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Don't you realise that if you dare to criticise Mark "Southampton to lose 10 games in a row" Lawrenson , you incur the wrath of Kraken, CB Fry and sometimes Turkish ? God knows why they always defend himself so routinely but it is a good way to wind them up.

I rarely invest in individual shares these days preferring to invest through funds. You decide on the area in which you want to invest and then choose the top performing funds in that area. It gives you a much wider choice of where to invest. This year for example I was able to capitalise on the rise in the Nikkei by going in heavily into Japanese funds. This would have been well nigh impossible for me by buying shares.There are so many different sectors available you can invest in virtually every world market / type of share. What I particularly like is the fact that you just choose the areas in which to invest and then the fund managers have the more dificut task of deciding which shares to buy. If a fund doen't perform you switch into one that is performing. It is easy to see which funds are or are not doing well if you log into one of the investment houses websites.It is the nearest that most investors will get to having "perfect knowledge." I think that Hargreaves Lansdown is the best website / stockbroker although people like iii and elson associates are also in the market. I buy and sell through HL and find their fund performance tools easy to use. Atm I am mostly in UK companies of all sizes,Europe and the Far East.Japan is still doing well. India is a difficult market to catch right as it stagnates for a long while but then will suddenly jump. Biotech is an area of fun if you want to experience highs and lows in rapid succession.

There is going to be such a scramble from those out of work managers to take on the job of a lifetime.... and this bloke missed off the list Kevin Keegan, Sven Goran Ericsson and Roberto di Matteo. I bet they cannot wait.

http://fansonline.net/portsmouth/mb/view.php?id=524537 They do make me laugh. Hoddle for the Skates!! Very likely!!

Whilst I don't diagree with anything that has been said, I was homing in on Tw attenburg. He sees us committing offences and giving away late penalties for innocuous offences which no other referee seems to see. What is wrong with the bloke ??

Please correct me if I am wrong but I think the last 2 penalties against us have been against Norwich away last season (which Boruc saved) and the penalty yesterday. Both penalties came at the end of the match and both were harsh decisions. The one at Norwich came when Luke breathed too close to Grant Holt whilst yesterday's came as Joe infringed at the same time as Jos was having his shirt pulled by Giroud and was given for a foul which occurs on dozens of occasions on every Saturday and for which penaties are very very rarely given. Both penalties against us were given by Mark Clattenburg & I think that yesterday was the first time that he has reffed us since the Norwich game. What is wrong with the bloke? Does he have a campaign against us? Does he put money on us to lose? Readers of Bily ****e's excellent blog will know that Billy calls Clattenburg "****tenburg." The name is undoubtedly apprpriate. Could we reuse to have the dipstick officiating in our future games??

I am fed up and need cheering up. Decided to drink the bottle of champagne I put in the fridge to celebrate us going top of the league. We are not top but it seems like a good way to get rid of the fed up feeling.

I don't very often come on the match thread. Does Glasgow Saint ever say anything positive on them??

Kevin Friend

No. We will win 2-1 and Boruc's slip will stop us going top.

Bet 365 have Lallana at 5/2 to make the squad. Rickie is 6/4 ,Luke 10/1 whilst James Ward Prowse is 33/1. Lallana was10./1this time last month.... so he must be impressing somebody !!

I think that goal had a huge detrimental effect on a whole generation of Saints fans.

I was thinking today about goals that I have never seen on TV and 2 came to mind. I have never been able to watch a replay of Adrian Heath's winner at Highbury in 1984. Subsequent relegations seemed nothing compared to the feeling of despair after that goal went in. I have never seen it again and never want to. Similarly I understand that Kanu scored a goal in the 2008 Cup Final. I had no interest in that match, did not watch it and have never wanted to see a replay of that goal. Does anybody else have goals that they cannot bear to watch??

Brilliant. That confirms what I have suspected for a long time.. Rallyboy is none other than Neil "factless" Allen. For the Skates News he just turns out drivel to please the mentally deficient. He saves the proper stuff, the stuff that he went to journalists school to learn, the stuff which entitles him to be called a journalist , for this forum.

Perhaps that £20 milion that Tescos are going to give them that Corps used to go banging on about is about to be coughed up.

Fair play to him.

Hall is a joke. He epitomises how small time they have become.

I was once accused of being a glory hunting Saints fan. It was just after we had bought Keegan and I met some Israelis on holiday. Glory hunting ! Saints ??? If only .....

I was thinking about that game the other day. It was a bitterly cold night and it was the first time that I really began to doubt my sanity in tmaking round trips of 150 miles to St Marys for each game. I thought that Simon Gillett woud be the lynchpin of our midfield for years to come. The double Dutch disaster made me question our obsession with youth and the academy. Those shares in Southampton Leisure Holdings were a good investment. Burley would be the manager to take us to the Premiership.

The actor Tom Courtenay there to support his "beloved" Hull.

Ladbroke's currently have us at 250 / 1 to win the league. We are 22 /1 with the same firm to be in the top 4 at thes seson's end. Bet 365 have us at 6/1 to beat Arsenal. Whilst not that conviced about the sustainability of our title challenge , I do think that 250 /1 (83.33 / 1if you beat e/way on us being second) is riiulously generous - as are the other 2 prices quoted above. I have my money on already (well done anyone who got 2500 / 1 at the start of the season) but I still think there is value at these prices.

I am pleased that it wasn't just me. Like you I think that it was because it was the final confirmation that he is a great player. I remember his debut against Preston. He didn't do much then. I remember my dismay when it was announced that he had been thinking of a transfer not long before Markus tookover. Good riddance was my feeling at the time. League 1 was clearly the making of him as I do remember my joy when news emerged of him signing a long term contract just before we played Blackpool in the Cup. Since then he has gradually got better and better. Somewhere in this forum there is a post of mine from League 1 days which predicted that he could become a Saints legend like MLT. I think my prediction may be coming right. In the same way as there are now many 20 year old sons of Southampton fans called "Matthew", I predict that in a few years time there will be a surfeit of "Adam"s in the Southampton area.

I agreee entirely.... and isn't the phrase "Beckham narcissism" a great summary of what is wrong with English footballl.

Watch it. You will be getting Turkish, Kracken and the rest of the "mongboard" bullies after you again for daring to use a smiley.

Watch it. You will be getting Turkish, Kracken and the rest of the "mongboard" bullies after you again for daring to use a smiley.