Hamilton Saint

I got 10, but I had to think long and hard about the jury question.

It means you have to get at least 8 correct!

Simple subtraction: 2012 - 1952 = 60

You've been taking lessons in sarcasm from Glasgow Saint.

No, definitely not. If we win, and Villa or Reading lose, we will be SIX points clear of the relegation zone. Need all three points!

I have been on this board since about 1997/1998 - when Dave Jones was manager. It's been through several incarnations since then. For the first little while (a year, maybe - it seems so long ago now!) I was "ex-Hythe Saint", but then changed to "Hamilton Saint".

I've just received the new CD by Brian Eno. It's called Lux. It's an album of "ambient music" created to accompany an exhibition of his art at the Palace of Venaria in Turin, Italy. It's the usual hypnotic stuff - if you're at all familiar with his ambient recordings (Discreet Music, Music For Films, Music For Airports, etc.), this is more of the same. Added to Eno's keyboard work is some Moog guitar by Leo Abrahams and some violin and viola parts by Neil Catchpole. Included with the "first edition" run of the CD are four 5"x 5" colour prints.

Thanks, Nigel. You have done an excellent job turning this team around. You have instilled a positive, winning mentality at the club. More importantly, you have shown yourself to be an unfailingly positive, honest and decent man. I'm sorry to see you go. I wish you all the best.

Adkins ... not Atkins. Adkins.

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When I was 11 yrs. old (in mid-60s) I used to travel to and from St. Mary's College every day. About half-a-mile walk to Hythe Ferry, ferry ride across the Water, half-a-mile walk to the bus stop at Holyrood, and a 15-minute bus ride through city and Portswood to Bitterne Park. Then back again in the afternoon. No problem. An adventure every day!

One of my favourite musicians in the early '70s was Van Morrison. I went to see him at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto in 1975. Never got over that huge disappointment. What a huge difference between his status as a creator of brilliant LPs (he had five great albums in a row in the late '60s/early '70s) and his presence as a live performer. No stage charisma at all - absolutely none. One element that fed into that huge disappointment was the fact that he had recently released a superb live double-album called "It's Too Late to Stop Now". I was expecting something of that calibre - but he didn't seem to give a sh*t.

No. Cheating is not OK. Diving is despicable.

Look at our fixture-list for the rest of the month. We MUST win this one!

Creepy!

I don't get out to the movies much these days. I went to Life of Pi in Toronto a couple a few weeks ago. The film was billed to begin at 7.05 The advertising began at 6.45 and ran until 7.12 With an average of 30 seconds per ad, that was about 50 ads. Then about 8 minutes of trailers. The film finally started at 7.20 That's how some of these mainstream "cineplexes" work these days. You pay an exorbitant amount to get in and then they bludgeon you with advertising for 25 minutes. That's f*ckin' appalling!

I blame Merrington: "What we don't want to do, now, is to concede just before half time." "What we mustn't do now, is to give up a goal in the first five or ten minutes of the second half." "We need to hold our shape and stay firm for the final few minutes. To concede now would be a disaster."

He's saying that this is what Adkins had to say during his post-game interview.

True, but ... You might also think of the Villa game as a "must-win" because they are right above us the standings (with only one more point than us). If we beat them, it gives us a bit more breathing space.

When you see the next three teams that are coming up on the fixture list for the rest of January, the Villa game certainly looks like a must-win to me! Hard to see us getting too many other points this month!

In his extended pre-game interview a few days ago (available on Saints Player), Adkins said that Ramirez's dead leg injury was on the other leg - not the same leg as the previous injury.

Just need to read posts 29, 30, 31!

I'm not a huge Bowie fan - my favourites are Ziggy Stardust ... , Low and Heroes.

Interesting theory, but the name of the club should start with a capital letter, no?