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I much prefer the old slogan "Come on you Saints" to be honest, so playing in white with red sash is fine. Actually it's more than fine - it might be THE kit - the one that helps define a future that will see us more successful than ever before. Plus there are fewer teams across the top divisions playing in this style (how many in red & white stripes - 4 or 5?).

Well I'm pretty glad he didn't join us to be fair. IMO if we're taking too many players from lower leagues we'll end up staying in this division longer than we anticipated. We need just to look to Fonte to see how the right acquisition at this level can make so much difference. We need the RB and CM equivelants of Fonte in short.

To be honest I feel a bit gutted that he's gone to Norwich. Despite the difference in division, I consider us as a bigger club with more class than the Canaries and I would have liked to have thought we could have attracted him here given our aspirations. Good luck to the lad though - I always liked him as a Saint - however it will feel a bit weird seeing him play against us the season after next!

The sentence is an irrelevance. All those who put themselves into a situation whereby they could have been accused of violent disorder or conduct have only themselves to blame. I saw some of the disturbance and there were both men, women and children involved in some way, however not all got charged - only a small minority who were seen to be causing the worst damage or acting in the most violent manner. Is there any evidence that an innocent bystander got sentenced, because if so I might start to get concerned?

Agreed. However, I think Wotton will be kept until the CCC as a utility player and to be fair probably deserves the place. Holmes is a bit of an enigma - having played for Derby you would have thought he was more than capable in L1, but perhaps his injury completely stripped him of his pace? Based on some of last seasons performances from Puncheon, he's not too far off achieving JP's level IMO - he is capable of getting past his marker and putting in a good cross when he's on form.

No surprise he's gone now with Dickson in. Mind you IMO he was nowhere near as poor as Pulis, yet he's still here - hopefully for not too much longer, but probably because he's got nowhere else to go and he's better 'employed' than not when in the transfer market. I suspect LM will find his level in a L2 team if he's lucky. In terms of new faces, I think that perhaps we'll start to see a little bit of movement soon now that the final clearout has happened. Slim and trim squad now though!

I hear the seats are being completely re-organised so that they're mostly white, but with a line of red seats running top left to bottom right in each stand.

Funny, I thought membership of a football club was about getting a range of benefits in order to help sustain the team you are passionate about. How about we debate the inherent benefits of membership before we condemn NC once again? For example, before I bought a ST I bought a membership to feel like I belonged to and was part of the club, plus it gave me the benefit of getting matchday tickets easily. Of course I paid for this 'privelage', so the club (unde Lowe) gained - but so what? It was my choice and not once did I consider that the club were fleecing me or whatever. So perhaps someone could be kind enough to list here what all the benefits of membership bring? Then we'll have something worthy to discuss. Who knows, perhaps membership might offer 'free' handling fees on ticket sales?!

On this, I agree totally with you. Not that you can see this, as I believe you have blocked me.

Absolutely this - fantastic post and right to the point. Some people just want to see fewer tickets sold and to bleat about it just to further their own expectations. I suspect that when all is said and done we'll be selling close to 12k ST's. Once all the JCL's figure out that we're having a decent season and promotion is on the cards, the walk-up figures will push gates to the mid 20k's.

Not sure that twitter actually says that? Mind you, if they are in UEFA league next season, not sure he would be keen to come to Saints. ):

The Plymouth game will be very interesting indeed. Apart from being at home, it will be a good demonstration of (a) our summer preparation (b) whether this team really can mix it at CCC level. Can't wait TBF.

Wish I had though. By all accounts it seems like we have one or two gems coming through the Academy ranks once again. Excellent news.

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Yep - that's exactly what I thought too.

If I HAD to choose between those duffers, I think I would go for the bottle. Trouble is Burley would beat me to it.

I would kill anyone using one of things within 10 yards of me in the Kingsland. Fine in any other stand as long as they're not constantly going. Actually, nah - stick 'em where the sun don't shine.

Here's a radio programme from Radio 2 that I thought some of you might find interesting. It's not entirely Saints related, but there's stuff relevent to us in there. It's a documentary type program about the chants and songs at football matches and quite amusing in places. Enjoy. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00sqgx2/Sing_When_Youre_Winning/

My feeling is that the reported £500k price tag was way too much for us to consider him and his performances, while good, were not good enough to value him that highly. For that amount of money you would get a very good CCC level player or go a long way to paying the wages of someone like Adu for example, who would actually attract a lot of attention and put more bums on seats.

Sorry, but that is absolutely excellent - coffee over monitor moment! lol

Good cup tie really - will they be a push over...I don't think so? While we must go out to win, this is surely not a priority this season?

Might be true I suppose, however I saw nothing about this lad that made me think he was worthy of a place in a CCC team. Papa and Antonio on the other hand did, wouldn't you agree?

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lol - I think there should be a special symbol or something to indicate whether a thread is genuine or a closed season and bored thread. Got to say, the world cup is by no means making up for the drip feed of Saints news or decent rumours. Roll on August.

The whole basis on which you set out your arguement is (IMO) as useful as a chocolate teapot! What is the point of concerning yourself with something that has not happened or indeed is unlikely to happen? And yes, there are far greater things of importance in life to worry about TBF. Football is supposedly a pleasure whether through direct involvement or through spectating, why anyone wishes to place anymore importance on it is beyond me (I actually think you've got no real beef, but you're getting a bit bored ). But hey, you got your debate, so well done.