Tom & Gerry

Agreed, otherwise where do you draw the line? Do other clubs have a minutes tribute for every player?

6 points but we've got 3 games in hand and that is all that matters.

OK friends, the time for revolution is upon us, we must march on St Mary's and remove the evil tyrant. The evil dictator has only one purpose and that is to return our beloved team to the Premier league He is so single mindedlthat he removes whoever stands in his way from the kingdom be they former hero, the media, fans fraudulantly trying to obtain season tickets, or Premeirship clubs trying to turn our noble warriers to their own cause. We must occupy St Mary's in our hundreds of thousands until he is gone and we can install our true leader, the failed night club owner. Then we can bask in our former glorious (and at times not so glorious) past. All will be welcome. It doesn't matter what league we are in, if any the Southampton social club will be alive and well and we will always have '76 and the last goal at the Dell and we will be royally entertained for the rest of our days by Messrs Osmond and Davidson. Now is not the time for doubts my fellow Saints fans now is the time for action. Well I do have one small doubt, Nicola Cortese doesn't seem the type to me to go round trashing other people's property but hey rock & roll, what do I know.

Hang in there and it's whoever holds there nerve in the final 10 games. So far though it hasn't quite been promotion form all season so probably 3rd or fourth. I can see us losing to Huddersfield in the final after being 2 goals up. It's just the way we do things especially on telly.

Shouldn't we be more worried if no one wanted to buy us?

Even Premier league goalkeepers make mistakes let alone League 1 keepers. Kelvins had a bit of a bad run since winning us that point against Brighton (how soon forgotten), and I agree the situation has to be watched but I would stick with the experienced man at this crucial stage if at all possible.

Well less than 10hours to find out. I'll settle for Nasri (if he passes the medical)

As Southampton conduct all their transfer dealings in secret I would like to know where the £10m has come from. Is it just tabloid rumour speculation that has now been touted round as gospel? In the current financial situation I wouldn't think a Premier league club would pay a first division club anything like that for a 17 year old who has played only half a season, even though he has shown occasional flashes of brilliance. A couple of million maybe with a bit more for appearances, hence no deal.

When were we last top of any league? Must be 25 years ago?

Why do we draw them nearly every other year? ( it seems like) I would have liked Arsenal, Chelsea or City just for a change.

Some people prefer to live in the real world and believe what they see with there own eyes on the pitch not how much we've spent or pie in the sky hype about becoming a force in the premier league with our own style of play. Half a season has gone and we have not peformed or looked capable of becoming a top 2 team.

One of the first FA Cup games I ever saw was Saints v mighty Blackpool in 1959. As now Blackpool were in the first division and Saints the third, and Blackpool had Stanley Matthews playing age 43. The crowd jammed in to the Dell was over 29,000. It's sad but times have changed and I wouldn't expect anything like that crowd or atmosphere this time but it's funny what goes around comes around

I think it is the Cup that is all that matters. Many of our greatest games have been in the FA Cup If you build a team good enough to win the FA Cup then promotions will naturally follow from the momentum gained, but they won't be as exciting as winning the FA Cup. Don't be brainwashed by Sky, Chairmen and owners. It's the fans game as well as theirs

He first came on as sub away to Coventry, nothing special about that. we lost 1-0 and he looked so small. He then made his home debut coming on against Blackburn. I think we were 3-1 down and drew 3-3 and nearly won it. He scored with a header.

3 great ones not mentioned. Micky Channon scored with a header against Bristol City and a lot of us didn't know who he was. Team change announcements were not that reliable back then. Bobby Stokes - 2 goals against Burnley, looked a great prospect Steve Williams - at Pomp*y, he looked some player and we won 1-0

Tom's goal one of the few where even the home fans applauded

Tom's goal one of the few where even the home fans applauded

Tottenham were 4-0 down with ten men and being slaughtered away to the European champions. If the game had gone on another 5 minutes and Bale had got a 4th it would have been IMHO the finest individual performance in the history of European football. Now Matt was a different era and a different type of player and he might well of been capable of that if he'd had the opportunity but you have to say that Bale is right up there. Incidently we did once have a player capable of scoring 4 goals away at the European Champions but we were not 4 nil down and didn't have ten men at the time, and he did need a little bit of help from his wingers.

Didn't Prutton sort that out for us? I think he said he liked our pitch once.

He should be able to manage the one year that is the norm for this job.

Who can tell how good they are going to be? We once got an up and coming bloke from Grimsby, took us down in his first season. Don't know what happened to him.

Leslie Thomas - writer Jonathan Medas - writer / broadcaster Philip Hoare - writer http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/city-slicker--southampton-1600603.html

I was at the 1976 cup final and so many other great games, the 6-3, the 9-3, the Dell last game there are so many. But there are also many headlines that we have read, seen on tv or heard on the radio that have had us in a frenzy of excitement or with our heads in our hands in despair. There are sad ones like the deaths of Markus, Ted, Ballie, Ossie and Bobbie that have shocked us, and bad ones like winning 3-0 at Everton and still getting relegated, The resignations of Souness and Hoddle and the return of Rupert. Here are a few of my favourite good ones. Waiting for the teleprinter on Grandstand after hearing 3rd Division Saints were 2-1 up at Half time at 1st Division Man City. There was no way to get any further news. Then the result came through Man City 1 Southampton 5. Being at the County Ground and seeing the Echo headline "Saints sign Tony Knapp" - a major show of ambition at that time. Having the radio on in my site office at work when Peter Osgood signed. Although we new Saints were in for him it was expected he'd go to Stoke. Coming out of work at 5.00 and turning on the car radio to hear the news on Solent. Hearing an interview with Kevin Keegan and thinking I must heve tuned to the wrong channel. Then hearing him say " and that's why I've signed for Southampton" How did the car stay on the road? How did I get home? the car must have driven itself.

How about this for a scenario. I'm not ITK and this is pure speculation as they say in Manager speak. Suppose a Premier league club had put in a bid for Ricky/Adam/ Morgan and it is perhaps a little surprising that we have not heard of one. NC could have said to AP you have a choice a) we can sell and reinvest in new players b) we can keep the player to his contract but he will be unhappy and we might have to let him go for nought at the end of it. c) We can offer to pay the player(s) premiership wages to stay but that means we can't afford any more signings. AP may have plumped for c) Plausible?

The bloke dressed up in red and white with the team names on his back who used to get the "Boys" terrace on the Milton Rd (could girls go in there?) to chant "2-4-6-8 who do we appreciate S..A..I..N..T..S.....SAINTS"