so22saint

This! Derby was local to me in the 90s and a guarenteed ****e day out. And they stole Mark Wright

Superb signing, at his best under Adkins, Poch and RK he linked play brilliantly and always chipped in one or two great goals a season. Worth every penny of the fee and his wages, and a top bloke all round (including the time he sang Karaoke in The Jolly Farmer in Winchester dressed as Batman with his little boy and didn't take his mask off the entire time he was in the pub). If we sign a player in replacement with 90% of his professionalism we'll be lucky

I think he was initially brilliant, probably fell out of love with the club when Pellegrino came in and when he'd had enough of living away from Italy (he's always in the Italian eateries in Winch, like a Brit expat solely eating and drinking in an Irish pub) and I do wonder if a high pressing style is really his game. Shame to see him go, but if it frees up money for a central defender and a striker then...

I was hoping you boys were going to have a barney - it could have been the battle of Shoreditch ;-)

He brings out the Best of You

and then we play our joker!

I got a free ticket to the Saints bar seats - was rammed with Chelsea fans around me - by the 3rd goal they were happy to sing and cheer which was annoying but there you go. Loads of empty seats around me there as well.. Mate in the family centre took his son (a massive Saints fan). He is a Forest fan - said there is a palpable sense of despair / malaise here...

Sounds a bit weird but I was sat next to him in Pi Winchester last night and he looked a bit low on confidence. Was on target with pizza slices into his mush mind you I did say to my boy "you saw him score a hat trick for us at Wembley" after he left. Fundamentally a good player but clearly not fancied by any of our managers, however since Koeman I don't really trust any of their opinions...

I'd like to see him put a word in the ear of Inui - though it's another midfielder ;-)

Probably Virgil in terms of the player, though the other two you mention were also excellent. Going back to our first 1m player Alan Mcloughlin pretty much all our record buys have been cr*p.

To go back to the original thread title, a mate of mine is looking after his dog and it's better than football than he is

did this last year for the Milk Cup - was bloody brilliant!

Because I'm old and fat I have a personal trainer. He's also a Saints fan and he and I have both agreed that the players showed signs of being unfit (late conceding of goals - losing concentration - all signs of fatigue) and in the case of Redmon he looks like he has a bit of a tum which wasn't there when he signed. If he can get them fitter and playing with freedom we'll just stay up I think.

ha ha ha. I said exactly this in my alpine bar this evening

I met a app provider that creates stadium apps last year. As you say ericb, those are the only features I can think of that were worthwhile, though this app provider offers an AR thing where you can hold your phone up and get a better experience e.g. for Arianna Grande's O2 show you would have got additional digital content - so for football you could potentially get live player stats that sort of thing. Not sure how much anybody would use it, the yout probably would but then again I'm getting too old, one of the reasons I stepped down from running DLBi Commerce ;-) However, our in stadium wifi is ****e anyway so it's all pointless

I'm actually not using my Dad's season ticket near Leslie tonight as, if I get overcome by the emotion of a 2-1 loss (after having been 1 up and bossing the game until we take off an attacker to try and shut up shop), I don't want the opportunity to lose my rag at him...

this - it was dreadful until we got Marcus, Cortese and Pardew then Adkins. We were lucky to be able to buy Ricky and be the biggest spenders in League 1

No, they read top to bottom so maybe they haven't noticed we're 17th

Agree, and this made me laugh out loud so thanks

Boufal has looked good like Ricardo Fuller occasionally looked good. He's surrounded by utter ****e. Tadic has been pretty poor for 12 months at least and I would argue 18 of the last 24. Either needs a major change or age has caught up as it has with Davis. Walcott doesn't really excite me to be honest, feels like Kevin Davis re-sign. Sturridge I would take in a heartbeat if he wasn't made of glass, but he is.

thank god we got rid of Eric Black

in a ****e game, the 2 clearest chances other than Man U’s offside effort. Long denied by De Gea’s toe (should have scored). JWP into the corner, decent save

yes. exterminate

well he is back and forward to Spain every single week so either knackered or head elsewhere

the problem with Chinese owners is that half an hour later you want another one