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A good old Victor Meldrew is at it again! Not happy that we have lost one in 9 ( I make it) and that we have WON most of our games recently I see. Brighton were not sh*te. They defended well and were excellent on the break. Even the best sides that McMenemy put out occasinally lost to a so called poorer team. Only you could find a problem with the Charlton game which was an excellent performace apart from ONE sloppy moment. Still every sliver lining has a cloud eh Alpine?

You have to laugh don't you. People were slagging off Pardew for persisting with a 5 man midfield now he is being slated for playing 4 4 2. Whatever the formation he needs to sort out the defensive frailties. If the forwards fail to score 3 we are in trouble as we can usually be guaranteed to give away 2.

Perhaps James was told to play the long diagonal ball every time he got it? It all seemed so predictable and pedestrian but if he was playing to instructions...I thought Harding did okay and I thought that we bossed large periods of play but didn't have their sharpness and cutting edge going foward and didn't defend as well as they did. We looked a completely different team to the one that beat Charlton but we have still had a great run and will beat much better teams than Brighton.

Mods, why is a thread about the ex-Scotland manager on the Saints board?

You really are a tw*t of the highest order Alpine. You are typical of the morons who vote for Jedward every week on X factor. Despite your obsessive hatred toward him he did a decent job at Ipwich and Hearts and yes, he is still the manager with the best win ratio that we have had...but let's slag the bloke off anyway. You obviously don't see making the play offs as anything to get excited about but he managed us in the last decent season we had, remember? Scotland are hardly blessed with a great side are they? Perhaps he could have done better? Perhaps Lawrie Mac should have done better at Sunderland? Or perhaps you should just shut up.

I sat amongst of large group of Manchester United supporters and was unwisely wearing a yellow jumper. I jumped out of my seat when Stokes scored only to sit back down very quickly when I remembered where I was sitting! The Mancs were not happy bunnies and walking down the steps out of the stadium there was a hail of cans from the back - the were throwing them at their own supporters? Happy days. The later match was better footbal-wise and safer even though we lost to Liverpool by 1-0 in the Charity Shield, but I wasn't complaining - two trips in a few months to see Saints at Wembley, awesome.

I didn't see the game but by all accounts we controlled the play with pretty much any formation we used. If we were making chances that is all you can do with any formation isn't it. If they went in earlier would we then complain about 442?

Discuss it by all means, but if things carry on the way they are I suggest that perhaps Pardew knows what he is doing and should carry on with his own ideas. The bickering can go on all day here but if we continue to pick up points as were are doing I think it all rings a little hollow.

Grow up Alpine, you do say the most ridiculous things. The point is that Pardew was critisised for not getting results and now he is being criticsied for getting results. Pathetic. Five wins and one draw in the last six is more than any of us could hope for a short while ago. He has turned things round big time. If it wasn't for the minus 10 we would be up there chasing promotion. He, like Burley, another one who you slagged off religiously during our last decebt season, is doing what he can. If people gave him support instead of nit picked over his every "mistake" you wouldn't get people complaing about posts. Pardew has dropped tow points in six games. I think it is fair enough to assume that he knows what he is doing.

Won five drawn one in the last 6 games but lets have a pop at the manager shall we?

The same happens when we release a player people think is carp and then he scoes a goal for another team and the same people say we should never had released him! Pearson is managing under a different set of circumstances now. He only managed to win three games for us, if he had won a lot more I think he could well have stayed...we shall never know and we shall never know if he had stayed if he would have been any good for us. Strachan is hated by Coventry fans but loved by ours. McMenemy was loved by ours and hated by Sunderland fans. Good luck to him, but all these ifs and buts are a waste of time. If Strachan is successful with Boro no doubt there will be much waling and wringing of hands on here....

What is this thread still doing here? Shouldn't it be on The Lounge or General Sports???

Yes you are right, it was Dave Jones. We have been lucky to have so many talented players in the ranks, none for a few years now though sadly!!! Still, happy days.....

Steve Howe is awesome

Bit of a no brainer wasn't it? We all die at some point so it was totally right!!!

No generalisations here then. We were no worse in the 70's when it came to being "dirty" and fans revel in stories about Big John McGrath and Docker Walker to name but two. Times move on but some fans don't it seems. There is probably not one person at LUFC who was there in th 70's. What is this doing on the Saints pages anyway???

I was there too and yes he did - ran most of the length of the pitch to as I remember. He did the same thing later that season and won a penalty. Great dribbler, never really fulfilled his huge potential.

I miss FC too. His spelling was worse than mine but he always tried to give a balanced view, something you don't get on here too often!!!

Oh dear Ottery, still off on another planet I see. More proof, it it were needed, that care in the community does not work!

Chivers was excellent but alas off not too long after I started supporting Saints. But no worries as Davies and Paine were awesome. Without doubt Ron Davies was the best "old fashioned" centre forward of that generation. I think he cost something like £60k from Norwich and Ted Bates signed the bargain of the decade. Paine too was excellent at his craft and one of the last old fashioned wingers. Sadly for football in the long run, Ramset won the World Cup without wingers, relying on overlapping full backs, and their day was numbered after that. Gradually more teams adpoted different formations and the days of two wide men plying their trade hugging the wings were over. Still we had Mike Channon to come and from an early age, despite being gangly and often falling over his own feet, you could tell he would go on to great things. Then Steve Williams of course. So good to see such rich home grown talent come through the ranks. As with music, I think we always remember our first exposure to it as something special and probably look back on a specific time in our lives with rose timted specs. But every time the ball was crossed from either wing you held your breath with anticipation of another great header from Ron hitting the back of the net. Top scorer in the old first divsion for three years running, would score you 30+ goals a season, what price now? A littl later of course we had the mecurial talents of MLT to drool over. For a relativelt small club we have been fortunate to have some great talent play the club. The Wallaces, Frank Worthington, David Armstrong, the European Footballer of the Year for a couple of seasons, etc etc. We have lacked their class for a large number of seasons now but we can only live in hope that we shall see such players here again some day.

It was a miracle no one was crushed to death. Someone grabbed hold of the collar of my leather coat to try and stay standing and ripped it. It was very scary.

I was right at the front. The pressure got so much that I was forced out of the crowd and found myself standing next to a WPC. The next second the wall collapsed. Very scary and thank goodness no one was badly hurt. I ended up walking off the pitch with the players only to hear my name shouted by a workmate who supports Orient on the other side of the pitch...I guess he was wondering what the hell I was doing! Happy days.

No Sunday collections, no guaranteed next day delivery even if you do stump up for a "first class" delivery, post turns up well after you have left for work, when did last see a friendly postman shut a gate as he whislted away on his round? Your lucky if some b*gger doesn't open your kids birthday cards and nick their money! The world has moved on but this union wouldn't know that. Where I work most people work long hours in difficult conditions and many of them earn £16k. We have one person join us for a year on no pay because they are desparate to get work down the line and want the experience. We have people with degrees banging on the door to become a reprograhics officer. All that will happen is that the Post Office will become privatised and the workforce will be replaced by people who will be paid less, but will take the cash and not inconvenience the customers....go for it boys and join the ranks of the miners and print workers etc. You will never win and the more you strike the more you put your own future at risk. People are getting fed up with these people who seem to think they have it harder than anyone else...

I don't agree. A lot of the people I work with knew littel about Griffin or the BNP. Now they have seen the programme they became aware very quickly of how unpleasnt this man and his policies are. He and the BNP were shown up for what they are - ignorant, dangerous racists. It may have bootsed the BNP membership by a few thousand more mindless thugs, but millions have seen him for what he is. The comment about the almost totally non violent member of the KKK was worth watching this programme for alone. Sadly some people actually buy into this stuff. Wake up, it is 2009. The world has moved on since the 30's, not that the BNP care.

How can a more credible leader make ny difference to this awful organisation and why would you hope that someone would come along and put a more respectible veneer on this bunch of Nazis???? Adolf went a bit too far....London has been ethnically cleansed...yay, lets bring back the gas ovens shall we? The sort of people that the BNP attracts are the sort of people that helped Hilter and his cronies commit genocide. Have we leant nothing from history???