The Kraken

Yes, you’ve done this one too. The simple answer i would give is ‘none’.

Yes, I know you believe this to be true. It’s kind of my point.

I have to say, well done all, this has been cracking reading 🤣 Especially you, MLG. Hats off to you for biting every single time you’re baited, and for answering more questions with questions than I’ve perhaps ever seen before. Jesus loves you.

St Mary’s was also used in its early days for Reserve games, I think from memory we got just over 10K for a game against either Arsenal or Spurs. Some happy memories from some of those games. Carlton Cole getting a hat trick against us for Chelsea. Federico ‘the torpedo’ Arias playing on trial and proving he had the least apt nickname going. Heady days indeed. The reserve league was decent though. I guess the fact that match day squads these days have 18 in them, and the days of only using 15 or so players in a whole season are long gone, mean that there’s not as much scope for a reserve league. And modern science, training method and perhaps players own attitude to health and fitness means it’s a little less important for them to get a regular 90 minutes running in their legs.

The main Saints page is zipping along now for me, but I can’t get on the Lounge. As it seems the last post there was 16 hours ago I guess it’s a common problem. To the concerned posts about all this, I’d just say have a bit of patience and maybe give Steve Grant a bit of a break, while it’s a minor inconvenience I’m sure he’s working hard to resolve it. I use another football site that Steve administers that switched to this format of forum about a month before we did, and it is now really slick. There were teething troubles initially on that one for a week or two but after that it’s been grand, so hoping for the same here. Personally I much prefer this format to the old one, I thought tapatalk was crap. This one displays better on all devices. Keep the faith; and it’s not as if there’s much footy to talk about right now anyway!

Don't mind that kit. The sponsor is clearly awful, mind. But at least the colour scheme is in keeping with the rest of the kit. I might perhaps have preferred the colours of the shirt and shorts to be switched, so that it goes light blue / dark blue / light blue. But we'll see. Overall, apart from the hideous logo it looks pretty smart, and the light/dark blue is the tiniest of hints to the Rank Xerox away.

I think his mum died when he was there too, which he said affected him a lot. As has been said on here, I can see him ending up at West Ham or Palace. Will be very interesting seeing what happens to that Bournemouth team, lots of tales around that quite a few of them are on really high wages.

😂 good rant, I enjoyed that!

And Berni Inn.

DIY is subject to whatever conditions you sign up to when you book. flights: you can buy a flex ticket that does refunds etc, but most don’t. They go for the cheaper option. And right.y so in most cases. Accommodation: varied, but in my experience a lot of accom has a decent refund policy, booking.com certainly do. hire car: again you can buy flexible options but lots don’t, often mostly rightly so. I haven’t bought a package holiday for quite some time, but DIY is a bit more complicated and has a little more risk associated, I think it would be daft to say otherwise. But always worth doing IMO.

I didn’t lose anything fella. I’ve already said earlier that I got full refunds for my flights. It was pretty clear, or so I thought,

😂 just doesn’t understand it 😂

Well, there were a few. And they referred to you and your partner, so I guess the true answers would have to come from you and how you feel about her/him. I can’t answer for you, all I could do is provide my own answers based on my own situation. I’m just saying I’d find it fairly easy to ask the questions (shown below), especially when one is a yes/no answer. But again, you obviously find them too taxing to answer, which is fair enough if you struggle to come up with any answers. For your feeling of love what tests and evidence did you set to prove it? What was the threshold for evidence you set to your girlfriend for her to prove her love for you and you for her? Was there an algorithm you used or a series of tests?

Which one? He asked a few.

Irrelevant. Turkish’s questions seemed quite easy to answer to me. To you, I guess you found it a lot more difficult. NVM.

You could just say you can’t answer them, it’s fine.

Responding to the original question by asking a question of your own is not answering it. A casual observer might be led to think that you’re trying to obfuscate the issue because you can’t provide an answer that you’re confident with.

Again, you have a complete misconception that your own experience is how it is for absolutely everyone else. It isn’t. I’m not sure how you’re not grasping this, but I’ll try to help. Tui are perhaps the leading travel agent in the country and they certainly don’t adhere to your theory. Here’s their terms and conditions. https://www.tui.co.uk/destinations/booking/tandc?ptype=PDP Thomas Cook are much the same. http://1063457201.n137365.test.prositehosting.co.uk/general-booking-terms-and-conditions/ So with them, a cancellation long in advance would have meant a total loss of deposit. I’m not going to trawl through other leading travel sites, it’s needless because it’s quite clear that the UKs two leading travel company don’t offer a no quibble refund. There’s also plenty of info out on there on sites telling customers that unless they have a “generous” refund policy (which many don’t) the advice is not to cancel as you’ll lose money. And that doesn’t even take into account the large proportion of people that DIY their trips these days. As has been pointed out, refunds on flights generally aren’t available until the airline cancels them. I really hope that clears it up and you can understand that, while you and your family did indeed get an easy and full refund, many other travellers did not have such a decent refund policy on their trip. And as such, the idea of cancelling back in March and not suffering a financial hit wasn’t as straight forward as you seem to believe.

I’d happily not fly with Ryanair any time, but since the demise of FlyBe they’re the only way to use Southampton or Bournemouth to get to where I want to go (in this case Malaga), so needs must.

To be honest I had the same with EasyJet and BA for flights in April and May. Wasn’t until the day of the flight that it was formally cancelled, then the refund could get processed. EasyJet do their best to hide the link to a refund on their site too, it’s all pushed towards transferring dates. I got refunds through from both within about 4 weeks. I think Ryanair may be getting better with refunds, my aunt recently had her family’s refunds processed within a few weeks. She lost the hire car money paid up front though as the company said (rightly in law, I guess) that the car was available for her and she had taken the cheaper option that didn’t have a cancellation policy. Less than a hundred quid though so no biggy.

And before Batman pulls out his “well I cancelled mine and it was easy” card, yes, we know. But go onto any site like MoneySupermarket where they offer travel advice, and it’s quite clear that unless your holiday company or airline has what it terms a “generous” refund policy, the advice is not to cancel and wait for the holiday company/airline to cancel first.

I think this is the point being made. Batman (wrongly) claimed that it has been easy for people who have holidays booked for later in the year to just cancel them and get a refund. It’s simply not the case. As you say, refunds do become available but only when the holiday company cancels, usually it when they get very close To the date of travel and know what the FCO and host country restrictions are. Exactly the same for most flights, you could change dates of travel but getting a refund before the airline actually cancelled the flight wasn’t possible. Refunds are happening but In most cases not, as was claimed, by choosing to Cancel back in March.

Bit of feedback, the site is really not working for me tonight, to the point that it’s unusable. 504 error, page not loading.

Did anyone notice Ings at the penalty award? I may be wrong but it looked to me like he offered Che the pen to get his hat trick? If true it’s a properly classy offer.

He was excellent in breaking play up. JWP too. Redmond was always a threat and Adams got 2. Tough choice!