rallyboy

I got twelve. Course I didn't! But some smug fantasist always comes on claiming to have done better than anyone else. That is a tough set of words, some of which I would avoid using as I'm not certain how to spell them!

Indeed, sorry to see him go, he did a tremendous job for us - but on a personal level it is difficult to get too attached to someone who kept such a low profile. Without wanting to sound all sour grapes, is he the man for Spurs? If you analyse what we have done so well under him it is the continuity through all levels of the club that allows the blooding of youth, the quality of the academy, the attractive football. We still have all that, he hasn't taken it all with him. Our attacking football bordered on the naive on occasions and we struggled to break down some poor teams, so without wanting to ignore the record points haul, even the biggest Poch fan has to admit that the great season we had, could've been even better. The Spurs job entails managing an overpaid squad that needs half a rebuild, and managing enormous and deluded expectations. Some at Spurs believe they are bigger than Man Utd, Arsenal and Liverpool. They are clearly not. Other than attractive football, his strengths at SMS don't really fit the Spurs job, I don't see them dropping half a dozen big names and blooding youth - but that's their problem. We need a quality appointment asap. Wavering players currently have a great excuse for leaving. Either way we are going to end the summer in a really strong position, or as the richest midtable club in the division. Saints are no longer a soft touch in the transfer market - Lallana and Shaw will cost you £80M, and we'll chuck in Hoiveld for an extra £5M. Another new era begins.

Hold the front page - they sold six t-shirts in a day... I only came on here because the main board currently has too many people clearly troubled by mental issues making stuff up and generally being knee-jerk and overly-theatrical about what might and might not happen - but that leisurewear bombshell from Fatpipes did cheer me up. Anyway, back to the sobbing - if Poch goes I'll never attend a football match ever again, it's all too much...etc

I think I might just await some facts before going all kneejerk. In the meantime, anyone who has run out of commas, here are a few for you to use so we can understand your posts. ,,,,,,,,,,,

That's a blow. They sounded like experienced guys who could survive with the raft. While the recovery of the yacht may answer some questions it's a sad end to the search.

you have to feel sorry for Spurs fans, now they don't know whether to slag off Poch as a smalltime loser who they never wanted, or hold fire in case he does appear and they have to admit that he was always their first choice.

That is clearly begging, dressed up a bit. I understand why a new club might want investment to start, but one year in, income way ahead of projections, why are they still asking their fans to dig deep and pay for things? And if things are that bad, how can they increase their playing budget as claimed, prior to season ticket renewals? They must be the only club that spends the summer sat next to a cashpoint with a scabby dog, a bit of cardboard and a paper cup.

But he's not gone... He's still out there quietly briefing media on Southampton issues, and now through interviews. Meltdown, crisis? I liked much of what he achieved at SMS, he was a vital part of the journey, though I was often uncomfortable with some of his actions. But now, for me his stock falls a little more with every tabloid PR campaign. Hopefully he'll get a new job, stop talking to pet journalists, and we can all move on.

Lockers? That's Phase Two, planned for 2018.

There is a football facility with changing rooms etc. pompey have done a deal to use it and put some cash in to change things a bit. They do seem to be bigging up the fact that they have basically joined a gym. Meanwhile, they have had to cut costs and dump part of their youth development programme. While they obviously need a training base, if cash is that tight, continue to develop youth for the future, but let your overpaid journeymen train on the village green. I'm not sure why cash is that tight, they are ahead of all projections on income and have already pluckily pledged to increase the great promotion warchest. A cynic might think that the positive talk is all about season ticket renewals.

it will be interesting to see if he is there as an investigative journalist asking the questions about the accounts, the sackings etc, OR as a simple mouthpiece for further propaganda. I thought the PR war was over, hopefully it is and we can all get on with life. So come on Benjamin, show us what you are made of, what are you - man, or one of Nicola's little dancing puppets? And if that hilarious quote about Shaw is anything to go by, dance little Beeb boy, dance!

That's a bit harsh, they did manage nearly a decade before their first financial collapse. I've lost count now, it's approx five serious bouts of insolvency in the history of the three or four football clubs that have formed and folded in the city. At least the new business celebrated a full year without needing to be bailed out...

So the plucky ownership fantasy is no more, a month earlier into the summer cashflow crisis than predicted. Wake up few and smell the fat - it was always just a donation, but through the vague use of language and the odd fib it was spun to milk the partially-packed lardy fortress faithful. Saints are fan-owned, Chelsea are fan-owned, Newcastle are fan-owned - even Cardiff City are fan-owned, I saw him wearing the shirt. And down the road the Trust has less than 50% invested and three votes on a seven man board. The property developers have control.

yeah, but you didn't win the league when Bruce Forsyth was at preschool....mutter, mutter....dock strike....jealous scummahs....mutter...bitter nutjobs....don't own your own ground....gonna lose all your players.....we own our club....we don't want to be in the Premier League, no really, it's rubbish......Nazi tank driver.....etc

Are we still in crisis? How did the firesale go? Presumably we got relegated as everyone hated us for sacking people. Funny how the same nutters from all over the country who gobbed off then are now holding up Saints as the saviours of English football. The circle of football life. Think I'll await facts before worrying about too much. And who'd like to volunteer to be the first tit to boo Lallana or Shaw if we cash in, they further their careers, and they then return to SMS with a new team?

Is that Chaplow modelling the Millwall home kit? That was like a hostage video, using people who struggle to read, and at least one of them didn't believe a word he was saying, he had a smirk. Though the bloke with the worryingly foreign-inspired Afro had enough theatrical venom for everyone. I didn't care for the lighting or the audio mix, and they should have spent some money on a hairdresser. At least we now know that the secret sign of BNP youth is to wear one shirt collar out and one in. I didn't know they still existed.

Brilliant for all three! For Rickie because he's dragged himself from League One to the World Cup and we've shared that fantastic journey. He's okay in League One but he'll never do it in the Championship... It's brilliant for Adam who has been with us pre-admin, minus ten, and he suffered all the lows. Burley, Dodd, Gorman, Poortlvliet, Wotte, Pearson, Pardew, Adkins and Pochettino ALL spotted the talent in Lallana before Liverpool noticed him, even Bournemouth recognised his talent, why are Liverpool so far behind? An expensive error. And it's brilliant for Luke who represents all that is good about our academy and the Southampton way of playing football. What a great day.

god that's complex - but they seem to have maintained rates.

is that £200 last year up to £280?

You have to remember that £1million in Portsea can be forced down to loose change (less expenses) via two admins, so it's no great loss. Though I would agree that we need to create some myth around it... I'm sure we can cobble together some vague link between our away win at Anfield and pompey losing a potential fortune - that'll be three points they gave us for a big discount on cranes for the docks, chuck in some imaginary industrial action because of Liverpool getting funding for cruise ship facilities and we are nearly there! As a Skate/Liverpool-related aside, please tell me that Glen Johnson isn't England's right back? - last night he played his way right off the plane, through the terminal, the gift shops, the long term parking, and into a donkey sanctuary in Devon - he would be third choice at SMS - possibly fourth if Guly could cover back.

we sent the scummahs down.... Er, no you didn't, look at the 2005 table, you relegated Palace... And guess what - they just took a million quid off you!

don't spill wine on that bedsheet - it's needed for the press conference table where big signings will be announced.

Very good point Mr Munster - by writing off their penalty the FL actually kept them in the football league. Though, had they been -10 all season I would imagine they'd have given it up long ago and been about 15pts adrift. Either way, Bristol Rovers can say a big thank you to the erratic FL justice system.

We have heard all of this before from Whittingham and his boss - and then the board started discovering additional revenue, utilising parachute cash, rethinking budgets etc, to speed up their inevitable return to the summit of the world game. I'll be convinced about the leopard changing it's spots when it stops sprinting about biting things.

Your sprawling country estate is rubbish sneered the cross-eyed bitter tramp, from his ****-riddled cardboard box. sounds a bit dodgy said the pompey fan, ignoring a whole decade of theft, money-laundering and financial irregularities, in a failed attempt at insulting a bigger club two divisions higher.