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The worst I've seen Saints play this season, but we won, and that's the most important statistic of all. Orient's early goal was from poor defending, and after that they just tried to stick men behind the ball. They were better than us, and we will have to improve a shed load if we want to beat Charlton and Brizzle and finish the season off undefeated. We looked woeful at times, but it's times like these that you want your best players to step up, and thankfully, we have Adam Lallana. A MOTM performance for us, easier to nominate after some (as Pardew puts it) "quiet" performances from others. It was a shame to lose Jaidi but thought Seaborne was ok when he came on - though he doesn't seem to challenge for headers as much as Jaidi. Harding was, I am loathe to say it as he's my fave player, poor. I though Fonte, Hammond and Lallana all had good games, I expect more from Morgan (although not fully fit), Puncheon, Harding and Semi. Barnard was a hard worker before he came off, but Lambert was quiet, assist aside, and hardly won a header all day. Credit to the Orient lads, but we won, and at the end of the day, I would take seven more shyte performances and win, that seven amazing performances and lose.

I don't know why, but I'm pretty confident of a resounding win for us tomorrow. New manager syndrome won't kick in hopefully.

Having got over my chronic shyness/agoraphobia/lazyness/skintness of previous seasons when I only managed a handful of games, this season I will have been to 12 games by the end of the season. The reason I can't go to more games? Shiftwork, the biggest social life killer that I have ever experienced.

They're in good form. If you want your team to be in form, then this is the time of the season to do it. They beat us 1-0 at St Mary's, with our home form as good as it is, and deserve to be where they are on merit. I still think Millwall will sneak the auto spot though. If we do make the play-offs, they're going to be bloody tough this season.

Ridiculous, I was disgusted at the Burnley fans that left. You pay good money to get in and, yes, you've paid so you have every right to leave, but you should still support your team until the bitter end. Burnley stood very little chance of staying up this season, their fans should have known what they were in for, but they still seem disappointed. I've never left before the end of a Saints game, and I hope I never will.

Other people said it - looking at the fixture list, Brighton was potentially the hardest game of the last 9. Picking up a point coulod prove to be a bonus, get behind the boys at Leyton Orient. (I thought we had had it to get to the play-offs after the Tranmere game, but I will continue to believe. An Exeter win would be a great result for us today. Fingers crossed Brizzle lose too.)

The goal is still to be within ten points of the autos/play-offs, still possible. ~Plus Exeter are beating Colchester so far...

I don't know they why's and wherefore's, but would it have been so hard to take administration and the 10 point deduction before the deadline? By delaying, the ripple effect could continue through next season - not only could we miss out on promotion this season, our better players could leave in the summer and leave us weakened by next season. Fingers crossed that whatever happens, we end up back in the Championship.

I wish someone would start a "videos from Sunday" thread. ;-) I took some on my phone, but crap quality, Should've taken a proper camera. Although I did take my little telescope, so I could see across the pitch to Liebherr.

4 competitions? But you don't play in the JPT when you're in the nPower Championship! :-) Promotion is a MUST next year, sod the cups.

I like IWOOT and use it once in a while, so get their emails. Didn't take me long to work it out today! (Especially as I was up at 3am for work today and was ready for it...)

I tend to be ok the day after going on the razz, I rarely get hangovers, just feel a bit tired is all. Generally a bacon sarnie does the job, easier to do than a full blown fry up in that state! Or.....keep drinking.

Agree there, as even Mellis lost form after international duty.

That's 3 you've helped people out with... ;-) Sadly I do remember us playing him at right back a lot. Waste of his talent IMO, what little he has...

I missed 4, got the rest in 3 minutes. The one that I was most suprised at forgetting was D---- at right back, I should've remembered that more than missing M------- up front, especially as I'm playing CM2003-4 at the moment and he's on there...

Apologies, I'm far too well-read. :-)

I'm not striking anymore, they've stopped overtime now as LUL can't afford it, so the old scam that some employees used to do (go on strike but make the days pay back in overtime later in the year) can't be done. The next RMT strike on LUL will probably be about job security and the closure of ticket offices, although where I work in the booking office at Heathrow is ok, we've been told that it's the safest booking office in terms of being shut down as we get all the tourists first hand. Strikes don't always work anyway - the RMT wanted a par rise for us last year and balloted the members, but the RMT backed down and accepted what LUL was offering (for a change.) Turns out the next pay rise is bigger than what the RMT wanted because of inflation. While I'm a member, I do get sick with using strike action all the time. I do my utmost to give good customer service and give customers a better day, not just tourists but to make commuters proud to use the Tube, but it's all a waste when the strikes occur and staff are tarnished with the same brush. I might join TSSA anyway, they're a union just as good as the RMT but without the militant leader. Incidentally about the Network Rail strikes next week, my missus is knackered as she commutes from our house in Egham to Twickenham where she works, and will have no way to get in - they're running one train an hour (which will be packed), and they don't start until after she needs to be at work and finish before she needs to come home. So I'm dreadingly lending her my car for the week, and borrowing my sister's sh1tty Micra.

My card kept getting declined last year, which was freaking me out as I had a substantial amount of money on my card. I rang HSBC, who told me what my last purchase was. I couldn't remember as it had been a while since I used it. They told me to go to the bank the following day. Worst night of my life that - within two seconds of speaking to the teller in HSBC, she told me my money was fine and that it was my card that was faulty. Scared the arse out of me. I read about these scams all the time though, my sister got done online. I'm more careful than that, I always look for the padlock before buying online (which I don't do much anyway), and I was always told to ignore bank emails that don't start with your name (i.e. Dear Customer...)

The first time I got done for speeding I didn't tell the insurers. After 2 and a half years of ignorance (I thought they got told automatically) it slipped out whilst in conversation with them. They told me I was lucky I hadn't needed my insurance for the last 30 months, bumped up the cost, and charged me the extra for all the months I hadn't told them. Cost me a fortune. My stupidity, but it's still bloody lucky I had enough moolah to cover it.

"First child born in Portsmouth for 93 years with ten fingers and ten toes.":o Mrs Slag, the childs mother, said " I carn't belief it, I neva fought I'd haf a son who is normall. My bruvva is totally gonna be well happy, innit." The child's father, Mr Slag, was unavailable for comment last night, as he was visiting his other sister in Hayling Island.

I can't complain about the club at all this season. The feel factor is back and hopefully here to stay, I'm enjoying my drives to and from St Mary's (and Wembley), and with Norwich doing as well as they are, my homelife couldn't be better. Winning the play-offs this season (something I think is unachievable this season), and getting promoted with Norwich, could make me do something I wasn't planning on doing for a while. (She wishes...)

It was a fantastic evening, not only because we won, but because I had my missus (Norwich fan) sat with me at the back of the Kingsland, smiling devilishly. She was most angry with me after penalties. :smt040

Almost as bad a joke as suggesting that Johnstones Paint will be rewarding our trophy win by bringing out a red and white striped paint. (I hear it will be brought out in the style of a toothpaste tube that mixes the paint as it comes out...)

It'd certainly take some doing. I can't believe the staff have never fooled around though, randy buggers.

I got a speeding fine (3 points and £60 fine) on the very day I sent my license off to get the previous 3 points wiped off it. :-( I'd rather pay a bigger fine than have the points...