Legod Third Coming

My favourite ever kit was blue. Away kit circa 82/83 I think...

Tickets sold, crowd??

For my money, the angst and stress reflected in this site is simply a mood that is gripping the nation right now. Thanks to our feckless leaders and their inability to organise a proverbial in a proverbial, everyone is looking for some good news. In days gone said news might have been available through the outlet known as football, but when the one thing you hope might lift you drags you down, then what?? I agree with SSA. There are some days I'm too tired to look here and too busy. But when, on a Friday, I convince myself I have an hour or two to waste, it's this, the BBC sports site and the Pravda (previously known as our club site) that I end up flicking around, well that and http://www.findmeanewchairman.com... anyway And 9 times out of 10 there's at least something that makes it worthwhile to have a read. If you don't like what some posters say, ignore 'em or tell 'em.

A 100% statement about the football club full stop.

Do you recall who they were relegated with...

You're right Alps, the bankers concerned would undoubtedly understand the model that says wins equals more crowd. Just like they don't have to sew buttons to be M&S's bankers, they do at least understand the mechanics of retailing and fashion. However, they could well have been taken in by the idea that "we have a young man in the mould of Theo Walcott who can score all the goals we need..." Really, a banker can only act on information he is provided. Like Steve, I think we cut too deep too soon and it has cost us dearly. And could yet cost us Championship status. But then Rupert doesn't believe that you should pay players high salaries. He believes you can grow all your own on low wages. On this he is fundementally wrong as has been proved over 33 matches.

I agre 100% nick. You don't change a winning formula other than through necessity. I don't like setting us up to play dependent on the opposition. I want us to have strengths and STICK to them. We're at home, make the opposition do the work, not vice versa.

You can't on the one hand ask for a sense of perspective should we lose the next four games and then in the same breath be surprised if people think one win under the current manager is not grounds for optimism can you? What you are saying is, shut up and say nothing irrespective of whether the manager is succeeding. How is life in the Chinese Republic?

It's called marketing... It wouldn't necessarily have to be a cheaper ticket but they could look at something for long-travelling fans... Anything the encourages more people should be looked at.

Two things spring to mind: 1. The 90 minutes in the car on the way home is a good chance to let off steam so you don't kick the missus, kids, cat, etc. 2. Both sets of 90 minute journeys have often been far more entertaining than the 90 minutes in between...

Those who do not study history are destined to make the same mistakes as those in the past. Or put it another way, if you keep doing what you've always done, you'll always get the same result. It is obvious to any man alive that we had more chance of success with better players playing for us. We all believe we know why three international forwards were loaned and we were left to rely on other team's misfits. But perhaps now the error of under-investment in the first team has been recognised? Surely, the directors would have been better advised to forfeit some of their own salaries, or seek other more drastic cost-sutting/revenue generating ideas measures (underwriting a rights issue?) to retain a striker who could score goals and utlimately keep us in the division - maybe even challenging? That's what good business people do - recognise what's essential from what's not.

I believe he's turned this web-site into one long fecking whine!

Lol - maybe it was the high energy water that resulted in the victory...

If we had played like we did yesterday for even 40% of the previous season, we would be looking at challenging for the play-offs and crowds of 20,000 plus - not just the exra 500 or 1000. I reckon we could have been tipping 25000 so the decision to loan out Saga (and/or Rasiak and Stern) could have cost us £200k a game or more...

There's a story on http://www.southampton-mad.co.uk to this effect. What is the cost of not playing Saggy? Had we won more games maybe we would have another 10,000 on the gate??

Greedy barsteward more like. I bet Surman was 11/1 alone!!!!!! lol

We did well today. But he has had all bloody season coaching and watching and has taken 33 games to work out a winning side. And he's won one game. Guus Hiddink he is not. Even a monkey will write a shakespeare play eventually. Let's see the season out. If he keeps us up, let him have the job. But like you said, today credit where it's due.

My brother used to say that about Beattie and Ormerod but people don't see it. I love strikers who work the back four and pull them apart but I do like people who can bury the ball more!!!

Ah, yes good point. Only criticise after failure... He got it right today, because WE got it right and started with six/seven experienced players. Lordy this football business is so simple, why are we are in this mess??? Fair play to him today and for whatever is allowing proper players to play!!

2 home wins all season. I'll reserve judgement for a while if it's all right with you... he's still an arrogant arse but for now he can have a night off the abuse...

Me. I care about the club. I have run three business, all growing during my tenure. I am, thankfully, highly regarded by most of those I have worked with, for and managed. I understand the English football game. I understand it is about cultivating relationships - with the FA, the League, the staff, the players, the management and above all, the paying customer - sometimes known as 'fans'. I have an understanding of business finance and always surround myself with people better than I am. I am direct and charitable in equal measure. I set exacting standards and expect others to match them. What else is it you need???

There is no Devil's Advocate card to play though. The two are totally incomporable. Wotte has been instrumental in our current position, Pearson was not. Neither got/are getting good results. But we gave Pearson a chance because he asked for one. All Wotte has done is alienate even more fans and turn them off the club with his stupidity and arrogance. If he keeps us, I shall be grateful but not as much as I was to Pearson. In the same way that if my house were to burn down tonight I should be more grateful to the fireman who arrived on the scene than the one who set fire to it...

If the Generals are fighting one another, who is fighting the opposition?

Straws at clutching... Was Pearson sat in the dugout for six months as part of a 'revolutionary coaching set-up' with interchangeable coaches preparing players for our first team? Did Pearson abuse fans? Did Pearson ever conduct himself with anything other than a stoic and professional objectivity? Yes or No?

My thoughts exactly. Like Wotte, Pearson was here for half a season as part of the coaching set-up preparing players for the first team. Like Wotte he made some astute selections in his first two games that resulted in us having no shape and then having to make radical changes to save the games. And like Pearson he took an international forward with four goals in three games off because he hadn't been 'contributing' much recently. And finally, like Wotte, Pearson used every opportunity to praise a failing management structure and blame the entire outcome on the paying customer. In fact, the similarities between Hitler and Mother Theresa couldn't be more obvious...