sandwichsaint

Let's hope we don't start with Seabourne, he would be a serious weak link in that line-up.

Tell me this isn't a typo of 'OB checking your plums'? (do tell, I've never heard or seen this before anywhere).

The club's really not thinking big enough on these alternative revenue streams. Renting out the stadium for a mass mow-in - GBP 1000 (petrol extra) Sponsor your own seat - only £200 (per game) to display a small commercial logo (max size 100mm x 25mm) on your own rented seat Start flogging chips on the concourse at 1.50 a go and charge an extra (optional) 25p for the salt and vinegar (why should one chip muncher subside another's condiment habits?) Open the stadium on non-match days for extra revenue; get the giant screens to display pictures of: Chairman Mao (the other one), Rupert Lowe, Nick Clegg, Ashley Cole, Cortese, MLT, Lucy Pinder, Craig David, Stu Romsey Saint, Ricky Lambert etc. The crowd can become emotionally excited as their favourites are displayed and then throw coins at large targets in the shape of grabbing hands when their enemies appear. An absolute steal at only 5 pound admission (plus 7 pound booking fee). You read it here first.

What was David Peach's goals per game - must be somewhere around the 30 / 300 mark ??

Never mind the quality, feel the shirt-sales. I never realised there was quite so much global potential untapped; it would be remiss of us not to make a big-name signing from the Spratley Islands some time this summer. (Is this really a country or a well-inserted WU?)

Challengers: Southampton Sheffield Wednesday *Millwall Colchester United Playoff contenders: Huddersfield Town *Swindon Town Brighton Brentford ... my outside bet to do well Top half Walsall Charlton Athletic Bristol Rovers Notts County Bottom half Peterborough Utd Plymouth Argyle MK Dons ... outside bet to go down, appear to be in disarray at the moment Carlisle United Yeovil Town Leyton Orient Exeter City Hartlepool United Favourites for the drop: Oldham Athletic Tranmere Rovers Bournemouth Rochdale Dagenham or Aldershot or Morecambe or Rotherham

How do you work that out then? Surman played right across our midfield at various times including plenty of games at right mid, he also did a very passable impersonation of a left back on several occaisions towards the end of his time with us - it's not a giant leap of faith is it to deduce that he would do a better job at RB than any of the three we currently consider our RBs? Far better player than any of those three.

Surman would **** all over Semi/Murty/LJ at RB, FACT!

So blocks 1-2-3 will be open for ST sales and matchday sales again?

Posted last week - it really shouldn't affect us. If we are serious about the top two then which three of these four we play should be irrelevent. Charlton; I have Charlton ST mates and with the demise of Gillingham it's once again my nearest game; always a decent awayday - keep 'em down! Huddersfield; never been there, diary permitting quite fancy this one next year. They tailed-off quite badly this year and were only helped into the play-offs by Millwall's no-show at their place. Thrashed at our place - they haven't done enough for me to deserve promotion - keep 'em down! Swindon: small team who punched well above their weight this season, excellent manager. For however poor we were that day I thought they still looked decent at their place and were also v good at St Marys. Hopefully they will have to sell at least one of the strikers and we can go down there next season and right a few wrongs - keep 'em down! Millwall; no mark club and one of the very worst away days I've ever been to (decent view though)! Fair play to Jackett who has got a very average bunch of players performing well above the sum of their individual parts. If they stay down and keep him they would be probably be the biggest single threat to us next year and they present unattractive opposition at home and away - let 'em go up and good riddance (hopefully we could pass them and P going the other way at the end of the season).

Plans to build new 60,000 stadium rubbished by several forum members as 'nowhere near big enough' ('I just wish this club would show some ambition for once, FFS') Away fans, coming soon to a block near you (allegedly). No way Saints will sell anywhere near 35k for JPT at Wembley ('tickets will be easy to come by' 'everybody that wants one will get one') Saints shouldn't even try to win the first round/second round/semi final/regional final (of the JPT), 'I won't be going even if we get through and I can't see more than 25k trekking up to London on a Sunday for a mickey-mouse final' Our pies and beer are the worst in the whole of the football league, FACT. Lowe was too tight to install undersoil heating / undersoil heating wasn't deemed necessary due to the stadium location / undersoil pipes were installed but Lowe 'never bothered' to have them connected. SMS is in a fantastic, pub-walking, traditional city centre location / SMS is siuated in a slum and suffers from intractable traffic problems. There is no media-worthy event at the football club that can't be made worse by a few choice words from self appointed uber-fan Nick Illingsworth (and where did all the Saints trust members vanish to?) The new home shirt will definitely have some red and some white somewhere on it and will be loved by 50% of the fan base and rejected by the other 50%. And finally .... WE'LL WALK THIS LEAGUE NEXT YEAR!

****ed up, left field selection Niemi Telfer Fonte Paul Williams Bridge Walcott Oakley Guthrie Bale Lambert Pahars Anybody want a game? That team would win CCC, and give an account in the Prem Honorable mentions: kelvin/killer/claus/beatts/crouch (that'll do for the bench!)

Don't knock it; what some supporters would recognise as a caravan forecourt is in fact another set of supporters' estate agent. LOL at the pictures! I thought football hoolies were up there with the coolest and hippest things around? PMSL at their 'smart casual' wear. The majority of this lot look like the Adams family after a smash and grab raid at a Matalan clearance sale, very third division; I thought we were Premier League in these matters?

Best Southend Leeds Brentford Worst Colchester Millwall (that's the one single game for me where our play-off place went down the drain)

Les Read = Curbishley?

Villa don't have a sponsor either. In terms of ****ing contests I suppose it depends on the time frame you look at and the the variables of past performance/current performance/past, present and future crowds, current backing, likely long-term backing etc etc I've followed football and Saints since the mid 60's (first game v Sheff Weds at the Dell 1967, most recent game v Gillingham on Saturday). Clubs that are 'bigger' than Saints: Man U, Man C, L'pool, Everton, Arse, Chel, Spurs, Leeds, Villa, Newcastle, Sunderland Same sort of size: Forest, Derby, Wolves, West Ham, Palace, Sheff Weds, Norwich, West Brom Saints are 'bigger' than: Fulham, Burnley, Hull, Cardiff, Ipswich, Coventry, Middlesborough, Leicester, Blackburn, Wigan, Pompey! Brum, Bristol City, Stoke, Sheff Utd These don't even come close: Charlton, Millwall, Swansea, Plymuff, All IMHO of course!

Ian Storey-Moore? BWP?

Boring! Let's start a thread where we all slag off players that aren't good enough and I'd wager to say that some posters won't ever have seen playing. Move on, we can afford better now and I have no doubt that over the next few months AP/NC/ML will be acquiring better. We can take it as read that Pullis, Lancashire, Molyneux have no future with us at the sort of level we are aiming at; much more to the point is where and how we strengthen. A new RB is essential, beyond that it's all up for grabs. No reason at all why this season's squad would not win this league next season (barring injury to Morgan or RL), fortunately we can do better than that; we are one of the few clubs at any level who are in a position to strengthen pretty much as and where we want to.... happy days.

Will Wagon be wheeled for 'conspiracy' now? Or is this just be good ol' threatening behaviour? I'm finding it hard to keep up with all the legal niceities (sp?); where do we all stand 'legally' with offering vague unspecified threats and arranging to meet in certain locations, via 'electronic media'?. More to the point; does anyone have any good old fashioned inside intel on the 'prospects' for Saturday? I know for a FACT that Kent OB have mobilised good numbers for Saturday, Gillingham are pikey chav scum and very territorial with it.

I'd quite like Leeds to stay down - excellent awayday/weekend - and guarantees two 'big games' next season. They also keep the profile of our league higher; if you take away Norwich/Charlton/Leeds you will halve this year's media attention and profile, and the remainder looks pretty anaemic. Take those three away and we will be everyone's Cup Final, home and away. Stay down and they are likely to lose one or two of their better players, and there's always room for two teams at the top! I'd get rid of Norwich, Millwall and Swindon and take our chances with Leeds and Charlton, with our set-up and backing we really shouldn't be fearing anybody at this level. Of the potentially relegated sides only Sheff Wed look like they could challenge in the top 6, I also expect Brentford to do well next season and maybe Brighton too if Poyet continues there.

If you do nothing else today ... click on the link above! Though probably best not do it if you are eating or have just eaten; at last JPFCW comes clean!

Stu, you're always mildly entertaining but you do your case a grave diservice with your hyperbole on this one; are you still in the 70's and 80's? I've seen about 10 homes and 10 aways this season and I've not seen any of the procedures that you claim that 'every constabulary follows as a minimum'. We're Cat C innit? (or A, I forget which one is the hardest ...) and I've seen Millwall H and A, Leeds A, Gills H, Charlton H and A, Pompey H, etc ... hang on a minute ... we did have your 'routine' procedures at Millwall A as I should imagine does every other team, but the days of lock-ins and mass marchings-to-the-station are (thankfully) long gone. Green Street-ers might wish it was different but the reality is that the 'ordinary fan' can travel H and A with minimal interference and inconvinience. Doesn't alter the fact that it was a monumental (deliberate?) boob by the OB to let P fans out at the final whistle but that in itself no way absolves our brave boys for taking responsibility for their own actions and let's hope that anybody who was silly enough to be filmed rattling fences and throwing windscreen wipers gets a sensible and proportinate sentence. PS Stu, why don't you bring your lads to the Gillingham game? How old are they? I'm sure they'd love it and we'd have another 2? introduced/indoctrinated into the faith; go on, you know want to.

Not really bothered who dunnit but a big 'thanks' to whoever did! Admin was the best thing to have happened to this club in a long time, where would we be now without it?

Spuds to be the new West Ham? We could do a lot worse than Dawson/King/Huddlestone/Jenas/Lennon/Crouch/Defoe (tho obviously not all at the same time). You have to hand it to sack face - give him a cheque book and he seems to deliver.

PlasticFantastic me up. Regular crowds of 40k? Capacity of 50k? Sell 30k STs at the (much higher) prices needed to sustain a new-build stadium and premier Lge/CL football? It's certainly a different sort of 'next level'...... anybody seen my jester hat and face paint?