miserableoldgit

NC stated at the Solent Forum that Saints were one of the few debt-free clubs in English football. Who is best placed to know??

A library?? In P*rtsmouth?? :confused::confused::confused:

I know that he is a skate,which makes it even easier to dislike the knob, but TBF, if he was one of ours, I would probably feel the same. He is an embarrassment!

Nice to see Mark Webber give Crumpey a good name check in his post race interview yesterday.

Holder is a great prospect for next years GP series.

Sorry I was making the point that Nicki Pedersen was not popular with the crowd even though he won last nights GP. He should be used to it because he is always controversial and ruthless in his riding and does not worry about being popular.

I used to live in Hinkler Road and grew up there. There used to be a massive crater where Jewsons is/was which I was told (rightly or wrongly) was caused by a V1 rocket. We used to play there and used to take our bikes and dirt-track there. I remember Hinklers house and I think that you are right. It was taken to Australia. When I was older we spent so much time playing football on the green just past the Hinkler Pub. Virtually every night. Home from work, have tea and over to the field for games of sometimes 15 a side!! Great days!

Yes the cycle shop on the corner. The "grotty" Sperrings shop was a couple of doors away from it. A bit further along was "The Hasty Tasty". It had one of the first microwaves that I ever saw. After a night in town with the GF (now wife) I used to get off the bus at the top of Lances Hill, buy a pie and chips and eat it whilst walking home to Thornhill.

Yes he can!! He may be an Aussie but he is a real racer and all round good bloke. He deserves his victory after his injury. Good also to see Leigh Adams on the rostrum in his last GP. I look forward to seeing Crumpy at the Millenium Stadium next July.

I remember seeing The Crazy World of Arthur Brown there when it was at The Bassett. Although it was a small stage and the ceiling quite low, he stiil set fire to his headgear and danced about and made the place smell of paraffin (or something like it). Also saw Pompey band Simon Dupree and the Big Sound (later to become Gentle Giant) and they were superb. I wish that I could get hold of there album "No Reservations" that I used to have on vinyl. Great great days!!

Watching and dancing to Southampton band "The Courtelles" (later to be "The Shakedown Sound") at the Park Ballroom!

Yeah! A good kick in the flippers! There I`ve done it!

To a degree this post sums it up. Its also a bit like worshipping a band or singer when you were growing up then after a good few years they turn into a "cabaret" band. Does this make make their earlier acheivements worthless? Of course it doesn`t. For the 12 years that he was manager we achieved the near impossible. Whatever he has become, in some peoples eyes, will never change that.

Or just a numpty craving for attention.

I am so looking forward to tomorrows Polish Speedway GP. Jason Crumps horrific injury has opened the door for Gollob or Sayfutdinov to snatch the World Championship from him. Final GP tomorrow, Gollob and Sayfutdinov unpredictable and Crump almost back to fitness and ultra determined. Has the makings of a great GP. Can`t wait!!

Do skates have flippers?? I thought that that was pinball machines! Mind you, "I gave him a kick in the flippers" is a great expression! I must try and use it at least once this week-end.

There was also Frances (Francis??) record shop in the road opposite (Houndwell?) where Virgin/Waterstones now is. Back in the 60`s this and Henrys were the places to go for the latest 45`s!! Originally there were two Sperrings shops at the top of Lances Hill in Bitterne. They were run by two brothers. One shop, run by one of the brothers was an extremely dark, dusty, sweet/tobacconists shop where I used to get my American Superman/Batman comics. They were just thrown in a heap and you had to dust them off and sort through them. The other brother ran a similar shop on the opposite corner but it was clean tidy and organised. Unsurprisingly it was this brother who built up the Sperring "empire"!

Did he used to make clothes change colour in his spare time??

Called "Importers" I think. The smell of freshly ground coffee used to permeate the whole of the junction, and when ever you were on a bus that stopped there, the bus would be filled with that lovely smell!!

Built of wood!!

Strangely I don`t feel inferior at all. We have a superb stadium with excellent attendances,we have a real billionaire owner, we are debt free, we have a very professional and realistic board, we have a decent manager who is putting together a good exciting team to chase realistic goals (two promotions) and even more importantly I am enjoying going to watch my team more than I have for a good few years. Can you say the same? What are we supposed to feel inferior about?? Your ground, training facilities, crowds, team,or prospects? Your succession of dodgy owners who seem to have very little money but a lot of promises? Do I want to be in the Prem? Of course. But when we get there we will be able to live within our means and give it a good go not do a Redknapp/Storrie and spend money regardless of the consequences.

Surely if you go back far enough you can make the figures say what you want. You only have to look at this season to prove who is the best supported club. Us in League One on minus 10 points, and Poopey 2 divisions above us, in the "Big League". Who would you expect to have the biggest crowds? Who has the biggest crowds? Never mind the "we sold all of our best players" nonsense. If the fans were that passionate they would go to watch trained monkeys wearing blue shirts. WE ARE LEAGUE ONE ON MINUS TEN POINTS! The only thing worse than that would be League Two on -10!

Speedway at Bannister Court. Good crowd!!

The one in Bitterne, which was replaced by Bitterne Bowling was I think, The Ritz. There were two in Portswood - The Broadway (now the Bingo hall ) and one just past Boots called (again, I think) The Palladium. Shirley had two - The Atherley and The Rialto and there was The Savoy in Swaythling. I believe that there also was The Gaiety in Below Bar.