Whitey Grandad

Jan Notacloo has got to go now. Shapeless, gutless, clueless. neither side could defend and neither could score to begin with. I didn't see any offside for the first and for the second their player walked the ball into the net with two of ours giving him a close escort. The substitutions were the weirdest that I have ever seen and totally destroyed our shape. This is getting beyond a joke. FOR THE LOVE OF SAINTS SOMEBODY DO SOMETHING NOW.

I'd just like to give an honourable mention to Tim Flowers. When my daughter first got interested in football as a 14-year old she wrote to loads of players in several different clubs asking for a photograph. Most wrote back, usually with a printed letter and a stock photograph. Tim took the time to send her a full-sized photo and a long hand-written letter. It was a lovely gesture and much appreciated.

tbh I think that the money was a bigger tempatation than the promise of glory.

Well he wasn't going to find it with us, was he?

How many matches does Skacel miss? He's already served one, hasn't he?

A drop of rain on parched ground does not a flood make.

Also in the Mail... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1118348/Bolton-weighing-Benficas-Makukula-West-Brom-bid-fails.html

can we sell him now then?

would rather have Kaka http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sport/2009/0115/1231973728122.html

Kevin Doyle is 25, Robert Earnshaw is 27. I thought that the younger you were, the more you could run about? Their age is not important, it's the off-the-ball running that McGoldrick could learn from. You can't just hang around and hope that the ball will come to you.

LOL, but I was talking about off-the ball running. That's what pulls the opposition players around and disrupts their shape. It makes space for other players to run into... ah, I see our problem here.

It's called 'market price sensitivity'. You drop the prices and get more sales but the value of those sales is reduced. Some companies have complicated marketing calculations that help them to maximise their profits. 'Turnover is vanity, profit is sanity'

Jamie gave up the possibility of a coaching career at Spurs to come here, but because of his dodgy knee he couldn't play more than one game a week which meant that the team was changing more than was good for it. As for the other business I saw some recent comment in the papers so I don't think it's been settled yet.

A major cause of our relegation, IMHO.

Weren't he and Crainie the centre-back pairing for the England under-21s at one stage?

Then he's not watching the ball as he strikes it, and he's not keeping his knee over the ball either. For me, he doesn't do enough movement to pull the opposition defence out of shape. There's too much hands on hips and drooped shoulders and he's flat-footed most of the time. Watching players like Earnshaw and Doyle recently should have been a lesson to him. They covered every blade of grass.

Like most businesses it's too much trouble to change the pricing structure so most of them just swallow the increased margin and say something like 'it helps a little to offset our rising costs'. It was a truly ineffective and costly gesture.

I've played beach football in the West Indies - it's an absolute killer. Mind you, weighing 16 stone doesn't help either.

Better. Don't you think that Beattie & Jones are bit too similar, perhaps?

That midfield is very week, and it has been ever since.

But next season's tickets go on sale soon. Who's going to renew if the price is going to drop later? It's the same thing with the British economy. It's called deflation.

Have you been to one of our home games?

That is sad news. I spoke to him a couple of times after matches in the Dell car park and he is a true gentleman. My last memory of him was at White Hart Lane after whe had been well beaten (3-0 I think) and as he left the pitch he had one last wistful look around the stadium, knowing that it was the last time that he would play there. Please pass on all our best wishes. Once a Saint, always a Saint.

Good point. It could be that from the middle of the pitch the ends and the sides look the same. That would explain why we play the ball sideways and backwards so much. If by any chance we make progress towards their goal then it's purely random.

I'll take that as a no, then...