sadoldgit

Ah Ronnie! It took longer to sign him than his actual career with us from what I remember, but what a quality player!

You don't seem to have a problem slagging off Northerners, so what is eaxctly the difference between someone from the North/Scotlandand a "Johny Foreigner" as you so quaintly put it?

Pot Kettle Black

Yep, he was a great liitle player. Shame is career ended the way it did with us but that's life. Like you, I prefer to remember his golden moments rather than the sick notes. Proof if ever it was needed that that are gems out there that don't cost a fortune if you look in the right places.

When I was a kid spinach was boiled to within an inch of its life and tasted foul. Nowdays, with onion and garlic it is the dog's danglies

Surely it is the am of every club to do as well as possible and to finish as high in the table as possible. To listen to the odd person on here you would think that the team talk would go something like this, " Well lads, we lost to Tranmere so finishing in the play offs will be harder this year, so just go out for the rest of the season and trot around and save yourselves so next season." Surely every club is ambitious withing their ability to compete? Every manager wants to do well? That is waht makes sport so compelling, that everyone is out to beat everybody else. That also means that clubs are not going to roll over and play daed just because we are the mighty Southampton FC. I have no doubt that Pardew's ambition will be to make the play offs if he can and to finish as high as he can. As any manager would.

And what exactly was your comment about Northerners the other day Alps???

And your posts aren't "petulant"???

Sadly the impatience won't stop when we finally go up. The expectations in some quarters will be instant promotion again. Didn't someone once write something about taking time to smell the roses...and its not the arriving it is the journey?

I don't know about clear favourites DD, but certainly strong contenders. I shall be interested to see what happens in the Summer transfer market. I still think we are a couple of CCC quality players short of being a Leeds or Norwich next season. I would be very surprised if we weren't top 6 for most of next season though.

Another thing I don't get is the hatred directed at people who are just doing their jobs? Where does that come from? I can understand the frustration, but when one regular poster said he wanted to "lump" a recently departed manager you do have to wonder what goes on in these people's heads. At the end of the day it is just a game. If you can't enjoy if for what it is perhaps you should find another outlet for your frustrations?

There is something unholy about the "Premiership", hard to put it into words but it just seems to have lost its soul to cash. I want us to get promoted but it wouldn't bother me if we stayed in the CCC. I just find it hard to identify with all of these foreign imports, as good as many of them are. The CCC seems much more like I remember the good old Division 1 to be like.

Nothing wrong in being a Happy Clapper and enjoying supporting your football club. Surely enjoyment is what it is all about? However some people seem to have certain issues which they seem to excercise through there association with the football club and will always turn anything positive into a neative. I agree with the earlier poster who say rightly that it is not their opinion that is the problem, it is the way they express it. I would add that it is also the fact that they constantly look for something to be negative about that I find draining and, well frankly incredibily tedious. Even if you do put these people on your ignore list you can't avoid their posts because other people repsond to their posts and you see the quotes. It had also gotten to the point where even if you don't read the post you know exactly what they will be saying!!! And all for a fiver too....

Lighten up Alpine and get a sense of humour for goodness sakes. Aferall, if you can't laugh at yourself you might be missing the joke of the century!

Bale and Baird were big losses for us.

Should win? Perhaps but we got a win at Norwich when most people would probably have felt that they should win that. It is the nature of sport and what makes sport so addictive.

Exactly mate.

And better hair than David Beckham.

Perhaps we should bring in some Dutch coaches?

After the start we had it was always going to be a tall order. Still, we have the rest of this season and the summer to prepare for a push next year so lots to look forward to.

I think that they should use technology to rule on goal line technology.

I agree, weak midfield and defence not good enough.

Makes a change from CEOs I suppose! I am enjoying this season and the last season I enjoyed was when we made the play offs in the CCC. The current manager seems to living on borrowed time as far as some fans here would have it and the previous manager is constantly slagged off here too. I just don't understand why, but each to their own.

Excuse me? What are you taking about? What rule of the mob and what flock of sheep? Do you really think that no one esle here, including Pardew, doesn't want success and promotion? The difference is that some of us appreciate that every other club want the same things and only three are going to get it no matter what we do. As for my personal career, I have been the National Sales Manager at The Guardian Media Group and have just recently passed a promotion board where I currently work so I would say that shows some ambition wouldn't you? The point I am trying to make is that other people want these jobs too and only one person gets them. Does that mean that everyone else is a useless loser who just hasn't tried? But that is what you are inferring.

Now now dear, it was just a playful joke directed at his name! No need to be so touchy!!!