VectisSaint

The OS is working fine, and has been since just before the match kicked off. Try going to the home page http://www.saintsfc.co.uk

If you are so fecking moronic to not see that your question is negative then God help you. You know fecking well how you phrased your question. So don't come the innocent. You have no interest in Saints winning, you want to see us lose, you can't even be fecking bothered to look at the league table to see who is around us. FFFFFFS.

Simple question, simple answer...We were still playing the first half, it was 0-0 and you have your usual negative slant on things. I know you want us to be bottom, but a simple check of the league table would show you that Forest were below us so the outcome of our game does not decide who is bottom. FFS.

Nice positive post Alps. I think it would depend on how Forest get on since they are below us on goal diff.

So it seems its Mark Dennis, are you going to tell him he sounds like a moron? You might not live to regret it

Mark? Dennis, Wright, ??? Not exactly a natural radio voice

Planning to be available to play midweek against Rotherham (though personally I would suggest not playing him in the Cup and save him for the League)

Don't disagree with your sentiments, but you need to brush up on your history. Muhammed was born around 570AD, might be a clue there that Moslems have not been fasting for longer than Christianity has existed.

Every HOME game should be a MUST WIN game. If we drop points away so be it. We need to win at home to move us up the table and make people excited to come to games again. I predict 2-1 Saints

Only in your dreams. You seriously think 30k will turn out for a game in the CCC, just because you cut the ticket price to £12. You are seriously deluded. If we went on a run of say 6 home games, with 4 or 5 wins and the others draws, coupled with some half decent performances away from home, and as a result we were in the top 6, you might, just might get back to 22-25k, even at that price. Reduce the price to £12 now and I would bet that it would attract perhaps 2k, maybe 3k people on top of what would otherwise come along.

Sorry, but I think your plan sounds good, but in practice I don't believe it would have the impact you suggest. Decrease the ticket price by £6 and you may get a few hundred more through the gates, but that would not match the decreased revenue. I really don't believe many people are staying away only because of the price of tickets. They are staying away because we can't win a game at home in the league consistently, and this has been the case now for well over a year, it is not a new phenomenon this season. Our home form is appalling, and people get fed up seeing us consistently lose.

Thats not really the issue, I will probably go to as many games this season, possibly more, than last season. I don't go regularly, but i won't make excuses for that. The point I have is that I like to go with some other people, and maybe they are not ingrained supporters like me, but they will come with me if the team is doing well. Its ****ing difficult to motivate these floating supporters to come along at present because they don't see much prospect of an enjoyable day out. And its difficult for me to motivate them because I am not enjoying it much myself. But as I've been hooked by saints for 40+ years I will continue to go when I can, but more likely I'll be a "Billy No Mates" which does not help the club coffers.

You could argue that, but you would lose. He doesn't have to be there. With his lap dog he controls a huge percentage of the shares, and the corporates would not vote him out. Its a foregone conclusion, unless Wilde sees the light before then.

Back passing is ok in moderation, as long as the pass goes to us and not to the opposition. Its passing to the other team that is the problem, and continues to be our achilles heel, we give the ball away far too often.

So, I'm not as "loyal", because I choose not to spend my Saturdays getting well and truly ****ed off watching us lose again at home. Too right I'm not loyal, but it doesn't make me any less a supporter, I've supported Saints since 1966 and spent years being loyal, these days I have further to travel (though no ferry thankfully) and make a choice not to go because it is frankly not the enjoyable experience it once was, doesn't mean that I don't still get very upset and fed up listening on the radio/internet and getting ****ed off by local Pompey supporters giving me stick. Simple message to Saints, are you listening Rupert Lowe? Start winning games at home and the crowds will return. Continue the way that you are, whether playing kids or Dads Army, playing pretty football or route one and supporters will continue to stay away, and the number of stay aways will increase. Football is part of the entertainment industry these days. I admire the idea of playing neat attractive football, and spent years watching a feast of exciting football with Channon, Davies, Paine and Sydenham (and latterly Tiss) but first things first, winning is all (at home).

But the big game of the season was hardly ever Portsmouth, thats why it is one of the least frequently played local derbies in the country. The reason everyone placked into the Dell for every home game was because, whether football was good or bad we used to win at home more often than we lost. You went along to The Dell expecting us to win, no matter who the opposition were. OK sometimes we got beat, or had to settle for a draw, but in general our home form was what kept us in the top level. It was an enjoyable experience going to The Dell. Sadly, St Marys has become somewhere where Saints find it difficult to win, whether we are in the Prem or the Fizzy Pop. In the end people start to vote with their feet when they become disillusioned with going to SMS and not seeing the team win regularly. For crowds to return in reasonable numbers (and taking into account what level we are at) St Marys needs to become a fortress again.

Best post on this subject, same as I've said elsewhere. It's very simple why people do not go to games. They are fed up going to SMS and not seeing us win. It is bugger all to do with how we play, even who the opponents are (at least for league games), or the ticket price, or the fact the corners are closed, or whether the pies are crap or the beer flat, or whether Rupert is there, or whatever lame excuse people can come up with. Saints start to win consistently AT HOME and the supporters will start going to games again. Its about the feelgood factor. Why do you think people are going to turn out to home games regularly to go home depressed and thinking they have wasted their money? At present it makes more sense from an enjoyment point of view to go to away games, because at least we win away from home occassionally.

Vignal was and probably still is available, we don't need any of the premiership mercenaries, we had a perfectly good LB last season (at least he came good at the end after a mixed start). He would also have some Frenchy mates these days with Spiderman and Gosmi (or whatever his name is).

Depends, if he is intelligent eough to realise that he would actually earn more by taking a cut in the appearance money (I never suggested no appearance money at all) then it would make sense all round. If on the other hand he is content to earn less money than he could then he must be more stupid than I thought. Conversation could go like this: RL: "Mr Scumbag (sorry I mean Mr Agent") would your player like to earn more money than he currently is?" Agent: "Mr Scumbag (sorry I mean Mr Lowe), of course my money-grabbing football mercenary would, thats what its all about these days" RL: "Good, then sign here to agree that appearance money is reduced by 50% and your man will be in the team on Saturday. I will square that with our Head Coach as I am also Director of Football. I will also inform the poodle Football Club Chairman next time he is over from Jersey". Agent: "Right sir, you are so gracious your Lordship" By the way has he signed yet?

Problem is that it is a double-edged sword. By not bringing in a proper LB (or RB for that matter) we have been left using a MF as an emergency LB. On top of that Drew is one of our best MF options but we have lost that. We need Drew in MF, probably in preference to Gillett, and a proper LB. personally I think Rudi is a better LB anyway. This nonsense about his appearance money should be addressed. After all, even he must see that he is not playing therefore not earning any appearance money, so renegotiate the contract to get less app money and he might actually get played. Surely Lord Lowe is supposed to be good at this sort of financial stuff, so Lowe, get your finger out and get the job done.

Excellent, lets look at our home league form, that will give us comfort. Oh bugger, we've lost both home games, I forgot:) It may only be 5 games but the signs are there for all to see if they just removed their rose-tinted blinkers, we really are in deep ****.

Anorak alert :smt103 Davies 2 (1 pen), Channon, Gabriel and og I don't recall the rain, but then I am also mad I seem to remember the Anderlecht game was also very wet, or perhaps I am mixing the two up, weather wise.

Funny you recall the rain but not the match and the result. We won 5-1 at home!!! I was there, brilliant night (l don't recall the weather though). That was the most disappointing European run, because we ended up going out to Newcastle on away goals, after 2 draws. To lose on away goals is bad enough but against another English team and without losing either game was a bit of a ****er.

I guess there must be 2 different people called Steve Claridge

You are clearly falling for the spin. He has just had 2 weeks break, and like the rest of the squad who were not on international duty he was given time off by the coach. Agreed he may not be able to play 7 in 21, but in that case play him in the first, when the other experienced CB is out, see how it goes and then maybe revise the plan. Crass stupidity to plan for this by dropping the guy for the first game, and have 2 kids debut at CB. Better plan would have been to partner perry with either Cork or Ollie, then bring the other kid in for the second game if necessary.