thefuriousb

I am runnig the Great North Run in Sept and probably 1 or 2 other half marathons before runnig the New York marathon in November. The Great South is the week before New York, so am undecided whether to run it this year. It could be an ideal last prep run before NY. I may then end the year with the Gosport half marathon, the day after my 40th and my retirement!

Extra Man U cup tickets were bought on my ST this morning over the phone ... and no tickets for the Carlisle (or any other home game) were purchased. This is as per the response to the question on the official saints twitter account yesterday (see post #5

As it is on terrestrial tv, and you are no willing to buy a ticket, why are you prepared to spend money in a crappy, soul-less city centre pub? You could watch it from the comfort of an arm chair (with cheaper beer) at home??

Double standards, no ... but the same thing ...yes. Therefore to make the ascertion that this just did not happen under Pardew is laughable. We have already highlighted 3 defeats, and 1 draw (plus no doubt a few more) where Pardew fell woefully short of your own expectations (just like Adkins seems to also). Who is the history denier really?

2 of the defeats were against Gillingham & Tranmere - both of who were in the relegation battle all last season. Also lost at home to Brighton - who at the time had just sacked a manager due to a run of poor results. So that is nearly 50% of the games lost under Pardew that were against sides that, according to your expectations, we should not just have won, but probably ****ed. So you could argue that he did not prepare the side properly when it came to lesser opposition, merely expecting 3 points than earning them. And showed a lack of ability to change things when the game was not going to plan.

Darren Potter and Danny Guthrie too. Guthrie looked a real player. Not too surprising he is now at a club the size of Newcastle

That's the kind of support SFC needs! You go, girlfriend! Happy to see you go follow Pards and his new team.

Did he write "Get help. I am being held hostage" on the programme he was signing for you?

So no deal had been agreed at all, then. At best, any negotiations that may have taken place broke down due to the demands and "vision" (for want of a better term) not being the same/incompatable. You could just as easily say, that IF O'Neill wanted the job he could have agreed to the "vision" the club had outlined.

Of note we have had 3 or 4 players come out of pre season with injuries that have either kept them out of the side to start with, or have now had to go for an op already having not been able to continue. Is this a coincidence or something else to consider with APs dismissal and rumours of player unrest? A genuine concern and am not trynig to start another conspiracy theory....

Isn't Charlie Sales Rupert's mouthpiece?

ooh - does that mean I can ask for a refund from the relegation season from the premier league? I didn't enjoy that experience. Surely, my dis-satisfaction entitles me to a refund

Ensure the team goes onto the pitch to go and win the game 1st, then having done that, then see the game through. Dominate from the back, right through the midfield and through our forwards It may stick in the throat, but this is what the blue few did when they gained promotion from the championship. I don't want to see Rickie left on, when clearly not fit, to be used solely a target for direct (high) balls into the box in the vein hope we may eek a goal at the end of a game in sheer desperation. Or, as we have seen in the Plymouth game, direct high balls be played continuously into the box, when Rickie is sat in his suit in the directors box.

I thought that we were not allowed to have a formal option as Antonio's contract had it written into it that if Reading wanted to extend his contract then they could. They could wait until the end of the original loan period to decide what they wanted to do Only if they decided not to offer a further year could we then step in. Having decided to enforce this extension to his contract, whether AP wanted him to come back, is rather a moot point This may not have been the case, and I may be incorrect, but something along these lines sounds familiar

Apparently the Papa signing was APs. He was on his radar when he was manager of West Ham. I know at one point, West Ham had an Italian as DoF. This may have been in Pardew's time. It may explain how he came to be on West Ham's radar. This would may not make as interesting reading as the jucier conspiracy theories, granted. HTH

I was disappointed they didn't draw batons and use them. That's what I expect my council tax money to be used for. Not mountain bikes.

The original article outlining how tickets are to be sold had a Q&A. In it was covered the subject of having bought an area final ticket but not against your customer number. Basically, if you inform them of the card details used to purchase the area final tickets then they will have your details (and thereby proof/eligibility) on their record.

Major engineering works at Clapham junction that weekend. Trains being re-directed adding time to the rail journey

Bump. (given Morgan's 3 match ban now)

Jack Cork, Jack Cork, Jack Cork........

+1 And would have noticed that Wilbraham used his hands more than his head or feet throughout the whole game. I didn't see either Davis or James do anything 2 or 3 MK Don players did in the same fracas. So not sure why he chose to book them and no one else (and not send off Randall for the inital reckless challenge from behind) Morgan could feel a tad unfortunate as on another day he would have just booked the pair of them. He did, though, give the ref the opportunity to deem it violent and therefore a red.

Watching Sky Sports News, just seen that Jack Cork is back playing for Chelsea Reserves. Would suggest Cov not extending the loan. He looked a class act in the first half of our dutch experiment season

"Never wrong" Skysports were then, and Saints Twitter correct?

Connolly v Norwich for me. Part of me wishes I had celebrated the goal as it was a great strike, but I was making a protest at the hypocracy of those sat around me who moaned and berated the players almost non-stop but had the timerity to jump around like loons when the ball pinged in the top corner.

I am seriously considering stopping going because of the melodramatics of many that sit around me everytime we are not 3 up in the first 5 minutes! The new found fortune (luck, not money) in having a team to support this season seems to have brought with it ridiculously high expectations. I seem to have mistaken Saints for some other club that had previously displayed a long history of carrying all before them. This season could be my last unless they build individual sound-proof booths