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Except that it's a sh1t song and completely irrelevant to most of today's fans.

Except that it's a sh1t song and completely irrelevant to most of today's fans. Leave it in the archives.

Well this myth was put to bed today. Lower midtable water-treaders are exactly who you want to be playing at this stage in a season. Bodes well that Peterborough also fall in that bracket.

I'm going on a Stag Do today. Flight is at 2.40 from Heathrow. That would be just ok for me to get to the end of the game sneakily by listening through my phone...if only I had a decent one. I have a US blackberry and a ****ty pay as you go Samsung UK phone. Neither of which I believe can stream commentary (can you get Saints player on blackberry?). Firstrowsports doesn't work on it. My iPod has FM radio but that won't help. I may just be able to get radio stream if I get raped on data roaming charges. Other option is to take a laptop on the stag do purely to listen/watch the game in a hotspot. By the way... http://www.firstrowsports.eu/watch/117429/1/watch-southampton-fc-vs-portsmouth-fc.html

We should try selling him to Arsenal for £12m.

As the big day rolls nearer and nearer I'm sure more and more of us will find thoughts of The Day Of Retribution seeping into our unconscious. For many of us it will even seep into our dreams. For those who do, please chronicle what happens in this thread please. This is not a "in my dream scenario" thread, this is people who have actually had a dream in which they thought the events were actually happening. No 'hilarious' made up ones please, unless they are REALLY funny (I'll be the judge thankyou!) To kick off, here's mine from last night: [setting the scene: Due to a badly timed Stag do I am watching the game in a pub at Heathrow airport rather than at SMS. This bit is true] The game begins more evenly than I was expecting/hoping. Quite a niggly midfield battle with chances few and far between. There appears to be a bit of a hangover from the Blackpool game still. Good news is Lamberto is playing. Then disaster strikes midway through the first half (somewhere between 21-23 mins) as Chris Maguire is fouled in the box for a penalty. Mayhem ensues but when all calms down Maguire steps up to take it. Kelv goes the right way (to his right), but Maguire manages to put it just over the bar...a foot lower and it would have gone right in the top corner. Buoyed by this, Saints start to find their feet and push on. The big moment comes towards the end of the first half (around 38 mins). A Saints player (hard to discern) bursts through past the defence into the box, gets to the ball just before the onrushing keeper (a bit like Guly's close miss at the start of the Blackpool game, but more central). He pokes the ball past the Keeper and it rolls at speed right inside the far post. I turn around celebrating, completely mental, kicking down tables and smashing up pint glasses (OK that didn't happen - I'm even embellishing my own dream!), BUT I'm surprised by the lack of similar reaction around me. As I turn back round the replay is showing that the ball hit the inside of the post, rolled right along the line, hit the outside of the other post and then bounced right back into the keeper's arms. Still 0-0. Sh!t. It turned out the player with the shot was Harding. There was no further incident until HT. Unfortunately I then have to board the plane / woke up. Honestly, I am as disappointed by this anticlimax as you. Oh, and from Friday night... Reading 2 - 1 Leeds Barnsley 1 - 1 West Ham Unfortunately that meant we did go into the Pompey game in 2nd place. But I was very happy - and surprised - by the West Ham result.

Aaaah - so that's his real name!! Peter S. Field, hahah LMFAO - what a prize bellend!

He's right, selling out your tickets lets you start the game with a 2-0 lead in this league.

Rudi Skacel signs for Chelsea Henry.

and our promotion!

Personally, I am in the "it will hit a nerve" camp. Come on soldiers, nail your colors to the mast!

Sharp missed the pen and wasn't very effective during the game, but to say he was offside all game was unfair. The two good chances we had where he was judged offside he wasn't. Guly made a worse error straying offside during a good break, when Sharp got fouled running on the right. Also, there were 2 if not 3 incredible last ditch tackles from Blackpool defenders without which he would have been in. Not defending him too much as I agree he didn't have a good game, just trying to give some balance.

Things in costing more than when you were a kid shocker.

While I hear what you're saying, I'm not sure this is completely right. Shares would only lose value if the same amount of equity was now divided into more shares. What is happening here is that £33m of debt (a liability on the balance sheet) is disappearing and being replaced with £33m of equity. It is this amount which has been converted into the new shares, presumably into a comparable number of shares to correspond with the current share value (so that Number of new shares = £33m / current share value). So other investors are diluted in the sense of having a lesser share of the total, but the total amount has correspondingly gone up so that the share price should be (more or less) unchanged. They will, however, receive a lower percentage of any future profits, but the same is true of any losses. Plus they no longer have to service the loans. The total equity is merely assets less liabilities. Economically nothing has changed in doing this (in that no payments have actually been received into, or paid out of the company), so there should be no change in the value of a shareholding. It just means that the family have bought into the company and are willing to follow the fortunes, rather than receive a fixed guaranteed return. It also means the club is now less leveraged which is good news. Very simply (numbers made up): Equity £11m; 1.1m shares = £10 per share Now add in £33m of equity by writing off loans of same amount amount and issuing 3.3m shares... Equity £44m; 4.4m shares = £10 per share However were the club to make additional profits (eg Premier League cash), the original shareholders would now only receive a 1/4 of the share they would previously as they have to share it out more ways. All of which is moot at I 'believe' they own the club 100% anyway.

Let's be clear about what we mean here. In my opinion if someone came in and offered the owners £75M they would bite their hands off. However that doesn't mean they are any way actively looking to sell.

I love these threads. They always go the same way. Can someone start one on Lee Barnard before the Blackpool game please?

Jesus - I know they beat us 1-0, but we were top of the league at the time!! Incidentally Billy Sharp has scored every goal in the two meetings between us this season. Billy Sharp 2 -1 Billy Sharp

Awww, thanks Ottery. Sharp gets my vote though.

It's great. It's not a service, just an add-on to Firefox that lets you put in whatever proxy server and port you want. Thus you just google "free UK proxy server" (I tend to go to xroxy.com) and try a couple til it works. Also true for any other country (eg trying to watch US tv from the UK, to keep up with the Daily Show!).

or spend the approximately 7 mins it takes to learn how to do it with a free proxy (PM me)

It's amazing what a sense of humour does for a person's likeability. There's some on this site who could learn a lesson from that.

You're overworking the logic/maths. If the average is less than 15,000 then that means (broadly) less than half the time do they reach or exceed 15,000. But they are claiming it is "guaranteed", which is to say it is a minimum attendance. That is clearly not true as over half the time they are falling well short of that mark. Their "guaranteed" in the Championship is probably more like 11,000. The midweek game against Birmingham they only got 12,000 and this is with a fair few from Birmingham, plus the pack the park and cheapey specials.

I genuinely believe that was in the editing. I think Bilyana was always Sir Alan's choice, and she knew it, but the producers tried to make it more tense and fool you into thinking the blonde bint was sweating it at the end.

You do realise that 2 in 3 (67%) is less than 3 in 4 (75%) right?