SNSUN

Glad I didn't bet on that race. That was a good race for the each way fans. Ironically I'm going for Oscars Well in the 3.20 because it's the name of my dog - my other dog is called Alfie. So perhaps it's fate! Right, off to work. Good luck guys, I'm about £20 up today, which is pretty good for me.

The analyst before the race said that Cue Card is prone to making mistakes, fortunately (for me) it was Al Ferof that made the mistake. I'm not betting on this next race but I'd have Hold On Julio if I were betting.

I usually go each way on races, as I did we with Cue Card - so I can celebrate again at getting a place!!! It's a shame I have to go to work in a minute - I'm on a run of form the likes I've only once experienced before! Ha!

Cheers - as much as I love betting on the gee gees, I'm bloody awful at it. That was a one off for the festival. 2.05 - Cue Card, but I'm not having a bet. Edit: I succombed to temptation. Come on Cue Card! One more bet for the day in the 3.20 - Oscars Well e/w

GET IN!!!!!!! That's it, I'm not betting for the rest of the Festival!!!

Oh God it's that time of the year when I find myself more skint than ever. I'm off to work in an hour, so can only bet on the first couple of races. 1:30 Galileos Choice to win, although my bet is an each way on Cinders and Ashes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VYqnJVcQ7Q

Which league? I reckon if you say Championship 17th for the next 100 years, you might be right eventually. I reckon we'll be fighting relegation, but fortunately there are 5 worse clubs than us in the Premier League. Still, it will have been a good season, thanks to winning the Carling cup and beating Man Utd 6-3.

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If that's the situation, I'm going to **** my pants, then change them, then **** in those pants too. I sincerely hope it doesn't end up that close - it would be lovely to get an advantage before the last game of the season, but unless West Ham or Reading tail off somehow, I can see it being that close too.

Do I miss smoking in pubs? Yes, principally because I'm lazy by nature and preferred not to have to get up and go outside to smoke. Do I support the smoking ban? Yes. Sat in a booth smoking, I used to practically chain smoke. Now I rarely get up to go outside, and I feel better for it. The non-smokers in my friendship group are still suffering though, as the smokers (which is most of us) will go outside for a fag, end up chatting away, leaving the non-smokers inside twiddling their thumbs. (The smoking lot are the conversationalists of my friendship group.) As for pubs closing, it's a shame. The one next door to me has closed down, although the one down the road is thriving. Most people I know (including me) forego going to a pub and instead use chain bars with cheaper alcohol. Also, When I walk into a local pub that I hardly go in, I get stared down by the regulars that don't know me, almost as if they were thinking "what are you doing in my pub". In bars, nobody bats an eyelid. I feel more comfortable in bars. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to become a regular in my local, but as I can't drink the day before work, AND I do shiftwork, so I can't really commit to a regular drink, so don't get to know the regulars, and as such I tend to go on the odd binge in town, in the bars and clubs instead. Who knows, perhaps it's the social side of pubs. With distractions like TV, Internet, Games Consoles and cheap drink at home, and the fact that strangers don't communicate between each other as much as they used to, maybe that's why pubs are suffering.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/h/huddersfield_town/8130763.stm They may be gutted, but they stuck to their principles in terms of finances. We're just lucky to have had Mr Liebherr's millions to help us out. Also, had Lambert joined, it could have meant Jordan Rhodes could never have come through. Rhodes has scored bucket loads too - so missing out on Lambert hasn't dented their scoring chances, it's the rest of the team that needed surgery. Finally, some footballers don't suit some clubs - who's to say Lambert would have had the same effect there than he's had here. We'll never know, and we don't have to care, because he's ours, he's happy, and we're happy!

Final Day against Coventry. Our superior goal difference will see us win the league from West Ham. Reading will have given us a Huddersfield-esque fight to the finish though. Besides the key players like Rickie and Adam, we find a hero in Richard Chaplow, who hits a run of goalscoring form from midfield that Frank Lampard would be proud of. Jason Puncheon also atones for his sins with a brace against Portsmouth. Leeds shock everyone and win the play-offs. Rickie wins the Championship Golden Boot, and we have to turn down an offer of £5 million from QPR in the summer.

Hi, I'm SNSUN's fiancee, Azzy, age 28. I will be Mrs SNSUN in June, which worries me because he does **** all around the house and would rather be in Southampton supporting your lot than with me making sweet music with me in the bedroom. I'm a Norwich fan and proud, although I was born in Essex so I don't have webbed feet, nor do I **** my brother. I attend more Southampton games than Norwich games, mainly because SNSUN's obssession with Southampton is deeper than mine for Norwich, and also because you're a better team to watch. I also hate SNSUN's family's parrots, he tells me he wants to punch them when Saints lose, and I support him in that endeavour. My first Saints game was away to Crystal Palace in your relegation season from the Championship. Saints lost 3-0 and I was fricking freezing, but SNSUN bought me a kebab after the game so I felt better. He really knows how to treat a lady and he has a big winky to boot. My favourite Southampton player is Richard Chaplow, and I had a crush on Michail Antonio when he played for you. (Not as big a crush as my love for ex-Norwich player David Bentley though.) I have an agreement with him that when we have children, they will be brought up to support both clubs equally, they can choose who they want to support of their own accord when they're older.

If they extend it down through Hampshire to Southampton, I'm putting in for a transfer!

...and Family Club of the year. I assume this is because they're all related to one another...

If we don't go up this season it will be deemed a fail, based on our current position. That said it would still have been a fantastic season for a newly promoted club, we'd have been overjoyed at play-offs last summer and if you told me we'd be pushing for Premiership promotion in 2009 I'd have snapped your arm off. My biggest concern at not getting promoted would be which players we'd lose in the summer. But we have a resilience about us, and I think we can do it!

It does look as if it's a 3 horse race now. All 3 sides have a decent run of games unbeaten, Readings' is more impressive than ours or West Hams'. West Ham fans who think they deserve to go up are annoyed at their team, but they still have the players to do it. We have good players, a 3.1 point advantage (although played a game more) and the support of each and every one of us! Reading fans will feel they're the dark horses in this - but even though we're top, we can still say we are the underdogs, as we're the promoted side. what a tough one to call! It's in our hands now, that's all we can ask for. Only we can blow it. Every player has to give 100% every game. We must try and stay injury and suspension free. Keep the confidence up and we can string together a run of results that would send us back to the Premiership, and would put Adkins name down as one of the best managers in our history. (Certainly our recent history.) Pleased for Lallana.

He's out of form. I think he's a good player, not great, but 11 goals isn't a bad return for a midfielder. I think the problem lies because we don't know what his best position is. At the start of the season he was on the right and people said he wasn't great there, then he was moved up front and did better. I reckon he's be good at the tip of a diamond, but with Sharp and Lee joining us, his days up front appear to be numbered, and thus we have to play him in the position we seem to have the most problem filling, right midfield. Still, between Chaplow, Guly, Puncheon and De Ridder, I'm confident we can ride the season out.

Hire a limo and travel in style. (Depends if money is an object...)

Ah I've missed the weekend threads. Largely because I'm sad. Friday - Working until 8. Quick change of clothing and into London to catch up with my mates on a ****** up, although I can't drink because I have work tomorrow. Saturday - Working 12-5. A possible meal out with the lady in t'evening. Sunday - Working 3pm-11pm. These threads are more fun to do on weekends off.

Meh. Jonjo Shelvey will beef up our midfield no problems...

I watched the video this morning. I haven't been sucked in, I must say, but I know a few of my friends have decided to join up and on April 20th (I think it is) plaster posters overnight everywhere in the Windsor area to raise awareness. As for me,I know there are problems like this in other countries, but we have problems in this country that need sorting first, and as such my support is with those charities instead.

I'm Chris, 31, and I'm an alcoholic. Wrong thread? Ok, I first started supporting Saints in 1989 at the age of 8, after my parents let out the spare room to a student from the Southampton area who was passionate about the club. Lived in Windsor all my life apart from when at boarding school and a brief sojourn to Chiswick so I'm not a local Saint, but I did spend a lot of holidays in the Hampshire/Dorset area. First game was the 3-1 loss to Reading at Elm Park in '96 (FA Cup 3rd round), Robbie Slater and Franny got sent off and Souness stormed the pitch after the game. Never made it to the Dell, except to the club shop, which is something that will haunt me for the rest of my life. After various away games I finally made it to SMS to witness the League One defeat to Bristol Rovers. 3-2. Despite that and shift work I try to get down to SMS around 10-12 times a season.

I can see Lambert winning the player of the month award (and the player of the season award to boot), but I agree with others that McDermott will get the manager of the month vote. Adkins must be the most under appreciated manager ever if we do achieve promotion, although to get promotion he'll have to string a run of results together that would probably win him manager of the month in March or April anyway.