NickG

saints, league 1 £25 centre stand, ends £22 skates, premierships games, £38, wings £30, appollo stand £20

and then there were 17,000 left.....

see they got good 17,000 for their vital game today.

and the takeover is going well and hope to make announcement on Monday. all from radio

did I hear right, they have had their debt to the current owner and sasha cleared, and current owner has also given them £15m for the stadium? So are they saved?

glasgow...??

Fonte, Puncheon, Barnard all new quality signings

is there a problem with your theory?

glasgow.................................

these ones Glasgow, I take it you agree with the rest?

Radio 5 skate thing at lunch time; Q) what is the one reason that would attract an investor now? A) there isn't one - unless you are a fan there is no way anyone would put money in To finance expert Q) what is likely to happen A) could be saved, admin, or to go completely, fairly even chance of all but if you asked me which is most likely - to go completely

Glasgow, read carefully - I even give you the date the season started! So, what do you think about the questions?

still struggling Glasgow? Tell you what, if you can't answer questions why don't you make some quotes up! lol

just like Brazil

current skates team would be pleased with 10,000 in CCC next year

nope still can't answer the question then!

only two I would debate (not having seen Puncheon playing for us) are RB - think Thomas good option Barnard v Waigo. But happy with that side - guessing Waigo/Antonio are good from bench as game opens out

tempted to answer the questions?

see!

Davis Otsemobor Fonte Jaidi Harding Lallana Schneiderlin Hammond Puncheon Lambert Barnard -radio solent

Radio 5 just had half hour about them. Finished with asking for one appealing aspect for a potential investor to save the club... ... there isn't one they said. Their "expert" said it is his view that it is more than 50/50 they will close in 10 days time.

Last post to Glasgow on this (as its like debating with my kids!) We started on -10 points. In July we were still in administration (think it was around 8th that Markus bought us) Pardew was appointed 17th July We didn't have an assistant manager until 31st July We didn't have chief scout until 1st August We didn't sign Lambert until 10th August. We didn't sign Hammond, Waigo, Barnard, Jaidi, Seaborn or Connolly until later. We didn't have 1st team coach until 7th September The season started on 8th August. Pardew inherited a club with total negaitve attitude and no confidence, used to losing. We started very badly for the first 10 games. You may feel this was Pardew's fault and he should of sorted things out more quickly. I was surprised and disappointed that we did start as slowly as we did but do understand the reasons. The 10 games is a notional figure, looking at when the "excuses" above should have less effect, and when it was clear to anyone watching saints that Pardew had addressed a lot of problems and we had turned a corner. There have been two clear parts to our season, personally I do not feel the need to keep beating Pardew up over the first 10 games, although those may cost us our league season, as he has shown significant improvement (roughly going from 1 point per game to 2). Since then, and for a considerable time our form has been fairly steady. So, the team (including backroom staff) that Pardew has built has, for 18 games (a good proportion of the season) achieved 2 points per game. We have recently further strengthened the team so Pardew should be looking at at least maintaining this, if not improving it. If he does that is just about automatic promotion form for the season. After the -10, and particularly the slow start, Pardew has not once said he expected, or thought we were in the race for, promotion. Cortesse has not spoken with the echo. Cortesse's quote to the radio which has been over analysed was; When asked by reporter for his thoughts on week ahead He said - "that whilst a trip to wembley and progress in fa cup are nice things to have the reason for serious investment in the team is about getting into the league one play offs its our top priority, the latest league results have not been satisfactory against that objective and he looks forward to the team getting back to winning says against Norwich on Saturday. " The last few weeks there have been some disappointing points dropped, and some performances below what we would hope for. However the constant criticising of Pardew is, IMHO, OTT. The questions I would ask are; Is it still relevant to moan and criticise the return from the first 10 games as there has been a clear improvement since then? Do you think 2 points per game is a decent return?

sorry, thought you were talking about how our expensively acquired team was doing. last 18 league games, 35 points. So if we had had this expensively acquired team from the start of the season it would be a good bet we would have been running at the same rate - which is promotion form. It is the final league table, including all games (slow start or not) that counts for promotion etc. However, if Pardew finishes with a season where he earned over 2 points per game for all but the first 10 games, when we he had a lot to sort out then I am sure him, and Cortesse will be happy. |After all it proves that, even if slow start was partly his fault, he addressed it and built a team performing like promotion contenders.

where Glasgow's logic fails is that he is stating the team cost a fortune and is not in top 6, but since we have spent the money and had the team together our form has been around the two points per game mark, i.e. same as leeds for the season.

18,655 so far this season - but rate this thread is going, and rate than fans are deserting them - can't be long!