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Leeds and Huddersfield - with Palace coming down rather than Sheff Weds! That means we'd be the biggest club in League with the largest support and biggest/best stadium. No great boast I know but it should up our chances of being Champions! Also Hudderfield have money to spend due to a wealthy owner. Not on our scale but they will still be challenging us for the title. Swindon will probably lose Charlie Austin and a couple of other players. Similarly Palace and Charlton will both be in financial trouble and lose players such as Shelvey and Danns. Also means more London and Southern games - good for taking big away support - which means more points normally! Plus Millwall, Palace and Charlton will all take points off each other in their Sarf London derbies!

I wish I'd left 5 minutes early - like the players - to beat the traffic!

Antonio is under 23 so there would be some sort of development fee due to reading even if he is out of contract

Forecast, Pulis, Molyneux, Holmes - Lowe and the Dutch duo did some good deals for us didn't they!

he does try bless him but he does hoof the ball a little bit too much he is vocal both on and off the pitch - and a good leader for the team - he puts the effort in but more often than not his passing is abysmal - and his tackling a bit wild - or clumsy even saying that he made one great diagonal pass tonight - but also toe-punted what should have been a cross in to the box - with time and space on his side- into the middle of nowhere and I got told to stop moaning about him by the moany old git in front of me tonight - so there! and you know who you are if your reading this - and your son goldilocks. I hope your sitting somewhere else if you go on Saturday (or you can go and support another team yourself!) he reminded me of one of this know it all boring as f*ck self important economics lecturers - you know - professor ****ehead!

he was a bit rusty and lacking in confidence - taking him off was a massive mistake on Pardew's part he should have started with James or Gillett over Wotton anyway - or moved James to right back at worst and lived with the decision to put him on Morgan was at fault for getting the stupid red card in the first place really! it was Tim Sparv and Joshua Dutton-Black who played alongside James in the middle in the youth team - and I thought both of them were better than James - but all three were good enough to make it

the ref was far from the worst we've seen this season! we got our tactics wrong - delayed the final ball too much - and played far too much long ball but I think some of that was down to the players - not just the managers teams selection and tactics palying Wotton from the what Wotton couldn't or wouldn't perhaps we should have given Gillett a go tonight if I was Cortese I'd be asking a few difficult questions in next management meeting!

That's the question a young Saints fan sat behind me in the Kingland asked his Dad after one of Rickies goals! I nearly choked on my goal celebration! Not by quite some way I blurted out - Rickie is good and could well become a Saints legend - but Matt was world class - and their is a big big difference! There is only one Le God for me! Channon and Paine aren't far behind though.

Didn't we beat them 4-1 at home that season - or is my memory playing tricks on me

perhaps we should be - Bournemouth should be a nice 6 points and two home games! Besides our goal difference will take a real boost from those 2 games! It will be interesting to see if the 'mouth can keep hold of Pitman and their other good player!

I think in 5 years time we will be in the Premier League and looking to finish mid table. It will take us 2 years to get back to the CCC - and 2 years from that to get back to the Premiership But this is only if Cortese and Liebherr invest enough money in the squad to do it in this timescale (I reckon it would take £15 million on top of the £15 million they spent on buying the club) (once back in the PL though it would take at least another £30 million spent on players in the first season to keep us there) I also think we will be playing at an enlarged St Mary's with a capacity of somewhere between 40-45K I've always thought Saints don't play enough on the fact that with Charlie Miller we gave football to Brazil a pre-season friendly with Brazil at some point over the next couple of years should really be used to highlight this fact and we should play on it to position ourselves as a bigger club also as probably the only Premiership club south and west of London (if we get there) we will have a huge potential catchment area for corporate hospitality, neutral watchers and future supporters we should also focus on being the club of Wessex - not just of Hampshire proper! How about "the Saints, the spirit of Southampton, the Lords of the South Coast, the Kings of Wessex and the Pride of the South" as an unofficial strap line! key to it all though is building the right squad - a good crop of home grown local boys brought through the academy with a sense of pride and place - added to with one or two big signings from abroad (Brazil, Argentina, etc) should do it!! signing bright young players from Brazil and Argentina has certainly worked as a business model for clubs like Sporting Lisbon and Benfica in Portugal - so I don't see why it wouldn't work for us there is no reason why - if we get the scouting network in place and play upon our connection with Brazilian football - we couldn't sign the next Kaka, Kerlon, Pato or Keirrison before he becomes a world star

It was Leyton Orient in the third tier for f*ck sake - if I didn't have a season ticket or a freebie in corporate hospitality (as I did today) I probably wouldn't have gone! That's the problem with being in this sh***y division! Saying that I probably wouldn't have bothered for Hull or Wigan either!!

I like the Carlisle idea big time!!!

Their owners are worth several £100 million I believe. I used to work with a friend of one of them!

Things just keep getting better and better for Saints fans! There will be no StuRomseySaint at St Marys on Monday so we can all have a good time - wear our shirts with pride and wave our flags - without someone going on and on about all the bad things! You never know we might even win a game without our bad luck charm!

I don't think COYR has anything to do with the Saints Trust other than a link to Nick Illingsworth - in the same way as the Ugly Inside website. Other people not involved in the Saints Trust are involved in both TUI and COYR as I understand it I have to agree that Nick when doing things as COYR or TUI should probably leave the Saints Trust out of it - but I would guess its not always down to him but the bad journalists from the echo and to be honest I don't see that much difference between COYR with the Silverspoons fiasco and StuRomseySaint with his Green Man deal and his coaches both it seems were doing it for the benefit of their own pockets I would guess that practically all the money the Saints Trust raised was spent on buying shares in SLH plc - as that was its stated aim! Those shares became worthless when the company went into administration so there shouldn't be any money left From my memory Stu you attended the Saints Trust bar at least once - and by all accounts didn't take the opportunity to make your deep feelings known to any of the Trust committee who were there if I were you Stu I'd stop worrying about the Trust so much and focus on the thing you love above all else - StuRomseySaint!

Careful - you don't want to do anything for other Saints fans - at a profit or not - or you'll get StuRomseySaint going on and on at you for being a communist or a fifth columnist or something like that! Oh wait - this is StuRomseySaint organising it - so that's alright then!!! For the lads - and a few dollars more! On the serious side it's good to give Saints fans an alternative to the Travel Club, trains or their own car! The fact it's Stu doing it is just pure irony!

He was awesome today!

I didn't here any booing at all - but I did hear cheering for Cortese and Liebherr

Sorry just gone to mate of a mate - sorry!

Mate can't make it tomorrow due to family issue so now have a spare ticket for tomorrow. PM me! I'm in Winchester if anyone wants to pick it up tonight!

Victoria that's kind of important information! You might went to tell everyone that bought a concession ticket that particular snippet!

Kanu and James are out of contract and therefore have no transfer value O'Hara, Dindane, Piquonnie, Owusu and Yebda are all on loan so they have no real transfer value to Pompey Boateng and Belhadji are really the only players they have on contract who have any real transfer value And they are probably only £2-3 million each given the state of the club (the vultures are circling) Utaka's wages are far too high - so he'll probably have to go on a free transfer if they can give him away Mullins, Webber, Diop, Ben Haim, Smith, Wilson et al are either all past it or Championship standard players so at best a couple of hundred grand each they'll be lucky to raise £10 million from what's left of their squad in the summer - all the big boys have already left

peak time ticket from London isn't cheap even if you have a rail card! peak day return from Winchester is £58 or something! Don't know what it is to Soton but Steve Grant will know - he sits in the same place on the train every day!

Got my 13! 10 from phase 1 in block 127 Row 35 & 36 (3 sat in the row in front though) and 3 in block 528 up in the gods from phase 2! My girlfriend asked me why I was so excited to be openning the post when I got home from work!