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Yes there was, and yes it did. It was this one : Which as you can see is the old pattern, replaced by the "Revolve" at the start of last season.

This is last season's "snow" ball (not in club colours) : And this is this season's : All of this season's Mitre FL balls have that net/sparkle/mesh type pattern on them, last season's didn't have that. There's only one snow/hi vis ball, they're not in club colours.

Nor knowing the difference between white, blond left sided defenders and black, shaven-headed right sided wingers, apparently. Though that was down to the PA announcer, who apparently assigned it to Harding (in line with the penalty spot at the time Waigo lashed home from inside the 6 yard box). It ended up all over the media, too. Kinda harsh on Papa, but fair enough if he's still nicking Lambert's crossbar header... They were also pretty poor at identifying who exactly got booked online - their site at some point had Holt as having 2 yellows, when rumour has it Martin was booked twice. Then again there WERE two Martins playing... Then again, it's the JPT, it'll probably be unchanged for years to come.

Like the 4 or 5 we had immediately after he did his, you mean ? I don't want him banned, I just want the little f'cker to stop doing it, it's happened loads recently. It's not 1975 FFS.

Unless you run around with your arms aloft David Pleat-style and wear a black coat all the time that's probably not going to help most people in the ground much to identify you. I'm sure he's now "known" and they'll be waiting for him on 95 minutes next time anyway. You'd think.

If this is meant to be a list of bad players there are a lot worse than the options above. It doesn't seem to be a list of reserves either. Or a list of poor foreigners. Or a list of unpopular players. So other than being a list of slightly quirky Saints players, what is the point of this again ? Benji hit the nail on the head with Almeida anyway, poor kid had 20 mins of Thierry Henry on his debut, ouch. For the record, Kleber Chala has since won the Copa Libertadores, the South American equivalent of the Champions' League. Didn't get a look in for Saints though... Fernandes, Telfer and Griffit all ahead of him in the depth chart.

Oh yeah, so has it been a lookalike doing that for the last month or so ? Does he go to away games ? And is he a mongtard ?

It is a retarded mong, obviously. Alhough that is a bit of a tautology. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mongtard

If he hadn't been doing it for weeks at pretty much every match and caused Antonio to be completely put off you might have a point. I'd rather idiotic pitch invasions are kept to the last game of the season once the play is finished, and especially not when they might detrimentally affect the team, which it did when Antonio missed his penalty as it was all going on. In case anyone thinks "but it's just a kid", he, or someone dressed exactly like him, with the same colour hair, has now run onto the pitch with both arms aloft at 3 or 4 games recently. The last thing we should do is reward him, especially as it led to 4 or 5 hard-of-thinking others trying the same thing soon after and probably getting themselves banned. Come to think of it, if he sifts out the pillocks it can't be all bad...

That little tosser has been on the pitch for at least 4 games in the last month or so home and away and its getting very boring. If we'd have lost on pens he'd have probably been strung up, and rightly so. I was hoping the steward who carted him off quietly whispered "you made him miss that" to the kid, as Antonio can't help but have been affected by the idiots at the back of the Northam booing as he started his run up just as the steward hauled the kid off Waigo. That lot need to sort their priorities as well if they're too thick to think it might affect the player standing over the ball right in front of them when they've just spent 5minutes doing the same to the opposition in order to put them off. Anyway whatever stops the kid getting on the pitch yet again, I'm all in favour. Bloody good job we had a couple of goes at winning it as it turned out.

Erm, it was already sudden death from the taking of the 4th pen by Norwich. If he'd have missed we'd have lost.

No, the match was a 2-2 draw, Saints won the tie on pens. It really isn't difficult. Bookies will have paid out on a draw, unless the bet was for a winner "on the night", in which case they pay out on the winner of the tie (and at shorter odds due to the lack of a drawn match option).

Really ? What matches have you been watching then ? Are they even professionals in League One ?

Especially given that they also keep referring to Saturday 26th December as "Boxing Day"...

None of the above.

It's something which is eminently coachable, one of the first things any kid will get taught as soon as he meets any kind of organised defence and have to deal with offside. Running sideways in an onside position and then going forwards only when the ball is played isn't what I'd call a "natural" skill, like reacting to rebounds or striking a ball - and even they can be coached.

Yep, it was sung. Annoyed me. I can see it's fair comment when he's already been offside 6 times in a match as with the previous St Mary's game (which incidentally was when it first appeared, rather than "always" as is claimed above), but when he's just coming on, why give the linesman the idea that he's going to be offside to begin with ?

That is quite clearly preposterous nonsense though, even for Redknapp. It's also the first time I've heard it, I'm wondering how far beyond your mates in the pub this rumour got, I don't remember it on Saints Forever and I was practically living on there at the time.

Me too, it was in our first match in the JPT this season. v Torquay Saints: Davis, James, Thomas, Perry, Harding, Wotton, Hammond, Gillett (Saganowski 46), Waigo, Antonio (Mills 46), Lambert. Subs (not used): Bialkowski, Lancashire, Paterson. The following match at Southend : Saints: Davis, James, Jaidi, Trotman, Harding, Wotton (Perry 85), Hammond, Schneiderlin (Mills 90), Lallana, Waigo, (Antonio 76), Lambert. Subs: Bialkowski, Thomas, Saganowski, Connolly So against Torquay we rested Jaidi, Trotman, Schneiderlin and Lallana, plus we picked Waigo and Antonio which I think we've only done together once since. And started Wotton in both...

Does pretty well covering the "one side of the story" we've already heard, I can't believe some numpty actually said the paper should wash its hands of the club. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face...

I'd imagine it would be difficult to tell yet. What you said was I've not heard of a single newspaper that makes an income from their website. No paper - no website. I just pointed out that there are, very recently, a number of papers now charging for subscriptions. If the websites are more successful than the paper copy then it could easily be a business decision to fold the paper version but maintain the staff for publishing online only. A number of websites clearly are self funding and have never had any links to newspapers, so it can be done. Though as yet paper isn't completely dead as a method of news distribution, as we have an ageing population and the format still has its benefits.

It hasn't actually had anything to do with Bart though, I've seen every minute he's played since he came on at Hartlepool and he's only basically had one big save to make, the defence has improved significantly since he started playing, probably because they're trying harder to protect him. He's come and collected a load of crosses comfortably enough but has hardly been tested and hasn't been able to do anything much about the goals we've conceded. Fundamentally he is a good goalkeeper.

No, they won after extra time. They drew in the 90 minutes. Brazil and Italy drew the 1994 World Cup Final 0-0 aet, then Brazil won on penalties.

They won the competition on penalties but drew the matches... duh. 90 minutes is when the score counts, wins after extra time are wins aet but the bookies will pay out on the draw, "wins" on penalties are just draws, just as penalty shootout goalscorers don't count towards the scoring charts...

Well no, but they can stop all the possible walk-ups from going...