Deppo

That is the most brilliant thing I've ever read on a match thread. Thanks, alps.

Mediocre at 3-1. How mediocre. We are so mediocre. Mediocre, mediocre, mediocre.

Oh no, has the world ended?

Of course you were, sweetie.

He doesn't have anything other than grumpy pants. He sleeps in them. He only has one pair.

Why on earth did you assume that we weren't playing well then if you haven't been following the game? Why didn't you ask "Have we been playing well?" or "How have we been playing?"

Great, isn't it? It's the sort of game that has something for everyone on here. Some people can be happy because we are winning and others can revel in the despair of not playing well. It's almost the perfect game for Saints fans.

Can't see that lasting, but it would be nice if it did last. For about three months.

I agree, Verbal. Less tea, more milk. That's what we Moderates want. And by golly, we'll get it.

Fixed.

I'm playing with/in myself.

Thank you, CL. I hope you have enough digestives for the whole group? I can see this one taking off. Can you imagine it in a few years time, a Wednesday night in the Champion's League at home to Barcelona: the camera pans on to 400 Saints fans with blankets over their knees, passing around the digestives and having a good old chinwag about when is best to repot the azaleas for the winter?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1360788/Tormented-trolling-The-vile-web-craze-taunted-family-bullied-Natasha-suicide.html They've discovered a new internet trend that they call "trolling". This will be the new Daily Mail bugbear with which to create moral panic amongst its dimwitted readers for the next few weeks. This quote is obviously true and not made up at all: ‘Also, it’s very funny to mock the dead. I find humour in seeing other people being hurt. If I can make my friends and myself laugh at the expense of a dead person, who won’t be bothered one bit, I’m guessin’, then why not do it?’

What is more exciting than getting there on the last game of the season? It would be less exciting if we ran away with the League and knew we were getting promoted in March. Make your mind up, hypochandriac.

Excellent idea. I think the Southampton Moderates will be revered amongst football fans up and down the land.

I knew was only a matter of time before dune started on Rastamouse.

hypochondriac is right. The accepted way to measure short term form is 6 games. It's in the football punditry rule book. It's accepted and if nobody can see that then they clearly don't know what is the accepted way to measure short term form. It's 6 games. 6 games is the accepted measurement for short term form. Not 5 games. Not 7 games. That would be ludicrous! 7 games? Ha! How can you measure short term form in 7 games? It wouldn't be accepted. It's unacceptable! You can't measure short term success on 7 games. Sometimes I wonder what planet people are living on?

Rest in Peace, Deano. Too young.

I agree with saint bert. What is the point of 1? Perhaps we should just have 8, 9 or 10 as options and get rid of the other numbers?

What are your views on moderate groups at football? I really enjoy a weak lemon drink from a flask and am always willing to share it around (I bring extra cups) but nobody else around me in the Northam seems to be interested as they are all singing along. Perhaps if we were to set up a Southampton Moderates group, we could all sit together and share weak lemon drinks? Perhaps one of us could bake a cake every week? I make a lovely Cherry & Walnut Loaf, but there is always too much for me to eat on my own so it would be great to share it. Perhaps if likeminded supporters would like to join this group, you could all move your season tickets to alongside me in the Northam? Perhaps someone would be able to knit a tartan blanket that we could stretch across all of our legs, so that everyone knows who we are? Anyone interested, let me know. If we get enough numbers together, we could hold a meeting at my house. There will be cucumber sandwiches and fairy cakes.

I imagine if someone killed and mutilated all of Pancak's family, he'd just sit there, calmly professing that he doesn't want to commit an act of violence against the killer because "2 wrongs don't make a right". He's well Zen.

I disagree. I thought the books weren't as good as the film.

Stop being a tit, Pancake.

I'm not sure who he is, but I'd be willing to let him play me if it gives him a leg up in his career.

Fletch is the best comedy. Shortly followed by Fletch Lives.