sandwichsaint

Bright start

How wrong can you be? I've got two STs and I'm going with a group of 4, we're all spread over 2 blocks 35+36 and all in singles. Fantastic support.

I think Lawrie Mac mainly linked the word sweeper with road (and violins) but point taken. How could you miss Reuben Agboola? One of the most accomplished ball playing defenders you could wish to see. A couple of near misses too, Ricahard Hall and Fitz Hall both showed great potential and if things had worked out differently CHDAJFU. I'll get absolute pelters for this but i though Chris Perry conducted himself with great professionalism for us, his legs had gone but he was a class act at that level, a poor man's Dave Watson if you will. My top 5 Saints CHs I've seen, in no particular order: Fonte, Watson, Deano, Agboola, McGrath. Bench, Killer, Docker, Blythe, Steele, Chris Nichol.

I don't disagree with any thing that's written there; it looks like Vitesse have made a right rod for their own backs by not giving us a much bigger allocation, if I was local plod I'd much rather have 2500 Saints fans in a segregated area in the stadium than having to manage 1200 in the designated area, possibly a few hundred more in unsegregated home areas and probably another 1000(!) spread across the town centre. What could possibly go wrong?

I'll say 26,800 ...

Got Vignal but not much else, 150 and then a total mind blank on easy ones like Cork, Puncheon. Also I couldn't spell half a dozen names which was a little frustrating. How was Le Tissier spelt (?) cause i couldn't get that to go in in any combination.

When's the first leg? I'm in Brazil for the second leg, just checked, no cheap flights available for that one.

Add a proper reserve keeper, avoid any serious long-term injuries (impossible!) and not be in Europe, and those 20 players wouldn't be far off top top, never mind top 4. Hard to pick a front 4 from the 8 players available, Bale's a shoo-in, but after that it's very difficult, we've certainly watched some top talent the last few seasons. And we'd still all squabble about which team to put out in the 4th round of the FA Cup!

Don't be such a bore, 'Footstats' is where it's at now.

What on earth are the FA thinking here? http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jul/06/england-women-twitter-world-cup-mothers-partners-daughters On the back of the 'FA's' best performance in quite some time, looking fd to France 2016, when England men bomb out in the QFs, 'you can all go back to being, fathers, husbands, sons'. WTactualF?

What is the actual Dutch for 'I'll drive him there myself'?

We used to go to a hockey tour at Old Loughts every year, their club is adjacent to the Spurs training ground and one of the pitches for the festival was their dome, cue everybody getting there 15 minutes early for their matches,binning the hockey kit and booting a football around for a warm-up. Played in it several times and it was always very hot, plus some bright spark decided that we'd play on the full size football pitch which was absolutely enormous for hockey. Anyway we all turned up for our kick about as per usual, about 4 o'clock in the afternoon on a hot summer's day. Enter an umpire that had never been in there before, hot in here isn't it lads, i think i'm going to open these fire doors over there. Knowing nods from all of us (we'd all had a skinfull of beer, this will be good ... ...). You enter the dome through a double door/airlock type arrangement ..... matey boldy pushes open the two double fire doors and we kick off .... but not for long, I can reliably report that a large dome can become a much smaller dome quite quickly.....!

Juanmi, Oi Juanmi, Oi Juanmi, Juanmi, Juanmi, Oi, Oi, Oi Whoa, Juanmi, Whoa, Juanmi, He comes from sunny Spain He doesn't like the rain Juanmi, Juanmi. Turkish is up late this morning

Would have made a cracking red and white home kit. I like it, and can I be the first to say, hopefully there's a yellow and blue third kit we can buy too.

The-speculative-thread-to-end-all-speculative-threads. My money is on us playing Liverpool away and Spuds at home sometime between August and May.

Yep, it's now showing against the new week, hence why I couldn't see it yesterday, I didn't realise they automatically rolled fd week to week. I'm loving the Strava fly-bys, does anybody else use them?

How do i set a weekly goal in Strava? Did it last week (150k and achieved it), can't find it all this week!

Watch carefully next time you see a game with extra time (which in theory is 15 minutes each way), you will invariably see between 2-4 minutes added to each half - equivalent to 6-12 minutes for a normal 45 minutes. I've noticed this consistently over a period of time, I once saw a first half ET (can't remember what game) with no substitutes, no goals, no injuries, no cards, and the ref played an added 3 minutes ... equal to 9 minutes in 'real' time! Bizarre, refs thinking they have to add 2-3 mins to every 'half' played, or refs subconsciously hoping to avoid pens and generate a result ?????

My son is a big Saints fan and he's mentally disabled, I don't know if he has any interest in FB though but I 'll be sure pass on your regards next time I visit him.

Dell-size mentality, right there.

Forster 7 kd 5 (9.5 at Man City) Gaz 5 Clyne 4 (spent 2 months sulking) Fonte 10.5 'kin imperious, should have partnered JT in the team of the year Toby 9 when he played CB, 7 in MF, 5 when he was injured, = 7.5 overall RB 9, consistently good Yoshi, typically wholehearted but a level down from JF/TA, 7 Targett, he 'could' make it but he lacks NC/RB's killer attacking instincts, solid 8 in defence but 4 coming fd = 6 Gardos, ltd games and ltd impact 5 MS, different gravy (when he played) 9 VW, ma-ssive for us and ma-sssive to keep him. 9 Davis, under-rated 8 JWP, over-rated 6 Tadic, hopefully we will see more next season, 7+ so far Reed, very good so far, 7 this year, 8 next year if he gets some more pitch time? Dujeric, SP? OK so far, 5+ Ellia, one game wonder 3 Mane 9 so far, and plenty more to come Pelle 8, needs to be more consistent, but can't fault his effort Long 7, when he plays we always carry more of a threat, unfortunately we(he) can't then follow through with the goals.

Is this all a corporate do or can individuals buy tickets? If so, how much were the tickets? It looks like a great evening. Saint Armstrong, are you really typing all that out on the fly or are you using some sort of voice-recognition-to-WP type software and dictating it? I think we should be told, great effort either way, loved your NA stuff too.

Which will make for a very nervous afternoon for the bean counters; £20m's-worth of footballer-flesh right there, running around for one-last, hopefully injury-free, 90 minutes.

Top bloke, would be a great fit at Bristol City, a real sleeping giant, back in the championship, new ground, sold out a whole bunch of STs. Reckon Cotterell's taken them as far as he can!

http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/may/19/premier-league-clubs-ineptitude-index More good news, Saints are the third most competent team in the league based on these (fun) metrics. No real surprises to those that watch the team regularly, we are generally pretty competent in most areas nowadays!