miserableoldgit

I wonder if the bullet hole is still there?? There is an absolute wealth of stuff on that website isn`t there?? Brownhills Stamp Duty and loads of Meddy Evils!!

Not necessarily correct. The RIGHT (good) players make a good team. There have been several examples of managers paying big money for good players who are unable to play together as a team.

I have posted this on another thread but there is some fabulous stuff here, especially the early music scene in the city. http://www.davidstjohn.co.uk/sitemap.html

Interesting stuff on here:- http://www.davidstjohn.co.uk/sitemap.html

Still wouldn`t have the knob as one of ours!

SO IT WAS YOU!!!??? I was traumatised for life!!:mad:

Weren`t there nine of them? That has reminded me of "Bob Kerrs Whoopee Band" who were a mixture of T7 and Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band. We used to see them regularly at The Concorde. They were hilarious,

How many of them were there?? As I mentioned somewhere else, we used to watch the Courtelles (later to become The Shakedown Sound) back in the 60's. I used to work with their drummer Russ. We also used to have some absolutely awesome nights at The Railway in Woolston in those days too. They had a big room at the back with a decent stage. There was a resident band whose original name I can`t remember although I think that they changed it to The Script. It was always packed Friday, Saturday and sometimes Sunday night. I remember one time that they did "Born to be Wild" and had a rather large motor bike revving up on stage with them. Couldn`t do that in a pub nowadays!!

They used to do a cake called a "Cream Crisp" about the size of a small dinner plate which was just puff pastry and about 2 inches of cream and jam in them. They were lovely!! Mind you I can feel my cholesterol rising just thinking about them!! I remember as a very small kid seeing a western at The Gaiety. All I can remember about it was that it had the biggest bar-room brawl of any film before or since. Something else that was really magical when I was a kid was seeing in the Echo, adverts for the arious "Santas Grotto`s" that the department stores had, and then getting excited when I was taken to one of them. I think that, for a kid, the Edwin Jones (Debenhams) one was fantastic. Where has all that childhood magic gone nowadays??

Wow! A chip shop thread. My favourite was always Les` (later Mikes) in Burgess Road just down from the Crown and Sceptre. Les has been gone many years but the Chinese people running it now still do some of the best F & C in the city.

BBC South just reported that their new owner is considering legal action to get rid of SAF after his recent comments! Oh what fun!!!

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.