The Kraken

Didn't know that. I'm a Fed fan for sure now. He's impossibly suave, I think I have a bit of man love for him.

Hope so. Much rather Fed-dog got it than the dour Scotch pr*ck.

Pray for rain and the roof gets closed then.

Ulrich van Gobbel.

This is brilliant, I think they might actually survive. They'll then have Chinny plundering the PPs for a couple of years and two further years of paying back the players' wage deferrals. So even if they do survive they're aboslutely f*cked for money for at least 4 years, if they last that long (sweepstake for the next administration?)

Predictably yes. Unfortunately we still had to ensure the non-stop bickering and jostling for position from the usual idiots to be the chosen one. I can't wait to see if the Skates can get their fan on the board, after the initial euphoria dies down it'll be utterly hilarious to watch them implode.

Never seen again after his infamous statue commentary, what a classic that was.

Remember the launch of TSA? Steve Grant and a few others promoted it I think, with teasers such as "its coming.....", "not long now...." etc etc, and then it fell flat on its face amongst a barrage of fan outrage and ambivalence upon its launch.

That's what I thought, which is a massive kick in the teeth for the (thriving) amateur game. Golf doesn't need to be an olympic sport, like Tennis it will never, ever challenge to be one of the major tournaments.

If they're going to do it, it should only be for amateurs. Golf is still one of the rare sports where there is a clear difference between professional and amateur codes, and where both codes have their own significant place in the game on an international level.

Christ alive, the state of the two monsters going for women's Judo bronze now. The 20 stone Ukranian makes our "girl" look attractive. I wouldn't want to mess with either of these two.

Fine. Paralympic wheelchair dog walking. Come to think of it, I'd probably prefer watching that to f*cking dressage.

Dressage. What a complete non-sport. What's next, dog walking?

She can chuck my spam javelin whenever she wants.

Al da Man?

He's hardly played as it is in pre-season; he seems to be behind Guly and Puncheon at RM. And Adkins has hinted that he wants to bring in another winger, as we have Lallana and JRod on the left it would only make sense for the winger to play on the right, thus pushing Chaplow down to 4th choice. At CM he is behind Cork, Schneiderlin, David, JWP and Hammond. The better question would perhaps be, do you think Chaplow is going to establish himself in front of all those players, and how?

Wayback machine has got the old Saints Forever sites for some nostalgic viewing! http://wayback.archive.org/web/20050601000000*/http://www.saintsforever.com

I thought the David Beckham thing was Wacko Jacko the photocopier salesman?

Ha ha, I do remember that, quality! Keef's turnaround from club critic to complete lapdog following the pre-season tour was remarkable, he started banning people left right and centre who brought it up. Some of Essruu's photoshops were funny, SRS was on the receiving end of 2 or 3 that I can remember. Including a mocked up student card, I seem to recall, after one too many predictable anti-student rants.

Howie's a good hometown lad, I don't think he'll get wrapped up in the whole "amazing fans" bullsh*t. That was pretty creative headlining, I don't see anything in his comments that suggest he was even impressed let alone "blown away".

Whatever happened to Roger Beeks? And Master Bates? And SaintLee?

Keith Legg going on the pre-season tour and the sh*t-storm it created was something to behold.

Hmmmmm. Just read some more of his actual statement: Not so much lost in translation, and I think we all know the German sense of humour probably wouldn't encapsulate that. Oops...

Dave brailsford was interviewed on BBC about it and asked if he had any complaints; he said no, it was a fair decision.