sandwichsaint

Well done for knocking that open goal in. When was the two-players-for-every-position mantra withdrawn? I have nothing against young AOC; I have only seen bits and pieces and he certainly looks 'OK' but I haven't seen anything yet for some posters to be putting him in the same sentence as Walcott and Bale. Perhaps he will be that good, who knows? Don't think many people on here during the close season thought we had another Bale/Walcott on out hands? Love the fact that almost everyone on here wants more 'pace' in the team (the one thing you can't coach) yet at the end of the season we release our two quickest players, both of whom were decent. And some of 'the fans' say 'no problrm, we can do better', really? Reminds me of those that wanted Nathan Dyer out, only to see him move up a league and have a really good season in the league above. Of course we all move on, Antonio has gone, we have a great new manager and in terms of 'hitting the bottom' we are now in our best position since relegation from the Prem. The only way is up and I trust NA to buy the players we need, I don't think he will buy too many (he doesn't need very many), but I do think he will at least consider RL's position in Jan if there is no obvious improvement - he bred CFs for fun at Scunny- and he will surely be tempted to roll his big-money dice and shuffle his pack unless he can coax some form from Rickie in the next 10 games? Not necessarily what I would do but what I think NA might do, flame away!

Personally I would have paid Reading what they wanted for Antonio, he has been (or could have been) the 'missing link' in this squad. Young, fit, pacey, direct, made goals, scored goals, used as a starter, or as an impact sub. Very young, very raw, only ever going to get better. Yes, we were quoted silly money, but that doesn't take account of his value to us, nor any subsequent profit, or the delay and expanse of finding a suitable replacement. And you can discount the money spent on Dickson (££ ??) from the asking price when you consider we already had Harding/Mills/AL to play left side..... IMHO obviously.

I'm going to see Dover away at Gillingham, that's a proper Cup tie (that's £15 too before anyone asks),

I quite enjoy your posts usually but you are making yourself look a bit of a strudel over this one; when in a hole .... stop digging.

Really looking forward to seeing him playing against England - Glenn Johnson (pmsl) has probably already pre-booked his 'slight groin strain', for both of those dates. Big shame we will never see Bale play in a World Cup Finals tho.

Never in doubt for me, I've thought for a long time he would be a good fit for Saints and so far so splendid. Look at where we are now and where we were when he took over - hopefully he'll be our manager all the way back to the Prem!

Bale = Beckham with wheels (and more goals too)

Any one except Scooby help me? I'm still looking for 2 tkts, thanks to anyone that can help (promise I won't sit next to you, I'm quite happy to wander off to the nether regions once I'm in).

Looked rusty but hopefully lots to come. He's tall, pacey and pretty mobile but he struggled to get much going with JP (who himself had a poor game). His distribution looked shakey at times but that was par for a lot of the players yesterday; we appeared to struggle with both Notts physical approach and a difficult (very wet/slippery) surface, particularly in the first half. The post above - Hammond had a decent game yesterday, he covered a lot of ground, got stuck in, won his tackles, and his passing was better than most yesterday. I would go: 8 - Fonte / Barnard / Lallana 7 - Hammond 6 - Davis / Harding / Lambert /Seaborne 5 - Richardson 4 - MS / JP

And me, I am looking for two for Daggers game, pm me if you can help, thnx,

Megson?

That's hardly the refs fault though is it? He's merely enforcing a law on which he has no discretion - open cut or blooded shirt = player leaves the field. We have a whole thread about him not enforcing the laws and you still moan when he does!

A sort of thinking man's Strachan (but with tactics). That Charlie Adam is a helluva player.

Dover are one of four Kent-based non-league sides left in the comp, they are away to Farnboro on Saturday but have a dreadful record having reached the first round just twice in 28 years. Since the last round our local rag and the Kent Sunday freebie have been full of 'cup fever' - these four minnows are all just one game away from a 'dream tie' against 'footballing giants Southampton or Sheffield Wednesday'. Good to know however fall we have fallen there are still those that look up to us a 'footballing giant' and look forward to a day out at 'Saint Mary's Stadium' - are you watching Bompey?

Great guy and proving a lot of people wrong at Blackpool - to go out with a team of nobodies and play Man City off the park, to win at Anfield and St James, he's got to have something. LOL at the mongs who thought he wasn't good enough for us a couple of years ago!

Where exactly did you get this bo77ocks from? If average wages are, say, 23k a year are you seriously suggesting we are indebted to the tune of 250k for every person in the country? (If your figures are right then the cut from 1900 to 1890 is to all intents and purposes 'meaningless') If that is the case wouldn't it have been cheaper to have let the banks go swing and to have given all the bank rescue money and quantitave easing money straight to the punters? A kind of cutting-out-the-middle-man scheme that would have delivered something over GBP80billion / 70 million (whatever that is) to every single person in the UK. What exactly would have happened if they had closed the banks and given everybody 100,000k to make their own minds up?

I like GT as a pundit, I quite liked big Ron too (nowt queer as folk).

Having been weaned on a diet of Paine, Davies and Channon it's all been downhill since then. I loved Eric Martin, and I can clearly remember Jim Montgomery coming to the Dell with Sunderland in a sky blue away strip and playing an absolute blinder. I saw Best twice and he was electric. Dalglish and Rush were awesome and Frank Stapleton also stays in the memory. Mark Wright was top draw when he was at Saints. Saw Hoddle several times and he was absolute quality, to watch him warm up I don't think I've seen a player strike the ball so sweetly and consistently; another player you would pay to watch him warm-up was Frank Worthington. I've seen pretty much most of the domestic players listed above and they are all worthy candidates. My 'single' stand out favourite would probably be Bergkamp, saw him the game in his first season when he destroyed Saints at Highbury.

One word - David Peach; stand to be corrected but think he once held the record for the most over-age appearances for what was then the u23's. To stick my neck out further is not the modern record for the most over-age appearances in the u21's held by a Mr D Prutton, once of this parish? And for a hat-trick (he's on a roll now) am I right in saying they don't have over-age players in u21 football anymore?

Sleepless in Sandwich. Grizzled veteran and SaintsMadSon (no ST mates) seek no-mates ST holder for possible 90 minutes of mutual pleasure. We're doing the Notts County and Daggers games and every little helps. PM me if you can fix me up with a couple of those 7.50 jobbies and your pleasure at a pre-match pie and a pint will be all mine.

Wages Day - Deacon Blue When will I see you again? Three degrees Trapped - Springsteen You can tuna piano but you can't tune a fish - REO Speedwagon Gold -Spandeau Ballet Mama's got a squeeze box - The Who

She's a wind up - Dr Feelgood Puppet on a string - Sandie Shaw Low - Bowie Working in a coalmine - Lee Dorsey Reunited - Peaches and Herb

Not true I'm afraid, said songsheet was deffo being distributed outside the ground at Swindon away last season.

Is he a kind of a cross between an Osgood and a Channon? The brains and touch of an Ossie and the legs and firepower of a Channon? A Chagood if you will, sounds tasty!

Dover 3 Cambridge 1 .. your boys took a hell of a beating!