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I don't get it. They are too embarrassed to go to their own doctor with their problem but quite happy for the viewing millions to see their manky parts?

Nail on head

I remember people writing off Morgan after a few games. Give JRod time!

It sucks

Personally I am gutted we signed Keegan. Just think of how many average players we could have signed if Big Mac had not gone for him! It is a sign of intent. If Ramirez is that good hopefully a better quality of player will want to come to St Marys.

Keep Adkins and let some other mugs employ Redknapp. Simples

Somehow you just knew that we would blow it in "Fergie Time." The focus should have been on strengthining the whole of the defence. We are still a CH and LB light which could well prove costly. Still, new players to come in and only 3 games in so no time to panick.

I'd be interested in knowing whether Nigel has given NC a list with the recent signings name on them. Lowe was often criticised for ignoring the managers and buying players himself. Given the diversity of players coming in Nigel must have a super insight into a very wide spectrum of players!

Where is the evidence that Lowe and the other Directors embezzled cub funds? They had to run the club on a shoestring and managed it very well for several years. Have you fogotten managing to stay up with 15k crowds at The Dell? I don't recall us have any super rich directors who could put their own money in. As far as I know NC doesn't either. We are where we are now because we are owned by a rich family. Lowe made a number of mistakes at the end but he was excellent in the transfer market given the money he had to play with. We are just fortunate now that there is a great deal more money to spend. Still no guarantee we will stay up though!

Billy Sharp is a decent enough Championship striker but if we was Prem quality that is where he would be. As someone said though, the loan is a good move in case we do go down and need him back! Still worried about the left back position and the defence in general. Still, it will be interesting to see what the new signings bring to the team. As for Lowe never spending £30m, he never had that kind of money to spend as it wasn't around in the early days of the Prem. NC has the benefit of a recent promotion and firm financial backing from the owners. You could argue that we have underspent given what established Prem club players spend on individuals but as Rickie only cost £1m you can find gems on the "cheap."

We are naive consistently. All Prem clubs will give away some poor goals on occasion.

Of course it is early days yet but there is a major concern over the defence. Man City could have been out of sight with better finishing last week and we look like a side that will conceded 2 to 3 goals a week. WE are naive at the back. We got away with it most of the time last season but we won't this season. That is where we need to stengthen urgently.

Maybe not strange but utterly ridiculous!

I didn't say I would stop supporting the club. As for the shirts in the 80s they were mostly a remodelling of the red and white even if some of them weren't actually stripped. This one is a cast off Liverpool shirt. The away kit looks a little more like us but we have had some really cool kits recently and aprt from not being cool. this does not look like Southampton FC. As for the prices, why do people pay so much for some shiney synthetic tat?

Perhaps the red strip is a cunning plan to lure him here instead of Anfield?

Perhaps we should change the colours on the Union Jack too? Surely they are a bit jaded now? Ferrari should race in yellow perhaps? There is nothing wrong with tradition and being proud of your team's colours. We are not Liverpool, we are Southampton FC and the stripes were the reason I stared supporting the club in 1966. If Lowe had done this would everyone be saying ooooooh cool? Very sad as far as I'm concerned. Our first season back in the Premiership and we should proudly wear the stripes that represent Southampton Football Club.

Chelsea play in blue shirts, Manchester United in red, Everton in blue, Southampton in red and white stripes. Call me old fashioned but that is what I think we should wear. So is this the "Soutjampton way" he has been crowing about? Changing our heritage?

No matter what you think of Lowe, her did his best work for us in his negotiations with other clubs.

Should have added Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot, Selling England By The Pound and The Lambs Lies Down On Broadway by Genesis as classic Prog albums.

Our first true Progressive band was probably The Nice. They certainly influenced the early Yes and married rock, jazz and classical music with various levels of success from about 1967. Band like The Nice and Jethro Tull were know as Underground in those days - the name for "alternative" music at the time. Releasing singles was seen as selling out and it was mostly about the albums. The Nice/King Crimson morphed into ELP, Yes brought in Steve Howe, the Gabriel era Genesis found their feet and the goldern years of Prog Rock were born - probably between 1970 and 1974. Punk was actually quite small. It was more New Wave that came through in the late 70s and made the real difference - although the Dinosaur bands they were suppoed to kill off were making even more money doing stadium tours. Genesis were more commercially successful post 1977.Check out Keith Emerson, Jon Anderson, Steve Howe, Chris Squire, Greg Lake, Ian Anderson, Robert Fripp, Rick Wakeman, Dave Greenslade. Prog rock was singually very English, although others followed, the pure type of Prog Rock came from the English middle class. The birthing poing was prbably Sgt Pepper and The Moody Blues' Days Of Future Past.Prog at its best? Fine examples are ELPs Pictures At An Exhibition, Tarkus, Trilogy and Brain Salad Surgery. In The Court Of The Crimson King by King Crimson. The Yes Album, Fragile and Close To The Edge by Yes. Thick As A Brick by Jethro Tull. For the early stuff anything by The Nice will give you the heads up.I went to see Carl Palmer's band the other week and for a guy in his 60s he is still an incredible drummer. He is still gigging so once again the notion that Punk did away with fine musicianship is nonsense.Going back to the New Wave. The Stranglers ripped off The Doors and The Jam ripped off The Small Faces, The Who, The Kinks and The Beatles so the only New thing about them was the bands rather than the music. Oh and for the guy who mentioned Marillion, they total ripped off early Genesis and Gabriel.Never real thought of Pink Floyd as Progressive. They were a psychadelic band who changed massively when Syd freaked out and left.

They should face criminal charges for neglect and I find it chilling tht some people on here have done the same, or at least condone it. Parents have a duty of care towards their children nd the McCann's failed in their big time. Still, I guess a night out with their mates was more important than their kids safety.

Agreed. Such a shame that he couldn't be there to witness the scenes yesterday and enjoy seeing his dream realised.Thanks should also go to Alan Pardew who laid the foundations of the transformation of the club and brought in some quality players.To Adam Lallana for staying with the club and to Kelvin Davies who too could have jumped ship when West Ham came knocking and has been a rock.To Sam Alladyce without whom West Ham would surely have gone up automatically.And to everyone at Southampton Football Club who have worked so hard to achieve this memorable back to back promotions and who have brought a smile back to the faces of the fans who had had to endure such tough times a few years back.Lastly a thought for the wrist slitters on here, I am so glad you were all wrong!!!

Why should it be okay to be able to abuse your fellow Saints fans once a season just because some results don't go our way? We all support the same team don't we? It says that abusive behaviour isn't tolerated here yet you, dear Alpine, have spent the whole bloody season abusing your fellow fans and you are still here asking if you can do it with the Mods blessing now! Priceless. Whatever happens on Saturday we have had an amsing season. WE will end up where we end up based on the whole season's results so little matter if we have been in the top two for most of it. There is no such things as guaranteed promotion. Those of you who wouldn't have it under Burley should look at WHU. With their resources they should have been home and dry long ago but they are in the same boat as us. We have two chances of going up. We can beat Coventry or we can win the play offs. This time last season who would not have settled for that? Yet we have a manic depression start a thread to say that he wants dispensation for slagging off his fellow fans if things go wrong in a couple of fottball matches? Jeez.

You gus! You talk about wet fannies as though that is a bad thing! You could pretty much write the script for this forum after the fianl whistle and the usual suspects have not disappointed. We hve done incredibly well this season but REading have been more consistant since bfore Christams so fair play to them. We lost our way recently against Blackpool, Portsmouth, Reading and Middlesbrough where you would think a top 2 team would not have done and the simple fcat is that we do have weaknesses in our game and they do get exploited. TDD tells us that we are better suited than Reading if we go up. I don't agree. BOth teams will needs to strengthen and adapt their tactics if they aren't to come straight back down. It is no sectret that I am no Cortese fan and would rather have Pardew here still. But Adksins has done a terrific job in the last couple of seasons and Cortese is on course to complete his plan ahead of schedule, so what is there not to be happy about? Yep, it would have been great if we had finished the job yesterday, but we didn't. That is so often the case with us andwe will be looking at other results from behind the sofa not for the first time. At the end of the day it is just a game of football, not a matter of life and death. We have certainly exceeded my expectations this season and no matter what happens next week I don't see this season as a let down. We will end up. with all the other teams, where we deserve to over the season as a whole. Second would be amazing but third would be no shame.

It is very easy to pick individual cases and say that a whole organisation is useless, it is also rubbish. People have to make judgement calls because other people lie, or make mistakes, or forget things. The defence will often let a case go to trial in the hope that witness don't turn up and the defendant gets off. They would save everyone a whole lot of time and money if they persuaded the defendent to plead at an earlier stage when they are clearly guilty. Thought about that? Perhaps some moral outrage should be aimed at that - or the firms who bend the rules to get motorists off charges when they are clearly guilty. If prosecuting people and getting guilty verdicts on the guilty was easy the crime rate would be halved overnight. However, people know how hard it is to get a conviction either in fron t of a Magistrates bench or in front of a jury so many will take that chance. Perhaps, again, you should aim your barbs at the guilty who waste you and my money on taking that chance! As for a policeman saying that Barnard was innocent. Despite what you might believe from the Law and Order programme (which is total nonsense by the way) it is the police who provide the CPS with the evidence i.e. witness statements and exhibits. If the evidence did not point towards Barnard he would not have been charged. The very same evidence that the police provided. Once upon a time the jury were asked to provide a verdict on the basis it was beyond "reasonable doubt." Now they are told that they must be "sure" of the guilt. A very different direction. Barnard was given a fair trial and found innocent but he was tried because there was enough evidence (provided by the police) to take the trial to court. Persoannly I feel sorry for the poor guy who was viciously assualted by a drunk criminal. As for Saunders, the CCPs very very rarely make prosection decsions themselves. They are just the figureheads and she would have been speaking for the Reviewing Lawyer and the District Crown Prosecutor and Senior District Crown Prosecutor who bring these charges (often in consulation with very experience counsel form the Bar who actually prosecute our cases in court. As I say, it is very easy to get on your high horse and make ill informed judgements and that is excatly what you get on internet forums. Just give some thought to those people who make money out of getting guilty people off.