John Boy Saint

Cripes!! That's exactly what it looks like under the bonnet of my Accord!!

Glace Cherrys or Peanut butter in either a humane trap (that you must empty over a mile away from home) or a back breaker that I suggest you put on paper for when the mouse explodes. We had one in our kitchen. It turned up in the cupboard at 11pm slipped through my fingers at 11:15 and was eventually caught at 2:15am. When you have snaffled it find the holes and stuff them up. I cut old computer CD's to fit round holes where the pipes come through cupboard sides the little buggers can't gnaw through them. Good luck

If Andy Gray was the chap who was Dave Roberts right hand man he was always the one to come up with the prettier patterns in the cut. The pattern that always threw me was the one that follows the line of the centre circle: if you are sat higher up in the Chapel or Northam it actually makes the pitch look like there is a bloomin great big dip with the centre line at the bottom of it. Well done Andy and his team!

I think that despite probably flying out of the blocks like a scalded cat, we will come up against more teams in a similar mould to Oldham or Leyton Orient who sneak a goal up then camp in their own half. Resulting in it not being the cakewalk people believe.

Nearly 24 hours on I can't believe how we didn't score! In the first half we were playing what looked like 2-6-2 or even 2-4-2-2 Oldham were playing so deep even in the last 5 minutes we were playing with 11 men in the Oldham half! I can't remember the last time we were throwing everything including the kitchen sink at a team without a resulting goal. ............. Too many cooks on one of the last chances as there were so many Red and White stripes in the box that they were blocking our own shots. Frustrating, disappointing, and exciting all at the same time; could not fault the team for trying. Shame that we are too good a team for this division and that next season is not going to be the cake walk that many believe we will see more teams like Oldham rocking up with the main objective on leaving with a point and not being on the end of a battering from us.

No Ref can be worse than Peter Walton a few weeks ago, last nights was another poor one but that's the way the cards fall.

Shame is it will all be pigged up by a pitch invasion and the once traditional showing of our appreciation of the players, and a possible showing of the the JPT trophy will go straight out the window.

It weren't no Lee Barnard scoring that goal it was a gurt big worm this big what popped up out of the ground an nodded it in......................... honest this big!!!

Barclays did not wake up on the morning that the said cheque entered the clearing process and said "Hey lets bounce this bugger and watch Southampton FC squeal". The writing was on the wall and like the man who could not tell his wife who enjoyed the high life that he had lost his job 6 months ago, correspondence was metaphorically hidden down the back of the sideboard. Mr Lowe in his notable arrogance probably figured that a Knight on white horse would come and save the day at the 11th Hour, not accepting that he was the reason said Knight would not appear. Lowe naively (despite the city world from whence he came) hadn't accounted for the Football League having a flexible rule book that closed loopholes behind teams who had maximised the loophole in a similar situation. Also naively he failed to realise that by taking the 10 point hit last season before the deadline having a blank canvas to start the next season in league 1 might have made Southampton Football Club more attractive to a buyer which would have resulted in him walking away with a damn sight more money in his pocket that he ended up without. As has been already said its happened, we have moved on to a better place, no one has died: unfortunately when Huddersfield hit that 79 points on the last day there will be a lot of bitterness centred around the question "What if??".

My Granny is also in the running for the Celtic job: despite the fact that she passed away in 2001 We don't half get some cobblers written in the papers " Righto Celtic need a manager boys whos in the frame?" "Hang on a mo boss Charlie is just finishing the analysis".......................... Charlie looks up from the News of the Screws footie supplement results page, having scanned who's team is hot and who's is not right down to the Unibond league!

I saw that he held his red card above his head with the rest of us before the skate game for the mosaic. Hope that adds a bit more to the file................................ especially if it P's off the Anti happy clapper shirts and scarves brigade!

That'll be skates then!

Play them at Camp Nou late July just so I can go and watch the game while on my Holi's!! :cool: sent from my taplop whilst coping with my dyslexia.

The thing to remember with this lad is he has not had the grooming most of his team mates have enjoyed in their younger years to be professional footballers, he has had a football upbringing from the age of 12 with a feeder team to a conference side, until very recently he was playing with Tooting & Mitcham until Reading snapped him up. He is going to have rough edges and corners that need rounding off, but that will come if we take him on and invest time in him. Pardew is probably one of the best people to make the most of Antonio as his own professional football career did not start until he was 25 years old, after spending his earlier years non-league football.

Pardew wants to sneak in at the last gasp this. result just keeps that dream alive. Well done boys

Bloody Huddersfield

Ooooooooo-eerrrrrrrr!! makes your head go round and round :smt119:smt073!!...............All very exciting though!!:smt031

1984? when we was runners up........................................ Imagine if the Champions league was around then we would have been a Millionaire super club by now.

Does this mean that anyone blagging benefits being made to get a job under various initiatives or lose some of their benefits could in theory sue the Government of the day under Slavery Law as they are being forced to work against their will!!??

He is beyond the end of his Refereeing life span having asked to stay on another year which is what Refs can do if they feel that they are fit enough to do so. I went to an evening with Dermot Gallagher and Alan Wiley over a year ago and Dermot was saying that he did this for a couple of years without any problem. Then one day he was officiating a Villa V Man U game Christiano Ronaldo got the ball in the Man U half and was off like a jack rabbit Dermot followed the play which was broken down by Villa and Gabby Agbonlahor took the ball back up the other end. Dermot knew his days were over when he noted that the time on the big clock in Villa Park said 4:20 when Gabby got the ball it said 4:40 by the time Dermot had got to the other end of the pitch................ He did add that many refs do kid themselves as the end is hard to take.

A pound to a penny (a lot of £'s with my suggestion) I bet you can get a damn good fit from Thule.

This sounds a very tempting: just a little tip use Tesco Clubcard vouchers to go thru the Tunnel. You have £10 of Clubcard vouchers they become £40 off the price of a ticket. We have a tunnel booking prime time return in the summer £158. Just as an aside I quite fancy Le Mans one year

I thoroughly enjoyed my afternoon out, it was good to see us playing well but some credit must go to Charlton for turning up to play Football, which as we all know plays into our hands. Shame the referee was not at the same game and his mate running the line who looked like Paul Durkin's twin weren't much cop either, but then I really should be use to crap referee performances by now (I sometimes feel that Mulwhinneys final directive is to stop us getting to the play offs as much a possible Peter Waltons sh!t performance a few weeks ago backs that up) Hard to choose MOM Jose, Kelvin, even Jon put in good stints although the one person who makes me smile is Antonio: plucked from non league footie last season shipped out to us by Reading, causes a buzz of excitement when he sets off on a run, scores on his 20th Birthday in a cup final at Wembley, scores a peach today, for want of a better term: that is really warm and nice, well done young man. Well done lads keep it up.

My Daughter wanted to do this on Monday before the Orient game someone said the players arrive around 12:15pm, we got held up on the M3 so did not get to the ground until 12:35. My Daughter was over the moon to get autographs and photos with Kelvin, Wayne, Lloyd, Seaborne, Barnard, Jose, Puncheon, Fish, Wotton & Rickie, which really made her day (although I think she was quite taken by young Master Mills) .

I heard that we were going to Gazump Chelski to the signing of Dani Alves from Barcelona. On a more serious note I saw a lad playing right back for Palafrugell (Catalunya) a Spanish conference side against Espanyol. This lad had the whole Espanyol left side in his pocket, all the Espanyol fans cheered like he was one of theirs when he was subbed to make way for someone else to have a go.