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Could I add "Scoring from our penalties?"

You made me laugh. Mind you, I'm laughing _at_ AS..

I think only players are allowed Gratuitous Shirt Holding Pictures. They might rustle round and find an old training top with MP on it..

I keep getting a Disney animated film advert when I'm playing Scrabble on my tablet. It's due for release sometime next month and it involves lots of car crashes: perhaps that's it?

Funnily enough that's what he's being praised for tonight..

Some snippets from The Guardian match feed tonight: "...the overlapping Cedric. The Southampton man delivers a brilliant cross to the back post," and "39 min: Cedric has kept Sanchez extremely quiet. The Southampton man was linked with a move to Barcelona in this morning’s Rumour Mill … Football transfer rumours: Barcelona eyeing Southampton’s Cédric Soares? Read more"

I thought before that he looked a bit uncoordinated, as if he hadn't finished growing, and I believe FF confirmed that here. One of his managers in the press during a loan spell mentioned a growth spurt as well. So I continue in my policy to not immediately write-off players if they don't start as the finished article!

Goat boy, behave! ;-)

I'm only replying to this as I had too many beers at the football club annual presentation, and now winding down with another one at home. Our current capacity may well be appropriate, but I'd love to know what opinion CBFry expressed when we announced a 32k stadium after being at The Dell with 14.5 k. The problem is that said poster is a reactionary, miserabilist old fart (at least in thinking) who thinks himself a sensible antidote to the dreamers and optimists. The sheer wearisome ennui he expresses leads me to think he should really go and load 6 rounds into a Webley and go off to play Russian roulette.

Shut up me ol' grapefruit, The9 will take you seriously... :-)

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/jun/22/crystal-palace-offer-frank-de-boer-manager-job-mauricio-pellegrino In The Guradian re FdB.. Ignore OttawaSaint. ;-)

This is how Bayern are dealing with the issue: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/jun/21/bayern-munich-warn-clubs-robert-lewandowski-bids-fifa

Are we going to do a sweepstake as to where they'll finish?

Has RL still got a house in the area? I thought part of the reason for the move up North was family? Anyway, if he does join Eastleigh he should play more, and I think that's what he wants: it certainly won't be for the money. Eastleigh may get a few more bums on seats. And for all the talk of goals he had an underrated ability to bring other players into the game.

Cheers! Good pass by JWP, took out the whole defence.

According to the BBC text feed: "James Ward-Prowse must never have been closer to a place in the centre of England's midfield. The options are not exactly massive for Gareth Southgate."

He is on most things..

Shouldn't you be up a tree somewhere, Pilch? :-) Anyway, in case Steve Grant is looking, I've paid me fiver mate, since obviously at such a busy time as this I might want to make more than 3 comments daily. But just in case he's slow to give me access I'd also like to say thanks to The9. Complete nutter, of course, ;-), but where would we be without enthusiasts and pleased for Newport's escape this year. Back on 16.

A good summary. In this case the residents have also been saying we told you so. After the 2009 fire at Lakanal House the then Housing Minister (Gavin Barwell) delayed a review into fire safety and MPs voted against having houses "fit for habitation" in last year's housing bill, so I'm sorry OldNick, but this is indeed a class or political issue. In Southampton they went to the expense of retrofitting tower block sprinklers, so there is a lot that can be done with a bit of money and political will, and who controls that at the moment?

Just listening to the radio commentary of Sebia - Wales... (Tadic, tadic, Tadic - definitely involved).

I think the word that sums it all up is hubris. With a bit of schadenfreude on the side. Good these 'ere foreign lingos, eh? As I'm limited in my number of posts I might as well go on to say that not supporting Trident is really not as big a deal as we think. We couldn't develop, maintain and operate without U.S. help, and we certainly couldn't use without US say so. In the meantime our conventional forces are down to bare bones. We live near Portsmouth: ask anyone in the know about our type 45 frigates, we've got only one squadron of fully operational Tornadoes, and so it goes. If you want to look at domestic security, which is more important for most of us Teresa May as Home Secretary oversaw a reduction in police numbers of 20,000, major reductions in border force staff (wait until the French start getting shirty at their ports!) and reductions in prison staff and probation numbers so that suicides are up, drug use is up, rehabilitation is going out the window and prisons are now even more effective academies for radicalising disaffected youth. A shambles in so many ways and I haven't even started on the NHS, education and Brexit. I don't particular like Corbyn or think him PM material, but he's come out of the situation with a lot more dignity than May, and has done well in spite of a virulent, nasty press - 13 pages of character assassination in the Mail, I think it was. Anyway, I'd better keep a post for the new manager debate where I occasionally drop in to see what that trolling runt Heisenberg has to say for himself..

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/jun/07/liverpool-virgil-van-dijk-southampton-drop-interest I just saw this so came here for an update!

I'm getting old. You couldn't possibly explain that cultural reference to me, old boy?

ah... I was just about to write what skint did. I was going to make it a question though! :-)

Even more in the Guradian!! https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2017/jun/06/virgil-van-dijk-liverpool-southampton-ultimate-upgrade