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That is one of my earliet memories as a saints fan. I was 8 years old at the time and it wasn't until 7 or 8 years later that i looked at the results that season and thought "f*ck, we could have won the doulbe that year" I can only imagine how great that 83/84 season must have been, the win at pompey, watching the best team in the country week in week out, and being that close to doing the double, i just feel lucky to have know that, albeit as a child, we were and still are a great club.

one of my earriest football memories were us losing 1-0 at Everton in the 84 semi, then beating them 3-1 in the league a week or less later and asking my dad why we couldn't do that on saturday. I was 8 years old at the time and the memory of that week still rings true, at the time i didn't realise how close we were to the double and how good we were as a side, but one thing it did mean was that i was a saint forever.

A classic post from someone that knows F*ck all about football and SFC, in this post you have summed up why this forum means f*ck all to anyone that is clued up and watches Saints home and away.

Look at the teams that have beaten Brighton this season, they have lost away at Bournemouth, Huddersfield, Sheffield Wednesday (when they were in the top 2) MK Dons and Hartlepool, top 6 sides now or at the time so the only one you might consider a slip up was Hartepool, but even they have a decent record against the top sides in this division. I dont hear any "one of those days" or blaming the linesman, or individual error excuses for losing at Wallsall, Swindon, Carlise, Tranmere at home to Brentford and failing to beat Charlton and Yeovil coming from them. It keeps on happening with us against these sort of teams yet you lot all seem to make excuses. The cold light of day is we have consistantly failed to win games we should have won and them made excuses or even worse put it down to "one of those days". We wont win every game and we will slip up, but it is happening all too often. This was the season with no excuses, yet some of you seem to be happy to be unlucky runners up, if lallana or chamberlain are out for any length of time then we have another ready made excuse if it costs us. The season of no excuses has rapidly become the season of many.

He was quite good at Exeter, the next home game he was shocking though and seems to have been every time since then. We were warned!!!

There are only 30 points left for us to play for, we need 13 more points than you over the next ten games, aint going to happen. You probably only need another 3 or 4 wins in reality.

I've this to death on another thread and i dont agree that we played well at Wallsall from someone who was there. We didn't deserve to lose but the stats dont tell the whole story. We created 3 or 4 decent chances in the first half and should have been a couple up at half time but in the second it was desperate stuff. Most of our attempts at goal after half time were into a crowded goal mouth or humped high into the box hoping for a knock down, the longer the game went on the more hopeful we became, we created very little in terms of chances and whilst Wallsall had the luck on the night this was a side who only one other team in the whole of the country had lost more than at home at time, we should have won and won easily. There is pattern to our performances against this type of team, Yeovil, Tranmere, carlise, Charlton, Notts County, swindon, Brentford all games against poor opposition which we should have won but didn't. It cant just all be coincidence and that every time we play one of those sides they've got lucky. Compare our results to Brightons against these lot and they simply dont lose these sort of games, you cant tell me they have been any luckier or unlucky against these sides than we have.

mark Wright lost his man as well FFS. And how on earth is that ever a free kick??

Glue is my favourite.

What i have been impressed with by them is the manner of their wins. They were blowing teams away at one point 4-0 at Charlton and P'boro i believe but they have also won a lot of games 1-0, just done enough which is what teams that win things do.

You're right it wasn't a corner it was a free kick which wasn't a foul. Was Alan Curtis playing for us then?

We didn't need to we have Jonno Quick chomping at the bit for his chance. Also Adkins would have had no idea on the extent of the injury at the time of the interview.

You'd fancy us over two games against anyone in this league, however how often does the team that finish 5th or 6th go up via play offs? And it would be sods law that we beat Bournemouth 3 times comfortably during the season then they fluke a win over us in the play offs.

what a ridiculous post, do you seriously think an international manager would call up a player just so a club he has no connection with in the third tier of another countries football pyramid can get a game postponed?

He looks a bit like you mate.

Bizarre post. Surely that is the point of a target man? Ball goes him to him, he holds it up, flicks it on, controls and passes and brings other players into the game who are more mobile or am i totally missing the point of a big man/target man up front and they are supposed to run around a lot in a Brett Ormerod type way? And as someone has said his control, passing and vision is very good at this level. I dont agree he would be good in the hole though, not mobile enough so would be easy to mark and less effective than up front.

But the biggest question of all is, would yah?

Just by conicidence i've just had a call from an ex colleague from my last job to tell me amoungst other things, that our old boss has been promoted to National sales Manager for a another department with 40 people in it. She couldn't cope with manging a department of 6 when i was there FFS! The worst manager you can possibly imagine. No sales skills, no people skills, no management skills, couldn't forecast properly, constantly stressed and snappy and bullied a lot of decent people out of the company and replaced them with crap, in fact i cant think of anything she could do properly, even when she was an account manager had terrible sales figures. Classic example of someone being promoted and successful when they have zero ability whatsoever.

Great book, every time i think of it i have a horrendous image of Juice Terry pounding some bird saying "spice o life"

Are you in the armed forces jamie? I didn't realise.

My boss is great, i really really like my boss. Really good bloke, chilled out, (even in civillian terms) very approachable and has got the very best man management skills you can imagine. Really makes going to work so enjoyable.

That sounds permenant to me, wishing him good luck, he'll play at a higher level etc, not the sound of someone going back in a couple of months.

A lot of people were, an awful lot. I actually started a thread earlier in the season, after the P'boro home game i think, defending him because i was getting p*ssed off with him being made the scapegoat.

And everyone was saying he was sh*t a couple of months or so ago.

I think it's up to Lallana and Jonno Quick to have the Ice Man/Maverick Top Gun conversation as to who is whos wing man dont you?