shurlock

Yep mentioned True Detective above - glad some others are getting into it. Thought the end of EP03 was difficult to top but the last 6 mins from EP04 was ridiculously good -like a setpiece from CoD or Battlefield, reminiscent of Children of Men, Wu Tang Clan blazing out-and all on my laptop.

Cuts both ways, doesn't it pal. Could equally be wide of the mark.... Come back to me when you've got your head around the difference between gross and net spend. Obviously numbers aren't a forte of yours.

Who does?

Every away game looks like too if you subscribe to the skate school of creative accounting.

Are you illiterate as well as gullible? I said muted compared to 76. Keep up pal.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/7406819.stm Reported as upto whatever that means but if you want to believe that the entire city population turned out, keep dreaming pal. And the magic beans are still available.

So we go from upto 200,000 fans (skates accounting par excellence) to an estimated 200,000 fans. Do you want to buy some magic beans off me, pal? They are the bestest beans in the world.

I'm saying it would be more muted this time around. Am sure plenty would have a mad few days but would it bring nonfootball or even fairweather fans out and truly cut across the whole city like it did in 76? That I doubt.

I wasn't around in 76, though I hear stories from the parents. All I know is that the depth and intensity of those celebrations were partly a reflection of the value of the cup. That's only natural.

Let me guess - you're in your late 30s, a fat balding **** who was too young to witness 76 but old enough to remember the cup meaning something? The days when the country came to a standstill and the whole cultural apparatus lived and breathed the cup for the day, if not the week... Maybe you still live in hope for the day when Gok Wan and Alan Carr do cup-final themed specials or the day Rickie Lambert or some other Saints legend is immortalised in the same way as Ian Rush was for his 86 stanchion shot. Good luck sunshine - I hope your nostalgia-tinged vigil bears fruit. But from where I sit - those days seem long gone. Even 2003 seems like a golden age compared to today's by-the-numbers, saturated fare. Am I celebrating its demise? Of course, not. If you think that, you must be a bigger moron than your inability to distinguish between gross and net transfer spending suggests. Who wouldn't want their team winning something that was more rather than less important, especially when the top four oligarchy is tightening its grip on other parts of the game? Who wouldn't But facts are facts - and that's why like it or not, winning the cup would be more muted.

Of course the celebrations would be more muted - no shame in admitting that the FA cup doesn't hold the same cultural significance. FACT. Anyone who thinks otherwise is frankly living in lala land.

At least Clyne made the keeper work - wasn't the worst strike in the world. Many attackers wouldn't have gone far post either.

Didnt have too many big decisions to make. Still can't believe how nobody got booked for the cynical bodycheck on lallana/Jrod in the 2nd half for which he gave the advantage. That was dubious but either way should have gone back and booked their player.

Clatts - take a bow son.

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Was that around the university?

There was some good banter between Itchen North and the away end: "you're so northern, you're havin a wash" as it started bucketing down even drew some applause from their lot.

Don't think it would have made much difference TBF - if anything would have slowed us down more and played further into Stoke's hands. Still waiting to see the Vic who got goals at Celtic but that's in hope rather than expectation at the moment. After a horrible first half where we outbattled and did little to neutralise Adam spraying balls from deep, our midfield mostly took control in the second - probably because Stoke let us and dropped off, so there was no need to change things there.

A department head who did as well as MP with the same bunch of players if we are to believe you

No we shouldn't be too worried. You also told us that there wasn't much difference between MP and NA.

Instead of paying 49p a minute for BS, today we get it served up by mongboarders for free. Even a Luddite would see that's progress.

The mongboard great and good safely assure us that MP is no better than NA -and is flattered by having better players at his disposal. So either way no great drama.

Once again this thread has turned out to be a bit of a mare for the usual suspects. On the retreat from an imaginary army. Only on a mongboard. FWIW Carroll is a blunt instrument, not blessed with much skill but effective and physically dominating. Given how West Ham set up -Nolan from deep and two old fashioned wingers, the significance of Carroll's absence is as much about the hole it leaves in the system as the merits of the player in question.

Exactly his facial expression was an absolute giveaway.