Alain Perrin

This is because you are living in the pist.

Rarely a truer word said on this forum. The one exception though is myself. I have rarely, if ever, been wrong.

Very true. We're not going out of business, nor languishing at the bottom of the league. The world is out of kilter and even Alpine is posting stuff I agree with. Yes, everything is connected with how we got to where we are today; Mrs Bates having Ted, Laurie attracting Keegan, Le Tissier scoring from a corner at Dellhurst, Lowe building the stadium that made us a good investment, Markus for buying us and Nicola for currently being at the helm. However, whilst we can learn lessons from the past, the only thing we can influence is the future. At the end of the day (as long as it's not immoral) if people don't get freebies or the Chairman starts wearing a monogrammed tracksuit, I may not always agree, but I don't really care. Someone once said "It's about winning games of football" and that'll do for me.

Thanks for calling me a mong. Vile. The fact that you used that term says more about you than me. I didn't make anything up. The fact that the game didn't sell out has nothing to do with it. That wasn't clear at the time. MLT asked for preferential treatment (i.e. different to a the man in the street). FACT. I'd have sympathy if it was for MLT alone, he played (more than played) for the club. As far as I know his 10 mates didn't so I don't see why being a mate of MLT should qualify you any more than any other fan. That is why I said I had sympathy for both sides. But if you wan't to turn my opinion into something that it is not, feel free. Little point me replyin

A* for Patronisation. C- for Re-writing History. Clearly I was mistaken that when Matt made his request for 10 tickets, they weren't linked to Carlisle tickets and they weren't restricted to one per customer. But thanks for correcting me...... (Oh just one question, if they were so freely available, why didn't MLT ring the ticket office???). http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?27450-United-Ticket-Pricing-amp-Policy-Thread&p=932460#post932460

I have sympathy for both sides, but the truth is MLT has tried to use his standing to have preferential treatment. http://www.dailystar.co.uk/posts/view/172976/Matt-Le-Tissier-in-tizz-over-Southampton-ticket-snub/ 10 tickets for mates. Paying or not, most people were scrabbling around for one.

I agree with much of what has been said. The level of tolerance by pundits and commentators for kidology is ridiculous. Whether it is a player diving, making more of something than it is, arguing for a throw in / corner or trying to influence the ref - it's all cheating. I'd introduce three fundamental things into football : 1) Any chat back to the ref or linesman - regardless of the justification or the referees tolerance - results in a yellow card. The captain is allowed to ask for an explanation, but not challenge the decision. But players need to understand that genuine mistakes will happen. The Ref is always right, even when he's wrong. 2) The FA stop the pretense that the Refs decision cannot be questioned after the event using television evidence. Situations where a player is judged to either have been too lightly or too harshly punished can be rectified. Where someone has kidded the ref to get a major decision (penalty, opposing player punishment etc.), that player is punished after the event (by double the amount they'd normally get). 3) Punishments are quick (none of this waiting for months before reviews / defence). Decisions ideally should be made in the following week. Financial punishments should be significant and be payable to charity, not to the FA's coffers. That and give pundits a good slap for excusing poor behaviour.

To be honest, based on recent results, if you were a Forest fan you'd be on suicide watch.

#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.