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Funnily enough we were doing a defending corners session at our most grassroots of grassroots teams on Tuesday. We didn't mark zonally and as most of the team are short arses the instruction was to disrupt so that the attackers didn't get a clean jump. Wish Saints could manage that..

Was listening on the radio on the way back from training and then find I can't listen on online radio without signing in to yet another provider. I suppose I could always get back in the car.. Edit: hurrah, I found an old analogue radio.. second edit: wish I hadn't

Oh gawd, a touch of the Tommy Fourpast..

Some lovely Wednesday (and Forest) fans gave me a lift back to my lodgings tonight. Christ, thank goodness it's hilly here and they were at least an hour away! Some lovely pubs, a lovely restaurant and a win. I shall be very welcoming to any Wednesday fans for the return match.

I'm in The Wellington after a lovely meal at Domo ( thanks for that recommendation) whoever.. It's a corner pub and already random and discreet Saints fans in here..

The thing I like about Lord Duckhunter is at least he makes it indubitably clear that he's a prat. To make the effort to come on to a thread to tell people he isn't interested in the subject of the thread needs a very special personality..

Thanks. 1.4 miles isn't far, about my normal pub to St Mary's distance. After the game I'm hoping euphoria will carry me the three? miles back!

Nope! But what a goal it was, just seen a clip of it, oh my! Worth looking for. Their first ever goal at a World Cup and one to remember. As for poor Saint in Paradise, with the effort he put in to posting here he could have found his TV remote control.

No, they're using smuggled in burners..

It's a friendly, better to try him in that position now. We'll learn from the good and the bad..

Injuries and getting towards the serious stuff?

Thanks, I'm travelling single and discreetly (GF hates footie) so the pubs you mentioned are a good possibility. The Wellington looks another likely one, is that a possibility? I'll be missing Turkish and his dungeon I'm afraid - staying clear of Harrogate on the A1M until I get to the squaddies and hack a left towards my friend's place. Haven't been away for years due to caring duties and really need a break: restaurant recommendations in addition to that food hall also welcomed.

I'm sorted for accommodation, so now it's just pub recommendations I need. Then off to the Dales on Saturday to make a weekend of it with a friend, I'll wave at Harrogate as I go past so somebody needn't mix any cement!:-)

Thanks. Just booked, there looked to be a couple of dozen left. Only one post left for me on here today, so any local knowledge I should know guys? Decent pubs, will my Hampshire bus pass work, cheap hotels, anything else?!

Any suggestions for cheap places to stay? Now thinking of getting a ticket, giving my EV its first long trip and the following day pootle off to visit friends in Yorkshire. How big a problem is this? Haven't really looked at the maps yet.

Just be thankful we no longer have Diallo, Elyounoussi, AMN and Walcott clogging up the squad. I'm expecting ABK and Salisu to go and probably a full back amongst others but I wonder if we'll have any surprise remainers? Is Martin showing himself to be a competent manager players want to play for after a weary Ralph and a nutty Jones? Experience says that the same posts will appear on here and that business will hot up as the transfer period gets towards its end, so worrying about it isn't going to help..

Tuesday night with another game at the weekend is not ideal particularly if you don't live in Southampton, so I wouldn't be going even if I didn't have another commitment tonight. I'll be there on Saturday though. I wonder if there'll be many tickets sold on the day after the improved display on Saturday?

If you go on the OS you at first don't find them in the photo line-ups and then realise you have to go down to the under 18s. Perhaps we have got some youngsters who'll make it..?! Now to sort out the young goalkeepers..

Both the Convict Colony and their neighbour won their games today, Saturday morning it's Englands turn. Not exactly free as I'll be watching at a pub with friends..

Saints are also broadcasting it for a fiver.. I'll get my dose of football earlier in the day.:-)

When I took up TEFL I considered a number of places to go, but dismissed Saudi very quickly! Some of the stories on the teaching forums were.. interesting.. and although the money might have been attractive for a couple of years that, and better food, was the only positive over a prison sentence. Not that attractive salaries either, as English teachers are at the bottom of the pile, and from the stories there were some pretty dysfunctional places of work. So I went to a place where there was red wine and no siddiqi moonshine!

I've been a stand-in keeper at low grassroots level and although I've been beaten at my near post that positioning and goal was embarassing.

It'll be interesting surely, but I'd hate to have to put forward my own ideas as really I haven't a clue. I hope Martin has a better idea on who is going and that there won't be any surprises. I appreciate that we are waiting for offers to become more realistic but, informed guessing aside (Lavia!) we don't know who is going.

Bollocks! And that is definitely all I'll say on the matter having only 3 posts..

Hurrah, the friendly is being broadcast online..