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Exactly. How many players do you expect each day?

The new OS is such a tease

We're going virtual!!! http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~1739008,00.html

Talking of expensive signings, was Skacel eventually sold?

This was nothing short of disgraceful. Attacking play and exciting strikers was the Saints style and what took us to the Premiership and Cup Finals. Yes, this must be rectified in AP's long term plan.

Appointed Harding despite no previous announcement and beat Hearts in AP's first week. I would be more than happy with considered and staged improvements like that. Better than lots of hype and filling the team with more Molyneux's and Pulis's. And perhaps the new owner has told AP that he has to ship out the dross which is contaminating the squad first? An important part of the job, imho.

Do you mean DEFINED Art? Hopefully divisions are in the past.

"e netted 30 times last time he played in League 1. Good enough for me.

I wish I had a pound for every player that was rubbished when they left Saints. Their fortunes certainly seemed to fare better than ours in recent years.

Sorry, guys, but I wouldn't mind him back atm. We seriously lack pace, as someone else said. And we don't look like getting replacements from who is currently available in the 'bargain basement'

QUIZ COMPETITION Whoever can they be talking about? Fill in the missing name.... 'It's fair to say that nobody leaves a club worse off once they leave quite like ******** You really, really don't want that rubbery faced chancer waddling in to your club to spunk your money out the window and then feck off when he's spent it and some other club comes in after him so that he can repeat the process... which he will, because he's proud to be, and always will be, a checkbook manager' and 'Despite his success at the club I have never liked ********. He got out like a rat in a sinking ship when he saw that he could no longer spend money and buy the players he wanted, and the club was in trouble. His idealistic approach to football beggars belief. How he gets away with it is beyond me. When I think of the players he brought to the club on high wages, and never, or rarely ever played , it is no wonder the club is in debt.'

Same for me. Even thougn I can only get to about 70% of matches.

By buying the club and paying off the mortgage and overdraft, even at cut-price, ML effectively has loaned to himself the cost of this. So presumably he will be intending to balance his own books in due course, by reclaiming the amount of the purchase. So imho the true break even figure would have to take into account the figure he paid. My simplistic math might conclude that if his debt to himself is half of what we previously owed to Aviva/Norwich and Barclays/others was 30 mill and then had to net an average gate of 17,000, we could need at least half of that attendance for ML to break even. I don't think that could be enough though, because ML has no player assets to sell and he has to buy players. But as canadasaint says, we are probably only about £2mill better off without ML paying himself back his own loan to himself. So whichever way we look at it, ML won't have spare cash from attendance money. It would be more than interesting to know what ML's budget for running SFC is.

I'm beginning to feel sympathetic. Not that much, but I wouldn't really want them to go out of business altogether. Not that I don't want them relegated (which I do) but something is not comfortable with me that by the end of the year there may not be a top team south of Fulham. Why should only northern and London clubs be in the Premiership? I hope that Pimpey struggle in the wilderness for a bit and that we all meet up in the top tier again within three or four years. (In a rosy future when football skills rule the day, not (other people's) money. Now that won't happen, but a few clubs will have gone bust in the meantime, for sure.)

To pursuade him that his immediate future is with Saints, and I would hope it worked.

I hope Spurs fans sing "Crouchie Crouchie, Crouchie, Used to be a skate but he's alright now"

They beat Brentford 2-1, who are currently 'top' of league 1 while we are statistically bottom. So this is a more realistic pre-season match than others, in fact. I hope we do not under-estimate them.

Brill! And then next May we can parade the League 1 Championship trophy round The Rose Bowl!

Some great images too. It's always interesting these match pics. When Saints do badly you can always see they are being beaten to the tackle and not getting the ball. Here they are clearly getting the better of the Hearts players. More please guys!

Yep. WE can beat anyone now...................... Real Madrid Spain, Brazil (but still they won't show our match)

Well, whose to say that Pardew might have got the job five or six weeks ago? Fate works in mysterious ways. For once perhaps we were on the side of the Saints...

But Lallana opened the scoring

Bring on Millwall

The Q is, would you rather have been at St Mary's or at Lords?

Great day for all Saints fans at Lords! So where would you have rather been? At Lords or at St Mary's today!