Alain Perrin

To the conga theme tune.... Do do do, Emanual May-a-uka Do do do, he's gonna score a goal (rpt)

If this comes off I fear the worse for tabloid name related puns: - "At Gast" - perfect to close out this transfer saga / a GR goal drought - "Out of Gas" - useful in a sending off or a bad miss - " 'Ton of trouble" - can be used either for training ground unrest or a barnstorming performance - "Saints ram it home" - ideal for a victory inspired by GR - "Irez-istable" - as above ..... etc. Feel free to add your own to aid tabloid editors everywhere

We will sell out most games this season less any away fans being under allocation. The first home game is always low it attendance - and always results in posts debating the point like this. Key factors in this are: - school holidays, people away - doubled up because it is a bank holiday - and add a few more for Reading festival - ditto corporates are affected too, no one does jolies on a bank holiday. No crisis, just a question of timing.

Agreed it doesn't make sense pushing AL inside (although that is the player's preference IIRC) and, without injuries, I think we'd probably have seen Cork the centre and AL on the wing in place of JRod. I= Remember when RL was out for a few games last season and we really had no big man replacement. JRod is that big man replacement for sure - but if Adkins thinks he's the best option out on the left at the moment then I respect that. I certainly wouldn't want Chaplow in so that RL could replace JRod - he's got his uses but not in a chess game (which the Premiership is).

I don't get this two games and we're doomed band wagon but : 1) People obsess about formations but it is horses for courses - NA mentioned it yesterday, it's about individual battles over the pitch and we need to change players and tactics on a game by game basis. Back in L1 people moaned Pardew had no "plan b" - now we're trying Plan C people are grouchy. You can't win. 2) Name the teams that play a fixed 4-4-2 in the Premiership? If you try to play it against a team that has pressed the midfield (as we did after going behind yesterday) then you will lose out. You can get away with it with the kick and rush of the Championship but EPL clubs are increasingly skillful, patient and probing. 3) In my opinion J-Rod was primarily bought as an alternative to Rickie but he has also played on the wing. Until we get some wingers in (hence Ramirez and Phillips bids) it makes sense to deploy him there. Give the team and Adkins time or go and support Man City.

Lot's of material for an article he's writing about internet crazies....

Interesting and many here should pay heed. That said you should be shot for the cheap title and not strictly Saints related....

New club, new city, new team, new formation, new league, big price tag on his shoulders. Give him time.

Jesus wept. Saves a penalty and you give him a four. Guly haters need to to go to Specsavers. The team played well against the best team in the Premiership last year - and certainly the most expensive. Today gave me some faith. We showed we can mix it with the big boys and should take heart from that.

I don't see why I should subsidise people who insist on using the telephone - and if you're insistent on inflating the per ticket price to cover all booking methods that is what will happen. As it stands I can buy a ticket at the office and pay a fee that covers that type of purchase (i.e. face to face pays the wage of the person behind the counter who sits there whether I buy a ticket or not), buy it online (my assumption is those web servers plus a stamp cost less than a person behind a counter) or by phone (person + postage). The current way is fairer than adding on the cost per ticket (although less fair than having a fee per transaction, rather than per ticket).

Without being a grammar or spelling pendant, "upcoming" is perfectly acceptable in this context, perhaps even more so than your preference of "coming". "Coming" should indicate something that is near but usually is used with a qualifier - i.e. "this coming Tuesday". "Upcoming" should be used where no qualifier is present or something is not imminent. Given that the season is two weeks away I'd suggest "upcoming" is appropriate. Either way, just because you have a preference, doesn't mean that others need to live within it. HTH

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Tesco's do. Or rather they charge you if you choose to use home delivery. Fundamentally the cost won't change because the costs that SFC incur will be the same. They have to be paid for somehow either through the ticket price, through a booking fee or (in case we're making a profit on the ticket tax) through reducing other costs (eg. Lambert's wages). I do agree with the charge being different depending on what channel you're using (i.e. it cost more to speak on the phone to a person than a computer). It is harder to justify the 'per ticket' nature of the charge but I suspect that is because the number of tickets they are selling has dropped significantly due to the increase in season ticket holders. The costs they'll incur (servers, phone lines, credit card machines, printers, people) may reduce a bit, the majority will the same but the take from a transaction based booking fee would be well down on last year. The bottom line is I'd prefer to pay an explicit charge, rather than one baked into the price of the ticket. Like being a transvestite prostitute. It doesn't matter how you dress it up, you're still being taken for money.

How about when Morgan mounts him piggy back stylee following Clyne's debut goal we sing: "Frog on the Clyne, he's all mine all mine. Frog on the Clyne he's all mine!"

Based on the past two seasons Alpine, I take your discomfort as a sign of impending success! Davis S I know nothing about (always a bit dubious about Scottish imports) - Davis K has something to prove (which is a good position to be in), Morgan has got better and better and I think he can step up. The one I have the most doubts about is probably Fonte. I thought he had some patchy form last season and it will be interesting to see if this is temporary or something more worrying.

I don't think we should be signing quality, we should be signing potential. We're not Man City and therefore the more wisely we spend our cash the better. I'd be concentrating on the Championship or lesser fashionable leagues. Even buying J-Rod seems a bit of a high priced gamble but at least we know of him. With Clyne and Davis we have two players at bargain prices but with massive upside. My biggest worry for the coming season is momentum. We had it following the promotion from League 1 and that laid the foundation for our promotion to the Premier League. Our second half of the season wasn't as stellar so the question is will we have our Mo for the all important EPL start?

This illustrates precisely what is wrong with the justice system in this country.

I can barely be arsed to recycle newspapers! Sad that, whilst I thought of it myself, there's no such thing as original thought in the the age of the internet.

Let me be the first tos ay that "I can't believe it's not Büttner"

Like FC said, mistakes happen - especially with new processes. I renewed two, no problems. As for the valid NUS card they have a bit of a problem. The card expires in August for every Student that left this year. Should they be entitled to a concession even though they might have a job? As someone said. Write / ring / explain = resolve.

MLT's loyalty is overstated. Convenience rather than loyalty IMHO

Some people have no idea as to what a contract is. To terminate there : a) has to be a reason (and being 'rubbish' isn't one of them), b) you reach an agreement with the player (and TF is unlikely to do that) Otherwise it costs you what it would have cost anyway (in fact more as you have to find that money in one lump, rather than pay monthly). We've bought plenty of pups with less return than TF in the last decade (no doubt Lowe personally selected each of them - :rolleyes . Regardless, I suspect TF has cost us less than £500K total in wages AND helped sweeten a Bale deal when we didn't have a pot to **** in. In short, TF helped save the club.

Fair enough be pedantic, but everyone understood what BristolSaint meant so it's your own time your wasting. Personally I am celebrating our recent promotion from the second division - and I don't give a flyigg fudge what you fink!.

Rasiak song reworked... Na na na na na na na Schneiderlin, Morgan Schneiderlin. Simples.

When I was growing up I always liked West Ham but I am so glad that we got the automatic place ahead of them. For the following reasons: 1) Porn dollars shouldn't buy promotion. They've spent so much money this season, whilst in so much debt. 2) Their insistence that Sharp dived when Taylor grabbed him round the throat - the laughable thread on their forum claiming the picture of a hand around his neck was Photoshop'd. And they're still going on about it now. Remind me about how the appeal went on that one guys? 3) Their feeling of entitlement (reminds me a bit of the 'we will walk this league' mentality on here when we went down). 4) The use of parachute payments as a means to spend your way back to the premiership rather than break the fall (not uniquely a West Ham approach though) 5) Sam Allardick. Loves himself. 6) The fact that they perpetrated the biggest fraud of recent years by staying up with illegal players and then just got fined thanks to Sir Trev and others in the FA (pile it on the debt boys, no worries). So, in the words of Big Kev, "I will love it, love it, if they lose in the playoffs".