VectisSaint

If no one cares why would 10k Saints fans turn up looking for trouble? Can't have it both ways.

Take a tip from me and chalk it up to experience. Has RL taken up snooker?

As long as the 11 wins includes Brighton, Bournemouth and Charlton twice, then this should be enough. If we can avoid losing any of these 4 games it would be a bonus.

More importantly they prevent other young talented players progressing

Unfortunate the lads lost 2-1 to Pompey last week, bottom team beating top. Chelsea this week.

Peachey only scored 2 at Swindon and 6 at Orient after he left us. Don't forget he also scored 30 for the Gills before he joined Saints. From being a legend at Saints he had a disaster at Swindon, not a happy time. Will never forget Peachey and Nicky Holmes at the IW Saints Supporters Club do "assisting" me as DJ. Brilliant night, 2 top blokes (them, not me).

Did he play on the Wings?

Unbelievable what some people seem to be able get away with in their comments. Shocking.

He has taken longer to get to 50 than Big Ron did, yet he has only been with us for 1.5 seasons!!! Just goes to show how good Ron was in his day, not forgetting he did it in the top division as well. Still well done Ricky, 14 goals this season is still looking a healthy return, 5 in 3 games.

What rubbish. Only the very bottom clubs in L2 have taken a risk with Pulis, Stockport, Lincoln and now Barnet. Yet even these team, all desparate for players because they have no money have not sought to keep him beyond his loan period and he has been hawked around (or hawked himself around) to one after another. 40 professional appearances in about 6 years demonstrates quite clearly that even L2 is beyond young Pulis on a regular basis. There have been ample opportunities for him to be siged permanently, no-one is interested, I would venture to suggest that we are also paying his wages, so that some of these hard-up teams can at least give him an opportunity. Sorry if you think this is unfair, but the truth hurts, some players have to realise that they are just not going to make it, and in fact are stopping younger players with more talent getting an opportunity they deserve. How you come to think that some people who make negative comments about the guy are bullies is also pitiful, you could not be further from the truth in fact, at least in my case. And now he has been sent off. So thats another game or 3 that Barnet will have to do without him, must be so pleased to have him on their books.

Its part of his endearing quality, that he was (a) from Guernsey and (b) that he was lazy. He says as much himself. It is not an insult. When the phrase was originally introduced I seem to recall the poster was using it as a comparison, compared calling Cortest a slimy Italian (or something similar) with someone calling MLT the lazy Guernseyman. Still does not detract from the fact that MLT is not the brightest when it comes to media gaffs as he ably demonstrated in his book. Will never detract from his footballing ability or his legendary status.

Nicholl, Warren and Woods Seems to be a very defence minded name

Wayne Talkes was from the Isle of Wight like me, he went to the Fairway School in Sandown (I went to the Grammar next door, until the two were merged in 1970). He was on the books and regularly played for the Reserves at the same time as my "cousin" Brian Humber. Both ended up at Aldershot if I recall correctly. Brian never made a first team appearance, I think Wayne made a handful before he left. Sandown has quite a good reputation for young players, James Hayter is from there and for the older folks amongst us the Fulham, Bournemouth and Ipswich goalkeeper (not allowed to say Goalie evidently) Kieron Baker was a prefect at my school when I first joined.

Most former Pompey players get the **** taken. Not sure Pulis counts as ex-Pompey given he made same number of appearances for them as he has for us. The joke here is that someone who shall remain nameless ever thought he would make it here and gave him a long contract and on terms which means he is happy to stay here with no chance of ever getting a game. Just because he is a Saints player, does not mean he deserves to be treated with respect as a player. Al Dia was a joke, but at least he made an appearance, albeit a brief one. This guy would not be a pro footballer if it wasn't for who his dad is, and the wages we are paying for him due to the mess that the former chairman made means that we will have had to ket at least one, pobably more talented youngster go as a result. That is the joke, and it is very sad for those kids who get left on the scrap heap because of this cock-up

Good news, Pulis in the squad to play Torquay, looking good for the weekend for the Gulls before the League dock points for playing unregistered player. I was surprised by the comments on the Barnet site that suggested that young Pulis is in good condition, having "played plenty of football this season". Does 10 games for Stockport count as plenty of football? Still it does mean now that he has made 38 appearances as a professional footballer, thats almost a full season's worth, pity it has take 8 years to reach that number. Good luck Anth, hope they like you at Barnet, the number of clubs left that might be an option is dwindling fast.

Let's hope Mackay still have a pitch to play on and facilities after the recent floods and cyclone

Respect is something that is earned, it is not a right due because of some other event or events. I always respected MLT and even more so Lawrie Mac, but the respect they have previously earned has been severely eroded recently. I find it hard to take a bloke seriously who runs to the press to complain about not getting tickets for a game that he has no intention of attending anyway due to work commitments.

I wonder why you left out MLT from this list but added Osman. Did it stick in the throat too much to accuse MLT of being an idiot?

It also explains why Barnard is not very prolific, he took all the pens for Southend.

Maybe they meant Kevin Davies

Well at least the first 8 words of your sentence are likely to be true.

Loan window is open. New CB is what I said all along when the transfer window was open, it was the main area where we needed to strengthen. Jaidi is still fine for most games this season but will not be up to it next year if we get promoted, Seaborne is good backup and Martin is clearly not in Adkins plans. We need a new mobile strong CB to be the 1st choice pairing with Fonte.

You forgot Massey

You know what Alpine, I couldn't give a **** about your opinion either because it is worthless, as has been demonstrated time after time after time. You occassionally get things right (and on some things such as Pardew I always agreed with you) but that is purely down to the law of averages. You demonstrate remorselessly you do not have the slightest knowledge of football and you have even less knowledge about Saints, and yet you pass judgement on a match you openly admit you know nothing about. Your approcah to suporting Saints (if you do) has nothing to do with reality, it is based purely on looking at statistics and trying to draw conclusions from an incomplete set of facts, thankfully football is not like that, it is a game, it is a set of sporting contests between human beings with all of their weaknesses and strengths, that is what makes it interesting, not whether on paper we should win a game when we are 2 goals to the good. Did you watch Arsenal v Newcastle yesterday? I wonder if there is an equivalent to Alpine who supports the Arse, I guess there probably is, probably several, they must be slittling their wrists today, how would you cope with letting a 4 goal lead slip? I suspect you would suggest sacking the manager, that would be a great idea, sack the best coach in the world (OK, maybe 1 of top 3). **** happens, and in football, if there were no games like yesterday the game would be not worth watching. The feeling that the general public would have taken from yesterday was, great game, contested by 2 very good footballing teams, try watching it then you might understand (but I doubt it). That is not gushing, that is just pure fact. I am as disappointed as anyone that we ended up only getting 1 point, but it doesn't matter, it doesn't mean we will not get promoted. Your endless moaning and negativity take away much of the pleasure people on this board get from watching and supporting Saints. You need to understand football, and the first thing you need to wake up to is that each match is contested by 2 teams. Jeez some people...