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How quickly faint hope can be dashed .

Are you sure you're not thinking of Uncle Bryn? He was played by Richard Dryden

I could see Jack Stephens coming off the bench and doing that role if he had to. He can win it in the air, hold it up quite adequately.... oh hang on it's the bit he would do next that would have me worried

Heard Maitland-Niles name in the commentary of the Champions League qualifiers. Knew the name but playing for us must have been wiped from my memory.

Why do you care about it? It's not an issue. Do you think he has ever not given his best for us because of it? Maybe for him and most normal people the club you support doesn't define his entire life

Too late now sadly but Keegan was doing a similar tour, his evening was scheduled at the MAST before it had to he cancelled. Why not have the club making revenue from such shows? admittedly theses aren't ex-Saints but they'll be full of funny football stories that should appeal to fans of any clubs.

I've highlighted the flaw in that argument for you 😂

I have a ball signed by players that took part in Steve Mills Testimonial in 1988(?), which was the then current team against ex-Saints All Stars. I think there was also a short game pre-match featuring some of the even older generation. One day I must try and identify all of the autographs, there were some really top names involved that day.

Maybe I'm too optimistic but that strikes me as a leaked explanation to other clubs as the reasoning behind a lenient, hopefully suspended at worst, punishment about to be announced 🤞

Slightly off topic but do we still own Jacksons Farm? No idea how big the land was/is but drove past the other day and to say the building has been left to fall into disrepair would be an understatement.

Not ideal at all. H&S rules insist he'd have to play in Hi-Viz clothing.

Was that an alphabetical list?

We used to have a customer called Mr Wankmore. Possibly the only customer that every member of staff would - loudly - greet by name.

Agreed. And to date no team has ever won the WC under a foreign manager.

The last 25 minutes needed someone fast - probably Saka - on the pitch and told to stay on the halfway line and chase every clearance. No way would he have been left unmarked so 1 or 2 fewer in attack for our defence to deal with. And any ball he successfully chased you can almost guarantee he'd have been fouled, breaking their momentum and ensuring the ball wasn't coming straight back every time.

Charles is still on holiday, his break started later than most as N. Ireland played several late WC warm up friendlies

With main sponsor Midnite emblazoned across the chest. Should someone point out to Gibo and their fans that they are only worthy of sponsoring our training kit, or might that upset them again

Errrr.... we do Saka - Father Nigerian + Mother Nigerian, born in Ealing not the only example

To be fair that's the same reactions I've experienced from any fan of any other club I've spoken to since , even 3 Pompey fans. It wouldn't surprise me if Boro have to put up with a rendition of OWTSGMI at every ground they visit this season.

Nice kits, the honours board on the right could do with revising though 🤣

Ronaldo doesn't even look like he's playing the same game as his team mates any more. Messi now spends 90 minutes wandering around yet still always manages to be wandering in the right place at the right time

Chris "whack-em" Packham surely, although he'd be one we'd all like to see take a hiding. Iwan Thomas is usually up for most things

One of them would have eaten it before it even landed

Real or mock up? Whichever, I like that. Could do with a break in the stripe where the E overlaps, apart from that it's a yes from me.

If he get's a ban it's out of our hands. But everything he done he done to try and win us games. He hasn't bribed referees or other clubs. He han't sent out players with instructions to injure opposing players. I do believe he didn't know it was against the rules to start with, I don't believe that nobody told him it was by the time we played Ipswich and Boro - if they didn't then that's the fault of the club not him. I don't believe spying on the opposition gains more than a tiny advantage if any, what can you really learn? In the Boro case, whether Hackney was fit and we could probably have worked that out when he stepped off the team coach. I don't believe for one minute that he or the club could have envisaged the repurcussions which are far in excess of the "crime" The guy is committed to winning. He's currently on a league 21 match unbeaten run. Not because of spying, mainly due to squad depth, substitutions and fitness. If we got rid of him now and the next boss struggles we'll only be asking ourselves "what if we'd kept him". He's not a fool, he's learnt his lesson. I vote keep him