chrisobee

I was another of those who happened to be at Vicarage Road in 1980 ! There were not many of us I recall RIP fellow Saints fan.

Dale Stephens from Oldham has been linked I believe ( Sky Sports).

How much is that info worth ?

It is one of the main gripes on a current Echo thread though : 1) I doubt any of those griping were there, probably not even born ! 2) We drew twice v Bolton and Spurs the other two promoted teams as well as both games v Brighton, a fair few rigged games that season ! Fact is had Brighton beaten us just once they would have got promoted ! Let us also remember we were only in the position to need a draw thanks to winning a week earlier at Luton, a very late Bally penalty I recall, and drawing at Orient in mid week having been a goal down. I do recall the Spurs came was tedious but what else would you expect? I could be wrong but did we not hit the woodwork in that game ? In any event it is utter nonsense though to be fair I believe most reasonable Brighton fans realise this.

What a totally bizarre comment especially as I am one of the few people on here who uses their real name, great undercover job I'd do

And what if they are available for the game v MK Dons? It is just speculation and whilst a very good loan signing would be nice who is to say that anyone we might want is available and/or willing to come ? This is really "Echo" type speculation, indeed I wouldn't be surprised if this all started with an Echo article !!

Close except it is never tongue in cheek Seriously, he is serious !

The world might end next week so why even bother discussing this

Indeed he was an asian teenager from Watford and is still on here under a different name. Though wasn't his old name Buzzin' Orn ? Can't really recall as he was always Buzzin' pest to me.

This is always a very hard, very personal issue to discuss and in terms of what you should feel I believe there is no answer to that. I was 19 when my Sister died in 1975, 6 years later one of my closest friends died at the age of 25 in a cycle accident. By that time I had lost all my grandparents also. I do think those bereavements taught me the value of life but also in later years when a relative/friend died I did have a strange lack of any real feelings though I always felt much sorrier for my parents who lost brothers and sisters etc: In 2005 in the space of 6 months I lost 2 uncles, an aunt and a great aunt. That did lead to a spell off work as I was really depressed though again there was also a great deal of concern for my parents. I think Poshie has it pretty much correct ( from my perspective ) : "Maybe thats the answer. The older the person is the more acceptable death seems to be even though it is no less tragic." I believe that is true. My Dad died in 2008, he was 84. Unsurprisingly I did feel that loss greatly and still miss him but my close family ( Mum, brother ) and I were determined the day of his funeral would be a celebration of his life, it was. A glorious late summer's day and a chance to reflect upon a long life well spent and I owe so many of my best memories to my Dad including my support for Saints.

Was I !? That was as good as it got ! Thanks entirely to Stevo I spent the last 3 days watching from my sick bed, bringing his man flu on here That is surely the ONLY thing I will ever get from him except never ending earache;)

Good luck, as per this thread my running far days are over ! http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?28349-Great-South-Run Eastleigh Soul Boy might join you for the last 10 metres

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20110321/ten-uk-cricket-world-strengths-3a09e87.html ENGLAND Strengths: * Showed their mental strength by surviving six close games. * Most number of runouts 8 Weaknesses: * Lower middle order has lowest average runs (12.5) at relatively poor strike rate (77.3) * Poorest performance during batting powerplay with a run rate (6.4) and an average of 12.9 * Poorest bowling performance so far with the worst economy rate (5.4 runs per over), average (30.9) and a strike rate (34.2) only better than Australia. * Poorest economy (5.8 and average (37.8 in powerplay bowling SRI LANKA Strengths: * Best opening batting performance, including highest average opening partnership (85.3), high strike rate (92.2) * Second highest runs per wicket scored (51.5) at run rate of 6.2 runs per over during powerplays while batting * Second best bowling performance, behind SA Best economy rate (4.3) with second best average runs per wicket (18.8 and strike rate (26.1) * Best spin bowling performance with economy (3.5) behind the Kiwis and average (16.7) second to South Africa Weaknesses: " * Second highest number of run outs (5) conceded and extras (7.7%) higher than some other teams. In simple terms we are probably going to need Sri Lanka to concede a ton of extras and for their batsmen to get run out and even then the odds of around 13/8 on England winning don't seem very generous!

QF line-up: 24th - Ind v Aus in Ahd, 26th - Eng v SL in Colombo, WI-Pak and SA-NZ will play in Mirpur, one of them on 23rd and other on 25th- to be decided which match is on which date.

Off the top of my head and without viewing previous posts : Golac Pahars Keegan Rodrigues Ball ( twice!) Richards Boyer Eklund - his injury was really sad Osgood Ron Davies Michael Svensson Shilton

Well, my policy of NOT backing my selections continues to prove a success

Aside from a freebie on Captain Chris am betting on none of these but for the sack of various tipping challenges/this thread : 1.30 Cue Card/Al Ferof ew 2.05 Captain Chris ew/ Finians Rainbow ew 2.40 Sunnyhilly Boy ew 3.20 Hurricane Fly 4.00 Garde Champetre 4.40 Quevega should win, if not then Sparky May but value gone for me. 5.15 Tullamore Dew ew Definitely a race for using a pin to find the winner, Tullamore Dew seems popular though and not just on here ! Good luck all, mainly just going to enjoy the racing and hope we can land a few winners on here.

http://www.attheraces.com/images/atrform/racecards/20110315/20110315CheAllCardsATRFormTimeformRacecard2Page.pdf

Dougie Costello to miss the festival : http://www.attheraces.com/article.aspx?ref=RSS+Feed&nav=news&hlid=515222&lid=PA+Racing+Feed&title=Festival+woe+for+luckless+Costello&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Day 1 preview : http://www.geegeez.co.uk/cheltenham-festival-2011-day-one-tuesday-preview-2/

Nope, simply relating what I had heard. As far as I'm aware there is still nothing definite as to who will ride most of the horses in the race.

Jockey for Aiteenthirtythree still not confirmed. ATR suggesting it will be Daryl Jacobs ? You might think they would resolve these kind of issues sooner, rather helpful for the poor punter methinks ! http://www.attheraces.com/cheltenham/article.aspx?hlid=515175&lid=news&raceid=&title=Jacob+poised+for+Aiteen+mount&ref=Cheltenham+-+News&nav=cheltenham+-+news&sub=&day=Mon

Indeed !

As always ATR have a Tipping Challenge : http://www.attheraces.com/cheltenham/tipping.aspx?hlid=515195&day=tue

RSA Hurdle Wed: 2.40 : Aiteen Thirtythree Word is that Ruby Walsh will ride this runner, not the Mullins horse. This was decided yesterday and is not common knowledge yet as far as I know but it will be in the next 24 hours. He schooled this runner 2 days ago and he was so impressed that he made the decision there and then. This runner has only got a few pounds to find with the favourite, Time for Rupert, and Walsh thinks he has found that and more. 8/1 look to be good value . Also worth noting Time for Rupert has not run for 3 months and lacks experience in anything like a big field over fences.