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Dibden Purlieu Saint

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  1. Yes, didn't you know? Statistically your support is most vocal and unrelenting at the age of 24... Plus Soccer AM target audience is the 18-30 demographic
  2. I'm up for it, but not many of my mates support Saints! I'm 24 though, so about the right age.
  3. If he was that rich he'd have used a helicopter wouldn't he?
  4. Was he well dressed, and look a little like Prince Harry?
  5. And don't forget about Josef Fritzl...
  6. Just got back and I've got to say, 'wow'. We played very well. Great goal by McGoldrick, but he best bit for me was the atmosphere. Sat in the Northam/Kingsland corner and it was amazing! Throat is killing now!
  7. Sat in the Noertham/Kingsland, best atmosphere I can remember for god knows how long!
  8. Still looking pretty good, BWP, Surman, Lallana look very good.
  9. At the match, started well. Seen us much worse. BWP looking well up for it.
  10. Got my tickets, and will pick some up for the Burnley game afterwards as well. This could be the last time I ever get to see my club so I will definitely be there.
  11. I agree, it is madness that people wanted this to happen. Absolute madness.
  12. Rumours are abound that NC is someone who also used to be called Sundance Beast. Think of Alpine's nemesis and you'll be there...
  13. I'm not even sure asset stripping is legal in this situation. I thought it was a combination between money for the creditors and keeping the business running?
  14. Just to let you know, up to 11,000 members. If anyone still hasn't added themselves please do. We're in contact with the Guardian about putting our side of the story across, and there are other idea's being worked on at the moment.
  15. Couldn't agree more, well done David!!
  16. I still struggle to see why you care Alpine? Do you love art? Or is it just something to moan about?
  17. Just listening, looks a bit more hopeful than he did at the press conference too.
  18. Just had a message through Facebook from a random Pompey fan saying that he is going up to Hull today but has bought a Saints shirt from the website. Got to say fairplay to that!
  19. Send a letter to Charlene De Carvalho Brown Candover Alresford, Hampshire, UK Apparently Everton enquired a few years ago only to hear it was too far for them to contemplate. 3.2bn, de Carvalho is Britain’s second richest woman,The Mail on Sunday. And last week she became “the new queen of British brewing” when Heineken, in which she has a controlling stake, took over Britain’s biggest brewer, Scottish & Newcastle. De Carvalho, 52, has brewing in her blood. Her mother, Lucille, was the daughter of a Kentucky bourbon baron; her father, Freddie Heineken, the visionary Dutchman who clawed Heineken back from the brink of disaster after debt, divorce and bad management saw the family lose control of the firm his grandfather had founded in 1873. By secretly buying up shares, 30-year-old Freddie regained the firm in 1954 and went on to turn Heineken into the world’s second largest brewer by volume. “I wanted to prevent strangers from doing strange things under my name,” he said. A bon vivant who regularly hosted the Dutch royal family on his yacht, Something Cool, Freddie Heineken was also a marketing master, says The Times. He gave the brewer back its traditional green label and tweaked the beer to suit national markets. He ran a tight ship, but with humour. “I do not sell beer, but gaiety,” he said. Even being kidnapped in 1983 failed to quash his spirits. After a three-week ordeal, Freddie claimed the kidnappers had tortured him by making him drink Carlsberg. Following Freddie’s death in 2002, there was “frantic speculation of an imminent unwinding of the family’s stake”, says the FT. It may have been no bad thing. After years of growth, Heineken had become an also-ran in a consolidating industry; impeded from expansion, many said, by the family’s reluctance to loosen its grip by issuing shares to fund acquisitions. But while Charlene showed no desire to run the business, she also showed no signs of being prepared to let it go. After studying law at the University of Leiden, she briefly became an intern at Heineken before marrying Michel de Carvalho and moving to London. She became a patron of the arts and a mother of five but never stopped calling the shots at Heineken, says BusinessWeek: she retained a say over everything, from packaging to acquisitions. And behind her stands her husband, Michel, now vice chairman of Schroder Salomon Smith Barney, and the one who now “speaks for the family” on the Heineken board. Michel de Carvalho’s life “reads like something out of Hello magazine”, says The Daily Telegraph. Born of Brazilian-English parents, he became a child acting star and later skied for Great Britain in three Winter Olympics. De Carvalho seemed destined for Hollywood, and later said that quitting acting was “just about the most stupid decision” he ever made. But he’s been no slouch as a banker, rising from a junior position at Nikko Securities to become one of Citigroup’s leading men in London and a driving force in securing Heineken for the next generation. Charlene, too, has publicly vowed to keep the company independent – she hopes her eldest son will eventually take the reins, noting that the family is “part of Heineken’s past, present and future”. Shored up by the spoils of the Smith & Newcastle deal, there’s not much sign of that changing.
  20. For me now it's not about staying up, it is purely to keep the club in existence. A week ago that was never even a contemplation.
  21. Will be watching and hoping they cover the problem at Southampton.
  22. This was an idea posted on the Group, which may well be do-able. Guys, Was talking about the current situation yesterday with, 50 years of suport for the saints between us. We've both seen legends playing for the red n whites. How amazing would it be if it could be organised to bring some of the greats back together, and get them out on the pitch before the game, to get the crowd going??!!
  23. Completely agree, I think the atmosphere will be amazing today, I really do. I can't wait.
  24. Fair play to Kelvin Davis and the rest for deferring wages, although I do agree with Davis that some of the younger players shouldn't as some of them get paid worse than you or me.
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