John B

Despite repeated e mailed requests to various members of senior management at the club and attempts to speak to them on the phone I again have received no reason for this happening or until yesterday anyone who would actually acknowledge my correspondence Seems reasonable I would have thought that someone senior at the club had made the decision

The point is not many people like NI

I think the Saints and the Echo are part of the Social Structure of the City and the football club should not be just used as a means for making money

Having a rich single owner would appear to be a good idea but of course he can do what he wants unchecked which obviously is not good. I always have had a bad feeling things were not going to done for the benefit of the club or the fans but for the benefit of Revenue accurred I think Ducan Holley discussed the situation well last year

Not a very good situation I would have thought dont remember things like this happening before. But we have financial backing so most fans wont care

Yes as most care about their club

Seems a little extreme I would have thought I thought Nick was a Saints Fan like you and me and should not be banned if true by the Club or most likely Cortese

I agree but we will have to wait and see if it is true

I met his mother recently but she did not mention the incident

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/saints/news/8291798.Lallana_doubtful_to_make_season_opener/ Lallana still not available but it appears new players will be available

You do seem to have problems analysing other peoples ideas dont you What i think Alpine is saying is that it was no surprise that that England played badly during the World cup as their performances were poor leading up to it. So it is quite possible that if Southampton's Preseason does not go well the first few league games will not go well either. It is also possible that the first few games will go well but we dont know. I would expect us to start performing better but that is not guaranteed - we were not very good at Farnborough and I was expecting us to play better at Sutton but that did not happen

Yes I agree but if we dont perform well in our next few games is it likely we will start playing well against Plymouth - This is the Concern of some. Others possibly like you appear to think three points are certain from the Plymouth Game. Everybody is different and have different ideas

Of course what you say could happen but with our resources most people think we will automatically get promoted But I aree with you it is not a foregone conclusion and we will have to wait and see If things go wrong we will see how good a manager Pardew really is - It was pretty easy last season but we could have done better

Of course you are right there is a very slight possibility that all our stars will be injured and we will get relegated but there is a greater possibility that everything will be OK and we will be promoted For some unknown reason most posters think the second scenario will happen but only time will tell As we did not get promoted last season surely there is a better chance of it happening this

Lets wait until later before we make those kind of judgements injuries to Dickson and Richardson are unfortunate but I fully expect some more players to be recruited.

I think you are pretty realistic actually. Results and Form could be a little better but hopefully Pardew will get things right ASAP

It is a shame that you do not seem not able to understand the different points of view on the Forum Some think we should doing better others think Pre Season is for getting the team fit and the results dont matter. Do you think if we dont play well against Barnet and Reading we will be in good shape to play Plymouth I hope we start playing well if we are to win League 1 as easily as fans are expecting

No but our form Pre Season has been worse than Englands in their warm up games

I doubt it but the expectation was that we would be unstoppable this season but as yet that does not seem to be the case I still think we will do well overall but we need to start playing well now

I dont think Pardew was expecting todays result Just accept we were poor and have to improve if we are to get promoted. I am not saying it wont happen but at the moment there must be a concern that things are not going as well as they should be. Including injuries to key players

Benji four points are of little relevance

How many League Games will the Opposition be better than Sutton United

No idea but I do expect us to start winning soon The second half team was missing Dickson Puncheon Harding Lallana and Dickson

And we need to hit the ground running was a common theme a few weeks ago

What were Newcastle's other results pre season