Lighthouse

I can't help but dispair at the human race when I see how popular the X Fagtor STILL is. Okay 10 years ago when they made Girls Aloud and Hearsay it was a novel concept and the former even went on to have a very succesful pop career. Since then though it's just the same crap over and over and over and over and over. People have been tuning in for best part of a decade to watch the same bunch of attention seeking half wits desperate for their 15 minutes of fame. Many people even have the sheer audacity to be surprised when the sh*t novelty act gets kept on instead of an obviously more tallented singer. They don't seem to realise it's just manufactured controversy to boost ratings. I don't buy the argument that they're helping uncover hidden tallent either. I'm sure there is uncovered tallent out there, but they're writing songs and playing instruments at gigs. Not singing on some rehashed ITV karaoke freak show.

I don't get why so many people want Vokes. Other than being a Saints fan he has nothing going for him. His best season was the year we went down from the Championship and Vokes had a worse scoring record than David McGoldrick. This despite playing for a league winning side, instead of a bunch of relegation strugglers. In short. He's crap.

So did Matt Le Tiss, that never bothered anyone.

At least people had heard of Tony Adams.

Wouldn't want to meet him on a dark night. Wouldn't want to meet him at all if I'm honnest.

I think you're forgetting the away fans contribution to all of this. Take the Blackburn game. First game of the season, a lot of people are either on holiday or have just got back and are skint. Saints is a pretty crap away game for them (a long, expensive journey and not a glamourous team). They probably only brought a couple of hundred. We might well have sold out our allocation, but still been 2-3,000 short of a full capacity. I'm not sure where this figure of £50m to expand the stadium by 8,000 seats came from either. It only cost us £35m to build the first 32,000.

Still, could be worse. At least he isn't gay.

A few of our 'crapper' home fixtures in our relegation season. Blackburn - 27,400 Bolton - 30,700 (midweek) Man City - 28,600 Birmingham - 27,500 West Brom - 31,000 Palace - 31,800 Boro - 29,000 Charlton - 31,100 Fulham - 27,300 (Midweek) Villa - 31,900 For a crap Saints team for the 10 least appealing fixtures, that's a pretty healthy number. Pretty much every other game was a sell out. If you call anything over 31,000 a sell out that's 13 out of 19 home fixtures, when we were playing awful. I think there is a pretty good case for expansion in the Premier League. 10 years to break even is nothing. We stayed at the Dell 103 years and there is no reason St Mary's can't be the same if it's well maintained.

Well remembered ladysaint. We don't want another Delgado situation on our hands.

What a terrible 3 months for the Reds. RIP.

I've been to reserve games at Staplewood with more atmosphere than El Stadio MK. Went there that year Lambert scored a hat trick and you needed binoculars to see the home fans. Think there were about 9,000 fans all in all, with as much space for segregation as there were occupied seats. Imagine the Chapel full of home fans and the Northam full of away fans, with the rest just used as segregation and you're not far off. Dreadful place.

It's a pun on 'what the f**k' as opposed to an insult.

When we played them in the cup people slept in tents over night outside our ticket office. 2 weeks later they were on general sale to anyone. Not sure what point I'm trying to make, can someone help me out?

Not sure who I feel sorry for really.

Christ yes, well remembered. I was a block 2 stalwart back then and the whole of blocks 1-3 were singing "he's got bigger t*ts than you" at Tango man. Also remember the two of them shaking hands and having a chat at the front during half time. Good spirit and what football's all about IMO. I got to that game late and desperate for a p*ss. As I was in there I heard the distant cheering which could only mean an away goal. Cheesed off, I walked up to my seat. Just as I came out the stair well into the stadium, I saw Skacel scored what I thought was the equaliser. After a bit of cheering I walked up to my seat and it wasn't until a few minutes later I looked at the score board and it was 0-0. Both goals had been disallowed without me realising.

That's basically what I'm saying. Our top players now will get a game in the Prem. It's not like we're going to have to spend £5m on every possition just to compete. What we need to do is cut the players who can't get a game now or wont next year. Jaidi, Holmes, Forte, DC, Seaborne, Dickson (remember him).

I've grasped the concept of planning fine thanks. I'd say Jos was our best CB. He has certainly adapted to being in this league a lot better than Fonte so far. If you're say we need to replace Jos with someone better, then you're basically saying we need to replace all our centre halves. Infact I'm struggling to think of many players we have better than Jos. Lambert, Lallana, Chaplow. You could also argue a decent case for Cork and Morgan. Where does that leave us? 20 new signings for the Premier League?

I think "Keep up Brighton" to the tune of 'play up Pompey' will surfice.

Disagree with that. I think we will need someone in a bit better IF we get promoted. To get rid of a player who is playing superbly, on the assumption that we will get promoted anyway is arrogant and goes against our team ethic. I'd be happy to have Jos in a Premier League squad. It's the likes of Seaborne and Jaidi I'd be getting rid of. Buying 4 new centre halves if we get promoted isn't going to get us very far.

I just feel sorry for the League 2 clubs who stay up till 2am for 10 seconds of highlights.

Jesus... a 4-2 win and we get less TV coverage than a geriatric Glaswegian. To be expected I suppose.

I think they had about 90 to be honnest.

We did exactly the same against Hull under Burley and at Posh last season. Unfortunately we threw it away again against Posh. Must be a Saints thing.

I think Wolves and Bristol City have got the right idea: This isn't bad either

When we got relegated 3 years ago we scored 46 goals. 9-0 win over Brighton should get us there.