trousers

1 nil saints

Pardew not here

Give mea break. Under the influence of 3 quickfire pints of Guinness. Nothing to report. 0 - 0 after 5 mins

And they're off....

Teams as published on Farnboro website. Scheiderlein and Saga start

Players emerge from tunnel to rapturous applause from the 120 strong crowd

Ok. Taken seats. Clouding over. Could affect the swing of the ball IMHO

How should I know? I'm in the bar! I think Henderson may be mgr for this one

Yup...exclusive updates over on the match update thread now

Ok. Here goes pint no.2 nice to have some decent beer before a game. Are you watching mr liebherr?

Smashing pint of Guinness in the Dugout bar. So far so good

To follow

Greetings from a sunny Cherrywood Road. I see Liebherr hasn't got around to buying a posh bus for the team yet. I had posher coaches on my school trips to marwell zoo. Fact

He's in squad vs Farnborough tonight

Cheers for info chris. Will be going with my 9 year old. Can I take him in the dugout bar area with me? Thanks

You're too kind

A B&B in Farnborough? You gotta be kidding....

I've got a feeling it'll be largely a 'first team' turn out. We're in need of match fitness / awareness and the fact that this fixture would seem to have been arranged at short notice since Pardew's arrival suggests to me that he wants to see his first choice in action as much as possible in the short time he has to instill his ethos in the players. I could be completely wrong of course! Anyway, will be popping along to find out. Will post pictures of anyone doing a C3PO impression tomorrow...(assuming I survive the trek to and from the station of course... )

it's a 20 min walk from the station. Almost as far as the walk from Southampton Central to SMS. Nightmare....

Too many long posts on this thread. And that is my contribution this weekend. Thank you.

Director's box?

Yes HTH

This is probably the 2nd dullest question on here ever. Fact. ;-)

Because he'd prefer to see some old nags...

No, they've been on general sale since the off. 1st Aug is the date at which new season ticket purchasers can buy a previously owned seat which hasn't been renewed. I believe.