Lighthouse

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.

Palace - Falconry (Is it still called falconry with an eagle? Eaglery? Is that a word?) Coventry - Hovercraft Saints - Some random kids trying to hit the cross bar I know a lot of people don't give 2 sh*ts about HT entertainment as they're too busy having a pint and a slash, but surely we can come up with something a bit more imaginative.

I went to the games against Swindon and Palace. In both of them we were pretty inept up front and the ball just didn't stick. Luckily we are seldom without Lambert when it matters. The only other instances I can remember are Plymouth at home last year (beat us 1-0 on the way to relegation) and Gillingham away 2 seasons ago (beat us 2-1 on the way to relegation). Not good.

This was BEFORE De Ridder's goal when they all went home.

Not without a fairly big centre forward they aren't. Take Ricky out this team and we've really got an issue. Guly and DC can't hold the ball up to save their lives. Guly's first touch is poor and DC is a midget. Lamberts hold up play and target size are far more important to our success than his goals.

Wasn't great was it. I actually thought the guys to our right under the score board tried to make a decent fist of it. Problem was they were so few, so spread out and in a soulless ground watching a really sh*t team. They just seemed to give up (appart from the 7 minutes between Platt and Guly's goals). In the 5 minutes following De Ridder's goal, most of them flooded for the exits. By the time we were into injury time, I'd say Saints genuinely out numbered Coventry. What an awful club to be a fan of, I just couldn't do it.

No real need to rotate the squad after a 2 week break, so I'd go with the same 11 as today. Barnard should be fit and hopefully Lallana will have his mojo back. Coconut to the best "keep up" chant. I'll bet Brompey fans are already reading this going "what a sad obsessed bunch of c**ts" on NSC. For some reason I can see us drawing this and having to put up with endless gloating about losing our winning run.

We need pace. Forte out, someone in who is much much better. Hooiveld on a perm. About it really. Still wouldn't say no to Beats if the deal was right.