beatlesaint

Are you really that blinkered and short sighted alpine ? I think the general opinion is that if the Swiss deal had gone through a month earlier AP would have been appointed much sooner, he would have had the full pre-season with the players and would have had more time and opportuinty to bring in new players. Wonder how many players AP would have been interested in got fixed up with clubs between 1 July and AP's appointment ? Nobody in their right mind is suggesting Surman is the difference between consolidation and a play off place..............only you

Actually what we need are two of the bigger clubs with big squads to tear this league apart and amass as many points as they can. By doing that they would make the number of points required to make 6th place - and in real terms that is surely the best we could hope to achieve - a lot less than it would be if its a tight league with 6 or 7 teams vying for the top two places

You have to be realistic though. To get into the play offs this year would be a great achievement from -10. If we are mid-table at Christmas we can give that target a real go, if not then its just consolidation and building for next season, thats not lack of ambition its real life. The real target must be for next season to have a real go at ****ing this league !! But they cant come out and say, "well thanks for the 10500 plus season tickets, but actually dont expect too much this year will you cos its probably just us preparing for next season !! "

You have to say from the outside looking in Paul Hart was an awful appointment for them. They seem to agree amongst themselves too !!

Oh he is............he is slow, his tackles are wreckless, his positional play is poor, he is not commanding in the air.... He has a long long way to go, even for League 1. Its a shame but thats how it is unfortunately.

I dont think he has a problem with his salary, I think its just the prospect of playing in League 1.

Offer from other club according to Echo. Thing is with Rasiak, will a Championship club (cos i assume thats who it would be) be willing to meet his current wages ? Its a big stumbling block it seems otherwise surely with his track record in the Championship he would have been snapped up long before now.

9.30 - 4.00

Didnt mind using our facilities and a few friendly matches to get himself fit(tish) for a new club did he ?

Well thats right. IF this is true I wonder what McCarthy is basing this signing on ? He has played a handfull of games for us and a few for S****horpe or Scarboro or whoever it was ( )......hardly good grounding for the premiership !

Is this because he wants to go cos AP said nobody had to leave now unless they didnt want to play for SFC ?

Considering Hearts are one of the top Scottish teams I am amazed the result did not even get on Sky Sports ticker tape thingy.

I understand and appreciate what you are saying but is that a bad thing ? I think you have been punch drunk by the goings on at Southampton over the past few years. At some point we have to trust somebody to be custodian of this club for the next generation, and lets face it we sure as hell couldnt trust the last incumbent. I dont really know why you think we as fans should have rights as such. The right to walk away if you dont like whats going on is and will always be there, as it was last season when the old duck hunting chap came back and many walked. I dont have any say in how Asda is run but it wont stop me shopping there. As a PLC the shareholders had rights and look at the god awful mess that got us into. If we had been taken over by one of these Far East tycoons with a dodgy past then yeah, your concerns would be right....but i think ML has shown already that he is not here to make a quick profit then get out of town.

So when people on here slag off Lynam, in reality as he was acting as nothing more than the middle man or broker, he was conned as much as MLT and Leon Crouch. Could people kindly remember that then before telling him to **** off from this site etc. You wouldnt tell Matt to go forth so spare this guy who was genuinally, i believe, doing what he thought was right and proper for the future of SFC.

I thought he looked good both going forward and defensively......certainly not bad for a first game. Mind you he is a left footer playing as a left back which at Southampton is almost unheard of these days

With all due respect that is a ridiculous statement.

Jermaine Wright is much better than Wotton.

Not at all....but I think you may have jumped the gun a little. Lets see if the situation is no better 2 weeks from today - then you may have a point but AP has had one week, there are two more before the season starts.......more to the point lets see what the squad looks like when the transfer window closes on 31 August.

Fortune would be a good signing too. Played for Charlton in the Prem, must still be quite a young age. I think he has had some injury problems but if fit would be good for this League.....and thats what we need to remember, players who would be good for this League cos in reality its probably going to take a minimum of 2 years to get out of it. Players for the Championship and beyond come later

They arent bad for a league One side starting with -10 points

AP would not have been attracted here without being told there will be money to spend as and when he wants it, within a sensible bracket of course. You arent going to go on TV/radio and say "Markus has told me he has 3 billion Euros in his back pocket and I can spend as much as I like" As someone has already mentioned its easy to forget how a club should be run properly after the Keystone Cops we have had for the last few years.

It does seem very strange. I couldnt believe it when I heard that last night. And who is Paul Hart going to attract there to replace Johnson, Crouch etc ? Its all looking a bit glum for them...........3 weeks is a long time in football isnt it

If that was gonna happen I doubt he would be playing tonight. I would expect, provided he was any good tonight, that AP will be offering him a contract pretty soon, esp bearing in mind Pilchard's training report from yesterday !

He is playing at Salisbury tonight ! Come on, keep up

He isnt as slow as Lancashire If its between the two of them Perry would be my choice every time.