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We can sing 'They've got Brett Ormerod'

The only thing that looks 'Brazilian' about Guly today was the haircut! Getting some goals but his touch is shocking and looks lost/disinterested half the time. We are in trouble if he has to start too many games for us.

From the Skate news. Just what sort of people are they on that isolated little fish-loving island? trueblue34was1, NO AMBITION THIS IS A FACT PEOPLE 25/11/2010 18:42:50 when the high profile earners go in january we will be up the greek without a oar .....

Many more positives than negatives last night, despite the frustration. Brighton came to get a draw & they got it, but it was the manner of our performance rather than the result that was important last night. We matched physically a tough, niggly team and with a bit mor luck might have won it. It is always tough breaking down even poor teams set up like they were, never mind a good team, but we stuck at it all game. My only reservation was the forward line - all of them, not just Rickie, wanted one touch too many at times & passed when they should have shot, but otherwise a good effort and a draw was probably fair between to evenly matched teams. (Ref was sh1te, mind.)

I thought the atmosphere was great in Kingsland, too. I think the clue to why you thought otherwise might come in your name, Mr Glass half-empty....

I'd like to put in a word for Dean Hammond, my MoM. When he plays well the whole team plays well & today he kept us moving forward time & again. Special word for Chaplow - nearly MoM, and also our two full-backs who both look to have the strength & pace to cause trouble in this league. Also a word for Jaidi, who I am not a big fan of usually, but was excellent against two nippy little strikers, & Holmes who looked very impressive again today. If only he could stay fit for more than one week in four....

Surely you can't mean the same man who has just scored the winner against Poopey. (And it was only a modest pie-addiction he developed down here.)

Dixon & Speedie for being SO crap here & so obviously not interested. Dennis Wise, just because...

Just a few random ones that may have been done already Micky Channon's testimonial after the FA cup final - must have been fifty thousand fans in the Dell Franny taking out that ***t Fashanu waist-high at Plough Lane and walking off Steve Moran's last minute winner at Nottarf Krap A forty year love affair (even with all the misery attached) from my first game - Saints 4 Derby 0 Davies 2, Channon 2, - me going with my parents & now going with my lad. Watching all those lads from Channon to Le Tiss to Bridgey pulling on an England shirt for the first time Laughing at Pompey walking up the steps at SMS, five minutes to kick-off, full-house under the floodlights, still gives me a shiver down my spine

To cure a problem, to solve a problem - Ali the Cure, Ali the Solution - talk about taking the P for Poopey

The rumour I had heard was that Puncheon had fallen out with Crosby - NA's second-in-command. Certainly he is a very talented player, but clearly has mental 'issues'. I think one of the things NA is learning is that Pardew assembled a team that would do very well in the Championship, but forgot we still had to get out of League One. Morgan is a classic example - a gifted and classy player by any standard, but not really that keen to get down and dirty in the trench-warfare that is away games in Carlisle and Huddersfield. I have said for a while that what is lacking in our squad is mental toughness, not footballing ability, and from what we have seen and heard of Puncheon he fits that tag completely, and maybe NA has realised that, too. As gifted a player as I have seen here with a football, but Mr Woo didn't cut it as a footballer, no matter what tricks he had.

He played the same role that Hammond does, & like him, when he played well the team did well but he never got noticed till he wasn't there or played badly. I know we missed him badly in the relegation season. Also 300+ games in the top flight for us over 10 years hardly qualifies for this thread imo.

I suspect not, but they definitely are able (and will) redirect it to football creditors.

Just seen the highlights and yet again Kelvin's inability to command his six yard-box has cost us dear, (and by all accounts that was an action replay of one in the first half.) It is a serious, game-costing flaw that no amount of great reaction saves can hide, as far as I am concerned.

Nail on head....you'd need extra digits on your hands, a PO code AND a frontal lobotomy to want your child to go anywhere near them.

Richard Chaplow, less hair but more talent than Wotton. Another step in the right direction.

My dream tie (well, almost....) for the following reasons It's at home We should win it I have always had a soft spot for Cheltenham, having worked up that way a (good) few years ago & they are one of very few teams in the league I never seen Saints play, or even seen play someone else. So eff off your glory-hunters, I'm happy

For a man being given his chance to shine he was woeful. At least for the Swindon match he had the excuse of it being his first. We sat/stood twenty rows up in the Northam (usually being part of the respectable Kingsland) & I have to say the atmosphere was great all game. Funniest thing (probably old hat for the regulars) was the poor young steward trying to get people to sit down. He'd start at the bottom, getting one row after another to finally sit, like a slow-motion Mexican wave, until he got within a couple of rows of us, when a bit of action on the pitch or a chorus of 'stand up if you love the Saints' started, and everyone stood up again, meaning he had to retreat to the bottom and start again. To be fair his stamina was great over the full ninety minutes, but five times he got to the row in front of ours, but never made it to our row. I guess my interest in this shows it was a pretty cr@p game, doesn't it?

For a man being given his chance to shine he was woeful. At least for the Swindon match he had the excuse of it being his first. We sat/stood twenty rows up in the Northam (usually being part of the respectable Kingsland) & I have to say the atmosphere was great all game. Funniest thing (probably old hat for the regulars) was the poor young steward trying to get people to sit down. He'd start at the bottom, getting one row after another to finally sit, like a slow-motion Mexican wave, until he got within a couple of rows of us, when a bit of action on the pitch or a chorus of 'stand up if you love the Saints' started, and everyone stood up again, meaning he had to retreat to the bottom and start again. To be fair his stamina was great over the full ninety minutes, but five times he got to the row in front of ours, but never made it to our row. I guess my interest in this shows it was a pretty cr@p game, doesn't it?

It will always be the red & white stripes for me, though I have suspicion Cortese might want to keep the new 'brand'. Incidentally, if anyone is interested in old kits/colours, this is a great little site. (Palace have never known what there true colous are - worse than shopping with the wife.) http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/English_Football_League/index.html

It will always be the red & white stripes for me, though I have suspicion Cortese might want to keep the new 'brand'. Incidentally, if anyone is interested in old kits/colours, this is a great little site. (Palace have never known what there true colous are - worse than shopping with the wife.) http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/English_Football_League/index.html

Saw this on the Beeb. Anyone registered with Times Online? I couldn't do it on ideological grounds, but curious to know wherre the DCFSBs lie in that table West Brom have come out on top of the Times newspaper's Financial Fair Play League, which highlights the clubs obtaining the best results per pound spent. Full story: the Times [requires registration]

It's not sad, it's brilliant fun. Though perhaps it should just be renamed the "Let's all laugh at Pompey" thread and then it can run forever.

Talk about a rock and a hard place - sharing the showers at Wormwood Scrubs with a moustachioed Millwall fan of a certain persuasion, or a lifetime's exile on the island known as the Broadmoor of the south

I think, had the world known then what we know now, the word CHEAT would have been everywhere in relation to that cup win