SoccerMom

Are you trying to sow seeds of discontent?

Disagree about Thomson - on his showing last year in the reserves he is equally gifted with pace, and his crossing is much better. LOL at all those giving him stick for being unfit. At least he's scoring, which is more than can be said for those he's left behind here.

Doesn't explain anything, IMHO.

he was very good in primary school, but I haven't seen him play since!:smt037

Isn't he on loan at Plymouth?

Congrats, Drew and Laura, and Happy Birthday, Alfie. How long before Alfie is modelling in the Saints catalogue then? Like father, like son...

Ah, I see. Behaviour referred to on the other thread extended to boardrooms??? Sheesh - I thought that kind of stuff went out in the eighties. Oh, yeah, forgot, Lowe is Thatcherite to the core. Probably still impresses him. :mad::mad:

He's not the one that needs the practice - what with the leaky defense he's so busy during games he needs a rest.

Meaning? Can't find another thread on this.

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OK, I stand corrected. I think. Isn't this fun?

Isn't that Walloon?

Don't that many are staying away because of him, TBH. But a change of manager that gets the team competing again, now that would bring folk back. Times are tough - those who go to SMS because they are Saints fans more than for any other reason might still choose to go whatever is happening on the pitch, but those who normally make choices about what to do with their money and their Saturday afternoons may not feel that the cost is worth it. Everyone loves a survival story, and the British love the underdog. If someone came in (like NP) and turned the team around so that they showed some fight, determination and passion, rather than looking like so many headless chickens, you could bet that gates would increase. We need feelgood stories to get us through the recession.

ha ha ha - would be a string of grins but flipping smiley things won't work!

There isn't a Southampton network, despite requests for one that go back several years. People in this area automatically get dumped in the Portsmouth network. You can remove yourself from it, if you can be bothered. I did. If I can get the nipper to come, we'll be at the protest, but... using terms like "democracy" and "majority" doesn't actually wash in an argument that also invokes morality. Majorities are not always right, morally or even logically. Nuf said.

When was this, out of interest?

That's what I meant.:yawinkle:

I talked to the nipper this morning about him wanting to leave early yesterday. No, he wasn't feeling well, but he also felt quite intimidated by a bloke a few rows behind who was effing and blinding. In the Family Enclosure. Because we sit there rather than anywhere else, and because he loves (really loves) the excellent Community training he does on a Saturday morning, it still does feel like a family club to us. But if the aggression is going to spill over into this part of the ground as well there could be a point at which he no longer enjoys the day.

no, no, no, no, no. It's got to be a wind-up. Although after yesterday I honestly wouldn't blame any of them for jumping ship. It's not really a matter of loyalty - they've only got so long in their careers, and who wants to spend any more time than necessary in a job where the people in charge have lost all grip on reality?

"We" didn't.

Not a sycophant, but... My problem with boycotting is that I have a nipper I'm trying to teach certain values to, like loyalty even in hard times. I don't think that I can explain commercial boycotting to an 8 year old, especially when I just want him to get some kind of childhood innocent pleasure from going to the footie on a Saturday afternoon. He's smart enough to know that an ST means the place is already paid for. If I say, "We're not going so we can teach that nasty Mr Lowe a lesson," he's likely to respond, "but what will the team think if no one shows up?" He don't know or care who Lowe is (except vaguely from listening to the radio comments) but he knows and cares who Drew Surman is. I don't want to teach him that football is all just about money. But maybe that's just me being as innocent as I want him to be.

One positive - nipper said, "Oh look, Claus is back!" Cheered him up no end to see a long-haired, lanky CB wearing the number 5. Not much, but I tried!

I think his point is that Pearson isn't an ex-Saint, but he still had the passion, and that he showed you don't have to have a previous loyalty to the club to do a good job.

Come on- it's not Holmes' fault that he was on the wrong side! If he was as good with his right foot as he is with his left, that would likely have been in.

He did have a mare today, but give him his dues - he is far more reliable than most at crosses into the box. Put in a beaut about two-thirds through the first half. Shame no one could get on the other end of it.