Jimmy_D

Seems strange to hear a Saints team talked about like that... but you're right! Have to admit I'm glad I'm not a moderator on the Huddersfield forum at the moment!

And so Huddersfield's unbeaten run comes to an end at the worst possible time for them. Some people say that the semi final of a cup is the worst possible match to lose... but it isn't. Losing a play off final... to get so close and then have to go through an entire season in the same league again...

It was a PR nightmare basically. Pointed out that he'd been called up to the stewards 5 out of 6 races, said that it was a joke, and even jokingly suggested that it was because he's black that it happens so often.

Champions League Final. Also the reason that the FA Cup was before the end of the season this year.

I was so looking forward to seeing how the tryes played out at the end there... Ruined by the safety car, that said, I hope Petrov is ok.

'would have come straight into the team.' They have 8 players! (Or is it 9, Ben Haim?) They could offer the kit man a contract at the moment and he'd walk straight into the team!

Any chance of an update on the total so far?

Personally think we'll be top half with maybe an outside chance of playoffs, depends a lot on who we bring in over the summer though.

'Prince Phillip at 90' was how this thread started, remember?

Nothing more than optimism that if we have an aim of regularly finishing top 4/5, and we actually succeed in that aim, then every other team that regularly finishes top 4 is generally regarded as being in the hunt for the title every so often. I'd argue it's pretty difficult to aim for Champions League football without aiming for the title itself. If we don't make it that far, I'm confident that we'll be a stable team in the Prem before too long, and above Pompey, which is the status of Saints I grew up with, I could live with that, but I can dream it'll be far far better

If we get to the stage that we're challenging for the top 5... We'll also be at the stage where we're challenging for the top 1. I hope I live to see the day we have more trophies than Pompey.

That's a heck of a bit of necroposting there... Funny to see how ours and Pompey's respective takeovers have gone since then... It makes me shudder just remembering how bad things were back then until this takeover happened. And it's flipping amazing that our biggest concern these days is whether Owen is going to sign for us

That's a good point. Serie A might be a good place for us to spot potential targets we're going for.

There's another one around now that hooks into about a dozen different things in the registry (including the shell, in effect windows itself) so it still loads up even in safe mode. My cousin got it, I ended up having to manually hunt through the registry to get rid of the hooks so I could then get MalwareBytes going to finish it off. That was fun!

I heard Umbro have new designers this year. Until someone actually sees it, we're having both stripes AND a sash kit this year. It's Schrodinger's Kit.

Ouch. That's pretty much like it'd be for us if Lambert decided to leave on a free for Pompey...

2005 Until then I believed that Saints were inherently a top flight club... they had been all my life and I didn't think that was ever going to change... The sheer number of points we lost late on, not always deserving to... being safe as things stood at half time on that last day... it felt like an utter injustice that we'd been relegated at the time, I kept expecting something to happen that meant we'd still be in the Prem lol

The light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming train...

There's already a tiny little thread in The Lounge for this...

There is a fairer way of doing it I've seen someone else suggest, that still gives the league the same number of games for the money. 5th plays 6th over two legs, with 5th placed team at home 2nd. The winner of that plays the 4th placed team over two legs, with 4th placed team home 2nd. The winner of that plays 3rd at a neutral ground in a winner takes all match. This way the teams finishing higher actually get an advantage for their higher position in the league.

Huddersfield deserved it over the season, considering how many points ahead they finished.... But Bournemouth deserved it on the night. Ref should have sent two Huddersfield Town players off and their last goal was after the half time whistle should have gone in extra time. And their goal on half time was after the whistle should have gone!

Great penalty!

Can't see Bournemouth winning now. Long long way back...

Can't believe how nervous I am watching as a neutral! (Ok, maybe I slightly want Bournemouth to win for the derbies next season... and the almost guaranteed 6 points) Can't think what I'd be like if it was Saints playing.

Will be passing through Southampton http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13391986 Also, there's a chance for the general public to be a bearer. http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23951172-thousands-given-chance-to-run-in-olympic-torch-relay.do