Barry the Badger

I never really understand the mentality of "It's a crap pitch, we had better bring in some crap players and leave out the skillfull ones".

Lambert is an brilliant player for us, I hope he sees out his career here, but the OP is mental.

Is that because if he was using a mac he would be too ****ing busy being smug to bother using a web browser?

I think the difference is simply that Puncheon and Lallana have been properly instructed on how to play those roles, and what is expected of them. They can both cut in and influence play infield. From what I remember, Holmes and BWP both looked lost on the 'wrong' flank. So as is oftent he case, the problem was not the formation itself, just the way we were using it. I was thinking last night how refreshing it is to see us making the most of the attributes of our players, rather than trying to shoehorn them into unfamiliar roles, giving them no guidance and apparently just hoping for the best.

It is annoying that as soon as the slow version starts, the lads in the back row start hitting the boards faster and it's quite hard work not to go with them.

Haven't you heard? Southampton Vs Carlisle is guarenteed to be the GREATEST GAME OF ALL TIME. Fact.

How quickly we forget eh?

http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=19693

dissapointed.

There was a Jamaican, cool runnings stylee. Skicross and Snowboard-cross are my new favourite sports.

Perhaps they were expecting that people would think about setting up their online accounts or at least check them in advance of the first sales rush day.

I have never been so confused in my life. I am going for a quick walk to clear my head and I suggest you all do the same.

Actually, the colour coding on the stadium plan shows it pretty clearly. http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/staticFiles/f5/49/0,,10280~150005,00.pdf

In block 132-135 I was told £24 was right down at the front and £34 was further back.

Online didn't work for me so after trying to get through on the phone constantly all morning and getting cut off I eventually got the magical hold music. I was on hold to the ticket office for 30mins on speakerphone. When they eventually answered instead of taking off speakerphone I accidentally hung up!!! I have never been so cross with myself, what a tw*t. After another hour trying, at last I just got through and didn't make the same mistake again. 132-135, can't wait.

If you've got as far the music then you are in the queue, next you will get a lady keep telling you to make sure you have your payment card ready. I had that for about 25 mins before an answer, hang in there.

How the hell did you get through?

Not really. It happens in the league and will for Puncheon.

Sorry if I've missed this somewhere. So if I go for blocks 132-135, whats the difference between the £24 and £34 tickets? Are the £24 right at the front?

I think the trouble for KD is that a lot of us have gotten used to his shot stopping and take some of those saves for granted. He is stil a quality keeper for this league.

I would rather be "happy clappy" than miserable like you. I am absolutely f*cking gutted, frustrated, annoyed and not looking forward to monday at work at all. The difference is that I have the intelligence to put that to one side and recognise what a performance the players put in yesterday, we were quality but we got caught out at the end. Of course I want better, I don't WANT us to lose 4-1 to those dirty fish fiddling w*nkers. But I'm also realistic enough to realise that there was nothing more the players could have done yesterday, Pompey may be a poor premiership side, but they are still a premiership side. Although you will no doubt say the final score is all that matters, things are never black and white, and yesterday was about so much more than that.

****ing hell mate what do you want? They were up against a premiership side and in order to compete and actually look the better team the players ran themselves into the ground for 70 minutes. If the players had had 'paced themselves' we would still have lost, but tamely. At least we gave it a bloody good go. Miserable b*stard.

They were knackered.

Tim, as others have said you have a valid point in general, but what you have done is picked the wrong game to try and demonstrate it. We have conceded unnecesary late goals this season but todays were simply because we were pushing to get back into it and the lads ran out of legs after working their arses off. We were not humiliated in any way. The suggestion that we should have shut up shop at 2-1 or 3-1 to keep the score respectable is a completely stupid one in my opinion.

It was a bit naive of us, but we were trying to get back into it, most of our players were completely knackered and their forwards were bloody quick. It was always a possibility.