Hamilton Saint

Tribute to Markus Liebherr on Saints Player now.

It's working for me. Keep trying!

BBC Football reports that Thomas-Moore has put in a request to leave Tranmere Rovers. What does he want - Utopia?

Agreed - but to have a bit of perspective requires taking the long view and waiting to see how things are going after four or five games. Part of that perspective requires acknowledging that we're never going to know much of the inside information that governs the way key personnel at the club operate. Despite the ITK attitude of many on here, we are really just spectators. Nonetheless, we have a vociferous minority on here who prefer knee-jerk reactions after every game. They pretend to understand what's happening behind the scenes; they speculate wildly about attitudes and motivations; they natter on endlessly about things they are in no real position to judge. But there you are - plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.

"... buy 7 or 8 players, expect 3 to work out and dump the rest". The signings that Pardew has made since being with us have been nothing like that. Nearly all his signings have improved the squad. Most of them have gone straight into the first team. The strategy you describe seemed to be the m.o. during the time of Strachan, Burley and Redknapp. No longer the case.

Nope. This should be a win for us.

Saints looking very good! Particularly impressed with Harding and Dickson on the left.

What is this, now: Round 3? ... Round Four? Someone is a little obsessed.

"Southampton are reported to have bid around £500,000 for Reading winger Michail Antonio, who spent most of last season on loan at St Mary's. The Saints are also in talks with Wycombe Wanderers over England Under-19 international Matt Phillips, a player we already reported as attracting attention."

FYI: You know that a "fact" that is introduced in capital letters as a FACT is not actually a fact - it is a truthiness. A real fact is, in fact, true. It is so true that it is able to stand alone in its lower case. True. HTH

Sounds like Donald Rumsfeld: "I don't know what the facts are but somebody's certainly going to sit down with him and find out what he knows that they may not know, and make sure he knows what they know that he may not know." And another gem of his: "There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know."

That is Buzz Aldrin coming down the steps - photographed by Armstrong. The picture of Armstrong stepping off the LEM was photographed by a TV camera attached to the LEM.

When the police deal with violent, anti-social types in out-of-control footy crowds, they're the typically over-the-top "old bill", who should be doing something better with their time - like dealing with "real" criminals. When the police violate the civil rights of peaceful protestors, including physical assault, they're just doing their job. "You wouldn't get into trouble if you weren't hanging around a protesting crowd", etc., etc.

A common half-time ritual for me when the Saints are playing! Mmmm - roll on the new season!

Yes, they're tasty, but they leave your fingers rather messy!

You can rent Southampton? Wow!

Desperate Dan next?

The First of the Singer Songwriters (1924-1946) by Hoagy Carmichael. This is a four-disc set on the JSP label, which focuses on releasing high-quality, remastered collections of jazz, blues, and pop from the 1920s-1940s. This set consists of 101 tracks. It's not just Hoagy Carmichael versions of his own songs, but lots of interesting interpretations of his material recorded back in the pre-WWII years. Hoagy Carmichael was a great songwriter: some of his classics include: Stardust, Georgia on my Mind, Rockin' Chair, Up a Lazy River, In the Still of the Night, The Nearness of You, Heart and Soul, I Get Along Without You Very Well, and Hong Kong Blues. As well as being a composer, he was a pianist, actor and band leader. He appeared in 14 films, often singing one or more of his own songs. A couple of his notable films: To Have and Have Not and The Best Years of our Lives. In am amusing quote, Carmichael once decribed his screen persona thusly: "the hound-dog-faced old musical philosopher noodling on the honky-tonk piano, saying to a tart with a heart of gold: 'He'll be back, honey. He's all man'." One of the finest contributors to what has been dubbed "the great American songbook".

Too explosive!

I watched Walkabout the other night. It was released in 1971 - directed by Nicolas Roeg and starring Jenny Agutter. It's set in the outback of Australia. Not much of a plot, but it's beautiful to look at, with wide vista shots of the topography and lots of images of the local flora and fauna. The film is slow-paced but gives you lots to think about.

I'd do Italy - concentrating on central Italy and the north: the regions of Tuscany, Lombardy, Piedmont, etc. I'd like to see the cities of Rome, Florence, Sienna and Venice. Go in the off-season, if you can - the chance to be more of a traveller than a tourist. Some things likely to be cheaper too.

It's a rhetorical question - big difference.

Been showing my 12 year-old son some "old" (classic) films lately. Gives him a break from the typical special effects-laden, ultra action films he's familiar with. Last night it was The Longest Day, an epic treatment of June 6, 1944 - the first day of the Normandy landing. It has an all-star cast (John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Richard Burton, Robert Ryan, Henry Fonda, etc., etc.). Most war movies of the period usually featured a pop-star actor; this epic has two of them - Paul Anka and Fabian! It's based on the book of the same name by Cornelius Ryan. It gives a full treatment of many aspects of the operation - and provides extensive detail on what the German forces were doing. Several characters in the film muse about the historical significance of the events they are going through. This film's epic and meticulous treatment creates a sense of that historical importance. The film concentrates on the key military activities, involving depictions of real military figures, using a quasi-documentary approach, but it also fictionalises the human-interest side of things by presenting stock characters. If you like war movies, this is a must. My son's verdict: interesting - especially the battle sequences. Tonight we watched Alfred Hitchc_ock's North by Northwest. It's an action-thriller starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason. One of the director's best films. This remastered DVD has an excellent picture. The colour is great (technicolor) and the film is shot in widescreen ("vistavison"). It looks great. North by Northwest has two famous Hitchc_ock sequences: the first is where the Cary Grant character is attacked by a bi-plane - a crop duster; the other is the climax of the film, where our heroes are struggling against the "bad guys" on the faces of the Mt. Rushmore Monument. My son's verdict: fun, but lots of talky bits and a long, icky kissing-session between our heroes on board the night train.

- edit - Sorry, originally put my post in the wrong thread.

Germany wins 3-2. Good game - entertaining and played with a good spirit.