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We now have Ramirez, Myuka, Lambert, Lallana, Lee, J Rod, and Gully competing for 3 or 4 starting positions. Unfortunately Billy was one too many, even his most blinkered supporters would struggle to shoe-horn him into that starting X1 or even onto the bench. We should all be thankful for what he did for us and wish him well, great move for him and the Forest/O'Driscoll combo should go close this season. Top bloke but I'll always remember him for that miss at West Ham, a top 10 I-was-there Saints moment from the last few seasons.

For somebody that was a very good player he is an absolutely shocking pundit, can't believe he keeps that BBC gig year in, year out. There must be other people out there? (TBF Hanson is no better).

If Saints take 10 pkts of biscuits to the meeting are 3 of these 10 then due to Penarol, or are Penarol owed another 3 packets of biscuits on top of Bologna's 10? And who pays for Penarol's biscuits? (sorry if it's obvious but haven't quite read every post).

I've got starch, I'm just not sure if I'm wearing the right shirt?

Thought the virtual queue was a good idea in theory but not sure how well it worked in practice? I went on at 08-30 on the off-chance and to see what was happening - I was placed in a 'virtual gueue' until 09-00, quite happy with that. We now find out somebody, presumably more than 1 person(?), bought tickets at 08-20 ... not happy with that. Once the site opened at 09-00 I was placed in the 'queue' with a time of 10.15, this adjusted down several times until the site appeared to crash at 09-15. I then couldn't get back into the ticket site or the OS despite repeated trying ... not too chuffed about this ... I joined the virtual queue at 08-30, I left the browser open until 09-15 when I was booted off. (Perhaps this equalled the tickets 'selling out'? eg no more requests accepted ... if that was the case it would have been slightly more courteous to have put up a message saying 'Arsenal sold out, please log off). With such a relatively small amount of tickets and such a potential large demand not sure this was the best way of doing it? A season ticket ballot would surely have been 'fairer' at this stage and saved anybody having to get up at 05-00 to queue up or to log on!

Website fell over at 9-15 .. I was in the auto cue from 9-00 to 9-15 and it was refreshing ...it then crashed and threw me off.

No, online and ticket office only.

Liar! (or the system's not working, or you went to Man City?) Mine says 'in an auto cue till 09-00, places in queue will be allocated randomly'.

You're also missing anybody who bought a tkt for City 'to get the points' but didn't go, would have thought some might have done this? Regretting not doing it myself now! We couldn't go last week, we now won't get Arsenal tickets (presumably there are points for these?); I have 3 STs but don't need any extras for Wigan or ManU (a couple of the people that will be coming to games are still playing lge cricket the next two weekends and will be buying extras for quite a few games). Reckon I could be behind the 8 ball points-wise for the rest of the season? Never had a ST before but we regularly do 10 homes, 10 aways, rather ironic that when they start bringing in a points system (which would have benefitted me massively in the last few seasons) I manage to get on the wrong side of it! Did anybody buy Man City just to get points or to get Arsenal tickets?

At last, the club have finally released pictures of this season's elusive third kit. Expect The9 to pop along any time soon and tell us all the last time we wore black mid-length socks.

Has any ticket info gone out for this game yet? Can't see it anywhere, isn't the game to be played in the week between Wigan and ManU (?????)

Says nice things about us on BBC sport today ... usual guff about great ground, great fans, great academy, great facilities .... calls us a 'ready made Prem club' and says we will stay up comfortably. Still a cu-nt tho!

f-CK ME - That's one in the eye for the knockers who said we were finished!

Danbert, I think you'll find Atkins used to manage Sc=nthorpe. How much was West Ham last year? 36 quid?

Loving the legacy! If it's there get behind it, if it isn't make it happen. My wife and I were pretty middle ranking hockey players, took the kids along to a known big name hockey club 15 years ago - provision for little ones was poor - rolled our sleeves up, every sunday morning for 5 years, unpaid, never missed a week. Asked to move to county set-up. Five years unbeaten and national champions at u15 and u17. That was the winter! Joined a cricket club with one team and seven players, five years later two teams at every age group and county finalists three times, winners once. legAcy is a first team with seven players that came through the colts section! Six promotions in eight seasons, gone from non- league to Kent DIv 4 in eight seasons, this is a massively strong local leg set-up, behind only yorks and lancs. Don't wait for someone else to do it, if you want the best for your kurds go out and do it yourself, get together with other like minded parents. Sports infrastructure in the uk is v weak. DIY - you wait for someone else you wait for ever!

Fixed it, sleep easy, NC may be on holiday but SFC is the club that never sleeps.

For good reason!

Good move for him, he hasn't made it a proper club due to injuries and issues. He needs to get his career back on track and one good season at the red few might get him back on track. Move on, we can do better.

Agreed, Adkins was 'verbally sacked' from my sofa that evening too: fortunately I saw sense too and in the morning I reneged and asked him to carry on for another 10 years, in Nigel we trust!

Anybody go cub swimming? It was also scouts as well. Lots of boys lined up in their speedos while an 'attendant' sprayed us from a hose pipe with ice-cold water, he also whipped the odd lucky one with his rubber hose; this was all in the pre-CRB days of course, and with hindsight it was proper dodgy. Anyway, I learnt to swim in the little pool and progressed to the big pool; hot bovril and pickle flavour crisps afterwards, remember hearing the New Seekers and Slade on the jukebox/PA like it was yesterday! Southampton were a top swimming club at that time but were slightly derailed by a scandal surrounding a certain high-ranking coach. Completely coincidentally was watching the Olympics today and asked my boys their memories of swimming in a 50m pool - they had both swum in a 50m pool in France and one had in Germany ... despite being a fairly sporty family neither of them had swum in a 50m pool in the UK. 16 foot 6, jumped it once, fair play to anyone that has dived it!

His uncle Barry was decent: Richards Greenidge Turner ? ? Sainsbury Jesty Cowell Marshall Tremlett Roberts Not sure if that is anything like right? Mid 70's, John Player League, Northlands Road ... Richards + Greenidge + Roberts .... eat your heart out... that was proper Premier League!

Keep up, tkt prices have been released and most people are agreed on their reasonableness (grant you it's dear, but it's neither more or less than the going rate elsewhere). Much more to the point - the club promises a long-overdue 'points system' which gives priority for big games to those supporters who have been to the most games - 'a good thing' - but the club (via their suppliers) currently can't provide a website that can handle the complexities of managing a db with potentially 200,000 users/usernames/passwords - even when they artificially reduce that cohort to the c20,000 who have so far logged-in to the 'new' system. Apparently getting a ticket for an away game you have no intention of going to, so you can gain a tkt for a game that is more attractive, is the new future? Surely it would be more honest to just pair the two games (I'll have three pairs please!)? I'm not sure who is putting more faith in the technology - the fans or the club? I think we can reliably say that based on previous and current performance the club are not really in a position to go forward with this?

Papers would be a bit empty though?

We didn't get much bang for our buck with Charlie George, Have to think the combined cost of shipping over Delgado and Challa, divided by minutes-on-the-pitch must be right up there with any of those mentioned. Charlie Nicholas was a bit of a flop at Arsenal too.

Fair play if you do, but not sure it would be 'totally' advisable in the circumstances.