revolution saint

Saints 1 Colchester 3 I'm basing this primarily on the fact that predicting a win for us hasn't worked yet. However, Boothroyd teams always win and always score three against us and despite losing their last three they'll be bouyant after his appointment. Smashing seven against Norwich shows they've got the talent to do well and with Murty out I think they'll target our right back. It's a shame that neither Waigo or Jaidhi are available as well. The only bright spot for me is that we could hopefully see the return of either Mills or Holmes. We haven't really had a balanced side this season and I'd expect our left side to be pretty strong if either of them start the game.

Still not exactly inspiring is it? Jaidhi is probably a good signing but I expected that would have been the easier of the deals to tie up - and wasn't dependant on today either. We look a lot stronger defensively anyway and Jaidhi would help but still need quality in wide areas as we seem to struggle creating chances.

Bit underwhelmed to be honest. We started the day thinking we'd get three players in and ended up with the maybe promise of one player that's obviously going to be a loan or a free.

I was going to say that but I do miss the atmosphere of a full ground. On the other hand I don't miss the opposition scoring and seeing loads of people jump up around me so swings and roundabouts.

I was hoping to see him in action but on the other hand if we are interested then it could be good for us that he's not involved tonight. He's certainly the kind of player we should be after and from what I can tell he doesn't seem to be a 1st choice for Leicester. Strange considering he did so well last season.

Max Gradel hasn't even made the bench for Leicester tonight. I have no idea if he's injured or not but it could be because he's lined up for a move. Would be nice if it was to us.

Good points but it does do "Strictly come dancing", "cash in the attic" and other quality programmes that you just wouldn't see on ITV. I just wish they'd get Ant and Dec back.

I think it's brilliant. It does tend to divide opinion into extremes though. I thought the US version was slight worse than OK but not abysmal.

Have you said anything? I doubt it.... You've whinged a bit that you're not happy at our start, well who is? Everyone else can see that it'll probably take a bit of time. You just want to throw your toys out of the pram and cry.

Seeing as you brought my name up.....what I find ridiculous is that there was no point to your whining and complaining. There was nothing constructive apart from a toddler like cry of "but I want to win". We played better yesterday (by all accounts) and should have won. Of course it's frustrating and of course it's taking longer than we'd like but it is what it is - a job in progress. If you'd complained about the signings, the team selection or anything else then you would have an opinion and something to justify it. Yesterday you did nothing but moan without anything to back it up. If you feel we should have won then obviously you feel that something that hasn't been done should have, or that mistakes have been made. What are they?

If you're talking about the little "adverts" between segments then yes I agree - it is like advertising. If you're talking about the "news" content such as when John Sargant quit Strictly Come Dancing last year then they can justify it by the fact that so many people are interested in it. Personally I don't but then I don't get to make the rules and obviously a lot of people do find it worthy of being in the news. Interesting you should say that you don't feel you should pay for the tat you don't care about - if you just subscribed to content you were interested in then you'd find that you'd have less choice and less "quality" TV. Look at SKY, look at ITV how much genuine quality documentaries do they produce? Not many.

They also plug other crappy entertainment shows on other channels such as Big Brother. They do that because for some reason people are interested in it. Off the top of my head I can remember Justin Lee Collins and Noel Edmonds both plugging shows on SKY on The One show (and I don't watch it that much). I'm not disgusted by the BBC at all but that's not the point - Murdoch Jnr was moaning because he felt that the BBC offering "free" content on the internet was harming the chances of independant companies making money from online content. It's a fair point but given the alternative it seems most of us are more than happy with the BBC.

No one has said we don't want to win games and no one has denied you the freedom to express your pointless opinion. In the absence of any argument except "we need to win games" your posts are without substance. If you're going to moan then at least have the balls to back it up with a decent argument.

He's not trying to offer solutions or excuses - he would just like to moan a bit. He's not saying Pardew is bad, he's not saying the team is bad, he's just a bit tired and emotional.

I think everyone knows your point of view now. It wasn't constructive in any way, it wasn't illuminating, it didn't make me think and it wasn't interesting. Thanks for sharing though.

So basically you'd just like to have a bit of a moan? Fine but pointless (much like saints really).

Have you seen Fox News? Have you read the Sun? Bias? BBC doesn't even come close.

of course we hoped it would be better! Did anyone seriously say "You know what? I really hope we don't have a storming start to the season. Our best bet is to not win any of our first 5 games." If you want Pardew to sort it out then you need to appreciate the starting position he had. It's not ideal, it's not great and if we haven't done better by the end of the year then it's probably time to worry but now is not the time (and it's boring).

Fantastic, great response. We all hoped for that but some people realise it might take time. What do you propose now then? Sack Pardew?

Nope, you moan and you groan and get tedious. It's 5 games in after a pre season where we failed to beat Eastleigh, Totton, Bournemouth and Salisbury. What did you honestly expect?

And you seem happy to moan. So tell me what exactly would you do differently?

So the logical conclusion to this is Pardew is crap and should be sacked? Or is this just a bit of whining?

Well it is ironic when you say your posts are accurate and articuate (sic). And yes the post I was replying to was basically saying don't slag off Gillett because he might read this which could be said for any player.

So basically no one can say a player is rubbish? oh and it is kind of ironic you spelt articulate wrong......

Just out of interest what do you propose we do to rectify the situation?