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How about anatomization then..?

Well slightly. But let's not go overboard about it. http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=10797

Preston NE yessssssssss 1-1.

Dowie on SSN tonight: Barcelona are the standing outside in this league. Of course, he meant: Barcelona are the outstanding side in this league. LOL.

Bollix, Forest 1-0. Cherries 2-0, and might be out of the relegation zone.

Must admit, I agree with the sentiment. The number of times I have installed new technology for people, and because they have not been able to completely master it within seconds, it is the new technology's fault. There is absolutely no sense of wonder, only initial disappointment. After about a week I usually get a phone call to say how wonderful it all is. After another month it's the very least they'll put up with. Quality of life is wasted on this generation. I often suggest they get off their arses and go and get a real life instead of sitting around complaining.

I thought all laptops were meant to be portable. If you really want something extremely portable, you might try this one. http://www.aldi.co.uk/uk/html/offers/58_9001.htm Of course, it is a notebook.

Nice sequence. Got a big LOL from me. Oh btw, Happy Birthday for last Sunday. Knew I'd forgotten something.

Yahoo..!

Two that are more than annoying, and have happened just a moment ago in quick succession. 1] Presenter on the TV just said that Portsmouth haven't beaten Chelsea in the league since 1957. They've been in different leagues for most of that time you plonker..! 2] Rinsing a plate in the sink and carefully emptying out the water, where it slopped across and flipped some water out onto the kitchen floor. I f*****g hate that..! Actually tried to do on purpose and couldn't, which means god does exist and he/she hates me.

Two that are more than annoying, and have happened just a moment ago in quick succession. 1] Presenter on the TV just said that Portsmouth haven't beaten Chelsea in the league since 1957. They've been in different leagues for most of that time you plonker..! 2] Rinsing a plate in the sink and carefully emptying out the water, where it slopped across and flipped some water out onto the kitchen floor. I f*****g hate that..! Actually tried to do on purpose and couldn't, which means god does exist and he/she hates me.

Went to bed relatively early at 11.15pm last night, even though I didn't need to resurface until about 10.00am. I took a big bag of savoury flavoured crisps and a huge brandy with me, and watched a great film. Fell asleep about 30 seconds after turning everything off.

Went to bed relatively early at 11.15pm last night, even though I didn't need to resurface until about 10.00am. I took a big bag of savoury flavoured crisps and a huge brandy with me, and watched a great film. Fell asleep about 30 seconds after turning everything off.

Although I never saw them race, as I'm not that old [honest], I think the 1950's era of car really are the best looking, and this is the best example of that period in my opinion:

If this had been proposed a few seasons back it would have been greeted with fanfares. Too little, too late. Find an investor/person to buy the club outright [and none from the present boardroom] and leave.

Jeff, you might like to know that BBC Radio 4 is in the middle of its sci-fi season. Today was the first part of the classic Arthur C Clarke story - Rendevous With Rama. You can listen to this again for the next 7 days. I tend to play these things on my computer and get it to record the episode using something like Freecorder or Messer Session Recorder. It means, of course that you can also record next week's episode and then play them when you damn well choose. BBC iPLayer: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00hs8xn/Classic_Serial_Rendezvous_with_Rama_Episode_1/ or from the Radio 4 website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/classic_serial.shtml and just click on Latest Classic Serial.

Tell you what, Hypo. You leave your cap at home. Sorted.

Nothing. But it's worth remembering a Saints great, on the anniversary of his death. Taken far too early in his life.

People can be fickle. You may not believe it, but I remember groans and desperate mutterings from fans when players of the calibre of Ron Davies and Terry Paine failed to make things happen or score with the slightest of chances. The thing about Matt Le Tissier was that he was no ordinary player. He wasn't a great player in the conventional sense. He was a maverick; an enigma. If he was left out of the team, you could almost predict the result, because that dangerous element had been removed. But 10 seconds play from MLT could be the difference between 3 points or less. To look at his contribution with that traditional English eye is to totally devalue his worth. He was quite simply the most skillful player of his generation, and I say that knowing players like Gascoigne and Cantona were about at the time. They were more conventional and yet they had the aura of brilliance, but MLT was above even them. Leave him out of an all-time team..? You must be off your head..!

Recorded 2 films over the weekend, both of which are classics. First up was The Lion In Winter [1968] with Peter O'Toole in his pomp, and Katherine Hepburn nearing the end of her career. Both comfortably act the rest of the cast off the screen, including a newish to the cinema Anthony Hopkins, who looks terribly actory [is that an adjective..?], and stagey in his performance. He does this close-up scene with Hepburn, and has half the lines. But while she looks like she's just invented what she's delivering and is quite still, he throws his head about [and this is a head to waist frame] as if he's playing to the gods, and looks more technical than Sir Lawrence Olivier on a bad day. O'Toole brilliantly swaggers through his Henry II role like a king who knows he's the most powerful being on Earth. Good supporting cast in Nigel Terry and John Castle as Henry's younger brats [appropriate word, believe me]. Sadly, it was on ITV3, so the 5 minute advert breaks every 20 minutes [i kid you not] had to be edited out before I'd watch it. Plus, there's the bloody ITV3 logo on the screen. The film is good enough to overcome this though. Thoroughly recommended. The next film I haven't ever watched all the way through yet, despite it being on TV countless times. Usually, it's because ITV have shown it, and being over 2 hours uninterrupted, The Man Who Would Be King [1975] would take an entire Sunday afternoon away if it was broken up into segments. Films have a habit of being adopted by Commercial TV or the Beeb, for example - Bond films, but some times they cross over. Thankfully, this one did, and now I've only had to chop a few minutes off the front and back of the film and it's there in all its entirety. No more, no less - and no channel logo either. I've never been a huge fan of either Sean Connery or Michael Caine, principaly because they don't convince me that they are playing any character but themselves. But here they go together well, as playing 2 British soldiers, they can adopt their own characters as much as anyone elses. Excellent casting, I would say. Might get the brandy out later and sit back and wallow in a very good story.

Covers everything.

Coming to the end of my VHS tapes now, and I've found some Dickens classics I had the foresight to record way back when. There's a very good BBC rendition of Great Expectations starring Ioan Gruffudd, which I still haven't watched; and I just transferred BBC's Martin Chuzzlewit from 1994 [Paul Scofield] to HDD/DVD. And I would burn the discs, but after 2½ years, the recorder is about a month into having real difficulty recognising the DVD blanks I'm popping onto its tray - even the Verbatim and TDK ones it was designed to work with. The Targa has been utterly brilliant until now, and thankfully, there's another 6 months to go before the guarantee runs out. Must get that sorted next week.

Exactly. And I was also one of Lowe's supporters, even though I knew he disunited the club. I thought it was good medicine, and the club were progressing, even after WGS left. Lowe's haters were unforgiving IMO. Then Sturrock was appointed, and in my opinion, it was lacking in ambition. But Sturrock was a pretty good manager, who got Saints playing effectively again, after a dip in form. He left under a cloud of mystery, and then Lowe appointed Wigley. Lowe said he liked to give youth a chance. Fine..! But you give managerial youth a chance in League 1 or 2, not in the Premiership. And he stuck with Wigley, and the club sunk lower and lower, making it harder for any replacement manager to rescue the situation. And it was that daft experiment that got Saints relegated, not Harry Redknapp, although he didn't exactly light too many fires. And Lowe tries these things all the time. Looking back, one of his lesser brain fever episodes was appointing Sir Clive Woodward. Now that was radical, expensive, and probably did a tiny amount of good. But paying a good manager some proper money, and backing him properly with funds and a good squad, would have done a whole lot better. But that's not good enough for Rupert. There are so many more imaginative ways to waste money.

There's a bit in what you say. But my mind goes back to Premiership days where 'Arry tells us he had calls from Rupert to play the youngsters, when Redknapp knew full well they were not the answer. 'Arry may be a twisted, twitching, bungable manager, who failed this club enormously, but he still knows how to pick a team over a bloke who would pick his by the financial constraints they place on the club. The daft experiment may be worth trying once in a generation of players. But they have to be of sufficient standard, and only a football professional can see the potential of that. Not some bloke who happens to be something in the City

Rupert Lowe doesn't unite the club, and therefore doesn't lead either. He may be a dab hand at the books, but making a profit in League 2 is not what being a football club is all about; perhaps it should be. So I suggest, if the club manage to stay in the CCC [and it still looks unlikely at this point] and remains solvent, at the end of the season, then Rupert should, for the good of the club, quietly withdraw his presence and slowly sell his stake where he can, and at as much profit as he can get [precious little no doubt]. But how ever he plays it, he should go. And take Askham with him.