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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.

That's new CB sorted then, just need some pace up front now.

Typical GB, no plan B! Surely we should have stuck somebody in the break? When you look at some of the names in the break surely unrealistic that we could chase down a 6 minute break? With hindsight it was never the course for Cavendish and no other teams seemed to be copying our 'team time trial' tactics, maybe Gerraint Thomas would have done better? Bit galling to see Uran in silver, are we saying none of our boys can beat him in a head-to-head? Missed opportunity, if we hadn't relied on Cav as plan A to Z, Wiggo and Froome could have taken this away from everybody else (possibly?). Top crowds.

Decent effort on a mountain bike: I didn't avg that on my road bike this afternoon though it was 29 degrees full sun and mine does include 1500 feet of vertical, hot + hilly! http://ridewithgps.com/trips/799193 you need to get on this site - ridewithgps.com - it's totally free, just export .gps files from your current app and you can get it all mapped and graphed. It's not helping my cycling but it does give you pretty pictures to look back on.

No Jonah on this thread?

Niemi probably our 'biggest' signing in modern times?

First time buyer me (bloody plastic JCLs!), I ordered three on Monday, got the order all sorted and the guy said they will be ready for collection in a couple of days. I pointed out (nicely!) that I live 150 miles away and I wouldn't be dropping past SMS any time soon, any chance they could put them in the post? No worries he said, they arrived this morning! It's fashionable to knock the TO (I've done it!) but fair play when they get it right - excellent guy I spoke to and excellent customer service to get it sorted in two days ... I'll have to try and watch the dvd when I get a minute, a v. professional package they have put together.

Anybody get on my tip? Unfortunately I didn't! Guess he would have started between 12-1 to 20-1 ??? Big challenge now for Sky to keep him, not inconceivable that Wiggins could win yellow this year and Froome could lead the team next year - great to see the French (Europcar) doing so well. A classic TDF needs some French winners.

Vignall, Guthrie, Mellis, Trottman, Ifell, (this will be unpopular) Euell were all decent for us. Had to LOL the other day at someone who said Chris Perry wasn't very good very for us, he gave his absolute all for us, shot legs or not, and the sides he played in made him look like Beckenbaur. I also had a soft spot for Wotten, right signing, wrong player, but he never gave less than the proverbial 110%. Kudos to Bart for sticking with us. Shame Patterson never made it, saw a couple of decent games from him, ditto Jake Thomson and also McLaggon away at Norwich. I always said Dyer would end up in the premier league. Never good enough for us but pleased that Lloyd James seems to have found his level at Colchester, a real trier and he also delivered a mean set-piece (anybody there will never forget his worldy away at Brentford). It seems to be fashionable (or marmite) to slag Antonio, I thought he was great, rather blocked out by the Ox but wouldn't say no to having had him in the squad the last three years. Papa Waigo was also well under-rated, not sure about Prem but he would have been worth his place in a 22 man squad last season. Gully de Prado is also very good but well under-rated by a lot of Saints fans!

If you are doing a 'long ride' you need a road bike - end of. MTBs are enormous fun off road, passable on road, but massively inefficient and 'draggy' on the road. Hybrids are 'OK' - they will get you across tow paths and 'off road' cycle tracks but again are limited on the road. Road bikes are where it's at if you have any presumptions of covering any distance at any sort of speed - lighter, more aero-dynamic, more efficient ratio of power in = power out. If you can get your employer to sign-up for the Bike to Work scheme - bike and accessories are paid for by your employer, employer claims back tax and VAT and you 'buy' the bike back from your employer for 12 monthly payments plus a nominal final payment. You can get c£1000 worth of kit for about 12 payments of £45 ... result! You can buy a perfectly good entry-level road bike for around £500, £1000 will get you something decent (it bloody well ought to!),beyond that the sky's the limit (no pun inended) ..... enjoy!

You been watching that TDF? Still sticking with your thought that Alpe d'Huez 'doesn't look that far' Hope the training's going well? Will try and donate before the big day.

Sheff Weds away when we down from the Champs - total gutless capitulation - the least we deserved was the team to at least pretend they were trying. (Honorable exceptions to KD and Chris Perry). Colchester in the fog - just a total no-show from the fans - the single worst away games I've 'ever' been to atmosphere-wise. Swindon away - Pardew just hanging the team out to dry second half (Look Nicola, I NEED SOME MORE PLAYERS!), that tactic worked a treat in the long run! Wolves - 2 nil down in what seemed like the first two minutes, and having to endure another 88 minutes of their promotion party - their fans were top draw that day, and all live in Sky TV! What goes around, comes around WTFILN? I'm truggling to find anymore - it's been a brilliant few years to follow Saints and there's been loads of decent awaydays on the pitch and off it.