Whitey Grandad

The answer's yes - why don't you give it a go? http://www.thefa.com/GetIntoFootball/Referee.aspx

I though he had a point, TBH

They all looked good decisions to me (like the 'handball' ). For most of them he was at least a couple of yards offside.

I was walking past at the same time and I saw a couple of police piling in but I had a bus to catch so I just kept walking. 50 yards up the road I heard a few shouts of 'green army' and some drongo was mouthing off to the effect of 'how are the mighty fallen' (not his words) and how pitiful it was that we could only beat Yeovil 2-0. Most people were just giving him a strange look and walking on by. These days most of us are grateful for anything we can get.

It's not really fair to judge him on today's showing. It looked to me like he was too eager to make an impact and maybe that's why he was offside so often. I'm sure that the coaching staff can curb his enthusiasm.

I counted at least five Yeovil headers where they could have scored. I'm sure it's something that will be worked on. At least our defence must be quite intimidating when seen from ground level. We must give away less free-kicks, although it doesn't seem fair to criticise. The referee gave them a lot of free-kicks when all our players were doing was standing their ground.

We sit in the middle of the Kingsland. Not one of us would have given the first and for the second I was the only one who saw the ball skid up off the grass and glance off the defender's arm. None of the players appealed, there may have been a half-hearted shout of 'handball' from someone in the crowd and even the assistant seemed to pause for a second before waving the flag about and sticking it across his chest. It was definitely his call and normally the referee's instructions are not to flag a penalty unless you are 150% sure. The referee can't ignore his lino without making him look silly. For me, it was definitely ball to hand but it wasn't my call to make, was it?

I'll take the win, even if it was a bit embarrassing having the two penalties handed to us on a plate. I'd have been even happier if we'd scored a goal from our own efforts and the midfield didn't look quite right to me but the defence looked solid, except from the set pieces, and things are slowly turning our way. I sincerely hope that Papa is not going to spend the rest of the season offside. 2-0 to the referee.

But they were comfortably headed away by the defenders or caught by the goalkeeper!

It could have been worse. Burton was onside for his second disallowed 'goal'

How can anybody possibly prove anything? So he says that he overhit a pass which Shipperley managed to get his head to. What are you going to charge him with? Intent to commit a fraud? - you can't prove what he was thinking at the time. Bringing the game into disrepute? - give him a 10-match ban? Move along please, nothing much happening here.

George Best once bet somebody that he could go through a whole game using only his left foot. He did, and he scored. When Jason Dodd was the first scorer at the Dell all the other players went wild and mobbed him. I was later told that they had all placed bets on him at 50:1.

"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is being not talked about."

Who says I'm paranoid???

No wonder we were always mullered at corners.

Aren't all Saints supporters fanatical?

'signed subject to clearance' was the wording, I believe.

Of course they did. And it was Lee Harvey what done it, no question. What was the other question?

"the man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can't are both right"

I'll start the ball rolling... a net 76 points which means about 82 from the next 40 games so we need better than 2 wins out every 3 games. I can't see that with the current team, tbh, but hope springs eternal and all that.

If you believe what some on here are saying, all you need is time and patience and a bit more self-confidence.

If you are looking for somebody to blame, then there are a lot of people in the queue ahead of Pardew.

40 games to go, 120 points to play for....

I'd like to think that his best is better than what we witnessed yesterday. After he came on the ball was fed to him several times but he did not have the pace to get past the defender, or he just ran straight in to him. After a while even James was having a go at him and then the team gave up on him and switched to the left wing. There just wasn't any movement from him and he did not appear to be trying very hard.

Thomson, for one?