Ken Tone

a) This just won't happen b) No, I very much doubt that the majority wants to stand. Personally although I used to stand back in the day I would not want to be on a terrace now. I would be quite happy for an area of the ground to be terracing for what I'm pretty sure is the minority who do want to stand. What is crazy is standing in seated areas, which will be why some supprters were injured falling off seats. The last away league game I went to I found that not only was everyone standing throughout but they were standing on the seats. My son couldn't see a thing and it was neither safe nor comfortable. I haven't been to an 'ordinary' away game since.(Have managed a few special occasions!) I would go regularly again however if I knew that the standers were separate and I could buy a seat knowing I'd see the game from a seat. But see (a) again. Politically it just won't happen.

What I listedened to was the commentators stirring up a flood of texts, in much the same way as they did over the Dean Richards issue. They'd get a lot of texts if they kept suggesting murdering babies too. Merrington was at his most irritating as I desperately hung on after the game had finished, forced to listen to crap, as I naively and forlornly hoped for some actual information about Lallana's injury.

Err.... They do mate. Every BBC local radio station has commmentary on local games. It's just that you can't pick Radio Solent up out of the area and the BBC does not have a licence to broadcast football on the internet. This is supposedly to protect the copyright for clubs' own "radios" , such as saintsplayer.

Talking of radio coverage, is anyone else struck by the prominence of portsmouth and lack of southampton on the Solent logo? Are they giving us a hint?

He's developed avoidance techniques in interviews, such as "that's a good question young man", which give him time to decide how to actually answer. (Think he must model himself on Clough fpr that one) In fact many of his cliches are ways of appearing to answer questions without actually doing so. It works quite well -- he appears pleasant and polite to the interviewer but gives very little away.

Well because we didn't get someone straight away, things have moved on. Today's game is the second of Gobern's 3 suspended, so we've only got to get through one more without another injury or suspension then he's back. Also, anyone got any news on Schneidelin's injury? Any chance he might be back before the end of the season? Or maybe the whole thing is bluff, to avoid sounding desperate as we negotiate with a club/player we want! ;-)

Not just you mate. Initially I just assumed saintscott had misspelled 'sneaky'. The whole thread has been like visiting an alien planet for me.

The only issue is whether you think (or care!) that Plymougth have pulled a fast one because they already knew that maybe 2 of these players were not likely to be fit, so 'fixed' the postponement so that they would have time to recover to play against us later. Financially they gain too, as they've already got the money for the tickets they've sold for the orignal date, and will add to that the extra for a bumper bank holiday crowd. Many people would rather we had the points now than a game in hand at the end of the season.

Snap. I sit in the Kingsland and although I could hear a 'wonderland' song I couldn't tell whose wonderland it was, so I fear the Liebherrs in the Itchen wil not have picked up on it either unless someone 'translated' for them. Enunciate people!

Is that him sat next to Elton John then?

Ex-footballer in "can't spell and is a bit thick shock" ?

The question may well be if we need this player that much. Is someone who can't get into Reading's team worth £15k a week, or might we get someone better or as good, for less money? Maybe we're shopping around before we decide either way, perhaps between Howard and one or two others? Being rich doesn't mean you don't want value for money.

Arguably even more significant in terms of promotion (but just as likely to be untrue!) in that article is >>Norwich look set to complete a £3m move for Peterborough striker Craig Mackail-Smith, 27. If that really were to happen now it might knock Peterboro's form badly at just the right time for us, but I think I've read somewhere that Barry Fry has already said no to this?

Surely most of the allocation were already sold, for the original date? This is dream cash flow stuff for Plymouth if they usually sell most home tickets in advance rather than via walk up. In effect they get a big bank holiday crowd in May with many of the tickets already paid for, weeks in advance.

You called? Winning all our remaining games may be an unnecessary target, and an even harder one to meet, since we still have to play Brighton away, but with the way Peterboro and Huddersfield are going we will have to win damn near all. Btw those who quote bookies' odds for promotion as if this gives a good indication of likely success, forget that bookies aren't simply predicting likelihood. They look at expected gains and losses, which take into account the amount bet on an event as well. So any club with a large following will almost automatically have short odds for promotion, because their large number of fans will put a lot of money on it.

Dyer didn't leave because he wasn't a good enough player. He left because he acted like a little ****. Long term, he's a better player than puncheon IMO, but I still wouldn't want him back. (Puncheon will fade again at whichever clubs he joins. As someone else said, cash in now before the buyer see the cracks)

The BBC website is not now showing the game on the 26th as a forthcoming fixture for either club, but neither has it got any news story saying it has been postponed, and our club web site still shows the game as on, with no hint even that it might be postponed. Very odd.

Hence my comparison with Surman, or maybe I should have mentioned Oakley. The sort of player some fans never appreciate, however much other fans and the manager do.

Agreed. Thought he looked like the new Drew Surman when he played before, mostly in left midfield. Now he's back in the frame he looks promising at CM.

Bartley is not in League 1. He signed for Burnley in January, not long after Mitchell said no players would be leaving Bournemouth. (He also gives away penalties etc in abundance!)

I agree. Solent were way OTT. Dean Richards was a cracking player and it is a tragedy that he died so young. I feel deeply for his family. However: 1. We have first team squads of up to 40 players. Maybe 10 - 20 of them leave the club in any given year on average. So logically maybe 10-20 ex saints players die each year. We can't have a minute's applause for each of them. This is why we have 'all saints day'. So presumably we should make a greater public gestrure for special cases. That's a judgement call as to who Is a special case. Le Tiss for exxaple clearly would be. Deano? I'm not sure. He was only with us for about 2 years and that was 10 years ago. 2. The club was part of the event at wolves and has contributed to the collection for the hospice. I knowe bradford did the same and also have a tribute at their home game but he was a *current* bradford employee.

No. Almost certainly a sparrowhawk, or just very faintly possibly if you are near a high point with a nest, a peregrine falcon. But a peregrine woud be more likely to take the pigeon in flight, not off a roof. Sparrowhawk is favourite by far. The white-tailed eagle, which as teamsaint says has been in Hampshire for several months before the Telegraph found out (even though it was featured several times on BBC South in January), is also known as a sea eagle. Basically it usually eats fish, though it will no doubt scavenge on other stuff if desperate. They are so big that they have been known to take lambs. This one is a young one, out of its normal area, and has been on the coast near Barton-on-sea over much of the winter. I have seen sea eagles on the Isle of Mull, where a small number breed. They are huge. You really would know with no doubt if you saw one. Many people confuse buzzards and red kites with eagles, but not if they've actually seen an eagle! And btw although a heron is grey it does look dark against the sky when flying.

I've only seen N'Guessan at home and he loopked rubbish in that game (I know others say he played better away) ,so I'd tend to agrre with you over him, but it's a bit tough to slate Forte. He's had a promising few minutes as a sub, when he looked a lot better than N'Guessan IMO, then he's been injured. Give the bloke a chance!

Seems a bit previous though doesn't it, to deduct the points before administration as such. I presume they will not lose more points when they actually go into admin? And they do now have to go to admin,do they? (or liquidation) ...they can't say "we've suddenly found some money, so we won't after all"