reasons - the team that he has offered us this season it remains to be seen whether AP will be trusted enough to allow him the extra investment (and time) to build a team for next season that would indeed fulfill the promises he has made. Now we know that our team needs at least 5 players and maybe 8 to become the upwardly mobile Unbeatable's that he envisages, let's say i will not be betting our house on it.

Chelsea or Southampton... Bridge etc This opinion is patently wrong and absurd! It would be - and would confirm to fans that Saints are still a short-sighted selling club that lacks the ambition to do anymore than tread water and run a tight financial economy with no further cash injections from anywhere. Just watch the crowds melt away when the last of our local lads with any realistic prospect of going all the way heads out. Then the economics won't look quite so settled. Saints have been and always will be to fans a friendly family club founded solidly in the community it represents. If we ended up with not a single player from the borough, it would surely be a very black day for us. As NC is on record as wanting at least half our team coming from within the Academy system, it is inconceivable that he will sell Lallana willingly and on this issue he an Pards are surely united as one.

Hey! Don't you just love being popular? Come on lads, admit it, this was one dire football match was it not? hardly the stuff of legend. Don't worry about false loyalties my blood's been dyed Red & White since I first set foot in the place as a tiny tot - Dell that is - in 1948. So that's 62 season's and counting; all bar three or four have ended in abject disappointment so these days one tends to take it as it comes and see the funny side. As for my odd trips to The Emirates, why not? Surely, even if you love fish 'n chips, the odd curry or Chinese takeaway makes a refreshing change... Anyway, I don't have to pay for tickets up there

Who the Feckle hund would want to play footie with a soggy haggis in a league fit for Zeroes! Adam Lallana is going precisely nowhere so stop 'reading' comics and grow up.