John Boy Saint

We have had the shirts with the Poppies on around Remembrance Sunday, I was thinking something a bit more independent from annual national concentrated campaign. Being a predominantly male attendance something like Testicular Cancer, would be an obvious choice, especially as it is such a big killer with the media almost treating it as a "oh by the way" story.

Best keep my camera phone at the ready just in case my Wife, Father, Father in Law, and Boss decide to have a "funny" turn.

Perhaps we should have a bucket Leukaemia Research collection before the Home Stockport County game. Or maybe at least one game a season a Charity matchday with collections, special players shirts, matchday, and matchball sponsors being a Charity of this type, Barcelona and Aston Villa both do it all season; and we are a much bigger team than they are. :-)

Are you sure you weren't trying out the iPhone have you got a Pimple on your Botty App? I know a few folks who now avoid the need for medication because they changed the way they eat.

Whats that a new Bulgarian Manufacturer with a ranges of Rubber Nasty's, Gin Palaces, or Sailing Yachts?

How many James Bond themes has Shirley Bassey sung. What was the real name of Captain Scarlet Which TV Show started with the statement " Anything can happen in the next half hour". What was the sequel to 2001 What was the name of the Bovine character in the Magic Roundabout

Its a shame all 601 people who have looked at this thread did not make a comment, making it a worthy contender for the Golden posts section

A tough game against a team who are riding on the crest of a wave, we have the millstone of -10 to add to our approach which must be playing on the players minds fearing a loss is not forward movement. That was probably the hardest point we have won listening to the commentary. I have a feeling inside that we are going to meander to the zero points mark before we get a win........................... Its the kind of thing Saints would do.

Well said that man (I presume). We have a clean slate now: No Gasometer up or down, no tide in or out, no walking through the underpass or over the lights, no lucky socks (or pants) nonsense. New dawn new superstitions and omens............................ Just someone get that White Witch back for a top up of what she did before. Hopefully he has rubbed a few of them up the wrong way already add that to the disruption to pre-season all going out of the window and we might get a sniff.

blimey he must be good as in the space of a day 404 people have had there t'uppence h'apenny on him. Hopefully his style is more suited to English footie than Italian snorefest

Blimey you learn something new everyday. I bought a Cd of the Genesis concert I attended at Old Trafford a couple of years ago, the CD was "pressed" and distributed by The Music .com in the states everything was in Dollars. There was an Anoraks boxed set of the whole tour US and Europe for lots of money but nowhere did it mention Import tax.

Lost in a Good Book ~ Number 2 in the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde, you get lost in the recesses of your mind reading Jaspers work; all a bit in the genre of Terry Pratchet. Also recently investigated the 1st of the Flashman series which was quite entertaining. Prior to that Three Men and a Float: 3 blokes and a Milk float travelling from Lowestoft ( the most easterly) to Lands End (the most westerly) amazing how generous people were along their route, a some "well I never know that about there" moment.

My hair looks like a yard broom unless I stick some product on it to calm it down; this week I am currently using Fructis Hard Gel, in a little green dumpy round pot, recently on a BOGOF at my local Tesco shopping emporium. HTH

Quiet afternoon at work then!? ;-) That reminds me of the fine days when you could buy a copy of the Beautiful South when it was in its independent mode, or the Ugly before it got weighed down in politics.

Harold Redcrapp, It would break his heart not being able to wheeler deal players into his team.

Until we put our name to it!!

I don't miss being billed as cannon fodder for the top 4 week in week out, especially from TV pundits who were suprised when we did smear the "big boys" noses across their faces. Apart from that not a lot, I am looking forward to when we get our backsides in gear and we getting back to the Premiership from where we are now that will be a wizard wheeze, the last promotion season was great fun especially when we put the hammer down after Christmas.

Some of us remember the Labour Government before she came to power. Makes you laugh really, yes she like all Prime Ministers in the job too long let it all go to her head in the end, but when she took over this country was going down the pan at a rate of knots. Unions ran the country striking for the merest reasons, rubbish piling up in the streets amongst other things, we were a leper colony to other countries, she had the balls most politicians lack in doing the nasty things to get this country going again. Most people in the south had very little to moan about in the mid to late eighties. Anyone living in an around Southampton today who's livelyhood relies on the business that the docks brings in would be doing something else if she had not taken on the unions, Southampton Docks had a union led policy, going back years, of replacing whoever left with another person despite the technology being in place to make the docks more efficient. The docks were people inefficient and losing money because they were too expensive, the result of breaking the stranglehold of the unions all those years ago means that Southampton still has a successful shipping port. (I will point out that I had an Uncle who worked in the docks for years, the amount of times we were round his house with my Auntie in the 70's when I was little and he would come home in the middle of the day, take off his boots and Donkey jacket walk into the kitchen and say "we are bloody out again" were countless). I am not defending Maggie like she was a god, I had negative equity, I had mortgage payments on a small mortgage that made you sweat, both my wife and I were made redundant as a result of the economy under her tenure. But she did make the S hitty decisions that none of the clowns today would make. When it comes to political digs slagging Thatcher is a bit lame in 2009, and a bit old hat: a lot of water has passed under the bridge since then.

The road from Ashbourne to Buxton is now frustrating, that is a great road with no bugger on most of the time, once past Tissington you can see for miles down it most of the time, what stuns me is when you turn off it to some of the smaller villages you are going onto roads 1/3 narrower but the limit is raised to 60mph. Stunning!!

I know absolutely 100's but then as I drive 45000 miles a year I would, a blanket 50 National speed limit would be a pain in the backside. The joke is that the majority of accidents happen on roads where the limit is 30mph, the safest roads in the country are Motorways where the limit is 70mph. I am sick and tired of a useless government insisting on treating me like a child.

I'll second that. Some people need to realise that we are not a premiership team any more, we are where we are not through the result of one game but because the accumulation of results over the whole of last season; the teams we are playing are in the same league as us as a result of their performances over last season too. We are also in the 5h1t through the Mickey Mouse changing of managers everytime the wind changes, people should grow up and let Pardew get things sorted out without the Christmas eve in the Turkey shed mentality bubbling in the background. When things eventually click with the team, a thread should be started with the title "I will have custard with my slice of humble pie". Sorry for going off topic.

I am in the same boat, apart from getting a wallop across my backside from my Dad for something I knew that if I got caught I would cop it. Did the crime; did the time as the saying goes, and lived with it. You are in the majority of decent people by nature, probably as a result of having decent parents who were brought up knowing where the lines of acceptability were. Trouble is you now have people who have never had the lines of acceptable behaviour drawn and consequences for crossing them being received bringing up children who have even less of a line to mark their behaviour against which ultimately results in them being less accepting of their actions when they have done wrong. I had no problem with the threat of the cane at school, I think that I am a better person for knowing where the line was, even though I tried to see how close to it I could get, and got sent for it twice, and talked my way out of it both times: probably how I ended up selling for a living.

I think they have responded to the volume of issues that were raised. I am 7km from the exchange on a crap broadband speed, I set all the videos to low and after an intermittent start I can now watch the streams with very few pain in the backside buffers. So now despite being 3rd division you can still get a reasonable fix of Saints.

Knowing that you would be sent for the cane from the Headmaster or Deputy Head for misdemeanour's at school was a line drawn in the sand that most chose to respect, but some chose to cross with the inevitable consequences. The same line was drawn at home. Living inside the line was perfectly easy and made for a comfortable life all round. Since the demise of the cane at school and the frowned upon action of smacking your kids, there is no line in the sand so this respect that all the people talk about just becomes a hollow word. Society on the whole is becoming feral, and with the limits of acceptability being pushed all the time resulting in a refusal to accept the responsibilty of crossing that line when it all goes wrong just compounds it all. Right! now where is my Daily Mail ?

or coffee break Apologies in advance if its been posted before.