hypochondriac

Not hungry enough.

The Paul Allen takeover days were more fun.

But sadly after the next couple of games we will be in the bottom three. He needs to go I'm afraid and we need to see if anyone can save us because as it stands we are down.

So frustrating yet again.

Do you mean players that haven't had a chance yet? Or the usual ones that have been rubbish for ages? Really annoyed about gabbi.

Imagine pretending to work for the CPS to try to give your mad views some legitimacy!

Cedric has absolutely been one of our worst players this season.

It's a stupid list. Long is infinitely worse than ings.

Hopefully the decision on pellegrino was down to Les and we will be more decisive without him in the future.

Just to be clear I didn't mock the day, I mocked the clubs response to the day because rather like a lot of things the club does it pays a lot of lip service to things but in reality does pretty much the bare minimum which suggests it really doesn't care all that much and is doing it for PR reasons. If it comes out subsequently that the club have donated a bunch of money for charity or something then I will retract what I said and apologise but on the face of it it looks like another cynical pr move on the clubs part. It seems you felt that I was mocking the idea of raising awareness of transgender discrimination and violence which I explicitly was not doing. Just thought that was worth clearing up. With regards to your other points I don't think it's helpful to get into a big disagreement as I already said.

I can't speak for others but personally all I've heard about since the advent of social media has been the hurdles and obstacles of transgender people. The media at large has also been celebrating them for years now. I'd be very surprised if the general public didn't have a fairly good grasp of transgender issues. I don't think flying a flag or actually highlighting these things is going to encourage empathy in the sort of brainless morons that think it's acceptable to beat someone up or kill someone because they happen to be transgender. There's definitely better actions the club could have taken if they did genuinely care about issues and weren't just doing it to look progressive on social media.

Well that's an unsurprisingly hostile response, suggesting that I was lying and then asking me what my problem is for voicing an opinion--with some swearing added in for good measure. Sadly that's indicative of the type of response you get from certain factions that can't countenance a difference of opinion on this subject. I won't push you further though as it's obviously something you're sensitive about with your sister being transgender. It's just unfortunate that you'd immediately jump to inferences of bigotry on my part simply because I suggested there were more effective things the club could do than waving a flag. It's also undeniable that transgenderism brings with it a mental health component so I'm not sure what you're trying to argue there.

I've added to my post above but the twitter post from the club makes clear that the flag is designed to acknowledge those who have been killed due to anti-transgender violence. If the flag is not for that but is in fact to support transgender people in general then that is perhaps more understandable even if I still think it's a bit pointless. Maybe the club should be clearer with their communication. I don't see why there is a particular need for Southampton football club to send a positive message aimed specifically at transgender people. I haven't seen anything from the club in the past that suggests it is in anyway anti transgender so I don't know who this message is aimed at. To your knowledge are there hordes of transgender Southampton supporters that were labouring under some misapprehension that the club were hostile to them before this flag was erected? If there is evidence of bigotry towards transgender people or indeed anyone really at sfc then it needs robustly challenging but with the admittedly limited exposure I have had to transgender people they haven't appeared to me to be pathetic wallflower types that need a flag to feel safe at a venue even if that's how the media likes to portray them by focusing on the insane ones.

Hold on the flag wasn't to acknowledge and welcome transgender people it was to honour those killed by anti transgender violence which on the surface seems to be an incredibly small number of people in the UK. Additionally, by simply flying a pointless flag it just comes off as tokenism. I'd actually support the club donating to a mental health charity in the name of transgender supporters but flying a flag and boasting about it on twitter just seems foolish. Oh and its not really relevant to the discussion on transgender awareness day but since you brought it up, the openly gay friends I have really resent being lumped in with other gay people and transgenders with the lgbt thing. They are individuals with differing opinions and disagree with transgender people on a whole range of issues such as the definition of a woman for instance.

Agreed. We definitely need more transgender footballers to increase representation in the sport.

According to Wikipedia it looks like about one unlawful transgender death a year in the UK. As someone has pointed out on twitter, more people are killed by bees...

I heard that someone forgot to flush and the club stuck a little cocktail flag with the club crest on it for world toilet day.

It's because the club is secretly bigoted against agent orange victims.

Personally I'm pleased that the club have finally taken this step but annoyed that it's taken them so long. I've been lobbying them for ages to fly the anti violence against transgenders flag. I always had a sneaking suspicion that the club were in fact closet transgender violence supporters so its a relief to know that that clearly isn't the case. Thank goodness!

Ohi think we tried to get them but I also think we leaked our interest so fans could see we tried to attempt to calm reactions. It's the same with the supposed legal action over Toby.

In January the Walcott and promes leaks absolutely distracted the fans and didn't lead to much discontent up until the window closed and it was then too late. I expect the leaks are for both reasons.

It's all a giant con. May has failed horrifically and so we must stay in.

That's another one to add to the list of rubbish that saints leak to the fans.

Rubbish. Using that logic why didn't we brief that we were interested in Ronaldo in the summer?