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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!

I just hope that the person in the crowd with the transistor radio gets the right info out to the players, we don't want another Bally.

Long also contributed one of the highlights of the season away at Millwall - his 'air shot' then crossing the ball off his wrong foot, it was stunning live and something I'd never seen done before.

Nice touch including Forster.

Was dreading this after the Leic game but as someone once said 'a week's a long time in football'; I'm massively looking fd to it now, the players will be on a real high and we've hit some form just when we need it. Clearly City will be a 100 times better than Villa were yesterday but you'd have to fancy our front three against anyone if they all click again, and a welcome return to form for Clyne yesterday, and prob JWP's best game for Saints. My only grizzle is I hope we play Gazza, he deserves it after yesterday and playing in a 'big' game will do wonders for his development; I love KD and he's been a brilliant club captain but there's no room for sentiment (for me) in a game that has a fair bit riding on it.

Footballers eh? More spin than Strictly ..... .

Or as some of us call it 'living in a democracy'. Just because we've had an election it doesn't mean everybody has to 100% fall-in behind the winners for the next 5 years. Debate, disagreement, alternatives, choices (and more regrettably hatred and bigotry) all carry on regardless, and for the most part that's a jolly good thing too. (Sorry if this doesn't relate to the link, I haven't read that, just replying to UJ's reds-under-the-bed paranoia).!

Very tolerant people the Brits, 5m votes for 2 seats! That's indefensible in any language. Chuck in another 2-3 m who didn't bother voting cos their votes make no difference and the same again who voted 'tactically' ie negatively, all based on polling info which we now know was utter horsec9rap. Not sure how we get there but I'd be astonished if we still have FPTP in 40 years time.