InvictaSaint

Hear, hear.

Seconded! Whenever I see him on tv, I just want to shout. What talent does he actually have and what on earth does he do??! He's like a throwback to the 60s where some bloke with a medicine ball just stood on the sidelines pretending to be talented / useful.

Keith Southern also out for Blackpool after undergoing surgery for testicular cancer last week. Good miss, but best wishes to the bloke for a quick recovery.

Yes, was at both games, though from where I live (Medway) Donny is slightly nearer and Bristol slightly further away than these places are for denizens of Southampton. Is my decision to remain positive rather than join the doom and gloom brigade now more valid?

Q: what is more depressing than seeing your team lose 2 games out of 3? A: reading the depressing, wrist-slitting negative drivel of people who cannot find a balanced perspective, who cannot enjoy the fact that we are almost half way through the season and top of the Championship, and who seemingly only come out of the woodwork when things go slightly wrong to demonstrate that they gain absolutely no pleasure from their short sojourn on planet earth, other than in being miserable pains in the arse.

Ooooooooooooooooooookay.

WHU 1 Burnley 1

Some people are only happy when they're moaning; it's a peculiarly British disease...

Cork

Moan, *****, whine. Jeez get a grip.

Blimey, that second half was quick. Is the game over then?

Cork and Jos on Twitter: Bad result today and performance. Good thing we got a game tues to forget it. Thanks again for the massive support, despite the result. Twitter for iPad • 26/11/2011 18:03 Back with both feet on ground again! Have something to show the next games. Hate deflection goals, gutted. Great support though THANKS! Twitter for BlackBerry® • 26/11/2011 18:09

Absolutely! Will always remember watching the montage of his greatest moments on the giant screen with Sinatra singing 'My Way' ringing out. Still brings me out in goose bumps whenever I hear that song today.

Maynard scores to put Brizzle 1-0 up at Millwall.

Middle laners (on motorways as well as on this forum). People who use 'myself' when they mean 'me'.

Hammers draw 0-0. Saints 5 points clear at top.

I think Arsenal are at home Saturday, so you should be OK.

Jeez. Glad you weren't my PE teacher. What a sad little man you must be.

Do we take it from your tone that you would rather Guly hadn't played SDR in? Did you react to MLT in the same way when he ambled around the park for 89 minutes only to spring a sublime piece of skill in the 90th to open the game up? Guly is not perfect, but he works a damn sight harder than many and, because he is human, guess what? - he sometimes makes mistakes. To single him out for criticism is ludicrous. Without question, he has been one of our best players this season.

Win at home, draw away - or, for the pessimists who think our home form will fall away, vice versa - and we will be promoted.

Self-evident really, just as every other team's home form will not be 100% perfect. West Ham have already lost at home, and drawn; Boro have drawn quite a few at home scoring precious few, and Derby could not beat us at their place. Nobody is predicting that everything will go our way, home or away, for the whole season, nor that we are entitled to win every home or away game. The point is, why look for negatives when - as things stand - we have made our best start in a generation and are averaging 2 points + per game? Of course things are going to go tits up at some point, of course we will have a losing run; one would have to be a cretin of the first water not to think so. However, most people on here and who, like me, go to games believe that this team - Adkins' team - is capable of doing the business. And if we don't, well - it won't be for want of trying or great passing football, and it won't be for want of positive thought.

How is it manipulation? We are averaging more than 2 points per game. Fact. If we keep it up we will probably get promoted. Fact. If we keep winning at home and not losing (i.e drawing or winning) away we will continue to average 2 points a game at least. We may dip below 2 pts, we may bob along slightly above at times, but evtything thus far says we can average 2 pts + pet game. To say anything else would be manipulation, friend. Just because what I stated doesn't fit your negative agenda doesn't make it manipulation. Read what I originally wrote again, objectively, and come back and tell me what I was manipulating. I shan't wait up for you.

11 games, 23 points = >2 pts per game = promotion form. Keep that up and all other views or arguments are, quite frankly, irrelevant.

Merci bien. Just realised that was my 1000th post too; nice way to mark it, and another reason to be cheerful.

We are but a short time on this glorious planet. Today, our team gained a point at one of our promotion rivals and this without our best player. Enjoy that fact; enjoy the fact we are still top; enjoy your friends and family. There are so many more things to be happy about in life than unhappy.