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Just a quick update. PLEASE READ THE INSTRUCTIONS. Posters on messages 3, 4, 16 and 17, clearly haven't. Thanks to others who have. TDD needs to nominate another player. Fowllyd needs to clarify who of 2 players he wants, otherwise I will go with his first 2. Matt SFC needs to nominate another player. Krissyboy31 needs to clarify which 2 players he wants nominated. Ta. P.S. SNSUN. Is it Armstrong or Berkovic..? If you don't tell me, I'll assume Armstrong.

I have loads of downloaded Saints goals from the Strachan/Sturrock era. I kind of thought I might want to see them again one day, so started collecting them. And without shouting Saints TV again, I paid my fee and have all the ones I missed out now.

No legends, just quality please. Here we're nominating 2 players fit to play in the finest Saints team in living memory. There are enough players to reel off like a who's who in Saints football. It's one of the most hotly contested areas of the pitch. Hopefully, all leading nominees should go into the vote, although there will be an absolute maximum of 10 [Poll limit, not mine]. If any player does not get sufficient nominations, he will not get into the vote. Nominations end late Sunday night, and the voting will begin thereafter. At the end of the vote, the two highest placed players will go into the A team, and the 3rd/4th placed players will be in the B team. So if you don't want to be surprised by your idea of the best players not appearing in the final vote, then you'd better get nominating your 2 best CMs. No more, no less. Cheers.

Thank you people. I think the right candidate succeeded as the second best RM, and so goes into the B Team. We can all breathe a sigh of relief that the rest of our favourite players can all be nominated again. But Terry Paine and Danny Wallace are in their positions now. Here's the current line ups: For the A Team ------------------Shilton------------------- Golac----Wright-----Svensson-----Bridge Paine-------?-------------? and the B Team ------------------Niemi-------------------- Dodd---Lundekvam----Watson----Dennis D.Wallace---?-------------? Why the 2 question marks..? Because we want 2 nominations from everyone now. Who are the two best CMs ever to have donned the Saints shirt. Ignore the legend, let's just have the quality please. Nominations close late Sunday night. All leading nominees will go into the vote. Cheers

Saw Arsenal reserves play Our reserves when Peter Crouch was in our reserve team. Crouch scored two excellent goals, and still didn't get aplace. But Lupoli was impressive for Arsenal.

Really sorry to read this. Worst, and probably easiest time of the year to feel down. I'm sure we'll be here if/when you need cheering up.

Which era is the music quiz centred on, Pancake..? Anything after about 1995, and for a select few names in any case, and I'm sunk. I heard someone mention a particular name the other day. I thought it was a complaint. Turned out to be a pop group.

MB, I'm impressed. Did you look that up..?

I'm getting this stupid thread out there before MB comes up with it. I can do trivia. Honest..! MYSINGE Sadly, I haven't got room for one. Anybody know what it is..?

Yep. Just about to put the same answer, so I'll just say..agreed. I have the same problem in my house. It also means a mobile phone has problems in my house, and a user generally has to step out into the garden. Thank goodness for dear old landline.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/sheff_wed/7788976.stm Come on Rupert & Co. What's keeping you from finding a buyer..? Sheffield Wedneday's facilites need a major overhaul too, and they have more debt, yet can find investment. I get the feeling you're not really trying.

I agree. I'm having a go with Google Chrome, and it's not too bad at all. I was in love with Apple's Safari, but it has started to slow up dramatically, despite my purging of history and temporary internet files. IE7 has always been a bit clunky, if reasonably reliable. Firefox is just too linuxy for my tastes. And Opera.... oh dear. The word quirky comes to mind. All we need now is Netscape Navigator..! I think I can hold out until Microsoft gets it sorted sufficiently.

That's the Castrol 'R' oil, the bikes used. Also, in those days they were unsilenced, and the wind would carry the roar and the smell across the city. I have several memories of being in the garden in the evening and that gentle noise would float over the rooftops. A couple of years back, I was stuck in a traffic jam behind an old car. It obviously had a tuned engine, because through the ventilation system came that familiar Castrol racing oil smell. I was whisked back to my childhood in an instant.

Went to your link at Youtube. Lovely stuff. Saw a link for Briggo, and inevitably found this: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Eek6tgQHJ_8 I expect You and Bungle have probably seen this before, but I'd like to know that one or two purely Saints football fans have had a look too. Perhaps it'll come as a surprise to hear the narrator call the spectators Saints fans, and notice that the riders wore red & white striped tunics. And the fans had all the typical Saints regalia. I think it's fair to say, that upto the point where Southampton Speedway Stadium at Bannister Court was sold off, the Saints speedway team were every bit as famous as their football cousins. Probably even more so. After all, in 1962, they were the Man U of their sport, and I feel that speedway had a much greater popularity than it does today. On a personal note. At my first match at The Dell in 1966, I held and swung a Saints rattle. It was painted in red and white stripes, and made quite a racket. But it was actually a Saints rattle of my elder brother's from the speedway era.

I'm neither a supporter or non-supporter of Nick Illingsworth. When he says something I agree with, I say so. And here I agree with him 100%. I would actually go further, and get rid of transfer window system entirely.

He's still banging on about it. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7784446.stm Look, I know I'm bike racing biased, but that's just because of the excitement value, not necessarily because the racing is on two wheels, but it seems to me that MotoGP's points system works a lot better than F1's. As we all know, in F1 the current points allocation goes 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 down to 8th place. In MotoGP the points go 25-20-16-13-11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 all the way back to 15th place [there are 18 to 22 entrants]. For me, this means that almost everyone is in the hunt, and is capable, with a really good race or two, to be up with championship leaders. Especially if someone falls off, which occasionally happens. Granted, these little acts of god don't happen anything like as often in F1. This season, Rossi had the championship won by the end race 15, but it is a 17 race season. The previous two seasons had been nothing like as foregone a conclusion. However, whatever the system, almost anything is better than a medal allocation system for F1.

Harry may be guilty of loads of things, and I'm not a fan in the slightest, but if you put the Spurs squad side by side with any of the top 5 clubs, his squad is poorer. He's actually telling the truth for once. And he's prepping the bungs too.

To be honest, all of them are in the pretty, or very pretty category, but NONE are actually beautiful. Take away the face paint, particularly the obvious black eyes, and they're girl-next-door types. Very nice indeed, but nothing to start a vote about.

The Lend-Lease Agreement..? That was me too.

Starting work later tomorrow, so before I go to bed, I thought I'd have one last little search on a subject that interests me more recently, if only because it went on while I was a kid - The British Space Programme. During my little trip to the Science Museum last month, I saw the last British Black Arrow rocket that didn't get launched into space. It set my interest going again in the history of the British space programme. It's immediate predecessor, that is, the one from last Black Arrow was launched into space from Woomera, Australia, carrying the all-British satellite, Prospero. It was the last British venture into space, using all-British technology. The launcher, satellite, everything was British. Here's the link, I've been looking at. It's a nice summary:http://www.isleofwighttouristguide.com/Articles/Article_59.asp For those who have gone to the link and returned, you might have the same emotions as I. Bloody outrage, frustration of the wastage of expert people, technical knowledge, and sheer British effort. If you didn't know about it, you might also have amazement as an emotion. Yes, I've read all this before and in far more detail. But it never fails to f**k me off at the sheer lack of imagination of British politicians. And Prospero was publicly checked on its polar track only a couple of months ago - still up there, and still faithfully working..!

I can't speak for Steve or Baj, but I suspect they'd agree that The Saints Web isn't going to get into an agenda for either getting Rupert Lowe out, or keeping him in the Chair at St Marys, whatever their personal views. Therefore, I won't be sticking any Lowe Out or Lowe In threads to the main forum. If you want to talk about Rupert that much, the thread will keep itself buoyant.

I can't speak for Steve or Baj, but I suspect they'd agree that The Saints Web isn't going to get into an agenda for either getting Rupert Lowe out, or keeping him in the Chair at St Marys, whatever their personal views. Therefore, I won't be sticking any Lowe Out or Lowe In threads to the main forum. If you want to talk about Rupert that much, the thread will keep itself buoyant.

I never, ever carry my documents in the car with me. If a police officer tells me that I should carry them for viewing [and an officer did once], I tell him/her that I keep them at home because they are far more secure that way. A copper once insisted that I should keep the car's documents in the car. I said, fine... if you can provide me with a guarantee that my car will never be in danger of being stolen, or of being broken into, I will. I was feeling pretty bullish that day. It's a wonder he didn't decide to find something wrong with the car.

I wouldn't worry. There are plenty worse films to be obsessed about.

Saints are the new feeder club for Stoke City. Well, it makes sense. The players don't even have to make a huge adjustment for recognising the difference between their teammates' shirts and the opposition's.