Halo Stickman

Sounds like they catered for all tastes! Pubs sure ain't like they used to be. I blame the smoking ban myself

Ah yes, the Juniper Berry, that's the one. Cheers fellers! Nice to confirm, after all this time, that my mate wasn't bullsh*ting after all!

Anyone remember the name of the pub that once existed near to where Bugle Street meets Castle Way? Used to walk pass it every other Saturday on the way from the Red Funnel ferry to the Dell. Back in the mid 70s, a mate of mine, who worked at Vospers, reckoned he used to go there on Friday lunchtimes because they had topless dancers and topless barmaids. Anyone able to confirm this?

Excellent news Fantastic that Saints are now able to offer home grown talent a future at their own club rather than them having to seek it elsewhere; long may it continue!.

Richardson’s our man. Captain Frazer!! That would really **** off Mr Mainwaring! We’re all doomed….doomed, I tell ye

Obviously, the addition of those players have helped, but I think NickG’s stats also show that individual players, the team as a collective, the manager and more or less everyone else associated with the club have been on a learning curve. Fortunately, that curve appears to be heading in an upwards direction; let’s hope it continues to do so, preferably exponentially.

Taxis are the price we pay for an uncivilised bus service – Anyone who’s travelled on a bus after closing time

Serious question Tokyo-Saint, are those geisha girls in Kyoto for real or are they just women dressing up?

I feel that the difference between Adkins and our previous managers is yet to be realised and lies somewhere in the future. None of our previous managers have really achieved that much once they left Saints. Yes, I know Strachan won things with Celtic, but, quite frankly, in that league, so could have Michaela Strachan. Despite some of his slightly questionable signings, substitutions and tactics, I’ve a feeling, - a strong gut feeling - that Adkins will one day prove to be a top rate manager at premiership level. I just hope it’s with us and not some other ****ing team!

Yep, sometimes it’s worth imagining Saints with someone like Di Matteo as manager coming up against an opposition with Adkins as manager. For some reason, I find that thought quite discomforting.

But what about all those that told us, 'what ever happens, we’ll make a profit on these players'?

Those people that think Sharp isn’t up to the Premiership may well be right; after all, they seem to include members of our coaching staff who I readily concede are better placed than me to judge these things. However, at the start of the season, people said the same thing about Fonte and one or two others. Personally, I’d like to have seen Sharp given more of a chance to prove himself at this level but following the summer transfers that was always going to be difficult. Sadly, I can no longer see the point in us holding on to him. If we’re relegated, even allowing for the fact that Sharp has a great attitude, what motivation will he have to get us back to the Premiership when he knows that Saints will most likely reward success by loaning him back to the Championship again?

Not doubting you for one moment but selling Lambert full stop would be bad enough, selling him to one of our relegation rivals is simply unthinkable! Quite apart from the fact he’s one of our most effective players, the bloke’s a talisman and to lose him now would completely fracture the fan base

Aye. Free speech, yes please; free s h i t, no thanks.

If someone had told me at 4.40 pm on 1st May 1976 that a day would come when I wouldn’t be too bothered about being knocked out of the FA Cup, I would have dismissed them as a complete lunatic. The demise of what was once the greatest club competition in world football is truly sad.

Oh dear, what a difference a day makes

Agree with this 100 percent. Despite the club showing that they are prepared to bench our big money signings when appropriate, what concerns me is that we may feel obliged to find a €10 million defender a regular slot, sooner rather than later. But the Fonte / Yoshida partnership is getting better with every game and I think it would be detrimental to break it up for any reason other than injury or a dramatic loss of form. Would someone like Astori be prepared to sit on the bench long term?

Charlie, as you have obvious respect for your 6 year old son’s opinion that ‘Guly is rubbish’ perhaps you should allow him to argue his point on here: he might make a better fist of it than you’re doing. In my opinion, overall, Guly has contributed very well to the team these last few games.

Think you meant to address this to norwaysaint?

We all have to believe in something: belief in ourselves, belief in our family and friends, belief in SFC, belief that things will get better, belief in whatever. Otherwise, what’s the point of getting out of bed in the morning?

Hey, Bexy, you and I agree on a lot of things but are you sure about this? Acting in the name of a corrupted form of social-Darwinism maybe; but, ‘carrying out god’s work’, surely not: I’ve always understood Hilter to have been a committed atheist. Happy to stand corrected if you can supply the evidence.

Yes Bexy, as you quite rightly point out, my opening post had nothing to do with the wild claims of psychics and mediums! Nobody’s talking about contacting the dead or subscribing to some way-out religion here. Sheldrake maybe a bit of a maverick who’s spent time exploring the niche subject of parapsychology but he did obtain a Ph D in biochemistry at Cambridge University and has spent much of his career in mainstream science including a period as research fellow at the Royal Society. So, he’s not exactly your archetypal ‘Mystic Meg’ charlatan. I do find a certain irony in people getting so worked up about something that appears to veer slightly away from mainstream science whilst at the same time completely ignoring the fact that mainstream science struggles to explain so many things. Newtonian physics, for instance, completely breaks down in the weird and wonderful world of quantum physics where entities exist simultaneously as both particles and waveforms or even in different states or ‘places’ at the same time. Whilst in the equally weird and wonderful world of cosmology, scientists have had to supposition dark matter and dark energy, substances that have never actually been directly observed let alone measured, in an attempt to explain why the expansion of the universe is, contrary to scientific predictions, accelerating rather than slowing down. As for conventional science unravelling the mysterious complexities of neurobiology…well, where do we even begin? For me, which ever direction people approach an issue, it usually pays to travel with an open mind and without the encumbrances of dogma, preconceptions and prejudice.

I think I’m correct in saying that of the 16 motor launches that took part in the raid only 3 made it back again, so it's odds on you’re probably right!

Thanks for flagging that up for me, Charlie; I shall look for it online. Yes, we certainly had to fight that war ruthlessly. I can’t imagine, for instance, what it must have been like for Churchill to have to give the orders to sink the French fleet rather than let it fall into enemy hands; let alone what it must have been like to have to carry out such orders. The strength of conviction those people displayed was just incredible.

I’m sure you’re right, Um, that the majority of UK police officers are to be trusted and respected; at least, I bloody well hope so. I wasn’t so much knocking the police with that post as expressing my amazement that, in that of all weeks, Liverpudlians were so ready to accept the police’s version of events. I’m damn sure that if the police had being making allegations against a Liverpool supporter, rather than a Tory MP, their support would have been a little less fulsome.