The bottom two are down, Barnsley will be the third team down.
Before all those clueless negative dimwit Saints supporters get on here and start doing what most Saints supporters do, MOAN, dont!
Look at the positives for once.
Oh and by the way this thing with Lowe, its complete and utter rubbish, he wont be coming back to SFC.
Theres a pattern with him using the media to create a negative cloud around SFC.
He wants SFC to go into administration, in order that he can pick the club up, for next to nothing.
SHAME ON YOU RUPERT LOWE.

We r staying up,stop moaning. wrote:
The bottom two are down, Barnsley will be the third team down. Before all those clueless negative dimwit Saints supporters get on here and start doing what most Saints supporters do, MOAN, dont! Look at the positives for once. Oh and by the way this thing with Lowe, its complete and utter rubbish, he wont be coming back to SFC. Theres a pattern with him using the media to create a negative cloud around SFC. He wants SFC to go into administration, in order that he can pick the club up, for next to nothing. SHAME ON YOU RUPERT LOWE.

I heard that as well.
Would not suprise me,the man is obsessed.
I thought todays performance was a lot better than the last home game against Leicster.
I agree with the three teams above will go down.
Booing BWP was disgraceful, but what do you expect with all these negative Saints supporters.
INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY.

Nice to have a real goalkeeper for the first time this season. Viafara and Euell worked hard but again gave the ball away too many times. Pericard looked ponderous, better when BWP came on. Not enough pace in attack and little width. We won't create chances unless we speed things up, the passing was slow and often went backwards. More players need to press on and get into the box instead of waiting and hoping something will happen.

i never thought i'd be happy with a goalless draw, but how things have changed. i'm more optimistic now than i have been in months. not because of the level of play, but there seemed to be more determination than there has been in quite a while.

We r staying up,stop moaning. wrote:
The bottom two are down, Barnsley will be the third team down. Before all those clueless negative dimwit Saints supporters get on here and start doing what most Saints supporters do, MOAN, dont! Look at the positives for once. Oh and by the way this thing with Lowe, its complete and utter rubbish, he wont be coming back to SFC. Theres a pattern with him using the media to create a negative cloud around SFC. He wants SFC to go into administration, in order that he can pick the club up, for next to nothing. SHAME ON YOU RUPERT LOWE.

Were on earth do you get the idea that Barnsley will be the 3rd team down,they are a better team than saints,its time to get real and the dreaming time is over Mr.Staying Up,Stop Moaning,we look like a side just like Leeds last season and look what happened to them,
Fed Up Saints Fan.
David Crook

It was a dreadful game. Saints have no confidence and no width. They never onvle looked like getting in behind the opposition defence. Pericard has brought nothing additional to the team it was a releif to see him substituted. Richard Wright had a good game in goal. The relegation issues will go down to the last game and we'll be biting our nails. Think I'll go and watch Aldershot who play entertaining football, not the rubbish I have to sit through today. Another £24 down the drain.

We will have to battle for every scrap of possession until the end of the season....any notions of fancy football will have to wait...

The end of season fair is not for the fient hearted, or those who are not truely committed to Saints. It was never going to be pretty, and although a draw is disapointing it is better than defeat. We haven't got enough creative nouse to break defensive teams down at home, but if we can retain the battling spirit in away games and prove difficult to be beaten, unlike the debacle at Hull and Preston etc,then I am optimistic that we can cling on. Whoever the third related team is, I don't think that we can afford to gloat at their unfortunate expense. It is good to have a quality goalkeeper as a loanee, although Richard Wright is a bit on the small side, and oh don't we miss Andrew Davies? Keep the faith, and stay loyal. COYR

Went to the Saints game today and left after 80 minutes as it was like watching paint dry. Dont agree with pearson's team selection - Surman and Bradley on the bench (should have started instead of that skate Pericard and that Joke Jason Euell)

I am hoping we stay up, but we have a very tough run in but I think it will go to the last game. Colchester and Scunthorpe are doomed and It is impossible to predict the third team.

Up the saints, and I wish idiots would stop slagging the team off. We got to stick together.

Wasn't impressed with Pericard, for a big guy he got bullied out of almost everything. Didn't help that his touch was awful either, plus I've seen tractors turn quicker.

Matt wrote:
Went to the Saints game today and left after 80 minutes as it was like watching paint dry. Dont agree with pearson's team selection - Surman and Bradley on the bench (should have started instead of that skate Pericard and that Joke Jason Euell) I am hoping we stay up, but we have a very tough run in but I think it will go to the last game. Colchester and Scunthorpe are doomed and It is impossible to predict the third team. Up the saints, and I wish idiots would stop slagging the team off. We got to stick together.

you wish people would stop slagging the team is that not what you have just done re pericard and euell. I haven't like euell all season however i thought he played yesterday with a bit of fire in his belly and did no worse than anyone else on the park

We should have gambled in the 2nd half and taken off Licka and Viafara (what a cart horse) for Surman and Hammill. Our midfield simply ran out of ideas towards the end. Pericard has to be the worst player I've seen up front since Paul Moody.

Not a game for the faint hearted. It looks like it's squeaky bottom time right up to the wire. What i can't understand is how we have become toothless up front.

Well i am going to purchase my season ticket on Tuesday and one for my partner. Where else would i go on a cold wet Saturday?

Southampton born and bred that's me and at the age of 56 I'm not gonna change now.

I for one wasn't happy with Nigel Pearsons appointment as a clear lack of expierience seemed to be present.I am now even more convinced we have it wrong! The debacle @ Hull where clearly a more expierienced manager would have employed tactics to ensure we didnt loose the game.However that seems to be Pearsons tactics for home games!
For me yesterday was a clear case where width was required and clearly Hammil or Surman was called for but he ignored both and some members of the crowd.
Before all you spout off how good it is that he is here consider these thoughts: A Manager is there to make Big Decisions and do of his best to effect the results of games and I have seen plenty of passion fro Pearson but no tactical nouse and I am very concerned as to where we are going to end up?

has anyone seen my purse?

Mike wrote:
I for one wasn't happy with Nigel Pearsons appointment as a clear lack of expierience seemed to be present.I am now even more convinced we have it wrong! The debacle @ Hull where clearly a more expierienced manager would have employed tactics to ensure we didnt loose the game.However that seems to be Pearsons tactics for home games! For me yesterday was a clear case where width was required and clearly Hammil or Surman was called for but he ignored both and some members of the crowd. Before all you spout off how good it is that he is here consider these thoughts: A Manager is there to make Big Decisions and do of his best to effect the results of games and I have seen plenty of passion fro Pearson but no tactical nouse and I am very concerned as to where we are going to end up?

You are in the minority. Wake up and check the squad list. I very much doubt Ferguson, Wenger and Morinho all working together would have turned things around. All we have been asking for all season is a team with some fight......we now have that. Let's judge him next year and on what he does in the summer.

Don't panic,Don't panic they don't like it up them these saints fans,ready
Were doomed,were doomed Captain Pearson.
Doom Merchant

we have to be realistic. we havent got the players who can knock the ball around and then play a perfect through ball. They can hardly string two passes together, because they havent got the ability and no one wants it. We are now keeping it tight, playing for a draw and trying to pinch a goal. This is the best pearson can do with the crap burley has left him. Although i would prefer hammill/surman to licka and viafara is seriously off form at the mo. Im glad BWP was booed throughout, hes lazy, has bad atitude and obviously thinks hes good but isnt. oh and hes highly overpaid!

mark wrote:

Matt wrote: Went to the Saints game today and left after 80 minutes as it was like watching paint dry. Dont agree with pearson\'s team selection - Surman and Bradley on the bench (should have started instead of that skate Pericard and that Joke Jason Euell) I am hoping we stay up, but we have a very tough run in but I think it will go to the last game. Colchester and Scunthorpe are doomed and It is impossible to predict the third team. Up the saints, and I wish idiots would stop slagging the team off. We got to stick together.

you wish people would stop slagging the team is that not what you have just done re pericard and euell. I haven\'t like euell all season however i thought he played yesterday with a bit of fire in his belly and did no worse than anyone else on the park

youre right, atleast euell gives 100% and gets stuck in. why wasnt jesus playing yesterday? did he have a stinker(even more than the rest!) at hull?

Matt wrote:
Went to the Saints game today and left after 80 minutes as it was like watching paint dry. Dont agree with pearson's team selection - Surman and Bradley on the bench (should have started instead of that skate Pericard and that Joke Jason Euell) I am hoping we stay up, but we have a very tough run in but I think it will go to the last game. Colchester and Scunthorpe are doomed and It is impossible to predict the third team. Up the saints, and I wish idiots would stop slagging the team off. We got to stick together.

r u having a laugh , if all the players had half the commitment euell has we wouldnt be in this mess . and who knocked the ball down for john at point blank ,yes you guessed it euell. get off his back and get behind all of them !!

i told u i was not gonna let best score yesterday,

u fans have me 2 thank or saints would have conceded loads of goals,

they are pathetic if they cant beat the relegation zone teams

How can we expect to pick up the vital points we need to stay up when we are too scared to go out and play attacking football to try and win games. We leave two of our best attacking players, BWP and Surman, on the bench and then play Pericard and Euell instead. We need to start going into games looking for wins or we will never pick up the points we need to stay up.

A draw was no real help for anyone yesterday. I thought Richard Wright played well (his kicking was a bit wayward, but I guess he hasn't played in a while and needs to get the radar tuned in.)

It was another uninspired performance though. No-one seems to know how to unlock the defence, we have no width (can we please just play Hammill, he is the only one capable of going past a player).

I thought the atmosphere was good, but being sat in the heart of the Northam it is hard to judge.

if they play well, they still cant finish off to get the ball in the back of the net,their to scared of pressure and they dont like going rough on defenders
next week is gonna be a tough team, because we're not good against cardiff away, and they are also they are looking for the play offs,

they have a chance to save this club by surviving relegation

everyone at this club needs to bow their heads in shame

Pablo wrote:
It was a dreadful game. Saints have no confidence and no width. They never onvle looked like getting in behind the opposition defence. Pericard has brought nothing additional to the team it was a releif to see him substituted. Richard Wright had a good game in goal. The relegation issues will go down to the last game and we'll be biting our nails. Think I'll go and watch Aldershot who play entertaining football, not the rubbish I have to sit through today. Another £24 down the drain.

A dreadful game? two teams trying not to lose more like. Go and watch Aldershot and see them in their ram shackled old hole of a ground. Conference football and League two football is more than a mile off what you witnessed today. Good luck and I hope Cambridge catch you.

PAUL BLANCHARD wrote:

We r staying up,stop moaning. wrote:
The bottom two are down, Barnsley will be the third team down. Before all those clueless negative dimwit Saints supporters get on here and start doing what most Saints supporters do, MOAN, dont! Look at the positives for once. Oh and by the way this thing with Lowe, its complete and utter rubbish, he wont be coming back to SFC. Theres a pattern with him using the media to create a negative cloud around SFC. He wants SFC to go into administration, in order that he can pick the club up, for next to nothing. SHAME ON YOU RUPERT LOWE.

I heard that as well.
Would not suprise me,the man is obsessed.
I thought todays performance was a lot better than the last home game against Leicster.
I agree with the three teams above will go down.
Booing BWP was disgraceful, but what do you expect with all these negative Saints supporters.
INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY.

I absolutely agree - innocent until proven guilty. However, someone who has been caught on CCTV, and fined by the manager should have been out of the door by now. He may not yet have been convicted by a court, but if you or I had done the same we'd be collecting our cards.

And yesterday, frankly, the team went two steps backwards after taking a short step forward. There was not a single player on the pitch who looked like they actually wanted to win. Stern John who at least looked a little interested in recent weeks, was just ambling (shambling) around all afternoon- and he was by no means the worst.

I just think that the example shown by the club in lack of discipline easily filters through the whole team.

Some people on this and other message boards refer to what a great club Saints were once. Saints have never been great club in the 50 years I've been watching them. But they have often been a club with great integrity and principles. I just think on the day the statue of Ted Bates was unveiled he would have been turning in his grave when BWP was allowed on that pitch. Which is when I boo'd and walked out.

I will renew my season ticket - league 1 (the old third division) is not new to me as a Saints fan - but I will continue to protest about BWP (as I would even if he were a half decent player, which he isn't).

In the meantime let's hope for a miracle, because I can't see where we are going to get more than 48 or 49 points.

Still, the next game has got to be warmer at least, so things could be looking up.

Oh, and as a final point re Rupert Lowe - hm, let me think, who benefited from leaking the story about Rupert Lowe putting a bid together? Oh yes, Leon Crouch. The same person without the bottle to sack BWP.

Cmon you Sainty boys.

We are lacking creativity in midfield at present and i'll be glad to see inigo back who can create something out of nothing, bring back rudi skacel from his loan and also play saga with john up front, We really need a jamie cureton type player up front with john,. and Saga can be that person when hes on song! agree?

ross wrote:
We are lacking creativity in midfield at present and i'll be glad to see inigo back who can create something out of nothing, bring back rudi skacel from his loan and also play saga with john up front, We really need a jamie cureton type player up front with john,. and Saga can be that person when hes on song! agree?

I thought this team was supposed to be in the play offs what a joke.

I expect we will be in the bottom three next Sunday.

All due to the stupid fans who wanted Lowe out

Well i am going to purchase my season ticket on Tuesday and one for my partner. Where else would i go on a cold wet Saturday?

You could get yourself down to Fratton Park and watch the south's finest football team...

160 mile round trip, freezing weather, awful football, lack lustre performance, no speed up front, lack of penetration, how many shots?, quiet fans at time, only when BWP came on did we show any response up front, time to bury the hatchet and both players and fans respond in the appropriate manner.....keep the faith.

PS.... much better tribute to Ted Bates

Sharpee. League 2 and Conference football is honest and is often far more entertaining thanthe rubbish currently on show at SMS. The players are not on inflated wages and always give 100%. Aldershot's ground ramshackle? Rather a snobby statement, don't you think? I might add that a pie and cup of tea is far cheaper, and you don't have to queue for ages like you do at SMS.

From all accounts Jason Euell was at worst one of the better players(if not the best) on the Saints team yesterday. Why is it that some fans cannot give him some credit when its due?

The important thing from all accounts is that Nigel Pearson is getting the best out of the players and we can't ask for more than this.

Whether the best is good enough for Saints to survive relegation remains to be seen. Signing Richard Wright for a month was an excellent initiative on Nigel's part and hopefully the BOD can allow him to bring in someone who can motivate the team on the field.....someone like Chris Marsden once was. Someone perhaps who is being wasted on the bench, like Richard Wright was who would relish the challenge of using his talents, to keep the Saints in the Championship.

I believe the Club has until Thursday to bring in a new loanee.Every effort should be made to bring in an experienced player who is also a leader. Coventry are planning on doing this according to Coleman and hopefully Saints will do the same.

The cost relative to the benefits of taking this initiative is small as the consequences of relegation, means administration, something that the Club and fans can do without.

It was a boring game against coventry but we must take are chances. Wright in goal had a gd game and i must admitt euell play quite well set up a couple of chances. Pericard better than saga never offside i think :S and more pace and power. Davies will be missed now and with useless powell at the back i am going to be very nervous towards the end of the season. Pearson is taught how to play football but we need to tr from outside the boox more, i only remember euell shooting from outside 18 yards so come on you reds, we can do this !!!!!

Jannersaint wrote:

Mike wrote: I for one wasn't happy with Nigel Pearsons appointment as a clear lack of expierience seemed to be present.I am now even more convinced we have it wrong! The debacle @ Hull where clearly a more expierienced manager would have employed tactics to ensure we didnt loose the game.However that seems to be Pearsons tactics for home games! For me yesterday was a clear case where width was required and clearly Hammil or Surman was called for but he ignored both and some members of the crowd. Before all you spout off how good it is that he is here consider these thoughts: A Manager is there to make Big Decisions and do of his best to effect the results of games and I have seen plenty of passion fro Pearson but no tactical nouse and I am very concerned as to where we are going to end up?

You are in the minority. Wake up and check the squad list. I very much doubt Ferguson, Wenger and Morinho all working together would have turned things around. All we have been asking for all season is a team with some fight......we now have that. Let's judge him next year and on what he does in the summer.

Is that what it was against Hull then? A team with some fight?

I for one am hoping he wont be here next season and his short term contract is paid up we get an investor ibn and get someone like Hoddle back!
Sorry Jannersaint but I dont think yu have a clue?

I went 2 yesterdays game.It was a relativly boring game, with only a few flickers of action.Im not a fan of Jason euell, but he was are best man and the only one that put 110% in.A draw was probably a fair result,as both teams looked nervous of losing the game.It's gonna be a difficult run, but we need 2 get behind the lads as much as we have before.We cant afford 2 get relegated,or the administrators will be waiting for the call 2 come save us.We need 2 stay up this year,and build 4 nxt season.New investment is needed, from any source possible.The last game of the season against sheff. united is possibly the biggest game in our history.My view on nigel pearson is okay. I think he is showing passion but i dont think hes the right man 2 take us forward.Lets get behind them!.COYR!

i'll tell you what really grinds my gears. People leaving ridiculously early for a hot dog or a beer. What is the point of paying to see the match and just get some low quality processed foods. It just makes us look bad to the away fans. Also people shouting out pointless comments like 'hack 'em' and 'get the ball' one they cant hear you two what the hell do you think the players are trying to do! Having said that i was impressed by the way itchem northam and kingsland silenced out coventry fans when they started cheering. I think the team played well: bit boring football but better to draw than to lose. The sections of fans that booed bradley wright phillips should never see a football match again. He made such a difference when he came on, his pace is what we need: BOOING PLAYERS DOES NOT HELP! Apart from that good attendance and a good scrappy draw