OldNick

I am all for the 2 sides making up but i suggest MLT sitting alongside FB slagging off NC on national TV is not the best way of doing it. MLT is a hero to the majority of Saints fans, as a businessman and judge of a situation i dont think he is so good. Sadly i doubt there will ever be a truce, and whilst it looked for a time we would be united as a fan base having heroes like Matt sniping away the divisions will stay open.

you are kidding!!!!!!

So do you think Liebherr just took his money and stashed it in the bank after he sold his first crane? No these people are driven, and go on to employ thousands of people who in turn also spend and pay tax. They dont just stash their money in a bank everytime they make a profit. If somebody earns 15k a year and only spends 14k they leave 1k in the bank , if somebody earns 150k a year and spends 140k they put 10k in the bank and so on. I would love the lifestyle of many of the worlds bankers and industrialists but i was not bright enough, lucky enough, prepared to risk everything or prepared to work hard enough to be in their position. I abhor Sir Phillips greens of the world and would make laws against the way they avoid tax, but the concept of a low tax economy that brings foreign companies into our country to provide wealth and jobs that would go elsewhere is sound. If we as a nation never had the entrepreneurs over the centuries we would be a nothing nation, no NHS no Welfare, No social system but like Ireland (pre the EEC), Albania and all the other poor nations with its inhabitants just scraping along with no support. The wealth creators in our nation are more important than and most in our society.

I respect your opinions but am surprised that you expect so much from a lower league goalkeeper. Did you watrch Brentfords Lee the other night? It was comical how he tried to come and punch, Cech likewise. Richard wright made so many errors he was dropped by Ipswich and now loaned out, the days of a keeper coming out and taking the ball time after time like the good old days are gone, as the attacking side know how to block the keepers as well as the ball moving in its flight. To me if you know the keeper is not coming surely the centre halves know they must go for the ball. I didnt see that you blamed KD for the 2nd goal and I suspect you agree he was not at fault for that one. I feel he could have done better for the first, but the ball did stay low and not bounce as would be normally expected. I would respect the decision for Bart to be played, but I do not have the same confidence. None of KD's detractors came back and answered my question, whether they believed we would have got a point if they had scored when their player was clean through. had we gone 1 down would we have got back into it? Nobody can answer it but i do believe we may have struggled

FFS the banks can move abroad when they like and avoid tax. i have no time for the greed the banks showed in the past, but iam happy that they produce wealth and taxes that keep our economy going. The NHS produces no income for the nation, if we have no wealth providers we have no NHS. When will the Guardian readers understand that it is only through UK PLC making money will we provide for the weak. The oil and gas revenues have been wasted on our social system, instead of investing in the infrastructure of the nation we spent the money on welfare. You of course look after the weak but labours excesses wasted so much of our resources. The Tories will do so as well. Selling off the forests will not make much difference to the majority of us, there is no way that there will not be strings attached and that the more accessible forest will still be there for the man in the street, but i doubt many of us have ever really gone out into the forests apart from a picnic at Brockenhurst, except for a few Guardian readers of course. We have to duck and dive and make the UK the best place for companies to invest and so create jobs, making us Tax competitive will be a major way in doing so. I will be a victim as i'm not rich enough to emigrate to a tax haven, but as i have done all my working life i will pay my fair share and get on with it.

they might not be jokers. I wouldn't count on them being dud. I hope their interest does not materialise

...as in your claim that he will be as good as Bale. Not that he is not going to be decent

3m now and with adds on may be a better deal than 10m now and no add ons. i doubt the club will have much say on the final figure, as if you may have missed NA's interview where he said they were not going to get involved in a bidding war but what is best for Ox (to me that says the agents/parents have made that clear, they decide) I think Bale is better than the other 2. I remember seeing him on his debut and coming away knowing we had unearthered a massive star, I will wait to decide about Ox.

the more I see Matty's behavior the more I'm glad he did not become chairman. I wonder if the old pals would be more in attendance than fans. Matty please keep to your punditry and leave politics alone as you do seem a tad naive and easily used by so called friends. Matt has been a true legend on the pitch, and I hope long term that is not ruined by foolhardy attacks on the club

Is this true? I suspect you may get a bit of grief about that

Lol i do hope you are joking.....then again

it is about opinions. At present my priority is for us to get promotion, to expect Ox to make a great impact on that will be something. IMO he needs to be taken out of the firing line for a few games. His last 3 performances have been below par and Im tired of hearing all the hype about him by the media. His oace got us a penalty the other night but those direct runs he was making seem to have disappeared as teams are now doubling up on him. I believe my thoughts about taking the money and using it on someone we already know can gets goals and results is pertinent. Ox will be leaving us, we may get another 5m for him but that will be offset if we fail in the promotion chase. It may be that Adkins decisions not putting pace up front will cost us, CMS at Boro showed us what a pacey forward can do, Antonio has that with power (Nguessan as well) I really dont think Ox at present has it(power). He will be a fine player but I'm a team man and feel the whole is more important than the individual. NC has made the decision to keep him, but that doesnt stop me wondering what if.

I rarely if ever dismiss a player on his first game or appearance. It is very harsh to do so, I just am doubtful, not saying he is rubbish (yet). He did look lost and had no touch, but I will give him time, but i felt N'Guessan deserved another run out instead of this new player as N'guessan caused trouble with his power and strength, something that the boro players had already shown problems with RL. I support the players as much as most and had many disagreements with people when players like Crouch and Marsden first played.

You may be right although from the little we saw against Peterboro i doubt it about the last signing.

as a fan it would take quite a lot for me to run to the newspapers to try and hurt the club. In the past couple of years some players and managers who have graced the club have been chipping away. They have IMO had their noses put out by the fact they dont get their freebies anymore.

3m with add ons would have done nicely. I dont believe Ox is equipped to change enough games for us to have the luxury of him.I know the majority will agree with me but that is how i see it without my rose coloured specs on. Antonio did have the know how and strength to do so.

all the anti KD posters on here answer this question, if KD had not saved the 1 on 1 before we scored do you believe we would have got a point? As in the game against Exeter a midfield run let them through on goal, i suppose that is Davis fault. Some on here have said get Lee from Brentford, did you see him flapping away last night? Richard Wright doesnt make the first team and has been loaned out by Ipswich, he has made some real awful errors, but he is a super hero on here. He played well when he was with us, but he has been found wanting. Anti Niemi was probably our best keeper for a couple of decades and he rarely came off his line Shilts also (the ball has changed since those days) I remeber my childhood hero Pat jennings come out and take the ball one handed, but the ball was different and didnt move like it does now. There is no way the second goal was down to KD.

personally I would have sold Ox got good add ons and then bought Antonio from Reading. We know he can make a difference in games.

I blame Adkins, he kept LB on far too long, aand should have brought N'Guessan on to give us some zip. He put everyone back for the last few minutes and so we couldnt get out of defence

The first goal was down to Seaborne, but KD should have done better. If you notice the ball doesnt bounce as it normally would . We should have been losing if it was not for KD's great save early on, do you think we would have got anything from the game had we gone 1 down? To blame him for the 2nd Lol

IMO it is high risk. You demoralize KD who IMo has done little wrong and IF Bart does have a mare then you have lost out. I like Bart but I still recall his performance at Exeter a couple of seasons back and only those who saw it would be able to understand my concerns.

on my version I can see them jumping on

Is that a fake? ive looked it up on the BBC and nothing about it

Being a saints fan I have not been to the new wembley before. my experience of going to big events s that you don't get room to move and not get to the bar. It also was going to give the opporunity to take 2 youngsters who had not been able to get a ticket so they could enjoy the experience and join in. We were going to leave them at this bar in comfort to watch the final on TV and like at the cup final in Cardiff join with the many fans who travelled without tickets to enjoy the occasion. Apart from the 2 hookers who fell out of the club and NI having to clear up broken glass and beer off the floor before he could let fans in, we were greeted by the dirtiest seediest club I have encountered. It was a shambles including people outside selling more tickets for this place when it was said to be a limited number. I could forgive NI more if he had said he was duped and had not seen the place, but it turned out he had been there before a cup final. You may be the cleverest person on here and know that there is easy pubs to go to where you can take young fans, i didn't and thought this was a brilliant idea. I was duped by a fellow fan. We left and had to find 2 spare tickets off of touts....they werent touts but other fellow saints fans who wanted £50 profits on the tickets. So the cost born were even higher, please forgive me if I have no sympathy for him

i would change at a drop of a hat, the only thing is that Sky then might not serve the quality in future as they have less revenue.