Turkish

+1. How lucky we are the have an owner like her. Not scared to make tough decisions with the best interests of the club at heart.

It's not though is it. What's childish is people screaming and wailing like spoilt little brats when there was a bit of stormy weather. Not having the backbone to stay calm. All summer this sort of stuff was going on, boycotts, protests, meltdowns etc etc. That was childish. Some didn't wobble and backed the club, reserving judgement like we were asked too, those that did this are well within their rights to ask the question now of those that were slamming the club all summer.

There would be big problems with us being run like dortmund of course. Firstly win or lose the fans stay behind to applaud the team, at St Mary's, win or lose, half the fans are streaming out of the exits by the end of the game. Secondly, without the cheap beer a lot of our fans are already heading to the concourses on 35 minutes, with the promise of cheep beer, I doubt many of them will even make it to their seats. Thirdly, Unlike us Dortmund fans don't have to contend with roadworks on the m27 or A33, train engineer works, the weather, bank holidays, school holidays, two home games in a week, valentines day, surprise birthday parties for their great aunts and having to get home for x-factor all things that have prevented people attending in the past, so it's no surprise they can get these sort of crowds.

I got absolutely slammed for this at the time but I said all this and that Adkins wouldn't last much long. The fact was Cortese went absolutely nuts after the Reading game and that from then on Akdins was on borrowed time and to he search from his replacement was well under way. Of course this wasn't true, Adkins was great, the new Alex ferguson, Cortese was god, Turkish is nothing more than a troll with an agenda etc. Yet hindsight shows Turkish was bang on as usual.

the metldown continues.......

The few games i have watched when there have literally been nothing else on have been most amusing. The goalkeepers are hilarious, It reminds me of under 9s football when any shot over head height either ends up in the net or with the keeper frantically flapping at the ball and hoping it doesn't hit them in the face.

Doesn't sue whistle play football? I'm sure I saw her mention it once. Perhaps she could get involved in setting a team up?

Why would anyone do that?

There are few things more irritating than a woman at football. Apart from the vast majority being unattractive and stupid when it comes to talking about the game, they are even denser than the 'get it fooooooorwarrrd' brigade. One used to sit behind me in the kingsland, spent the first half of Lamberts first season shouting 'go on Richie Lampard, kick it' every five minutes. When they are not showing themselves as utterly clueless about the game they are getting moist at the sight of their current flavour of the months arse cheeks in his shorts. Generally there are three types of women at football, the geezer bird who is vulgar and best ignored. The sad desperate, insecure type that can't bare their chap to enjoy a day out without her so insist on coming with him, ruining his day and social life in the process. And the single girl who thinks a football stadium will be a good place to pick up men. They have no place inside a football ground, particularly when the match is sold out as it means there is a good lad sitting in a pub somewhere missing out due to a sad, insecure, vulgar or girl on the pull taking his place.

So if we were to use your late buyers theory then what is to stop those that buy on a match by match basis simply waiting until the day before the game to buy their ticket, knowing full well that it'll be £35 on Monday or a tenner on Saturday? Then that day you'd have 5000 people ringing, emailing the ticket office or using the website, over working the ticket office too late to send tickets out and huge queues on match days with people trying to collect their cheap tickets. It'd be a nightmare logistically. Take it a step further and season ticket holders could well give up their season ticket which costs them £700 to go match by match knowing that they'll only be paying a tenner if they're smarter. The club would lose a fortune. Whilst people are paying the high prices clubs will all them at a high price. 29000 people paying £35 is better than 32,000 people paying £20.

I'll be fine with it when there is a Football Manger women's version.

First off I'm not sure where this myth has come from that southampton is an affluent area. The surrounding areas are like most big cities. Southampton itself is very much a working class city. Secondly Regardless of if you like it or not or if people think it's over priced or not the fact that for most games the ground is at least 90% full. Which suggests that from a business perspective the price us bang on. The only way prices will come down is if people on mass stop paying them. Thirdly it's Funny how MLG has shut up about his 50000 stadium now after banging on for years about how we'd be selling out easily every week if we had a good team with internationals in the the top half of he table.

Everybody in china, Indian, Japan and Thailand wears the wales home shirt. Wales are massive in Asia. FACT.

It's not a joke, it's the Cheetah effect. Tis a well known theory over here. Have a look.

However exciting the media they try and make out I always let out a little sigh when they mention women's football.

Yes. Was back of the Milton and everyone covered their eyes when they saw ruddock was taking it. 89th minute pen when rod Wallace was taken out by their keeper. 2 minutes after the goal le Tiss got the ball and wacked it out of the ground over the wall area in the Milton to basically end the game, the cheer for that was almost as loud as the cheer for the goal.

Incorrect. The vast majority of clubs suffer a dip in form after the manager receives the award. It's like players winning MOM, they usually suffer a dip in form after the accolade. It's been scientifically proven, it's called the cheetah effect.

Not really. Both will be legends of the club. Ted is now, Les will be looked back on as one. The man that guided us from L1 to the premier league. Appointed a succession of excellent mangers. Negotiatied the transfers of top notch incoming players that with a fantastic ROI, whilst extrapulating exhorbitant fees for over rated, egotisitcal dickwads. Oversaw the rise of our academy to be the greatest in Europe and finally and most recently guided us through choppy waters and into calmer sees. I suggest a statue facing Ted with the words "if you can keep your head when all men doubt you......" engraved on it.

I love the way he looks at Adrian Chiles like he wants to rip him apart when he starts talking bo*locks.

England could have a decent team in a few years time, the problem is what credible England manager is there? Pardew? Redknapp? Arguably the best man for the job is Paul Clement who has never even been a manger. There really isn't an English manager who deserves the job, so we'll have to go foreign which will start all the dinlows off on the England manager should be English crusades again.

Love that footage of him ranting at Shearer whilst he didn't take a backward step. Remember hearing an interview with Keith Gillespie about the little set two he and Shearer had whilst on a preseason tour when he offered Shearer outside and promptly got ironed out, said it was a big mistake, he was a tough man was shearer, reckon he'd have done Keane.

I hope you enjoy your trip to St Mary's my friend. As a guest of the club you'll be fine, however you do need to be aware that The atmosphere at St Mary's will be like no other you have experienced. St Mary's is a real cauldron of hate, a venomous, poisonous atmosphere where opposition players and fans are often beaten before they take to the pitch. Southampton is also home for one of the most notorious football firms in Europe, the DEF as they are known or to give them their full name the Dell Elite Force, taking their name from the Dell, our old ground and their inspirational leader who goes by the terrace name Del Bianco, one of Europes deadliest men. The DEF are a hand picked mob of battle hardened warriors who have earned their reputation on its terraces, ably supported by our youth firms that strike fear into the hearts of the pubs and terraces up and down the country. Enjoy your trip but just remember 'not even god can stop the DEF'

Eh? Only 7 of the 21 man squad came from London clubs.

World class dummy there from Rooney, he really is a class act.

We could mix it up by announcing the surname and we all shout the first name. Saints fans already excel at this with 'steeeeve' so shouldn't be too big an ask. I'm sure it'll make the atmosphere electric.