OttawaSaint

Hands up who thought he’d miss?

tadic!!!!!

Got 0-0 or 0-1 written all over it.

Can’t be playing these long balls with Austin on, he’s a mile off the pace.

Palace 1-0 Leices

Lemina is playing better.

Good chances but more urgency and accuracy needed.

Ffs. Cedric, can’t cross to save his life.

Tepid start. Coys

TSN really talking up this “derby”. Lol. Skates all but forgotten...

TSN just showed Krueger hobnobbing on the way to his seat.

I just can't imagine us winning. It's been so long. We'll start slow, ride out the storm, start to look better and then concede and the heads will drop. End in a useless draw. Please show me I am wrong Saints! Please!

(S)He's clearly mentally ill. We should probably feel sorry for him(her) and hope (s)he gets the help (s)he needs.

Jack Stephens probably has a better record than that.

Had a quick look at the highlights video that MLG posted in post 1 of this thread. Bearing in mind it's his best ever plays there are a lot of clips of ball tricks with no real end product. He does them and then either a) dives, b) gets fouled, c) makes a simple pass that he could have done anyway without risking losing the ball d)loses the ball e) makes a terrible cross. Yes there are some nice goals and assists in there but his highlights reel is full of the same frustrating play we are more than used to from him. Defenders are too quick and strong in the Prem for him to do all the flicks and turns he does. He's like a less talented version of Ronaldo when he first went to Utd. The difference being Ronaldo actually listened to Fergie and learned for himself that all the stepovers etc are useless in the Prem. Yes he's had some **** managers but you think he would have learned that by now. Apparently not, he's not the type of player to learn and adapt.

Ox stretchered off for L'pool tonight.

No Shane, no!! Like this! No, watch me! Like this! WTF are you doing? OK one last time...

Phwaaaaooorrr nothing better than a bit of cupboard porn!

My main beef is exactly the sort of thing they will goal for if it was the other way around.

It’d be like going back with an ex girlfriend, fine for a bit of sex but...damn, getting a bit confused with my analogy...

With all that's going on and the difficult time our beloved club is going through, how about a thread devoted to little stories of some of your wonderful Saints moments/memories. Moments that you look back on and make you smile and reminisce at how great they were at the time that gave you the best feeling in the world. I'll start: This was when Leeds were in the top division. My Dad, my (sadly dearly departed brother) and I were crammed in with about 500-1000 fellow Saints fans. Leeds were the top team in those days, vying for the title with Man Utd. Of course being at home and roared on by their deafening home crowd they raced into a 3-1 lead. Steve Hodge was running the show. We were right near the pitch and I shouted, "SOMEBODY GET ON HODGE!!" and (probably co-incidentally) two Saints players (I think it was Hurlock and Cockerill) absolutely destroyed him, making him a Hodge sandwich. My brother always used to say "somebody get on Hodge!" when he wanted the team to get stuck in (regardless of who was playing) as it became a stupid joke between us. Anyway, Saints started to get a grip on the game and got one back. The last 10 minutes we chanted and sung non-stop trying to drive the lads on to snag an equalizer as the home fans started to get a bit nervous. Sure enough, Iain Dowie bundled in a late equalizer and I don't think I have experienced scenes of celebration quite like it, we were going absolutely nuts while all around us Leeds fans stood/sat in silence. My Dad managed to lose his keys in the mayhem and we were hugging complete strangers. The walk back to the car was bloody scary though because they just let us out at the same time as the home crowd and we had to hide our scarves and look as ****ed off as everyone else. I think it wasn't until we hit the outskirts of Leeds in the car before we let out a collective cheer. Brilliant memories!

The whole game is innocuous. A bunch of men running around kicking a piece of plastic into a frame with a net attached. What word should I use for his performance, "mildly irritating"? Or is that going to offend someone who got soap in their eye?

I still have a Rank Xerox shirt from 1981 and the Denmarkeque Hummell shirt from 87/88. Bit too small for me now though.

In those days Ottawa was pretty much a very small town. In those days Canada still had to run any parliamentary decision by the Queen. It’s a pretty big city now and (in my opinion) a wonderful place to live. The only thing I miss about Britain is being able to go to a game and a decent curry, good fish and chips, haggis supper and black pudding. Oh and tea, my mum sends it over. Been a tough season with Saints being so bad I usually look to our ice hockey team, the Ottawa Senators to ease the pain but they finished 2nd last out of 31 teams.

His post says “cheeries”. Also, do you think it might be possible for a British Saints fan to emigrate to Canada? It wasn’t, collect 5 beaver tails and enter to win supportership of a random premier league team.