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Looks like someone @back_milton is trying their luck on the same platform. just when you thought it was safe to get your shirt back out and get back on Twitter

A few Saints mushes on Twitter. Had quite a bit to say, they weren't fans of half and half scarves for example. They were a bit old skool, which was sort of the appeal.

So, i know someone, who knows someone, who knows someone on The Committee (or maybe i don't). They have disbanded mainly because of grassy, happy clapper fans who obviously do not like their stance on our own club and fan base. Think they were worried about 'actually' being banned from the club. I'm told that the club were monitoring the account and some fans had made complaints. Some suggested that the OB were watching too. It is the fans' 'grassing' that really disturbs me. I do not really do Twitter, so i did not see much of their stuff, but what i did see was great. The Committee reminded me of the old fanzine days where you could pretty much say what you wanted about the club and clearly some would disagree but the there did not seem to be this Happy Club (Saints Voice) crap in the background. The club did not like it, Alan Shearer did not like it and Ian Branfoot certainly did not like it, but WTF, who cared. These days you got to be so PC not to offend the people out there and clearly social media can have serious legal ramifications, so The Committee were always skating on thin ice, but that is what makes it great, the edge of the precipice. And above all, who really takes it seriously. It's not like you had to read it or it was an official mouthpiece. The lads (and lasses maybe) that ran it were desperately trying to encourage singing at away games in particular, any who was at Spurs this season will know how desperate that got but anyone who was at Arsenal will probably agree with Nick Illingsworth assessment on TUI this week, it was so much better (unless you were doing a ****ing dry November and carry a ****ing Fortnum and Mason Tea Calendar in a poncy Pam Am bag, but that's another story!). I know they encourage some of the old songs as well as perhaps some nawty ones (about Redknapp in particular), but you do not have to participate, just wait until the next rendition of OWTS comes round again, cause we all love that one, don't we. It is a shame, but sort of sums up football these days i guess. So glad i was around in the 80's and early 90's and jealous of those who went before.

Sorry, have we resolved this tile issue yet and mor importantly, have Staplewood got the correct ones now. Maybe tats where it all started to go wrong?

ask Takingsandbanks

is Caledonian Road open, as far as Highbury by the looks of it but better if checking on Holloway road first?

ok, many thanks, that seems straightforward

Am i right in thinking that they close this for match days at The Emirates? I need to be back at Waterloo for 17-30, any Londoners suggest the best way of doing that please? Going to have to leave the game early perhaps, which may not be a bad thing but wanted to avoid Arsenal tube as everyone goes that way, don'y they? Thanks in advance.

DONE

time for Wendy to step up maybe?

Great story mate. My son, Saints mad, now 16 is autistic and his having the same school experiences as you did (he even had to change schools). He can get quite depressed about it as unlike a lot of ASD kids, he actually craves sociability rather than be a loner. i keep saying that it will get better and I know it will but i think he does not believe me. Not sure how old you are now and whether you went to college etc? Did it get better for you? This is probably more appropriate on a pm perhaps if you want to share any experience. thanks

ha ha nothing meeting up in some off the road industrial estate in north London and drinking beer by the cup, not the pint. And if you're a cider drinker then its BYO

Really thought I’d know Turkish but I don’t think I do.

What, like a football stadium?

Not sure Stuart Armstrong has done enough yet to warrant a place in that team.

so he was offside then. what aspect are you struggling to understand?

As much as you really want to support the manager and know he has the capability to get it right, he goes and picks Vestergard and JWP, throw in Jack Stephens, no Boufal but Stuart Armstrong. he makes it very hard to believe in him. I am starting to wonder WTF is he thinking?

some embarrassing cringeworthy songs from our support tonight. “we got the ball, we got the ball....” FFS.

Seriously? One day from their £52k (SFC average player salary) weekly salary. Jesus wept

high press game ??? would love to see that

well, they are a bunch of weirdos anyway, aren't they? I mean the club are not going to picking normal fans that might have something critical to say. I used to do this thing by joining the Jacob Reese Mogg for PM (or something like that) FB FB group and see how many rational anti fascist/racist/pro immigration posts I could submit before being booted out of the group. I think i got to 12 as a record. I do wonder, if they had asked me to join the Saints Voice panel, whether i would have made it to the tea and biscuits break?

Think you are being unduly stupid if that was a serious post.

I remember when we signed Rickie Lambert. To be honest, I'd never heard of him but it seemed like good news at the time. I was more excited when we signed David Connely to be fair.

I can add clarity. It does not say that at all. However, it is a bit of a happy clapper forum but they make some good points. But when do football clubs ever give a toss about what supporters want?

I guess your reply is equivalent to the clubs response back then. Clearly the Police were incompetent ads were the CPS, but the club could have done much more to support the victims. Typical of Askham to say, "we told the police, what else were we supposed to do". And clearly we also got the sob story saying they were all unpaid etc. (absolute ******, might not have been PAYE, but Askham had plenty in his biscuit tin under his bed) and no mention of the windfall Lowe's buyout offered him. The club are clearly culpable in wanting the story to go away (back then). I do not blame them for Higgins, but i do blame them for everything else after that. And you know, even we knew what was going on back then, so i do not buy the fact that Merrington was the first to know about it, the first to act maybe (and he deserves so much credit for that), not the first to know.