The Kraken

Not ready yet, but what choice do we have? Our only other striker options are either injured (Rodriguez out and Lambert not fit enough to start yesterday) or out on loan (Osvaldo and Mayuka). There's no-one left. Ideally Gallagher wouldn't be thrown in the side in the way that he has but there are genuinely no other options, so that's the way it has to be. Better to ask why we're in that situation in the first place than lamenting the fact that a very young lad may not quite be ready for a top 8 Premier League side just yet.

Out of interest, how does one: a) manage to steal 40 scarves in the first place? and b) manage to get out of the stadium without being noticed?

Is that position open to negotiation? Go on. You know you want to.

I'm reasonably sure that's not why he does it. But then I don't know. The £5 subscription came about to cover the losses that the site owners were incurring year on year. Before that there was a donation scheme. If you don't want to pay then fine. If you don't like coming on here, then fine. But this site and it's predecessors have been around since, well, since around the time the internet got popular. It will change. Old posters will leave, others will replace them. Just don't try and be a martyr is all I'm saying.

This is actually turning into a good news thread. The past 2 or 3 pages of resignations have been overwhelmingly most welcome.

*puts on foam hand and points to the sky* Duh duh duh - another one bites the dust.

They should rename it Amazingstoke. Sent from my Acorn Electron using Internet Explorer 1.

How do you know the will of the majority, Wes? Have you conducted polls?

I refer you back to post 295.

If only half those people who have threatened to leave in the past 2 or 3 pages actually carried through with that immediately (and even better left the site altogether) this place would become a better place overnight.

Theo is in the photos. He is in the 3 lions one.

You can't beat a good old attention seeking post. "I'm quitting, I am. Just you watch me. I'm not paying any more. This will cause everyone to panic as I'm clearly THAT important." It's right up there with the "Im such a simpleton that I can't just ignore that online user so instead I'm going to tell the forum that he's on my ignore list every single time he posts" brigade.

This. There is even a precedent, this happened from the Ugly Inside a few years ago. Some posters got do p*ssed off with StuRomseySaint so they created a new site called itsbeautifuloutside. It's still going. Some on the UI continue to post on both.

Did DPS just get outed?! Oops

Well said Frank. Thankfully in our theoretical forum pub there remains the old codger or two playing dominoes in the corner who is happy to stand up and speak up for the majority of the pub and its punters, despite how ridiculous they sound doing so. The type who will join the ranks of those staring into their drinks listening to the other OAPs drone on and on and on and on with their own stories of how things would be better if only they had their own way, and how things were do much more enjoyable in their day. Admittedly these pensioners can't afford to attend the pub as much as they would like, and certainly not as much as in their formative years. Yet their incessant drivel of remembering the pub days of yore is condensed into a time of more turgid boredom when they do actually turn up for their daily half pint of ale.

Sometimes I think Barry Sanchez might just be MLG wearing a wig and fake moustache.

OK, that's very good. #applause

The same group who have an entirely miserable time and make a pact to never visit the pub ever again, as it's not as good as it used to be. Only to all rock up again in the pub at the same time the very next day for the same round of dull conversation, incessant whingeing and false promises.

Saints are traditionally in red and white stripes but also have had a variety of other red and white kits from time to time, and we should stay that way.

:lol: Yes, clearly much more telling that having Jermain Defoe, Michael Carrick and the injured Theo Walcott and Andros Townsend in there. Plus Adam Johnson in the latter picture.

More like 5 or 6 loners all sat on their own looking miserable and pretending that their lives were actually more interesting 5 years ago.

Paul Smith; forever before his time.

All Baggies fans are now breathing a collective sigh of relief that they no longer resemble Brighton and Sheffield Wednesday and have an entirely unique kit.

How on earth did Paul Smith make such a dog's dinner of his suits? They're absolutely horrific, they just don't fit at all.

That what I did, Smirko. It's a poorly executed poll.