BARCELONASAINT

About to watch England game and all i can think about is watching Markus at Wembley in the JPT Final and seeing what it meant to him seeing his Saints triumph. I only hope that ALL Saints fans will now unite and get behind the club and stop this petty bickering that has gone on during pre-season. R.I.P Markus and thankyou from the bottom of my heart for saving my club from oblivion. UNITE TOGETHER SAINTS FANS AND SHOW THE WORLD WHAT IT IS TO BE SAINTS THROUGH AND THROUGH!!!

Gauthier Mahoto and his agent are in Southampton today. He is 18/19 yes old, plays in midfield, was on Pompeys books until about Feb this year. Don't know why he's here but his agent said he was visiting Pompey, Southampton and Birmingham!

Bloody hell it's contagious, I agree with you Alps!

The most sensible post of the day so far!!

Barnard 1-1 excellent finish!

It's been a fairly even game so with Reading just taking the lead. Bright start by Saints looking to break forward as much as possible. Very worrying to be minus 4 such influential players though!

Was going to go to this, will be the first time i've missed the last friendley off the season for many years but am now seriously considering not going.....tickets are good value if we were going to see a competitive game where it was not just all about obtaining fitness....i would have hoped we were already there or there abouts by now. I am for the first time starting to get slightly anxious about the start to the new season!

Lol at this thread

You can't win SaintRichmond, he and a minority and lets be clear on this IT IS A MINORITY can do nothing but moan moan moan.

It will upset a MINORITY, but your not far wrong!

Have no issues with his running of the club. Some might not like his style but hey ho, i doubt he signed up for a Mr popularity contest when he took on the job!

Where are all those impatient doom mongers then that have to whine and moan because we are being left behind and doing no business!!!....NC and AP showing how business should be done! Excellent capture.

I agree with you here, an explanation before the league season kicks off would be acceptable, anything else and i have to agree with you smacks off the club having little regard or respect for what went before. However i will state i am prepared at present to give the club the benifit of the doubt and that there is a good reason for the lack of the TB trophy SO FAR!!

longer than some drama queens on here!!

Ok i have just spoken to the ticket office about this and they say the only home pre-season game will be against Reading and this is NOT named the Ted Bates Trophy and the lady i spoke to has no idea why this is the case. Now i am not about to jumpup and down furiously spouting off as we have no answers at present as to why the TB game has been ditched. I am prepared to wait and see if there is an explanation and a reasonable one at that before accussing NC of being the devil incarnate!!

I agree with the point you make and if it was something like that then yes it would be OTT. However if it is something more serious i.e. a significant signing or something affecting the aqausition of land close to St. Marys then this should be confidential until all the T's are crossed and all the I's dotted.....loose tongues are the downfall of many a major deal once another interested party gets to find out!!

And to be fair thats the way it should be in any organisation. Loyalty is paramount to success and i dont care if its in football or any other business, employees should except that if they leak confidential information before their bosses want it told then they should expect to pay the consequences.

well we all know who is the biggest attention seeking queen on here!!!

Maybe they don't won't all the belly aching idiots that moan continously about every little thing on their tour!!

Alpine were you by any chance deported from the U.K. for being a typical Victor Melrose type (the most miserable git) or are you at a foreign boarding school? You have to be the most negative person I have ever come across.

The trouble with England and i mean the country as a whole is that we build ourselves up for a fall ALL THE TIME. We are a fairly average side with one or two very good players. Feel sorry for Rob Green and his inclusion is Capello's fault. The back 4 are as slow as carthorses (apart from Ashley Cole) Gerrard seemed to revel in his captaincy roll and played very well. Lampard was average. I don't think our wingers did enough and Wright-Phillips really ****es me off with his blind running. Rooney was very quiet for too much of the game...he had brief spurts of what he is capable off but not enough. I'm no fan of Heskey at all BUT i thought he was excellent apart from his sitter he missed. He won everything, his passing was excellent and his link up play was good. I would love us to go on and win the tournament but i am realistic to know we lack the qaulity and depth throughout our squad.

Although in principle this is a decent idea it will not work and it will not unite the fans. You only have to read the recent threads on here to see the diverse opinions covering many topics. An elected member will never truly represent the masses because the masses will never agree on any subject, there will always be differing opinions.

I don't need an "indication" that the club are doing something..... AP is an experienced manager and NC is no ones mug. We will hear anything when the club are good and ready to announce anything to tell.

I'm with you on this one, i can't believe how worked up some people have got in the last few weeks.

Was in the WestQuay store this afternoon and asked the staff about the new kit. They said hopefully some time this month! Personally i dont care when its released makes no odds as far as i'm concerned and cant see why some people are getting their knickers in a twist over it!