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He was good last night but I was more surprised his name didn't come up on the recent 'you thought they were going to be good thread'. Remember when we first signed him, lots of bigging-up and lots of posts about how good he was in pre-season, remember going to Gillingham for my first glimpse (that's probably my favourite word - a sexual onomatopoea, just say it slowly) for either a friendly or an early season league cup game. Massively under-whelmed, he looked good, he strutted, he even did a bit, but for me the sum never added up to the parts. Agree he was in the wrong sort of side (more of a Liverpool-when-they-were-good sort of player) but not sure he was ever cut out for the hurly-burly life of a Southampton midfielder. A few decent players around him and it might have been different. He will go down in my annals as an average Saints player, nice missus though.

I'm very surprised they are going after twitter-ists - apparently there are still rich, intelligent and well-connected people who don't even have the internet in their homes. In all honesty I was a little 'surprised' but I'm certainly not going to dispute it - I whole heartedly accept that it is very likely that there are loads of rich and well connected people who don't have the internet in their homes. (Is there an icon for 'suspends disbelief'?)

Also forgot to add the Ramones at Canterbury! My party piece nowadays is to go up to anybody wearing a Ramones tee shirt and say 'Have you seen them?' For the yoof it is enuf to say who were these Ramones? For older punters I haven't yet found anyone answering 'yes' in the past 18 months of fandom - I completely ruined a bloke in front of his mates in the pub before West Ham away last year, luckily he saw the funny side and we had a good music chat thereafter. I think that's my claim to fame ' I saw the Ramones live' (probably their only UK tour, but I stand to be corrected).

Flyer has said that it's win or bye-bye for Sparky on Saturday, all via ITK sauces, and he's never been wrong on here has he?

But probably not in instalments over a couple of weeks, if we have taken (2000) then presumably they have sold or are selling the remainder to home fans? Idle speculation by me alert, can anyone confirm if this is correct?

Ah, the old Derry formation, a 'front goalkeeper' if you will.

from next year, 2013-2014.

No, no, no, thrice no, you've got this all wrong. Those silly BBC lefties have conspired with a whole bunch of desperate/damaged/deluded/compensation-hungry, attention-seeking, self-serving liars; there never was any child abuse, certainly not institutionalised and reaching into the higher levels of society, whatever made your silly head think this? This story isn't going anywhere any more, they'll break the BEEB (there's a bonus ball for you) rather than have this go any further. It really doesn't matter, it was all a long time ago, and it mainly affected other people, not people like us.

I hoped we'd get 3 wins from W brom/Swans/QPR/Newc/Norwich, we still might ! Lets judge NA now he has a full squad to choose from - definite green shoots last week against Swansea, a game we could and should have won. A win at QPR would be perfect but I would take a low-scoring draw with no defensive F-ups now. QPR .... D? NEWC ... D NORW ... W LIVP .... L READG .... W Maybe 7 or 8 points, not really enough but will show we are going in the right direction. We need to stay in touch till the window or else our Jan options will be very limited (still going to be pretty limited anyway imho).

Peroxide moron, quite possibly. How big is this stadium gonna need to be? We are going to need a complete section for philosophers' corner at this rate.

I'd say Gazza all day but more interestingly who is the number 2? By common consent it would appear to be Borruc, (or Gazza if you start those two the other way roun)d. What's with KD regularly getting the number 2 gig? I can well understand that he is the club captain, he is important in the dressing room etc but we are only one warm-up injury or a red-card-in-the-first-ten-minutes away from having to play him for a full game, and again by common consent 'most' people would consider we have two better alternatives. Wouldn't we be better maintaining KD's registration, moving him into a quasi coaching/warm-up type role and maintaining him on the bench and in the dressing room and also naming our two best available keepers on the team sheet for every game?

Serious question, has Parr improved massively? Saw him twice last year and on the telly and he looked hopeless every time. Big lump with poor decision making and very limited technically. Not better than what we have and certainly not one for the next level.

I thought Fitz Hall looked really good the couple of times I saw him, shades of a young Rio, where did it all go wrong?

Not sure how we've got this far without ...... Kevin Phillips, terminally average. Wiki tells me he scored 22 in 64 in generally pretty poor sides but you always felt like you expected more from him.

I'd give them row H right round the ground, let's see them get behind their team then

Nothing wrong with that and to observe is probably better than to not observe. Just a shame that so many of our freedoms are illusory - we won the wars but on so many levels we lost the peace.

This is fantastic and to be respected but is it really relevant to 11 year olds? , the minutes silence at SMS yesterday was immaculate (bar 0.0001% of idiots) but how much of it is personal conviction and how much is peer-pressure/group think? WW2 ended nearly 60 years ago and WW1 getting on for 100 years ago, clearly while there are still veterans alive 'we' should give respect (every day, not just on poppy day) but will we continue to give respect ad infinitum? I'm 50(!) and I've no problem understanding the issues and standing up for a minutes silence, fortunately unlike many my age I have no recollection of losing family members/friends in the great wars. Trouble with it all it all becomes codifed rather than spontaneous - why was there a ceremony at West Brom on Monday 5th November? Would anybody have noticed if there hadn't been? I think it's a bit weird my boys 23/21 observe this tradition, maybe they should look fd rather than back? I have massive respect to anyone that wears a poppy but should it be mandatory for younger people to wear one? I thought that was part of what we fought against?

wtf????

Glad you've backed that up, I haven't seen any telly but that's how I called it from the back of block 39 in real beer-time. First one wasn't a penalty and wasn't a card, the fd can be unseated and lose his balance - doesn't make it a penalty nor a card - second one looked blatent and from our angle was a stride inside the line. Bit of a twit for going down too easily in the first half (Deepthroat was def Linda Lovelace, she died last year, Malcolm Allison used to get in the team bath with Mary Millington, I think). Other than that it was AL's best game for quite some time - still not sure we can play him and GR away from home but very entertaining at home.

According to 'Big Ron', Ronald Koeman had all free kicks within 25m 'in his contract'; not sure I ever believed this and I certainly don't believe it now.

My thought exactly, this has completely taken the wind out of the momentum that was building to get to the bottom of this. He (the witness) now looks a right cv.nt and so by implication do any others still complaining '(the victims) they're all mistaken/thick/deluded/unreliable' etc etc. Those alleged to be involved suddenly look whiter than white, matey gets his comp/payout and we all move on. Cheap at half the price.

That'll just be Lambert then.

How's your injuries/biking? I can't find any reason to hate Swans but I also really hope we win tomorrow!