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Sorry Vectis. Good question. Here they are both: A-Team -------------------Shilton--------------------- Golac-------Wright--------Svensson-----Bridge Paine---------Ball---------Le Tissier---Armstrong ------------Channon--------Davies------------- B-Team ----------------------Niemi---------------------- Dodd------Lundekvam------Watson---------Dennis D.Wallace----Williams---------Case--------Marsden -------------Keegan--------Pahars--------------- Good teams, aren't they..?

No thanks to TDD. As I said in the original post, a contribution such as his will be ignored [so why bother doing it TDD..?]. Thank you Derry. Thank you very much for reading, the two last posters. All future contributors, please lay out your player selections as the two posters immediately above have done. Just copy and paste my guide, and fill in your selections. Thanks. DarrenLeTiss, I hope this agrees with what you had in mind.

The final two weeks of Saints Greatest XI start with the Subs bench. I want 5 named substitutes for each team. For the purposes of having two full teams including a subs bench, they can't be players that are already in either team, but they can have been nominated before. So you need to nominate 10 players in total. It's an opportunity for those players who have missed it by a whisker, to come back into contention and be recognised. Please place out your lists like this: A-Team GK - DF - MF - ST - UP - B-Team GK - DF - MF - ST - UP - So that's one goalkeeper, one defender, one midfielder, one striker, and one utility player for each team. Importantly, the utility player can be from any position on the pitch, if you like. He doesn't have to be, or have been, recognised as a utility player while playing for Saints. Geddit..? As this is quite a lot of players to give a fair amount of thought to, this thread will close on friday night, next week. Please make the effort to name all players. I will not include partial efforts. I will count the players as individuals afterwards and we'll have two benches. Those players who have been named most times will end up on one of the benches. Of those that have been named most times, their destinations will be decided on whether they have been nominated for the A-Team or B-Team mostly. I think you know the standard we are making our choices from by now, but I'll just reiterate. It's excellence, and nothing else. Not because they're an old mate of yours, or because you used to walk your dog with theirs, or they are some cult hero. If they are the best player, you can think of first, and a cult hero, and someone you used to walk your dog with, then OK. BTW, These threads and polls are not rigged and never have been, despite the odd lazy poster suggesting otherwise, but never directly asking me in a PM. Perhaps they might, and I'll give them some work to do.

The poll is closed. That makes the B Team line up as follows: ----------------------Niemi---------------------- Dodd------Lundekvam------Watson---------Dennis D.Wallace----Williams---------Case--------Marsden -------------Keegan--------Pahars--------------- There will be no usual poll this week. Later on I'll ask people to come up with 5 players for each team to go on the subs bench. Details later.

It's Lowe's personally named budget for relegation strategy that has seen Saga go elsewhere. It's the same budget for relegation strategy that got Saints dropping down from the Premiership. It'll be successful again this season.

And Gordon Ramsey's mentor too, as he worked under Marco as he was learning. Something I didn't know from watching the show last night was that the 19 year old Gordon was a completely screwed up kid. Which, incidentally, ties in with his younger brother going off the rails. Anyway, he was talking to the pig-headed head-chef's 19 year old daughter who he had placed all the responsibility for cooking the menu he had devised, and it was quite obvious she was nervous. The way he got her confidence raised, comparing notes etc...was superb. He told her he felt he had to do something positive at 19 or he was screwed. That self-awareness, and his ability to see the wood through the trees, and convey it to others, is what makes him great. Not just the food, but his attitude. Perhaps, some of that is down to Marco.

Feet up and getting paid a mint for it too. It's a hard life.

No, it's everywhere on Google. Just copy and paste the direct link, and you'll come to no harm. But don't trust that advice 100%.

I would have thought you liked Diff'rent Strokes. Now what on earth got me to think of that, I wonder..?

One of my best friends is a born and bred lowlander from Lanarkshire. If you didn't have a penny, and he had one left, he'd insist you have it. As usual, there are good and bad in all races. The racist atttitude is to condemn all for the faults of one or two.

Gordon Ramsey's Great British Nightmare was a huge delight this evening. Two restauranteurs who hadn't a screaming clue. One was the Head Chef too, and couldn't cook to save his life; and the other had an excellent head chef who really had had enough of cooking sh!t food, and really let his best mate, the owner, know it. And the guy still wasn't listening. Gordon had the head chef shedding tears when he was building his self esteem back up. I wouldn't know how to run a restaurant if my life depended upon it, so I don't do it. But Gordon really knows what he's talking about and he gets to the heart of the matter. Every word he speaks smacks down hard on the head of the nail. He's been there, done that, written the book and starred in the film. And still they give him grief. Unbelieveable..! Can you imagine how much they would have to pay for his advice outside of the programme..? Well more money than they've got certainly. It's about honesty and huge emotions and big egos. It's desperation, it's fire, it's conflict, it's life. Look past the F-word, it's great TV.

Do you distill it yourself, JFP..?

I know I'm posting after the result, but if I'd seen this question before the match I would have said a draw please. Neither side maximised the points. 1 point, that will never come back, went astray. That's best for Saints. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_1/7855662.stm

Any of the cases, desktop or tower, ATX or Micro ATX, Hypo..? If they're older than that, I've still got one AT case and motherboard to get rid off myself.

I'll give you a clue. What does s.n.i.g.g.e.r say if you take the S away at the front..? Come on, I haven't got all evening..

Are we confusing the news between what is Lonuge material and TMS..? Off it goes...

The Big Match Revisited Thursday 05 February 11:25am - 12:25pm ITV4 Classic football action from 30 years ago this week. Today's programme looks back at a league match at White Hart Lane between Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City. The Spurs side featured Glenn Hoddle and Ossie Ardiles, while City's team included Brian Kidd, Peter Barnes and Mick Channon. That's an OUCH..!

Not rolled down, but at 3/4 length and sat just on top of his shinpads. Looked odd to me. Neither fish, nor fowl. Slightly famous for the fact that in PES4 there is a little kit configuration where you can have your player sport the Brett Ormerod sock length look. This little pic from the Villa Park 2003 FAC semi-final illustrates: Pull those bloody socks up Brett..!

Bugger it. Aren't we signing him after all..?

5. Peter Beardsley. Jimmy Case had got within 2 yards of a Liverpool player in the 18 yard area. Result, penalty. 7. IIRC, in ancient times [60's] the division half time scores went up on little boards along one of the touchlines. EDIT: 5b. Paul Rideout. Cracking shot. Scored with a bullet header at the same end, minutes later. Bizarrely hit the post down the Milton end, as the ball bounced off the keeper.

Back to his old shooting ground then. Good luck Brett.

Made an effort to go to bed early the other night, but made the mistake of flicking through the odd channel or two. Then something caught my eye. What was about 20 minutes in, but Executive Decision [sometimes unaccountably called Critical Decision]. I have this film on DiVX disc, and in good quality, yet I plumped up the cushions and settled down to it again. What is it about this bloody film..? It's utter crap, but I love it. And I suspect plenty of others feel exactly the same as I do. If I wasn't working I could watch it again right now and be thoroughly entertained.

Hoping in dreamland - 2-0 Hoping realistically - 2-2 Based on form - 0-2

I thought this was all academic now.

I'll look forward to that, I hear she's quite an authority on the subject.