Saint86

Poor survey to be honest, you're first question is "are you a football fan", then you ask questions like who do you support, or does your team have a particular rival... If you answered no to the first question how do you proceed? Also its an irrelevant question to post on a football forum... You also require, "other" answers, as your I don't particularity agree with your options for the cause of hooliganism.

Tadic injured to two feet of the ground ankle stamp, Toby injured, little **** chambers making him walk off with hamstring injury, ref sucking arsenal cock and taking in the arse at the same time, and just all around bad luck. Same thing happened last season, injuries perfectly in sink with toughest games. ********. Arsenal have been utter ****e as well.

****ing joke

He has won the most number of aerial duals this season though, so he must be doing something right compared to all other front men

Rowe's the boy, especially with the fact that we only have 3 fit wide players (do i include mayuka?)

Forster Clyne Fonte Toby Bertrand Wanyama Davis/Cork Mane Tadic Long Pelle

Jesus christ man get a grip and take of the rose tinted glasses.... You can't be man of the match as a CB in a defence that lets in 3 goals... If he was that impressive you'd surely give MoM to Aguero, for getting 2 assists and winning a ghost penalty. Toby is a good player and had a solid game, but seriously. MOM? wow. What we should be doing, and what we should take from this game is that Tadic can play CAM, with long and Mane on the flanks. We seem to be determined to not do this, even against villa where we played long through the middle.

Poor, occasion got to us, missed cork and should have started long. We won't finish above city who played the occasion and not the hype. Bad timetto get thumped with upcoming fixtures. Be ready for 2 defeats and a draw at best from city arse and United... Ah well, we march on.

ESO... Has he left or what?

Rape convictions usually show evidence of force/assault or drugs. At the very least the victim recalls the assault. In this case, none of the above apply. Take issue with any of that?

Yet she can walk around perfectly, give out correct change etc and had no drugs in her system the morning after... Your comments are very erroneous frankly. No one knows what happened that night. One guy went down for rape, the other didn't... and the girl can't remember any of it... How you can prove someone guilty with no evidence of foul play and no witnesses i'll never know. She was also heard as being concious after Evans arrived as the receptionist went to the room and overheard them. His appeal will be interesting, although perhaps to politically charged to be given a fair crack of the whip anyway.

In fairness mate, there is no conclusive proof that he raped her. She is to drunk to remember, and doesn't remember sex with the other chap (who was not found guilty of rape)... In my book, that is very mirky. If he says he is innocent, then I won't argue against him. He is appealing, as his is right, and if found innocent then a lot of people will have mud on their face. If he remains guilty then for me it makes me question equality in our legal system and the principle of "innocent until proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt. All that aside, he has been to jail, served his time, and frankly, people's only gripe is that the job he can now do earns him a lot of money.. not that he has a job to go back to. If he was a dustbin man, no one would care and it wouldn't be in the papers. But, because he is a footballer and can earn more than them he should be banned.. Justice and equality for all.. the end. Mob rule and special cases is not a country i want to be a part of, sometimes that works both ways whether you like it or not. Ultimately, if you were innocent, I bet you'd like the right to say that, appeal to that affect, and still have a life after you have served your time... otherwise all crimes would effectively end in a life sentence.

I kind of agree with Alpine o.0 There are some sources that want us to do well... (Keown, Shearer, Henry Winter, Guardian etc) Many are bemused and set us up for a fall whilst saying we will fall away. Then there is are favourite reporter in the Fail, who still prints negative stories aimed at unsettling the fans and the club. He does this without fail. Not a coincidence to my mind, he really cant stand us.

We don't doubt they're good, but they are not the best by a long way. You just claimed that they were the best. Where as myself, and the two following posters who followed me, don't agree. Personally don't think you can put them in the same league as the united and arsenal ones... Players like Henry, Giggs, Ronaldo, pires etc in their prime, and in those teams were far far better than Oscar and Costa... They are probably on a par with Stirling, Suarez and Sturridge from last year, which is obviously good. You could even argue that (on paper at least) Falcao, Di Maria, Rooney, Van Persi and Mata is the best attakcing line up yet seen in the prem. (as i said, on paper!) You also have the Yorke, cole, giggs etc line up to consider. Its just a disagreement bud, but you claimed they were the best, most would vouch for either an Arsenal or United front line. Christ there is Aguero, Silva, Negredo, navas and Nasri to consider - What they were doing last season was far better than Chelsea.

No its really not. It might generously get given 3rd...

Question - "how to be smug" Answer - Not yet time to be smug, we have won nothing and could still come in midtable with bad injuries to pelle and/or forster. If and when it comes time to be "smug", I suggest you just remain silently amused at how other clubs fair in their struggles and offer a few kind words of condolences... all the while you internally think how much better it is to be a saints fan than any other club in the country. It does us no favours to boast or brag, instead just enjoy the silence you hear from glory boys would otherwise be taking the ****. They have nothing to sing or shout about. All of them from Arsenal to liverpool to tottenham... their teams are doing awful. But remember one golden rule, make friends on the way up, or you'll have none on the way down... just like united and liverpool are/have found out.

Guilty of ****ing around far too much in the first 60min... Long comes on, we stop fannying around and instantly look much much sharper... I'm sure koeman will have taken notice of that. All said and done, great result from the lads, incredible defensive performances, and just how good are clyne and bertrand! Toby was solid, Wanyama the tank! Though that Pelle and Tadic were a bit off today. And worrying news about Davis, hope he has a quick recovery! We've got a league title to win!

Wrong tablet frankly. If you want proper working flash support then HTC are your guys... Suggest Nexus 9 tablet. Best bet on non HTC devices is to get mozilla firefox beta (if you get that on IOS? and it has to be the beta version!) Then install the manual flash player... There are youtube vids on this for android devices.. The file management systems are perhaps different but the principle will be the same. After that you should be able to watch flash on firefox beta browser. Hope that helps anyway. Would do on any android... although the beta is sometimes buggy.

To people who post these links, be aware that those of us without subscriptions can't read it.. are we not able to produce a copy of it on this site?

Interesting Topgun, but Aldi aren't charging more for pies and tea than any other supermarket in the country. So no, we're not Aldi. More like Waitrose, small market share, but quality product

Disagree with that tbh, if you look at Lambert's heat map last year you'd see that he was playing in deep midfield positions and winger positions an awful lot (to the detriment of his overall performance)... you play him as the pivotal striker and he does a great job and would be a good solid back up for Pelle who gets on well with the players and knows the club. Plus it sends out a great message to players who want to leave the club that Lambert wanted to come back. Enough of this rubbish our fans have developed, where a player leaves us because they weren't good enough. These players were so bad that England called them up, and Arsenal, Liverpool and United all spend vast sums of money on them. If we are developing into a top English club, then i really hope our fans can stay grounded and humble.

People speaking too much with their hearts on this (for one side or the other), they forget that the formation we play now would actually suit Rickie down to the ground... Central target man with fast players running off him, who is supposed to be in and around the box and scoring goals.... He hasn't had that since Adkins (when he was banging in goals for fun)... On that basis, with tadic feeding him, and jayrod, mane, tadic, cork/davis running in behind and off him, i personally think he would thrive. Sadly, I wonder if that Rickie still exists, being sat on a bench is not good for Rickie! It will be a terrible crime if his story ends with him looking like a tall charlie adam, overweight and on loan and some bleak club like bolton :/ If he could be the old Rickie for us then I'd have him back - he would give us great rotation and cover for Pelle - none of our other strikers do this.

Not sure on that Griffo, I said when we hired Poch that he had a poor record with injuries due to his intensive style. Before him, with Adkins we had a great record... it was therefore no surprise when the double training and high intensity record took its toll with injuries. This year we have a stronger squad, better football and a lower intensity. If that adds up to the exact same thing as last season then you're living in a very negative perspective. With this start, we should be appalled with not getting a top 6 finish. We are currently 8 points clear of dropping out of the top 4 to "traditional top 4 teams" (Liverpool), and 9 points to united. I doubt we will have a better chance to get top 4, let alone top 6.

Classic, not attendng fan critises fans who attend. I actually think the contrary and that above is rubbish. Home games are always quieter than the respective team's away following, but we are far and away better fans than other teams in the league. Hull, Everton, Liverpool, west ham... all these clubs and more are blumming silent compared to us at home. Nothing worse than fans coming on here to criticise other fans who pay good money and make an effort to attend matches when they don't even go to games themselves, frankly that is a joke mate.

Realistically guys, even if the club finished top 4 (and no English team wins Europa therefore taking our spot anyway), it is not something that we can sustain year on year. We just don't have the finances to assemble that kind of squad depth. It will happen once, if at all! And I for one would love to see it. Imagine real madrid at home for example. Would be fantastic to be mixing it with that level of company. If we're not getting a CL space at the end of the season, then we really need to win something with this team or what is it all for? Will it be like last season's 8th place trophy and a team that abandon us? Because that is utterly pointless and empty... We need to win something with this team or it will all be for nothing.