Pat from Poole

Think it was '99 at Cov. Good train trip that day.

It makes a lot of sense to me. If two teams run away with automatic promotion, then the likelihood is that you'll have a number of teams just below bunched on much lower points totals and there's more scope for a team having to make up a -10 points situation to be able to still sneak into the top 6.

Some nail scissors followed by about 4 tissues to blow your nose to get all the nasal hair fragments out seem to do it for me. Bizarrely my left nostril seems to get 10 times as much nasal hair as my right nostril, no idea why. PS Best to wash the nail scissors afterwards.

My favourite Sir Bobby memory is from the season when we got to the Cup Final and we played Newcastle at home and drew 1-1 in a really good game. In the last few minutes, we nearly won it when O'Brien from Newcastle headed the ball against his own bar. In the post-match interview, the interviewer says to Sir Bobby something along the lines of "You must have had your heart in your mouth when O'Brien headed the ball against your own crossbar?" Completely deadpan, Sir Bobby replied: "Oh no, we practice that in training all the time." I thought that was a genius response to a pretty daft question. Top man.

Somebody like Dele Adebola would do a cracking job in League 1.

Yup, a very good player for Stockport as well. He is exactly the type of player we need now to put some backbone into the team.

Voice of reason. Stern John really isn't worth getting worked up about. Yes, he did save us against Sheffield United on the final day the season before last, but if we'd let in an equaliser after he'd got sent off and consequently gone down, there wouldn't be half as many Saints fans getting worked up about him potentially joining Palace.

Oh. I didn't realise that.

A very sad man. Hope he doesn't get home too late tonight as he's got to be up early enough to turn up for work in Mummy and Daddy's bookshop in Petersfield. Hope Mummy did his favourite sandwiches to put in his lunchbox.

Surely he wasn't doing his clang-a-lang thing with his bell and accompanied by his little ghey mates who are bare-chested apart from sets of braces? At a pre-season friendly FFS. The man is a waste of good food.

Superb stuff from Trousers. Funniest thread in an absolute age. "Sod this, I'm going for a burger" was a moment of commentating genius.

They've also signed Peter Clarke from Southend, who is decent. Keigon Parker and Phil Jevons have also been good players in this League. Huddersfield are definitely a strong bet for the play-offs. Will be a tough first away game for us.

To be fair, Chelsea have always had very good away support; even when they had hopeless donkeys like Cascarino and Paul Furlong playing for them they would always have away fans in our sections at The Dell. Their home support used to be erratic though; I remember going to a midweek League game at Stamford Bridge in the early 90's (same season we beat them in the ZDS semi) and there were less than 15,000 there.

How did Wycombe manage to sign Michael Duberry? I think the best signing of the lot could be MK Dons getting hold of Jermaine Easter. He looked pretty lively for Plymouth against us a couple of years ago.

He is a bit of a lunatic. Remember when he got sent off against us when he played for Burnley and assaulted Viafara?

The games they have chosen to list the results of are a bit random. Basingstoke v Portsmouth FFS.

I was a big Beattie fan, but in my time watching Saints I'd say that Shearer and Ormerod had a higher workrate than him.

I have no qualms in saying that i think Solent are top notch. Given that we are two leagues below the Skates it is impossible to complain about the coverage they give us relative to the Skates. They put our games on the FM frequency whilst the Skates are on medium wave. My only gripe is Tony Husband's commentaries. He's an excellent presenter, but he is a real curse for Saints and has a tendency to talk far too much about the scores in other games. Adam Blackmore and Laurence Herdman (sp) are superb, as good as anything you'll hear on 5Live. I've grown to really admire Merrington's analysis as well, you can't doubt that he knows his stuff.

Cheers.

Apologies, i just realised I've raised a query about the wrong game!!!!!!!!! I'm driving to Swindon so don't need to know about trains for Swindon. Would still be interested in any advice for Charlton though. On a further point, I'm not a ST holder, do we think we'll get the whole away end for Charlton (and therefore I should hopefully be able to get a ticket??!!!???)

Given it was just a friendly I thought it was pretty decent. A lot better than you'll get today with the cricket final being on.

Does anybody know of the best way to get reasonably-priced train tickets for this game? South West Trains are currently quoting me £50 for a day return from Poole to Charlton, claiming that the cheap advance tickets have already been snapped up. When I look on the SWT website, it seems to indicate that you can't try to reserve cheap return tickets more than 45 days before the date of travel. I was hoping to pay nearer £30 to be honest, £50 is massively over the top. Something doesn't quite add up. I also understand that you can't now buy a standard adult rail card, and it has to be a family with friends type combo (not much use if you're not taking kids with you, so I'm told) Any other websites worth searching out? Somebody has mentioned Megatrain to me.

FFS Are you still wittering on about Burley? You must be his agent. Seriously. Face it, he was an utter disaster at Saints regardless of getting us in the play-offs. He wasted an utter fortune on complete crap.

If he is picked regularly and playing in a team which gives good service, he'll get us 20-25 goals this season, could be the difference between getting in the play-offs and missing out. I remember when he scored plenty in our play-off season that he regularly scored away from home where he got a bit more space. If we can get some pace on the wings and increase the speed at which we attack, he'll invariably get more space in home games as well. He is the best finisher we have. However, the wages are a definite issue.

Agreed. If you pay your money you should leave when you feel like it. Many a time I've seen us 2 or 3 goals down and playing crud and decided not to stay until the end. I think it's better to walk out than to chant abuse at them or slow handclap etc.