Winnersaint

Perhaps if you politely refrained from posting like a mouth breathing knobhead, then people would respond more politely. You are on a similar level to Glasgow the Austrian chocoholic and the sci-fi dustbin so you get what you deserve.

Take a bow! Post of 2016.

Great stuff WSS. My target was 6000K which I passed on Tuesday.

Even worse here today. Black ice right outside house. The garage beckons!

And if we are so be it. I'll not lose sleep over it, just be a fan of a Championship team, not ideal but still Saints. Far more important things to worry about in this world.

Take 1982 as an example. David Armstrong did play wider on the left in a four man midfield with Nick Holmes and Alan Ball and a combination of Steve Williams and Graham Baker towards the right. Bally was still top notch but certainly not the same dynamic player as in his Everton and Arsenal days. He had legs around him in the middle of the park and all he just had to use his fantastic football brain to get himself in position to receive a pass and move it on. This he did brilliantly, he made the midfield tick, rarely needing to hold on to the ball for any real time.

Strange year. Never a fan but only 53.

Never go back! Won't happen. As VFFT says reinforces his relative failure at Man U

Take a Premier League player who's also an established international. Amongst us mere mortals he is a hero, almost otherworldly in his gifts and abilities on the pitch, but to his peers he is no more otherworldly or gifted than they are. Pretty much to a man they are driving around in fabulously expensive cars and living in large and expensive houses in the most desirable areas whether they play in London, the South Coast or in the North West. Perhaps the only thing that marks a player's status amongst those peers is the size of the wage he gets. In the bubble that they exist in it is probably the only tangible thing that marks their career progression as most other things are taken care of and secured for life.

I always thought it was to do with Rupert Lowe securing the cost of SMS against future TV revenues. Relegation was indeed the problem, but not necessarily because we were throwing unreasonable amounts of money at it to get back in the top flight. In fact in the season immediately following our transfers out (mainly from Crouch and Theo) amounted to just short of £15M while we spent just over £2M on Raziak and Fuller. The following two seasons we operated around a £6M transfer surplus by which time everyone worth selling had been sold and the costs of servicing the stadium debt without Prem TV revenues caught up with us. Cue administration and Markus Liebherr.

If any of those goals were scored by a top 6 side the national press, Sky Sports and Talk****e would be falling over themselves in praise of Chelsea, Arsenal, City, Liverhampton, Spuds and Manure. Wonder if we'll get the same Kudos? Agree with the sentiment about the second goal, Boufal's backheel was sublime!

I think we all knew we would be a striker short and so it has been proved.

Did you really expect year on year improvement ad infinitum? If so then you are bigger clown than I thought. BTW I've got you on ignore so responses to my posts are unwelcome as I can see them. Mind you I suppose getting a reaction will be excuse enough to crack one off!

So 21 points from 15. Not exactly relegation form is it? Reckon this is a work in progress. Too many with HoTS (Hard of Thinking Syndrome) Expecting better in what was always going to be a transitional season was always a big and somewhat realistic ask. If you extrapolate the points so for across the season then around 50 will be OK. Not as many as I would like, but I an' t always get what I want.

Runs Vftt's post close for post of the year.

Come on Vfft don't hold back! FWIW I have the trolling cu_nt , fat fu_cking clueless cu_nt, and the the one cu_nt you wish would lose the use of his arms on ignore also. St Robbie must be some form of non-entity as I can't recall being annoyed by his drivel as much as the other three. As you say stop quoting them.

First live gig I saw was ELP in 1972 at Bournemouth Winter Gardens during Trilogy Tour. Emerson (RIP) wrestling with his Moog and Carl Palmer giving it beans on Drums, Greg Lake almost seemed out of place along with these forces of nature. ELP might not have been everyone's cup of tea, but as a 14/15 year old growing up in the 1970's they were just the best. It was only in retrospect that you realise quite how good they were as individual musicians. RIP Greg Lake. Another part of my youth goes. Sad!

I've been citizen of the EU in its various incarnations for over 40 years and I very much want to remain as one in the future. Sign me up!

Cheers.

RIP. Only at the Dell for 66/67 season. If my memory serves me right , and I was only eight, he was brought in as a stop-gap when Campbell Forsyth broke his leg against Liverpool, having played a blinder in the 9-3 game the season before. Gerry Gurr was the up and coming replacement but probably too young to go straight into Division 1. Prone to a mistake or too was replaced when Eric Martin was signed towards the back end of the season.

Everton or Chelsea?

Indeed it has but the hard of thinking still don't get it. A bit like the world of punditry and the written media which scratches its head endlessly trying to work out how we do it

The way I see it is that the will of the people has to be paramount. That said, like it or not we the 48% are significant. We shouldn't be branded as 'remoaners' just because we voice concerns over the terms of our exit from the EU or about the economic impact, but equally like it or not, we have to accept that those who voted for Brexit had a right to do so. Accepting that they voted that way for reasons that represented concerns over EU immigration into the UK does not necessarily make them racists. Those of us who live in areas where EU migration brings way more positives than negatives can never comprehend the effects that it has had in other communities in the UK. I have good friends in Lincolnshire, both of whom voted out who see things very differently. Neither could be regarded as having any sort of racist agenda. Where I do think things need to change is in the gloating and triumphalist attitude of those who voted to leave and that includes those on here. FFS just grow up. You've got what you wanted. Fine. Is it necessary to rub people's noses in it at every possible opportunity. None of us know what will happen, but I hope those that voted for Brexit will hold their hands up if it all goes t_i_t_s-up.

47% of the Austrian electorate voted for a far right candidate representing a party founded by ex-Nazi officers after WW2. Does that make them a politically significant force or political non-entity? If you live in the UK over 48% represents the latter.

Thought I'd put my twopenneth in. https://scontent.flhr2-2.fna.fbcdn.net/t45.5328-0/c0.0.539.539/p180x540/15085835_1174636912630055_7757095074155986944_n.jpg