Rebel

Their big rivals are Crystal Palace for some reason - supposedly they really hate each other according to a Brighton fan I used to work with. It must be a Surrey v Sussex thing! I think they are all a bit paranoid about Southampton at the moment as by support and history we are a bigger club - and we were favorites to win League 1 - and I think they are afraid we might still do so! The Calderon thing in the Summer didn't help - nor did Poyets bleating about it. Have to say I'm glad he stayed at the Withdean as he was awful in the game at St Marys. Poyets and the whole Brighton team also seemed scared of Saints - playing for a draw and time wasting from the first minute. I know they were missing a few key players but I was expecting a lot more from them - some football at least anyway!

Motorola, Ericsson and Huaweii (?) all have there UK head offices in Basinstoke. Sony, IBM and Siemens also have offices in Hampshire - and Vodafone is not that far away! Arqiva's head office is in Winchester - and Nokia and NTL are based in Farnborough. Theres always Denplan in Winchester as well! Then theres Ineos in the New Forest and Centerprise International in Basingstoke. There's even Twinnings, Bendicks, Wella and Game with head offices locally as well! I'd love to see Dell - and with stadium naming rights - or Virgin!

Guly is an attacking midfielder - and had a great game playing upfront - he just needs to hit the ball first time instead of taking the extra touch - but that's probably the difference between an attacking midfielder and a striker! It was frustrating to watch as he came so close to scoring so often! But he was nearly always in the right place and ran his legs off! I'd like to see Barnard and Guly on the pitch at the same time - there movement around Lambert would cause teams real problems. Also starting to think we are playing Oxlade a bit too much. Suggests he's on his wat to me -and we are trying to put his price up a bit!

In Fonte Barnard Chaplow and Richardson we were missing 4 key players. Yesterday proved that we have no strength in depth - we had nothing on the bench - and if we don't put out our first 11 we are very average for this League. Where were Mills, Puncheon and Wotton to come off the bench. It looks like we've let players go before we've replaced them. Morgan and Oxlade both looked like they had January moves on their minds

I can't believe that no one has noticed that Pompey tried to poach at least two players from our Academy - and probably more than that - bit like they poached Cranie. I know of at least one season ticket holder at Saints whose son plays in Pompey's youth academy but is a Saints fan who attends games and wears the shirt! He's desperate to switch to Saints though!

I think Holmes simply played too much too young whilst at Derby and had some major injuries early in his career which means his body is already burnt out! The simple fact is if your good enough your not actually old enough to play week in week out unti your 21 or so

Your forgetting all the money he's spent in player wages - not just transfer fees. It was this that sent Bournemouth and Portsmouth into administration - and left West Ham in a real mess and Glen Roeder with his hands tied when it came to transfers - and with a squad that got relegated. Anyone could have built a great squad at Portsmouth with the money he spent - and all he won was one very lucky FA cup. It's not like he signed unknown players or paid small transfer fees either. Spurs are just as likely to implode under him as make the top 4 or win something. He got lucky with Bale - but seems to have got very little out of Keane, Bentley or Naughton or Walker at Spurs

Dan lived in Colden Common - not Chandlers Ford - and left Thornden in 1988 - same year as me he went to Peter Symonds in Winchester though - not Barton Peverill in Eastleigh like most of us the Aqualung bloke - Matt Hales - was also in the same year at Thornden - he did go to Barton Peverill - bit of a one hit wonder to be honest but there you go! Amanda Holden supposedly went to Barton Peverill at the same time - I can't remember her being there though! And she supports Everton so wo cares! Coilin Firth is another one who went to Barton Peverill!

We all expected great things from Paul Tisdale and David Hughes - and when they played they both looked a bit special. But unfortunately for all of us a string of injuries ended both their careers early - so we will never really know

Dan Lobb grew up in Colden Common and went to Thornden School in Chandlers Ford - he was always pretty good at Football but better at Tennis - he was a Tennis professional for a couple of years. Funny thing was he probably wasn't the best Tennis player at School. It's funny when you see people you went to school with on TV. His greying hair makes me feel old though!

Chaplow didn't have a great first half - gave too many balls away - but worked his socks off! Pretty much the same with Puncheon. You cant knock them for their work rate. Second half Chaplow was everywhere - and was one of the main reasons we turned a draw into a win. Barnard has to start with Guly Do Prado - and Lambert needs to drop to the bench.

I park at the same place as I used to for the Dell - its free and its a fairly short walk to St Mary's - is also fairly quick to get to the M3 considering the football traffic. You could park at the Southampton Solent University - I think its free again at the moment (unless the Students Union get their act together). If you park near the entry or exit its very quick to get out and is very close to St Marys. Entry is off East Park Terrace.

Rickie has scored 3 goals in the last two matches - but weren't two of those from penalties - and of the 4 goals he has scored so far only 1 has been from open play he does add a lot to the team when fully fit and raring to go - but he is not firing on all cylinders at the moment - surely you can see that perhaps its the kick-up the arse he needs - starting on the bench - to jump start his form and fitness - or perhaps its a rest on the bench so he can get fully fit or shake of an injury he's carrying! maybe the problem was I was watching Lambert too closely - lets not turn him into the Messiah - he's not Matt Le Tissier - he just a player that's a bit short of form and fitness at the moment (and only a blind man would dney that!)

I'd start with Guly and Barnard - and then substitute Guly for Lambert at some point early in the second half! The movement of Guly and Barnard would cause any teams in this division real problems - and after Guly's match winning performance last Saturday he has to start - plus he would work better with Barnard than with Lambert. Barnard would make the runs and find the space in front of Guly - not something Lambert was doing. Also Lambert needs a kick up the arse, a rest or shock therapy to get him playing at the his best again - and this might just do it!

Derby County got away with having the holding company go into administration without getting the 10 poin deduction - and didn't a similar thing happen at Leicester as well! Plus West Ham's holding company went into administration but they alos avoided a 9 point deduction! I hope Liverpool do go into Administration - get the -9 points and then get relegated! It would teach all those plastic scousers a lesson! I really do loathe their holier than though attitude. It might also make Liverpool face up to reality and share a new Stanley Park stadium with Everton. Be funny if they both went down though! More than anything else Liverpool's situation proves that you cannott really run a football club as a business - 90% of every clubs revenue has to be reinvested in the playing squad - either wages or transfer fees - simply to stand still. The cost of sales in football is simply too high for any sane person to invest in a club as a business. The American's at Villa, 'pool and Manc thought they could import the American way of doing sports business - with no relegation, trades instead of transfer fees, caps on wages/salaries and an equal share of the revenue generated by the sport for each Franchise. But they didn't understand that the Football market works on an international scale and reckoned without the Russian Oligarchs, Arab Oil Billionaires and clubs like Real Madrid and Barcelona! Having said all that buying a club like Southampton for c £15 million - and then spending another £15 million to get it promoted to the Premiership does makes sense as if things stay like they are now the club would be worth at least £50 if not £60 million with an annual revenue to match in the Premier League!

It used to be a bank along time ago - a Midland Bank I believe. Wasn't it Bar Centro after that?

Let's not mention all the millions he and his fellows took out of the club over those 10 years in excessively high executive salaries, bonuses and excessive dividends - and all the fat contracts awarded to companies they also owned. All legal - but it was money that could and should have taken SFC to the next level. Lowe did a lot of good things - but he was always in it to make money for himself and his cronies - be they fellow directors or hid shareholding friends. At one point he was the highest paid CEO in football - and I never understood why we needed a CEO and an MD. We were also one of the few if not the only club to pay the non-executive directors a salary - and lets not forget the excessive expenses they all claimed! But he proved that even a well run club couldn't be run as a business indefinately - the cost of sales is too high and the need for investment constant.

to be honest professional footballers should not be out on the town at 2.00am in the morning- eitheron a Saturday night after a game or on any other day of the week they shouldn't be drinking alcohol either they are paid an awful lot of money to live healthy lives, eat healthy and play football - that's why they are paid £3000 a week- over £150,000 a year - to be professional sportsmen whatever else happened the players should get fined a weeks wages and put under curfew just for that if anything else happened they should get punished by the law just like anyone else - and if that means going to prison they should get kicked out of the club on constructive dismissal and sued for the value of their contract - or what's left of it anyway! sure people deserve a second chance but they also have to take responisbility for their actions

He was great and got a great reception at Matt's testimonial - but before that he always got a lot of abuse at the Dell - mainly coz he always gave 110% and always scored against us - and enjoyed celebrating that

Perhaps we're going for a bald pair with Jonjo Shelvey from Liverpool the next one to join us on loan! Although I think Adkins was taking a look at some of the Chelsea reserve players - not Liverpool's - Jacob Mellis included.

Does the 6-2 against Spurs count though as Grobelaar took a bung to let the shots from Rosenthal in!?! I could have saved two of them from my seat behind the goal! Sorry I forgot it was just a coincidence someone was filmed giving Grobelaar a brown paper bag with cash in it around the same time as the game!

I went to Huddersfield University over 15 years ago - but it's a new University as it was a Polytechnic originally - it became a University at the end of my first year. But the original college goes back a long way. It was a fairly rough grim town back then - the students and locals didn't mix (student bashing was rife and my house was burgled 3 times in one year). I had a great time being a student there - something was always going on at the Union - there were a lot of nightclubs which all had student nights - beer was about £1 a pint. Spent a lot of time in Leeds and Manchester at the weekends - 15 and 45 minutes on the train. There were a group of us who were all Football fans (Leeds, Sheff Weds, Boro, Man City). We used to borrow one of the union mini buses and go and watch City, Weds and Leeds quite a bit. I loved watching Chris Waddle dance his way down the touchline at Hillsborough and was in Leeds the day they won the title!

Perhaps the money 'dried up' when Markus Liebherr became ill - as his and everyone else's attention was elsewhere. I expect there is money still there - but less than before - and probably a much revised 5 year plan now as well! Like most fans I was expecting the team to be strengthened in the Summer - to me it seems pointless to spend £3M or £4M last season if your not going to spend the £2M or £3M this season needed to guarantee promotion. But perhaps the issue with Pardew got in the way. We will really only know if the money is still there or not once the Jnauary transfer window has come and gone. Although I would expect Adkins to strengthen the team in the Loan Window before the end of November - at least with a striker and a central midfielder. And at the moment I don't understand why we haven't done so. But perhaps Saints are working to a strict budget now and players will have to be sold before we can buy - to raise transfer funds and free up space on the wage bill.

the problem is all of those clubs are Championship clubs and they will get the pick of the loans from the premiership because of the perceived levels of football in the Champioship and League 1 or 2.

Connolly has strained a muscle in the abdomen or something like that! I must admit when we signed Connolly in the summer on another one year deal I thought it meant the money to bring in the players we needed really wasn't there - at best he is a substitute player because at his age and with his injury record he was never going to last a full season it was a cheap option - because there was nothing else if Lambert and Barnard were both fully match fit for the start of the season we might have been OK - but the reality is you need at least 4 strikers to see you through a season and at best we've only got two and a half!