Alain Perrin

#35 posts responding to the most obvious trolling post of 2011. (make that #36 - wierdo!)

I used to work with the Twitterer's dad and he's definitely a ST holder. So I don't doubt that they were there.

It depends on how good a view you got of them but I'd suggest it's two of : http://www.arsenal.com/reserves-youth/players/elton-monteiro CB http://www.arsenal.com/reserves-youth/players/nicholas-yennaris CB http://www.arsenal.com/reserves-youth/players/martin-angha CB http://www.arsenal.com/reserves-youth/players/daniel-boateng CB http://www.arsenal.com/reserves-youth/players/sanchez-watt M/F http://www.arsenal.com/reserves-youth/players/nigel-neita F http://www.arsenal.com/reserves-youth/players/zak-ansah F http://www.arsenal.com/reserves-youth/players/benik-afobe If you think about it, it would make sense to have had a handshake on a couple of loanees as part of the Oxo deal.

In fairness our fans never rated Pulis and he turned out all right.

Reasons why the match thread is slow. No. 1: Repetitive posts. i.e. nine people posting "Yessss" when Rickie scored. We need an assigned score reporter, the rest of the responses can then be the detailed and insightful analysis for which this board is famed for.

Surely this thread should be entitled Oxo up the ar$e? Which is either illegal, or a sex act involving gravy granules - or probably both.

On the grounds I hadn't heard of Gorks, Gay-rod or Lanyard before the speculation started, I'm not going to have a hissy fit if we don't sign them because we are 'difficult to deal with'. If it cost us John Terry, I'd be more concerned. Warm**** can complain all he likes about how NC prevaricated over the Gorks transfer. At the end of the day, unless it's someone we really really want (i.e. stated as Cork), then I'm not concerned if we take our time over deciding - regardless of how Warm****, or any agent, feels about it. It has to be the the right player for us. It is pointless fans getting ****ed off because we've considered someone and rejected them (either because they don't fit, are too expensive or not good enough), or because they've rejected us (because we won't pay what they 'think' they're worth, because they think they'll sit on the bench, or they've got a better location). Personally I believe that we're doing what we're doing for good reasons.

This isn't a knee jerk reaction but Adkins should be shot for a result like that. Fact 1: Failure to 'show ambition' doesn't mean paying 6 million for strikers who aren't proven names. Fact 2: Whilst we might be able to outspend most teams in the Championship, even if we could, doesn't mean we should. Fact 3: Oxo wasn't sold. He wanted to leave. Fact 4: Look at the table, look at the points and shut the **** up.

This presumably is a quote from Michael Wilde?

Sorry anyone who thinks Saints are bigger club than WHU needs their head checking.

And I think you too are confused. Quite why we are after a former Australian soapstar I do not know. NA out!

People forget sometimes that players are human. St Marys -> Loftus Rd = 76 miles Madjeski -> Loftus Rd = 33 miles i.e. Don't have to move the family, kids in school etc. I am not saying that is why, just that there are many reasons why one club is preferable to another if similar terms are offered.

Sorry Pilchards, but you must write 100 times "2 hours at a time" (and you only wrote "would have" 3 times, so please complete that also - all within a 3 post limit). HTH

I think the wounds of RL still run deep and getting people on either side to admit that there are pluses and minuses about his 'reign' is like trying to ski through a revolving door. Some of what RL built is being put to good use by NC, backed by money and some other ideas too. Trying to implement RL's vision when we were potless was either very brave or very stupid depending on whether you think we had an alternative (i.e. if contracts were signed before relegation etc.). What matters though is we're in a better place now. With good facilities, good management and a winning team. (Just one correction before it moves into a groundless myth. SC says that SCW went in one or two days a week AFTER the club had terminated the experiment so as to collect his cheque. SC doesn't say that SCW was getting paid a year for doing 1-2 days per week before the experiment ended.)

I believe I was at an event when RL met SCW (Rugby Premiership Final in 2003) - SCW was a guest speaker and Rupert was wearing a jacket with suede lapels FWIW. Therefore I don't believe the 'plan' was hatched until post-Sturrock.

If people weren't dickheads, there wouldn't be a need for the kind of stwearding you have a problem with. I bet you'd be the first to complain if one of your Green Street buddies was arrested/lost their job for a weak slap like that. I am all for a bit of banter, but I don't get the arms aloft, "come and get some" kind of thing that you see in this video - not least when it's behind a cordon of yellow jackets. Fundamentally it's notthat the stewards have no authority, it's that ****s like those on the camera have no respect.

Bull****. It's all about a bunch of immature ****s.

Yes, damn him and his 21 years. Morgan and Chaplow are very different player. Yes, they're both midfielders, but their style is very different. What I think Morgan gives you is composure (he's good to slow the game down a bit when under pressure), Chaplow is more combative and good when you want to take the game to the opposition (more aggression, more goals, but more likely to get sent off too!).

To be fair to D'Urso I'd probably not take a fan's opinion seriously. Given that the vast majority of St Mary's don't seem to get the offside rule (i.e. it isn't called offside until the ball is touched) - leading the people behind me to go 'facking late call Lino!' every 10 minutes. And, given how much debate was had on another thread about whether the the ball had hit the staunton (even after 10 replays), then I don't think we've got the right to judge a referee's snap decision. Hardly makes any of the ******s in my opinion.

The poster is correct. If you watch the BBC highlights here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14565065.stm Then at 1m 07s, the ball from Chopra's shot clearly goes past the post, cannons off the stanchion and comes back into play.

It just seems strange that - in the spirit of openness - rather than publishing the accounts, we get the go and download them yourself (each time at a cost). Especially as Steve / Baj will already have these in their possession. I asked originally because I was intrigued as to how much was being spent on the infrastructure, vs. the subscriptions and advertising. We were suffering a lot of outages at the time and I wondered why this site was charging when others were able to operate without a subscription. Look, I am sure running this site takes a fair bit of time so personally wouldn't begrudge some reward for the owners - but that only really applies if the service meets expectation. Anyway, I hope that the measures decribed by Steve and Baj do make things better - but excuse me if I wait and see (boys, wolves and sheep etc.).

Highlights of last nights game are posted on SaintsPlayer, yet they've put background music on it. Plus they insist on some arty editing that doesn't work for football in my opinion. It is Saints doing it because the IpswichPlayer highlights are much better (not least because you can hear grown men cry!) Come on Saints, make the highlights worthy of the quality of the play. ... Or am I getting old?

Good luck with that. I asked before but got a 'none of your business' (in so many words). As a result I no longer pay. FWIW I think a chatroom, rather than a forum is most appropriate for matchdays. vBulletin isn't designed to be mashed with refreshes, that plus I suspect the hardware is either low end or inefficiently configured. Plus it would cut out 10 people telling me Lambert has scored - tonight that got confusing as I thought it was still 1-0!!

Download the Iswifter App and you should be able to listen to Saints Player through that (it has a browser that will render flash).

Apparently we've sold 36K season tickets, some kind of admin cock up. It hasn't been apparent at the Leeds game because of holidays, however NC is livid and (horses) heads will roll apparently. I can't tell you where I got this information but it is as near to the top as you can get. The advice is to get there early for the next home game as possession in 3/5ths of the law. Either that prepare to squidge up and go for a "one cheek on, one cheek off" strategy.