suewhistle

Definitely club, even though I've seen England abroad (Italia 90) and at Wembley a couple of times. It is fun watching England down the local pub (despite patronising bastards saying, "oooh, you know about football".. "yes dear, I play it!"). In my local Italian bar they know who I support as I make it very clear! But nothing beats 1976 or 2003 or the ups and downs of following Saints, from near and far.

Hmm, I may be hot and saucy, but it wasn't me.

You haven't studied spelling though, but you're certainly right in the rest of what you say!

Nocive? Are you an Italian, Spanish or French speaker by chance?:-)

Yep, I remember ART warning us about him. It does seem true from the evidence...

Samoakley... This is a fullstop . This is a comma , This is a semi-colon ; Please, could you ask your teachers how to use them as your posts are really difficult to read. Ask them about sentences and paragraphs as well, now I come to think of it.

Well, if it does anything it will confirm Pardew's opinion about a few players. Saga? Pulis? Molyneaux, Wotton???

Cooper? I thought he did. Pahars, Svensson etc..

They go past my flat in about 20 minutes. Better have a wee and pop out again. I thought of wearing my saints shirt but I'm a shy retiring type and only wear it for footie training. They've done the great St B, a skip along the valley and then the Little SB. Personally I use the ski lifts as there are some seriously steep hills locally!

Yep, me too, and although I'm naturally right-footed I can cross with my left too...

No, we do drink rather a lot of it when we get going... It doesn't have to. They'll get it in for the match in quantities they know they're going to sell, and when it's sold out that's it until next time. They'll soon manage to gauge likely sales.

We start our season's training with a 2 hour evening session every day for two weeks of 'preparazione atletica', and that's Italian womens' regional 3rd division... I do like what I'm now hearing, though.

Yeah, but learning it was Pulis puts it in to perspective!

Not necessarily. Say the money Sky put in goes down due to lack of competition/financial crisis meaning less advertising, fewer subscribers etc and the whole Ponzi scheme collapses. Players on excessive contracts so don't want to move, the club can't sell, the owner loses interest in a club on to which he has loaded debt (al a MU and Liverpool). There are a number of possible scenarios (including yours) but I don't think anything can be assumed.

Was Pulis playing? I can't imagine he'll last long under Pardew.

Perhaps we could have the concourses looking something like this, gravity dispensed and cooled by water jackets and when it runs out it runs out. http://www.cask-ale.co.uk/glastonwick115.jpg As someone pointd out on another thread many local breweries are set up to do festivals with this sort of gear. Different brewery at different games, or alternate between the different concourses. Maybe have the quaffing bitter, not the strong stuff e.g. GFB and not Summer Lightening (much as I like it). I might actually get to the ground early for a pint, because even when I was living in the UK and had a season ticket I never, ever, drank at the ground.

I thought we had a professional set up with fitness coaches, fat ratio assessment, bleep tests etc. so why are they so unfit? PS Thanks Pilchards

Yep, I know it's only a friendly and they don't want to injure each other, but a bit of bite and snap in the tackle would help.

I read The Guardian, and they do have a legitimate question - where _did_ the money go? If they had suggested waste and incompetence would Lowe have challenged it?

.. and more than P****y get in the Premiership.....

Art has a point, although it should be pointed out the crowd was still double what Bristol had for the same opposition.

We have that with my Italian womens side! Grief if you don't let the manager know you can't make training or will be late. Match days always in team gear, etc etc. Still, good to hear..

Hear, hear!

Thanks for that. No foreign restrictions on friendlies, thank goodness!

It's difficult to comment as I don't watch UK football apart from when I'm over to see Saints, but I think we'll be able to attract better players than your average L1 team. The manager, the facilities, the potential all help us, and if the crowd for today's friendly is as good as they say it is, that's another point to make to prospective players.