Saintandy666

Can't wait for tomorrow, really feel like it could be the start of something!

Rubbish and you know it! I've supported Saints through thick and thin and ridicule by everyone else. Everyone here supports Chelsea and Arsenal! If I was some consumer based on seeing the greatest football I'd join them. But of course I want Saints to do the best possible.

Well, I know that. And while my Dad may have bought a spare season ticket for me and my brothers, it was on a shared basis... so I'd usually buy a ticket with my own money when it wasn't my turn(weekend job and before that paperround). So I do appreciate how expensive these tickets are. I had to sit in the family stand for the Wigan match such was the price(1st world problems I know)! I am sad I won't see as many games this year though because I'm off to Uni. I do get what you are saying though, but I'd still rather Southampton were as successful as possible.

Not saying that at all. There are enjoyable matches at any level of football; league 1, championship and premier league... but in the premier league you'll get the best quality football combined with an enjoyable match. It's win win! Plus, I want Saints to do the best possible, and that means being in the top league.

Well, that's kinda what I'm getting at. Best quality football is in the premier league!

What's with all the superfan stuff?! I've been going to St. Mary's since it opened in 2001. I've grown up watching Saints and seen pretty much every home game during our non-prem years and I enjoyed all of it immensely. But if it was a choice of watching Dagenham and Redbridge or Manchester United, I know who'd I'd rather see us play. I'd rather see the best quality football possible.

I'd rather be in the premier league watching the best footballers in the world come to St. Mary's every week.

Does the website not work that well?

Let's be honest though, the youtube app on iOS was an utter pile of ****e. I'm glad they got rid of it, the google made one functions well. And on my map problems earlier. I now found my town, but it is several miles east of where it is labelled on the map(which is just countryside where it supposedly is).

Apple maps are shocking. My home town apparently has no roads or anything and my own road doesn't exist apparently. Put a link to google maps on my homepage until they get their act together.

But in a job market, it isn't people from one particular year competing. It's from all years, so you need an exam that maintains constant standards(by moderation of grade boundaries) which shows which people are A standard, which B standard and so on and the number will fluctuate from year to year.

This is true. I would have gone giffgaff on my 4S, but didn't have money upfront for handset so went t mobile

O2 is expensive! T-Mobile and 3 from my experience offer the best priced deals! Especially on download quotas.

Rubbish idea. How are you meant to compare from year to year?! What if you were in a competitive year and got a B because of that. Your whole life would be changed. If you are good enough for an A, you are good enough for an A. The argument is over what standard that A should be.

We already have this though. In our town, we have a college which offers primarily A Levels and then another which offers more practical courses for trades and what not. Neither are bad, just different routes depending of what you want to do.

I guess it does have a use because A is 80%+ and A* is 90%+. However, I do think once you hitting the high 80's on a consistent basis, the difference between A and an A* is sheer luck by which questions come up on the day.

No, it isn't, so I am slightly off topic. I think what I was trying to get at is that we should make GCSE's a bit more like A2. The step up from GCSE to A Level is quite large, especially A2.

And I don't think coursework has to be a bad idea. My 15,000 word Chemistry A2 coursework was possibly the hardest thing I have ever had to do academically, harder than any exam I have done. It involved 4 weeks worth of lessons of lone practicals and then a rigorous analysis(fully referenced) after that of what I had done. The only help I had was a couple of chats with my teacher, but beyond that I was on my own. So I think it depends on the approach.

I think there are problems with GCSE's in some subjects, but I don't think Gove's ideas are the solution to everything. I agree there should be one exam board, and that they should be less modular, but I am not sure about the one exam for all lasting 3 hours where some students can't finish. I prefer the tiered approach of GCSE. There is/was a serious problem with Science. I was one of a few students who was picked for the trial run of doing physics, chemistry and biology separately and that involved doing 3 extra proper written papers at the end of all the other exams at the end of the year which was a bit more challenging. But the actual science GCSE and then additional science GCSE(I had to sit all of those papers too as well as extra written exams to get my individual GCSE's) were extremely weak. There were far too many modules at far too quick intervals designed in a such a way as to compartmentalise the whole subject. You barely needed to build up knowledge at all if you were doing the 2 normal GCSE's. They were also far too reliant on short answer questions and multiple choice. I don't have a problem with some multiple choice at the beginning of exams or just in general, but there really needs to be a shift away from learning a book by heart and regurgitating it to applying your knowledge to real world situations. Personally, I would change science GCSE's back to individual subjects in all cases and make people sit 2 normal modules a year(one in January and one in June) and have more of an emphasis on application. Basically, make it more like an A Level! However, on GCSE's in general, they are hard to fail... if you count a G grade as a pass, but it is certainly harder to get a string of A's and A*'s across a broad range of subjects.

I think we have got to make room for puncheon in our team. He's been one of our best players.

Start of death over. New players in. Always though this would be where our season started once we had assembled our full team. I'm confident we will pick up something, at least a point. COYR.

Well, we are only 2 points from 17th so it's not undoable. But at the same time, 6 losses would be a lot, but I don't think it'll come to that. We have a tough start. Season starts next week.

Well, the second half was better. Ramirez looks extremely promising. Looked a class above the rest while he was on the pitch. Season starts next week. COYR.

I always said that the season starts next week when the new signings have set in and so on. That will be the teller of things to come.

I have to say I find God Save the Queen utterly unrelatable as well as uninspiring. At least something like Jerusalem or Land of Hope and Glory are inspiring, if still unrelatable.