hypochondriac

Well I'm told I run oddly with my right foot so I may see the doctor about that. Anything over 13 miles and my foot starts killing me.

It wasn't great but in truth not as bad as I had feared. The plane was totally full and they were looking to try to get people on a flight tomorrow but I wanted to get home and recover! I slept for most of the way so I suppose I'm one of the lucky ones but then a marathon does take it out of you a bit. Your legs do tend to seize up a little though. It was just under 6 hours though which is pretty good going I thought.

Btw you don't own a thread just because you started it, certainly not if you break forum rules. Follow the advice of stevegrant

Good afternoon Mr Tom

I thought this thread was crap but then it improved as it went down. Good work.

Put much better than me!

Both of you just shutup or get off the thread.

That for me is correct. Not every loss or draw means that saints have suddenly become easy to beat. It's ridiculous to draw conclusions from one game where we didn't take all our chances and where we conceded two. Sometimes in football these things happen. When Manu lost to liverpool the other week, I doubt you would have found many on their forum asking if they had become predictable or complacent. Even the best teams lose or concede goals and sometimes teams lose or draw games that they didn't deserve. That's football and no conclusions should be drawn from a single game (and no from the recent games I have seen we have not looked predictable in any way.)

Come on TDD. I know he's a numpty but you're just encouraging him by baiting him. Just ignore it.

Just back. Thanks everyone for your advice and support. sorry puddings and monkeys I didn't see you post until just now. Very very tired but it was an amazing experience. The first mile was great over the brooklyn bridge and a fantastic view. There are so many people lining the route (people think about 2 million) and the diversity of the areas we ran through was brilliant (predominantly black area, jewish area etc.) Some cracking live music round almost the whole course. My favourite was the gospel choir and some mental fat rocker bloke. As someone pointed out, the bridges are quite hard and the one just before manhatten is especially difficult. Once you get into manhatten it gives you a boost as the sheer amount of people is fantastic. I got a couple of bananas and some sweets from friendly passers by as well which helped. We had our names on the front of our running tops which meant that we got a lot of shouts and that was a good distraction to the growing pain in my right foot. From 20 miles onwards, it was just a case of coping through the pain and continually putting one foot in front of the other. There's a long straight bit just before central park at about 22 miles which really hurt but by then I knew I was going to finish and I knew it wasn't much longer until I could rest! We finished in 4 hours 49 minutes and 10 seconds which might not be the fastest, but then for me the achievement was finishing the thing and we managed to raise over 2k for MS which is another bonus. An amazing experience and something which you couldn't get anywhere else. It really hurts and at times you wonder why you are putting yourself through it, but I'm really proud of my medal because I know how much effort and training it took to get it. I know this might be boring for some but I just thought I'd share. I think I may go to bed in a bit!

For me, Forest away last year was the best away game I have ever been to since we left the prem (and I include West Brom away and Derby playoffs in that.) It was so weird to think that that could potentially be the last time I ever saw saints play. There was a real brotherly attitude at half time and full time with people dancing and singing. It brings a smile to think that all those people who so deserved a successful club are feeling great right now. I don't believe any other club would have reacted like that. OK we had fights in the stand during the dark times but when it came to the end we went down singing, dancing and hugging and we didn't leave with a whimper. That was probably the proudest I had ever been as a saints fan. It's nice to see us get something back.

Lol. Good post nickg. It's nice to laugh.

Why are they calling us scummers?

Belhadj? Kanu?

I love how much this thread has digressed!

Both are going down anyway so it won't make much difference.

Not sure how they are going to find a decent owner. The amount required just to keep the fans happy will be huge and they will never see a return. It makes no sense. Compare that to the 12 million for saints and everything you got for your money and it looks even worse.

Fair enough. It's fine now though.

Except that loans aren't allowed in a transfer embargo

So sounds like criticism to me, Pardew even uses the word.

Pardew is quoted as saying he is criticising him so where's the problem?

But surely they cant keep delaying the wages every month? If I was a pompey player I would be pretty ****ed off.

Maybe they can just keep getting a new investor in every month to pay the wages.

Are you listening crabby? Fecking hilarious!

What significance does that have Steve?