VectisSaint

I hadn't realised that Markus had been injured or unwell. What was the problem? Glad to hear he is better now anyway.

See later post, Fitzhugh Fella is already working on this, and just to clarify its Solent Uni that honoured Mick, Lawrie and Matt not the Club.

I thought a centenary was celebrated after 100 years. 125 years would be our quasquicentennial anniversary, perhaps we should have that put on our shirts, would use up some of those left over Qs since Quashie left...

There must be a recall clause, we have denied Torquay permission to play Poke today in the Cup against Stockport, but have allowed Jake Thomson to play. We wouldn't do that unless we felt there may be a need to recall Michael.

I don't have any concerns about Bart. If ever there was a good time for him to come in it is now. Already played about 30 mins against Hartlepool, next up Northampton which he possibly may have played in anyway, then 3 games against (lets be generous) mediocre L1 opposition followed by JPT which he would definitely have played anyway. 5 games to bed in, get completely confident and work together with our defence before the big test against Leeds. KD is a great shot-stopper, no doubts about that, as good as anyone. But that is not the whole story for a keeper these days. KD is not great at crosses/corners, does not command his area in a completely confident way, and his distribution is at best average (nearly always an aimless punt upfield to give opposition 50/50 chance of winning it). If Bart can perform better than KD in any one of these 3 areas, then the number of shots he has to save should be slightly less than KD, and as long as Bart is a decent stopper then he will be fine, indeed we may well find that he will be difficult for KD to shift. Then again he could also turn into a bag of nerves and be absolute ****

Newspaper in "trying to sell papers" scandal, shock, horror.

Looks like Mawene is going to be out long-term so PNE are looking to get Trotman back as soon as possible, don't think they will be externind his loan or selling him to us.

No, the word apparently is not beside the point, it is the point. As danny himself has come back and said, the fact is he was present when Cowan provided this information and is the author of Wiki. I doubt actually that Danny is paid "to be a journalist", he is paid to provide interesting articles in his newspaper that help to sell the said paper. And anyway whoever told you that a journalist is only interested in substantiated facts. have you actually ever read a red top national newspaper, one thing you will discover that it is difficult to find any facts in them whatsoever. There are a lot of stupid things in this world, but having a go at a local newspaper reporter for making use of available resources to make an interesting story is just plain silly. Especially when the content of the report is allegedly factually correct, as in this case. We live in the UK in the 21st century, get over your pedantry and try to enjoy life a little.

If you read the article again it says "apparently the stadium was built to allow expansion to around 50,000)" The word apparently should give you the clue that it is not being stated as a fact. I don't see anywhere where he states this is a fact, and does at least provide the source of his "information". As I understand it, what he states is also true, I remember this was discussed at great length some years back when apparently we were in the Premier League (I checked this in Wikipedia) LOL I bought a national Sunday paper last weekend, I don't think it contained any facts. I do recall it referred to Saints as "relegation threatened" and thought that was amusing.

Was it Pulis?

Was WGS counted in the number of away fans recorded?

What on earth would be the point of having a reserve keeper and then go and get a loan in, I guess that would make Bart feel good. Some people really do need to get a grip. Bart would have played anyway in the JPT and FA Cup I would think. We don't need a loan. Only issue is who to stick on the bench, would rather have Poke than Forecast, but suspect we cannot recall Poke from his loan at Torquay (is that correct?).

Don't think the UK are bidding. It is Engerland only.

The reason he turned West Ham down was because he wanted to play and not be a bench warmer. KD is a great shot stopper. In many other respects his abilities are hugely overrated, such as coming for crosses, distribution and command of his area. Don't know if he is best in L1, though I would consider Kuypers (sp?) would give him a run for his money especially based on his performance last week for Brighton.

I did on Shanklin beach, not sure what the connection is with Hartlepool, I guess they are both cold (Hartlepool and ice creams)

I guess you meant Saga is our only international striker apart from Connolly (49 caps for Ireland). By the way I can confirm that Hartlepool is a dump, I was there a few weeks ago, quite pleasant round the old docks area, nice museum and some smart looking housing near the ground, but get away from that part and it makes Pompey look up market.

Yes, but its not "simples" is it. If he gives away a goal and we score 2 then he hasn't cost us 2 points. He may have put pressure on us to score a second, but we had best part of 45 minutes and we did score so don't go blaming James for costing us 2 points. Simples.

What a knob. Pray tell what is a football people? Is Markus Liebherr a football people? You seem to think so as you mention him in your "location"- would have though that he was a bit too middle class for your liking. For your information middle class people don't go to Tesco, we tend to frequent M&S and Waitrose (or Fortnum and Mason on the odd occassion), Tesco is for chavvies LOL

I guess people would moan about his lack of pace if Usain Bolt played for us. Sheesh, some people are getting ****ing stupid around here. Then to suggest Murty being back is good, I think I know where my money would be in a race between Harding and Murty. We drew with Norwich yesterday folks, not a bad result against one of the top teams. We didn't lose we scored 2 great golas, yet it seems people on here are at the wrist slitting stage already. One thing to bear in mind at all times, it is an indisputable fact that we are currently watching the worst Saints team for over 50 years (possible exception last year's team as they were relegated to this level). You need to remember that we have level 3 standard players now that we are not in the Prem. The best we should hope for from this squad is that many of them would be OK in the Championship. We probably have the best squad in L1, and we certainly have one of the best coaching setups now.

Probably something to do with him being fit, whereas Murty may be back in contention now but it remains to be seen for how long. Still I like your criticisms of Lambert, Davis and Hammond, makes a change from the tossers lambasting James

You still don't get it do you. Try reading what is written. If you had any undeerstanding of the history of Saints you would know that these were the words of the song we used to sing for Ron. Of course the view is biased towards Saints, butr actually in this case I think you would find that anyone over the age of 10 would actually recognise that Ron was one of the greatest proper centre forwards ever seen - Sir Matt Busby was a good judge and that was what he thought when he tried to sign him.

I wasn't there so did not see the incident, but from your description this possibly says more about Mellis than Waigo. If Papa was blatantly offside then Jacob should not have passed to him and gone alone.

I accept I wasn't at the game today but how did James cost us 2 points? Was he directly to blame for the 2nd goal, most seem to be blaming Davis. He may have given away a penalty but we were still winning before their 2nd goal went in. As I said last week it seems James has become the scapegoat for those who feel the need to have someone to blame. Its a team game, get off the lad's back. he has been asked to play out of position due to unavailability of Murty and has done a decent job from what I have seen.

Thought he missed a few handballs personally, and with Henry in the stands he should have done better.