Lord Duckhunter

Have to laugh at all the exkeepers having their say. What about an exkeeper who played in the professional game and is now our Manager,together with the specialist goalkeeping coach (if we have onw) they know a bit more about it than us.If they think Bart is a better option, they'll put him in.

Bad result for Skates even with a last min leveller. Derby are ****e.

Need Orient to score AGAIN lol

Need Orient to score

2-2 Weds

My opinion is that Kelvin is a far better keeper than Bart. His starting position is normally excellant and he's a good shot stopper as well as a loyal and hardworking member of the side. I think Bart is a bit flat footed and his kicking is poor. To me there is no contest between the two, Kelvin every time.

comment by ironite (U14423177) posted 1 Hour Ago Comparing Forte with Woolford....one has pace but no footballing brain or composure, one has no pace but genuine quality on the ball....pretty clear that Bristol are getting the better player here. I'm very surprised to be honest, but perhaps Forte will do a better job down south. Bigger pitch for a start, he won't get many games as a striker I'd wager. But I recall Adkins saying Forte had the potential to be an England international so he obviously rates him. Scunny poster on 606, according to him NA rates him.

Someones posted Fonte to Stoke on the BBC, fingers crossed it's a wind up.

I dont know where this mad dash for University for everyone came from. When I went to school only the brightest went to Uni, therefore the degree that they ended up stood out from the crowd. Employers knew that they were the brightest and the best. The rest of us went into apprenticeships or into jobs and just got on with it.Surley the more kids that go onto to further education the more the degrees are diluted. If less people went to Uni, then we might be able to fund them or more of them out of the public finances. I also wonder what happened to firms taking on apprentices to benefit the firm in the future. My eldest did an apprenticeship at Sun Seekers, funded by Sun Seekers and they've now had nearly 8 years of loyal and hard work from him. Everyone from the students to the largest Companies seem to want something for nothing nowadays when it comes to school leavers and leaving school. I just look at my mate who left school at 16 to become an apprantice plumber, in those days they weren't particulary well paid. Because of the obsession with further education less and less kids did the same, the result is, he's now making a fortune, turning down work and having 3 holidays a year. Let's get more kids into trades and less into Uni.

One of the worst players I've ever seen in the red and white. He gave 100%, but that's a basic requirement in my eyes. I would give 100%, but shouldn't be seen anywhere near the first team.Poor signing, poor player, sums up why we are in division 3. Why is it Jermaine Wright gets stick and Wotton gets plaudits for giving 100% , at least Wright passed the ball to a red and white shirt occasionaly.

First Saints Game:- Cant really remember was about 1968 First Away Game:- Birmingham 1973 ish Best Away Trip:- West Ham under Bally , and we stayed up. Favourite Saints Memories:- Semi Final at Villa Park, all of the Lawrie era. Worst Saints Memories:- Total football season Preferred Stand St. Mary's:-Not bothered Preferred Stand The Dell:- Milton St. Mary's or the Dell:- Heart says Dell, Head says SMS Best current player:-Fonte Favourite Players technically other than Le Tiss:-Bally Favourite Players cult wise other than Le Tiss:- Frank Worthington/Jimmy Case Favourite unsung heroes:- Reuben Agboola,Iain Dowie, Chris Nicholl ( as Manager) Favourite Manager:- Lawrie Most hated Players:- Ripley Worst Players:- Ripley,Chicken George,most of the total football stars Worst Manager:- Branfoot Where will Saints be in 5 years time realistically:-Premiership, if we get up this year.

Holloways Forest Gump act is wearing a bit thin now, this will put him on the spot. Let's see how he wriggles out of this one.

Have a look at Ruud Gullit in the "did you smash it" clip,you could tell he was uncomfortable. I find the whole Gray and Keys thing cringeworthy, middle aged men thinking their somehow attaractive to women and having "banter" that is more akin to 20 year olds. I remember reading an article from an attractive star (cant remember who it was) telling a story of how 50 year olds George Best and Rodney Marsh were hitting on her backstage at some show.These were 2 real playboys in their prime, yet she said it was sad and she felt sorry for them. If they want to look sad and play to the lads mags culture in their own time then that's fine, but they shouldn't do it at work. Whether on air or off air, they were still at work.You just cant act like you're in an episode of The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club nowadays. For it to be "banter" it needs to be a two way thing. In the "tuck it in" clip, the fit bird just ignores him, there is no banter there.My Mrs is a midwife and some of the things they say about the women having the babies and their husbands/partners is frightning (and that's just what she tells me). It doesn't come out and is kept amongst themselves. However, if one of them got the sack for something overheard, then they cant come complaining about it.

Not here, Clarke would split the Tory party and Cable has been shown to be a myth. From indiscreet talk to his changing position on the student finance proposals that he drafted (we had the bizzare sight of a minister thinking of abstaining when he designed the system they were voting on)Cable's credibility has headed south pretty quickly. For all this talk of the Tories not having a mandate, they were still the largest party (with a share of the vote that would have given Labour a landslide), even in Camerons "wet" Tory party having these 2 would be a step too far. Clarke would have had us in the Euro by now and Cable should still be in the Labour party, the right of the party would rise up if this was to happen, playing right into Labour/UKIP's hands. Even Cameron's not that stupid.

One little point that slipped out was that Gray is sueing NOTW over the phone hacking business.Could this explain why the footage was leaked?

The coalition have planned for some rocky times and some bad poll ratings in the coming months and years. It is the state of the economy in 5 years time that will decide the election, not a double dip in 2011 or job losses in 2011.The whole policy has been to sort the finances out by the next election and if they've done so, Labour will lose and if they haven't then Labour will win.

Football is all about opinions. Personally I think we have seen the best in him. I dont believe he will get us out of the Championship, and if we are seriously looking to get through that League next season will need to replace him as our main man. I'm not saying he has not got a part to play, but his lack of mobility worries me and I feel we will need a better first choice striker next season. He's done ok this year and I think he'll get us out of this League, I just dont think he'll be good enough next year. I'm hoping he may turn out to ba a Steve Howard for us, but I have my doubts.

If Clarke had got his way, I'd be buying my Friday night pint in Euros.

I agree The problem nowadays is two fold. Since the Thatcher reforms the unions are not the political animals they used to be. Therefore a traditional source of Labour MP's from normal backgrounds who came up through the unions ranks from activest to shop steward ect, is gone. On the other hand the spotlight on their money making, background and personal life, together with low wages (compared to what they earn in business). Has put many traditional Torys off. Aslo added to this is the obsession the public have with people only being an MP with no outside work interests, and you end up with identikit MP's/professional politians.A concerted effort needs to be made to engage people in local politics and then give them a route to national politics. The party machine has become too big, and neither one wants independant thinking people, either left or right, to rise to the top.Instead of making a differance the back bench MP is just lobby fodder for the whips. Another thing that needs to be curbed is people being parachuted into the Lords to be able to become members of the Govt.Baroness Warsi is a prime example, fought a seat and lost, so the Tories made her a life peer and she's now a Minister without portfolio. Labour was just as bad, backbench MP's toe the party line because if they dont, they wont get on.

I'm sure the lefties love of all people from "normal backgrounds" doesn't extend to Mrs Thatcher, a grocers daughter from a Liberal voting family.Who was brought up in the flat above the shop. Surely it should be about your views and beliefs, not where you come from. Ken Clarke maybe a "man of the people" but he's been wrong on most major issues. From the ERM, to prison reform.

Also in stark contrast to Ed Balls and Ed Milliband. David Davis was brought up by a single mother in a Wandsworth "slum", John Gaunt was put in a care home. The Labour movement doesn't have a monopoly on working class high flyers, just as the Torys aren't the only party that is filled with rich private educated toffs. Balls went to a Private all boys school, Havard and Oxford, and is obviously more qualified than Johnson to hold this position.The Labour movement seem obsessed by where people came from, rather than where they are going.

I hate to say this but Matt needs to take a long hard look at himself over this. 10 tickets is pushing it a bit and I'm sure he could have got 3 or 4 without a fuss and without playing the victim.Every single Saints supporter would agree that Matt should be welcomed into the club any time he wants, but that does not give him the right to stamp his feet like this. He is a wealthy man, with contacts in the football club, the game as a whole and the media, I've no doubt he could have got a few tickets through these contacts without dragging the club through more press nonsense. The wider debate about freebees is a tricky one. Do you have to be a legend to get a free ticket? Who decides whether you were good enough to qualify, is David Speedie entittled to a free ticket, what about Paul Telfer? My mates Dad played for the Skates in the 60's. He used to get 2 free tickets anytime he wanted until they were promoted. They then let him have 1 free ticket. Perhaps the club could have a set number and the first explayers to apply get them. Either that or they all pay for themselves, unless a guest of honour or like PR & NH's before Blackpool doing some sort of interview on the pitch.

Johnson may be "normal" but he was out of his depth in his brief. Balls knows the ins and outs of ecomonics and does present a coherent argument .My opinion is that he's wrong,but it's still a thought through coherent position. Balls will be a formidable Opponent who can hurt the Tories. That said, all polls show him to be deeply unpopular with the wider public, is right in the middle of all Browns failiures (if the public rejected Brown, why would they embrace his right hand man) and suffers by not being Millibands first choice. Personally weighing up the pros and cons I feel that this is better for the coalition as they can keep banging on about the past. The top of the Labour party will now have the 2 people who advised Gordon Brown, and were close to him. Personally I think he should have given the role to Balls' Mrs. She ticks the "normal" box, but is also a break from the ecomonic past, as she's not as closely assoicated with Brown. At the end of the day the economy is going to decide the next election, if it's on its way to recovery then the Tories or the Con/Dems will get in. If we're still in the mire then Labour will romp home,and that would be the case even if Dianne Abbot was GO's shadow.

My mates Father in law is pretty wealthy, he moved into the area and wanted to watch Premiership football so he bought a S/T at The Dell and then SMS. He kept it for one season in the Championship and then stopped going. When we return to the Premiership he is wealthy enough to buy a S/T and start going again, to watch Premiership football. Will he "have more of a right than anyone to question the clubs on topics" than I do? I'm just some mug that cant make enough games to make a S/T financially viable (due to work), but has followed the club for nearly 40 years no matter what league we're in?

An interesting article Guardian regarding the Tax free day, which is basically the day we start keepeing our own money . It's hardly a flag waving Thatcher supporter, but says "The all-time record for tax freedom day is June 14, 1982 when Margaret Thatcher was prime minister. It shot up be tween 1979 and 1982 as a deep recession shrank national income while taxes went up to try to put the public finances back in order".Sound familar, Taxes are going up again as Labours mess has to be sorted out yet again. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2005/may/31/money.thinktanks