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as an aside, got an SMS to say our fitness training starts 17 August (from the Monday , 2hours a day for two weeks, aaargh)... But as I'm in the UK I'll miss it, but if you see a centre forward running up and down the steps at SMS before the Millwall game, ... that will be me!

As it's not under FA rules I presume butch women with muscular thighs can play?:-))) Bugger, shan't be in the UK until August...

Hi Saints is the South! Let me know if you ever go to Turin again as I'm not toooo far from there.. I can't get too interested in italian football, although I do play womens' footie here, which is a bit more professional than Hants League.. As a kid I lived in Rome, so I probably consider myself more a Romanista, but if I went to a game I'd have to wear a Saints shirt!

You're right about settling time, and some beers are better than others, but if you look at the photo you'll see there are no lines, it's straight from the barrel, nor do you need gas for real ale. It's a system I've seen in lots of places: festivals as well as pubs. It isn't that difficult.

A bit cynical Trousers, and you are preaching to a lot of cynics here! Of course he should go for what's available on Bosmans, _available_ being the important word (and the 'gems' implying he is going to maintain standards). No doubt he'll actually buy as well, but that takes longer, and as I'm sure the new regime won't overpay (BTW goodbye Euell) there may be some lengthy negotiations with sellers who know our situation..

...and you Euro, should be strangled! :-)

A couple of weeks? I doubt it somehow. There may be some marginal decisions but I think quite a few are bloomin obvious, particularly to a professional like AP.

Pilchards - don't do that! How about climbing that tree again and see how training is progressing... no need for detail that might help the opposition, just - ...is it improving....??? PS DS, posting after a few bevvies, I don't know what you mean. :-¦

Definitely club, even though I've seen England abroad (Italia 90) and at Wembley a couple of times. It is fun watching England down the local pub (despite patronising bastards saying, "oooh, you know about football".. "yes dear, I play it!"). In my local Italian bar they know who I support as I make it very clear! But nothing beats 1976 or 2003 or the ups and downs of following Saints, from near and far.

Hmm, I may be hot and saucy, but it wasn't me.

You haven't studied spelling though, but you're certainly right in the rest of what you say!

Nocive? Are you an Italian, Spanish or French speaker by chance?:-)

Yep, I remember ART warning us about him. It does seem true from the evidence...

Samoakley... This is a fullstop . This is a comma , This is a semi-colon ; Please, could you ask your teachers how to use them as your posts are really difficult to read. Ask them about sentences and paragraphs as well, now I come to think of it.

Well, if it does anything it will confirm Pardew's opinion about a few players. Saga? Pulis? Molyneaux, Wotton???

Cooper? I thought he did. Pahars, Svensson etc..

They go past my flat in about 20 minutes. Better have a wee and pop out again. I thought of wearing my saints shirt but I'm a shy retiring type and only wear it for footie training. They've done the great St B, a skip along the valley and then the Little SB. Personally I use the ski lifts as there are some seriously steep hills locally!

Yep, me too, and although I'm naturally right-footed I can cross with my left too...

No, we do drink rather a lot of it when we get going... It doesn't have to. They'll get it in for the match in quantities they know they're going to sell, and when it's sold out that's it until next time. They'll soon manage to gauge likely sales.

We start our season's training with a 2 hour evening session every day for two weeks of 'preparazione atletica', and that's Italian womens' regional 3rd division... I do like what I'm now hearing, though.

Yeah, but learning it was Pulis puts it in to perspective!

Not necessarily. Say the money Sky put in goes down due to lack of competition/financial crisis meaning less advertising, fewer subscribers etc and the whole Ponzi scheme collapses. Players on excessive contracts so don't want to move, the club can't sell, the owner loses interest in a club on to which he has loaded debt (al a MU and Liverpool). There are a number of possible scenarios (including yours) but I don't think anything can be assumed.

Was Pulis playing? I can't imagine he'll last long under Pardew.

Perhaps we could have the concourses looking something like this, gravity dispensed and cooled by water jackets and when it runs out it runs out. http://www.cask-ale.co.uk/glastonwick115.jpg As someone pointd out on another thread many local breweries are set up to do festivals with this sort of gear. Different brewery at different games, or alternate between the different concourses. Maybe have the quaffing bitter, not the strong stuff e.g. GFB and not Summer Lightening (much as I like it). I might actually get to the ground early for a pint, because even when I was living in the UK and had a season ticket I never, ever, drank at the ground.

I thought we had a professional set up with fitness coaches, fat ratio assessment, bleep tests etc. so why are they so unfit? PS Thanks Pilchards