David Strover

Burnley 3 Southampton 0 possibly 3-0 down at halftime. We are ****e and it's about time we started to see this clearly. Things might start getting better when some of the rose-tinted spectacles come off.....

Who cares? It'll be the same performance....Burnley don't lack muscle do they?

I thought we'd get relegated. I also thought we wouldn't win as many games as we have so we are doing marvellously. In all honestly it's fairly certain we are going to get relegated. Just be watching any televised game you can see we are a team of boys playing against men, there is no team spirit, no killer instinct, no tough-guys and - oh - we can't defend too....also we have a divisive chairman who has split the fan base and we are in financial poo because of a stadium deal put in place by a divisive chairman who has split the fan base and blames everyone else for the current problems. We're down. Get used to it now and it won't seem so bad come April.

Just as well England's current goalkeeper (who apparently is the 'obvious' choice) doesn't make too many well publicised howlers. Phew! Dodged a bullet there England fans.

Seeing as we can't defend very well, miss numerous chances during games and most telling of all cannot win at home I'd say we were in the biggest pile of sh*te we've been in for a long time. Of course our team are young and will get better......once we are playing at their correct level. Next season.

So the answer is just turn up every week and say "We're gonna win this game easy and we're gonna walk this league", no matter what happens on the pitch every game and every thing will be all right. When we get relegated to League One (Division Three for a reality check, just one division away from Salisbury City) this will be the mantra that Lowe and his cronies will trot out. Whatever happens it will NOT BE THEIR FAULT. Then the alarm went off....

A magnificent and scary looking (for us not the opposition I might add): P W D L GF GA Pts gdif 9 1 3 5 7 12 6 -5 1. What happened to fortress St Mary's 2. Is it any wonder people stay away. No team with that home record would attract big crowds - especially playing limped wristed football. I hear Norwich spouted about as an example of what our supporters should be like - yet even they served up a 5-2 win over Wolves. If we have a seven goal game at SMS at least four of them will be in our net. All those numbers say to me is hello League Division Three (old money)! From whence we came so shall we return!

It's actually been 'soccer' in this country since organised football began. Rugger - rugby union football Soccer - association football. Currently it's just not popular to call it soccer that's all.

Or to make it clearer. When was the last time Southampton were two goals adrift at half-time and won the match?

Hmmm Gillette Soccer Saturday have also said: "All a bit powder puff" "Six wins in the last thirty-three Championship games" Then people come on this Forum and say they can't understand why some sections of fans are thoroughly ****ed off. Hmmmmm I wonder why?

I see Satellite is there posting his comments after the article. You have to read what he says carefully but if you study his words you'll find he has been watching Saints for 65 years and he thinks Rupert Lowe is a great bloke...oh yeah and the current plight of the club can squarely placed on the shoulders of many by which I mean me and you folks - the supporters! Thinking about it I think he might be Rupert Lowe-Life posting under pseudonym.

I would imagine this season it will be a seven goal drubbing at some ground and possibly a good five goal hammering at home to someone - and not necessarily against the clubs at the top either. No doubt it will some how contrive to be a talking point in the press for some reason. I'm afraid I believe we have many, many more humiliations to come before this road has come to it's long and winding end.

Shilton's nickname? Dracula - frightened of crosses - like it or not I heard that when he was playing because I was around in those days (unlike some). Richard Wright? He's only made three howlers this season two of which have been late in the game and cost points. Kelvin's howler 'that cost us the game' against QPR (two season's ago) came right on half-time - we only had 45 minutes to get an equaliser but obviously everyone prefers a team that scores one goal and that's enough. This season if Kelvin makes a mistake it's gonna cost us the game because we couldn't score in a brothel with our pants stuffed full of tenners.

Did you see Morgan today? Can you imagine our powder-puff players having the brass balls to even get within ten feet of him with the ball? I reckon you'll see some brilliant fast passing on Tuesday as our babies try to get rid of the ball really quickly when the United Neanderthals bear down on them! As for Beattie he'll get at least two, after all Best and Blackstock have and Beattie is probably a better forward than either of them. Oh and we are really **** too.

Try about four of five of these in the season and relentless home defeats and see how much you enjoy it. I know what you mean though but sometimes that laughter is the only thing that stops you from crying. Just standing/sitting in the crowd watching your hopeless team colliding with each other and giving away goals every couple of minutes soon loses it's appeal. Funnily enough taking it the opposition and winning home and way doesn't!

To be honest it hasn't been for some while now. As soon as Strachan left is when the fun went out of it and I don't think it's gonna be 'fun' for some time to come. What people forget is football is actually an 'entertainment' and so if you don't enjoy it and it makes you continually miserable don't go. All this loyalty stuff is ****** to be honest. Why make yourself unhappy for a couple of hours every weekend? It's not just about winning it's about having a good couple of hours at a football match too. Who can say they've had that in the last two seasons at SMS? Still now Rupert is back we have turned the corner with his 'bold experiment'...... FFS!

Oh how I do wish it was but 1-0 at half time. I can't wait the read the post match comments on this one. If this is Saints 'up for it' and 'looking to put things right' feck knows what it would be like if they were apathetic and bit lacklustre. I can only see things getting worse too! Oh what fun it is to be a Saints fan eh?

I'll be in Lisbon so I am looking forward to Saturday, plus I'm keeping away from TVs!

It's a very overused statement that is devaluing but I have to say: Fair play to you! You're more of a man than me.....another 15,000 like you and we'd be okay!

As newly installed CEO of this business Mr Lowe's job was to cut costs and makes sure those people who hold the businesses debts were satisfied. In this he has completed his job although this part of cost saving is very, very easy. The Americans love it and named it 'downsizing' a few years ago (although the Harvard Business School trained gentlemen who started the whole thing off has since come out and said it was a bad idea after all - oops!) but another big part of being CEO of this business is attracting more 'customers' and possible 'investors' by producing a product that everyone wants and is better than the other businesses you compete with. In this he has failed - the product is so poor that the business is the third worst performing in it's market and no new customers are on the books, in fact long-term existing customers are leaving. I think this CEO is staring down the barrel of a loaded gun and as everything so far completed has been fully implemented by himself he has to take the sole blame. He is the CEO of this business - no one else. Oh and personally I do not like the man one iota but this doesn't really affect the above.

Being a Saints fan it's always been a case of, "You draw some, you lose some".

I don't mean to be controversial but this is the most irritating expression I keep hearing on the Saints Forum(s). Keep the 'king Faith? I've done that for about five or six seasons and where has it got us? Right here. We are at bottom of the The Championship because we are the worst performing team in The Championship and after tomorrow night it won't surprise me if we are still there. I then predict the club will act and try to 'put things right' when it's all too late (February) and by then the only real people to suffer will be as usual the fans.... It's great fun being a Southampton supporter - as Jasper Carrott once said about being a Birmingham supporter "You draw some, you lose some". Ironically he's seen more winning games than any of us have in the last ten years!

Hmm yeah......'if my aunty had nuts she be my uncle'. This is all irrelevant. The maximum we can get from the next two games is six points we are likely to not get any. I think Saints sitting bottom of the league by Christmas with about six points is the only thing that is likely to wake a few people up within and without the club. Still there will still be loads of happy fans because we keep passing the ball back and forth across the pitch and score one great goal whilst our opponents lash home five or six crappy ones. Success in football boils down to one thing and one thing only - winning games. No one ever remembers or cares if you win every game 1-0 and it's boring if you win every game during the season. Liverpool in the seventies - away from home they were the most boring side you'd ever see - go 1-0 up and then shut up shop. Do every hear anyone mention that in the media? Unless something changes drastically in the next few months we are going to be relegated.

It's not a case of 'no one wants to buy us' it's exactly as someone else said on this Forum anyone and I mean anyone can go into an organisation and hack and slash and cutback and save money it's fookin' easy. What a good CEO does is attract investment, make your company attractive to customers (if it is a business) and get some money flowing back into the club. How good is Lowe at that then - out of ten I'd give him about zero. Attendances down, investment - none coming in the future at all, stock of the club in a football-sense, hmmmmmm - second from bottom with a powder puff team looking pretty sh*te - next home game - lowest attendance in the flagship stadium. There's no point have a thirty-five million pound stadium with a two bob team in it - we might as well have stayed at The Dell! My opinion only of course

I see everyone's boyfriend last season Mr Wright has made yet another faux pas for Ipswich which has handed Watford three points. Posters on this forum should really watch other football games from time to time - it might give you some perspective. Only a suggestion.