Rebel

Who is making money out of this event - that is the question? Osman, Lawrie Mac, etc - or is the money going to charity? Perhaps they should have waited for the club to organize something - or arranged something with the club. I have a feeling that maybe they did - but they disagreed over who was going to be paid exactly what for doing what! Osman amongst others - including Lawrie Mac - has done some good things for Saints - but they've also made money from the club - particularly under the Wilde and Crouch regimes.

Chaplows penalty was very soft - but nowhere near as bad a decision as the one give against Chamberlain. Seaborne had a terrible game - gave away a penalty, and let McKail-Smith score the first goal. Too often our defense tried to play the ball out of trouble when they should have booted it into touch. We also seemed incapable of playing the game out - keeping of the ball - at 4-2 or 4-3. What were we doing longballing it from the back with a one goal lead and only minutes to go? - at best giving the ball away for a 50-50. Sometimes our players seem to have no game intelligence whatsoever.

It will be on in the Exchange - on at least some of the TVs - a few of will probably be in there. They will probably have the Man Utd game (or whichever Premier League game it is) on at the same time - with the sound on for that one. The landlords an Arse...nal fan so can't really expect much better from him than that! The White Swan used to be the place to go but it's got new owners now. O'Neills will probably have both games on as well.

At the moment no more than 5. Can't say I'm really impressed by either of our two transfer window signings - neither seems to have set the world alight and at 23 and 24 (?) probably won't get much better. Other than pace I'm not sure they will give us much. In his brief appearance on Saturday N'Guessan seemed to have no touch at all. I would guess one's a replacement for Puncheon and the other a replacement for Barnard. Are they any better than Puncheon and Barnard - probably not? Are they impact players - don't think so! I would guess none of are substantial bids were accepted. I don't really count Chaplow or Do Prado as both have been here for a while now - they are not really new signings - and neither are Lallana or Oxlade. The team which included all 4 of those players needed strengthening in this window if we are to clinch an automatic promotion place - and a marquee signing to give everyome a boost - fans and players. Still it looks like we've kept Lallana and Oxlade so its not all bad! Lets hope we can get some better players in on loan in the 'loan window'!

I'm starting to worry that they are not good enough for the Championship - and possibly not good enough to get us out of League 1 this season. We need a 20 goal striker - if not two - to get us automatic promotion this season. The play-offs are a lottery at best - and when it comes to luck ours ran out a long long time ago! As it stands right now I am starting to worry about promotion this season. We are really suffering for not having the stability in management and team set-up that Huddersfield and Brighton have got - the momentum is with them at the moment. If we don't make it up this season it will be a complete rebuild over the summer as we will lose Fonte, Morgan, Lallana and Chamberlain without a doubt. Lambert, Guly and Barnard as well probably. Adkins is the right man for that - but it might take him another 2 or 3 seasons to build a team that is good enough to go up.

Barnard certainly didn't look like he could make the step up yesterday - and he might be unavailable for a little while as well! Hopefully it was just an off day but maybe just maybe we should be looking for another striker. Overall he's probably a better striker than Jackson but we need real pace and he might just be getting frustrated at not playing every game and not being first a first choice striker. Maybe he'd welcome a move to Norwich, up a division and a team on the edge of the Premietship. He might also fancy a move away from any off field issues in Southampton. In the long run we are going to need to replace both Lambert and Barnard - yesterday convinced me of that if nothing else - if we are going to go all the way back to the premiership.

Norwich were interested in Lee Barnard when we bought him and I think we were interest in Simeon Jackson over the summer so it could happen. Maybe if they chuck Surman on loan into the deal as well - that's if he's close to playing again - it would make sense for us. We desperately need some pace upfront which Jackson would give us and we could do with Surman to add some depth in midfield and it would give us someone who could pass the ball at the level ad Morgan and Chaplow.

Scholes, Owen, Hernandez, Giggs, Nani, O'Shea - not a bad C team. It wasn't United's full first team I'll give you that - but it wasn't exactly a third string either.

That we lack pace - and don't have the killer instinct when we go forward - particularly on the break. In Chaplow, Morgan, Oxlade and Lallana we have 4 premier quality players. That we desperately need a young pacer striker - or two - with real quality if we are going to make the step up to the Championship - neither Barnard or Lambert looked good enough.

Walcott played briefly for Newbury not Swindon

But we are the best academy!

We've undoubtedly gone one of the best academy set ups in English football if not the best. I doubt there is another club in thus country with as many academy graduates playing for clubs in the top two divisions right now - not too mention young players like Lallana and Oxlade-Chamberlain. Unfortunately unless we are in the top division we will find it very hard to keep hold of the best of them. Two Relegations have already cost us most of a golden generation in Walcott, Matt Mills, Cranie, Dyer, Best, Blackstock, McGoldrick, Surman and Bale. We should be thankful that Bale and Walcott showed enough loyalty to the club to make sure they left for big fees when both could have left for practically nothing. It looks like Oxlade-Chamberlain will leave us sooner than later as well - nut let's hope he comes back on loan the fee is large enough and tbe money wisely spent for us to build a team good enough to take us back to the Premiership If we don't get promotion this season Lallana will probably leave in the summer Let's hope we're back in the Championship and pushing for promotion to the Premiership before the current crop flower

Adam Le Fondre Jacob Mellis Ryan Harley Johnnie Jackson Brian Howard

And it is an away game this weekend! Let's hope he is on the bus and the wheels keep turning!

I don't understand why we can't buy tickets online!?! They really need to upgrade the online ticket sales system!!!

Somehow the bloke that sits behind me in Block 34 managed to buy online the seats behind his rather than his season ticket seats! No idea how he did that! I had no problems though - this time!

We need another attacking midfielder and another striker - Ryan Harley and Adam Le Fondre would do for me. Today's game proved we still need a little bit more strength in depth. It was 2 points lost today - unless Brighton mess it up we are in the race for second place. Today was our big chance to go top and we blew it - simple as that.

Ryan Harley isn't playing for Exeter tonight - is that because he's injured or is he talking to another club. He's one if the players we've been linked with.

We will buy before we sell - I hope - if we do sell!

Unless its Dell! The Dell St Marys Stadium or the Dell at St Marys!

That's because Surman is injured!

That's because we all knew we were going to lose as soon as we looked at the team sheet/heard the team called out before kick-off! It's hard to get the crowd going when everybody thinks that!

How about 'small club! You used to be a small club!' Then we could sing 'Big club! We used to be a big club!' Or simplt 'you've got Brett Ormerod' Then there's the 'Posh spice is a .... .... .... thinks of Ormerod!' Let's not forget they are in the top tier and we are in the third tier - so we shouldn't really throw any stones from our glass house!

A good away win - and we are in Second place - have to be happy with that!

A good away win - and we are in Second place - have to be happy with that!