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I can imagine... I don't usually bother coming on here for a few days post-defeat. Nick's "point" was stated in the post : just pointing out that there is some "grass is always greener" on here and we should enjoy our team, wins like Saturday and appreciate our forwards! which sort of implies what you're saying, but at the same time fails to say that your interpretation is actually what he meant.

Chaplow currently has 7 yellows. http://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=34877 Schneiderlin has 6 inc one in Carling Cup, but unlikely to play before then to add to the total. Hammond has 7 inc one in Carling Cup : http://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=23702 Hopefully none of them will get three more yellows in the 4 matches before the Rochdale match... but the Plymouth game being moved back has certainly helped there. FWIW Peterboro have Tomlin on 6 (saw that last night) and a red card which isn't relevant. Grant McCann has EIGHT yellows, but hasn't had one for 10 matches !!! Ryan Bennett is on 5. Zakuani has 4. They also have 4 matches before April 10th, including Bournemouth and Huddersfield away, which could be handy for a few bookings...

Fair point, no-one seems to have made a big deal out of the effect that had of reducing our chances of incurring a 10-yellows suspension either. http://www.thefa.com/TheFA/RulesandRegulations/~/media/Files/PDF/TheFA/FAHandbook10-11.ashx/FAHandbook10-11.pdf FTCM = First Team Competitive Matches. CAUTIONS ADMINISTERED ON THE FIELD OF PLAY (i) If a Player accumulates five cautions in FTCM between the opening day of the Playing Season and 31 December (including any FTCM played on that day) in the same Season, he will be suspended automatically for a period covering: - One First Team Match (ii) If a Player accumulates five cautions in FTCM between the opening day of the Playing Season and the last day of the same Season, he will be: - “Warned as to his Future Conduct” (iii) A Player who has already been subject to disciplinary action as a result of receiving five cautions and then proceeds to receive a further five cautions during the same Season, will be subject to the following punishments: - (iv) If a Player accumulates ten cautions in FTCM between the opening day of the Playing Season and the second Sunday of April in the same Season, he will be suspended automatically for a period covering:- Two First Team matches (v) If a Player accumulates ten cautions in FTCM between the opening day of the Playing Season and the last day of the same Season, he will be: - “Severely Censured and Warned as to his future Conduct” (vi) If a Player accumulates 15 cautions in FTCM between the opening date of the Playing Season and the last day of the same Season, he will be suspended automatically for a period covering: - Three First Team matches (vii) A Player who has already been subject to disciplinary action as a result of receiving five, ten and 15 cautions, and who goes on to receive 20 cautions in FTCM in the same Season, shall be required to attend a meeting of a Regulatory Commission, within seven days of the date of the last caution. The Members of a Regulatory Commission will have the power to deal with the Player in such manner as they deem fit. The same procedure will apply for every further five cautions received by that Player. (viii) Any period of suspension arising from cautions will commence forthwith. The suspension will cover all approved First Team matches until such time as his Club’s First Team has completed the number of matches appropriate to the punishment in approved Competitions during the period covered by its opening league match and ending with the final match in which the Club is playing in an approved domestic Competition Second Sunday in April is the 10th, the day after the Leyton Orient match (on Sat 9th). We have 4 matches before that, and the two matches following it are Rochdale A and Bristol Rovers H, but of course it could also happen before then.

Actually I'm pretty sure that compared to this time last season it's significantly down, because we've played far fewer matches overall to this point, and haven't had the significant Cup ticket sales either.

I'd rather we signed someone else, assuming there is anyone.

He's a horrible narky little tit, I'd hate him to play for us almost as much as I hate him playing for them.

Crowds are up on average, though we're not exactly comparing like for like as there are still a lot of midweek matches which may pull that average down (and there are also potentially more "critical" games to push it up further. Season ----Club-------------High-- High Opponent---------- Low -------Low Opponent---- Average This season Southampton 26289 Bournemouth(02/10/10)---- 17857 Colchester(18/09/10)---- 21538 Last season Southampton 30890 Exeter City(26/12/09) ------16402 Wycombe(01/12/09)----- 20982

There's always the option of a Championship player who's going out of contract and not starting who wants to come on loan prior to signing a permanent deal. There must be a few of those around, assume each nPC side has one or two fringe central midfielders who CDAJFU now AND in the Championship if we go up - call it 1.5. We'd want top half players preferably so that's about 12 possible teams (assume the decent players in the bottom half balance out the crap ones in the top half), multiplied the average of 1.5 players per club interested so around 18 players in all. As contracts tend to be between 3-5 years that's a mean of approx 4 years. Only taking the players with contracts due to expire, it brings it down to 18/4 = maybe 4 or 5 CM players who are on the fringes and good enough to improve us who also have contracts expiring. We only need one of those to be interested in signing. (I'm not going to do a sensitivity analysis, but it does suggest there could be a deal out there for us if we feel we need it, rather than going with Guly/Lallana/Chamberlain/Doble/Robinson/other Academy players as potential attacking CMs).

Even if everyone except Adkins did it wouldn't make much difference. Can't see it happening either way though, we'd need a CM to get sent off or injured last match of the season for it to be an issue as the cumulative yellow cards are long past counting by then.

If saintscott... is the same person I'm thinking of he's early 20s and t'other bloke sounds like a 40+ lairy mongtard. Guesswork based on innernets is amusing. I'm 38 going on 17, for instance.

I saw him in Varsity on London Road on Saturday for the first time in ages, the timing implied he'd been to the match. I think we might have turned him by allowing him to play in goal for the Saints IFC team for the best part of 2008/9. Or more likely he was just sodding about in town at 8pm on a Saturday having forgotten we'd played. Or maybe he's just fed up of me posting THIS every time he pitched up on the Forum. About 12 seconds in, specifically. I'm the one with the ball, he's the one in the light blue shirt lying on his face in the 6 yard box 2 seconds later... Either way, stevegrant will know. Oh yeah, and FOR letting rival fans on the main "bored", at least until the end of the season assuming we go up and the Skates all rush back. Now there's a subscription involved you tend not to get the nobbers anyway though.

I have tried to fill in the gaps with guesswork, myself. I think it's about real men and schoolyard tell tales or something, but I can't quite follow the logic. This thread needs more patterned hats and branded clothing so I can tell what the teams are.

Er, why imagine, that's pretty much what happened at Walsall isn't it ?

Not really, Chamberlain will do what Antonio did to Lewington, and they didn't exactly play "well" against Peterborough - they got murdered and were very lucky until they got to injury time, when they kept the ball well.

As is assuming Peterborough will come third.

Winning tonight puts us second, which is important psychologically because most other sides are playing once or twice again before we have another match, and we need to show that even with a couple of games in hand we're "rightfully" second and can actually show we've been there and it's only lack of matches that keeps us from it. It also serves as a motivation for the match itself as opposed to the usual generic "keep winning and we'll move up the league". If Brighton slip up against Notts County (you never know with the way this weekend went) it might also put a bit more pressure on them - they're playing 3 times to our 2 in the next fortnight as well and if they get 13-16 points ahead even having played more matches we can forget even the outside chance of winning it. Doesn't help that they're playing a load of rubbish teams in the next few weeks, but there's always the chance of injuries and complacency.

It's at the northern end of the ground, so he's not actually wrong. I seem to recall the use of North / South / East / West stands before they settled on the current names. Could be worse, it could be the Steve Fletcher Stand with a big photo of him of it to aim his shots at.

When it comes down to it, gobbing off isn't necessarily against the law, whilst punching someone in the head is. Also, if you ARE going to punch someone in the head, doing it in a football ground is a very good way of ensuring you get punished heavily for doing it.

Oh, and I think it DOES look like Hoddle, which is not to say it is him. I wouldn't put a shiny suit past him either.

Here's the post with the D/L link : http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?24213-Fifa-11&p=868604#post868604 It's on page 6 of the 7-page thread entitled "Fifa 11" on the Computer Games Forum in here. There are instructions on there, but even following them it's glitchy. Disclaimer - I have no idea if that download is still active, and I don't intend on re-uploading if it isn't... it is 5 months old...

I believe that's also an Argentinian song, the loosely translated words being "he who does not jump is an Englishman".

Wouldn't the point be for the Chapel to judge which set of fans they could hear, rather than any of the groups of people not equidistant from either Northam or away fans ? Obviously people right next to the home fans in the Itchen North are going to hear the away fans more when they're making some noise, they're much nearer. Equally I can only usually hear the away fans in short bursts or when we're very quiet, cos I'm near the middle of Block 41.

Well, he's a Cardiff fan, and he seems to have got away with it, so "hahahahahahahahahahahaha!"

We don't, as proven when I recorded all of our songs at two matches in October for use in FIFA11. Eight out of forty-four that I've noted here, actually - that's 18%, under a fifth. And we don't sing "Pompey's Going Down With No Money In the Bank" any more, unfortunately. The list is below, I've added a few others which have been heard this season and the Skate Cheat songs in bold : "There's only one Markus Liebherr" "Walking in a Liebherr Wonderland" "Doo-doo-doo-doo *in October was Jason Puncheon, now Richard Chaplow "Nananananana Alex Chamberlain" "Nananananana David Connolly" "Super Kelv" "Deano Deano Deano" "Cortese Ohhhhh" "We don't care about you" and the detestable "We're United... er I mean Southampton... we do what we want" Your_Support_Is_F_n_Sh_t_.mp3 What_the_Fcking_Hell_Was_That.mp3 We_re_The_Northam_16_10.mp3 Wash_Your_Mouth_Out_.mp3 Stand_Up_.mp3 Southerners_15_06.mp3 Crow_Fratton_Sh_t_On_15_48.mp3 Red_Army_14_57.mp3 Really_Fn_Hate_Them__15_4.mp3 Rickie_Lambert_Southampton's_Goal_Machine.mp3 We_Love_Southampton_We_Do_.mp3 The_Pompey_Family_.mp3 Southampton Boys Are In Town.mp3 Ole_Ole_Guly_16_20.mp3 OWTSGMI_.mp3 Nigel_Give_Us_A_Wave_16_3.mp3 Nah_Fck_Off_15_22.mp3 Nigel_Adkins'_Red&White_Army_15_07.mp3 Lee_Lee_Lee_Barnard_16_24.mp3 Lee_Barnard_See_You_Outside.mp3 Lee_Barnard_Barnard_Scotland Yard.mp3 Le_Tiss_Le_Tiss_.mp3 Jose_Fonte_Baby_.mp3 Guly_Guly_.mp3 Going_Down_They_re_Going.mp3 Fratton_Park_is_Falling_Down.mp3 DISCO_.mp3 Come_Onnnn_You_Reddddds_.mp3 Clap_-_The_Saints_.mp3 Come_On_You_Reds_Come_On.mp3 All_Southampton_.mp3 Adam_Lallana_Messi_.mp3 Adam_Lallana_ClapClapClapClapClap.mp3 Aaah_You_Fat_B_stard_.mp3 Apart from that, yes, singing about the Chairman is utterly lame.

No it isn't. The one you're thinking of is Winter Wonderland, the one I'm on about is Guantanamero.