The Kraken

Doesn't need to, it keeps you warm on a cold winter day.

He will go for it.

Horrible news, RIP.

I kind of agree to an extent, I like the stripes but only when well done. My favourite kits have been the sash and the Rank Xerox, so stripes aren't a necessity. The main things for me are that the kit represents Saints i.e. in keeping with what has gone before, and that it looks good. So I think both the pinstripes and the current kit have abjectly failed to do that. We ditched the black shorts and went with kits that were just bland, boring, uninspiring and nothing to do with us. They just haven't seemed like Saints kits, and that's why I really hope we move away from them and more in keeping with a traditional kit. The Sash and the Rank Xerox, whilst not stripes, are iconic as kits for SFC, so we don't necessarily need stripes to come out with something that will be much more popular than the last two years poor efforts.

So we wouldn't win the league if we qualified for Europe? Yeah, I think I could probably get over that.

Yeah that would be awful. Utterly terrible.

Indeed. You can read between the lines of Swansea's official statement that Laudrup seems to have been hawking himself around and wouldn't commit to a longer term future there. To be fair he's a world star with a huge reputation and for sure only saw Swansea as a stepping stone on the way up.

*waits for MLG to labour the point of the qualifying rounds actually counting while utterly missing the point about only the group stages providing the enormous financial gain of qualification in the first place*

Signed. Good luck.

It always amazes me that people get so rowdy about others having some contacts that feed them little snippets of information. Its utterly bizarre. Its not exactly something to be proud of, "being ITK". Its just a quirk of fate. Yet some people get so angry about it, simply because they aren't. Weird.

Shawcross got given a chance and looked awful at the top level. He's also hardly setting the world alight at Stoke, their strong defensive record is well on the wane. John Terry is a massive c*nt but, right now, he's the best English central defender out there.

While JRod had a complete shocker on his debut, you have to think that if he keeps banging them in he simply can't be ignored. I normally would say that he's nowhere good enough for England but we're not exactly blessed with an abundance of top quality forwards.

Supposedly been in and out of rehab for some time, big into heroin. I fail to have sympathy for him, I'm afraid.

Especially so with Theo out. I can see JRod missing out, and perhaps Lambert too. But right now Lallana should be in the first team IMO, let alone the squad. If he doesn't go for any reason other than injury then Roy has completely lost his marbles. I just can't see him not going.

If Carroll hadn't got himself sent off yesterday he'd have done himself the world of good, he's a complete menace when he's on form. Sadly for him and England, those times aren't nearly often enough, and he's clearly a bit unhinged in the head; he quite obviously meant to make some form of contact with Chico, and while it was a complete over-reaction from the defender Carroll shouldn't have been so thick to put himself in that position. I hope Rickie goes to Brazil but I fear Hodgson may opt for Carroll instead. RL needs to keep doing what he's doing, but if Carroll comes back on any sort of goal scoring run then I think he'll get the nod. And I wouldn't be surprised if his red card gets overturned (even though I think it shouldn't).

Good idea, that'll definitely be the benchmark to see if they turn out to be Giggs, Beckham, Scholes etc. This summer. Yep.

“Any group of people like us coming through are aiming to do what those United players did," said Chambers. "We are doing everything we can to try and achieve that." How very dare he.

I'd have thought most sensible people would be able to recognise that the two things are not mutually exclusive.

Extra saag aloo at the curry club for you then.

Kruger is so "genuinely excited" to get involved with Saints that he's buggering off to the Winter Olympics first, and (by his own admission) only taking this job as he had no other offers as a head coach from ice hockey.

I'm back to zero infractions. I need to up my game.

Really? Have you never read his posts before? The poor lad can find his own "evidence" in even the most flippant of throw away comments. We're getting a 50K stadium, don't you know?

I still find it humorous that poor old Jimmy was so incensed that he wielded the infraction stick. I'm surprised he gets through the day with such an overly sensitive nature, bless him.

I've got nothing other than making a poor pun of Kraken Rum

Seems like a bit of a rum deal.