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Terry Paine.No debate.Full stop. Paine would take this position entirely on his own merits as a RM,but the thought of Paine and Golac working on the right,possibly with some triangular passing involving Channon and Ball is an awesome one. Paine and Golac on our right,pity any poor bastard attacking down the opponents left. You must be joking,there is nothing close in that contest,Paine was light years ahead of Wallace in ability.

It is incredible how in a short space of time one man can undo the work of Ted Bates and Lawrie McMenemy. For all of his efforts,Ted (God bless) and Lawrie might not have existed. Take a bow Rupert Lowe.

That would be my expectation ,and fear also.

..and someone to take advantage of the good passing football ie put the ball in the net.

I agree with those who think anticpate JP is heading out. I feel desperately sorry for the bloke who always comes across as decent and honest.But of course he is handicapped by having f^ck all resources,and Rupert hovering in the background. If he does go,it will probably be by "mutual consent" and we can expect the customary Rupertspeak about how he didn't sack him etc etc.Of course there will be no possible thought that it might have been a flawed or risky decision in the first place.

Rupert would probably think of himself as the latter day embodiment of Julius Caesar. His track record suggests he is the reincarnation of the Roman Emperor, Nero, fiddling as Rome burnt.

St Juste from Darlington.

I am pleased to hear that it did.

I heard Rupert was trying to negotiate a reverse takeover of Saints by Woolworths.

Did Eamon Collins ever play for us ? He was a future star brought from Blackpool under Alan Ball's recommendation,for which we received a fine for enticing a youngster from their academy. I can claim to have seen him play when he reached his natural level playing for Colchester Utd at Cheltenham in the then Vauxhall Conference.

Was that in the Branfoot era ? Other notable future prospects signed by Branfoot were Gary Ferguson a young Irish midfielder from Reading for £25,000.Actually Reading were keen to offload him for disciplinary reasons but we paid them for the privilege,and he was even trumpeted by IB as "one for the future" at aRadio Solent broadcast. Branfoot also brought two in from Scotland,Paul Sheerin for £7,500 (!),and Colin Cramb,neither of whom made the grade or appeared for us.

No he should stick to "secular analogies" and biblical references in future.

bumworm

...and defend libel actions.. Where exactly did the award from that case end up ?

Amazing how peoples perceptions and view vary. I respect your view from whatever you have witnessed etc but for me Kenna was one of the most over estimated players we have ever had,and it disappointed me he seemed to set back Dodd's progress.I was amazed and delighted we got £1.5m for him. Mills,yes he did an excellent if unspectacular job for us at a difficult time. Dodd,agree he was a good captain and offered a lot but in terms of tackling and going forward he was nowhere near Golac.

I heard him say it was only a "secular analogy" though, so thats alright.

But did he go on to achieve anything elsewhere to suggest the decision to release him was wrong ? Sorry if I misunderstood the rules of the thread.

Where is this as you drive from the stadium exactly / Sorry but not familiar with the names of Hi-Q etc.

The story sounds a bit far fetched to me. However I realise we have for some time been slipping towards -not only administration- but becoming Ruperthampton F.C playing at the 'Rupertdome'.

Ditto. Golac simply has no rivals for this in my book.

Shame we can not force the Eurovision hierachy to accept Norton to compere it annually (or should that be anally ?) for the rest of europe to witness. In retaliation for their constant rigged voting they we could make them suffer the spectacle of that pouting queer for an evening every year.

Something that might have been overlooked by Mr Burley however. As for "come on you greys", the simple remedy is to change the last word to 'Saints'.It has often irked me that we sing 'reds' (MancU and L/pool are the 'reds' we are the Saints ) as we don't play in plain boring red shirts.

They played together for us just before,and during the early Keegan era.Surprisingly they didn't strike me as a particularly reliable duo especially away from home.

Interesting dilemna there really,especially after the last time we drew those mancy c^nts in the cup.Are we going to see a Saints side similar to the one we currently - and pre 1/1/09 regard as our strongest take the field - or one that is minus some of our better players. Frankly the cup selection in 2005 was one that left me feel hugely cheated before a ball was kicked,never mind the capitulation that followed.

A replica of Hilda Ogden's "murial" would indeed be a fitting epitah to the soap opera we have become.