Gordon Mockles

Just a lonely Internet troll desperate for attention. No-one would likely give him the time of day in the real world so he provokes people by talking sh*t as a facet for engagement. Sad really!

Well, you do know. Cos that idiot Lowe was the biggest moron to walk the earth yet had such arrogance, he thought he knew better or could learn more in 5mins than lifelong servants to the sport. What a tosser and waste of good money when you consider who the transfer fee was for!

As previously stated, would be very pleased with Danny, ESP for free & ticks all the boxes of our transfer criteria. Let us hope....

I think so too. Good shout. They'd compliment each other, surely. He must be in the radar or, at least, I hope so.

As rightly corrected, that was Adam Hamill. He must have been on the George Burley fitness regime sponsored by Jameson's. Came in skinny & full of optimism, left fat & out of shape physically & mentally. Good old George! Whoever thinks Guthrie adds nothing is clearly misguided. Much better that Hammond & an improvemt on Chaplow (who I like) & Leon Best did us a big favour bringing him in. Was sorry to see Guthrie go. Experience in PL, young & hungry for football AND free, seems to tick all our transfer policy boxes & ex Saints, something to prove. Sounds ideal. Love to see him link up with Morgan as someone astutely pointed out. Yes please.

Jay Rod would be a good signing. Yakubu I am not keen on due to attitude possibly being ex Skate but lots of others have made the transition and he's a definite goal scorer. How many strikers do we need? I am fairly sure Barnard and Sharp are down the pecking order so maybe merely back up. Would Hooper still be in contention if we got Rodriguez?! I think Guthrie would be an excellent shout and rated him highly last time he was here and he did well for us. Was sorry to see him go. Just what we need in midfield. Would be nice to see some more strength down the right side, both defensively and midfield cos that's an area of weakness for us imho.

Could have sworn there was a pedant or 2 on here with nothing better to do other than deride other people's posts!

Like that kit. Quite liked an old mock up shown on here that was very much like the old Rank Xerox kit. That was a classic. Still have the Saints Hummel and Coventry Hummel (FA Cup winning) kits. Loved that Danish style kit. Kid at school came in with it one day and I thought it was the best kit I'd ever seen!!

Kevin Davies (hate the surname Davis and Davies - too confusing!!) would be a very good shout. Mentality wise, influence, timing, etc. Him and Rickie too similar maybe?! Certainly great back ups to one another to avoid losing a certain system. Both great at holding up play, target men, drifting wide bringing others into play, both strong as an ox. I reckon he'd love being back with Saints too. Kenwyn can f*ck right off. Reusing to play for us. We don't want any of the modern footballer attitude anywhere near our club and robust mentality. PL and the over-paid playboy's playground will test that resolve with some I am sure through association!

Criticiee away, it's a chat forum. Don't worry about the trolls or les miserables on here. I'm chuffed Cortese runs the club well and I am hugely pleased Markus and Nicola set up a successful structure to lead us back to the top flight. For that alone, I am eternally grateful. Let alone the Academy and desire to build and hold onto our youth - finally (a far cry from the Football Farm of yester-year, selling every player hitting form, playing an entire squad of kids and expecting success and the general destruction emanating from the dark lord which it has taken 7 dark years to resolve). News and fan communication could be better but I'd rather silence than sycophantic dross, Chairman's ego, fickle fan manipulation and hollow sentiment. Ticket issues have been slow but there could be the automated element being installed which would have a bearing. We are always slow though which aint ideal. As a side note, whilst I'm grateful for promotion (massively), never worry about openly criticising someone. No-one is absolved from it. After all, despite our success, Nicola is allegedly not the nicest or most empathetic guy in the world (hard that may be for some to bear. Sorry Nicola - be a bit nicer and I'll retract that and you'll get the nice comments your character deserves - patronising as that may be! LOL).

What a great thread. Was this a failed market push to help The Pink or just a hypothetical conversation avoiding actually illustrating the content online? Kind of renders it pointless in that respect. You'd make a lousy journalist but a good Freemason!

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I have thought for a while & still do that the Reading match will be a title deciding match!

Quite possibly but I was pretty incensed by it to be honest. Maybe I'm over-reacting but absolutely no need. Attitudes & behaviour like this ruins the fabric of the game.

If clubs are rightly fined for racist chants, Cantona endured the sh*t storm for kung-fu kicking a fan, then Ricardo Rocha should certainly be disciplined for kicking an out of play ball from the touch line straight into the faces of fans sat in The Northam. He smashed the ball into the crowd in anger - that's assault in my eyes & there's no room in the game for that. Disgusting behaviour. I love football but some of the attitudes from these overpaid, arrogant scum bags leaves a lot to be desired (fans & players alike). I'm no prude nor over zealous health & safety afficianado but that action imcensed me, many of the fans too so it seemed. That ball could have hit anyone, mother, child, someone in glasses (I've seen the damage from misplaced shots during shooting practice)...some families do bring babies although I think sitting near the front, in the first 8 or so rows is not the wisest action. Nevertheless, I saw Rocha got yellow carded to add to his forlorn disciplinary record but I think The League should take umbridge with the club for this matter to set out there is no room in the game for actions like this. Having said that, iif they fined the club, it would probably send them bankrupt!! Disappointed with the final score but I was outraged by Rocha's behaviour. Tarnishes the name of football. I doubt you'd see that in a rugby match. The worst you'd get in other sport is probably some numpty going for an afternoon dip on the Thames during a boat race!!

I can't believe no matter what the tragedy, petty people find fault & a window of opportunity to moan or criticise about something, detracting from the general sentiment of goodwill. I for one am glad Fabrice is showing signs of recovery & I honestly couldn't give a flying f**k how much tax people pay. Yes, thoughts are held for all cardiac patients, ALL patients in general & those like my Dad who was ambulanced to hospital Saturday (suffering a long term illness). However, the intimation & slur that sharing sympathy over a very public & evocative sporting tragedy is somehow overlooking the thousands out of the public eye is nothing short of ridiculous. Get over yourself!

An impact player is harsh & unfair. He's done enough to warrant a start, hence Saturday & it looks as though it wasn't a mistake by Adkins. He shows signs of being quite a player, his work rate & determination are superb. Positional play fantastic. He should have finished a few chances but same can be said for Sharp who's also miss controlled quite a few passes but look at his scoring record. They'll all come good. We've quite a strike force now.

Really, how juvenile and petty!

Skate t*sser, what do you expect. Much like you'd never hear a Skate talk about financial prudence & friendly rivalry. It's not in their breeding! In fairness, the club was only ever used a mechanism to get him to the plateau on which he now resides. It's down the club to tempt the individual to stay with a series of well placed benefits, bonuses, financial rewards & otherwise in line with our sustainable projections but loyalty is a lonely bed fellow to modern day football. It's a bit off not even mentioning us but once a Skate....and bear in mind Cortese's parting swipe which was a bit school playground and petty, that won't encourage good feeling (having left the club after not playing any higher than the 3rd tier of English football).

That would be classic. We should all wear jester hats to the Derby match at St Mary's. Was that a plan? If not, should be!! They are such a joke. I have no sympathy for the club anymore because they have simply not learnt and made no attempt to fix the wage structure and under-current of incompetency, still stupid enough to pay PL wages - well done to the execs and management, irrespective of owners. It's the small businesses I worry about being stitched thousands while the players lord it (they've STILL not paid Jimmy Case for his public speaking ages back - If I were Jimmy, I'd do it again, but add a massively patronising & belittling caveatt just to make my point! ;o) Skates took the p*ss, fielding loan players like O Hara helping them get results yet they couldn't pay them - illegal in FA rules I would think. When you look at Luton and the terrible treatment, fines and punishment they had, it really doesn't bode well, highlights the corridors of power in football must be wonky and with many short cuts & this exasperates othe clubs purely in how the Ports MOUTH have taken the p*ss, talked the talk but in fact done f**k all to rectify issues and they largely got away with much of it, worse still not learnt. Hope buying the FA Cup was worth it. They're ridden their luck to the brink and now deserve everything they get, I am sorry to say. Not bitter, just dismayed at the stupidity. Maybe not the fans' fault but there needs to be some semblance of responsibility, competency and diligence shared as a club, in good times and bad. Like Saints, 3 key traits which evaded our club management for 2 decades!! (responsibility, competency and diligence). Thank god for Markus or it could have been us, despite Rupert's best (worst) attempts. Sh*t finger as we refer to him. Everything Lowe touched, turned instantly into sh*t yet the deluded maniac believed himself some Messiah. Arrogance really is a blinding character trait!! Back to the OP, I admit some of our fans are shocking and premdominantly the wonderful youth element (although not exclusively) giving us yet another thorn to the name of Southampton (not that So'ton as a city has that great a rep, fairly mundane imho yet thinks the night life is on par with London *cough*) Sad state of a significant portion of our football fan base (in general) and shocking in comparison to gentlemanly rugby fans (but football a far more exciting game imho) but this isn't about Broken Britain before I go off on my usual tangent! LOL Not one to digress. OOPS!!!

Clearly, Sibley's definition of excitement is much lower and different to mine!

I like Danny Baker about as much as I like Rodney Marsh! Both complete c***s in other words!!

Since we now have Sharp (for a bargain and a signing I am happy with, for the record), I still stand by my theory. I don't think we were ever in the running for Hooper and I don't think we have as much money available as previously made out. The evidence for that, Puncheon coming back to the club when it looked liked he would never play again, Lee came on a free although the club kept that quiet, then we signed Sharp for a very good price. I think a certain amount of suspicion is entitled when the club previously painted a picture otherwise but it's old news now. If we look likely for promotion, new fees may become available (or will need to be if we're expected to win a handfull of games) and these will need to be substantial. All I am saying is, the club intimated we were looking and active in the transfer market which we were but the reality of actually landing all of those players was clearly a false dawn and we had likely only intended on a small number of low cost transfers which, in essence, is exactly what happneded. Hardly a conspiracy. More a case of smoke and mirrors to keep the fans onside. The club did the same last season. I noticed it, as did others. Anyway, as i say, old news......

In total agreement. The injuries have perpetuated the situation but we are definitely prevented from playing the way we did earlier in the season which tests the metal of the manager and so far, an adequate contra tactic has not proved effective. Being fair, injuries have no helped so we must reserve judgment.....and support the team and do NOT f*ckin BOOOOO!!! It's embarrassing and opposition fans must think "SPOILT W**KERS" with fans berating a team in our position. Sense of perspective.