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I've had enough of this sh*t. Anyone know Cortese's e-mail address?

They've replied to complaint e-mails: "In this case the radio station connected the incorrect match to the ISDN line, we will speak to the club to ensure that this does not occur again. We are working hard to have the problem corrected Although we do our best to ensure that the commentaries are correct, we are totally in the hands of the radio station, over whom we have no sanction." So it's down to Solent, I guess. In which case, P*ss/Brewery/Up etc.

Jeez, it's like George Harrison has been reincarnated.

'kin hell. I sent them an e-mail three weeks ago asking them to start up earlier. Now I need to send one telling them I'd prefer silence.

1) Saints player has started up early this week. 2) It's broadcasting utter sh*te from Brentford

It was supposed to have been a fun thread for a Friday, but you started a downward spiral with your 'contribution' - as you often seem to do. Frankly, I think you have some issues. Chip on the shoulder about something? Yep, that was a cracker.

That wasn't one of them - it's the Bruins Hockey Rules series. As in turn your mobile off during games, don't tuck your Saints shirt in your trousers, and don't date in the division (e.g. Bournemouth). Crap thread that seemed like a good idea at the time.

And another thread goes down the sh*tter.

The Saints connection is that all of these need to be implemented at SMS (see series on right):

Maybe I'm just old-fashioned but I can't for the life of me understand why people might want to glorify Barnard in a song for allegedly taking a bottle to another person. I'll laugh as quickly as the next guy but that idea is just fricking embarrassing.

But just take a look at your recent posts and nearly all of them contain needless insults aimed at other posters. Wes didn't attack you as far as I could see - he disagreed with you, and for that he was called a "moron". Hell, you even resorted to the name-calling in your reply to my post ("idiots like him"), in which I pointed out that you do this too often. If you can't disagree with someone without calling them a moron or an idiot or worse, perhaps you'd be better not posting at all.

Very worrying, but as Viking points out it could just be a coincidence. A big coincidence. If it's more than a coincidence, no wonder the Club is staying quiet right now. This could be a very, very big deal.

Why is it that most of your recent posts have been attacks on other posters? Take a look and see. It's rather pathetic, really.

Guys, I think there's one thing you need to sort out before we go anywhere. Some people are calling for tighter moderation (act more decisively to cut out the abuse, petty squabbling and trolling/goading) and some are calling for looser moderation (let people say whatever the hell they want - other than the racist etc stuff - and users will have to either grow a thicker skin or leave). Which is it to be? Until that's sorted we'll just head for a repeat.

Actually, he did, Steve. I remember him being decidedly uncomfortable with the question but, on being pushed, he "sort of" confirmed what his chairman had said. Wouldn't you, though?

For a guy built like a brick sh*thouse he sure is a bit of a pussy.

That's pretty much how I feel, only I said in the game thread that it was the kind of game we lost under AP - a tight game on a heavy pitch against a bottom-third team playing above itself. And we heard another excellent Adkins interview - no meaningless platitudes, no crap excuses, just a very firm statement that this was "two points lost" and a commitment to change the things causing it.

Well, it could be argued that you're acting like a bit of a vagina, so why don't you and LTC get together and make up?

Well, I suspect you'd need another job alongside it because it doesn't strike me as being anything like a gold mine. I don't have a clue how to do this kind of thing, either - never mind find the time to do it. And that's precisely why I'm very reluctant to criticize. But then you're not helping to find a solution, are you? I don't mean to pick on you, Genk, but there are numerous people b*tching who haven't paid anything anyway.

LTC, that's precisely my point - and that of most other posters. On your own admission you cut AP slack even though you voiced your expectation of promotion almost all season long last year, and you cut him that slack because he started off at -10. On your own admission you're not cutting Adkins slack "because this team/squad is too good for tonight's result", and you're denying him that slack even though he just arrived and has an injury-hit squad. Tonight's result is not acceptable to anybody that I've seen, but the vast majority of us feel that your Pardew v Adkins point is premature and unfair. I think it's also inconsistent with your past attitudes. Well just have to differ, I guess.

I just don't frigging get it. People b*tch and complain even though their post counts are way up there, but most of them wouldn't even think about volunteering to help unless there was something in it for them. People whine and moan about the five quid for a whole year but happily sink their pints and p*ss far more than that against the wall every weekend. Yes, there's some fixing to do and they need to do it ASAP because many of us are a touch frustrated, but FFS people stop moaning about everything. Pay your fiver to play and offer constructive suggestions, or don't let the door hit your arse on the way out.

I'm trying to stop YOU from making a false argument. You're the one saying that the draw at Yeovil is unacceptable this year (after Adkins has been here five minutes and inherited a squad full of injuries) when one of the results you cited as a Pardew positive was a win at Yeovil in the third minute of injury time when he'd been here almost a full season and wasn't facing anything like the same challenges as Adkins. I didn't have you down as one of the hysterical over-staters but you've done that today. Adkins knows better than anyone that this form is unacceptable, and he knew the challenge when he took the job. He didn't come here to fail, and I don't think he will fail - and I'm not talking about the frigging Johnson's Paint Trophy. Adkins also knows that there's a sh*tload of football left to play - in a very tight division. LTC, you spent much of last season on here trying to convince people - with numbers and PPG averages - that we would be promoted but I don't remember you cutting loose on Pardew because we missed the playoffs. Cut Adkins some of the same slack.

No, it's not good enough, and I don't think anyone is pretending it is. The problem LTC is that you're using this to make a Pardew vs Adkins point that is both untimely and unwarranted. And before you get carried away with the "It's only Yeovil, FFS" angle, don't forget that we would have drawn there last year as well were it not for a late, late winner. And that was in April when Pardew had an established and stable squad that had been playing for him for weeks. With "impact" subs on the bench. I've normally got a lot of time for you posts but this one is crap IMO.

It's not that Adkins isn't getting a lot from Pardew's team - it's also the case that Pardew wasn't getting much from Pardew's team, results-wise, before he left (season and pre-season). A number of players hadn't found their last season's form, including the most crucial one - Ricky. Adkins isn't just going to stroll in here and get the players to adopt a different system and a different psyche overnight. That'll take some time and I don't expect us to really hit stride until late-October/early-November. Yes, we'll have ground to recover but the thing in our favour is that this is - and will probably remain - a very tight division this year.

It's going to be a tight division all year long.