beatlesaint

An excellent post Whitey - I agree entirely with your Pace of development heading. If the 5 year plan really is 3 years then I think that NC needs to re-evaluate and go back to the 5 year idea. Gently, gently. 5 years is a good target, it might involve a little patience but all good things are worth waiting for.

The best fans in the world......16000 of them turned up last Wednesday for what could have been their last game ever. Even without that hanging over them it was a must win against a fellow struggler.......and they muster 16000 ? When will this pathetic false praise of their fans that is continually perpetuated by the media going to stop FFS ?

Make up your mind, in another thread you didnt think he was that great today. He was actually our MOM by a country mile.

I'm hoping the bit about Connolly being fit is true. If its 0-0 with 20 odd mins to go he would be ideal with his ability to create space for Lambert and Lallana, not to mention the undoubted goal threat he is.

No, each club gets £247,500.

Thanks.....of course it was changed by 15mins for TV, I recall that now.

Why does the OS and Echo keep referring to a 12.30 kick off. I thought it was 12.45. So am I wrong......don want to get here late

Who is he loaning the money to ? Himself ? He is the owner. If you buy yourself a new TV are you loaning yourself the money to buy it ? How many times does NC have to say that ML is funding this out of his own pocket as an investment ? If, and I think its a big if, he decided to sell the club in a few years time it would be worth a lot more than the price paid to get the club out of admin. And why do you say the club is running at a loss this season ? The attendances have risen dramatically, especially this week and the prize money for each round of the FA Cup as well as the £250,000 for live coverage of Saturday's tie......even the Echo conceeded that Saints were going to rake in over a million on the back of the JPT and FA Cup runs....and now a Wembley final and all the extra merchandise......I would doubt if this club, or many others for that matter has been in such good financial health.

We have an owner who has readily made funds available, who comes over for most if not all home games and has been to some away, who always looks happy when he is here and who has said he is in it for the long haul not just a short term thing so why do you want reassuring ?

Couldnt disagree with that team one bit !

Quite right, he did get overly excited and we were calling for AP to substitute him as you can never trust refs these days. He did show plenty of passion and desire to win which is grest....he could have kept his mouth shut and not got quite so involved though but fair play to him for having a go at Ince. They wanted someone sent off, that was clear, their number 9 was a pain in the arse with his constant nagging and whinging.

If they dont win tonight a points deduction wont make much difference I wouldnt have thought !

I think reading between the lines AP knows he has to get promotion next season and that failure to do so will not be an option.

But a St Mary's spokesperson said: "It is a relatively small amount of money for us so we are prepared to take the risk rather than cause any bad feeling." That sentence sort of rubs it in though - "we have considerably more money than you"

Yes, all that I said. He said the pitch was a contributing factor BUT so was our lack of quality and basics !!

He didnt blame the pitch, he said we lacked quality and we didnt do the basics well enough, we were hitting too many balls out of play etc. Had he said we didnt win because of the pitch fair enough, but he didnt.

We have just drawn at a place where Leeds lost a couple of weeks ago. We won on a miserable Tuesday night in Hartlepool where Leeds drew today. Please explain your last sentence !

We didnt even lose Micky and its all doom and gloom

You are joking surely.

and your suggestion for manager would be ?

I would expect it to be very strong.....pity the OS haven't got it yet !!

Well he certainly isn't doing it for publicity in the local papaer

Perhaps the extra discount on ticket prices for cup matches might be the thankyou to Season Ticket Holders. Perhaps the coffee at 6.30 in the morning was for the people who decided to queue from the early hours of the morning in the middle of winter which Season Ticket Holders didn't have to do. I thought you were off to follow Arsenal anyway............

Compared with his predecessor yes he is

In terms of practicalities in getting away fans from the stadium as quickly and as safely as possible the only option is to keep them near Britannia Rd which would mean the only alternative I can see is the Itchen/Chapel corner. Put them anywhere over the other side and you are asking for trouble, especially over the footbridge. You would also have the added problems of away fans mingling too much with home supporters going off in every direction. Whilst this would be fine for the majority of away fans, certainly in this League, what about when we move up to the CCC and hopefully the Premiership and you are dealing with large numbers of Leeds, P*mpey, Millwall etc fans ? Unless these supporters that have a history of causing trouble are kept in after the final whistle like in the bad old days then personally I think it is asking for trouble. They were put in the Northam/Itchen corner for a reason....and that reason had to be that it is the most obvious place for crowd control and access. Only my opinion of course.