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Was that meant to narrow the choices down?

There was someone else with a real down-home style and a laid-back approach who certainly wasn't a quote-a-minute. His statue is outside SMS.

Stream? It's more like a geriatric p*ss.

I hear you. Hard x 5 if you support Saints.

I thought you quit last week.

I said "if we really need the player", which many think we do.

That would be a little surprising wouldn't it, Dave? Costs - as in wages - shouldn't be that big a stumbling block if we really need the player because they're pro-rated for the balance of the season. Perhaps it's the insurance or Reading are looking for a fee, or something else. Strange.

This is how Cortese's "principles" will be tempered, because he didn't get where he is without learning from experience. Leaks are a fact of life in football and there are big sieves, leaking everything, and little sieves, leaking some things. There is no leakproof club of any size or stature. If he can't have complete control, which he can't, he'll have to settle for small leaks. The alternative, in this case, is to pull out of a potential deal on the kind of player we desperately need - possibly the last piece of the promotion jigsaw. That would be a "cut off his nose to spite his face thing."

Okay for me but it did slow-up quite a bit near the end.

You're becoming more childish by the day, which - for you - is quite an achievement. Go stalk someone else. BTW I notice you've been on a charm offensive lately, trying to win back the people who find you negative and tiresome, but you're missing a key ingredient. Well, several actually.

This thread should have been strangled at birth.

It's got Minty written all over it. Or possibly Weston.

Some things are better left un-said. It's only a matter of time before one of our forum morons turns up rejoicing.

Please tell me you're kidding. You're not, are you?

Yes, and further to that I'd offer this: The more I look at the likely candidates for positions 3-6 (Peterborough, Huddersfield and the hard-charging Leyton Orient, who have been doing it for weeks) the more anxious I am to finish in the top two. While I don't doubt our skill levels and while I still think we have the best players in the division, I'm not convinced that we have the intestinal fortitude necessary to emerge from that lot in the playoffs. Saturday is huge.

Same as dune for me, and I'm pretty sure the issue's not at my end.

I'm sorry to hear that and it's hard not to view it as a continuation of the disregard for the past. It wasn't much to ask that we did something to honour him appropriately, and I'm afraid the club is not doing itself any favours with this.

Brighton are a classic illustration of the truth behind the following words: The harder I work, the luckier I get. (Samuel Goldwyn, apparently)

Is he okay with that?

Awful isn't it, and it's a home game FFS. Saturday is going to be a gong show on here.

3-0 up but Alps is *****ing about results elsewhere (even though the top two are dropping points) and lard has completely disappeared. Hypo sounds positive, though. Go figure.

Dave FFS. Don't keep saying that sh*t.

First I've heard of it. Now, what we don't need to do is concede a goal before half time. What we can't afford to do is take our foot off the pedal. Lalanna is arbosoootly margnificent.

Whydoyoukeepcuttingout?

Excellent result today, Dave, especially there. There's another type of team I'm on the lookout for, and one seems to turn up every year. It's the "spoiler" - a team not really going anywhere themselves but capable of screwing up teams that are. Every team will slip but it's just so damned frustrating that we used up one of our lives at Walsall of all places. Vancouver's great. As I type this I'm watching a cruise ship sail past on its way up to the Alaska coast. Not as warm as Harry and Adsy, though!