Sour Mash

He sounds exactly what we need, relatively cheap, and ultimately another option off the bench to change things and go at the opposition when needs be. His attitude sounds a bit suspect, but the two Koemans should know enough about his background to make a call on that.

That's not how parliament ran in the late 19th Century, political parties and allegiances were well to the fore by then. And if you read the post I was replying to, it suggested creating an additional 200 seats in parliament - so individuals would be able to hold very little sway against the existing parties/government in situ. If PR came into play it wouldn't end the party system at all, just give the chance for a few smaller parties a bit more of a say, which would be no bad thing in my eyes, but won't bring about any fundamental change.

Our away support pretty much all stand every game, but I'd say its worth asking a couple of people in the front row to swap places, most should be happy to do so.

Agreed, I'm a fan of Long. Although I've got to sing the praises of the three players I do every week - Alderweireld, Bertrand and Clyne, excellent players. Koeman got his tactics spot on, changed things around and three at the back worked a treat. Everton might not have been at their best, but they're no mugs, quality in every position and considering the team we had out, that really was a great result.

It didn't actually look like that.

I'm assuming the "nuts" bit is referring to his cheapness for such a player. I've never heard of him, funny old career history, hard to judge.

What's 'weird' is going to ground when we're doing well and piping up after a poor run

You went quiet for three months, piping up again lately I see. Where is your 'Wreck it Ralph' avatar? Why haven't you kept that 'consistently'?

Hark at the bedwetters from the summer piping up again!

but fundamentally, none of that will ultimately change the way we live our lives in any great way, bankers will still be very powerful, some people won't feel adequately represented in government and the vast majority will get on fairly happily with their lives with the occasional moan. Re-nationalising industries isn't anything particularly new and innovative, how would it differ to the UK of 40 odd years ago?

What's the workable alternative though?

Nice idea, but I can't see it working. 200 individuals, each with their own views, no cohesive, collective plan or vehicle by which their ideas and policies can be implemented, we'd just have 200 Russel Brands giving out popular sound bites.

Bradley Wright-Philips.

Which is sort of my point. That stat alone doesn't tell us much. Also, nowadays, a Millionaire is obviously wealthy, but not hugely rich in the way it would have been 20+ years ago. Ultimately, I agree, there are too many career politicians, full stop, regardless of whether they're wealthy or not. Not sure of a practical way that can be changed though.

What is their definition of a millionaire? What would they prefer the percentage to be? What is an acceptable level of wealth for an MP to have? How many of them we're born into Millionaire families and how many were self made? Without knowing any of that, it's a bit irrelevant.

Oh dear.

Whats going to happen in three weeks time?

So no examples then? And now this well known footballing phenomenon of big away followings equaling quiet support is unique to Saints

Schmicheal Zabaleta A. Cole Campbell Vidic Viera Lampard Scholes Ronaldo Henry Shearer F**k knows on the formation.

Fair enough. I can't think of many games that we were any better/worse in the last 15 mins than we had been for the rest of the game. One of the big points about MP's tenure was that we never, once came from behind to get a win, so I'm not sure where the suggestion that his reign made much a difference in that regard has come from. Why wasn't anyone questions our fitness a few weeks ago? Has our training regime suddenly changed in the last few weeks?

Link to anything in particular that would be worth reading? I've had a look through the thread and can't find any links to what he's written.

Such as?

What makes you think that?

So give us examples of all these massive away followings that are really quiet? What about Chelsea down at ours in the cup the other year? 5k+ wasn't it? They were really quiet

It wasn't 5,000. It wasn't hard to tell that loads weren't singing full-stop, regardless of whether you were in the middle of it or not. Nothing to do with singing "anti-pompey" songs.