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Similar - I always thought private plates were very sad, but my wife gave me a set for a birthday some years back and I would not trade them for anything now. Got ** SFC Wife has since left me for someone else, and took me for a pile of cash, but I kept the plates - HA b*tch!

Not before 18, in order to cope with the emotional rollercoaster that is our club

All this whingeing from the crowd - booing re Hughes "catch" and the day before when Beer no balled - matched by the media claiming the no ball decision was controversial (wtf?!) shows how low they have stooped. Oh the pleasure! Well done for a fantastic display again lads, keep going

Austin is a total tool. Decent player, of course. Maybe even a top quality player. But tool nonetheless. Witness his example at St Marys and numerous other fans confirm.

On the back of three great wins we might beat 500 now, though appreciate the trip is not the easiest. But we have a resourceful bunch as was showed last season! Good luck

Just got my ticket so I will defo be there. Might be a failry modest Saints turnout for this one, but am really looking forward to it on the back of yesterday (Huddersfield)!

This is tosh. New Manager = The Sun dreams up who he might be looking at. Easiest task, requiring no effort at all by them, pick a couple of players from his last club. Ignore the fact that we are in League 1. Ignore the fact that Lambert has spent his whole career in lower leagues. Ignore the fact that he cant score in our league this season. Finally also ignore the fact that Lallana is the most obvious target who just might be credible to be linked to a move to the Prem. Poor poor poor journalism but then its the Sun. Move along, nothing to see here

Very decent of you, thanks. The only train station open is the one 45 mins walk from Boundary Park. Lets wait until January bus schedules are confirmed after Christmas - I would hope they are running ok. Certainly if you look them up for next week they are fine

No buses back to Manchester afterwards - seriously? That blows my plan then. I work in London but HQ in Manchester. Had a meeting at HQ I had to chair on Tues 4th where I need to stay over. Went to a lot of trouble to rerrange the meeting (10 other people coming) for Tues 11th. The bus was the final piece of the jigsaw. Wonder what a cab back to Manchester will be (if I can get one)

I disagree. They are not so close to clubs that they will very often have the "inside track" or hot rumour. But they do get to meet owners, chairman, managers and produce decent in depth articles and interviews. So any comparison with the Echo is some way off, IMO

Nah. Coldplay drummer - Will Champion. Oh and le Tiss i guess. And me (about to be famous any day now , promise)

Appy, agree completely but Ince is almost as bad - I was being facetious

A very gracious loser at MKD I recall, happy to compliment the opposition when they deserve to win and admit his own team's shortcomings.

Away no question. Concentration of people who are arguably among the most passionate and generally the most vocal* supporters. Personally I dont think it has very much to do with whether we sit or stand, I can sing and shout throughout a match whichever I am doing, but it is easier when you have a good number of people nearby doing the same * see my other comments a few weeks back - re away support not being as vocal as it used to be, more people seem to spend a lot of time and money to travel to an away game and then sit there in silence for some reason

Get real please. Many Directors of bust Co's like to blame their banks. "If only they had kept supporting us" they complain. For which read: if only they had let us keep running up the overdraft and loans while we lost more money. We were insolvent. The bank did not cause our losses. The bank did not cause us to spend way more than we should have done. The bank did not cause the lack of success on the pitch and the reduced crowds. The bank did not fail to find a big investor. You can blame whichever individuals you like, but they were at Saints and nowhere else.

he was very impressed with our hot dog sales

Moderately successful?! FFS - you expected more than a Cup Final, 8th place and a UEFA spot? Yes its been season after season of proper success since he left, silly me. I will take off my rose tinted specs right away

Mate you are tough to please. Like I said I would love to have this not great type of football every season. Beattie third highest scorer after Van Nistelthingy and Henry. Beat Arsenal 3-2, Fulham 4-2, Leeds 3-2, City 2-0 and managed to rack up some decent away wins. Thrashed Spurs at their place the following season. if thats dull then bring on the snoozing please

Four lucky goals in one game. Wow we must have found a whole crop of four leaf clovers that day

If he was as you say, then I will happily have a not oustanding manager who makes us almost boring every season please

You may well be right but I think the only area that concerns me (at this very early stage) is whether Adkins can attract decent signings. Pardew did this very well - how much of it was down to the Marcus cash on offer and the appeal of Saints in L1 remains to be seen. May be nothing to worry about

I dont know. Very hard to give facts for something that did not actually happen. But I believe, in my opinion, that we would have probably, in my view, not lost as many matches as we have actually done so far. I think that it is a fact that the OP asked "does anybody really think". Well, I do. In my view

FWIW (which is not much of course) I think we would have been in the top 6 now, so yes, I guess I think we would have done better under Pardew. But hopefully all the disruption caused by firing someone so early in the season is past us now, I like the look of Adkins and the team is improving slowly. We will still get there.

Wow. thanks

I may have been hammered at some matches in the past but I am pretty sure I would have noticed if he played for us.