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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.

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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.

Never thought we would go down this season so never looked at the run-in. If we had been in that bottom 6 last three games of Everton/ManC/ManU would have been classic squeaky bum time.

Either you're deliberately misleading people here or your even more gullible than you seem. If you had bought the first four games of the season on PAYG and all against the same customer number you would have been entitled to buy ONE Man U tkt when they went to open sale .... which would have been for you .... you would still not have been able to bring your beloved +1 under this scenario either. If you had bought 8 games under the same customer number you would still have been eligible for only ONE Man U tkt (not 2 x 4). If you had bought 8 tickets for one game under the same customer number you would still have been eligible for only ONE Man U tkt (not 2 x 4). To make your PAYG scheme realistic you have to decide how many tkts you want for a particular future glory game (say in your case it's yourself +2) and then build up relevant histories against three separate customer numbers, this could get a bit expensive if it's only you on your own for those less glamorous games though. I do agree with your broad point though; if you are going to definitely miss 3 or 4 games a season, and you're not over-fussed about seeing some of the lesser teams, and you really really want to see all the big games, then for a single person buying the first four games of the season on PAYG is definitely a viable option.... However let's not confuse this customer profile with having a ST which is a completely different beast .... paying up front for 19 games, at a discount (your choice how many games you attend), same seat every week, no tkt to sort/payment to make every time you want to go to a game, first dibs on cup ties including semis and finals etc. On a slight tangent: your suggestion that 4 PAYG games be increased to 10. I think people massively over-estimate the number of people that buy regular walk-up tkts. The figure of 4 would have been set by the box office based on the figures on their records and the number of tkts available, if '000s of fans had 6 or 8 or 10 games it would have been set much higher; when we got to the Cardiff cup final 'general sale' started at 8 home games (including the cup games), I know cos I got three tkts on 11/11/9 and was knocked back for a fourth tkt on 7 (total games attended 38, tkts required 4 x 8, 32, ticket office said no).

I thought that one was one of the more allegedly 'reliable' rumours?

So to summarise, we have about 6000 tkts available on a match-by-match basis and we generally sell between 4000 to 6000 of these every game, to a mixture of pay per game fans and ST holders. It would appear that a minority of ST holders think that for certain games (all games) they should have first dibs on the 6000 available tkts, regardless of how many extra tkts they've purchased for previous games in a season, or how many tkts non-ST holders may have bought. To the extent that for a popular fixture the ground could conceivably be full of ST holders and their (once a season) 'plus-ones', over non-STs who have been to four games-plus. Thankfully most people seem to think the current system is the fairest way to ensure we have as many Saints fans in the ground for any particular game and the fewest tkts going to away fans/neutrals as possible.

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Dreadful! Don't know viva voce but we'll move on; 80,000 words in 6 months. 13.500 words a month, 3000 words a week, 75 words an hour. And they say nurses have it tough....

Obviously most of us would prefer to still be struggling in the Championship with Lowe/Wilde/the Dutch masters etc. but relegation didn't work out too bad for us in the long run did it?

Upper or lower? We were in the lower and it was dismal. Bits and pieces in the first half and literally I can't remember one chant in the second half. Good to see they've re-introduced standing at Spuds though. I used to go there a lot but gave up going there when we were previously in the Prem as at that time they had some of the most officious and aggressive stewards I've ever seen anywhere. That's all changed now though, 100% standing in the lower tier and all the way across their fans behind the goal. I didn't see any attempt to get any one to sit all game, you have to wonder who makes up and who enforces these rules?

So we've got to 1-0 19 times out of 31 and to 0-1 11 times out of 31, so far, very good. I would have thought being turned over from 1-0 up (or better) to losing the game 4 times out of 19 is a pretty high %ge? As witnessed by the fact that we haven't been able to do it once to anybody else despite having 11 chances to do so .

Would love to see somebody complete this table: P31 Scored first and won __ (number of games) Scored first and drew __ Scored first and lost ___ Oppo score first and we win ___ Oppo score first and we draw ___ Oppo score first and we lose ___ 0-0 draws ____ (zero?) Feel free to add home/away/previous seasons/other teams etc. My perception would be we are quite good at scoring first but the not so good at converting that first blood into 3 points, I was wondering if the facts bear that out? Damn those dangerous 2 goal leads.

Funny game to call, entertaining but not of a particularly high standard from either team. First half fairly level, Saints played very well when we had the ball and scored two good goals, we weren't as good as usual when we didn't have the ball and we looked wide open at times with Fonte and Lovren both regularly having to go on emergency manoeuvres to bail us out. First goal was a sickener and if we had got to HT at 2-0 we may well have turned the crowd and got something out of the game. Completely asleep at the start of the second half and never matched Spurs bright start (which was always going to happen, we should have been ready for a massive 10 minutes and we weren't, and that ultimately cost us the game). Despite Spurs turning the heat up second half we restricted them to very few chances and made occasional progress ourselves, Spurs always looked like they might have a winner in them but it was annoyingly late when it did come. Lambert surprisingly good for the first 30 minutes, he's definitely not finished (he did very little second half but was feeding on scraps), reckon he would make an excellent impact sub/squad player next season, the sort of game-changer we don't currently have on the bench. Strong performance from JRod (was he injured for the sub?). Flashes from GR but he didn't really have the impact we were looking for. What's happened to Clyne, his confidence looks shot. I love Shaw and I'd love him to stay but if we receive silly money I'm sure we can replace with a half competent LB, we seem to concede quite a few goals from that side of the pitch. Bit of a mixed away day, first time I've been to WHL for a number of years and it was better than I remember it. Good bants in the pub(s) pre-match and Spurs fans who came over as quite realistic about their current position etc. Stewards v fan friendly, decent views but where oh where were the Saints fans? Don't know what the upper was like but we were in the lower and it was shocking, we gave it a bit of a go in the first half but the fans, rather like the team forgot to turn up in the second half. It really was one of the quietest away days I have ever been on.... ho hum. Season definitely over now with the other results at the weekend. We will try for Swansea tkts but I really can't see us selling many more tkts home or away between now and the end of the season, shame considering the buzz up till Xmas time.

We've finished top 8 in three of the last four seasons, didn't anyone tell you? 8th is the new 17th, get behind the team FFS!