The Kraken

I don't think questioning when the flag will be displayed again is all that unreasonable (or moaning), but you clearly have a bee in your bonnet about it for some reason. And I don't think it constitues a great deal of effort to provide an answer to the leader of a fund-raising effort as to his numerous requests for information on it; especially as a sizeable amount of money was donated by fans.

Perhaps a poor choice of words from me; but still, undeniably poor to hear from JustMike that the club have now ceased any correspondence with him on the matter. I personally think the Memorial game is the right time to get the flag out; but that's not really the point being made here.

Being as I don't own it, I have no idea why you think they would just let me walk out with it.

Being as the club have simply ignored all requests for clarification from the fund-raising organiser, I'd feel less confident of that, if I'm honest.

Exactly right; the fact that a lot of people have donated a lot of money for ownership of something that the club have subsequently denied the return of doesn't reflect very well at all.

This. I was in the main stand, pretty much in line with the penalty area, and the dithering from Davis was awful. He took forever and a day to decide whether to come for the ball or not, and then when he finally did it was immediately clear it was the wrong decision. Stay back and Miller still had plenty to do; Davis made his mind up for him and gifted him an easy goal. But it would be silly to solely blame Davis; that we got caught out by a massive hoof from the goalkeeper was reminsicent of Sunday morning football.

Agree that de Ridder needs to start; I wouldn't play Fox LM though. I'd probably go with dropping Guly and having de Ridder on the right, see how he can link up with the Lambert connolly partnership. Guly and Lallana were very quiet last night, and neither of them is direct in the same way de Ridder is, I think having him and Lallana would give us some brilliant possible variations in play. Schneiderlin out, definitely, I thought he was dreadful last night.

I was in the corporate area in the main stand; the truth is somewhere in between. Cardiff made a fair bit of a racket at times but didn't keep the singing going for long spells. Saints also put up a good showing but, from the other side of the ground, I wouldn't say were very loud. It doesn't help that the main singing areas for home and away teams are at opposite ends of the ground.

Can't see that working. If anything we need a striker who is going to get in behind defences. Lambert often drops to get the ball to feet, or is used as an aerial outlet with diagonal balls in. We looked a lot more dangerous last night when de Ridder came on for Connolly as he was alot more direct and willing to both run at defenders and get in behind them. I'm also not convinced Fox would be a better left winger than de Ridder either.

To say he doesn't defend well is not accurate IMO. With the way we play, and being a full back behind Lallana, whoever plays out of Fox or Harding is going to look exposed at times. He didn't ever really look all that troubled defensively last night. As a choice out the two of them, I'd probably still go for Fox; just.

I wasn't impressed with Fox last night; he didn't really do anything massively wrong apart from a few dodgy moments but neither did he shine. I just don't see why we've spent (apparently) close to £2M on a player who doesn't really add much to what we already had.

Very good support; apparently Leicester only took around 500 fans to Cardiff, which must be a similar distance to us.

That's exactly what he said; from the horse's mouth, so to speak.

Glad to see the club addressing this particular problem, hopefully we'll soon start to see the empty hospitality seats start to fill up again.

The first one, we were chasing the game, Cardiff cleared their lines and it was going out for a throw in right by the technical areas. There were no players near, NA was trying to keep things moving so kicked the ball to Richardson I think to take a quick throw, but he misjudged it and the ball hadn't quite crossed the line. Ref blew for it, consulted the linesman then came over for a chat, Malky Mackay joined in and told the ref to be sensible (which was a very nice touch as Mackay had been sent off in a previous game for doing the exact same thing). NA retreated to the dugout for a minute or two before coming back to the technical area. As for the penalty claim, I didn't get a very good look at it, sorry!

I think the point is that "Humberside" hasn't been used as an official status for a number of years. It's a rather spurious point, granted.

Indeed, and I hope no-one does that. However, in this case I wouldn't go along with the notion of the club buying the medal for display; for a whole number of reasons, most of which are explained within that article.

As laughable as that is (and it's thoroughly laughable), the more worring thing is the quote I printed above from a Portsmouth fan. I'll repeat it: By a Pompey fan's own admission, if these pathetic attendances continue, that lot could soon be heading for another financial sh*t-storm. That must be wrong though, Corp says it's all in hand, it can't be correct. Can it?

"The Best Fans in the World TM" are starting to revolt, oh dear. Some choice words from their own. Oh dear, what a shame. Implosion. And 12K on the gate at £9.50 a ticket, by their own admission. Truly, massive time :lol::lol:

Bet we do.....

I'm still thoroughly confused as to what a "furture" is.

Lee Bowyer you beauty. I need a shower after saying that.

OK, cheers. Actually, I've just seen there's a whole thread devoted to Beattie, so I'll leave it there!

Where have you got that from?

Ha ha, massive club. Best fans in the land. God I'd laugh if they got relegated; unfortunately I think even they're not sh*te enough for that this year.