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Madness. Mackay is a good manager who was doing a good job, but clearly the nutter Tan is expecting more for the money they spent. Cardiff fans would be right to protest this. I think Malky would be a perfect fit for Norwich, with the history he has and the fact that Hughton is riding a fine line, but the WBA job is free and it's as good a job as any in the Premier League in terms of expectation. I bet Swansea fans are most amused by the goings on at Cardiff this season.

Click the right mouse button over the picture, click on "copy URL", (or go into properties to find the URL) then on this site where you post messages, click on the little icon that looks like it has a tree on it, then paste the URL into that. Well that's how I do it anyway.

I want to complain about my wife buying Plenty kitchen roll instead of Cushelle kitchen roll. Granted, the Plenty holds the sperm better, but it's too rough - the Cushelle was softer on my willy tip. I can't complain about it to her face though.

Would be OK in the league, but in the cup? Useless over two legs. :-D Liable to give a limp performance. :-D Serious note: McCarthy is a good shout IMO.

Cortese is the last person you want to demand more money from! There are other options out there, much as Cesar and Boruc would be a great combination to fight it out for a first team place.

Of the three, my money would be on Lallana getting there, but I won't rule out Rickie if he has a storming second half of the season. Are we completely ruling Shaw out? Surely England is an injury or two away from seeing him get a call up? Who are his competitors, Baines, Cole and Gibbs? Rose?

Oooosh.

If we lost Pochettino somehow, the first person I'd be hoping we're linked with as manager is Laudrup. Would he be big enough for Spurs? Hoddle would be a mistake for them. I think they need someone really experienced in there, like Guus Hiddink.

Damn, new manager syndrome. :-(

Good chance to go above them in the table next Sunday. :-) Although I had 9th as my Christmas league table prediction for us, I'll happily take 8th instead!

I really liked Adkins, I was ambivalent towards Pardew, but that's not on.

Spurs (H) - D 0-0 Cardiff (A) - D 1-1 Everton (A) - L 1-3 Chelsea (H) - L 0-3 West Brom (H) - W 2-0 Sunderland (A) - W 2-1 Arsenal (H) - L 0-2 Fulham (A) - W 2-0 11 points from 8 games. Safety all but assured. ;-)

So a win or loss against Spurs then! :-p

Liverpool beat Spurs tomorrow, and we beat them next Sunday, we're above them in the table. Let it happen! :-D

A good point. 11 points off top spot, 11 points off relegation. Make of that what you will! :-D

In five minutes I will go for a lucky fag. This probably won't help, but it means I'm not present for the tense final few moments...

Hello! I'm home from the dreaded Christmas shopping, and wish to bring luck on the Saints. Did it work? :-D

A vote for "Poster of the Year" goes to the poster of Cindy Crawford I found in the loft, that used to adorn my bedroom wall as a teenager.

We love Lambert, we love him for what he's done pretty much since the moment he joined us, and for all he's done for us since - especially as the learning curve has been as steep for him as it has for anyone that was with us since our League One days. The challenges have been put in front of him at every step, and he's smashed each one. Goals in League One, Goals in the Championship, Goals in the Premier League, and finally Goals for England. But, he doesn't have age on his side, and this team is STILL rising through the leagues, in the respect that our goal is not just to be in this league but compete in it, and compete with the best. One way to look at it is: would Rickie make it into a top 4 team? Probably not, no. Could Osvaldo? Very probably. Osvaldo himself is the competition, and while he hasn't endured the best of starts in his career here, it seems he's slowly starting to find his feet. From what I've seen of him, he's a class above. His touches are sublime, and the more he grows in confidence, the better for us. It's ridiculous in that 50 years, Saints fans will look back on the present day and remember Rickie as a legend - as fondly as long-supporting Saints remember Ron Davies. Right now though, in the present day, and IMO, as much as I love Rickie, Osvaldo gets my vote. However you know what these choice threads are like, it depends on who is most recently in form, and that is Osvaldo. I'm sure we'll be lauding Rickie again in the future. I'd love it if there were a way we could play both effectively...

There was an old F1 game from years ago where I always used to go the wrong way around the track. Made for much excitement when my car was launched into the air on contact at, what 300 miles an hour between 2 cars. F1 used to be a good watch, and both the wife and I used to happily watch it despite not being avid fans, but this past season we didn't bother after the first couple of races. Stock Car/Banger racing with a bit of contact is probably more down my street. Anything where there's a 25% chance the driver will be dead/horifically burned/deformed by the end of the race gets my vote. (For the sensitive types, that was a joke.)

Worked for Begovic :-D

Was it Gallagher that's getting promoted full time to the first team?

We beat them 7-0 and we had a teeny, tiny picture as our No.11? They really are pants. :-p

Technology hates me. I use a laptop with a quarter of the screen not working (admittedly I sat on it) but with an 8 hour battery life when I bought it, it barely lasts an hour now; an iPod Touch with the battery life of a wet fart; a smart phone that doesn't work at all (meaning I'm currently using my 8 year old Nokia brick); a Blu-Ray player that doesn't work; and a PS3 that inadvertantly switches itself off of it's own accord, even though it's plugged into the mains, meaning that any game I haven't saved is lost. To that end, I'm expecting tons of techy stuff on Christmas Day. Without sounding greedy (I'm always appreciative with what I get) but I'm very much like my Dad, in that it wouldn't bother me if I didn't get anything on Christmas Day.

BEEF STOCK CHICKEN STOCK LAUGHING STOCK :-)