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Gunners to win but have three players sent off and a few injuries that will help us in the new year.

Just before the Olympics, Mike Brown promised all train operators currently employed by LUL would have their jobs until retirement if they wanted them. That's a lot of sitting in driverless cabs doing nothing. The fact is, if the Underground wants to keep up with modern times, they have to go driverless, but the three unions are very powerful, because of the disruption to England's capital city they can employ. There'll be a lot fewer staff in the future anyway, which will benefit all Londoners and Tourists. Me? Well my job is fairly secure at present, in that I work in one of the busiest ticket offices on the system at Heathrow. Which I enjoy. (I also wear my "I Love SFC" badge with pride, so come say hello if you're passing through!)

We get 53 days leave, which is already nearly twice what most people get in a year. there'z no excuse for trying to get anything extra for Boxing Day. IT's ASLEF not RMT. (I know it was a joke!) We're not striking, it's just a minority of train operators. It annoys me because I'll be in on Boxing Day, and them striking makes the rest of LUL staff's day that much more difficult. FWIW my manager told me today that the Piccadilly Line hasn't got many ASLEF drivers, and from previous years, them striking hasn't made tooooooo much difference. They're obviously doing it so that they can get a day off, it's pretty obvious, and they'll do it every year until LUL gives in to their demands. Which they won't. So it will continue to happen. As long as RMT and TSSA don't start following suit there should be a pretty good service.

To add to that, should we get relegated this season (touch wood), then that list in the OP will probably form the basis of our Championship team next season! I can see people interested in most of our first teamers if we do go down.

Not no future, no, but not first teamers. All can be improved upon, and if we stay in this division, all WILL be improved upon over time.

I know of at least three locations where I already in exist in DNA form... One other question, if I die, will 18 years of Championship/Football Manager addiction be time well spent, or time wasted?

5 points from that lot. I also estimate we'll finish on 38. Is that enough? Hmm, we'll see.

Would my DNA end up in said apple pie? And if so, can I be cloned from the resulting pie, should the Apocalypse fail to kill everybody? So many questions, so little time. I assume surviving the Apocalypse would entail a situation akin to the film I Am Legend. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/dec/16/mayan-apocalypse-looms-week-ahead

Got to be Wiggo, surely? I reckon Jessica Ennis will push him close though. Mo Farah or David Weir to make up the three.

What's the best household object to stick my phallus in, you know, in case the Apocalypse happens while my wife is at work? If I do that, and the Apocalypse doesn't happen, will it void the warranty?

I'm sure we've all seen the nonsense in the tabloids about West Ham wanting Rickie to replace Carroll, and we're all laughing our backsides off about that. But it did get me thinking, as he's 30 (nearly 31), is there an amount of money we'd accept for him? I personally think, with what he gives our team, he's priceless, in that signing a replacement as good (or better) than him would cost perhaps more than we'd receive. He has 3 or 4 years left at the top of his game, and I'd love him to serve out that time with us. But what sort of silly money would become tempting? £5 million? £10million?

I'm out drinking Thursday night, and I plan on getting slaughtered. If the end of the world is going to happen on the 21st, I hope it happens at 2am, just after my kebab has been finished. I either die drunk, or I die with a hangover, or I have to see the in-laws in the evening, and I'd rather it finished before that.

I got flashed by a camera leaving Maidenhead in the summer, clear as day it flashed twice, and I regret to say I was doing roughly 50 in a 40. I never received a letter though. I thought if it flashed twice, which I'm almost certain it did, then you were definitely getting a letter. Is that cobblers?

1) Cacking myself about the wedding, it went very smoothly in the end. 2) Cacking myself the Olympic Village wouldn't be ready, it went brilliantly in the end. 3) Cacking myself the transport infrastructure wouldn't cope, we did very well in the end. 4) Getting my rostered postion back at work, thus cementing my shifts, after a year of uncertainty. 5) Saints getting promoted straight through the Championship 6) Saints blowing our transfer record twice in the summer 7) Saints' recent form (Projected) having the weekend off before and up to Christmas. (A rarity for LUL employees) 9) Getting burgled for the first time ever. (That's a negative one) 10) Meeting Hatch.

They're all back to front! Aways are homes and vice versa. Or am I going mental? Actually apart from the early kick off (Man City to win away at Newcastle), and the Monday game (Arsenal to beat Reading) I think it'll be home wins across the board. All very good for Saints. A win next week would be a lovely Christmas present.

I was waiting for this thread to appear. No, and no to David Beckham while we're at it.

Winnable, but much depends on their performance/result against Man Utd. After a 3-0 win at Reading, a poor performance against Utd would deflate them. A good performance against them, whatever the result, and their tails will be up. Still, it's exciting times being a Saints fan at present. Lallana is a massive loss, but we have the attacking players to compensate. 5 or 6 points from the next three games would be a good return IMO, 7-9 would be the stuff dreams are made of. At a push, I'd even take 4.

Very good news! Well deserved too for a couple that have gone through such hardship.

David Armstrong was a good bald player, but I can only assume he had big bushy pubes.

Jos is left footed. He gets my vote. I'd also play Nigel in goal as he has bags of experience. Chaplow is bald. He should have no place in our starting line up. Only hairy people should play, look at Marouane Fellaini. The hairier you are, the better. Fox has hair, but is still not very good. Must be a wig.

If he gets sent off a lot, the headline writes itself.

Form is temporary, class is permanent. We have form at present, but we have that little bit of class in our side to keep positive results happening through the season, even if they don't occur as frquently as they have of late. Our goal is safety, I hate to say it, and perhaps later in the season we can look higher, but right now it's safety, and I truly believe we have the quality to stay up. Let's hope we do.

I likes me a bit of Laura Tobin, the Beeb weather girl.

He's a very down to earth, likeable, intelligent individual that's full of positivity, and I love him for that. He's got us promoted twice, and will go down in Saints history for those achievements - and cementing our place in the Premier League will be the icing on the cake. I hope we have a long and happy few years with him at the helm. Yes he's not the complete manager yet, he's finding his feet still at this new level, but so far he's doing OK. His decision not to sign another centre back in the summer was a little strange, so if any questions can be asked of him, it's about his transfer nous, but to be fair to him, I suspect that's not his fault. During the bad run of form earlier in the season (coinciding with the tougher fixtures and up until the West Ham defeat) I was worried we wouldne't have enough to turn it around. He has, and he has in style. The QPR victory really got us started and now we're flying. Shaw has come in and done exceptionally, (I couldn't believe what I was seeing when I saw him against Norwich), and our defence looks stronger for it. Did you see him celebrate our goal against Reading? Pure emotion, showing he loves the club, for a few seconds, before realising what he'd done and composing himself! Love him.

I've watched the MOTD highlights three times now. I hadn't noticed how two footed he has become. Not only did he score with his right, he had a couple of other chances with his right too. That attribute will give anyone marking him a headache. When I saw him in League One, he was very one dimensional in that he played on the right and his party piece was to cut in and shoot. Granted, he scored like that against QPR, but todays goal showed that's not his default move anymore.