Scummer

I'll be there on Thursday. Looking forward to it.

If one of people's major concerns is the betting impact, then would it make sense to ban betting on the driver and have bets on the team instead? If you had a first goalscorer bet on Rickie Lambert and we got a penalty, would you feel cheated if someone else took it and scored?

If they are going to give 'coded' team orders, could they not at least have been a little more subtle about it?

I don't think it's Virgin that it the problem, as if I connect directly to the modem via an ethernet cable everything is fine. It seems to be the wireless router which is being temperamental.

Seems my cable router has given up the ghost. Wasn't showing when I searched for wireless networks, have just reset it and everything looked perfect but it's vanished again. So looks like I might need a new one. Any recommendations? It'll be used for general internet browsing via my laptop (with built-in wireless), wireless connection to the wii, and an o2 joggler internet radio thing. As I sat, I'm on cable (virgin) so it needs to be compatible. Don't want to spend too much if I don't need to.

I expect other teams in League 1 feel the same way about us.

Ok, where does he say he doesn't know how to play the team?

Try using the 'new posts' link. puts all the latest posts from all the boards. It's pretty much all I ever use.

It's Pardew who said he wanted backup for Lambert. We don't another tall striker who can play if he's injured.

All toilets in France.

I wouldn't be surprised. I think getting rid of half season tickets was a bluff to get people to buy a whole one.

Yes.

Yes I was ecstatic. All teams have off games, lucky wins and unfortunate losses. You can't look at games in isolation. The facts are that, on average, we were plenty good enough for the last three quarters of the season. It was the beginning of the campaign that killed us last year.

Yeah but they are going to lose a few of those players as well.

People were happy when we signed Connolly.... It's a bit different anyway when it's a player who's already on your books. I'm sure a lot of people would rather he was playing than sitting around twidlding his thumbs.

We didn't make the playoffs last year because we didn't win for 10 games. After that we had automatic promotion form for the rest of the season.

Interestingly, the OS doesn't have the Winchester, H&W or Basingstoke games in their fixture list. They do have Farnborough, Sutton, Barnet and Eastleigh on there. http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/FixturesResults/0,,10280,00.html

Hammond is our captain, Pardew obviously rates him. If we were to bring in someone else, it would probably be as cover. I've got a feeling that Pardew is fairly happy with central midfield. First choice of Hammond and Morgan, with Wotton/Lallana/Puncheon able to step in here and there.

They are calling it a Saints XI though, doesn't indicate that it will be the first team.

I'm disappointed because I like the excitement of signing new players. However in terms of the season, I'm not panicking. We probably need one or two more players, and I'm sure we'll sign them. Then I expect we'll get a few loans in during the season to fill gaps as and when they appear. A league one club shouldn't have a massive squad.

Dubrovnik is lovely.

Sounds exactly like the type of player we should be looking at as backup to Rickie.

After all that, it turns out that Cortese is in Switzerland with the team....................

I wonder who leaked the letter?

Maybe try Bern? Bigger place and only half an hour away. Would have thought you'd have more luck getting rooms there.