Dr Who?

I do feel we have seen all the different variants of red and white stripes, there is only so much you can do. Even worse now there is one kit per season!

Agreed, it is used as a tick box exercise, and seen to be the right thing to do, but like many men’s teams if it was a business it would not last long running to its own means! It’s catch 22 with the women’s game, as it needed and needs time to grow, but over the last year or so it has stalled a little outside of the ‘top 6’ clubs, with a lot going backwards. I think you will see over the next 5/10 years it reflecting the mens premier league (not far off now), as those clubs can support a women’s team, and then it will be like the premier league, stale and boring. One club that do break the trend are London City Lionesses, who are very well funded, and Durham (not quite the same level but stand on their own and are very well run). Perhaps that is the way forward, a completely independent team/club, but there is no way that could happen yet for there to be a sustainable league.

Unfortunately we are also a club on the decline. Now the season before last we may have invested and nicked that 2nd spot, but since then there has been some very strange exits from the club, and in key positions. We also had a great manager and a great set, but this has dramatically gone backwards. I think we will be looking downwards next season rather than up, especially as Blackburn are gone and the blue lot from down the road improved massively in the last quarter of the season. It’s a shame, but there is no way we will challenge for the top 3. But fingers crossed we can rebuild and get the right management and coaches in place, then we can start to rebuild to hit the top flight.

England U21 0-0 Slovenia U21 - 55 mins Pretty even at the moment.

Alan Curtis - Southampton Sports Centre, on the trampoline, next to the helter-skelter, 1986. I suppose not that weird as he played for Saints, but the circumstances are strange to me now and back when I was 11/12 even more weird, as he seemed to be on his own!

Gary Lineker - Chippy Bedford Place - early 90s - unconfirmed.

It was a great final, which we could have and should have won, after a pretty bad first 25 minutes. Even though we did have a goal ruled that should not have been. I drove down from Carlisle and back the same day, as I did for the play off final!

Nope, we’ll have not renewed since 2018. I moved to Cumbria in 2015 and had my season ticket since 2001 up to that point, but I could not justify it any longer. So not had a season ticket since then and only been to around 4/5 home games in 10 years. Now a northern saint I go to the majority of northern games from midlands up with my boy. I pop along to Carlisle home games, but their season has been just as depressing as ours. Also keep an eye out for Penrith, Royston, and Torquay, but the 2 latter do not travel north, until they get higher up the non league. I do not think I require a season ticket for any reason that would benefit me! I can get tickets, it is not a problem.

He will achieve at least a top 2 finish, but a lot will hinge on Europe and getting through the qualifying. I think he will do well with his style of football with more quality and the fact it is a high level in Scotland. It’s hard to fail, but failure will be not being above Celtic.

Oh on another note, I did not watch match of the day once this season! Used to be a must watch, but I have watched loads of lower and non league games. Says it all. Also not interested the champions league, even though my 13 year old son bangs on about it… all the time. I end up turning around to him and talking about Royston Town or Torquay. We are foreign to each other 😂

It will be interesting to see how he gets on, but I follow Hibs 😀

I have a massive connection to the Netherlands 🇳🇱 and love the place. Would love to live there. Went there for the first time at the age of 12 with school on the Nijmegen walks. 25 miles a day for 4 days. Big event. Then I was back last year of school more for the attractions around Amsterdam. (Not the adult ones though) Been back loads with 3 places I have worked having head offices there, and then met my now wife, and she used to go with her family to Duinrell in Wassenaar, which we have visited 5/6 times with our own kids. Day visits from there to keukenhof tulip gardens. The Madurodam model village. Since then found out that my surname comes from the Netherlands, but mostly Scotland. You cannot win them all. oh and NEC were the first foreign team I watched live abroad. 😀

That was my point.

He would do well there, with a top side in that league. I bet they would at least have a top 2 finish and would be better than this season. The style of football suits Celtic more though.

Have not been interested this season in the premier league. It is a snore fest. I tend to look abroad and the lower leagues for my teams. Oh and Scotland. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 NEC - Nijmegen 🇳🇱 Hibs - 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Carlisle - north and where I live Torquay - first team I ever watched live at a game in Torquay on a family holiday. Royston Town - Where I used to live and where my wife and good friends live. AFC Totten - Local small club near Southampton Eastleigh - used to be Swaythling FC and where I grew up in the flower estate.