Legod Third Coming

A grand says we're closer first than 17th.

No my point was I don't care what the price is now as I have 14/1 Yes, I fully expect us to win and me to collect a tidy sum!!

Oh and frankly since I'm sat on 14/1 each way I don't give one... ;-)

That's not true, sadly. Bookmakers don't wait for a wall of money and then react. They have odds-compilers who take a view to ensure they aren't knocked over in the first place! Example. Horse A wins the Guineas and immediately will be priced to win the Derby at well below what price he might have been before the Guineas, and yet not a single additional bet has been placed.

Nobody missed the one with the big thighs.

Exactly. It seems only fair and liberating for the modern woman. Although my missus, being a feminist, is a bit cheesed off we've bought a dishwasher - takes away yet another job from women...

See, they are not 13/14!!! Most of them look 8-10 to me ;-)

Playing on Saturday at the Hawthorns.

Guys this has just gotten silly. The cheerleaders at Palace were not early teens, they were all 16+ (at least she said she was officer...) I also thought the eagle was a nice addition. If we're going to have goal music, and walk out music and flag waving, we need cheerleaders, it stands to reason. And it's a nice touch at halftime...

One and the same really. America is a gimmick isn't it?

The way we play now you might as well just leave a record on throughout...

Hahaha! Priceless. But come on, is it fair when four foot high kids are racing six foot ones??!!!!

Can we please have some Saintettes back? Not our old ones - but ones like the Palace have. I found it very uplifting and it would beat that bald bloke letting 15 year old kids race 8 year olds around the pitch - you might as well let Usain Fecking Bolt join in!

Mainly because with us in our current position, such a statement would see him wheeled off to the nearest asylum...

This is one of the best matches I ever saw. My first.

Oh and beating Coventry 8-2 was quite fun...

I remember watching this side. http://www.statto.com/football/teams/southampton/1983-1984 Take a look. Liverpool 2-0 (When they were easily the best side in Europe). United? 3-0 (Manchester who?) Spurs? 5-0. Arsenal - pah... Short memories some fans.

I haven't seen Norwich or Swansea smashed yet. How are Blackburn and Wigan getting on? I seem to think they have plenty of players 'who've already been through it and know how to compete'... To be honest, I'll trust Adkins. He seems to know what he's doing.

I think you over-estimate the class difference between the top of League One, the Championship and then the bottom of the Premiership. Players like Lallana, Chaplow, Morgan, Guly, Fox, Fonte, Jos - they all look to me certainly no worse than players in the Premiership today like Hunt, Bothroyd, Holt, etc. Of the teams that went up, I expect at least two to survive (probably Norwich and Swansea) maybe even all three. The key is having a great team full of belief and you don't get that by ripping apart one with it already!

I'm delighted to find someone in the mid-west who believes in evolution. Thought you were all creationists. But seriously, while we can evolve, imagine how hard it is for clubs like Blackpool and Peterborough to do the same. We are ahead of 90% of the clubs in this division because of money. The other 10% (West Ham, Leicester, Leeds, Brighton) we are ahead of because we attracted a brilliant manager who is getting unbelievable performances from players all over the park. And it genuinely cannot hurt that our toughest game was a sellout!

He's right though. Markus's money didn't just save us, it's bankrolling us. We would never have attracted Pardew without the money. He would never have attracted Lambert and retained Lallana. Adkins would never have come to the club. We would not be in this position without the cash. Yes, we now have a manager and players who are doing fantastically well. But to use your analogy, if you'd had an incompetent midwife who failed to deliver you, how do you think you would be faring today...

Quite right. Who would have thought though, before we write anyone off, that the following players would be plying a very good trade in the Premiership - LEON BEST, RORY DELAP, DANNY HIGGINBOTHAM....

The problem we must avoid is simply buying squad players. Does noone else remember what got us in this mess? Having 35 footballers of indeterminite ability and massive over-use of the word 'utility'... If we can buy some better than we have buy them. If not, spend the money on cleaning the stadium stansions.

Yeah heard that 'da fourth goal'. Priceless.

I think you should ask Bjorn, Benny, Agnetha and Anni-Frid to answer this one...