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I think thats a bit below the belt. Two weeks ago we were all moved by that story.

Martin O'Neil is a pipe dream. Would be wonderful but i cant see it and honestly, why would he drop 2 divisions when in a couple of months time a Premiership job will come up somewhere. Tony Mowbray however is a real possibility. Not a shoe in for a Prem job and the challenge of taking us up two divisions is well within his capabilities. We would play football too. Connolly wouldnt have a crick in his neck watching the ball sail over his head for starters ;-)

I would take Phil Brown to...............Southampton Airport with a one way ticket in his hand.

Would love it to be right. Just in case it isnt ;-) I would be quite happy with Tony Mowbray. Plays good football and did a really good job with WBA. Not too sure how he would do in the Prem but he has the track record of getting there whilst playing good football.

Only if they wanted to try out that new Sushi place in the food court !!

I think what you need to consider is that many people are disgusted that a guy who they feel is doing a good job has been sacked for reasons that have not been made clear. Ok, it may be something whereby the nuts and bolts cannot be discussed but a statement a bit better than that thing the club issued Monday would have helped. Basically nobody knows why he has been sacked. So, if taken at face value, which quite often has to be done in lieu of further information, AP is sacked after a 4-0 victory away from home, following on from a season where we won a trophy and would have made the play-offs without the 10 point deduction. Wanting success quickly is one thing, and yes its a good thing, but there has to be a reality check thrown into the mix somewhere, and again at face value it hasn't. If me being outraged at AP's sacking makes me simple in your world then fine. If me being outraged at AP's sacking because I see it as un-necessary and a big mistake as well as being mean and petty towards a decent man who was doing a good job then tough, shoot me.

If we dont overcome the might of Rochdale on Saturday even Cortese would have to seriously wonder if he has done the right thing. There will be a lot of unhappy people if we dont win.

Really ? I think the stuffing has been knocked out of us over the last couple of days. Its the first time for years that I really couldnt be bothered to go tonight.

I thought all decent pitches had crowns to help with natural drainage.

Yeah I was thinking the same thing. I still think....no..... hope.....that Antonio is a deadline day deal !

Steve Williams or David Armstrong

Ostlund doesnt play anymore I believe.

You seem to forget that whenever AP deemed fit to put him on he created mayhem in opposition defences and was always on hand, in the right position to poach a goal.

If this is true how the hell have we got this guy ?

Thats cos he was at St Marys ;-) Hardly ideal preparation spending the day before the game talking transfers !

You are correct......only thing is I wouldnt use the words great and Puncheon in the same sentence. He is a backup to Lallana !

Desperately need an impact player to come off the bench. Antonio unused sub again for Reading today and now most of their players are regaining fitness thats how its gonna stay. Getup to Reading, offer them a reasonable fee and get him back here FFS

Dont care if it was Elvis Presley who took the project to him, I'm just thankful someone did. When you think of some of the, ahem, more shady characters that turn up at football clubs and run them I think Markus buying us was a god send.

The other thing that makes me confident is that Cortese mentions the blue print they had/have for the club. I cannot believe that in order to realise that plan the necessary funds have not been put into place. A businessman as successful as Markus obviously was would not, I believe, have made no provision for the future and left it to his family to decide wether they would make money available should it be required. I would be surprised if funding is not in place to see us back to the Premiership within the five year plan. If we get back in that time I would imagine the club would then be expected to stand on its own two feet properly as the money is in the Premiership. If we do not make the Prem within the next 4 years then we may see a different approach. But as you say its all conjecture and opinion and none of us know for sure. We must continue to trust Nicola Cortese and the Liebherr family and I for one am happy to do that.

I agree with most of your post but I cannot see where in that statement this suggestion is made to be honest. Trouble with reading between the lines is that you can often read too much or too little into things. There will be enough people dissecting this statement over the next couple of days instead of taking it at face value. The worry would have come if we had been soaked up into the MALI Group, but we haven't.

I agree. The Liebherr family could easily have made an excuse not to travel to Southampton yesterday for the Memorial, they could have stated they were too upset etc. But they didn't - they turned up in numbers - if they didnt know it before they certainly know now just how much Markus was valued. I doesnt look to me like the actions of people who are about to cut the club adrift.

Umm, no its not. Punheon was an invited guest, part of the first team squad. They all wore dark suits, as did all the staff from St Marys. The supporters were NOT invited guests, the supporters went along in their own time with the expectation of standing outside and hearing the service relayed to them. I was there and I can assure you that the fans did not expect to gain entry to the church. It was a touching and lovely decision by someone at the football cub, possibly Cortese, to let us in. So the supporters turned up in their shirts because they were honouring a man who had saved the club and expected to honour him from a distance so to speak. Puncheon is a paid employee of SFC and no matter what some people pontificate on here about the right and wrongs of casual dress, hands in pockets and sauntering down the aisle at the end of the service, I can tell you he stuck out like a sore thumb and did not look like he realised he was in a place of worship, unlike the rest of his colleagues. It did not reflect well on him, he would have been better chaging into a black tracksuit like the academy boys if he doesnt own a suit.

Sorry but there definitely was - there is only one South Today with only one Sally Taylor (thankfully :-) )

I would e mail them an apology if I were you. They actually had the good grace to have it as a seperate, yet brief, story apart from the Sports news, which it should have been.

If they were in any doubt that it was just words one look at the front of St Marys when they returned there for the after memorial gathering would show them just how much he had been taken to the hearts of Saints fans and the people of Southampton. To my mind that display speaks a thousand words over and over again.