sandwichsaint

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!

Wot a golden thread! Have to fes-up that I do the whole 'Wwhhhooo?' thing, but I'd like to think that I do it in a self-aware and slightly ironic fashion, call it panto if you like! In fact I do it in much the same way that I booed NC's picture at the JPT - there I've said it - forget this Mexican wave balleros - FACT, NC was booed at the JPT final and I was one of the ones wot done it. Singing about Boscombe's 'cup final'? ... now that IS fecking embarrassing!

That shirt's still not doing it for me (I was quite keen originally but all badged-up and with the 'sash' just stopping square at the shoulder it looks like a right dog's dinner ... incoming!)

You missed out 4th - Complete risk assessment and check for equal opportunities and disability compliance - no wonder half time is creeping towards 20 minutes in some games !!!!

Which Lord was reputed to regularly meet the wrong Lady at the Royal Hotel in Deal?

I think you forgot TV money!

If it was SRS who got clobbered you can bet he went down in instalments.

Did you have anyone particular in mind?

I thought the 1-1 at Yeovil meant our season was over?

I'm not sure that even NC will be doing anything quite as extreme as this. Adkins picked up an unfit, unmotivated squad, possibly one containing one (or more) subversive elements, and one that was massively under-performing; furthermore there is no indication at the moment that he is to be given 'any' reinforcements at this stage. Any improvement, from where he started, is a good improvement. I happen to think he is a really good manager and he is already (after a couple of weeks) starting to make a difference. Any manager taking over a losing side has to 'stop the rot' before he can do anything else and that means tightening up massively at the back - here we have clear signs of improvement with no goals conceeded from open play in 3 games, and the only goal against a soft and apparantly needless penalty.We have avoided defeat for three successive games, our best run of the season so far! Adkins is starting to coax performances from Hammond, Harding, Seabourne and perhaps now Guly too, he also has Lallana to increasingly throw into the mix. The problems are plain for all to see and as ever they come back to not replacing Ant and Dec who were massively under-rated by some last season, but who's absence haunts us every single game! FFS why are we not getting in some alternative firepower/pace on loan? Every one of these dropped points pushes us further away from where we want to be - come on Nicola, Adkins is clearly the man for the job so let's back him while we can still go up this season.

Thought he was awful last season, his jumping lacked timing and his headers were usually fairly weak and fairly random in direction. He also seemed to lack experience at CB (didn't he mainly play LB for Exeter?) and was often a yard behind situations rather than a yard in front which often left him turned and having to defend facing his own goal. On the plus side he is reasonably athletic for a CB and but he needs to learn to start 'punching his weight' in physical situations. Have to say I saw a degree of improvement at MK where he was one of our better players on the night. I think we are fairly well covered in this position if he is our 4th choice CB and he has every chance of improving under NA's expert tutelage - fair play to him and well done on Saturday (by all reports).

Call me old skool but I regard Brighton as more of a derby.

Agree to differ! He was never going to the best RB due to lack of pace, a lack of positional awareness and a lack of a decent tackle but despite these obvious limitations he regularly DAJFU in that position, and on that basis I'm not sure Otsemobore was very much of an improvement. I never really saw him play particularly effectively in CM and saw him have some complete mares in that position (Leeds away was one). As others have said he had a decent delivery from a set piece and that is a specialism every side needs (how many corners have we wasted/hit straight out of play so far this season?). Given all that he was an honest jobbing professional who was clearly committed to the cause, who improved massively over 18 months, and who the other players clearly respected, and who it was often commented on that the results seemed to go up in down in relation as to whether he was playing or not. He was clearly not (yet?) good enough for the 'next level' (nor are we at the moment!) and he was probably not good enough to be a regular starter in our full-on 1st X1 but he def is/was good enough to be a squad player in this league. I would have kept him for one more season, he prob wasn't on big money and would be a versatile option from the bench, in terms of where he could directly come on and DAJFU or where he could come on and free-up other different players for the tactical switches that NA appears to want to employ.

Don't think so .. in the context of the original post the poster referred to Everton 'as being the next longest serving club' which I took to be the one immediately above Saints on the 'longest serving' list and which I CORRECTLY identified as THFC... you have also missed Liverpool and Man U off your list of long-servers who both go above Spurs. HTH (if it doesn't bike sheds at 3.30 and my dad is massive).

think you will find it's Spuds, HTH