Guan 2.0

If Lawrie is serious about bilding bridges, this can only be a good thing. However, if Nicola is 'Don' Cortese, Lawrie is most definitely Feech La Manna!

Wasn't that the year we sold Kevin davies? I think we were also linked heavily with Matt Jansen at the time.

I think to a certain degree we are, as a collective. With nearly 25 consecutive years in the top flight, the advent of moving from a 'ground' to a stadium, One of the most talented players in the modern game, suffering two rapid succesions, then being saved by a Billionaire and a determined chairman. It has the right mix of historical pride, new expectations, and then sudden despair before great expecations and looking to be be above where we have been even in our 'glory' days. All this while in a league conataining teams with low crowds, crumbling stadia, and minimal budgets. This adds up to many taking the 'we will walk this league' approach, as it's still new to the majority of saints fans. That's why any negative comments on other boards (sometimes for other teams 'daring' to say that they might beat us) are linked and set upon. This thread is proof ."That Bompey idiot, he thinks we care about them, let's create a thread about the subject to show how much we don't care" . I don't think it's right, but I see how it can happen. I Also can see why other fans think we are arrogant. For my part, I think we can win this league, only 70% sure we will though. I think we'll come second, with bournemouth's lack of depth costing them close to the end.

Maybe because there are a greater number of saints fans on this site for one? Or how about as previously mentioned he has been quoted as the fans representative and appeared on televsion and radio as such, so should at least respond to the saints fans represented on here? Or the fact that he has spoken through others on here, but seems reluctant to have direct contact, when there have been questions raised on this 15 page thread, on an issue that is notorious for lack of details. See, no need for the childish dig, was there?

In fairness, they are separate issues, and as we all know, two wrongs don't make a right, etc, etc. However, it seems maddening that Monsieur Illingsworth won't appear on this site and explain things on this (the IFO) issue, or any other issue, in more detail, yet has in the past been happy to appear on television and speak to the media on a range of topics as a fans representative? Maybe he just thinks he has a licence to Illingsworth* *With apologies to the Beastie Boys. And the Human race.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv4N5g2GYMA

A police spokesman has said they are looking for a Mr T Jones in connection with the blast. Mr Jones was in the area for a business trip due to Valentines day. Although it is too early to confirm anything at this time, Police have not ruled out the possibilty that it was a sex bomb. *hopestochristthatnoonewashurt*

Pathetic cheering of N'guessen being subbed. Maybe we should just beat the players with their own shoes if they don't put in 10/10 perfomance?

'Thread drift'? You mean taking one thing, posting it here, and then moaning about a completley different issue in the first post? That's not drift that's just lazy. No reason if Dune couldn't have forgone the mail article. But I guess it's better to link an arguement to something potentially illegal, even if it has nothing to do with the issue at hand, to try and prop up your argueent (such as it is).

**** me - this is such a non thread. The original article (daily fail again), pops up with an article about ripping off people via 'supercharges' on credit card. Some of the usual suspects (who have gone very quiet since Adkins revealed he wasn't aware of any ban for the 125th event, would have loved to have seen how that thread would have looked had it not been locked), have used this as an excuse to **** and moan about the 'ticket tax' which a) is not the same thing, and they know it, and b) avoidable, in all but a few rare cases. There's playing devils advocate, there's becoming a serial contrarian. And then there's looking for fault with everything the man does.

So after all the back and forth over the last few days, we've had it from Adkins himself that there is no official ban? If true, it seems like mud throwing in the hope that it sticks from Le tiss and co.

Don't worry, anybody who doens't want to give up your house to build a statue Matt Le Tiss is not a true saints fan in CB fry's eyes. Also he thinks that thinking that Matt might not be a perfect human being, and could even be wrong on some things (i.e. pinnacle), makes you in love with Cortese, who is just "some rat faced foriegner" (his words). In fact, a lot of his posting follow a hypersexual bent. And at all costs, disavow any positive vibes towards the chairman. Odd that!

When I went to the 'last do at the dell' the (tuxedo event on the pitch) where former greats were on hand to deliver the stories from yesteryear, and Alistair Mcgowan others provided entertainment, a great time was had. I got to meet Ted bates for a second time, and Even got to speak t Lowe (who in person was very much the baby eater - and a lot more comfortable in a 'natrual setting'. Anyway, my point is do you know how many of the current playing squad attended the event? None. And did it make a blind bit of difference? No. Because it was an event that centered around the rememberence of things past. Just like this one. And if you think that the invite (and media campaign beforehand against cortese) were unplanned and co-incidental then you and the orgainsers are either a) Naive beyond belief b)

Because anybody who disagrees isn't a real saints fan right? And wow, you actually skipped a step to make this! No true Scotsman is an intentional logical fallacy, an ad hoc attempt to retain an unreasoned assertion http://atheism.about.com/od/logicalfallacies/a/notruescotsman.htm

It's gone twilight and now it's time to watch coronation street. Does anybody know if Nigel's favourite bus is a double decker?

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40-1 here http://www.skybet.com/betting/football/npower-league-1/peterborough-v-southampton/e12673292.html

Why will Nick Illinsgworth not comment on this forum? Has he been denied access here too?

On saints to win 4-1 @ 70-1? http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~2284347,00.html Also on sky bet the 'reversal' half time/ full time odds look pretty good (22-1, and 25-1). Seeing as it's happened the last few games and both teams are full of goals. Btw anybody know what the odds were on exeter leading at half time and saints winning by full time were?

Ha ha, Quite! 2 of them are women, while of the men, 1 other saints fan, one Liverpool and one Blackburn. Two are travelling down from Sheffield and one from manchester, so a change of venue is a no go - though don't think I didn't have the idea of just giving them the postcode for satnav, and trying the whole "my word, this appears to be London road, the ground, not the street in Southampton, oh well, now we're here we might as well go in". Oh and *start* to get invited to robot parties? It's the very marked difference that my uni mates and my friends who married/pushed out rug ruts early are set apart by.

Hello all. Hoping to catch up with some old friends on saturday - had arranged it for 5ish, not realising that the game would be a late kick off, thinking i could go after listening on solent. Now I don't really want to cancel (cannot rearrange for earlier, or miss the game, and for once, going to a bar with loud fellow saints fans is not going to be productive. So I was wondering if anybody knew of any quieter bars in either Southampton or Winchester, that show the match (even on a little screen that a can sneak at a glance at now and then). Thanks in advance.

I'm N'guessen 1-0.

Yes beacuse that's how it works. That's why Chelsea have won every single competition every single year under Abramovich. L'oh.....

Welcome Jonathan! Hope you do well. Just don't yawn in any photos or you will be Murdered.

This. Never has there been a better example of being a whining, shortsighted pr*ck than Jason Puncheon. As Adkins was picking the side that bossed large parts of the game against Man Utd on national televsion, he was sitting on the bench for the under 21's. LOLphins.