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As I keep harping on. There is one way that the PST bid can succeed. It is so obvious I just don't understand why nobody else sees it. PDT has no working capital. Their business plan has holes that the Titanic could have sailed into. But they can have enough money to run their club in L2. And WHY are the PDT being so secretive? FFS it ain't rocket science, money doesn't grow on trees. It grows in fields

4-2 actually but everything else was correct

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2284201/GRAHAM-POLL--The-Official-Line-The-new-handball-rule-explained-Newcastle-got-lucky-Fox-penalty.html Graham Poll explains the new Handball Interpretation and Interesting point made for future reference - Hand to Ball arguments are now irrelevant (so you can go into MLG mode when it happens again!)

Very true. But your missus enjoyed her trip to Sapporo

Brilliant news. Stats show he is becoming one of the best CM's in Europe not just the PL. And yes Mattio. everything from Saints will be a watch advert for the rest of Eterna............. ty

Ticket confirmation arrived today Woo Hoo! Now only need to worry about traffic jams & air traffic controllers. Oh and your weird bloody weather

You see. we even told them how to solve THIS problem. If they had listened to us and our advice then they would already have had their Monkey Chicken Petting Zoo and the Peacock would have fitted in right at home

IMHO no, certainly at times in the second half we leeoked back to our early days such as away to Everton when it was backs to the wall everyone bar Rickie within 5 yards of our Penalty area. We did comment on it a few times. Whether it was a lack of confidence or AP's tactics scaring them back there remains to be discussed by the experts

Not wanting to knock Al at all, simply to point out a weakness he should work on. The number of times he takes two or three touches outside the box is too many. On a couple of occassions yesterday he had the chance to shoot, took a slow touch and the chance was gone. He should watch Tevez for Citeh's second goal last night touchbang. He's still learning but he COULD have done so much more yestersay

Ah so finally we get something useful out of the Oscars. A new gif We saw your boobs Charlize

Ah wet T-Shirt Competitions... Must have been around 1978 ish when La Maison Royale in Bompey had a qualifying round of Miss Wet T-Shirt UK..... Those were the days And no we are unable to google images to contribute to this thread or a SWAT team bashes down the door

Olives. Especially ones stuffed with Anchovies or Blue Cheese. Top of the *like* list these days. Vegetables - Sprouts, Cabbage, Parsnips, even now like Swede puree. Whisky. Moules Marinere. Rare Roast beef. Bloody Mary's (but with the full works - Tabasco as well as Worcester and a dash of salt & pepper Stilton ( And of course Port) And, Gawd knows why - Mushy Peas with my Fish & Chips Things that have dropped off my radar - Crisps (perhaps it was cracking two teeth on Sea Salt & Crushed Black Pepper Kettle Chip)s but now simply can't stand the ubiquitous Lays or Walkers Chocolate - used to eat tons of it, now only very rarely have a Paatchi or Ferro Rocher type as a special treat And, strangely, Sushi. Now can't touch it. Oh and those 99 pence bottles of French plonk we used to buy on School Trips or Booze Cruises....

Strangely all that we missed yesterday was Puncheon. Look I don't believe he is our best choice out wide because his mental decision making in the final 3rd is sluggish bordering on slow. However what he DOES do is play lots of short passes in defending and helps cover Clyne. With AL AND JRod on the pitch we were set up to be far more attacking. The number of Hollywood balls that AL attempted meant we never had time for the players to get into attacking support positions. This is not a critique of Adam, just in a game where their manager is going to look at our tactics and come up with a plan (bang the ball into wide areas at every opportunity, we were back to the first few games of the season where our style left the FB's exposed in too many 2 on 1 situations. For me the defeat was down to OVER confidence, too many fans were cocky and if I am honest I think MP set the team up to be too attacking away from home against a team with pace. JP has many faults, but we lacked the short passes yesterday, either the pitch didn't allow us to play them OR the set up was wrong. Needs more thought. As for when Gaston came on, where was AL playing? Yes he had some effective moments as the game went on but he did seem to be playing FAR more centrally. We looked bloody amazing for the first 10 mins of each half, Hopefully MP will now see why we could not keep that going. 4 goals? All had an element of luck 1st goal stupid hollywood pass left CLyne out of position & Cork didn't push their player to the line, lucky deflection off Boruc. 2nd should have been a FK to us not them, penalty? well that was stupidity and then comedy central. BUT Jos had looked decidely dodgy in the run up to that - almost as if on a couple of occassions he did NOT get a good shout from Boruc. Something wasn't quite right at the back, whether it was the Keeper directing him or he just had a back to normal day. Anyway Blue Line and DO NOT under-estimate QPR FFS that will need 120% from the crowd as well as the team next week

On a lighter note... At HT 3 TSW members reach for their smartfones to post on the Match Thread, look at each other and say... Nah, we'd only get upset, let's watch the chicks coming off the beach instead.... Only decent decision made all day. Dear Eric, you did the right thing playing with your airplanes, it really was that sh1t

Ah of course. That explains it well done for keeping schtuum

You MUST be having a laugh. Their 2nd goal foul on Saints player clearly shown on the tv coverage here and discussed, they hit the long ball, clear foul on Shaw, barged off the ball their player not even looking at the ball - 2nd bad decision in the build up. Then the Ripper - Sissoko was OFFSIDE when the ball was played, nobody else touched the ball until he hit it into the net = Oh dear, the ref has got that wrong on the commentary. Fox was ball to hand but then he was an idiot for leaving his arm out like that as he ran up to the player.

Never saw that coming. No sireeee.

Dear taxi. Hurry up. That is all.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2283646/Brother-Oscar-Pistorius-faces-charges-death-woman-car-crash.html It gets worse and worse Hmm WHY are they releasing this level of information to the Public? What chance of a fair trial does that give? Hmm another charge from long ago suddenly re-invigorated.

Fonte. The thing is, when we were in L1 we felt he was almost good enough to be a standout player. When we went up to the nPc we felt he might be good enough to be a standout player Then we came up into the PL and we thought he would struggle to make it. And yet before his injury he was looking more and more compsed, had formed a solid partnership with Maya and, if we are honest had started to look (almost) like a Claus. He has never been the standout player, but he has been damned reliable. (And let's face it, even SRL had some wobble along the way with fitness and niggling injuries) So Cork is too new, Morgan has been here too long, SRL is the first choice, Adam was already with our Academy. No brainer as runner up Jose Fonte has given great service in these 3.5 years and hopefully will continue to do so

Surely it cannot be beyond the wit of man to have a system (similar to that used with coach travel tickets for Glastonbury) where supervised coach stops are provided and the tickets are issued on the coach to sober & ID holding supporters. With the skate bubble game a pickup location in Basingstoke or Winchester and perhaps between Brighton & skatesmuff could have been arranged? Seeing as people would have had to pay extra transport costs anyway, a small premium on the travel cost should have been possible. After all with you guys having so many "Green Laws" someone should have been able to prove you were murdering the planet by having to drive silly distances. Oh, sorry, what was I thinking. Such a suggestion inferred that the OB would have some spare brain cells between them. Apologies, as you were.

As long as he brings Jessica of course

After this weekend I'm not sure I could ever look at a drink again. Bloody Eric & his Margheritas Thursday followed by the 18 quid a pint beers that left a sour taste. Mikie can you ping everyone on dubaisaints FB page for me? having IT problems today and cannot get on there - cheers