Lord Duckhunter

The rumour was going round their ship yards on Poole Quay before it appeared on here. My lad works there and he mentioned it to me before MLG's thread started.

All the pundits were agreed it should have been a red, in our case all the pundits agreed it was a fair tackle. On goals on Sunday they didn't even show it. Had Lovren or Shaw made that tackle and got sent off, the same posters calling for a red would be up in arms about an anti saints bias. People like Shearer, Owen and James have played the game, Chris Foy is a professional ref. Mike Jones was dropped for one poor decision at Newcastle, had it been as bad as some posters made out, Foy will suffer the same fate. I doubt if he will, because the general consensus is it was a fair tackle, with a horrendous outcome. This was certainly a lot worse.

No its not, its one councillors views. Unless you're saying that one councillors opinions reflect the whole party. If so you would have to say that Margaret Burke's Nazi views in Milton Keynes are "labour for you"

Thought it was a re run of the Cardiff game. Like Cardiff they let us pass the ball around and didn't close us down at all. Difference was we banged 3 in and put the match to bed by half time at Cardiff. Their first goal was the killer, cause they were gone. Stoke and Wigan stand out from last year as similar games, its hard enough to win away games without chucking away points when you totally dominate sides.

Don't talk nonsense. Has Shearer got in in for Southampton, what about Michael Owen and the Commentator, what about the guys back in the studio Steve M and David James, what about Saints Manager and players who told Adam Blackmore they thought it was fair, have they all got in in for Southampton?

Makes you laugh doesn't it? The referee, the commentators and analysts , and even the saints manager and players consider it a fair tackle, but saints posters demand apologies and a red. No doubt when match of the day conclude the same or ignore it, it'll be part of this massive anti saints conspiracy. Had a saints player made the tackle , they'd be hailing it. Apart from here has anybody called it a red?

Why are people knobs because they have a different opinion than you. What do you want a forum where you post your opinion and then posters line up to agree with it? That'll be pretty boring. In my opinion he's slightly the wrong side of the hill, it's not that his form has dropped, just what happens to every single player that's ever played the game. They get old. don't forget he's pretty inexperienced at the top level and has done wonderfully well to adapt and thrive in this environment. But, he's either carrying a knock, or he's gone.

Unless he's carrying an injury, his legs have gone. Looks one season too far to me, just hasn't got the zip anymore , but anyone who thinks he's not interested or not trying is a way off the mark. The England call up has muddyed the waters for me. Without it, he could become a Giggs or Scholes for us, coming off the bench, playing occasionally and helping the nippers. I'm sure he'd have been ok with that but quite understandably he wants to play week in week out, to get the dream end to his career. I hope he just needs a rest and can have one, cause he keeps playing like this and the beneficiary will be Andy Carroll.

Didn't they beat Man Utd at home in a semi final the other day? Sunderland are fighting for their lives and we should have put the game to bed before they even scored. Second half was pretty poor. Boruc made a mistake, but I thought Shaw could have closed him down better. We were exposed badly down the left a couple of times and Shaw had no protection. Thought Chambers struggled and Lambert is playing himself out of the World Cup squad. Never the quickest, but his legs have gone, doesn't seem to want to jump and instead tries to buy a free kick or put the defender off. Need Yoshida to step up to the plate now.

Bollards, the ones I know think he's great. He helped push the chuckle brothers out.

Samuel was always having pops at cortese. He's never bought into his genius.

£7 mil is a hell of a lot of money to turn down for him, so I can see why NC may have been pushing him out the door.

Some of the newspaper reporting and sucking up to cortese has been sickening the past few days. A life long friend who works in the press is always telling me how difficult the club is to deal with and how unreasonable cortese can be. He said its well known within press circles, and yet the story of "meltdown" seems to have over ridden any attempt at serious reporting and analysis. Like Nigel Adkins departure only time will tell if this works out in our favour,so we need to suspend judgement. From a personal perspective, I've lost a bit of respect and admiration for MP, his apparent devotion to NC grates a bit. He is not doing us a favour by staying on and I hope any drop off in his performance or "going through the motions" will result in a boot out the door. He is not the only young manager about that plays good stuff and uses the kids. All of a sudden Nicola has become the greatest CEO to walk the earth and MP has morphed into arsene Wenger if you believe the media.

Makes me laugh . There were reports of £30mil bid last week before Nicola left, now its meltdown. WHU and Lambert was clearly an option with Nicola there, yet its now an exodus.

Why does there seem to be this belief that on Cortese can take us to the next level. Personally I'd prefer David Dein if new owners were wealthy. Cortese did a great job, but he's not the only one out there.

I don't think MP has helped the situation with his "he goes,I go" line last year. The papers jumped all over this as proof that the thing would start falling apart and then added their sensationalism to it. Brian Moore was one of the few I heard who appeared baffled by the whole thing,when nobody knew what her plans were, who the new CEO would be and who she would (if anyone) sell to. Obviously we'd preferred the status quo, but feel we'd be in a worse position if the money people had gone and Nicola stayed. The press and vast numbers of our support seem to forget this. The money people are still here, its only the person who spent the money that's gone (bit like most divorces really). If she wants the money back, it ain't going to be in one massive fire sale of the talent. It will be in a controlled business like manner. We may end up losing Rickie, but whose money got him here, cortese's? Why in the modern world do judgement have to be instant. Lets give her a chance before slitting our wrists.

Great balanced article from Frasier Nelson in this weeks Spectator. Don't know how to post a link, or even if I can cause I use the app , but people should have a look if they get half a chance. There's normally a decent podcast each week , so I expect the article to feature in that as well.

My oldest lad works at sunseeker and this rumour has been all over the ship yard for a couple of days. Although why the workers would have any insight into the owners investment portfolio is beyond me. One of the Braithwaite's mother in law lives a few doors up from my dear old mum, I'll get her to pop round and see if she's heard anything

Involved in what way? Telling a few stories and waving to the crowd or having responsibility for something?

Why on earth would a manager or player walk before they really know what the woman's plans are? MP will look a right chump if he follows his buddy out the door and a Chinese billionaire takes over next week.

People need to take the emotion out of this and calm down a touch. The press have blown this out of all proportion, it really is silly season. As well as Nicola has done, the past 40 years we've been a top flight outfit. We were a top flight outfit even in league 1 on -10. We have the infrastructure and fan base of a top flight club. We are a great asset for someone , whether KL or anybody else. If Delia did the same thing at Norwich, if she stood down would the fans be wetting the bed, would the press predict the end of Norwich's dream. If the players and manager only want to play for Nicola,then they can **** off as far as im concerned. Id rather watch fox and guly playing 100% for the club I love, than a bloke sulking cause the chairmans left. If wright or McGoaldrought or Leon best, or bairdy had said they were leaving because old Rupes had been shown the red card, they'd be vilified on here. Put it another way, swap the names Nicola and Mp, with Redknapp and Storrie-tellers. If MP walks next week over this , I'll always consider him a disloyal twt

Exactly, what sort of idiot would sell all the assets whilst trying to sell the club at the same time. What does she think, that new potential buyers wont notice? Worse case scenario IMO, is a return to the Rupert Lowe model of producing players to sell for a profit. Is that really the end of the world, are we really heading for a Skate type meltdown? We have a fantastic academy , why would she, or any new owner , not base any future business model on that?

If he wants to leave because of a change of boss, he can **** off now as far as I concerned. I want people managing the club that want to manage Southampton Football Club, not manage for Nicola Cortese. Same with the players. Anyone who goes now before knowing what's going on, what direction the club is going and who will be owning it/managing it, is using it as an excuse to get out IMO.

My oldest lad works there and its all over the shipyard he works in that they're interested. He's just come home and told me. Proberly Just somebody putting two and two together and getting five, and then spreads. Within 2 hours it becomes a "fact".

Or Cortese could invent a fake sheik who doesn't exist.