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Shame you missed the Master Bates pm's back in the day. They were stuff of legend. Sigh, simpler times.

I would prepare myself for solitary trips to St Marys. My missus, the Norwich fan, can't stand him after what, and I quote, "that ***** did to my club." Me personally would be overjoyed and surprised.

Once again Android left in the cold. One day...

They certainly packed us in. I had some bloke's Arse in my face and was begging he didn't need to fart.

Waste of a journey. Probably the worst defending of any trophy, anywhere in the world, ever. Charlie Austin is a winkle. He was loving winding us up. I'd point out the pros for Saints but there weren't any. Oh, perhaps Alex O-C looks a good prospect. Jaidi looks past it. I thought this against Orient too. Do Prado looked awkward on the left - he seems to have pace but is one of those players with a lazy gait. I never understand playing a left footer on the right and a right footer on the left. Harding was poor tonight but he did look more comfortable when Dickson came on. Time for Dickson to fill Lallana's boots, on the left of a 4-5-1 imo.

Fail.

I was in the best of health earlier, then i get back from the game and have the Squits. It may be the terrible performance, but it's more likely to be the burger I had from the van outside the ground. Or a combination of both... We need a new manager fast, or this apathy will grow. New manager, loan signings, and better performances, or Cortese better ring Lowe for tips on avoiding lynch mobs.

We should be able to attract the better of the loans so it's far from game over. A manager with links to a top 3 club could see some promising players come in. Fingers crossed.

True or not, this would be a major blow to our promotion hopes. Fonte, Lambert, Lallana and Morgan are the four players we must keep hold of at all costs.

:-D Sorry. From the list of betting odds, I wouldn't mind Paul Jewell. He's been about a bit, is still fairly young in terms of managers and IMO CDAJFU Doubt he'd want to move down south though. And, as this is my most sensible post of the day, I do think it will be an Italian manager coming in with a knowledge of the English style of play. So that does seemingly imply Zola.

A Ray Wilkins/Dean Wilkins dream team. :-D Or, to put it another way, not.

Whoever it is, if they don't get us promoted this season, then they're out too, and the Saints managerial merry-go-round continues. I'll be going to the Swindon game tomorrow, I'll keep my peepers open. (There, that should mean the new appointment is today...)

Except he does...

What's Mark Hughes up to these days?

Guly's only a loanee. I say we shouldn't annoy the permanants by dropping them and instead drop Guly to the youth team until he signs full time.

can you feeeeeeel the love!

Yay. I hope Do P isn't dopey. There, that's my contribution to this thread, I'm off for more wine.

Hate it. Though it isn't as bad as their other recent offering, the Cube: It's a Cube. I don't get it.

The team that started today seems to be Pardew's first team, so no look in there for Dickson*, I didn't see him play against Bournemouth, but against Plymouth I feel Harding was the better left back. (I would say that as a Harding fan though...) *which I suppose begs the question of "why did we sign him..."

I impregnated my girlfriend at half time, and this rough looking bird that was hanging around the blokes bogs, AND the sweetheart that sold me my halftime hotdog, so that added three more unofficial numbers to the crowd, but it still wasn't high enough. I apologise. I will be trying harder next time.

I agree about being in League One and struggling to attract some players - Brett Pitman, on the face of it, would fit in perfectly here, but with bigger clubs calling we wouldn't have much of a shot, even if Pardew was interested in bringing him in. However we were able to attract Fonte, a player from a higher league, who was playing regularly and well (although Palace were in a position that they had to sell, it didn't stop other teams from trying to bring him in), and we were able to bring in Lambert who, after two good seasons at Rovers could've made the step up. I'm still on Pardew's side, for the time being, but I fail to see why he's struggling to sign players - we did it in January, and we did it last August. Fingers crossed this will be remedied asap.

The sad thing is, it's catch 22. Pardew will see out August, and if he hasn't signed anyone, there's a very real chance he'll be gone based on this team's current showing. Then the next poor bugger in charge has no transfer window to do anything with the team, and has to use the players he's inherited from Pardew. Either sack Pardew now, or hope he signs someone and "his" team improve and assess how he's getting on in December, before the next transfer window is wasted. Waiting for the loan window would be folly, even waiting for the end of August would be foolhardy. I do think we'll see playing staff brought in - the question is, will they be the players we need to cover the positions we're short in? (Almost universally accepted as a pacy winger, central midfield box to box player and a tall striker...)

We are woefully short of luck. Barnard could've had a hattrick today. We did make chances, but not enough and not incisive enough. Two or three attacking signings are beyond a necessity. Thought Alex O-C showed good technique when he came on, apart from spooning our last shot over the bar.

I'm slightly losing faith in Pardew but we never seem ready for the start of the season. Sort the signings out at the start of summer, play pre-season against tougher opposition and get more luck! Everything is in the playing staffs' hands except for the luck.

I was going to this game anyway but I can"t deny I sped up with buying my tickets for it because of the circumstances. I think there'll be a big walk up and we'll sell out.