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The international space station the other night was impressive. I'm still amazed at how bright it was and how fast it was going!!!

Thought it would kick off after the game when we walked by 20-30 young Saints lads waiting in alley by railway bridge! My ever so street savvy dad thought they were all waiting for a bus!

It may be a knee jerk, but deary me that was awful. Poor team selection and tactics, augmented by a number of below par performances meant we looked shocking. And as much as it pains me to say it, 'Arry owned us today. He got his selection and tactics right and made MoPo look an amateur. Lacklustre all round and now having lost twice on the bounce to teams below us, I'm more than a tad concerned about whether we will stay up (if we do, it will be because luckily there are three teams worse than us!). Shocking.

Well considering Skate is a fairly new term and ex Portsmuff players were barracked as being Scummers up The Dell, then he's not that wide of the mark. Contrary to the myths peddled by our near neighbours, Scummers was a two way insult for years.

LOL, I should make something juicy up, but sadly the shed was full of a half built vintage car (through the window more like a pile of old car bits). They said the third bedroom was full of furniture and personal possessions that they kept there, rather than put in storage (although I never went in, so could well have been the mad old Aunt locked away). Was only charged for two bedrooms, so didn't wasn't a problem for me.

Not true at all. Obviously depends on contact to to contract, but it is very common to have a room or loft or shed locked and deemed inaccessible for the tenant. I've rented a three bedroom house where the third bedroom, a cupboard and one of the two garden sheds was out of bounds.

Seems as though Benali is a bit less than super sub David Fairclough!!!! http://www.unitoneentertainment.co.uk/after_dinner_speakers_football.html#Low_-_High

And what about the Police/CPS not prosecuting them? Apparently they refused as the victim was too scared to give evidence. Firstly, it's a sad place when people can be intimidated so badly, but secondly there was loads of other evidence anyway, not least a camera crew being right outside the cell. I didn't think it was too cushy for most, the loss of liberty & loved ones seemed to impact on the 90%, but those hardened criminals (inc three protagonists in the cell kidnap) were taking the ppss. What would they have got on the outside for their actions??? I would have added another few years & made sure their original sentence was served in full (no discounts as they certainly weren't well behaved, nor remorseful). Plus it would have been served in solitary as they couldn't even fit in in prison life, let alone back on the streets.

Also went to the Leicester game and can remember being behind Mark Wallington's goal and you could see his jockstrap through his soaking, white, flimsy shorts. Pretty sure it was early 80s, unless there was another game and remember being given a voucher for the rearranged midweek game (I never went!!!)

Thats the game!!!! And just cross referenced with the Tom & Tackle murder and it happened the month before and the killer was still on the loose (in fact the real killer was always on the loose as he died before he could be found guilty).

Hay fever, Cubillas and Archie Gemmell.

Ipad spell checker is to blame. Normally have ITN to hand which I'm sure will have some sort of record of this fogged off game. Definitely a friendly on a weekday evening.

Hope the Police don't investigate, but think this was the friendly when an acquaintance jumped in to our dug out at half time and stole Lawrie & co's chewing gum. he was not impressed as we're chamming behind the Perspex dug out & he's got no Wrigley's (or was it that naff chewing gum they sold up The Dell about that time?).

Reading the Vanvcouver Whitecaps/Jimmy Greaves thread got me thinking. what was the friendly that got fogged off one evening in the 80s???? It wasn't long after that barmaid got killed behind the Tom & Tackle as remember walking back to the bus station in this fog & shutting ourselves that Jack The Ripper was on the loose.

I recognise quite a few (including the bass player). And as for the crop circles, a certain Mr Chorley Snr was credited with being the main protagonist when they first started appearing in the UK.

Mike from Gallo carpentry has done some great work for me recently.

Indeed he does, or at least he did the last time I heard. Used to play in same teams as Lallana, Walcott & a few others when he was younger. Comes from a well known Millbrook family who i know quite well.

Reckon he's going to need a big broom to sweep this lot out: http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/team/staff-profiles/ Naive of him to post something work related and somewhat private, or another over reaction from those in charge?

Think he's settled in well and picked up the cut and thrust of the game pretty quickly. Being super critical I still think he's prone to making the odd mistake due to poor judgement when it would be better to hit row z. And as Jos is being mentioned in this thread than have to agree yesterday's performance was very impressive. However, I think the fact he was up against Dzeko suited his game.

How to kill an atmosphere and any spontaneity - get a band/drummer in! and come to think of it someone needs to kill the music at the end of a decent match. We're all cheering,celebrating and singing yesterday, only to face competition from Kool & his fecking Gang! (I'd also knock goal music on the head as well).

He probably has been fortunate to receive such help, but he's probably lucky insomuch as the vast majority would not have made it to the age of 45 with such a chronic illness.

I was really coming from the incompetency of the ref perspective as whilst I agree that mistakes probably even themselves up, I though this was a bottle job not a mistake. The ref at Villa got conned in the heat of the moment by JRod and I can accept that mistake, whereas yesterday's simply bottled it. There was no gamesmanship to try and fool him, there was simply a very clumsy barge that had to picked up, but he wimped out.

That was our view. Saints should have said to the ref, fccuk the corner, it's either a free kick or a penalty, and if you've given a corner we don't want it you spanner.

Thanks re the replies to pen (or not) before half time. Will be interesting to see it on the telly box tonight. Ref looked in a good position, so lets see if he bottled it. Really thought at 2-1 it might be costly.

Was it a pen just before half time when Toure appeared to upend Rodriguez??? certainly looked like it from where we were sat?? Quality performance all round, so many great performances but Cork in particular stood out. Mate likened it to the 6-3, 4-1s against Man Utd & Liverpool