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A good read, Lambert is "naturally talented".

Only one away win that year too. Surely we'll do better than that this season?

Always good to read fans of other teams saying good things about us, especially those thinking we'll finish above them, but my favourite quote was: Southampton are ****ed now, here comes Perchinho It struck me too that that was a strange substitution, especially as it was us that wanted to run the clock down at that stage.

Lambert > Holt Ramirez > Hoolihan Lallana > Surman Puncheon > Pilkington Rodriguez > Morison It's in the bag. (I wonder if this would be the Norwich fans answers too. I highly doubt it.)

+1. I would also take 17th place at the end of the season if you offered it.

If we build a statue, I also want one of Lambert, Waigo, Antonio and Lallana. That was a great day. Stokes will always play a big part in our history, even if we go on a Manchester Unitedesque winning run of trophies one day, but let's not forget it was a team effort that day. It depends on how you mean "do we respect the memory of Stokes enough?". By a statue? Perhaps not, but sure if we started naming stands, perhaps he'd get a look in.

More importantly, perhaps most importnatly psychologically for us, a win tomorrow and Reading and QPR would be cut adrift at the bottom of the table. Even a draw would push us three clear of Reading. Good times.

0-0, 0-0. Snore. We're better than these four surely? Perhaps Sunderland will be OK, but I maintain we have an upper mid-table attack. I rate Lambert as a manager but at Villa he has signed a lot of untested lower leaguers. Reading have spirit but not quality. And QPR? Well who knows what the hell is happening in Shepherd's Bush.

I've already been told off by the wife for predicting Saints will win this one. I'm a bigger Saints fan than she is a Norwich fan though, so sod her, Saints to win 2-0. (Though to prevent frostiness in house, I'll be saying draw.) Lallana, Lambert, Ramirez, Puncheon. That's a better attacking four than they can boast. (...and most teams in the bottom half of the table IMO.)

He's still a moaning p!ssypants, but he has stepped up his game and is perhaps our most in form player at the moment. Would he sign a new contract? It probably depends on what league we're in. If he does keep this up for the rest of the season, all is forgiven.

Anyone notice the first two letters of ASton Villa and REading are an anagram of ARSE? Apt, is all.

As positive as things are starting to seem after 7 points in 3 games, I still think we're going to be in a relegation battle, but that's pending strengthening the team correctly in January. Keep beating the teams around us, or the teams we think may be around us in the relegation battle, and we'll ultimately be fine. Whatever happens I'd like at least ONE win against a big 4 team.

Touch of a hangover from last night on a personal level, but this result helped! I got to meet my first SaintsWeb member yesterday too. (Hello Hatch, hope your hangover isn't too bad!) All in all a good weekend. A win against Norwich (which I hope to be going to) and we'll have 14 points from 14, and averaging a point a game in our first season back in the top flight is really what we should be aiming for. That's also mean 3 wins on the bounce and 4 games unbeaten, and suddenly we're looking comfortable. However a win is no given, Norwich will be potentially a tougher prospect than Newcastle. Fingers crossed we get a positive result.

Red Bull, and other legal stimulants, including the availability to purchase coffee on any street in the land.

Yoshida did seem like a panic buy, akin to Jakobsson in the last Premier League season, and we all know what happened then. Still, as long as we don't sign Davenport in January, we have a better chance of staying up.

I read this from an ex-burglar who now works for home security. He said that burglars will look to see if you're slapdash, for instance your garden gate is open or your back gate unlocked. Me and the wife are very security conciouss, everything is padlocked including the back fence. The shed must've been an easy target though. You can't really see the shed from the main road, but seeing as they had been in other neighbours' gardens nicking stuff, that's how they must've seen it. It was definitely a bunch of opportunists. You can't even see into the shed for what's in there. Annoyingly though it wasn't the flimsy padlock they clipped to gain access, it was the metal the padlock was attached too. (Making me think they did that so I couldn't lock it and so that they could come back shopping again. If they want to clear the crap in the shed out for me, they're welcome.) Between Datchet and Horton (where I live) there are a number of travellers sites. By and large though not too much crime happens in Horton itself, they tend to venture up to Windsor or Ascot for the richer pickings, or Slough mainly for the numbers of people that live there. Before this incident, the only other time I've been a victim of crime was when my car was broken into in Hounslow. There was nothing of any value in there (I never keep anything valuable in my car), I was more annoyed that they'd smashed my window to gain access. That cost far more to replace than anything else in the car put together.

Traditionally they're supposed to go up 12 days before and come down 12 days afterwards, but I'd rather not have Christmas lingering around too long after Christmas Day, so generally the decs come down very early January. We both love Christmas though, so putting them up is 'earlier the better'. Not before December though, that'd be too early. Somewhere in the first couple of weeks of December will do. My parent's house is a different kettle of fish. My mum faces the annual struggle to get the house tidy for the family Christmas, and the decs are usually the last thing on her list of things to do. That usually means the weekend before Christmas, if she's lucky. I've also noticed much fewer decs get put up these days. Apathy or laziness perhaps.

On Sunday, when me and the wife were at home, someone broke into our shed and nicked my bike. We didn't hear anything so they must have been quick. That's all they took too, so it could have been worse, but now I keep having this tendancy to look out into the garden. There were a spate of burglaries in my area on Sunday apparently, pikeys looking for Christmas presents no doubt, but it has unnerved both of us. Where I live has always had a reputation, but in the 15 months I've lived here, I hadn't experienced anything out of the ordinary, in fact it's a pretty place to live. There was an aggravated burglary somewhere here in July, though I'm not sure where. I suppose nicking my bike is a minor thing. I'd dread to think what happened if they ever broke into the house. (Which is very secure btw) Have you ever been burgled? How did you feel afterwards? What would you do if confronted with a burglar whilst you were in?

Looking at our form of our fixtures until the end of the year, I'm feeling very positive. Liverpool away will be a toughy, and even they can be beaten. Hopefully our victory yesterday isn't just papering over the cracks and we can really push on from this. A draw against Newcastle would be a good result.

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GetTheF*ckIn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1one!11 Working with cocky QPR fans makes this so much sweeter. Shame Reading won, but was only concerned about our result today, and we got it. 3 points from our next 2 games please.

I have the survival skills of a lemming. If we really were going to suffer a Zombie attack, I'd drive to the nearest Sixth Form college and knob the living **** out of as many young ladies as I could. Then wait to suffer the consequences, death by zombie sixth formers. (I I could squeeze a Maccy D's breakfast in, I would.)

I personally think QPR will be fine this season, even with Hughes in charge. They'll string together some results somewhere and they have the players to stay up with ease. Sacking Hughes will cost Fernandes a small fortune too. I still see relegation as being Reading, Us and one other. Sort the defence out in January and I may change my expectations of our fortunes, but it's really not looking too rosy. A poor defence is what cost us our place in this division the last time we were here, it is looking like that may happen again. Sad, but currently true. Will Adkins still be around at the end of the season? I really hope so. He's a likeable guy, intelligent and has done us proud over two seasons, but I really can't see it. I don't think he'll be sacked this weekend, even if we lose to QPR, but he can't have too long left unless results change.

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"From their defence? Nobody." I'm pretty sure people would be after Clyne if he became available. And what of all those suitors for Shaw? FWIW a win is within our grasp tomorrow, but I still think it'll be a draw, and poor old Nige may have one game to save his job.