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Stanley Saint

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  1. If he had finished it, it would have been reminiscent of the great Mick Channon goal against Liverpool.
  2. Yep, can't argue with that run. They were 16th on 1st November.
  3. We seem to struggle against teams who get in our faces and close us down high up the pitch. Leicester did it too at St Mary's. We seem to get 'bullied out' of the midfield in these games, which is unlike us. What can NA do to counteract it?
  4. I hope we sign some of those 'ghost players' in the pictures. They'll be really hard to mark.
  5. I loved the way that he was directing Lambert where to place his header as soon as the ball was played into him for the move that won the penalty from Watford. Best Saints arm-waving I've seen since Eyal Berkovic (who moved his arms about in a 'directing play' style more than he moved his legs). As Lee's confidence grows I think he's going to give us options with his movement, just as Connoly did last season.
  6. Milton Road chocolate boxes, then Archers, then Kingsland... all downhill really!
  7. My younger son wore his full kit - shirt, socks, shorts - on boxing day and I had to check that he wasn't wearing his shin-pads as we left the house. I think he was ready to go on in case there was a run of bad injuries and Adkins had to look into the crowd for any 'kitted up' 9-year olds to join the team.
  8. It may just have been my youthful eyes, but the football we played when we first had Keegan was breath-taking (1980-81) - loads of one-touch and quick movement, with Ball and Williams running the show, Golac and Holmes marauding forwards and Channon and Moran scoring (seemingly) at will. The matches I've seen this season are the first that have made me reminisce about those days - I think this is the most cutting-edge team going forward that we've had since then.
  9. I thought it was the law that any team coming back to 2-2 after being 2-0 down had to go on to win the game. We're changing the bloody laws of physics now.
  10. I don't remember the last time I enjoyed a match so much. An absolute joy to watch from start to finish. We played some superb football, were unlucky not to come away with 4, but the fact that it stayed 1-0 made the last 15 minutes truly nail-biting. We do miss Lallana, but the work and guile being put in by Chaplow, Connelly, Guly and Lambert to compensate is fantastic. Adkins has built a superb team and they deserve a full ground every week.
  11. And what were these big-screens showing when they 'weren't working'? Adverts, that's what. Is the club seriously expecting us to believe that matchday sponsors Solent University didn't plan this down to the last cable-tie?
  12. To be fair as well, the promotion was ****-poor. I've been on the official web-site several times in the last few days (seeing if we've signed anyone, mostly) and I was keeping an eye-out for this tournament, to see if it was something I could afford to take the kids to. I saw bugger-all about it, certainly nothing that explained what was going on and how much it would cost. I'm keen and I live locally. If I didn't know much about it, what hope for anyone out of town etc?
  13. I love the books, so I was worried that the TV series would ruin the story or rush it too much, but it's been genuinely brilliant so far. Agree with pap, hope they get to make the 'series-per-book' that they're planning: there are so many fantastic and shocking moments to come.
  14. My 8-year old always does it in the mini-soccer league (10 times this season). He gets away with it (just) at that age and knows it as 'the micky channon'. Might look a bit daft when he's older, I guess, but I hope he sticks with it!
  15. I said this when he first broke into the team (during those happy Dutch days...) and was generally scorned (admittedly that season didn't quite pan out as hoped...). He's always had the potential though, and he's toughened up so much in the last two seasons and added grit and consistency to his skill. He's the first player since Matty that I know will provide two or three wonderfully skillful, worth-the-gate-money-alone moments per game, whatever else is happening. Chamberlain ain't there yet, and I guess the feeling is that it will be the fans of some other club who'll get their money's worth out of him.
  16. Dead!Dead!Dead! get my vote - fantastic band. Bill, Matt and Mark now have 'Wovenbird' who are also pretty special.
  17. Sergai Gotsmanov Osher Williams Trevor Hebbard Eyal Berkovic (I think people were quick to forget how brilliant he was) David Hughes
  18. I think we're on 5live-extra, DAB only.
  19. Thought that we were the better team, but the game needed a moment of Lallana or Chamberlain magic to win it and the ball didn't quite break for them tonight. Thought Brighton were niggly and time-wasting, but well-organised and hard to beat. Thank god for Kelvin - great penalty save and also for the save from the deflected shot just before half-time. Worth remembering that they beat us at home last season.
  20. Played my band once, one of the proudest moments of my life.
  21. Think we needed a bit for that today. Also, saw another side of Barnard today. Just before the teams came out for the second half, he shot a ball into the crowd at the Chapel end. It probably flattened a child, coz Barny leapt over the barriers and went up the seats to check the kid was alright. I've seen plenty of players do that and then not even look or wave, so credit where it's due.
  22. I remember that one. Gullit just sat deep and controlled the game, it was a masterclass. Apart from him, Henry was frightening in his pomp, and, I may get grief for this, I still maintain that Eyal Berkovich was one of the best players I've seen in that half-a-season he had for us.
  23. Said on the radio that he offered his resignation and tore up his own contract. Honourable, however badly things have gone for him there.
  24. I spent an entire match (plus build-up, used to get there early in the standing days) in the Archer's Rd end at the Dell next to a very drunk bloke who sang a song about a 'budgerigar from Ethiopia' over and over and over...I was watching a team with Keegan, Channon, Ball, Golac, Willliams, Moran etc, and all I can remember is that song. Thanks, mate.
  25. I could offer rhythm guitar (or a bit of lead), singing and songs, if you want a dual-lead vocal approach, Baj
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