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Not just that but the stench must be unbelievable. :vom:

No, certainly at home I would hope and expect a win. That is regardless of the opposition. AP tends to talk up the team we are playing but I think it is all psychology. It keeps the players feet on the ground and manages the fans' expectations. It is also probably a bit of kidology to make Paul Ince think that we rate them highly and are wary of them (false sense of security). Make no bones about it. AP will have prepared the team with nothing but a win in mind.

13 Cheltenham Town 14 Chesterfield 21 Grimsby Town 27 Lincoln City 38 Rotherham United 58 Lincoln United 63 York City 65 Gloucester City 66 Farnborough or Salisbury City 67 Forest Green Rovers 73 Eastleigh 77 AFC Totton 78 Chippenham Town Any of the above away or anybody at home, for me.

They lost at home to some no-mark team in the CL, during the week!

The FA Cup First Round Draw will take place on Sunday, October 25th and will be showed live on ITV1 in a special programme between 13.00 and 13.30. The games are scheduled to take place on the weekend of November 7. The numbers to look for that come out of the hat are as follows: 1 Accrington Stanley 2 AFC Bournemouth 3 Aldershot Town 4 Barnet 5 Bradford City 6 Brentford 7 Brighton & Hove Albion 8 Bristol Rovers 9 Burton Albion 10 Bury 11 Carlisle United 12 Charlton Athletic 13 Cheltenham Town 14 Chesterfield 15 Colchester United 16 Crewe Alexandra 17 Dagenham & Redbridge 18 Darlington 19 Exeter City 20 Gillingham 21 Grimsby Town 22 Hartlepool United 23 Hereford United 24 Huddersfield Town 25 Leeds United 26 Leyton Orient 27 Lincoln City 28 Macclesfield Town 29 Millwall 30 Milton Keynes Dons 31 Morecambe 32 Northampton Town 33 Norwich City 34 Notts County 35 Oldham Athletic 36 Port Vale 37 Rochdale 38 Rotherham United 39 Shrewsbury Town 40 Southampton 41 Southend United 42 Stockport County 43 Swindon Town 44 Torquay United 45 Tranmere Rovers 46 Walsall 47 Wycombe Wanderers 48 Yeovil Town 49 Hinckley United or Histon 50 Nuneaton Town or Kendal Town 51 FC Halifax Town or Wrexham 52 Gateshead or Southport 53 Workington or Rushden & Diamonds 54 Mansfield Town or Altrincham 55 Buxton or Stourbridge 56 Blyth Spartans or AFC Telford United 57 Ilkeston Town or Tamworth 58 Lincoln United or Cambridge United 59 Kettering Town or Redditch United 60 Northwich Victoria or FC United of Manchester 61 Barrow or Chester City 62 Kidderminster Harriers or Fleetwood Town 63 York City or Bedworth United 64 Hendon or Woking 65 Gloucester City or Lowestoft Town 66 Farnborough or Salisbury City 67 Mangotsfield United or Forest Green Rovers 68 Crawley Town or AFC Wimbledon 69 Oxford City or Bury Town 70 Bromley or Ebbsfleet United 71 Chelmsford City or Stevenage Borough 72 Aylesbury or Wealdstone 73 Dover Athletic or Eastleigh 74 Hayes & Yeading United or Staines Town 75 Luton Town or Grays Athletic 76 Oxford United or Thurrock 77 Bath City or AFC Totton 78 Paulton Rovers or Chippenham Town 79 Tooting & Mitcham United or Eastbourne Borough 80 Hampton & Richmond Borough or Sutton United Non-League teams winning the fourth round qualifying will pick up £12,500 each, while the first round proper wnners get £18,000 per club.

Yes, I think he'll play as well! He does seem to have been carrying this ankle injury for a few weeks though.

Yes but where his he going to get the chance to manage another CL team? Rangers? He isn't going to go there. Man U? Arsenal? Liverpool? Chelsea? Citeh? Villa? Even Everton? He hasn't a cat in hell's chance of landing any of those jobs. That leaves moving abroad to a minor football league and I don't think Strach is up for that. Taking Boro up and re-establishing them as a Premier League team is as good a challenge as any.

On the Solent Twitter feed: solentsport #saintsfc striker David Connolly in line for first start against MK Dons. Lallana a doubt with ankle injury.

Davis re-signed before AP was appointed. He is however the only one of the retained (first XI) players that has gone backwards this season.

Has he given us back the training kit that was delivered to him back in July?

They should hang it in the Salvation Army hostel and show it to all the down and outs, with a slogan "Things aren't so bad, if you had been brought up in P*mpey, you could have ended up like this!"

The trouble is Frank, I don't think we were actually looking for outside investment then. It would have been the easiest period to sell the idea to outside investors because of what we'd achieved to date, sold out stadium and the basis of a really good team. Rupert knew that anyone coming from outside, would mean the erosion of his power-base, if not the termination of it all together and AT THAT TIME a big-wig within the Premier League, he was never going to let that happen. By the time even RL conceded that outside investment was not only desirable, but essential, our downward spiral had long since started going out of control and until we hit rock bottom anybody with the money to make a difference, weren't going to touch us with a barge pole.

I think that point is not to be underestimated.

We may not be able to clear out some of the "dead wood" until their contracts expire and they can be released. I guess it's a possibility that Saint's may decide to pay some of these up, just to get shot.

This is a hard question to answer because all of his signings have improved their particular area of the field. If I had to pick a 1,2,3, I would go for Lambert, Hammond and Jaidi but that doesn't mean I don't rate the likes of Harding and Trotman because I do!

23,000 expected according to the Echo.

Give it time. We are not too far away from America style franchises. I can certainly see small town teams going semi-professional/minor league and the main leagues (may be Premier Leagues 1 and 2) being made up of teams representing the countries bigger cities.

I think the phrase "Several men kicked and punched the victims to the ground and repeatedly kicked and stamped on them." was used by Hants Constabulary because it's used on the BBC web-site as well.

The 4 Nations starts tomorrow, with England playing France at Doncaster and the Aussies playing NZ at Quins. England team announced: 1 Shaun Briscoe (Hull KR) 2 Tom Briscoe (Hull FC) 3 Lee Smith (Leeds Rhinos) 4 Michael Shenton (Castleford Tigers) 5 Ryan Hall (Leeds Rhinos) 6 Danny MCGuire (Leeds Rhinos) 7 Richard Myler (Salford City Reds) 8 Jamie Pea**** (Leeds Rhinos, capt ) 9 Scott Moore (Huddersfield Giants) 10 Adrian Morley (Warrington Wolves) 11 Gareth Ellis (Wests Tigers) 12 Sam Burgess (Bradford Bulls) 13 Kevin Sinfield (Leeds Rhinos) INTERCHANGE 14 James Graham (St Helens) 15 James Roby (St Helens) 16 Ben Westwood (Warrington Wolves) 17 Kyle Eastmond (St Helens). FC's Little Tom Briscoe, a late squad replacement for Sean O'Laughlin, brought straight into the team on the wing, instead of Pikey Rovers' Peter Fox. Lol at Peac_ock not getting through the swear filter.

Said on SSN that he has signed 76 players since he's been there. For the last 18 months I haven't been able to understand the blind loyalty the koppites have had for him.

TBF, Gibson doesn't have a reputation for sacking managers willy-nilly. All of his managers have certainly been given time and money.

9.00 am Tuesday!

We regularly took around 12,000 to Eastville in the late 70's and took loads to Fulham, Luton and Orient promotion season. Selhurst v Wimbledon I think was officially 11,000 but there were many more in the home sections of the ground. Highbury the season Keegan signed may have been the biggest of the lot but nobody knows how many Saints' fans (or Arsenal fans for that matter) were in the ground that night.

They didn't do it of their own accord, let's say they were persuaded by the footballing authorities and due legal process.

officialsaints All of you who missed out on Orient tickets - you've just got lucky! Just been informed a FINAL FINAL 150 on sale from 9am Tuesday #saintsfc