The Kraken

Full-Time: FC Biel 3-3. Entertaining game and probably a fair result in the end. Decent start to pre-season./

86 mins: Biel keeper denies Chamberlain with a great save, tips it round the post

2-3 Safari. 3-3 chamberlain.

Morgan's biggest problem IMO; too casual. Still, only a friendly and all that.....

The second team has Tommy Four-past in goal, who at times struggles to out-perform a traffic cone. No contest.

Yes. Apart from the fact that he's playing.

The thread was removed at the request of Mike (who started the thread). I believe he thought he had enough input and ideas from here to progress with the design. To be fair, some people were getting quite abusive and belligerent about the design, comparing it with the original Ted Bates statue amongst other things. Its a flag! Most people seemed grateful that Mike had done as much work as he had and that the finished product would be a suitable tribute.

I'm speaking as someone who spent half of last season working in France. I just find the match thread a bit ridiculous, often full of over-reactionary nonsense. I always preferred to find somewhere with Sky Sports News and watch that instead. The match thread always seemed a bit pointless to me (the "just back from the game" summaries were often useful though).

Yep, Coventry really aren't a roller-coaster club; you need to have ups as well as downs for that. Here's a bit of trivia for you; Coventry have gone 40 years without finishing in the top 6 of their division.

I agree with this. Back in the Premier League prices were much higher. It wasn't necessarily that I couldn't afford it, but I couldn't justify the expense to myself of going every single week. So I used to go anywhere between 5 and 10 times a season. The past 3 or 4 seasons I think the value has been much better, and so I've decided to go to games much more often. I've still followed Saints in all that time, but the amount of times I have attended has changed. That's the choice that I made, and that is available to everyone to make. Going to a game of football is a privilege, not a right of everyone.

Exactly this. This is the last place I'd want to come on a match day.

With the squad at present; I think we'll be between 13th and 10th. Add in a top quality centre back and centre forward, and keep AOC, and I think the playoffs are a real possibility, perhaps even a push for the top two.

I give you this utterly uninspiring effort:

There's a capacity of 150, so I'm going to guess its the old Terry Paine Ambassadors' Suite.

Being less fit than Jaidi and the goalkeepers is some achievement.

Well I think I'd be inclined to be perfectly honest, and tell them it's too much of a price hike, if that's how you feel.

I dread to think how bad Lambert's diet becomes in the close season.

I can't believe I'm actually replying to the insanity of all this, but there we go. In this league Messi would have far more time on the ball; simply because defenders wouldn't be able to get as close to him. He'd absolutely run riot; the suggestion that he wouldn't because it's a lower league is just laughable.

Read the clarification, genius.

Andoverian, apologies, I was perhaps harsh. However, I do stand by the sentiment of my statement. My point is this; if you don't want, or can't afford a season ticket, don't buy one. I don't understand the likes of those two characters in the Echo who made the point about parking charges and took their season tickets back. Fair enough if you want to do that; but why then make an issue of it in the local paper, putting on a ridiculous sad face for the headline picture? This forum (and others) sadly become an extention of that type of reaction, which is why I classify it as mock-outrage. I pay money to watch Saints; a lot of the time I don't particulrly agree with many of the business decisions made by the management, but I just feel to let that get in front of my enjoyment of a Saturday afternoon's football is a tad silly.

Yes, because the football club has never been run as a business before, with the fans identified as customers, have they? So what if the club gets sold in the future. Its been sold before, and will definitely be sold again at some point. Who cares? Do you support the club for the owners? Of course not; it's what happens on the pitch that counts. I find all of this mock-outrage at the way the club is run a bit ridiculous; if you don't want to go, don't go. And if you don't want to go, why ***** and moan to everyone about how unfair it all is.

Suck my fat one, I'm drunk

Start spreading the news He’s signing today He wants to be a part of it Jack Cork, Jack Cork In Southampton shoes He’s longing to stay Right to the Premier League Jack Cork, Jack Cork He wants to wake up, in a city, that never sleeps And find he’s king of the hill, top of the league These little club blues Are melting away He’s made abrand new start of it Jack Cork, Jack Cork If he can make it here He’ll make it anywhere Its up to you, Jack Cork, Jack Cork.

Weren't allowed? Get a grip, dear me.

Why not call the ticket office? They'll put you on to someone who knows.