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I think we'll gloss over that particular KK. Indeed Rickie is a real stand out player, and has even improved since joining Saints. Who knows what kind of a player he could have been if he had had the right tutelage in his earlier career. To some extent, it's a real shame that here was a player who, when he started out, couldn't command a place within a Blackpool squad, and was transferred free to Macclesfield Town. Then he started to make an impression. Prior to Saints, Rickie has scored plenty of goals, prolifically for Bristol Rovers [58 goals in 132 appearances], but already he is well on the way to half that goals total, with 22 strikes, in little more than 34 games. With better players around him, he just gets better and better. I just hope he thinks that going up the leagues with Saints is better than going straight there with another transfer. Happy Birthday Rickie.

Certain.

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Yep. Good manager. If NC and ML want to sack him, they'd better not bugger about with someone of similar quality. They'd have to go and offer huge amounts to someone with a proven track record of total success, and back him to the hilt. That isn't going to happen, and those people simply do not bother with lower league football anyway. Pardew is a good manager. Stick with him.

I've a sneaky feeling he thought he was going to be whistled for offside, and therefore didn't really play the ball properly. Besides, if the match had been refereed by a League One official, he would have been.

Really..? I'll have to steal myself and watch my recording of the match.

I think you know full well what was being suggested. The 7 year old was saying that if Saints played like that every week against League One opposition, they'd murder them, and be so out of sight by 70 mins, and that they wouldn't have to be overcoming any goals scored by a League One team, who wouldn't have the pace and firepower of Pompey's strikeforce. It's quite a simple concept. The 7 year old understood it. I'm sure you do too.

General advice: Processors: quad cores for huge performance, and expensive. 2 cores for everyday. AMD is cheaper, as always, and Intel are not always better. Of the 2 core Intel processors, they still do Dual-Core and Core-Duo. Core-Duo are better, and more expensive. RAM: Whatever it is, get as much as you reasonably can. If you are going to be running the new Windows 7, then don't bugger about. Get 4Gb. If Vista then 1-2Gb would be fine. If, you decide not to buy an OEM OS from the manufacturer [say Novatech], then your old Windows XP could dance about in 2Gb and run like it has a rocket up its arse. Graphics: You don't need Super-Duper graphics for browsing and Football Manager. But it would do no harm at all to get a separate card with at least 512Mb of Graphics RAM. Future proofing and all that. HDD: Don't like the reliability of these high density drives. I think HDDs are less reliable than they used to be. But it could just be my perception. I run 2 HDDs. 1 for System and 1 for Data. Novatech are flexible enough to build you something like this, but you can do it yourself, as mentioned above. Get a much smaller sized HDD available for the system, as only OS/programs/temp files/viruses/etc... will be stored there. The Data HDD could be as big as you like. The side benefit of this is that if the System HDD ever fails, you don't lose your data. Power Supply: Spend a little money and get a quiet one that is powerful. What you don't want in 3 months time is a fan that is noisy, even if it goes quiet after a minute. In another 6 months it'll be whining all the time. To be honest, anything else, like DVD writers and separate sound cards are just frills. Add them or not, as to your requirements.

Yep, sad. Peer pressure and sheep like mentality. There is very much a sense of the idiots acting up to their so-called reputation.

True. He was almost invisible. I'm struggling to think of one decision he actually got wrong.

Indeed they do Gordon. Who provided Rickie's assist on Tuesday night but Papa. Since my last post on this thread, I've hardened my opinion on Papa Waigo. I think we should sign him, if we can. He's quick, he produces fine passes and assists, and he gets himself into dangerous positions. Yes, he often misses, but a less mobile player wouldn't even get into the positions that Papa almost scores from. Plus, those endless offisdes have almost disappeared. Get him some English language lessons. I'd like to think he'll need them.

I don't think it is fantasy. Alongside Miners, Dockers were seen as the most militant of category workers, right up until containerisation took away their leverage. I've seen a few general articles, about dock strikes, and workers responses to them, over the years, but they are long gone. From what I can remember, there was no general recruitment of Southampton's stevadores to come along and break the Portsmouth strike. Indeed Southampton's Dockers were every bit as militant as everywhere else in the country. I think what happened was that so-called scab labour was recruited, and some of the scabs were out of work Southampton stevadores. But some came from Pompey as well. People have families, and they have an unfortunate habit of requiring food. In the scheme of things, football rivalry comes a very poor second. This latest rise in the vicious rivalry seems less genuine than it has been in the past. There seems to be hatred for no other reason other than it is what one is supposed to do with the opposition down the road, other than general p!ss taking and banter that used to go on. In the 1980's the rivalry was plain, and it was genuine, and there were idiots. But I think people have been whipped up to be ultra-nasty to each other, and it is now the norm. It wasn't the general case 30 years ago.

Have another go at the full version - Some of the lyrics Alex Glasgow sings might as well be in Greek, as I would have understood them equally as well, i.e. no idea, it was all Greek to me..! EDIT: Just checked, there's the first episode on Youtube.

I was hoping a pair might make me look cool. That's buggered that then. I have a paper-cut.

I thought the old Premiership result against Manure 1-0, when Beatts did his 50p header was a bit special, atmosphere wise. And the 3-2 against Arsenal, i.e. Niemi triple save and Tinman's one in off his bum, was a bit good too.

A bight is the term for the middle part of a sheet [rope] in sailing. Or it's a curved bay on the seashore. German, I think you can work out for yourself. You can have german or bight then. How's that..?

I remember thinking that St Marys was too small for the Premiership. Saints were averaging near capacity crowds during 2001 to 2004. There was no reserve for potential growth. I've always thought a suitable size for the Premiership [and only the Premiership, so there is no immediate hurry] would be about 40,000. Of course, our lovely stadium wouldn't be so pretty with 3 sides extended, and the roof put back on. It would be even more like The Riverside Stadium.

Poll is still open.

Well ordinarily, we wouldn't have a Chris Perry and Radhi Jaidi partnership in the league. They did their jobs excellently against Pompey, for as long as their legs could carry them. But I think if Fonte and/or Seabourne had been available for selection, we might have seen a different result.

I think Birmingham City will turn Portsmouth over, although their recent excellent form has stumbled a bit.

OK, Col. I've even re-opened the poll.

Thank you Colinjb. You saved me the trouble. Perhaps I ought to close the new one, as there is plenty of life left in the old Waigo.

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Question has already been asked before. We even had a poll about it. I do wish people would actually remember the results of things debated, especially when a poll is involved, because otherwise what is the f***ing point..? BTW, the answer to the question was: Yes, we think he's an asset and we want him to stay. http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=19336

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