Legod Third Coming

Is it significant that we beat Southend 3-1 and they are now beating Bristol Rovers 2-0??

Right, been out to get me haircut what have i missed??

Personally, I would have Thomas in. However, personally I NEVER change a winning team either.

This is what also wrankles with me. If I said to my neighbours that I believe in God the genecitist/astronomer, they would call me mad. But the concept of a being credible of crafting an entire world in his hands, that's totally sane to them... bizarre. If anything, recent evidence points to my theory being far more likely - we have discovered water in the universe, the semblence of life elsewhere. If it just as likely that a rock hit earth carrying microorganisms and found their 'puddle'...

This is a bit like asking is your dad the best dad you know... yes! Are there better dads, possibly. Would I swap? No thanks. For part of my life, Lawrie McMenemy was the best manager in the world thanks.

I believe that the theory of extinction is primary evidence that, in reality, science is letting us down badly. Let me explain. It would be easy for water lying in a puddle after rainfall to feel secure and comfortable in its surroundings. After all, the hole seems to fit perfectly. As a result, the water in the puddle imagines that so perfect is its sourroundings that the hole must have been designed for it... I don't doubt the theory of evolution, nor do I dispute that there may well be some higher order in the entity we know as the universe. But some things don't quite fit, do they? Be honest, where is the 'missing link'? Why do apes continue to exist if the fittest evoled into man? And why in the evolution of man do we not contibue to see further evolution? Scientists will tell you it is because it takes millions of years for evolution to be seen, ergo we can only see that which occured millions of years before man. Then we have extinction. We know that man causes exctintion, but what happened to this 'evolution'? If life will find a way, why does it not evolve to fight the forces of extinction? Where are the dinosaurs who evolved to fill the void left by their forebears? Science continues to create theories based on evidence a little like the water decides the hole existed for it to fill. Why? Because science does not always comprehend the rain. We must find theories that support the evidence we can see, but only as we can see it and only as we can comprehend it. But let's consider another theory. What if man simply arrived here on this planet? Or indeed planets? Would that not explain the variety in culture ? Would it not explain why so many religions actually have their basis in the same set of values - virgin birth, father God, etc? How, for example, can we explain the knolwedge of the Pharoahs? Where did this knowledge 'evolve' from? The capacity to engineer, architecture and mathematics? And what if, all the rest is simply bunkem to keep you from knowing the reality?

Your attitude towards our most successful manager is bemusing at best. Just accept that he put our club on the map and for nearly a decade delivered far more than a provincial club like ours might have expected. As well as our only silverware of note. What else is he supposed to do? Walk on water... oops wrong thread...

Is that fair though, did Anders Svensson play in the hole?

4-4-2 is dead as a system. Managers have woken up to the flexibility and variability of 4-3-3. It offers no less width, if anything it offers more. 4-4-2 is not a 'wingers system' anyway, since that would have to be 4-2-4 which no-one in their right mind would play! 4-4-2 could be the most defensive system on earth if you have two lines of 4, flat and play with no zest or movement. We haven't scored any goals from bye-line crosses from my memory, but we've scored 6 excellent and 1 scrambled goal from open play in 2 games. We've also missed half a dozen sitters and hit the post twice. Yes, players dragging the defence out out of shape is a massive contributory factor but you don't need the ball to do that, nor wingers, just a bit of vision. Bloody hell, easy this management game ain't it...

Target 1 beat Oldham. Target 2 beat the team we play after Oldham. Target 3, beat the team we play after that... Let's not complicate this, ladies. We've had enough bull over the years to last a lifetime. Football is a fecking simple game. Keep it that way!!!!

What is worrying about organised religion is that lack of evidence is alway met with a requirement to "have faith". In my view it is this blind acceptance rather than healthy debate which leads to fundamentalism and then perversion of the true faith. The Pope's view on contraception is a case in point. Surely a Jesus alive today would not condone a decision which immerses more humans into misery, hunger abs premature death? And overall isn't it time we saw some real evidence of God? To follow blindly is never ever healthy in my view.

I was thinking more 'better football judge' than you thread...

As an amateur theologian with a daughter at a Catholic school (convent!), here is my take fwiw... There was a fella called Jesus, by all accounts a practicing Jew. He was by the claim of either himself or others a 'prophet' but preached the worship of God, not of Jesus. After him came St Paul who created the 'Christianity' we know - essentialy the worship of Jesus the Christ and through him God. Then Emperor Constantine (AD 300odd) of Rome decreed that he was sick of all these religions and could they please just have one, at which point it was decided that 25th December (Sol Invictus) the day on which Romans worshipped the sun would be the day of worship of Jesus birth (he was probably born in April actually). Other marvellous things like the virgin birth were then ascribed to Jesus over the years (they actually date from much earlier religions and probably from the concept of Egyptian birth through Horos or something - forgive me it's been a while since I actually read this stuff)... But it's all there, probably on wiki these days... Anyway, cut a long story short, the Synods clarified various facets of the religion which of course, by virtue of a fabulous empire (Rome) was able to proliferate easily around the enourmous empire around the globe. And Rome remains at the centre. Now, I have no problem with this, nor with the way the church first claimed the earth was the centre of the universe (ex-communicating people like Galileo and Copernicus and so on) then accepted the solar system but denied evolution and so on... I don't even mind about creationists. Believe what you want to believe. It's your choice not mine. But, I wish with all my heart, people would first accept the sanctity of human life and simply do unto others as they would be done to. I personally believe in a creative power, a higher order. I happen to think it bears no relationship to modern religion which is a mixture of propoganda and legislature. As for Herr Liebherr, and wealthy footballers, this is something for them to square with their own Gods. I don't think mine minds me working hard and making a living! (This is in answer to the kind chap who said to me Jesus existed, about which I have no doubt - I just dispute his antecedants!)

I will not have a bad word said about the man. Not since I went to Aintree and lumped on Time for Rupert in the 3m hurdle... Thank you Rupert!!!

Ah, apols looked for a thread, been a long day!!!!

Anything less than a convincing victory would be bitterly disappointing and a step backwards. But even Chelsea lost at Wigan. It happens. But not to us, not on Saturday. We are on the march and I, for one, don't intend to let a Manchester suburb stall our progress!!!

http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~1824943,00.html Well done to all those who spotted these two as stars early in the season...

We are not the real deal yet but we are bloody close in my view. And we have the pockets to fill the gaps! As to what happens when two well matched teams meet, the wafer thin margins come into play - and yes that includes the referee and luck!!

I believe that a couple more convincing results will see us do just that. Football is not won or lost on grass. It is won or lost on a six inch pitch between the ears. The more we win, the more belief we will have and, most importantly, the more our opponents will fear us. This is not about hope and optimism, it is about capitalising on our resources, strength and infrastructure and imposing ourselves on lesser teams. This is not direspectful - we were one of those minnows and enjoyed felling a few goliaths in our time. But we are no longer that minnow. We must and WILL start to think like a shark and fear no-one. This is the hallmark of winners. The profile of Champions. Fear is the enemy, not the opposition.

I think people with a strong Christian faith can square anything. They made up a person to believe in, it's not hard to justify his decisions as a result is it?

...having shared communion with several vestel virgins no doubt...

Do you think Jesus would approve of those who feel this way continuing to fund it?

I detect that he is not winning you over...

There are ninety points up for grabs with possibly the strongest squad in the league and certainly the best backed financially. Our Chief Exec told the Chairman of Charlton that he is aiming for the top, why shouldn't we? It is easy to close a gap of 14 points over 30 games - especially when you consider that for every team we beat we deprive them of 3 or 6 points. To target survival with our resources is crmininal. Imagine if Chelsea were fined 10 points this season and started next season on minus ten. Do you imagine that Ancelotti would be targeting fourth bottom?? If we are not promoted so be it, but it should not be for want of trying. For one thing, to be promoted next year we will have to beat these teams regularly. And if we can't do it now, why should we be able to do it in 12 months?? What will change?? We've had ten games. We've built a decent first 11. We're playing good football (three games in a row if you count an unlucky defeat to Rovers). We should be looking to ASSERT ourselves on teams who can only dream of our recourses, support and infrastructure. It is time to shake off the inferiority complex that dogs this club. Winning demands winners.

They also lost quite a few games late on in the season when their campaign ran out of steam a little. We have lost three games this season. If we could keep it to that, we are laughing. I would like us to target winning every game from now on. This would help me collect on my bets...