Tamesaint

So no consistent thought apart from negativity. Thought not.

You are the definition of a mess. On the next 5 games thread before Palace you reckoned we would get 7 points. Nothing at Arsenal and won't beat Fulham and Cardiff. Presumably therefore (at best) 4 points from those 2 matches. On the pre match Palace thread you reckoned that we would lose. Hence presumably 3 points today .... yet now you say that we are going to lose. Are you capable of any consistent thought apart from a depressing negativity about Saints ?

Criticising Lawro on this forum usually ends in grief but you are right.... and although we are both unbeaten in the league this season at least we didn't lose 5 nil last weekend. He must be cheap to employ !!

Nor Alfie Jones.

So how many of the 7 did you predict from Palace? On the pre match thread you reckoned on a 1 2 defeat so presumably we are now on course for 8 points from those games ??

Why??

So why don't you follow the match on a stream rather than scouring the Brexit press and w anking off on what the next day's Telegraph has to say. T osser.

Well clearly you won't bump into him at St Mary's. Home match tonight and the "braggart" is posting about Brexit and getting off on what is written about Brexit in tomorrow's Daily Telegraph. What a strange supporter of the team.

Oh ****. No Hoedt, Davis, Cedric or Gabbi in the team. How can we possibly win without those key elements of the team ?

It's all right. Those pesky foreigners are going to see their banking system collapse any day now. Deutsche Bank are going to be the first to go. That will teach them to having their own currency. How do I know this ? Well, that font of all knowledge Guided Missile told me ... back in 2016 ... and 2017 and indeed most months since then. It is going to happen, honest ....any day now.

This is beginning to get a little surreal. "No signs of anybody changing their minds in any great numbers" quote from Wes tender. Highfield then posts evidence from an opinion poll showing how people have changed their minds. "Well you can't trust opinion polls" from Wes tender. We all know that opinion polls can be wrong ... but how can evidence of people changing their minds be found if we ignore opinion polls? What other means are there of gauging opinion? The number of letters on Points of View ????

In your assessment of cheaper food you seem to have forgotten about FX rates and the effect that a weak pound is having on import prices. Immediately after the Brexit vote GBP fell against both the US dollar and the Euro. Pound dollar average rate May 2016 ( the last month before the referendum) 1.45 Pound dollar rate average July 2016 1.314 Pound euro rate average May 2016 1.284 Pound euro rate average July 2016 1.188 Ie Imported products like food became more expensive. GBP has never recovered from this Brexit battering. Looking at average rates from 2 years before the referendum and the 2 subsequent years Pound dollar rate average 2014 1.648 2015 1.529 2016 1.350 2017 1.289 2018 1.333 Pound euro average 2014 1.240 2015 1.377 2016 1.225 2017 1.141 2018 1.130 In other words as oil is priced in dollars we are all paying at least 3p a litre more for our petrol than we would if the pound was at the same level against the dollar as it had been on Brexit night. If we could still enjoy 2014 FX rates the difference would be over 7 pence a litre. The Brexit vote has cost us all over the last 2 and a half years. The last couple of weeks has seen GBP rise a little (about 3%) as a soft Brexit is looking more likely. If we ended up leaving the EU on WTO rules as you suggest (aka hard Brexit) GBP would plummet with parity against both the Euro and the dollar being likely. Any benefit for food prices from a reduction in tariffs would be dwarfed by the extra costs from an even weaker pound.... even Spanish oranges

This comment after the Fulham game perhaps shows that Ralph also reads Billy's blog. At the time ( just 2 months ago) I don't think that anyone disagreed with these comments .... yet now these guys have been / are being moved on some posters don't like it.

That was amazing. Why a yellow card for that? Mind you the commentators 's reactions when Vallodolid scored was brilliant. Not quite Motty or Barry Davis.

For every economist that supports Brexit, there is at least one, if not more, that can explain how it makes no sense. Whenever the Brexit deniers speak however it is decried as "Project Fear".

After Spurs at home on 9 March we are due to play Watford on 16 th. There is then a 2 week international break until 30 March. Watford are still in the Fa cup and if they win their 5th round match our game with them will be rearranged. We will thus have a 3 week gap in our season. I can never remember such a long break in previous seasons. Will it be a good thing for us or a bad thing ? Will it matter ???

I remember them well and went to them all bat the Liverpool away match. At the time we were one of the top teams in the country. The Heydsal stadium tragedy robbed us of another European jaunt and this competition was no substitute.

You have developed a very strange, aggressive tone of writing on this thread. Elsewhere on this forum you write well. Your comments and summaries of important things like football matches are always pertinent and worth reading. For many years you have been an erudite and perceptive writer on this forum. It is just this thread which has turned you a little "odd". For the sake of completeness. 1. It is bizarre how you can consider that the EU has no effect on the price of property, food and drink. These wre areas ehere the EU has countless rules and regulations. Once our trade deal with America has been signed we can all enjoy the benefits of chlorinated chicken and GM apples. Yum yum. 2. It is remarkable how someone like me became a pension fund trustee and has invested in funds for countless years when I am "remarkably naive" about them. 3. I am not a "leftie" however you define that. I have never voted for a left wing party in my life. You are in danger of making yourself look considerably foolish on this thread. Take a chill pill each day, forget about this thread and just concentrate on enjoying the Saints under our new manager.

I am currently enjoying the cricket in Barbados. Tonight after the first day's play there was a large procession of England fans walking back into town. The missus pointed out one fan ahead of us who had extremely red legs. He had clearly never heard of sun lotion. " He is going to be incredibly sore in the morning" she said. As we walked past Mr Sore Legs I noticed on his legs a large Portsmouth tattoo. Ah well sums up the stupid c Nut.

Brexiteers are a strange bunch. Apparently it is "ridiculous" to criticise Lawson for wanting to live in a country which follows EU rules and regulations when he doesn't want those rules and regulations for his own country. I would have thought it is an example of gross hypocrisy on his part. Similarly it is apparently all right for the firm in which Rees Mogg is a senior partner and of which he owns over 15% to open new funds in Dublin and to describe Brexit as being a risk to a new fund and causing " considerable uncertainty ." Its funny how he never normally mentions Brexit having downsides. Mind you perhaps Brexiteers are not that odd - nobody seems able to defend hypocrite Dyson.

I very much doubt it but Dyson's actions are typical of the Brexit elite. Lawson decided that although Brexit was good enough for everyone else , it wasn't for him so he applied for French residency. Rees Mogg thinks that the UK will benefit from Brexit ... but not his investment house which is setting up in Dublin. Dyson is just another hypocrite Brexiteer.

If he had stayed with us he would probably now be a key part of the first team squad. Instead he is being loaned out like some old second hand car to teams fighting relegation. If Fulham go the way they seem to be heading that will be 2 Premier League relegations on his cv at the age of 24. Not too impressive ! He may have 3 England caps ( he played for Arsenal so they came autimatically) but he is some way away from getting his 4th. Debatably his bank balance may now be a little healthier than if he had stayed with us but I wonder if he regrets leaving.

Liam Fox said that to prevent trade disruption we would replicate current trade deals with 40 countries. So far trade deals have been signed with ..... 0 countries. So unless Fox pulls his finger out, stops blaming others and does something pretty fast I think it will be trade disruption !!

Thank God that you can always depend on Everton. A couple of years ago Josh Sims embarassed Koeman. Last year they were so poor that they made MoPe look good. 4 1 then and it would not have been a travesty if that scoreline had been repeated this year. No wonder their fans are always so quiet - definitely amongst the worst to visit SMS. They think they are a big team, spend lavishly and then fail to deliver on the pitch. Why did they out muscle us and other teams and pay Walcott so much if they only put him on the bench ??? With Ralph in charge everything looks so much better for us than a few weeks ago. He along with managers like Klopp and Pochettino seem to be a new breed of manager. They seem to actually like their players and encourage a good team spirit. The likes of Mourinho could well learn from their example.

So 30 months after coming into power May thinks that it is time now to talk to MPs and work out what sort of Brexit we should have. If only this process had started 30 months ago. Europeans and the rest of the world must think we are mad. If it wasn't so important it would be hysterically funny. In my lifetime we have had some good prime ministers and some poor ones. May must go down in history as being the most stupid, stubborn and hopelessly out of touch Prime minister this country has had to suffer. The sooner we find someone with a modicum of competence (thus ruling out Boris and David Davis) to replace her the better.