VectisSaint

Who? (I know really but it just seemed that having no-one reply to a thread about one of our top players was a bit sad). Even Pulis usually results in a few replies.

"RL" and "smart" in the same sentence, not something I ever expected to see. RL is not now and never was smart. He is not the successful businessman that he is hyped up to be. Therefore I would not put anything past him. However, he is no friend of the Mail.

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But 4 of our games are midweek, so I don't believe you are optimistic. we are **** midweek (according to your empirical data) so how can you be optimistic, that must mean by your argument at least 4 games that we won't win. Your incessant whinging would be easier to take if your comments were at least consistent, and backed up by some sort of evidence. Still it helsp to cheer up the day reading some of the humorous stuff that you write By the way, I guess I must have missed the late equaliser on Tuesday cos I thought we got 3 points, clearly we didn't because the players were distracted.

Even if a club were able to buy a Pompey player they still would not be able to play this season. The transfer window is still closed. The deal here is clearly just to arrange advance payment to Pompey which is usually against the rules, this is not the same as a transfer.

Never get excited Alpine? Some young players were not focused, hardly surprising, unlike you they are excited at the prospect of playing at the home of football in England. In the end we won, 3 points is what counts, sometimes the manner of the victory is not the be all and end all. Anyway, I thought we were **** on midweek games anyway, so couldn't have been anything to do with Wembley according to your "empirical" data

I want Saints to return to the Prem, but not sure its any more enjoyable being mid table Prem than Top 6 Div3. Actually would be more happy being Top 6 Championship I think.

Seems like AP may be thinking this as well, he is certainly suggesting Gillett may play on Sunday on the OS, maybe not at RB though.

Could be a black sabbath if you don't have your tickets yet...

Think you forgot that TT would suggest the odd socks were contributing to the number of late goals we have been conceding recently. Alps would also have suggested that the wearing of odd socks contributed to us being **** in midweek games (I understand **** in Alps view means only having lost 1 midweek game since the end of September).

Did you have to post that smug grin. Still the **** is off the hook at the moment because Colchester got a point :mad:

1st is still mathematically possible. Both unlikely. Still 6 points in the Prediction League and 3 points in the Football League, I'll take that. Now for Carlisle Sorry I won't be able to indulge in the witty banter on Sunday on this forum.

Do you remember our scraps against relegation? Not the half-arsed attempts under Arry and Agents Orange, but the real scraps. Well guess what, Hartlepool are scrapping to avoid relegation. Its called fighting spirit.

To be fair I've seen a lot of schoolboys score screamers from outside the box. It was something of a speciality for me when I played as a schoolboy. Didn't score many but when I did they were often screamers.

As things stand, Lowe is now effectively costing us a play-off place. Think this is the first time that we would have been in the Top6 if it hadn't been for that **** getting us a 10 point penalty.

Transmere was Saturday, in this country that is weekend. We didn't lose any of the others. How does that make us **** in midweek games? You couldn't make it up, the drivel your write sometimes (other times you talk a lot of sense, such as your opinions of Burley).

What empirical data would that be then Alps? Do you mean based on our last mid-week game? If so then that is too small a sample to be statistically significant. Then again we won the midweek game before that 5-0. Previously 0-0, then 3-1 against MK Dons. In fact we haven't lost a midweek game since we lost to the Gas on 29 September (Colchester on 28 Dec does not cound as midweek, it was Bank Holiday). So much for your empirical data.

27, does that include any monkeys or Frenchmen? I recall going to Blackburn away in about 1978 on a wet Tuesday (or Wednesday night) and thinking I was the only Saints supporter there. I suppose I wasn't but I never saw anyone else that night, and it was a long drive through the mist back to Oldham where I was working.

I trust none of the above are allowed in. But I guess if they have bought a ticket then they are entitled to a seat (unless it stopped a genuine supporter attending). By the way you forgot Wilde, given that I have the highest contempt for him of all the aforementioned, he should not be allowed anywhere near London, or even the mainland of England on the JPT Final day. As for Crouch and McMenemy, they should be honoured guests (assuming you mean Leon). If you mean Peter, then he is welcome as well, as long as he is not sitting in front of me or my daughter

There are losts of people called Mary...

There is a huge shortage of referees these days, many give up because of the abuse they receive at lower levels. Add to this that now every game has 4 appointed refs, whereas it used to be 3, this means that there is less quality these days and the top level takes the quality there is. In the 3rd division we are refereed by officials who quite frankly 20 years ago would not have made it above Hampshire League level. Why do we need a PL qualified ref to be the 4th official? Its debatable whether this position needs to be a qualified referee at all, at best he (she) needs to be capable of running the line in an emergency.

Hopefully the jet lag coming back over the pond will **** them up for the next game

Disagree. Think you will find the core of the first team will be the same. Possible doubts in my view are Lallana and Spiderman. They were not brought in by AP and so have not "bought into" the plans. There will hopefully be severa; squad players who will be shown the exit as well as non-playing staff such as Pulis and Molyneux. Lambert will still be here in my opinion, will move on if we are not in promotion spots next Jan, not before. If he has any sense he will realise that he is not really PL standard, but sadly money talks louder than sense.

Agree with what you say except the bit about the JPT. It is just as important to win the JPT as well. Losing that would do more damage to our confidence than any other result. The intensity should remain whatever the competition. There is no point resting anyone when we only have 11 games left to play this season.

Imagine it could have been quite a small flag and still covered all of them. Embarrassing 16.5k yesterday, with a large following from Hull, large areas of the dump empty, best fans in the world, my arse.