rallyboy

We are Southampton, we come from League One! What a journey.

That's a bit harsh, I tend to call it spin. It's only barefaced lies if the easily-led decide not to buy it. But they lap up any old **** so for the moment it's not lies, it's just a few nice tales with a feelgood twist. Like a crap soap opera full of escapist **** that distracts you from the horrific reality of life. Why are we stuck in League Two?? Don't worry about that, look how cheap the tea is.

Two famous blueprints for future prosperity. We have world class catering and a radio station. Rupert Lowe. You can buy a cheap cup of tea at our place. Mark Catlin. Yes, the media bombshell today is that Fatpipes offers a cheaper day out than St Mary's and compares very reasonably with other clubs. Their tea is cheap and their shirts come in a whopping 63p under the average for the division. Hail the fan-owned revolution sweeping through world sport!

portsmyth - any information that is mentioned twice in a pub by a toothless, cross-eyed, heather selling sister-botherer - And once said portsmyth has been repeated, it can then be officially regarded as a fact. Talking of that, how are they getting on with that £300M a year brought into the city by the club?

There is very little quality in that division and despite their poor performances they are still well within touching distance of a play-off place. It may be that the proximity of gloriness and bestitude tempts the chairman to do something drastic if the results don't improve... He knows that any team that can string half a dozen wins together will be straight up into the automatic slots so the temptation to meddle must be itchier than little Avram after an ill-judged foray into the unknown and unprotected. Let's have a reality check. They are below Morecambe and Burton, their rivals are Cheltenham, Accrington and Newport. Fleetwood and Crawley are in the division above, and pompey can only dream of what Bournemouth and Rotherham have achieved. What the few may need to accept is that they are a League Two Club and the occasional trip to League One should be their realistic target. Until they face that ugly truth we will continue to chuckle at the delusion that they are in any way a big club or relevant to football in 2014.

Costa? The only cup their name will be going on for a while is one of the cardboard ones.

Tis true - Awford is currently snubbing The News, which is no mean feat when you are in York or Hartlepool and there are only two journalists in the room! I believe that questions about the Connolly mystery started the latest sulk. Either way they should be okay tomorrow as they have managed to find a fixture against a club below them in the league.

how can you leave out Thierry Henry?

Personally I'm just pleased that we have established the reason for the cup exit, it's that old favourite, no.35 in the Nutjob Almanack.... The referee cost us the game because a. it was too big for him. b. he was intimidated by the lack of spectators. c. he had an email from the Football League. From the evidence on this occasion it sounds like a case of 35a, and certainly nothing to do with poor players badly managed, or being coached to dive from an early age.

It's the PR campaign for the new series. The End.

You Nutjobs just won't give them credit for anything! They are debt-free*, they are fan-owned** which is way better than being at the whim of owners who have firesales every summer, and when someone with big money eventually comes in to make the most of their massive sleepy giant potential, all of those loyal fan shareholders will be selling up and laughing all the way to the bank. There is too much jealousy coming out on this thread. I don't even know why you laugh at them, we are in a very precarious state ourselves and likely to be relegated this season. And that's true, I read it on the main board. *sort of **a bit

Finance director Tony Brown credited the success to £688,904 on operational savings, chiefly achieved through the renegotiation of legacy debts. And there was me thinking that football creditors had to be paid in full, along with the CVA.

How can they STILL not understand that they do NOT own shares? You can keep telling them but it's like trying to teach a goldfish to play backgammon.

Good and balanced article. So Poch assured his new bosses that he could solve their midfield problems for £10M because of a release clause that his former Chairman had told him about? He must have looked a right tit the day that offer was laughed out of town! Was that Cortese's final parting gift to us? Thanks Nicola, it made us chuckle.

So is that five members of our League One team that have since gone onto get international recognition, or have I missed someone? Quite an achievement. Guly for Brazil?.....

Look into my eyes, now look at the swinging watch, that's it...no I don't know what happened to the big clock, that doesn't matter, look at the watch, you are tired, your eyelids feel very heavy, that's it...yes I can smell fat, ignore it, because you are sleepy, you are so tired....you are the sleepiest giant in world football, that's it...gently lie back, no, I'm not your brother, stop groping me, just go to sleep... Now when you wake up I will be gone with your cash but I'll leave you virtual a sheet of A4 in it's place and Avram will be trying to get your pants back on to you. Also you will have forgotten all of the debts, the criminality, the relegations, the ridiculous managerial appointments, the hero/villains, the tax evasion, the written off £130M, the pension fund theft, the harbourdome project, the ludicrous deluded claims, the half-empty ground, the illegal ownership, the false accounting, the underwater Mr Clive, the proposed signing of Eto and Maradona, the money-laundering, and the lenient attitude of the football authorities BUT....you will clearly remember winning a cup, winning at St Mary's and of course the famous dock strike. And when you come round from this deep sleep, these three things alone will be the only things you will accept as fact. You will also believe that you own a share of some sort.

I hope he is called up, as well as being deserved, it will be a gentle reminder to everyone that it's business as usual at SMS - still developing young talent and supplying the national team. We can't wish disappointment on our own players just to keep them under the radar, and it's not as if Liverpool and Man Utd can hold onto their best players when their heads are turned by cash. All UK clubs are selling clubs, it's just that with Saints' reputation built on producing internationals, we get the best prices. And the Emu has it right, no one from Liverpool or Man Utd will be bigging up their current lives!

The Connolly situation is definitely an odd one, no one wants to discuss it....whatever is going on is the best kept secret since the property developers saved the Tifosi scheme.

yes, I recall those dark days when fans made rabbit noises at players and threw carrots on the pitch.

been anywhere nice recently DP?...

The PST owns just under 51% of the club 29/9/14 - BBC report including interview with Catlin. Ashley Brown announced the Trust presently own 48 per cent of the club. 30/9/14 - The News, reporting on the accounts. Technically 48% is just under £51%, but it's quite an important tipping point, perhaps related to the Tifosi £50K? Putting aside the discrepancy, if that is fan-owned then so are Newcastle, Chelsea, Southampton, Man City etc. We are in complete control of the club’s destiny, said the pompey CEO looking around the board of seven, alongside his two colleagues..... So the people who have donated have no voting powers at all, and their representatives now control less than half of the business, and are in a minority on the board.

I thought we frowned upon sarcasm here? Had I known that we didn't I might have been more active. Oh well, at least they paid everyone off in full.

I thought there might be some little gems in there... I couldn't understand why they would pay off players who are not due their money until 2016. 'Settlement agreements' that had to be signed off by the PFA! Have the hero/villains accepted another wagecut for a lump sum? Well at least they have paid everyone off in full.

I'm not sure there will be laughs, they'll be more surprise than anything, but there might be laughs if the details don't quite stack up....

This will frighten a few... Yesterday I walked under the ladder attached to scaffolding on Old Northam Road on my way to the ground. I saw it, I headed straight for it - we are Southampton, we walk where we want! But I did put my lucky socks on in the correct order so it was okay.