swedish dave

.Jamaican? just stay clear of the M27

well he was just one of them who got caught, I suppose. I guess there aren't so many footballers who are tea-totallers.

...here we go again. It never fails to amaze me, but not unexpected I suppose. " All the usual suspects " who are ready to condemn someone before he's set foot on the pitch. If this guy gets on a goal-scoring run, I wonder where you will all hide yourselves?

what a fantastic hour of memories, thank you Gloucester Saint , I remember them all. This is a history lesson for the younger generation who only listened to their fathers (and maybe grandfathers) boasting about these legendary names who wore a Saints shirt at one time or another in that period. A little sadness came afterwards, when I realised just how many of them have already passed on . Most recently; Chivers, Nicholl ...and Watson (?)

maybe we were for a time, as after the chaos of the relegation, I left the site for a while after the massive amount of criticism and abuse that came on here, and I wasn't impressed by Will Still's performances either. When I tried to come back, the " system" wouldn't allow me to return with my old name, and my 11,000+ postings disappeared off into the ether. Hence " my new name ", but I am the same " David ", but my thanks for the interest, anyway.

....or so it seems. . A move back to SMS was much-vaunted in the summer, but now we can see that..." ...it 'aint gonna happen." Last night, I watched Sunderland clinically dissect a very-poor Burnley outfit. Prowsey looked sadly on from the bench, whilst Scott Parker frantically tugged on his gum. Parker's appointment as Burnley manager might please his bank manager, but won't look good on his CV by May - or even before that, if he doesn't last out the season. "Prowsey" will be there - until the end of the season, and I wonder what his thoughts are as he looks on, realising that Burnley already have one foot in the drop zone, and next season offers nothing more than a place in the Championship. JWP's place in Saints' history is almost unique, and although his near 400 games aren't a club record, his long service to the club was marked by a player who had always played "above his age", and he is amongst the youngest Saints players to make a Premier League debut (at age 17- in 2012). His career was often criticised by certain fans on this site - for lacking whatever they saw as his shortcomings - whilst his Prem. stats show that he is superior to many of his contemporaries (like Jack Grealish, who warranted 100 million transfer, yet showed no real improvement whilst at Man City). Prowsey's performances (like playing every minute in two Prem. seasons), and his 16+ Prem. free-kick goals are just stats. in the Saints record book. His reluctant move was a last ditch attempt to maintain Prem. status, (and his place in the LAST World Cup squad) was to no avail. David Moyes recognised his talent, and signed him for WHam, (where he clocked up 8 goals and 8 assists) - not a bad return for ANY Prem. midfielder, before Moyes was unceremoniously sacked by an unforgiving Board even after winning their first trophy in 40-odd years. Subsequent managers came and went, changing formations leaving JWP was out in the cold, and their current manager is on thin ice having ditched Prowsey, as WHam (like Burnley) look set for the drop. For those Saints fans who appreciated him, any thoughts of a .." Prodigal's return" was never going to happen. Ignored by Will Still, and everyone in the current management, who quite simply - had never seen him play, has led to us ignoring him.. yet again. I believe(?).. his current WHam contract still has one year to run, by which time any thoughts of a return to Saints will (fairly obviously) have disappeared, while we still struggle to replace his talent.

oh you must be in a younger generation, When did you start going to school ?

you mean apart from missing our two penalty shouts - quite frankly ..NO !

some sort of revenge (after the home fixture in August) where we had 65% possession, 18 shots but still managed to lose 1-2. We looked quite confident from the start and some good play from Fellows gave Azaz the easiest goal he'll ever score, although he'll feel upset - picking up a yellow card for diving - after being denied a stone-cold penalty. Not a good day for the ref. who also missed the blatant shirt-pulling that dragged THB down in the penalty area. A long-awaited goal for Flynn Downes, who scored the weirdest goal I've ever seen. Azaz was outstanding (without the company of Adam Armstrong) and most of the rest DAJFU. Stephens played a good game, as did Bree who showed how a real FB should play. An encouraging showing, but we'll need a few more gritty performances like this, if we are to stand any chance of qualifying for a play-off spot.

what did you dream the score was after 90 mins?

Mmmm? I'm not sure if the Pompey owner would allow us to buy his star attraction... Maybe he'd be better off at Fratton Park, I always said they were a Mickey Mouse outfit.

New striker? Minimum requirements - at least 6'2" ...with experience in a top tier league ...in any Euro land. Has reached double figures - at least once in his career - is able to speak English to some suitable level.. and ...oops.. I'm beginning to feel a tad overconfident already. ..

Why is everyone selling " down" for prices . 16,000,000 is also an eight figure price, and whilst he won't go for anything like that, it's wrong to think of the first (and lowest) amount that some people can think of.

Even if you ignored the cost of all those transfer / loan fees....what about their salaries? we are overloaded with many players (who don't play), and our salary costs so high, we were second only to Leicester - and they are about to be fined and forced to take a points deduction. Good luck their next manager - he'll need it.

... that used to be called "a banana shot", but in his case it maybe its " a boomeranger ". Ryan was another victim of our " overloaded squad ", with yet another manager who didn't appreciate his input to the squad. The average "30-something" manager is looking to bring in some talented kids but then neglects the value of having experienced players who are there to help such youngsters.

Sadly he is nowhere near the quality we needed to replace Prowsey, not least in goal tally. He has a "schoolboys temperament ", makes stupid, unnecessary tackles and then argues with referees (all players ahould surely understand that you can never win that argument). He was suspended after 5 yellows at end of November, and has been booked for 4th time since returning. Another suspension in the offing, and it may be more than just one game suspension next time. If it was me... I'd play Bragg more often than I would Downes.

Hi, thank you Turkish . It's still me. I'm back - but without my 11,000+ history of postings. I had technical problems with mails and registration, and couldn't re-register under my old name. Don't think I missed much. Will Still came and went, but I hold out more hope for Tonda. Squad is vastly overloaded, but we still haven't signed a real striker, hope Ross Stewart stays fit.

The only person who knew how to handle things in that game ....was the referee. He knew what sort of a match it was going to be, and ignored almost every foul, and had seemingly had left his red card in the ref's room. When he finally booked a couple of players late on in the game, it was merely a token gesture after having ignored many that were far worse earlier in the game. Given that there was no VAR to disallow their goal (for handball) we would have got all 3 points but the game might have ended with only 9 a side, as some of the tackles were quite brutal. Late on Jay Robinson went down under a 2 footed tackle from behind and it was ignored. Thank goodness that is all over for the season.

Yes but that meant he was already taller than a lot of those around him who did jump, but the problem in our case was that we had no-one capable of crossjng the ball into the area to him..

Height is no guarantee of success either. (mind you.. Messi is no giant is he?). Onuachu's goal tally was nothing to boast about, (and Carrillo never got off the mark), but then again we didn't play with any real wingers in the whole time they were with us. instead we became obsessed with the concept of "overlapping full backs". A BS idea.

LATEST Ryan Fraser's new side were bottom of the Aussie A league after last weekend. On his debut game (against fellow strugglers Perth Glory) he came on as sub after 60 minutes, and then scored the only goal of the game in the 92nd min. Nice one Ryan !

We might hope, but don't hold your breath .

...many players score at least once a season, so perhaps that was his this time around. A sad thing to relate is that Paul Onuachu (having scored 11 goals - so far) in Turkey, puts his success down to the fact that ..." they are playing in a formation that suits him". ( i.e. wingers.) Having sold him, we then signed TWO wingers, and have played half a season, still lacking a big CF. Hopefully Ross Stewart can maintain fitness, and our wingers will finally have someone to aim at.

Only go for the best, eh?. I recall an interview with the Koeman brothers shortly after they started with Saints. When asked the question.. If you could have any player in the world who would you choose? after a short pause.... they smiled at each other .....and simultaneously said ...Messi.

- even if he didn't get much game time in Germany, he was an understudy to Neuer (who must rate as one of the best keepers in the World), so he must have learned something simply by watching him.