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The fact that I have never heard the name "Samantha Brick" before reminds that I am very lucky to have had a private education and to have a superb career. I have no idea who she is but I am confident that I ought to have no wish to. Good luck to those of you without such fortune. Believe in your capability to better yourselves and work very hard and you may too free yourselves from the shackles of popular under-culture (for it is my assumption that such is the malady we are dealn

If Kelvin and Jos aren't in the top 50 then I'm the blonde girl with the nervous disposition, cute nose, pert buds and strange vagina that I just saw in The Griffin.

His distribution is not poor. FFS, do you actually watch? You reckon he can't find a target? FFS!!!! When he kicks it to Lambert it goes straight to his head 9 times out of 10 and is usually hit quite flat making it more dangerous, rather than being a big floaty one that is hard to direct. His distribution is as accurate as any Saints 'keeper I can remember. He's not great at kicking from hand but he rarely does. If he has a dodginess to his distribution it is that he occasionally takes a bit of a risk but I think Nigel is happy to tolerate that as part of our approach to building the play. To say his long kicks lack accuracy is just plain wrong.

To be fair, if its in trust then that's quite a plausible scenario. The trustees would make the decisions, not the beneficiaries.

You were wrong you silly gimp.

Why do you think that? The only public reference to the shareholder's loan that I've seen was in our accounts which said it was not due within 5 years. That doesn't mean it is for a term of 5 years (it might be, I don't know).

As others have said, there are loads of the usual chain bars and clubs but the stand-out facet of Bristol is the number of interesting and independent bars it has (Apple, Corrie Tap, The Rummer, Milk Thistle, Haus Bar, Hyde & Co, Illusions.....), although whether those are the right sort of places for a stag weekend is debatable! It also has an underground scene if that's your sort of thing. It makes you realise that Southampton has virtually nothing worth mentioning. You could start in the city centre or, as someone said, start off in Clifton and head down to town. If it's a nice day, you can't beat a beer in the garden of the White Lion at the Avon Gorge Hotel in Clifton Village. From there, Corrie Tap, Clifton Triangle, Park Street, then Waterfront would be a decent pub crawl (and you would be near the strip clubs, should you so desire). Wherever you go, make sure someone contacts an end venue well in advance and ensures you are on the guest list. Also try to get a queue jump sorted. Otherwise you will have a 'mare getting into any clubs at all. Oh, and if your mates are poor/tight, they will probably find it quite an expensive place.

It's a good time to be promoted as the quality in the Prem is probably the worst it's ever been.

I'm surprised at the content of the words as I have never seen it suggested anywhere credible (and, as it happens, I don't really consider the Mirror to be a credible source either) that "an horrific attack" took place - my recollection of earlier reports is that they were far more equivocal. The grammar is fine. I have no idea what happened that night but given that the police investigated and didn't bring any charges against anyone I am surprised to see it described in a newspaper as "an horrific attack". It may well have actually been an horrific attack. I don't know. Anyway, best of luck to Dan.

"An horrific attack"?

Not in this case it isn't. You just need to find a match where Guly was on the bench. Shouldn't be too ****ing hard. Anyway, Guly was very good in the second half but wasn't involved enough in the first. He did, however, have a far better game than say, Lambert.

29: first match was an FA Cup tie against Oxford which a bit of Googling tells me was on 27 January 1990 (I would have been 7). Razor Ruddock scored the goal with a header from a corner. I think we were pretty poor that day though! I think I started going very regularly a couple of years later and had an ST in the lower East Stand for much of my youth - starting in the Junior Saints section (cold metal benches, nice) and then moving right next to the away fans once I got a bit older. I remember getting absolutely soaked in my England Italia '90 shell-suit one day. I stopped going regularly to matches once I moved away to uni at the age of 18 but obviously still went to as many as I could. I've since started going again to virtually every home match and have had an ST for the last two seasons. Been to quite a few aways - a relegation or two certainly boosts your list of grounds visited! What struck me most during the recent years when the club was in turmoil was how lucky I was to start supporting Saints when I did. Yes, we had some poor years in the top flight but actually there weren't too many occasions when we were in the mire come the last few weeks of the season. And yes, I missed Keegan, Ball, the Cup win etc.. but I saw the ZDS Final (old Wembley), the FA Cup Final (Cardiff), the JPT Final (new Wembers) went to matches at The Dell and SMS, saw Le Tissier, Shearer, Flowers, Ekelund, Dodd, Palmer, Pahars, Svennson, Niemi, Beattie, Walcott, Bale, David Lee etc.... I saw us beat Man U, Liverpool, Spurs etc fairly regularly (but never, it seemed, Arsenal - I must have seen Ian Wright score about 20 goals against us!). I felt so sorry for those nippers who were being taken along to SMS for the first time and had to witness some of the ****e served up under Wigley, Redknapp and Poortvleit. No doubt nostalgia clouds the memory somewhat, and those people whose only Saints home experience is based at SMS will probably share equally evocative memories of that place, but some of the games I went to at The Dell will live with me me forever (the Matty match against Newcastle under Ball, beating Newcastle 3-1 when losing 1-0 after about 85 minutes, Matty's hat-trick against Liverpool, the 6-3, the 3-1, Matty's free-kick against Wimbledon, my first derby when we spanked the Phew in the cup, Doddsy taking a red card for the team against West Ham, the victory over Everton when Pahars scored, a come-back against Blackburn, hearing Man City had made a hash of it under Ball to keep us up). There is also less steam at SMS when you take a **** at a winter match than there was at The Dell. Football has changed - I've seen Saints play top tier matches at Kenilworth Road and Plough Lane FFS (Benali's "tackle" on Fashanu - comedy). Mental! I consider myself fortunate to straddle the epochs.

at Villa and QPR. Paying those sort of sums for chumps like Hughes and McLeish. ****ing hell. So stupid.

Oooh, the banks "called in" their loans. Corp's mantra. Wtf is that supposed to mean? Banks can only "call in" a committed loan if you are in default FFS. If they were funding the club with an uncommitted facility of £30m (ie an overdraft) then: 1 - that's odd lending; and 2 - more fool them for taking that risk. They should've put a proper facility in place. The man is utterly risible (Action Man and Storrie).

WTF would you want a draw? Cardiff have about a 2% chance of finishing above us. Cardiff win please.

You don't understand the loan window. "Emergency" is a complete misnomer and red herring.

£18m for Johnson?! PMSL

Failing to honour a CVA should result in a hefty points penalty. I have written to the FL on this point. We all should.

Paul Hart. PMSL to think some of our more excitable members believed "Paul Hart for manager".

This thread is obviously a wind up, FFS.

I was at that game and McGoldrick was actually excellent that night, playing in a deeper creative role. TBF. He does seem quite poo generally though.

I have decided to update my excellent post, above. As stated, I think 85 will guarantee promotion (I imagine 84 or 83 will actually be enough for second). Set out below is the points per game required by the contenders to get to 85 - in the left column - and also set out is their points per game average thus far - in the right column. With respect to each team, the higher of the two figures I have emboldened. ---------------PPG for 85------------Season PPG West Ham ------1.71-------------------1.91 Reading ------2.00 ------------------1.78 Blackpool ------2.31 ------------------1.67 Birmingham -----2.21 ------------------1.69 Cardiff ----- 2.29-------------------1.66 Brighton ------2.46-------------------1.61 Middlesbrough --2.29-------------------1.66 Hull ------------2.27-------------------1.65 Super Saints ---1.77-------------------1.88 Now, I reckon the top 2 is a three horse race (WHU, Saints, Reading) with B'ham an outside shot if you think they will win their six pointers. Will Saints get promoted? Well, unless our form slips and Reading's continues to improve, "yes, we will". Will Saints win the league? If you think WHU have a harder run in then I'd say we're a very good bet. Just had a quick look on William Hill and we are 2/1 to win the league. I think that's a brilliant price. I would say each team's chances of winning the league are roughly: WHU 47%, Saints 45%, Reading 7%, Other 1%. Oh yeah, we won't finish 17th.

Can't help feeling Palace have blown their chance by failing to score. West Ham will get some sort of goal of attrition at some point and can only really get better in the second half. I love watching Zaha - hardly ever actually delivers anything but he's brilliant to watch. If he matures well he will be a superb player.

But we are owned by legitimate billionaire's and have a cohesive business plan and good infrastructure. They are owned by criminals and have jack ****.

PS. She may have a dickson too.