Lighthouse

Not the least bit of sympathy from me. There are people starving in third world countries, people dying from terrible disease and people suffering repression at the hands of tyrants who would have given anything for the chance at life she had. She threw it all away through shear idiocy, it's pretty much impossible for me to feel sad. My only thought is that hopefully this will be an eye opener for young, impressionable people experimenting with drugs. Sure you may look cool now, but in 10 years you will probably be a highly flamable corpse lying in a pool of vomit in your own living room.

I'd start with Barnard and Lambert and bring Connolly off the bench. As good as DC has been pre-season, Barnard is a top player and vastly underrated in terms of our success last season. To me leaving Barnard out would be like leaving Lallana out. He makes us tick. Having said that, DC would be a great sub to bring on against Leeds.

Maybe we should call him "Alex" in some of the songs. If people started calling me "Chambo" I think I'd jump off the Itchen Bridge. Chaviest nickname on the planet.

I'm not saying it wasn't politically motivated, just that it seems a bit 'unproffesional', for want of a better word. Not a coordinated attack such as 7/7 or 9/11.

Am I right in thinking number 19 still hasn't been allocated? Seems odd if NA really is only planning 1 more signing, which I assume will be a centre half at #5. Maybe he wants a multiple of 11 or it's a lucky number.

I know the details are a bit sketchy, but surely this looks like the work of 1 loan nut job, as opposed to an Islamic terrorist cell. Bloke plants bomb in central Oslo, then goes off and murders some random teenagers with a gun.

Anyone can make up a time. I could start a thread saying, "Cortese, Nigel and AOC to have final contract discussions at 1345 this afternoon" and nobody would be able to prove otherwise.

I've got a 47" in my living room and it's brilliant. You don't get the full picture from SD TV channels obviously, but when it comes to watching Blu-ray and playing games, it's great. Paper thin too. Think it's about 1cm deep.

Great news. I'd have him down as our best striker. It's just a shame all the hernia problems disrupted his season, then Guly kept him out the team for a while. We seemed to perform much better with him in the side. I think we only lost 2 games he started last season (Rochdale and Walsall away).

Anyone who needs a 5XL shirt should be burned to produce energy.

I'm not sure about the whole 21 thing. I think 18 would be a better age. Let's say Saints were in the sh*te right now, on a downward spiral towards the lower leagues... 2008 basically. This would clearly be a poor environment for a tallent like AOC to be plying his football. But for a Liebherr intervening, Alex could hypothetically be playing for a struggling League 2 side at the moment. Clearly it would be in his best interests to move under those circumstances. Perhaps the rule should be a player cannot leave under the age of 18, unless the club is either relegated or in administration.

Not saying anything revolutionary on SSN. Just said he is only 17, done well and there is a lot of expectation. Wants Alex to stay, didn't seem that impressed with the suggestion of a sale and loan back agreement.

Mushy peas - They are much like vomit as any food I've seen. Bear Grylls wouldn't eat them. F**king revolting.

Wine and gravy. Seperately that is, althout I'm sure they're not great together.

Best - Probably that warm, damp grassy smell on a sunny morning after it has rained over night. Worst - Probably just the smell of human breath, if you've had the door and windows closed over night. I spent the night on an overnight ferry from Rotterdam once, sharing a tiny cabin with 3 fat sweaty blokes. It was like waking up in one of Michael Moore's socks.

To create fire.

Plus the fact that not EVERY player is going to be a Bale or a Walcott. There will be plenty of players like Surman and Lallana who stick around and become very good first team regulars. If it weren't for very poor management and financial desperation since we left the Prem, we'd probably have 4 or 5 accademy players in the first team. Lallana, Surman, Matt Mills, Blackstock, Best, Sparv, Dyer. Even Fish Mills is better than a lot are giving him credit for. There were also players like Gillett, DMG and James who weren't up to the mark, but did a job in times of desperation. Without them we'd be like Pompey are now, not having two youth players to rub together and end up signing old has beens on silly wages.

My experience is extended slightly because my flush doesn't work, so I have to send a bucket of water down to chase all the Yule logs out the U bend. Problem is I've got some stuff in my flat I'd rather my landlord didn't know about, so I can't really phone him to get it fixed.

I've just bought the new shirt with 'Forecast' printed on the back, now they've gone and changed his number FFS! Being anal to the extreme I'd have given Chaplow #8 as he's more of an attacking midfielder. Interesting that 19 is left out. Perhaps we've signed someone, but we're waiting for the opportune moment to announce it (Friday for a bigger walk up on Saturday maybe). Wonder who it could be...

Like the short sleave version although, as a few others have said, the sleaves on the long sleave version are a bit 'too much white'. Will probably buy.

A bit cheesy, but this always cheers me up.

I know you're incapable of grasping most arguments you don't agree with, but for the benefit of anyone else: Antonio is not Premier League quality and I'm sure most Premier League clubs could defend against him. However they would have to adapt their game plan to keep him quiet, which gives us an advantage. You wouldn't put someone old and slow up against him, like Le Saux in his latter years. He is likely to be inconsistent, brilliant against some teams and annonymous against others. Much the same as Theo Walcott scoring a hat trick for England one week, then going missing against West Brom the next (cue Turkish saying "now you're comparing Antonio to Walcott OMG I am so much e-cleverer than everyone else etc.")

He is worth having, simply because he will cause ANY team problems with his pace and power. Even if we get a Man Utd or an Arse in the Cup, he will give them something to think about. I'm not saying he is a great player, but a fantastic option to have. If we're talking about £3.5m fees for strikers who got 15 goals last season, surely £250k for Antonio has got to be worth a punt.

Le Fondre is worth a shot IMO. Wouldn't be as extortionate as the fees being quoted for CMS, Maynard, Sharp etc.