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Similar - I always thought private plates were very sad, but my wife gave me a set for a birthday some years back and I would not trade them for anything now. Got ** SFC

Wife has since left me for someone else, and took me for a pile of cash, but I kept the plates - HA b*tch!

Not before 18, in order to cope with the emotional rollercoaster that is our club

All this whingeing from the crowd - booing re Hughes "catch" and the day before when Beer no balled - matched by the media claiming the no ball decision was controversial (wtf?!) shows how low they have stooped. Oh the pleasure! Well done for a fantastic display again lads, keep going

So your "apparently" means you don't know for sure, he doesn't seem a bad option but definately keep Adam.

Austin is a total tool. Decent player, of course. Maybe even a top quality player. But tool nonetheless. Witness his example at St Marys and numerous other fans confirm.

My Dad reminds me of that Sunderland game and that we went to it, but I don't remember it at all. I would be surprised if we managed 500 at Oldham though. I still need to find a way of getting there and back on the same day/night, so would anyone driving from anywhere around London be willing to give me a lift?

On the back of three great wins we might beat 500 now, though appreciate the trip is not the easiest. But we have a resourceful bunch as was showed last season! Good luck

Just got my ticket so I will defo be there. Might be a failry modest Saints turnout for this one, but am really looking forward to it on the back of yesterday (Huddersfield)!

This is tosh. New Manager = The Sun dreams up who he might be looking at. Easiest task, requiring no effort at all by them, pick a couple of players from his last club. Ignore the fact that we are in League 1. Ignore the fact that Lambert has spent his whole career in lower leagues. Ignore the fact that he cant score in our league this season. Finally also ignore the fact that Lallana is the most obvious target who just might be credible to be linked to a move to the Prem. Poor poor poor journalism but then its the Sun. Move along, nothing to see here

If no buses or trains back to Manc I'll be driving and may have space to give you a lift

Very decent of you, thanks.

The only train station open is the one 45 mins walk from Boundary Park. Lets wait until January bus schedules are confirmed after Christmas - I would hope they are running ok. Certainly if you look them up for next week they are fine

Can't find any decent train deals, or any trains trains back.. and that's back to London, let alone Southampton.

 

If anyone is driving from anywhere around the London area then me and another are offering to pay petrol money to share a lift? Bit of a fag this game being a Tuesday night now, especially with trains to Oldham not running, nor the buses from the ground back to Manchester Picadilly after the game.

No buses back to Manchester afterwards - seriously? That blows my plan then. I work in London but HQ in Manchester. Had a meeting at HQ I had to chair on Tues 4th where I need to stay over. Went to a lot of trouble to rerrange the meeting (10 other people coming) for Tues 11th. The bus was the final piece of the jigsaw.

Wonder what a cab back to Manchester will be (if I can get one)

I also wanted to say that I rank the BBC only marginally ahead of the Echo in terms of reporting ability and accuracy

I disagree. They are not so close to clubs that they will very often have the "inside track" or hot rumour. But they do get to meet owners, chairman, managers and produce decent in depth articles and interviews. So any comparison with the Echo is some way off, IMO

I bet Craig David is gutted to only be Saints 2nd most famous fan now.

Nah. Coldplay drummer - Will Champion. Oh and le Tiss i guess. And me (about to be famous any day now , promise)

Unlike his cvnt of an assistant manager `Robbo`.

Appy, agree completely but Ince is almost as bad - I was being facetious

A very gracious loser at MKD I recall, happy to compliment the opposition when they deserve to win and admit his own team's shortcomings.

Away no question. Concentration of people who are arguably among the most passionate and generally the most vocal* supporters. Personally I dont think it has very much to do with whether we sit or stand, I can sing and shout throughout a match whichever I am doing, but it is easier when you have a good number of people nearby doing the same

* see my other comments a few weeks back - re away support not being as vocal as it used to be, more people seem to spend a lot of time and money to travel to an away game and then sit there in silence for some reason

You can play with the semantics all you want, but just how do you stop the club going into administration once Barclay's pulled the plug, there was no way out. The directors could have kept on trading but all that would have done would be a small delay before being forced into administration and personal exposure. Just how are you going to bypass administration once Barclay's have pulled the plug?

Get real please. Many Directors of bust Co's like to blame their banks. "If only they had kept supporting us" they complain. For which read: if only they had let us keep running up the overdraft and loans while we lost more money.

We were insolvent. The bank did not cause our losses. The bank did not cause us to spend way more than we should have done. The bank did not cause the lack of success on the pitch and the reduced crowds. The bank did not fail to find a big investor. You can blame whichever individuals you like, but they were at Saints and nowhere else.

he was very impressed with our hot dog sales

Doesn't say much for Tony Mowbray then if a PC Warrior could achieve what he couldn't.

 

I was not surprised that WGS could not achieve much at Boro last season, I thought he would need a preseason to instill the fitness and work ethic into a side. But he does seem to have lost his way now. We look back on his time at Saints with rose-tinted specs because we were moderately successful, but I suspect it was all unravelling at the time he left anyway. I enjoyed his time with us, but I suspect he was in the right place at the right time and is really very one-dimensional and has been found out.

Moderately successful?! FFS - you expected more than a Cup Final, 8th place and a UEFA spot?

Yes its been season after season of proper success since he left, silly me. I will take off my rose tinted specs right away

Don't get me wrong, i enjoyed the season we were in the cup final and top 8, mainly because of the results. I wasn't great football though, very defensive.

 

Even some chelsea fans had had enough of the defensive tactics towards the end of Mourinho's tenure.

Mate you are tough to please. Like I said I would love to have this not great type of football every season. Beattie third highest scorer after Van Nistelthingy and Henry. Beat Arsenal 3-2, Fulham 4-2, Leeds 3-2, City 2-0 and managed to rack up some decent away wins. Thrashed Spurs at their place the following season. if thats dull then bring on the snoozing please

Were you at the Rovers game? I was and IMHO we played worse than we had done the previous week against Orient.

The difference between the two games was that we got 2-0 up at half-time and were able to coast through the 2nd half against a team that played as badly as Tranmere did last week.

 

The goals wern't a victory for Pardew's coaching skills. 1-0 a corner miss hit to the near post where the defender missed the ball and Fonte shinned it in. 2-0 Hammond tried a 25 yarder. Fluffed it and it fell perfectley for Lallana 12 yards out. 3-0 needless penalty given away as Barney was moving away from the goal. The 4th in injury time against an invisible back line.

 

Please stop your boring crusade. How do you know the players aren't fully aware of the reasons for the sacking. Just because you dont know why, dosen't make it the wrong decision.

Four lucky goals in one game. Wow we must have found a whole crop of four leaf clovers that day

He isn't a bad manager but not outstanding, he made us very hard to beat, it was almost boring under him.

 

I don't know, sometimes things just don't turn out.

If he was as you say, then I will happily have a not oustanding manager who makes us almost boring every season please

Pardew obviously had his strengths, but Adkins is a more 'complete' manager imo.

You may well be right but I think the only area that concerns me (at this very early stage) is whether Adkins can attract decent signings. Pardew did this very well - how much of it was down to the Marcus cash on offer and the appeal of Saints in L1 remains to be seen. May be nothing to worry about

So which of the games would we have won under him in your opinion and why didn't he win those home games against Plymouth and Leyton Orient? He didn't beat Swindon last season in either match, so would he have managed it this season? And as I already pointed out above, you reckon that not having Lallana and Barnard available to him would have made no difference?

I dont know. Very hard to give facts for something that did not actually happen. But I believe, in my opinion, that we would have probably, in my view, not lost as many matches as we have actually done so far. I think that it is a fact that the OP asked "does anybody really think". Well, I do. In my view

FWIW (which is not much of course) I think we would have been in the top 6 now, so yes, I guess I think we would have done better under Pardew.

But hopefully all the disruption caused by firing someone so early in the season is past us now, I like the look of Adkins and the team is improving slowly. We will still get there.

He really was good on Saturday. He has a lot of pace, which we've been missing, so in that respect Antonio I guess, the touch and ball control of Lallana, the vision of Morgan and the work rate of Barnard.

 

I'm obviously not saying he is as good as all these players put together but he definitely brought a lot to the team.

 

I actually think the comment above comparing him to Drogba isn't far off. Obviously they are miles apart in their overall ability but his style of play was similar- quick, strong and explosive.

Wow. thanks

Rivaldo

I may have been hammered at some matches in the past but I am pretty sure I would have noticed if he played for us.