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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

I've seen no quotes attributed to the player himself, all reported second hand, to disassociate the report from any human agent. (Hmm, agent?). Just like when you've had an accident.. "Mum, the window has been broken", to deflect blame. The club know there'll be interest, but the blatant reports in the press (with no direct attribution) and no contact from Liverpool, have bought things to a head.

It's made The Guardian too. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/jun/06/southampton-to-report-liverpool-to-premier-league-over-virgil-van-dijk-approach

Pellegrino is currently on a pilgrimage between various clubs. Perhaps he'll end up at St James', maybe he'll end up a saint. Who knows, I really should get on with my work.

We don't skirt around issues here, we zip strait to the vitals.

Well, I've renewed. We could get great footie with Puel as he gets to grips and new players or we could have utter crap with a new manager, but I constantly thank the powers that I'm generally optimistic, and that I'm not Heisenberg or Pluto or the rest who are glass almost empty even when it's pretty full. I do appreciate some people enjoy being negative moaners, whether they're justified or not. But the constant changes to match KO times and Southern railways are both, I believe, legitimate reasons for negativity! :-)

Had a good day out there a few years ago - apart from losing 3-1 (I think) and realising Jake Thomson wasn't the answer. The Station Buffet was great and they had a food festival in the station square, which all helped mellow me out for the Saint's performance..

Possibly in the drunken company of McInnes, if my Pompey supporting bar steward (really) is correct in recounting the tale of their behaviour down Goldsmith Avenue at the end of the season.. It's actually very difficult not to imagine John Major writing that 'not inconceivably' and reading it in his voice..

Very sensible. Although I haven't got them on ignore I also find it a good idea to skip over what Heisenberg, Batman, Shurlock and Hypochondriac post. The occasionally useful factual observation (like the Puel presser summaries) tend to be outweighed by the dislikeable negative, repetitive and reactionary cr*p. Whilst I'm on on a rant it occurs you could add Charlie Wayman to that list. Some of the other curious comments on this thread are only from part-timers, so they don't pass the "oh gawd, not again" test.

We can but dream.

Yep. Fortunately it was only like a bit of a play punt for me, and to have a few AGM rights, I knew I'd never make money on them.

It's funny. According to Kinsey 98% of us do it at least occasionally, but there are some people who take it as their life's mantra and act it all the time. MLG, bless 'im, hasn't realised that.

It was patently obvious why he was brought on. We weren't getting anywhere through the middle - and we had the pace and trickery of Boufal there too (however inneffective he turned out to be). Pied was there to give us width and a bit of pace on the wing, working in conjunction with Cedric. The problem of some of the criticism I've seen is that whatever Puel does, whoever he brings on is going to be criticised, probably by the same people who think JWP is useless.

I never had Mr. X down as a troll. Sort of thread the Heisenberg Discontinuity would post.