S-Clarke

We just need someone the players can look up to and respect.

tbf we should have known this would have happened. made favorites by everyone in football, so obviously we're going to prove them wrong. It's the saints way. So, so, so depressing. I fell back in love with this club last year, but this year it's just so much of a strain.

tbf he's a good coach and our success last season was also down to him in parts. but he's out of his depth as the full time manager at a club this size.

FT another shocking result, i thought we'd draw at least here. We still have a chance, but we can now only realistically have 3 or 4 more defeats all season if we want to win the league. That may be impossible, there's a chance we could end up scraping away to get into the playoffs at this rate, which would be shocking.

deano going off would just cap a wonderful day and a wonderful start to the season.

swindon almost score again. we've lost this.

how depressing, i never thought i'd feel like i do this season. I was so looking forward to it. We still have a chance to rescue it, but still - what a mess.

means sod all at this stage, this league is very tight - a couple of wins and you're top half.

cleared off the line by douglass we're clearly never going to score!

swindon score

sheff. wednesday also losing to carlise....

**** i thought pericard has scored then. offside.

plymouth losing.....again

sounds like we're panicking...

Swindon getting back into the game

Morgan dispossessing Prutton

but actually, have we ever heard pardew say he received that text? if we're honest that is all based on complete and utter rumour.

we've started really well

aaron martin hits the bar! bugger

agree with that Dubai. It was nice to read, good to see the ambition and plan is still in place. Was nice to see the instalment plan and also the swipe card system is in the pipe line - they were planning on doing that for this year but didn't have enough time to implement it. I'm surprised the stalpewood development wasn't mentioned though. As i think we've always known, he has the best interests of the club at heart and always has - but I think it's fair that there will be some decisions he makes that can be disagreed with, it's healthy to have a bit of debate now and then! No one is perfect at the end of the day!

He came across brilliantly.

Spot on. It's happening time and time again, his intentions are good, but the way he handles things show inexperience and it worries me.

....+1

afaik MLT was not allowed in last year, and has chosen not to attend whilst NC is in charge. Contractors had a disagreement over something with Cortese, which is why they walked - apparently, that's not 100%. The work was meant to start in june.

I know a couple of sky media people, and they say it is almost impossible to get access to St Mary's and it's incredibly hard to deal with them. The FL guy has also said that he's tried to get a few player interviews sorted for the football league show, but we're very hard to deal with and he's not been able to. Benali was kicked out of St Mary's because of a disagreement with Cortese, and is now banned from the ground - along with MLT. I can see a pattern developing here, and it's not really helping our image.