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Last time I saw Bob Babbitt was a year or so ago backing Phil Collins in his Motown covers album Just seems like yesterday!!

£550 for 2 Adults and 2 Juniors These are the sort of incentives that will attract youngsters to the game Shame that it will probably cost £1675 for similar season tickets at St Marys this year. I suppose that is the consequence of success

...'Play it Steve'......??

Saw Booker T and the MG's (Memphis Gentlemen?) at Leeds Uni back in the early 70's Very tight band Duck Dunn was a great bass player but some say not quite as good as James Jamerson of the Funk Bros Also saw Sam and Dave live. What a performance but apparently they hated one another!!!

Understand that 'Ricky Lambert' stood as an Independent candidate for the Coxford Ward at the recent Council elections and only gained 39 votes. Seems a tad harsh compared to our old friend Perry MacMillan who registered a relatively monster 259 votes as a Trade Union candidate in his ward. So different to the 1960's when Terry Paine was elected as a Councillor but, as I recollect, was rarely to be seen in the Council chambers.

One thing that I do know is the fact that up until the latter end of 2011, whilst the 1st team squad trained at KEV School ground at Stoneham Lane, the youth team used the old AC Delco facility next door. The rent was always late and in the end the owners got so fed up that Andy Awful and Co were given their marching orders. Not sure if they double bunked with the seniors at KEV or may have gone back to Collingwood. Think there may have also been a deal with Eastleigh FC for car parking on training days and there may have also been disputes with payments. It always amazed me how tolerant the locals have been having Pompey training within the SO postcode Can you imagine what the reaction would have been if the reverse had happened?

Pap I understand the point you make and it is put over well. The observation I make here is that there have been other football related disasters eg Bradford, Glasgow Rangers and Bolton come to my (the latter two albeit in a different generation) and they all seem to have been dealt with in a more subdued manner. No one can take away the fact that 96 innocent Liverpool fans lost their lives on that tragic day but, from an outsiders view, all the blame seems to be laid at the door of any number of people/organisations with very little attached to the large number of fans who turned up late and rushed the entrances. Perhaps the Hillsborough Memorial groups would have been better served making their representations to the club re the new kit behind closed doors I am sure there must be quite a few of the victims families who prefer to grieve in private rather than have their memories regularly brought into the full glare of the public

Football Echo is now available online (subscription service I'm afraid) which may be helpful to those away from the distribution area When I was away at Uni my Dad used to post me a copy and this was the highlight of my week, especially as we were a Div 1 team at the time and my house mates both supported lower league teams so I always had the bragging rights

There has been plenty of discussion on the Saints players to keep/dispense with on this Forum and we all have our views For those who get the pink, the piece by Geoff Smith is, to my mind, pretty well spot on

Iwa playing indoor football at the old sports building in St Marys Rd for the away game and disappointed to hear about the defeat in Brussels Was in the lower chocolate box for the home game and remember well the euphoria of getting back into the game and the despair when Anderlecht got back into the game via Steely's mistake Also remember the abuse heaped at the E German ref Recoolect it was a good atmoshhere at the gane generated by a less than capacity crowd Good result in an earlier game . 4-0 v Marseille?

Thats interesting I have a 4 year protected NCD with Swift who tell me that because of a repalcement windcreen claim I will have to pay an additional premium of £65 (Plus I had to part with £65 excess at the time of the windscreen replacement) plus my NCD will remain at 4 years I can find a lower premium but am miffed that I can only transfer over 4 years NCD

Does anyone know if Windscreen replacement claims now affect your No Claims Bonus I am sure years ago this was not the case

I know a couple of people who have used Carfile Apparently very helpful and have been around for some time which is reassuring

Iwas in Glasgow recently and got talking to soemone who's family used to follow Third Lanark until their demise. Actually I think Pompey could possibly end up as the Third Lanark of the south. Gone but soon forgotten!!

I like Liverpool Plenty to do and see (in the central area) and some great people. Set against this are some real hard core 'scallies' (over 50 manily grug related shootings in 2011) and deprived areas which have been mainly denied the shed loads of grant aid spent on the city centre area The Cruise terminal grant would never have been given if Liverpool Council had been honest about their intention of using the facility for turnrounds as this would have caused uproar from the many UK cruise ports who have provided terminal facilities out of their own resources. What really did it for me was when Liverpool apporached Portsmouth (as a major south coast cruise port!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) to support their change of use application. Portsmouth said Ok but are now regretting it as one of the shipping lines due to operate turnrounds in 2013 out of Liverpool is Fred Olsen who are likely to move their ship calls from Portsmouth to Liverpool Liverpool should be made to pay back all £17m grant funding and go forward on a level playing field with all other rival ports. No one can deny them the opportunity but the port should not be given subsidies denied to their competitors

According to the News this is good news as Pompey can draw on the 'Prodigious' talent of the younger players under the tutelage of Andy Awful and co!! Are these the same youngsters who trawled around at the bottom of the Academy league? Surely not!!

Micky To be honest I didnt know at the time but if you look on the Liverpool Echo website one of their journo's is trying to make a defence for it so assume it was only LFC supporters

Now I am not a rampant monarchist or particularly fervent nationalist but I do think that respect should be given to our national anthem. First of all it was surprising, and disappointing, that the Liverpool fans seemed to react negatively to the playing of the Anthem Perhaps I am old fashioned but one of the 'special' parts of the two Cup Final days I have enjoyed with Saints was the playing of the National Anthem as well as 'Abide with me' These were an important part of Cup Final tradition that I used to watch on our 14" black and white rented Sobell TV when I was growing up. To hear Liverpool fans react with boos and whistles, and to have the Liverpool Echo try to justify these actions, were as disappointing as seeing the majority of the two teams representing different countries. I am no great fan of John Terry but, at least he and Frank Lampard showed a bit of patriotism unlike Steve Gerrard and the relativey few others on the pitch who were actually born in this country. All so much more different than the Rugby players!!

My ticket, neasr the Royal Box, was £6.00!!!!!!!!!!!!

And it was a lovely day, weather wise Compare today!!!!

.Together as one' on the tie Hasn't Nigel been using the phrase all season?

Looked in half a dozen nwsagents on Sunday All sold out Some customers buying multiple copies!!

Sorry to say this was a conversation I had with some Saints fans this morning Undoubtedly Nigel and his team will have already started the process and it is obviously beneficial to gain automatic promotion as approaches to players and their agents can begin immediately rather than wait for the Play Offs to complete I guess what needs to be considered is the contractual arrangements affecting the current squad. It is always a shame to see the disapperance of plkayers who have contributed toards our recent success but teams have to evolve. Watching MOTD last night made me realise how quick the game is in the Prem and how our team has to match the increased intensity. We have been used to winning far more games than usual over the past 3 years and some supporters may find it difficult to adjust to next years struggle, which it will be. Hopefully Nigel and his team will unearth a pearl as Ted Bates did back in 1966, when we first went up. Ron Davies came in from Norwich, for a then record fee of £55,000, and paid us back in spades as he turned into one of the top stikers in the country

Watched the BBC coverage soon as I got in Thought it was very positive towards us and the support/celebrations came over very well. As a group Saints fans are much more vociferous and colourful than when I was a lad

Pompey massively supported home and away according to Mark Kelly on Radio Solent Nearly 18,000 at the Park today massive!!