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Would our rivalry extend to administrators, or would that be taking it too far? As they've not appointed Fry, it's a moot point, but I'm glad they chose someone else! HANDS OFF OUR ADMINISTRATOR!

I'm hoping it'll be 2-0 whatever team we put out but my team would be... Davis Semi Fonte Jaidi Harding Hammond Morgan Waigo Lallana Punch Lambert Subs: Bart, Seaborne (or Thomas if not), Mills, Wotton, Antonio, Barnard, Holmes.

So our main rivals will be Aldershot. Nice.

I was talking literally. Beating my meat has no bearing on results, actually it's the result that precedes the 'bation in some circumstances...

Bournemouth will be spanking it at the thought of becoming our main rivals... I hope the courts do the honourable thing. The message that you can spend whatever you want and find an escape route is unacceptable. (I realise we were in this position a year ago, but we hardly "spent what we liked", it came about through successive relegations. IMO anyway.)

We'll just have to play with ourselves.

Depends how often I beat my parrot. Each punch equals an opposition goal. He's had an easy ride since the Pompey game, and FWIW I've laid off him this week too. Now need to do a good deed by tomorrow for that elusive goal...

I think he's been in the best form I've seen him in all season, but there you go. He hit the post twice against Norwich. If those had gone in, we would't be having this conversation! He was also the best player for us against MK Dons, and Pompey. My opinion of course. (Clearly...)

If I wanted success on a near permanent basis, I'd support Man Utd. I love Saints, have done for 20 years or so, and the ups and downs are what makes supporting this club entertaining. I don't buy my tickets to see the lads play with the expectation of us winning, I buy my tickets because I'm a Saints fan and I want to show them my support. I don't wish to deny the "glass half empty" posters their right to moan about the Saints, that's their choice, but I wouldn't hardly ever moan about them, because I know that, good or bad, Saints will be the one constant in our lives. If I moaned about them as much as some do, I think I'd go mad, or be dead, by 40. I want to be back in the CCC. As much as anyone. It will happen too, it will. Every fibre in my being hopes that it is next year, but if not, it will happen, with or without the current manager, or chairman, or players. Enjoy the ride, because we support a club with as many downs as ups. We aren't Man Utd. In 30 years, who knows, but we certainly aren't now. I always know that, whatever happens in my life, I'll have the sweet relief of Saints for those 90 minutes every once in a while.

I thought this was the build up fred. Confoosed.com. http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=18372 Oh well, we're good enough to win this, just as we were good enough to win on Tuesday. That said, I expect the lads to banish the demons and win this one, in what is arguably a more difficult test than Wycombe. 2-0 Saints, Lallana and Barnard.

Khat is for pussies if The Lancet is anything to go by. At Hounslow East station a few years ago, beneath the eastbound platform, we found a whole suitcase of Khat. God knows how it got there, or why anyone would stash it there, perhaps they were high on their own substance. (Somalians do cause the most trouble in that area...)

I hope she resorts to her former name, for it is who she TRULY is. Cheryl Ursula Nicola Tweedy. :-D

Oh I agree, but I was thinking of our own products. Bart was bought in from Gornik Zabrze.

I was running out of Saints players in my brain database! Stick Oaks in there or something. ;-D

WE WILL WIN THIS GAME. Oh how I wish I could make this game. Disappointment at Wycombe aside, I think the lads will want to make up for that performance against Walsall, especially as it will be on our lucious greenery. 2-0, stick a monkey on it.

Well ok, add one or two midfielders in there, but it's still a good looking team, although we were always destined to lose Walcott and Bale. It was Catch 22, had we stayed in the Premiership, most of these players wouldn't have had a look in, relegation simply meant that most of those players we picked up by (so-called) bigger teams. One way or another it seems that we would have lost them.

It took two glances at the article to see that I wasn't looking at Nathan Dyer. FWIW, I would sign both Antonio and Waigo if I could. I don't think Holmes has a future at this club, I'd be suprised to still see him here next season.

Can I have your tickets? I'm a miserable fooker anyway. :-)

I worry perhaps that maybe Pardew has put together a Championship team before it's needed. While I can't deride League One football, I'm enjoying it, you really do have to get stuck in and dirty in order to grind out results. Save the pretty football for the Championship, for the next 15 months, we need to fight.

Glad someone touched on this, I just put it up on the match fred. 4 points before the Norwich game, for the two away games, would have been a good result. Dropping two points in the debatably easier of the two games is where it becomes a poor result. After winning at Norwich, those three points raise peoples expectations. Six points was definitely achievable. Incidentally if the Wycombe game had come first and the results from both had been the same, we'd all be on a high following the Norwich game. (Yes, i think I just confused myself). Let's pray for a decent fixture list next season!

Poke Baird Crainie Mills Bale Dyer Surman Walcott Blackstock Best McGoldrick Boy we could've had a hell of a team!

Never had a problem with the ticket office. (Although I do work in a ticket office myself so I know how hard it can be...) I emailed them, got a customer number for the online sales, and have never had a problem buying tickets, or being sent tickets, since.

Next season, if we fail to go up, I think we'll all have every right to feel aggrieved. We're starting with a clean slate, a manager that has had a year to put together the team he believes can take us up, and a chairman that has already told us that promotion is the minimum we should be looking for next season. People feeling aggrieved this season beats me. Yes, our league form hasn't been brilliant, but with -10 points it was always going to be a struggle. We're all off on a jolly to Wembley, something I didn't think I'd be saying for many years, and now have the core of a good team with quality players. Just enjoy the rest of this season, and by Christmas, if we're not in or around the top two places, start the witch hunt!

Having been at a birthday bash, I had no chance of following last nights game, and looking at the scoreline and the reports, I think I'm glad I didn't. If we want to get out of this league next season, we've got to learn how to play on shyte pitches. Going to Carrow Road and out playing the hosts on a good pitch is one thing, going to Wycombe or Exeter and playing crudly in a sand pit is another. We need to have a team that can perform on all pitch types, we're not in the Premiership playing on perfect grass everytime. It's a credit to St Mary's groundstaff that our pitch is as nice as it is. We are too inconsistant. It has to be said, and has been, that if we go to Norwich and pick up three points, it means nothing if in the next game we undo all that good work. I maintain that the playoffs are out of reach this season. Enjoy the rest of the season, support the lads, but lower your expectations. If a miracle happens, deal with that as and when it comes, but if it doesn't come, just enjoy what I am hoping will be more good performances than bad. Ironically, while last nights result was poor, if someone had offered me 4 points from the two away games, I would have taken it. The disappointment comes from knowing we're good enough to beat anyone, beat Norwich, and then falter against Wycombe. No disrespect to Wycombe, from the reports, it seems that without Kelvin we'd have been stuffed, but if our aspirations are to get out of this league next year, we need to learn to the basics now. This season. Iron out the niggles, learn from them, and next season we won't make the same mistakes. I can attend 5 more games this season once I move some shifts around, and I'll be at SMS, enjoying the football, enjoying the atmosphere and knowing that, despite poor results like last nights, we're on the up. UTS, don't ever drop your chins.