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Dave Read ‏@DaveyRead @officialsaints what grounds are you looking forward to going to?#askgaston Southampton FC ‏@officialsaints #askgaston Gastón: My favourite is Old Trafford, but I've already played there. Maybe the Camp Nou.

Not sure why but the club tweeted this question (rather than re-tweeting someone else's questions)....it was never answered by Ramirez.....a subtle hint perhaps....? Southampton FC ‏@officialsaints #askgaston Gastón: Andrea Pirlo or Branislav Ivanovic.

DOB ‏@davidbatch85 @officialsaints which #saintsfc player has he been most impressed by since joining the club and why? #askgaston Southampton FC ‏@officialsaints #askgaston Gastón: Guly.

Chundernari Harris ‏@adamadzharris @officialsaints would you rather take it up the batty or play for Pompey?#askgaston Jay ‏@Brighty2905 @officialsaints Would you rather be attacked by 1 horse sized duck, or 50 duck sized horses? #askgaston matt thompson ‏@iwearahalo2 #askgaston Can you find me a good two bedroomed flat in the Hedge End/Botley area , I am wanting to pay no more than £550 a month?

Some highly amusing tweets on the #askgaston hashtag

@officialsaints: We'll be doing a Twitter Q&A with Gast?n Ram?rez shortly. Tweet us your questions with the #askgaston hashtag! #saintsfc

@solentsport: BREAKING- Former #pompey goalkeeper Alan Knight to join club for rest of season as goalkeeping coach

Steve Wilson ‏@pn_steve_wilson A reliable #Pompey source says there's no truth in the story linking David James with a return to the club as player coach.

We've got a contractor coming onsite to re-line the drains under our office this weekend. Our insurance company insisted that they provide evidence of their own public liability insurance as they wouldn't be covered under our general office policy. I guess the club have turned a blind eye to this in the past but it wouldn't surprise me if they are technically correct in playing the H&S card. Arguably a bit of a "tit for tat" move but I guess they might cite that the media started it by perpetuating stories of a mass protest that didn't actually exist. Who knows....6 of one and half a dozen of the other as per usual...

Yeah, but it's pre-assembled. Pros and cons

Or inconsistently applied...

And then another esteemed media outlet (TalkSport) spend the next 48 hours reporting how rubbish our protest was (the same protest that was never actually organised in the way they reported in the first place).

Look, I'm with you on this....Health and Safety laws are often laughable and often inconsistently applied. And, yes, it sounds like SFC are using these daft laws as an "excuse". They won;t be the first company to cite H&S and they won't be the last.

Have you seen how daft health and safety rules can be?

The original article comes from neither of those two but, yes, apologies for generalising (something you wouldn't catch the media doing of course...)

I'm the first to laugh at how organisations hide behind ridiculous heatlh and safety legislation but just because its ridiculous and an "excuse" doesn't mean they are quite possibly correct (technically).

Indeed, this smacks of journos throwing their toys out of the pram because a club stands up to their sh*t stirring for once...

MLG - fancy doing some research into whether other clubs have similar health and safety restrictions? (regardless of whether they adhere to them or not)? Cheers

Funny how neither the club nor media cared about this when we were playing the likes of Dagenham at home a couple of years ago....

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/pompey-hero-issues-come-and-get-me-plea-1-4718705

http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2013/news/football-club-bans-journalists-from-vox-pops-at-ground/ And every cloud has a silver lining....

Thanks. I'm a gibbering wreck this morning. Keep breaking out in cold sweats at the growing reality that Cameron and Osborne will be replaced by Miliband and Balls....

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