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Nice work. How good was Bowie at this time? I've sort of grown away from him over the intervening 40 years but he's still 'wow' when you see something like this.

Would never have got Cork. Leon Best.

Full house: Adams, Dowie, Reid it is. Players that have played for both? I'll go for the obvious, Williams and Telfer.

Home to Forest on a grey, grey day when we were just about at the peak of our slump, the year we went down from the champ (guess it would have been under the Dutch duo). Midway through the second half, totally featureless drab 0-0, Forest player receives the ball about 35 yards from goal and without looking up or breaking stride the Forest player first times it in a perfect parobola, over KD who was by no means out of position, and into the Northam net, the ball bouncing perfectly between the goal line and the back of the net. Cue me leaping to my feet and applauding widely, looking round to see maybe a third of the supporters in the Northam/Kingsland corner doing the same! Just so out-of-keeping with anything we had seen before, either in that game or any the preceeding games. Just a complete one-off, a special 'I was there' moment, I can't remember who the scorer was but we have discussed this goal on here before. I don't make a habit of this sort of thing but I would quite happily do it again if the situation arose!

Sorry, slightly ambiguous question, which 3 ex-Saints PLAYERS have managed Cov (Strachan didn't play for Saints).

Songs from my yoof? Don't know how to post 'em up (showing my age there) but if anybody's got any of these: Age 10-12 = Slade, Sweet, Bowie, Roxy Music, Elton John (yikes!), T Rex Early secondary school = Pink Floyd, Bowie, dabbled in Genesis, Jethro Tull (do they have a local connection? they were massive at my school, Hamble, without any chart connection). Start to add in Cockney Rebel, Thin Lizzy, Bob Marley, Springsteen Takes you to the end of my yoof: Pistols, Clash, Buzzcocks, Jam, Dr Feelgood, Ian Dury, SLF, Ramones. Post 'em up, kids of today, don't know they're born etc.

My fave record, played at SMS pre-match a least twice in the League 1 years. They wouldn't alllow anything like this anywhere near the Barclays Premier League.

Which 3 ex-Saints have managed Cov? no googling allowed Got to feel sorry for the Sky Blues, Mrs Sandwich is ex-Coventry and several of my in-laws are fans and two of my nephews have played for their schools sides and the Cov academy. Don't buy it that they are 'a similar club to Saints', their 34 years in the top flight was exceptional but unlikely ever to be re-created, We had crowds of 25/28/30 in the third tier, Cov got nowhere near that in the CCC and are now down to nearer 10k in the third level. And what an absolute hole of a place; concrete jungle doesn't begin to sum it up, a sort of land-locked Portsmouth with added multi-culturalism. No wonder they spawned the Specials, the Selector and the Fun Boy Three, there really isn't very much to do there. What a trio of diamonds in a field of dirty concrete. Didn't realise the Ricoh held 32k? One of the 'best' new grounds there is, 'steep' terracing, something a bit different shape-wise, but unfortunately it's located in the middle of nowhere (and occupied by a no-mark team), perfect for the 'family' match-day experience but absolutely useless for anybody else.

Octavia VRS Diesel, all the car you'll ever need.

Last 20 managers (if we've had 20?) must have!? Last 20 players in? Last 20 players out? Last 20 players to be capped while playing for Saints?

Sobering .... 6 points minimum needed from these two games.

Viral. Kids in the school dinner hall have been asking me about it. 150 miles away and kids with no great football culture. Strange.

I think you'll find they let girls into schools nowadays, and even universities too.

Can we have this next week?

Yoof ain't what it used to be. I remember a time when he would have got a shower of loose change, a couple of cups of **** and the odd stray dart for his troubles.

At the moment the 'worse' three sides are Reading / Villa / QPR, QPR have potential to get a bit better, Villa limited opportunity to get better, Reading very little chance of getting better. Newcastle and Sunderland both look mediocre, Sunderland haven't been very good for a while and their time might have come no obvious signs where they are going to improve. Newcastle have a lot of injuries and Thursday footie to contend with but they do have the players to get out of it. I don't think Norwich or Wigan will go down, Stoke aren't even in the mix, all three have decent managers and a method that accumulates points. Ditto Saints, injuries are obviously key for us, but we have shown that our first X1 can compete and pick up points, but major question marks over squad depth. Who will change their teams in the window? Depends who can afford new players AND who can attract new players of the required standard. Would think Newcastle and QPR fit that descriptor and would like to think we will try to strengthen, particularly if we are not cast adrift at that stage. If I had to pick now I would go for 18 Sunderland 19 Villa 20 Reading 15 Saints!

My understanding is it's based on 'excessive force', which is again totally subjective. A tackle that's dangerous or likely to lead to an injury is a foul even if the defender plays the ball first. Haven't seen it on telly but in realtime it looked like a very quick and very well executed tackle, defender gets to the ball first and plays it away, then the defender and fd collide and the fd goes down. Judging by the telly comments above that is what happened. Clattenberg's two calls are 1) did the defender reach the ball first, and 2) was the tackle 'safe' in that it was controlled and that the forward was in no way put at risk. Facts will say Clattenberg got either 1 or 2 or both wrong, and he was wrong to award the freekick, albeit he has to make the decision in realtime with all the other associated pressures. Unfortunately that's what he's paid for and he got it wrong last night (on this and almost everything else too), really really poor game from somebody who is supposed to be one of our top 2 or 3 refs.

Agree, I picked this up straight away, no excuses for the goalkeeping but Punch really shouldn't be playing at that off-balance (although in part it is instinct to stick your leg out). It was a routine shot that the GK should have fielded 999/1000 and after Punch taking an air-shot over the ball the second most likely outcome would have been him shinning it straight past his own GK, tho he probably would have saved that! (I've seen it once in real time from 100m away and haven't seen it on telly so feel free to ignore/tell me I'm wrong if I'm 'doing a Derry' on this one).

Was hoping for all 3 tonight but in the end happy to settle for one - 4 games unbeaten in the 'hardest league in the world' TM NA, is not to be sniffed at. Norwich were better (more effective) than most of the teams we have played at home so far and our performance had more than a hint of after the Lord Mayor's show about it. The Keeper, Yoshi and pretty much all of the front 6 failed to reach the heights they reached on Sunday. Honorable exceptions Clyne and Fonte are both proving to be very consistent performers this season and Shaw had a stormer at LB. Fairly tepid game all round, all turning on their shocking goal, let Norwich back into the game and they pretty much carried that momentum in the second half. Not sure where this leaves us for Liverpool? Maybe some rotation on Saturday and then get our best X1 out v Reading the week after? Good to see we had enough about us to scrap out a result even though we didn't play particularly well, we are back on track and wins against Reading and Sunderland would see us moving above a point a game. (KD on Saturday for me; Gazza looked shot tonight, it's out of the firing line and off on loan to L1 for him, though I still see him as a decent long-term option for us).

Just in, took 47 minutes to get from Charlotte Place to the bottom of the M3 after the game. (Un)happy days.

Block 39 not good enough for him now;)? Saw his lads were in yesterday though.

TBF,he's been at it all season.

I think we'd all prefer Ricky to start but it wouldn't be the end of the world if JRod had to play. We are starting to get a settled team/style/shape and the next level now is about having players to come in (to cover injuries/suspensions/rotations) and DAJFU without disrupting what's already going on. The difference between seamless and shoe-horning if you will. I could see JRod doing a decent job in this team when he's called on, great finish today.

Perfect fit then. (sorry, couldn't resist. In real life I don't believe this at all)

Whether I like the chairman is fairly irrelevant it's much more important that the chairman likes me. On balance this one has done more good for me than not, always room for improvement but I'd give him 8/10 so far. No, make that 9/10 for not knee-jerking NA out the door after our difficult start - we've turned the corner and we are now looking to put some serious points on the board, starting from this afternoon. Hopefully NA, the players and the fans will repay the chairman's judgement with another three points today. COYRs!