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...and a tinned fruit tombola...and that game where you have to guess which pipe the rat is coming down before tonking it on the head....

A question if I may.... Did he indicate whether this is due to the financial 'constraints' imposed by Cortese/Liebherr regarding the prudent running of club's finances or was he speaking purely from the footablling angle...i.e. he doesn't want the 'logistical overhead' of running a larger squad...? Cheers

"We have no Wodger! Welease Woderick!"

How about splittng the queues....one set of queues would be 'fasttrack'...i.e. "2 pre-prepared beers or less - no grub - nothing that needs pouring or preparing + exact change only"...leaving the other queues for "those who buy 64 pints for their mates", "those who want beer and food" and "those who want to wait 6 hours for a student to work out the change from a £20 note". Very, very simple....surely?

How about only selling glass bottled beer to those sensible people that won't turn it into a weapon? And arrest, lock up and throw away the key to those who do? Just a thought.... But, ah no, the actions of a minority mean that can't possibly happen. Strewth.

What hacks me off more than anything is the fact that if football didn't attract the hooligan element the decent majority could all drink beer in the comfort of our seats. Why did the football authorities take the easy 'sledgehammer to crack a nut' way out in the first place? Surely allowing people to have a leisurely beer at their seats would bread a more chilled out atmosphere - and rather than bring in 'tar everyone with the same brush' arcane rules, just ban those hooligans that abuse the system? Strewth.

Hmm, good trivia question....who indeed was the last Saints player to score directly from the incoming ball from a corner? (i.e. not the ball going in without tocuhing anyone else, but the first header or shot from the corner) Sods law, it'll probably be more recent than one imagines....

Hmmm....Nice idea in theory....difficult to see how they can police the "no away fans" policy though....not beyond the wit of man for away fans to acquire home ticket stubs after the game I'd venture....

Ok, best I could come up with is who supplied the most assists for Lambert, rather than 'how'. Perhaps we can deduce from the player and their playing position whether the assists are more likely to be crosses than through balls.... Assists for Ricky Lambert Goals (08/09) Stuart Campbell (attacking midfielder): 5 Craig Disley (attacking midfielder): 4 David Pipe (midfield/right wing): 2 Jeff Hughes (midfield/left wing): 2 Daryl Duffy (striker): 2 Jo Kuffour (striker): 2 http://www.statbunker.com/football/btb/index.php?PL=competition&CompID=247&statType=assist&page=1

I don't believe he is that type of manager....he's more dogmatic than that IMHO (note: 'Dogma' can be a useful trait in a football manager, so don't take this as blind criticism, just an observation) Now, if Mr Keegan had been installed as our manager I believe your wish for 'go out and enjoy it' style of football would have been in evidence by now....

Same sort of skill base I guess. Unless, at Soccer School, they split the group into 2: those who can kick the ball up in the air whilst running and those who can kick a ball up in the air from a stationary position.

Are there any stats out there that show the type of assist lambert got per goal he scored last season?

It's a theme that crops up on here time and time again..."if only we had someone who could put a decent cross in the box" I may be missing something here but isn't kicking a football into the air one of the first things one gets taught at "soccer school"? If I'd have known that I could be picked to play for Southampton football club without this fundamental 'skill' I wouldn't have chucked in football for pies at such a tender age. Strewth.

Hardly surprising given he retired last season

How does a non story get to 9 pages?

Fair point

All very well and good but why did we go straight from IPv4 to IPv6? What ever happened to IPv5?

Why do mathematicians always confuse Halloween and Christmas?

If only DEAD people understand hexadecimal, how many people understand hexadecimal?

Sign the League's top scorer from last season

From pre-match thread.... Well, at least I got something right....

Yet another correct Trousers prediction on the cards.....COYR!!!

Thanks a bunch

Fret ye not. Pardew will bring him on for the last 5 minutes regardless of the score.... ;-)

Can't Baj just sign up to Justin.TV or Ustream.com and stream it for us?