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Like many of the slightly more 'mature' posters on here, I can remember having a 7-0 and an 8-0 defeats in the same season. If we can see the problems so can Nigel and his crew. Keep the faith.

Is this how she did it ?

Aaah, but : "Anyhow, the Football League ideally require a bank guarantee or company guarantee to convince them the football creditors will receive all of their money. As a brand new company, the Trust are certainly in no position to be able to fulfil such criteria. The Trust are arguing the validity of such a requirement when it is not even their debt they are expected to pay."

Last year, in the same 4 matches, WBA gained 0 points and a GD of -9, they just didn't have them all together. ( Mind you, for balance, Bolton and Blackburn also lost all 4 ). WBA also only managed 2 points from home matches against Villa and Fulham at home and lost away at Everton and at home to Spurs and Swansea. So that's 2 points from the same opening 9 games ( other than we also have to play WBA ). Long way to go yet. Fwiw Arsenal lost at home to Wigan and Man United, and away at Man City.

I doubt if even Cortese believes that, and I know that's apparently the source of the statement. Anybody that looked at this season as a route to the ECL is beyond deluded, it's approaching Skate levels of foolishness.

A few seasons ago they lost 6-1 to the Arse in the opening fixture, at Goodison.

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This. We may or may not stay up this season, that's in the laps of the footballing gods, or at the whim of the Fates, or down to Lady Luck, or voodoo - whichever it is I don't care, the world won't come to an end. I support Southampton FC; managers come and go, players are generally mercenary buggers, but I'm no plastic -Red & White is forever.

Don't worry, our next 4 games will not be as difficult as the 4 we've just played.

Adriansfc -

No loans in the Prem once the window is shut.

I guess it's all about your perspective :

But they didn't contribute much even when they stayed wide, we ended up all too often playing long through the middle as there was no effective attacking width.

We'd get the standard Redkrapp press conference "It'll be a hard job, this squad is just not good enough."

We have had worse starts - as I have posted elsewhere, in 1998 we had 0 points from the first 4 games, with a GD of -10, including 0-5 vs Charlton. We followed this by losing again and by the 9th game had only gained 2 points. At the end of that season we stayed up with 41 points.

Do we all still have our 'Great Escape' T shirts ? They may need an airing. Just remember that the season ends at the final whistle of the 38th game, and relegation doesn't mean the end of the world. I REFUSE to be a bed-wetter.

1) We won't be the only team beaten by 5 at Arsenal 2) We have actually had worse starts to Premiership seasons 3) We are currently one win away from 14th 4) We will beat Villa 5) The sun will come up tomorrow At least 4 of the above are facts !

Anybody remember 1998 ? 1 16.08.1998 Liverpool home L1-2 17 0 2 22.08.1998 Charlton Athletic away L0-5 20 0 3 29.08.1998 Nottingham Forest home L1-2 20 0 4 08.09.1998 Leeds United away L0-3 20 0 5 12.09.1998 Newcastle United away L0-4 20 0 6 19.09.1998 Tottenham Hotspur home D1-1 20 1 7 28.09.1998 West Ham United away L0-1 20 1 8 03.10.1998 Manchester United home L0-3 20 1 9 17.10.1998 Arsenal away D1-1 20 2

Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker on Twitter:"Five now for Arsenal. Abacus at the ready..." Run out of fingers already ? ***t.

Only one way to sort this --- FIGHT !!!!

I think what matters is where we are in relation to the teams around us - if we are within 2 or 3 points of 16th place it's a different situation to being cut adrift. ( Assuming that is that the next 3 months pan out as Alps predicts ).

Probably no point either in reminding people that Gazzaniga, Clyne, and Yoshida were all brought in during the summer.

This. Worst case scenario is that we start planning for next season as we are already down according to some.

Devil's Advocate question :- If the squad is as poor as some of you are making out, what difference would changing the manager make ? ( And again as I am typing there is a goal - Danny Fox being far more effective in attack then he ever is in defence ).