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The Les Reed Colesum with Britannia Road renamed Kruger Way leading up to a A statue of Les like Christ the redeemer, arms outstretched looking over his empire.

They were right to keep him on, it was a different time then, we played good football and you always felt it would turn around. Despite the poor form I don't remember many fans wanting Nicholl sacked. The following season was one of the best attacking teams I've ever seen. 4-2-4 at times, Le Tissier, Rideout, shearer and Wallace up front running rings round the the opposition. We scored 3 or more goals on numerous occasions. It was the season after when fans started to turn on him after we failed to live up to the 89/90 season heights. Then we hired Branfoot, be careful what you wish for.

Good interview. Refreshingly waffleless from Ralph apart from his weird championship type winning feeling comment. Good he didn't make excuses, mistakes made, also intimated Pellegrino wasn't up to it without saying as much. Good questions from Blackmore, really rate him, asked a lot of questions and made points fans have been saying for a while.

Someone on the TUI described the premier league as a division of 6 Harlem Globertrotters and 14 Washington Generals. Ie 14 lambs to the slaughter for benefit of the global TV audience, which I thought was a pretty bang on assessment. So this season? Will it be 7th, 15th or 17th or 20th? Either way and despite what mental, pedantic Matthew says, the league below the top 6 is poor. We should just be the stooges for the top 6 and if anyone does try to stop them doing their tricks then prepare to be patronised by Crooks, Murphy, Redknapp etc for having the audacity to stand up to them.

Les is so incompetent he couldn't get us relegated when we looked certain for it a few weeks ago.

He lives near me and see him in the gym regularly. His lad was in there the other day getting changed after swimming and was wearing a saints top. He's a top bloke is david Prutton, always has a chat and very fond of saints. Gareth Southgate also goes there and he's a lovely fella too. Always chats to my lad when he seems him, he's only 5 and doesn't really understand what it means to be the England manager except he should play for England because he's the fastest and can beat Ruben and Henry and Lightning McQueen

Exactly.we've got three of those already.

Some people still appreciate him

Sad day really. End of an era. We will never see the likes of him and ferguson again. It went a bit sour for him at the end but he's been a great manager and produced one of the greatest sides we've ever seen.

Make of this what you will

We deserve to be relegated for having grown me in our end waving signs asking for shane longs shirt.

I remember that well. In the run they’d been boasting about how they had 100 at the last England away game (Slovakia?) and no scummers anywhere, those they had seen had sh*t themselves and disappeared. They were Going on about what they were going to do in Southampton at the next game. A very small, sorry looking lot hid all day and like you say got escorted by double police through st Mary’s, loads of saints out that day. There have been loads of other times when they were meant to turn up, the Saturday night before the cup game in 1996, a few London away games, last game at the dell v Brighton there was a rumour they were in the victory and heading up towards the ground which was bullsh*t, can’t remember where that started from but I remember hearing it. I heard a great story a few years back from a proper old school Chelsea skin from the 70s. Said they (Chelsea) came to Southampton in large numbers for a game in the early 70s and a a group of Pompey were waiting at the station, when they got off they asked if they could join them, they were promptly told where to go and chased all through the station into town. He said They could have beaten linford Christie that day I think I’m right in saying the did turn up a few times in the 80s though, Southampton common one bank holiday, an u21 game at the Dell and when we played Millwall at the Dell mid 80s. They are all before my time though.

Hi mate. I see a few others have already pointed out they're not appreciative of your hard work here. Some didn't even watch it! However I did, but can you do us a favour a point out the bits that show the great st Mary's atmosphere and whst bits you're proud of, because from what I saw it looked like you talking bollo*cks and then singing into your camera for a bit. I'm sure im missing something,

Or that he clearly has talent, remember that Sunderland game.

Looks like we did.

but apart from being able to head, tackle, mark, organise and lead what other qualities does a good defender really need?

I'm surprised the five pledges weren't discussed. This is after all one of Ralphs biggest gambit to appease an unhappy fan base and right the wrongs of the last two years. After the disappoint of the semi final defeat and a must win game fast approaching now would be the perfect time for Ralph to release the pledges in a well timed shot in the arm to the club as a whole. Not only would it galvanise the beleaguered fan base it would not doubt inspire the players to go on the winning run needed to secure or status as a premier league club.

Is that the five pledges in Ralph's pocket?

Why are you moaning? You got to watch mahrez and vardy.

Where did you see that? So that's Lemina, Boufal and Gabbiadini all causing problems and Carrillo not even good enough for the bench

Personally i'm not interested in who the other team is or who plays for the other team. Would I rather see us play a Man City with De Bruyne, Aguero, Kompany, etc or with them all out injured? Without them every day of the week, because we'd have more chance of winning. And damn right, give me a season of games where we've got a great chance of winning every week, rather than going there with the attitude as you put it "no shame in getting dicked as we aren't expected to win anyway" As a saints fan there is far more pleasure in seeing saints win 1-0 against Stoke than losing 5-0 against Man City, but hey, the stadium was nice and I got to take a nice picture of Sterling when he took a corner and Aguero, isn't he amazing, it's an honour to breathe the same air as him. Like I said, you're a consumer, in your posts it's all about value for money, the quality of the football, even if Saints getting smashed you've still enjoyed seeing other players run rings round us, then to cap it all claim that it's deluded to think Saints fans might actually enjoy seeing games where we've got a decent chance of winning more often than we don't.

Seems to me given what you'll miss about the premier league all you're interested in are the other teams anyway. Pay £700 to watch some of the best players in the world, go to quality modern stadiums and get to see plucky little saints get a draw against some of the worlds biggest teams. It's all about who the other team are, who is playing for the other team and where the other team plays. You ain't a saints fan mate, you're a premier league consumer.

He would have had to have said he didn't see it in his report. If he sees it and for whatever reason decided not to give a free kick then the Premier League cant use retrospective action. Quite how he missed it from 5 yards away is another matter which shows an incredible level of incompetence, or he's a liar. I think it's the latter to be honest.

The days when people complained that 8th, 7th, 6th, 8th and cup finals was described as nothing to be proud of The days when people would proclaim they wanted "Champions league or nothing" The days when the league cup was beneath us The days when we could qualify for the champions league because they said man would never walk on the moon/climb Everest the constant wailing and *****ing that we weren't "pushing on to the next level"

19 minutes. The Cortese klaxon in over drive today