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At work last night, one of my colleagues who was having a smoke outside saw one of the WHSmith employees throwing a fricking massive bag of food into the bin, sandwiches, Walls goods like pasties and sausage rolls, sushi and the like. Most of it was Best Before the day he was throwing it away, but the odd thing had a week to run. Naturally he asked the bloke for the bag, who duly handed it over, and brought it down to us to help ourselves. There must have been over £200 worth of food in that bag. Ludicrous wasteage. So from now on, we plan on intercepting the WHSmith lot each evening so that those of us on late shifts get fed! Any of you been lucky with free stuff?

I am a SexyNerdySuperUnimportantNewt. Newts are beautiful creatures.

Eerily I had this very thought today. If I had been a Newcastle fan, I'd have been thoroughly annoyed to have my stadium named differently to its traditional name. I can understand it being done to new stadiums, because you tend to get used to it, a la the Reebok, but I was always glad when Saints fans won their right to have the Friends Provident stadium renamed. If it's good for revenue, I genuinely think it'd be ok, but it would have to be a decent advertiser, like 'Saints transport' or something! (The Saints stadium - perfect.)

Good old fashioned sing song competition between the stands. A 15 minute composition sesh for coming up with new chants. Big screens showing porno. A "blast the Flybe plane out the sky" competition using rocket powered tennis ball launchers.

Right lads and lasses, with all the juicy signing speculation in readyness for our Premier League season, when do you think our first signing will be announced? The winner gets bragging rights for the whole season ("I'm a better fan than you 'cos I got the date right") and a £10 gift voucher. (Yes I'm being flush.) Rules are: it must be a new player coming into the club and not just a current player signing a new contract, it counts only when announced on the OS, you only get one choice (meaning if your date comes and goes without a signing, you don't get another choice), and the winner is the FIRST person to post the correct date. Guess away... In order to try and save myself a tenner, I'm having July 7th. So you can't have that.

I still think one of the winners of the "B" semi final will be the winner of the play-offs. Birmingham and Blackpool are good attacking teams, and I can see West Ham failing against them should they make the final.

My children were reading this thread, I'm so unspeakably mad at this post... ...they now want to be frogs.

Not this summer...

1) That was definitely a goal for Ostenstadt. (His third). Fecking dubious goals panel. 2) Berkovic was class. When I first started playing football at school, I was told not to lean back when shooting. He did, and it still fizzes into the net. 3) Scholes and Beckham could still DAJFU. 4) That's my favourite Le Tissier goal of all time. Beautifully executed, and he celebrated in a manner similar to Cantona when he scored THAT goal. (Which was very similar.) 5) I made my mum tape MOTD that night, then bugged my parents all day on the Sunday when I watched it on a loop.

I put it on another thread, but Lamberts' goal against Leeds was the most important. 3 key points away from home, against the run of play, that we really didn't deserve. There's too many to mention though. Sharps first against Coventry settled us right down for instance.

Could anyone have got it more spot on than you? Amazing hindsight or a total fluke, it's eerie how true this all was/is. I like Tisdale, and who's to say he wouldn't have done better at a bigger club, but Exeter are on the slide to League Two. (Albeit they're standing by him for now...) We hit rock bottom and it only got better from thereon in. So yay for me. I'm not going to have a dig about this post, but what I have to say about it is it is exactly what a journalist on TalkSport said about Roy Hodgson yesterday. He's already written off Hodgson as a complete failure - even to the point when the presenter asked him if he's eat his words if England won anything or got close, and the journalist said he wouldn't have to, because England wouldn't under Hodgson. Closemindedness. Hodgson may be exactly what england needs, just as Adkins was exactly what Southampton needed.

Adam has an outside chance if he has a couple of good seasons in the Premier League, but as good as we think he is, I think a pacy winger would be chosen before him. Someone like Moses or Zaha. (Edit: Just remember Moses switched allegiance to Nigeria...)

I wonder if we get them, whether advertising would have an effect on our chants? "He plays on the right, he plays on the left, Adam Lallana thinks Pepsi tastes best."

Sam Gallagher could also come through in the next couple of years. Plymouth seemingly becoming our feeder team, instead of us being Arsenals! http://www.football365.com/southampton/7649669/Saints-snap-up-Argyle-youngster

Can't stand them, but money talks.

Lambert's goal, Leeds away. Live on Sky, we were absolutely battered all game, the one chance we had, he fricking smashed it into the net, with a shot of such class, you wonder why he's playing in the second tier. So many to mention though. Connolly's goal against Boro probably demonstrated how good we were in the first half of the season.

I have a source (it's a made up thought in my brain) that claims we're ready to take Owen Hargreaves from Man City, as well as Michael Owen from Man Utd, both on free transfers, to add a bit of experience to the side. This will begin the "Owen The Saints" chants around SMS.

re: Morgan on Late Kick Off. My missus says: "Morgan speaks very good French". Idiot. I know what she meant but it's funny to wind her up.

Great post. Norwich are my second team (my future wife and her family are most insistant on that) and I'm genuinely looking forward to our games together next season. My last Saints/Norwich game was in the JPT in 2009 (it seems such a long time ago now!) when we equalised in the 90th minute. My missus has never looked so gutted in her life. Cracking game though, with two teams that have exceptional support.

He's rubbish and Cortese would be clever to move him on in the summer. Dead wood, get him off the wages. However, peversely, he has Premier League experience and is a fairly versatile player, and is still at a good age. Me? I'd ship him off. However I wouldn't be surprised if he were still with us in August.

Are we sure that's not The Emirates and an Arsenal fan is holding a Southampton scarf? :-)

I want to wear fancy dress to games, but the constant worry of what my peers on SWF will think of me is enough to put me off.

No to Green. I agree that we may see Davis as our number 1 next season, and I'm happy with that - he's best at shot stopping, and we'll need that in abundance next season.

I was thinking this. It seems strange not to be playing at least one league game in May, and certainly finishing before the lower leagues is peculiar. Still, more preparation time before the Premier League season.

Jos! Might put a bet on it. Lee is obvious. Morgan, Fonte, Fox and even Bart are outside chances. Three of our new signings will be internationals too though.