Millbrook Saint

Yeah I agree, trouble is as soon as we do well our key personnel are taken from us, I could handle it being big clubs but everton for ****s sake, another has been club with ideas above their station, they're like that little kid at school who hangs with the cool kids hoping it will reflect on them.

Trouble is aren't you slightly ****ed off that we continually get ****ed in the ass. It's all well and good coming out with crap like we have to be self funding but I don't really care about that, do you think Man City fans care, do you think Chelsea fans care. I'm fed up with taking the moral high ground saying stuff like we can build again, the club knows what it's doing. Then when other clubs do their business unsettling our employees in the press we just talk about having more class, well you know what **** that, when did Mr Nice Guy win anything, they just tend to get walked over. Would much rather the owner had more of an ego and took this sort of thing personally and said right enough is enough I'm not having this anymore.

You ****ing *****, ****s like you always on the lookout to show off their pc credentials by insinuating other people are racist are the problem. Why don't you disappear back up your own arsehole

That's more like it, don't think our owners have anything on our local councillors though that could help persuade them to do this for us though

Maybe we should do a West Ham and approach the city council, offering the use of St. Marys as a music stadium to host large gigs in the South. We can then ask them to fund an increase of the stadium to 50,000

Probably a way to sneak the sweaties in

The whole thing ****ing stinks, sell your ground at London prices, instant £100 million windfall at least, get the tax payer to build a nice shiny stadium so you don't have to spend none of your nice windfall on boring things like stadium finance, nah just buy players with it. Then undercut every premier league team in the country for season ticket prices, claiming that you are now some massive club. All done with other peoples money which you don;t have to pay back. Oh and yes we could sell a hell of a lot more tickets if we cut the prices in half. My 2 lads late teens would be able to afford a season ticket each, plus my daughter just turned 12 would get one as I can't afford to buy her one this season as her age has reached the threshold.

Agree with that, look what west ham did with Payet when he started looking like he may be poached. I think part of the problem is we sell the club to the players as a stepping stone to bigger clubs.

Van gaal are you mental, he'd be one hell of a downgrade on Koeman

Don't think it's a case of not trusting the board, more the case that they may be a little tight on the wages front. The Daily Star had a list of players wages the other day, Wanyama was £34,000 a week, Mane £45,000 week. Now I don't want us to go mad but surely if West ham can afford over £100,000 a week for Payet, our top players should be paid nearer that, until we do then we're going to be easy pickings for other clubs. Even West Ham.

Oh it works for one person don't worry about that..... and that person would be Ronald Koeman. Think we need to act tough on this and not be strung along like in the past, give him a deadline to sign, by say the end of the season, if not signed put him on gardening leave for the rest of his contract and find someone else before pre season, hopefully the club have contingency plans drawn up already. Won't we don't need is the usual crap about we're confident he'll sign and we'll talk at the end of next season followed by shock when he doesn't sign and panic as we start searching for a manager. Followed by the usual players being signed at the end of the transfer window, then 6 months as players and manager get used to each other. But then if an idiot from Millbrook can think of that, I'm sure the club have worked it out.

Anyone watching via premier league pass, the commentator with Andy Townsend said, 'the Tottenham anthem being sung by their fans' when they were singing oh when the saints. Found that quite annoying, I wonder when history will be rewritten to it always have been their song and we copied them

Exactly, isn't part of the problem at the moment the fact that anyone can cross our borders from Europe without any real checks, moving out of the EU will allow us to have more rigorous checks and stop people we don't want coming in. Can only be a good thing in my opinion. So what if it takes a little longer to queue at airports and ports

In theory it's a good thing but in reality it hurts us, the refs know our players will give them an easy time so it's far easier to not give us the decision, if they knew they would be harangued by us they might actually think twice, I can't believe none of our players were harassing the ref today. Even against the scousers it took Tadic to run towards the linesman to get their goal disallowed

I agree about perspective, but aren't we always told better safe than sorry and if safe means stoppinig all refugees then so be it, the politicians need to work out a better way before allowinig any in. We certainly do have home grown terrorists, but shouldn't we be sorting that out before potentially importing more. We need to lock things down, sort our own problems, once that's done we can start worryiong about others, we can't just let more and more in playing roulette with our lives. I've no idea what the answer is but we have to protect our own first

The problem is I'm not interested in stats or any other ****e like that, I want my 11 year old girl to be safe, do I want her to go to London on school trips, yeah... at the moment, but it is getting worrying for me, not interested in statistics as they won;t comfort me when her beds empty. The fact of the matter is there are some terrorists hiding among the refugees, for me one is too many, I'm sorry if that offends people but this is the fault of the politicians not ours, they're the ones who ****ed up the middle east, they're the ones who caused the refugee crisis, they need to protect the people at home first, then they can worry about other people, again I'm sorry if it offends but not one of their lives is worth me losing my daughter for. Fact of the matter is, our politicians may not say we're at war, but as far as ISIS are concerned we are, that being the case should we allowing all these people into Europe and possibly Britain with no reasonable checks, i'm sure we wouldn't have let quarter of a million Germans march into the UK during world war 2 with no checks and I'm sure most germans weren't Nazis

the premier league would be better is if we cut out the cheating and all teams were forced to have equal budgets so that the rest of us aren't playing a support role to the glamour clubs and actually have a realistic chance of actually achieving something

I'm sure the 'big clubs' will think of something to help restore their god given right to be at the top of the league

Excactly, the premier league 'product' would not be as sellable around the world without them. They would still take our players, just off to a different league. The only thing they want to do is make the champions league a closed shop so that upstarts like Leicester can't get their hands on 'their' money. What next the FA cup final only allowed to be bewteen the big clubs, or maybe if a team like Leicester wins the league they have to keep playing knockout games against the big clubs until one of them beats them and are awarded the title. I dont think they'd want to leave the premier league, a European league would soon get boring and expensive for the fans, the stadiums would be half empty. The Premier League should call their bluff and threaten any club who joins a closed shop European League with expulsion.

, we'll finish between 7th and 9th, happy with that this year but would like to push on a little next year. Villa, Sunderland and Norwich He's been good, he did well when your best players were out think you'll be around 6th - 8th Payet Comes across as arrogance in the extreme, are we all supposed to believe that West Ham and only West Ham play football properly and we're all supposed to sit back in awe, bit like 'The Southampton Way', 'The Liverpool Way' and 'The insert any other club here Way' Any fan that buys in to it is a complete helmet, their club is no more special than anyone elses, except to them. Though if it makes your fans feel warm and fuzzy inside then fair play. Van Dijk has been solid this season Mane and Austin. Your chairman seems scared of him as well, don't know why he sees fit to wobble on about another clubs' player, must be worried about him. Hmm i could rant, in fact I will, it's absolutely outrageous and shady as ****, why your should your club be given a stadium far too big for them so they can reduce prices and attract more people through the gates with cheap tickets. Maybe your chairman has a few dodgy photos of some MP. You know yourself it's a shady deal and if it was Millwall getting it you'd be up in arms. That said if it happened to us I'd be all for it Koeman has done well, i thought he was losing it just before Christmas but he's pulled it back and dealt with some arrogant players 3 - 5 - 2 think we'll edge it 2-0 or 2-1

Fair enough, I just think with other clubs increasing the size of their grounds we're going to end up having an image of 'little old Southampton' again, which even now I feel the club struggles to shake off.

I agree it is, thing is the TV deals are almost making gate receipts irrelevant. I think a lot is to do with image, make the club look big, then hopefully you get more support around the world, players will enjoy playing in front of large crowds with hopefully a better atmosphere.

I tend to agree with this, most of the revenue comes from the tv deals now, money made from ticket sales is minimal in comparison. I personally think the way forward is increasing popularity around the world, if the club can project itself as a big club, showing full stadiums each week with 50,000 - 60,000 (before anyone says anything this should be a long term aim), then surely that would in turn increase our global appeal. I know it sounds fantasy land but if you make the tickets ridiculously low people would come, just say for instance matchday tickets were a tenner and season tickets £200. People would buy them, our 2 kids could afford to go so you're getting a whole generation of people involved again who can't afford to go now, this would have the added benefit of creating a better atmosphere, cos let's face it younguns make more noise than us middle aged old farts. I know people say there's no financial incentive to expand the stadium and reduce ticket prices but now is the time to do it whilst the tv money is so high, if we don't we will be left behind as little old Southampton like we were at The Dell. Clubs like west ham will pull so far ahead we'll never catch them. To become popular around the world is all image and we need to create the image that we're a big club.

Personally I think he'll sign a new contract with a release clause for champions league clubs. This will give him a nice pay rise now and after yesterdays result almost certainly confirming spurs as a champions league team next season, will allow him to go there in the summer, just hope that there's a hefty release fee included.

Distancing himself from the fans as he's already been tapped up by the scousers ready for his summer move lol