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What planet is this commentator on? we didn't play Boro last season FFS! The 2-2 game you keep going on about was in 2005!!!!!!!

I dunno, there's not much in it TBH. Anyway, they might be able to con him into thinking he is moving just down the road, as there is a little place called Portsmouth on the Lancs/Yorks border not far from Burnley... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth_%28Lancs%29_railway_station

Never mind Alps, I'm sure you're trying your hardest.

Off the top of my head I can think of Martin's header and a shot from Chaplow that he saved well.

Alps, we had a bad day at the office but we are still 3 points clear at the top of the league. I hate to be the one to break this to you but there will be occasions this season (and every season following it) where we won't play sublime, dazzling football for 90 minutes and opposition teams will dominate periods of games. Everything that we have achieved so far this season, and I mean everything, is due to the positive, winning mentality that Adkins has instilled into our players, yet you still take every possible opportunity to preach your depressing, negative drivel about how utterly sh*te we are and how our form will suffer and we will fail to get promoted. Seriously mate, why do you do it to yourself?

Would have taken a point before the game in all honesty, despite Reading's relatively poor home record this season, but to get one after the way the match panned out I'm well happy. For all their workrate and pressing, Reading didn't really create much in the way of clear opportunities IMO, so we have to be pleased with the way we defended against their pressure. It's just unfortunate that we couldn't exploit the spaces that were left by Reading's continual closing down of our players. We miss Lallana, and Guly looked like he hadn't even woken up tonight - can't see him keeping his starting place ahead of SDR much longer. Hammond's first yellow was a tad harsh I thought, but the second one fully deserved. It's great to have such a capable replacement in the form of Schneiderlin while he is suspended. MOTM for me was Chaplow. Unbelievable workrate and never gave up on anything. If the rest of the team had followed his example it would have been a completely different game.

I can't claim to be proud but it was far from embarrassing. If we had defended really badly and gone 3-0 down then I would agree with you, but as it happens we have gone away to what we all knew would be a very tough away game, ridden the storm and not conceded. What exactly is embarrassing about that? From my perspective, the half went the way it did because Reading have worked their bloody socks off to stop us from getting our passing game going. Every time one of our players got possession he was instantly surrounded by 2-3 Reading players. They won't be able to keep that up for 90 minutes, I guarantee that.

Yes he was, albeit very briefly. It was when they got duped by the fake sheikh and managed to convince Sol Campbell to sign for them a couple of years back.

Just wow. 5 points clear at the top after 12 games. Did any of us see that coming before the season started? When we made our good start I thought it was just that we were on a good run carried over from last season and that it was a bit false, but you know what?... I'm actually starting to believe we can get promoted this season now.

Gulllyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!

I wasn't there, but I would bet my mortgage that the Saints fans had been shouting skate-based abuse at him all match prior to that moment, yes? Wouldn't you try and make a point if it was you?

They never actually count penalties as a shot on target for some bizarre reason.

And to think, not all that long ago there were a few on here touting him as a possible during one of our numerous searches for a new manager over the last few years. Sheeesh - how glad am I that didn't happen! He comes across as very negative with a complete inability to recognise his own short-comings.

If it happened directly outside the club then there will almost certainly be CCTV footage available.

When the Echo reported on a friend of mine who was involved in a massive car accident on the M27 about three years ago, they used exactly the same wording - 'fighting for life' and 'serious head injuries'. They weren't being over-dramatic either. He was in a coma for two weeks, spent the next two months in hospital, has had all kinds of rehab treatment, and still to this day he is unable to return to work full-time and probably never will. I certainly hope that Dan Seaborne's condition is not as serious as my friend's was, but if it is then we should prepare for the eventuality that he will never play again. Best wishes and get well soon Dan. My sympathy is with your family and friends at this time.

Mogwai, Bjork, Primal Scream, PJ Harvey, DJ Shadow, Eat static, Beardyman, Toots & the Maytals, Andrea Triana, DJ Derek, Andrew Weatherall, Grandmaster Flash, and Mr B the Gentleman Rhymer are all on my list of must-sees. What's the betting at least two of them will clash with one another?

Hope you managed to get a ticket OK, apparently it has now sold out. Me and the GF are coming down from Sheffield for it - can't fookin wait, the lineup is breathtakingly good this year.

Then perhaps it's down to the better standard of refereeing in this division.

Please do. If we don't sign anyone then you will triumphantly get to say "I told you so", and I will happily hold my hands up and accept it. But I cannot subscribe to your view that we are only looking to consolidate, which appears to be based purely on your opinion that because we aren't publicly shouting about potential transfers we therefore aren't looking to sign anyone. This is clearly false as Adkins has openly stated that potential deals have been in the pipeline. Some of them may have stalled and others may have fallen through completely, but to claim that "it is clear our ambition is to secure our place in this division" just because we haven't made any big signings yet is naive at best, and downright moronic at worst. Of course everyone loves rumours and speculation about potential signings, but I personally like and respect the fact that Cortese prefers to do his business away from the spotlight of the media.

The fact is, Dalek, that you simply don't know that to be the case and are just speculating. Maybe NC has seen our great start and thinks we can go for promotion this year, and is working behind the scenes to do the deals that will facilitate that, because that is his way. He doesn't do his deals in public like Lowe used to and we only get to find out about them once they are completed - as it should be. If no new faces have arrived by the end of the transfer window then, and only then, will I agree with your post above. But we know from what little snippets Adkins has given us that they are looking to bring in more players yet, and I would much rather we are patient about it and bring in the right players on suitable terms than to go out and hastily spend the AOC money just for the sake of it.

He wasn't just in the team, he scored a bloody hat-trick! Great memories watching the Liverpool vid though, I used to have the season review on VHS and I can almost remember the commentary word-for-word, I must have watched it so many times. It was my first full season supporting Saints and it was a hell of a ride! Le Tiss and Rod Wallace, despite being wingers for the entire season, managed to score 45 goals between them! Case and Cockerill in CM, with Osman and Ruddock at the back and Tim Flowers in goal - god that was a good team. The Liverpool game was also Jason Dodd's home debut I believe. The annoying thing is, I couldn't get to that game because I was on the school exchange in Germany at the time and I didn't believe my brother when he told me we had won 4-1 (this was before the days of the internet so I had no way of checking the scores).

I've just run CCleaner on my laptop and now I can get into saintsplayer no problems. Anybody having problems give it a go, though it will delete all your internet history.

404 error not found Bastards!

It would warrant a straight red if he went in studs up with no intention of winning the ball. He swung and made contact with the ball and was closer to it than the Barnsley player was so had every right to go for it, therefore it wasn't even a 'challenge' as such. Having said that, I can see why the ref could have seen it as a straight red at the time because the contact did look nasty.

Yeah, that's how I see it having watched the replay. He swung to kick the ball and got it so his studs were up, and it looked like the Barnsley player just ran into his foot almost deliberately. I think we would have a decent case if we appealed against it.