VectisSaint

God knows where I got Wyndham Place from, I meant Bedford Place

As in the one in Salisbury Street/Wyndham Place that I referred to in message #3.

Nowadays I tend to use the Car Park in Salisbury Street/Wyndham Place. Its a bit of a walk to SMS (across East Park, down by Solent Uni and across the bridge), but is convenient for coming down from Winchester and also for getting out after the game back onto The Avenue. Used to park down by the Anchor & Hope (which is no more) but it takes longer to get back to The Avenue from there than it does with the walk back to Salisbury Street.

Seems a few people think they have a great home record, perhaps they did last season, before yesterday it was P5 W2 D2 L1, F9 A6. Hardly awe inspiring. Our own home record has been awful this season, ours reads P6 W2 D2 L2, notice the similarity? Our little cousins down the road have the best home record, P6 W5 D1 L0

Might not have had the desired effect: Adkins: Get back on, don't you know you are Pele Lambert: Oh noes, you mean I am really an average midfielder/centre back last heard of playing for Falkirk, thats it I give up

Received a reply to my complaint (not abusive). They had no idea what the problam was, though of course by the time it was sent the issue had been resolved. My follow up reply was a tad more abusive than my original message.

Pilkington is a pane

People from London

Seems to be fixed now, bloody rubbish

This is the point, KD has to be flexible and decide the best option. In my opinion this is one of the main weaknesses of his game, he is predictable. Play the short options and make the oppposition push up to counter, then play the long option when it is a better choice. Be alert and flexible, if KD can learn that then it will transform our game. But he needs also to be able to communicate effectively with the defenders so that they are alert to the options.

...a monstrous carbuncle

Maybe AP paid Saints. Nothing in the report says which way the settlement went. (Just being pedantic, I'm sure we paid him)

Doesn't say much for Tony Mowbray then if a PC Warrior could achieve what he couldn't. I was not surprised that WGS could not achieve much at Boro last season, I thought he would need a preseason to instill the fitness and work ethic into a side. But he does seem to have lost his way now. We look back on his time at Saints with rose-tinted specs because we were moderately successful, but I suspect it was all unravelling at the time he left anyway. I enjoyed his time with us, but I suspect he was in the right place at the right time and is really very one-dimensional and has been found out.

http://www.nike.com/nikefootball/academy/about?locale=en_GB Details of the Nike Academy can be found here (took some finding Google came up with a aite that was crap, but eventually found this link on about the last page). Academy is for unsigned aspiring young players, supported by Nike and Premier League. They played several games last season and now a new intake is on board and hoping to impress. By the way they lost one game 8-1 last season so perhaps 7-1 isn't the walkover we think it is. Some of the players earned pro contracts last term. Profiles of the players involved can be found on the site, and it is all headed up by Huw Jennings. Wouldn't surprise me if Huw hasn't recommended us to look at one or two of the youngsters.

These things tend not to be back dated, it would be silly to include orders from a game last week in stats from 2008-9 season.

Gone but not forgotten or perhaps forgotten but not gone would be more accurate.

Well done to KD, deserved. Now Fabio, how about Brett Ormerod

What a great idea. Drop Lambert after he scores 2 pens. Lets try our other strikers, Connolly injured, Barnard, maybe doing time, Ryan Doble, well he has been selected for the Welsh squad so must be ready to lead the line. Any more bright ideas? Suppose we could try playing Butters up front after all he did score a hat-trick for Palace once.

He left, but not soon enough either time.

We definitely replaced some of the medical team during the summer, possibly not the fitness coaches, but not sure. Also Lambert;s fitness during last season was clearly improved (but then he was seriously overweight when he joined us). Thats not the same though as putting a whole team through pre-season. I stand by my opinion.

Au contraire, more likely that NC will see that he did exactly the right thing by replacing Pardew when it was clear that the players were in poor shape after pre-season. NC's only regret will probably be that he was distracted by the untimely demise of Markus and should have done the right thing sooner. I liked AP but can see now that he was lacking in the area of fitness and conditioning, in a similar fashion to Burley, and like GB he was going to cost us dear. Adkins clearly is turning things around and will not be found wanting in the area of fitness in the future.

Still runs his Sports Shop down the road from the County Ground in Swindon. Best of my knowledge he never played for us. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Rogers_(footballer) Steve Williams nearly came back after we sold him to Arsenal, was given a trial by Branfoot but nothing materialised. What a waste of talent, was probably part of best midfield ever when paired with Bally.

Looks like your memory has given up completely, are you sure you're on the right board? Manny Andruszewski made a brief return after his time in the US Iain Dowie - was an associate schoolboy and returned 8 years after he was released Jon Gittens - nuff said Pulis also returned, wonder if he will ever appear for Saints 1st XI

Just reinforces what I always thought about him, the guy is a ****, one of our worst ever signings, now Wolves get a taste of it for themselves.

6-2 win at Chelsea, same season as they beat us 5-3 at the Dell (67/68 IIRC)