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Some Managers are able to be complimentary when they've just won the match but struggle to be so when they have lost, Ferguson springs to mind. Pardew was magnanimous in defeat when we beat then at home. He's a good bloke IMO.

Ronaldo was a show pony to start with and regarded as a bit of a mummy's boy by other United players. Henri came as a winger who took a while to hit the target in his first season. Remember Drogba being always impressive, even before he joined Chelsea. Someone made a good point about Fellaini, a player I thought was crap at first but who clearly isn't but isn't he another that's been asked to play a different role from that which he played when he arrived. So lets not give up on Ramirez just yet. There's obviously talent there. It's up to the Manager to make the most of it.

Yes he was injured. Sore @rse.

Reckon he should have calmly side footed it into the bottom left hand corner like a certain England international.

He did. The balls up that was relegation was a double act. B@llock Chops and Lowe. With Lowe long gone, Redknapp will get dog's abuse on Saturday whether Uncle Dave like it or not.

Shall we swap him for Samba? After all, they need goals and they paid £12m for a CB. Surely only a fool would do a thing like that.

That's why he's a local commentator in Abu Dhabi.

The only thing I almost agree with is the point about tactics. I saw no significant change in tactics during the match, only changes in personnel but I think you cannot make that into a general criticism of Pochettino's tactical ability. Someone who reads the game better than I will no doubt put me straight. As for the rest of your comments, just one observation, Yoshida played left back against West Ham.

Do you think the ref was blameless? Was there no element of luck in any of Newcastle's goals? If Shaw had a knock, how was it a mistake to bring on a replacement left back?

Once a year the Rabbi would invest a goat with the sins of the community and run the beast out of the village and into the wilderness. One year the goat returned, sending the village into panic so the village decided this year and every subsequent year to throw the poor beast over a cliff to make sure it never came back to embarrass them. Saints lose a football match. Someone has to be blamed. It's written in stone.

The elephant's still in the room so which donkeys are still on the pitch? We won't go down.

Though Newcastle's pace stretched us (our defence seemed to be playing deeper leaving a lot of space between defence and midfield) they didn't have to work too hard for that victory. It just wasn't our day, from refs decisions to 50:50s, to lucky ricochets, to our performance. Although nothing went our way, ultimately we were architects of our own downfall. Inevitably Fox will get lambasted by all and sundry but he couldn't do much about the penalty decision. I think the handball was accidental. Tbh I don't know why Shaw was subbed. Puncheon looked bright when he came on and might have replaced Rodrigues sooner as he'd offered little.

They asked me. I guess they asked others too.

A long ball, if indeed they are a long ball team, could be effective against our pressing game. I'm sure Pochettino has a cunning plan. It's not like the ball ovr the top hasn't been tried against his system before.

A legal challenge will be expensive and probably time consuming. I doubt this boy's paying for it out of his pocket money so someone must be behind it. The FSF has had a legal team ready to go on this issue but a challenge has had to come from an individual. I wonder whether a decision subject to Judicial Review will mean the match cannot proceed (unless the bubble is dropped). A decision against the police could have major implications for the policing of demonstrations.

What sticks in my mind about Paul Sturrock is all the stuff at the time about him slurring his speech because he was a drunk. Comes out years later he has Parkinson's. We're far too quick to judge sometimes without knowing the facts.

It's only a game.

Few times I saw him he seemed like a good little midfield player. Remember a great defence splitting pass with the outside of his left foot away to Millwall (cup I think), to Harding who crossed for Lambert to score. think it was him anyway. We seem to have a super abundance of short arsed, fair haired midfield players.

The resemblance is uncanny. Wish we could send him down Niagra Falls in a barrel.

Don't knock it. It's where we went on holiday as kids.

I remember this song and that he had sparrow's legs. That's it. Can't remember the matches I'm afraid. Envy some you for your recall.

It's interetsting that the likes of West Ham and Stoke are linked with Lambert. What do they take him for? Rhetorical question. Money and Saints being willing to sell would maybe smooth the passage but you can't see Lambert deciding to go for footballing reasons. In any case he definitely won't drop a division having taken so long to get to the PL.

If you insist, you're "a Nutter FFS".

Nice idea but in practice we'd be up and down like a fiddler's elbow. Anyway the beer's rubbish. Why would you want to drink more of it.

There's still time.