sandwichsaint

A good and fair summary of where we are. People do realise these things aren't just written for die-hard Saints fans who pick up every paper hoping to find out every last single detail of stuff that's hardly begun? For everybody else it was nice to see the lines 'Southampton don't need to sell' written in one of our pieces.

Labour 95% Scots and Welsh 90% Green 88% Fib Dems 76% Scum 23% UKIP 7% Disappointed that Lab+Con both came out so high.... I must have missed the option for 'none of the above'.

I'd say she's been whoring herself out for months and you're the last to know, these things don't just happen overnight you know.

Jordi Gomez looks like the MS replacement.

Simples

Vay-- - ho, vay- - - ho Daylight cum and I want to go home.

I can see it clearly now. The middle represents the Academy, a frenzy of activity with many bodies frantically trying to escape into the relatively calmer outer waters, almost embryonic. The ripples spread far and wide, each a summit to be breached and an experience to be stored. Only the fittest survive, but what quality they show, look at the smooth wide passages as we annihilate lower league opposition and go on to assimilate ourselves almost seamlessly into the upper echelons. There is the odd set-back but our boys bounce back and continue to plow relentlessly upwards. But as our eye travels outwards we see the fundamental meaningless in their struggle, the fact that there is literally nowhere else to go. They have simply outgrown their environment, a human tide of Lallana's and Shaw's and Pochtino's surging and merging with the crowd to almost become as one, but the shadows tell their dark tale. They can never be united, like lovers spurned the tide turns away and the players seek pastures new. The crowd are left frustrated and the dappled shadows foretell an uncertain future, onwards into the light or shrinking back into the darkness, the artist leaves us hanging, anxious for new hope but resigned to despair.

I'm pretty relaxed about it all - 'everybody' prefers Option A, manager and players staying; worst-case scenario is that next season we have a new manger and some new players.

My youngest has quit his job and moved out to Brazil for 6 months, he is based in Sao Paulo but will travel to the England games if he can get tkts. (he hasn't got anything at the moment ticket wise but he has been offered all sorts locally, but v expensive, Eng v Uruguay £250(!). He will just have to wait to nearer the time and see how the market/touting pans out, I have forwarded the FB link he will be well up for this. Any other Saints fans heading towards Sao Paulo, I am quite happy to pass on contact details if anybody wants a heads-up/way in to Sao Paulo , he is 22, big Saints fan/lively/sporty/party person, he speaks the lingo and has quite a wide circle of local friends, Brazillian and other nationalities too, he has a Brazillian GF and is living with Costa Ricans and French people. Yoof of today eh?

Blue and white stripes? Can't see it.

Good effort, Calne Saint and Batman too.

Obviously time to 'bury' some more bad news. Paedo politicians and organised child sex rings in the 70's, who knew what? Massively discredited political system with vast numbers not voting or protest-voting. NoW trial rolls on in the background, corruption and routine law-breaking in the media, and dodgy links to police/politicians/big business. Zero hours contracts becoming the new normal and welfare claimants being compelled to take these in lieu of proper paid work. What better time to roll out the McCann travelling circus for it's umpteenth performance.... daytime TV, the opiate of the masses.

Anybody gonna drag through the old threads and claim they got all three? I called Fulham, Cardiff, Swansea in January so got to be happy with 2/3, and Swansea 'too good to go down' never really got out of the bottom 5-6 till a few weeks ago - a walking advert for not being in the Thursday Cup - see Hull next season(?) Looking at tonight's games Poyet has really got Sunderland punching their weight, if they can re-balance their squad (some in, some out) and hang on to their better players they ought to be comfortable next season. Not sure about Villa, how bad are the relegated sides if Villa have stayed up?

C.B Fry C.L.James Cee.lo Green Hard to call that one.

Get iiinnnnn!

Wolves away c1969-'70. Me small boy in stands. Phil Parkes (wolves keeper) rolls ball to Wolves LB Derek Parkin and Parkin plays it back to Parkes (in the days of the back pass). Irritated, Parkes picks it up and rolls it to Parkin gesturing him to hoof it up field, Parkin again passes back to Parkes. Parkes returns ball to Parkin indicating that he should hoof it away and doesn't want it back. With that Parkes kneels on the 6 yd line and starts to adjust his bootlaces, whilst the hapless Parkin turns for a third time and plays another back pass to Parkes, only this time to see Parkes perfectly stranded on his knees and the ball roll agonisingly into the unguarded net. Deep joy. Not sure how accurate a recollection this is (I was 8 or 9 and it was a long time ago) or what ITN says about it but I can remember it clear as day. I would love to know if Parkin really did score an OG against Saints at Molineux some time between '68-'72 or if my brain has started to manufacture Saints-related-snippets somewhere along the way in the ageing process.

Coming soon in the club shop ..... loaves and fishes. Buy 2, get 1 'when-in-a-hole-stop-digging' shovels free.

Whoosh!

How can something be 'possibly quite likely'? Blatant trolling by the OP IMHO. Moyes can only come here if he brings De Gea, Baines and Wellbeck with him; other than that it's a 'no' from me.

Dopecaster Rovers Hamilton ACIDemicals

STs must be out soon, we're going for the golf-and-Pringle-jumpers brigade.

I'm sure they will be cherished by all who receive them, inside or out.

Anybody see this in today's Guardian? (my bold, say what you see and all that)) To be honest i'd take a Ginsters pasty over Moyes for Utd manager. At least it couldn't be ludicrously lacking in self awareness, make defeatist statements all the time, and it might actually motivate Rooney. That, and i'm sick of looking at his ballsack textured, crumbling, grey tinted, charisma vacuum of a face pull baffled expressions on the touchline while he plays ****, negative football with not even a remote sliver of a cohesive plan. The man is paid millions a year to do his job, he's been beyond pathetic. Beyond pathetic. Before he even had a foot in his office I knew this would turn out to be a huge failure and a huge mistake, and i've been saying it ever since. Going all "alpha male" is hardly fashionable in 2014, but he comes across as a laughably weak individual, can you imagine any of the more testosterone fuelled younger "lads" in the dressing room respecting him? It's patently obvious his own disposition prevented Everton from progressing eventually, just look at everything that has gone on at the club since he left. His self doubt and cautiousness raised a glass ceiling, and now he's gone the players have more belief than they ever did under him. Never a Utd manager. Not even a Utd cleaner. Pathetic character in a world of bold personalities. Get that idiot out.

Any feedback on how this went? It looked like a nasty head wind for most of the two days? Definitely fancy having a go next year if the dates fit.

That would be a result for us, Hull are a side that are building a nice bit of mid-table momentum, a season in the Europa lge should help to keep them nicely below us.