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Yep. I like Pardew, he did a good job with us under any reasonable measure, but things didn't work out for whatever reason. But him and Newcastle seem like a terrible fit. He'll have a go, and they probably will stay up, but bobbling about in 16th next season will see him hounded out by fans who didn't want him anyway. If he's still there this time next year he'd have done very well.

What a load of absolute cobblers. But then, I'd expect nothing less from the most clueless contributor to this forum. Keep the drivel coming.

Blackpool may need it, well they clearly do need it. Saints don't need it and have never had a game called off for a frozen pitch.

In a way the FA can't whine about "we didn't have a chance because FIFA clearly wanted to go to new places". That was exactly the same thinking that took them to Stadium MK for their bid. Milton Keynes is the Qatar of England. "Won't it be jolly different if we went there rather than proper football cities like Derby or Leicester with their decades of historical football support and teams with heritage and history". In the midlands section of the selection process, Derby (League winners, huge fanbase, real football city) and Leicester (multiple trophy winners, Banks, Shilton and Lineker, England's only real three-sport city) were rejected in favour of Milton Keynes (Stadium handily near IKEA). You started it FA and you fuc ked up.

Correct. Although it probably has to start with the players. The Premier League has got the money and get together all the key world players. Sign them all up for an exclusive contract for a world championship tournament held in the USA in 2013, England in 2017 and Austrailia in 2021. Said players appear in no other global tournaments. Line up the companies not currently sponsoring the WC - ie if Adidas is the FIFA Offical, go with Nike. Etc. You'll probably need the Murdoch shilling though, so it is a bit of be careful what you wish for. But, for now, let's Kerry Packer it up and f ck you Blatter.

I never said them fings.

I noticed the Norwich fans chanting "Scum scum scum" at the Ipswich fans on the TV game on Sunday. Made me wonder the origins of that unique word, so I looked it up. Apparently some farmers from Ipswich drove up to Norwich to break a farming strike in the city. This was definitely in 1921. The travelling group were part of a group called the Suffolk County Unionised Menfolk and the name stuck from there. No one from Norwich has ever broken a strike ever and everyone from Norwich calls people from Ipswich SCUM purely because of this world famous strike breaking incident, because people from Norwich are morally superior to people from Ipswich who break strikes all the time. This is all true because it is on this fanzine website here and all fanzine websites are completely true. www.norwich-fans.co.uk/selfaggrandising garbageoveragenerictermofabuse

Not sure being a fully paid football summariser qualifies as "raising his head above the parapet". He's paid to do a job which requires engaging insightful comment and he's not particularly good at it.

When is the Lambert era due to start? As far as I can see he hasn't kicked a ball outside of the third tier of English football thus far. Although if Jay Boothroyd can make it, Rickie is only a swine flu epidemic away from leading the line against the Swiss next year.

It doesn't work written down, but I always giggle at the closing scene where they start pouring a coffee and Nordberg says "say when". "Wh..."[closing theme and "freeze frame"]. As I say, it doens't make sense written down. But I, for one, am ****ing myself.

We've got two of the best strikers in this division by a country mile. We've got more than adequate cover for them on the bench, and we've got goals elsewhere on the pitch. Anyone who thinks we're hard done by on the striking/scoring front is something of a bellend, no?

You are by far the most hysterical poster on this forum, bar none. We have Ricky Lambert who despite not being in form at the moment is easily the best striker at this level over the last two years. And last season we signed Lee Barnard, who if you ignore the Premier League-bound Jermaine Beckford, was and is the second best striker at this level over the last couple of seasons. We also have the incredibly prolific and highly courted Adam Lallana and a great golden oldie in David Connolly. And, all of a sudden a sh it hot youngster in Chamberlain. How many other top class L1 strikers do you seriously expect this club to have? Get in the real world you freak. Funny how back in the day you were chief amongst the bleaters against our infamous former chairmen and his lack of investment in the squad and all that guff. This regime has done nothing but invest in the squad, blowing every other club out of the water and you're still flipping moaning. I think you should stick to your other favourite subject on how real football clubs for real supporters have their stadiums on out of town shopping parks with lots of room for car parking, because that's the only other thing you're even more completely wrong about.

Calm down. Mainly it was a point about Hammill not ever actually being a Saints player, and he was the first player I thought of that the original poster forgot. If I'd remembered Surman first I would have said him. To be honest I haven't tracked McGoldrick since he left and have no idea how well he is doing at Forest and I am certainly no fan of him, being that he was integral to the worst Saints team in my lifetime.

I know it's really exiting for our humble little lower league team to play host to the big shot mega stars from the Premier League. I imagine the whole town will be buzzing with the glamour of the big boys dropping down to our level. The local bakers will be planning their commemorative gingerbread men as we speak. I'm sure the town mayor will be on all the news reports on third round day talking about how fantastic is is to be able see superstar players we could only dream of pulling on a saints kit like Jason Euell and Stephen Crainey turning out on our little pitch. We just need to take inspiration from the likes of Ronnie Radford and Micky Thomas and hope we can pull off the impossible.

Jimmy Case was truly appalling as a summariser. Bleating about the ref being against us during every single game. Merrington is not much better with his "now what we want to do now is score" and "now what we don't want now is to concede" sparkling insight. Surely there is an ex-Saint somewhere who is a bit more erudite than either of them, especially as Merrington is hardly some Saints legend. Yeah, Alan Shearer. Well done. Next.

Surely McGoldrick would get in the team ahead of McDonald. Or Hammill who was never a Saints player anyway.

You've got to love them stewards.

Would be nice to experience the glamour of a premier league team at a premier league ground with premier league players we can only dream of playing for us.

The English language is not some direct adaptation of French though is it, so the assumption that the meaning of any French word is applicable in English is a pretty rum starting point for your theory. The way your burger flipper makes his burgers may have a cadence, ie the rythmn of how he handles his ingredients and puts them together, but not the fact that he can make 12 in ten minutes. Scoring 12 goals in 25 games on 25 seperate days in a four month period is not a cadence. If he scores precisely one every three games then retrospectively it is a pattern, but it isn't a cadence, especially as said striker did not set out to score one in three at the outset. Yes, but then an "irregular cadence" of goal scoring is then so random it is no pattern at all and therefore definitely not a cadence either.

I agree, Marquee Moon is a cracking album. We'll agree to disagree on cadence - just don't see that anyone scores goals "at a cadence". Even if a player happened to score precisely a goal every other game for an entire season, it's still not really a rhythm or cadence in your terms. The way a striker runs could have a cadence, fine, and the way a manager finishes every phrase with "it's a simple as that" is kind of cadence, I suppose.

I don't think anyone has ever scored goals at any "cadence". I'd recommend choosing another word. As we're clearly not signing anyone, and it is FA Cup R2 weekend, there's plenty of time for some etymological debate.

Zola was taken them down the sh i t ter. Probably no worse than Avram but definitely no better.

Well Adkins and Cortese are the best friends in the whole wide world and our Nige has Cortese's blessing to spend what he likes on who he likes whenever he likes so I expect to see at least fifteen players in by this time tomorrow, at least half coming from Premier League clubs.

You're mixing things up. The Woodward thing was only after Redknapp had so skilfully relegated us by telling the press at every opportunity how rubbish the players were. Redknapp and Saints (read: Lowe) was never ever going to work - even if he had kept us up I doubt he would have been around for much longer anyway.

If six wins out of eight isn't consistency then christ you've got a long and miserable life as a football fan ahead of you.