sandwichsaint

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!

Seen most of the punk/70s bands on here, Jam, Clash, Undertones, Joy Division, Buzzccoks, SLF, Ramones, Blondie!, Costello, Penetration, Damned, Angelic Upstarts, Sham 69, Feelgood, Eddie and the Hotrods, Boomtown Rats, Magazine, Wire, Devo, Stiff tour, Ian Dury, Wilko Johnson, Smiths etc. 'Biggest' regret was not seeing the Pistols, though they never came to us - best was I've seen all those bands playing in Canterbury, either at the Uni or the town theatre (the Marlowe). Unthinkable now that some of the biggest chart/alt acts of that time played provincial tours. Regrets, I've had a few but then again I never went more than 10 miles from my house to see these bands .... would love to have seen Primal Scream and the Stone Roses.

Nick Holmes is a shoo-in, didn't Chris Nicholl regularly wear stubble? Frank Worthington and Ossie both had plenty of sideburns. Lambert regularly plays without a shave.

Thoughts? Fe.ck off Skate cv.nt.

On a complete tangent, my ST is just a few seats away from the 'bone idle' MLT - as you know he was at the Spurs game - I've never seen him looking so FIT! He's about half the size he was towards the end of his career - looked like he could put his boots on and play. For all the pies-and-burgers stuff he looked pretty trim for someone his age (early forties?)

Derry's boys, Swansea won't know what's hit them ......................... 1 Gazza ............................. ............... 2 Clyne .................. 3 Fox ............... ....4 Font ........... 5 Yoshi ............ 6 Hoov ........ ................ 8 GR ...............10 AL ..................... ..7 Mayuka ......... 9 RL .................... 11 JRod ... 12 Puncheon (if we are going to allow substitutions) The referee will be from Staffs and the linesman will be carrying orange and yellow flags. Hopefully we will be in red and white striped jerseys, black shorts and red stockings, Happy days. Only tricking D, love your posts and your enthusiasm for all things SFC.

The Skate gets it ..... nearly (!) .... GK is Gazza .... but agree on last night's back four (why are people dropping Joshi for the own-goal machine that is Jos?)... AL goes off the wide left and plays in a midfield 3, hallelujiah .... one in the hole which is always going to be GR ... Lambo starts, not JR, get Mayuka playing in his proper position. This is probably the best we can do but I can see Swansea playing a patient passing game and being clinical on the break, another Wigan if you will?

Liking this (typing) stylee ... keep the pitch B - I - G ... no wonder we always play so narrow (NA is clearly not putting enuff hyphens on the team sheet when he pins it up on the Staplewood notice board first break on Thursday).

Forget Dalek's yo-yo theory. It's time to introduce our new ro-ro manager approach. Nothings too far out-of-the-box for our wacky, free-thinking, Southampton Way. Local press? Who needs them? Pay to park to shop in the club shop? Brian Potter at his best. Play four forwards away from home? We'll **** this League. Bigger than Everton? U better believe it bro. No need for costly and messy pay-off compensation, just relegate NA to water carrier, pitch-forker, and programme seller for the next 6 months. Bring in a name manager (cough! 'arry) to re-arrange the deckchairs, continue to under-achieve in the eyes of the fans and gently watch us subside back into the second division (that's the Championship for younger viewers). Hey presto! We start life in the second division with the more suitable and completely refreshed and wiser manager and Mr Bigbucks buggers off with more of our money and more Stains (that's an anagram) on his CV. What's not to like? The ruin of HR and the rebirth of NA, and lots more Saturday 3pm kick-offs ... forget the yo-yo strategy and get behind the ro-ro approach .... SFC, re-inventing football since 2010.

Clear run all the way up there. Met my nipper down who was from L'boro with a couple of his mates. Nice hour in the Vine before the match, lovely drop of beer (but as a negative couldn't get near the indian bbq which looked brilliant). Reasonable hot dog on the way to the ground. Always good to see Saints play and be in with our generally excellent supporters (big negative, who were the 2 or 3 idiots from racist idiot tendency about 6 or 7 rows back down behind the goal?) Enjoyed the banter and the singing. Trouble free get away and incident free journey home (but miles, literally, of 40mph and 50mph restrictions on the M'ways last night. Home at 13-30!) You meant on the pitch? Gazza looks v promising, Clyne is young and raw but has a great attitude, I love Yoshida's Desperate Dan style-defending, you won't find it any coaching manual but it's pretty entertaining to watch, Lambert hit the bar with his only meaningful action, that was about it positives-wise on the playing side. Not a classic away day but about as good as it's going to get this season.

Love it and still good to see it's not every teacher that 'helps' kids with their DT coursework.

Walking out the ground last night and seeing NA walk half way across the pitch, said to the lads I was with, 'that's a good-bye wave'. Top bloke, thanks and good luck in the future. Whole club needs to have a look at itself today, Nige has carried the can for multiple failings IMHO.

Why would we do that? Gazza is one of our better players at the moment and needs a decent run in the team, agree with Cork though, I know it's a minority view on here but I would have bought Chaplow back 5 games ago, we have no fight no bite no leadership.

Myuka looked like a poor man's Antonio when he came on; clumsy, headless and no end product. Granted it was for only 20 mins, out of position, in a losing and demoralised team but compare that to how Lallana came on in similar circumstances last time we were there, he grabbed that game and scored a wonder goal, different gravy. Myuka is another odd-ball signing who is not going to get many starts in his prefered position, not sure we should base our whole recovery strategy around him. Maybe we should have bought specialist wide midfielders rather than a complete set of strikers/attacking mids. We haven't been able to effectively combine JRod and RL into the same starting line up, looks also like we would be better (certainly away from home) with one or other of AL or GR at number 10 but not necessarily both (I posted this after the Everton game). Oh for a CMFG! Or a Jarvis? Should we change shape but that's difficult with the current personnel. Gully at RM a possibility? Shaw looked decent when he came on, prob ought to get JWP back in there some where too.