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Good of the club to allow a two hour slot for members to buy before DT holders get second dibs !!!!

Going back, Chivers - Frank Saul.

But Everton are a big club so that won’t cause any fear. We know they’re a big club because their fans were on here in 2016 telling us.

Often it is but much depends on how the transfer is conducted and whether the player-club-fan relationship is soured. I don’t think many people begrudged Channon going to City and the chance to play in the First Division man years ago. More recently Wayne Bridge seemed to leave on good terms. Some other transfers have been handled in a dignified way by both departing player and new club, Walcott and Oxlade-C to Arsenal, Shaw/Morgan to Utd even. None of those moves left me feeling bitter towards their new clubs. you mention Derby - can’t say the signing of Shilton & Wright influenced my feeling towards them as a club. Didn’t like them before so no change there. Blackburn - the overriding feeling was envy of having a Jack Walker to fund them. Others of course are more acrimonious and it really lights the touch paper as regards the new club. Everton and Koeman, one example. Liverpool - Brendan 2014, Nivea, VVD Spurs are in a category of their own though and just about every deal seems tacky in some way : Ruddock,Hoddle, Dean Richards, Poch,Hojbjerg … Impossible not to have a hatred of spurs really..

Don’t see Burnley putting the points together. Shame as otherwise the Championship clubs would be preparing for a visit to the home of where dugouts started

This could cause a few ripples in the transfer market this summer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/60652298 although it assumes players will be allowed out of Russia in the first place

Never particularly keen on Everton but the signing of John Bailey was a bit of a tipping point in my book.1984 sealed it for all time. Strangely no lingering dislike of Blackburn though ! (Although not too keen on them in the Dalglish years, not because of Bailey, or constantly signing our players, but because he was such a sour faced knob). If you’re going outside the EPL then I’ll raise you Derby County and Forest. Derby were one of the teams to dislike when I started following (late 60’s/early 70’s). Both with gobby fans with dreadful nasally East Midlands accents that get on my tits. (Leicester borderline, and can’t stand Vardy but still not enough to rival spurs/Everton).

Yes, reminds me of the old nursery rhyme: When they are good, They are very, very good, But when they are bad, they are absolute shite... Okay so the last bit may have been edited.

The only thing I've read is that he is against what he considers a corrupt government, no mention of EU, Russia or anything else. Too little detail to form an opinion on his views on other matters I'd have thought.

Spurs and Everton. Man Utd and Liverpool challenge from time to time. but otherwise difficult to come close to the other two. I've always had a soft spot for Newcastle, but a few months of Stavely, the Arab owners, and Eddie getting smugger by the day, and that is likely to change.

Yes we did for a while, Rod Wallace was the other winger, with Shearer and Rideout in the centre. Very effective with MLT and RW swapping sides.

Apart from Dale Vince and Forst Green Rovers of course...

Bloke next to me was having a fit that it would have the opposite affect and enable West Ham to regroup, and we'd lose our momentum. My main concern with it was the likely added time as we know how Saints in the past have folded in injury time, and coming on top of the injury to a couple of players I could see 10 minutes being added. For entirely selfish reasons I wasn't keen on ET and penalties with a two hour drive home as well.

I also thought of that match on reading hackedoff's post. One of them was quite well upholstered as I recall ! Being of a certain generation though you can't read about female streakers without the name Erica Roe coming to mind. Had to Google her to make sure that I'd remembered it correctly and found this on Wikipedia: She worked at that time in a bookstore in Petersfield, Hampshire, ....... Now was there more than one bookshop in Petersfield in 1982 ? Can't imagine the 'posh-totty' Twickenham types consorting with TCWAB.

Initial thought was "bollocks, not the draw wanted..." but have come round to it. City have a vast array of talent, and no immediate flaws, but they can be inconsistent, and we have had the measure of them this season so far. Think it's winnable with our best team playing, so not the game for rotation. This should be our priority fixture now.

Think City have a squad big enough to cope. Just hope Pep doesn't resort to grizzling to the FA that it isn't fair we have an extra day's preparation and ours gets moved or something daft. Wigan beat Man City as a League 1 side a few years ago, and we played them next round (think it was Mark Hughes first game in charge).

Saving them for the semi-final. It's written in the stars.

Yes at ht

Living in a false sense of security since Freemantle FC folded if you ask me.

No idea if true that it's been requested or declined. But it might ha be deemed a 'political gesture' which isn't accepted by the FA. Presumably our one match sponsorship by Cats Protection has also been vetoed.

Yes, I think we should take this, the scenic route, into Europe.

I remember this being the case for quite a few seasons when we were at our best under Lawrie. we'd steamroller anybody at home it seemed, but then fall apart the following week away at a lower team such as Bolton. This was typified for me c 1979 when our home form was great but the played Coventry away, at a time we had Chris Nichol and Dave Watson in defence, both experienced internationals and at their peak. Coventry had two unknown teenagers up front, Gary Thompson, and Mark Hateley who ran rings round them and we lost 4-0. Same season I think Phil Boyer was leading goal scorer in the Division, for months but all scored at home. Didn't score away from The Dell until January. Great mystery why we couldn't do it away. Had Lawrie sorted this we'd have been title contenders for a few seasons.

Can't say I'd go that far in the description of our kit if you're referring to eleven blokes even playing for Saints.

Around the same era, John McGrath taking to the field after the test of the team, with his shorts pulled up around his thighs making it look as he was wearing a pair of black underpants or swimming trunks. Brian O'Neil - socks around ankles, no shinpads.

Think the Chelsea win was 1977, 3rd round replay after we started our defence of the trophy. Drew 1-1 at The Dell, but won the replay 3-0 up there.