Lighthouse

I think you could tell which team had just played a midweek game at the EK and who had the night off. They looked fresher second half and caused us a few problems. Having said that, we would have been out of sight if we had taken a couple of the chances we wasted. Good to grind out a result. Not at our best but we got the job done. What a goal from Pelle too. Tikkabooson.

Didn't we get him sacked? Remember Beattie scoring a belter of a free kick at the lane.

No there isn't.

Last time out maybe but we spanked them in their own back yard in the away game (before 'Arry was there). Hopefully they put out the same dreadful performances they've been doing in every other game so far.

Speak for yourself. For me the main concern was about how we spent the money we made through player sales. Koeman's team has so far proven my point, it's not about who you sell it's who you replace them with. Liverpool seem to be finding this out, having lost a striker who would terrify most Premier League defences they have struggled to cause anywhere near the same problems this year.

There are some on here who burst into tears about a cup tie 30 years ago every time the word 'Everton' is mentioned. 'Arry on the other hand can p*ss off. As dodgy as a £9 note.

Shrews at home and Chelsea, City, Spuds and Scousehampton all drawing each other will do for me. Path of least resistance and all that.

I remember a certain FA Cup draw in 2010 when all the teams were listed on the side of the SSN graphics. One by one they kept disappearing until there were two left. Saints and Pompey.

No doubting we've made a strong start but I wouldn't get too excited just yet. We haven't beaten anyone properly decent yet, Newcastle and West Ham were awful, Swansea had nothing when Bony got s/o and Arsenal had their preschool team in defence last night. Having said that, the though of this team with Mane and J Rod is making me a little bit moist.

Man Utd, Arsenal and Everton out, Liverpool making a meal of it, Poch apparently not interested in cups. If we can avoid City and Chelsea we might have a chance at this.

That's staying hit. Worthy of winning any match. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbEmHffBuaM&app=desktop

He hit that.

That's by no means guaranteed. Most people spent the first half of last year saying Man Utd will come good, Moyes just needs time. Liverpool don't look anything special without Suarez either. They probably will finish above us but I wouldn't give up all hope just yet.

Which is why I will always be in favour of selling big time Charlies like Lallana and Lovren if they want out. The board 'putting their foot down' and 'growing a pair' is all well and good but if you end up with a dressing room full of Anelkas, Lovrens and Bartons it doesn't matter how talented they are. Without the right atmosphere in the dressing room, the biggest names in football will look hopeless.

Arsenal but we're the only 3 winners from last year's top half.

Bad news for our title hopes

Robert Pires sticks out in my mind. Scored 5 against us in one season, including a hat trick at Highbury and the Cup final winner.

You wont get a crush as long as there are metal barrages along every three or four rows and you don't have fences. Fences were the problem at Hillsborough, without them that day would have just been a few hundred Scousers wandering around on the pitch. I've seen the footage of the Valley Parade fire and it sends a shiver down my spine when I think what could have happened if that stand had been fenced in. We would be looking at a death toll which would have dwarfed 9/11. It's easy to just say the Scousers will never allow safe standing but has anyone actually asked them. I would be interested to see a poll on a LFC forum. Obviously there will be a few people so blinded by grief that just refuse to hear any kind of discussion on the subject but perhaps the rest will be a bit more open to the idea.

Any other day of the year Man Utd probably would have sold out and usually does, unless I'm very much mistaken. However it was the last day if the season between the teams guaranteed to finish 7th and 8th regardless if the result. As a result nobody have a hoot about the result and fewer people were tempted to shell out £40 to watch what was basically a meaningless friendly. I basically agree with you in principal. We could sell out a 40,000 a few days a season with the right pricing. However those in the know with all the financial figures have clearly decided we wouldn't sell enough extra tickets to make it financially viable. It's an asset in the sense that if KL wanted rid of the club it would be worth more. Obviously nobody is going to buy the stadium separate from the club. That's why a billionaire businessman bought Saints and nobody wanted Pompey except a fake Sheikh and a dodgy Russian arms dealer. We had assets worth buying and investing in. They didn't.

It's an investment though. If you spend £30m on 10,000 seats the stadium is worth a whole lot more and generating more income in the process. FWIW I don't think the stadium will be or particularly needs to be expanded but there is some economic sense to it. It's basically the same money we've p*ssed up the wall on Osvaldo and Gaston, except those two are no longer assets, don't generate any income and are basically worth f**k all. Your missing (or pretending to miss I can never tell) the point on £15 safe standing tickets too. Without seats you can pretty much get double the number of people into a stand, minus a few rows of barraging to stop a crush from occurring. Twice as many people at half the price, that's the whole point of it.

I don't think it's a case of people who go and people who don't. Don't forget 55,000 Saints fans drove to London to watch a game against League 1 Carlise. The numbers are obviously there but people just don't make the effort to go to every game. Most likely because of the cost. I would quite happily see the club spend a couple of million less in the transfer window and use that money to give it a trial run for a season. Standing spaces in the Northam, £15 each all ages.

Bingo. If it was up to me, I'd stick the away fans in the Itchen/Northam Corner and make the whole Northam safe standing with cheaper tickets. Would get a bigger crowd into the same area, have a better atmosphere and make the same amount of money. I quite like the idea of the train station. It seems those being unwilling to walk to Central are being branded lazy by some on here but spare a thought for some of our older fans. My grand parents were ST holders until about 5 years ago but got put off by the 20+ minute walk to a suitable car park. A train station could also help to significantly ease traffic. If we had a park and ride by train scheme from SMS going out to places like Eastleigh, Airport, Hedge End and Winchester, it would be a lot quicker than parking in town. 15 minutes after the game you could be out of town and away from the traffic.

Away working in Sweden and I've just found this again. Obviously it's impossible to enforce such a law. I think it's a fundamental necessity that you should be able to pay for your child with no help from the state, before it is conceived. Benefits are for those who have fallen on harder times, not for people to plan their lives around using them.

All aboard the ROFLCOPTER

Unbelievable tekkers from Dejan for that throw in.