Lord Duckhunter

I always rated jim magilton , but there were two chumps who sat near me who moaned about him constantly. Every time he passed the ball backwards or sideways, which admittedly was most of the time, one of them would shout loudly"forward magilton" . After a few months i told the bloke to stfu, and support the team. This resulted in a round of applause and a few "well said mate" from the surrounding seats.

Spot on If you read some on this forum, it's quite amazing how much better Sharp, Hammond, Chaplow have become since being "denied their chance". Same with Puncheon, all of a sudden he's a world beater with the pace we require. In fact with all these guys I'm amazed we finished below Reading in the NPC. Perhaps they would have all stepped up to the plate in the Premiership and become better than they were in the NPC. Anybody who believes Sharp was denied a move to a Premiership because we didn't want to help our rivals, is away with the fairies. Personally, I'd have paid him to go and play for another Premiership side, as that'll be one of the relegation spots filled.

Bazza you're becoming a bit of a pane.

Jesus wept Bazza, I would have thought a football expert like yourself would have known there was no transfer window until 2002/3. Picking the "Keegan window" is like naming one direction as you favourite 60's band.

Please dont go to bed Bazza, you're entertaining us all.

Ok Baz, which do you consider to be saints best window since you started supprting them?

Perhaps you could list the signings that constitute your "best ever" window. We can then compare them to the 3 this time ad see if you're right, because I can't remember a window where we signed 3 players that will go stright into the side and are internationals and champions league players. Add to that ,nobody of any substance left . I would be interested in this magical window of yours that was better. It must have been pretty good.

Surely mp was using adkins players last season, and didn't sign one player. The time for comparisons will be half way through this season with his own signings involved.

If you were the guy who wrote OWTS on the left hand one, I was having a whizz next to you. LOL. I liked the look of the pitchers, one of the Norwich guys told me you pay for 4 pints, but there's over 5 in them. In my good beer guide which I carry around in my head, that and the ship and mitre in Liverpool are may favs. The pubs near sms aren't a patch on them.

All I did was suggest Graham Rix would make a good coach for the skate ladies team and I got banned from the skate section. They really were easy to wind up particularly this Norwegian skate (**** me, he must really have had a fishy smell). Could be a.half decent site, with some banter with other sides. But its a massive clique with the mods thinking they're johnny concrete.

Its a big clique. I got banned for taking the **** out of their skate mate and his love of chick football. Mods are also billy bullshiners, told other posters that id had numerous warnings, when in fact all I was warned about was posting on the skate section. What sort of saints website bans skate baiting?

I was in there as well, cracking pub (apart from all the yellow).Bloody nice Norwich blokes as well, proper ale. Shame I had the leave to go and watch that shiete.

Unless old Rupeey was the stalker, its not really much of a story.

Is anybody still looking for tickets, a mate of mine has 2 going as his car is ****ed and he cant afford to fix it and pay for the train. PM me or post details on here. I'm going on the **** tonight, so wont be on here from about 4pm.

It is the fairest system, but has one massive fault. Everybody ( including me ) is playing the "use my number" game. For example; I couldn't make wba, but because I promised my lad old Trafford this season, made sure that my number was used. Going to Norwich and Liverpool, so should be ok, but wanted to make 100% sure. By allowing my number to attend a match I couldn't, I stopped somebody else having that game on their record. My mate did the same number of aways as I did last year (9) but only 2 were on his number. He was away for city and couldn't get Arsenal, so never really caught up and kept using other guys numbers. It starts to become a bit of a closed shop , but the system drives people to want their numbers used regularly even if they dont go themselves. Personally I think a % of tickets should be kept back for general sale or maybe " linked" games. Eg went to Barnsley, you can have Man Utd priority. Even if its only a small amount, maybe 250 tickets , I think we need to let the occasional awaydayer have a ticket. Some people work and some have limited money but they're still passionate saints fans.

The very fact that he was playing tonight highlights what a disappointment he's been the past year. He really needs to step up to the plate and start putting in decent performances week in, week out.

His achievement was going through the championship in one season. The league 1 promotion was no great managerial feat imo, but getting us into the premier first go was . My opinion is that history will show that was a pivotal achievement that enabled us to push on. Had we not gone up, what would the ml trusts attitude towards the club have been, would NC have lost interest? We should all be grateful for that season and nigels massive contribution to it. That said, could you really see the top players we've signed this year attracted by the "homespun nigelisms" , we needed to move on and NC's ruthless ditching of Nigel will also be seen as the correct thing to do. My gut feeling is he'll become a decent league 1/ championsip manager, but his premiership days are behind him. Why on earth anyone would take pleasure from him struggling is beyond me.

You're right, most clubs dont bother scouting players they just log onto the supporters forum and see how good they are. Had people been more positive about fox, he'd have gone to Bolton. Insted, Dougie freedman checked out saints web and found out he was shiete and pulled out of the deal.

Love the one eyed assessments of the new guy. Why do some football supporters have to resort to hyperbole when describing their own players? If I was a neutral I'd say he did ok, nothing special but ok. He may turn out to be a good player, and he certainly did ok for a first run out with new team mates, but id stop short of calling that half "world class".

I'm under a bit of pressure from mrs duck and thought that I would use the vast knowledge available at saints web to help me out. Basically, I'm sick to death of the all inclusive holidays that mrs duck books for the family. We go to lovely places, Greek islands, Cyprus, ECT and then spend the whole time in the complex. The food is pretty good ( one thing I insist on ) but the drinks, ****ing hell, the lager makes saints ale from a plastic glass taste like a Camra award winning ale , and the wine could easily pass as anti freeze. Its so dire I nearly went tee total last time. Anyway, to get to the point. The mrs has agreed that I can pick our 2014 hols , so would appreciate some suggestions and advice. The reason she likes all inclusive is basically the kids. We have a 14 & 15 year old and she likes the fact they can get food, drink , ice creams at any time, without me moaning that they had one 10 mins ago/spilt the last one / its too expensive ECT ECT. Its also nice for me and mrs to grab something occasionally as well. What I object to is sitting in the same restaurant in the same complex night after night. I like to look about in the evening, see a bit of the town, eat in local places and have a few decent bevys. My idea would be an all inclusive resort/hotel, but in an area where local cusine is reasonably priced. The kids can do their normal, but me and mrs duck can eat out 6/7 times, whilst having the all inclusive to fall back on. My question to the well travelled forum members is, have they done this and is it feasible. Personaly I fancy Portugal, is it cheap to eat out and does anybody have any recommendations. The non negotiables as far as the mrs is concerned are : must have beach access, must be good for teens and must be guaranteed hot weather in late July early august. Doesn't need to be AI , but she would need some convincing if not. I've suggested self catering or b & b with me giving the kids money for food ECT each day, but she reckons im a tight wad and will still count how many they've had . All in all I reckon about 4k for the 4 of us is about what im willing to pay, including food for 10 days. Any suggestions would be greatly received, as I have till September 2nd to decide otherwise its off to another (admittedly nice) Greek, Turkish or Cypriot complex to sit night after night drinking lighter fluid .

I dont think we move the ball quick enough against sides that park the bus at sms. We play in front of them, making it easy for them to put a bank of 4 and 5 and restrict our space. What also costs us is giving away soft goals. We have to score at least 2 against sides that are happy for a point. That's not easy as sides are fit, organised and well drilled. puncheon seems to become the latest player that gets better and better in some posters eyes, once he leaves us. He was here last year, when we throw point after point away.He did ok, but he really isn't as good as some appear to be making out. We've signed players a level above puncheon, we've moved on. He really isn't the answer to this problem.

If they did a decent pint and served it in a decent timescale, I would have one before , one at ht and one at the end. Throw in an edible pie and it'll be the best part of £15 each home game. Maybe the margin is too small, but I find it strange that they charge admin fees of £1.50, car parking for short stays and yet ignore this revenue stream.Taking beer and pie money out of a football supporters wallet should be like taking candy from a baby, yet the club dont seem to want to make any effort at all.

Nonsense

Its swings and roundabouts, plenty of goals are scored because players don't get off the post quick enough and somebody taps one in from 3 yards following a scramble. Its all about defending correctly, not this system or that. Last season Shaw (I think it was) stayed on the post and allowed Mahoney to scramble in a Wigan equaliser , when had moved off, he would have been caught off side. I would imagine they discuss it with the keeper and with mp being an international centre half , come up with the best solution for this set of players.

Have you been on the pop as well? He wouldn't have got near Ali in his prime.