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If Ron is voted in here as the second best right sided striker, he won't be where he should be, as the best LSS in the A team he would be barred. Get it now? I can guarantee he has enough support to be in that poll provided he doesn't win this one. Keegan needs more votes to make this happen.

In our case not until we score. I would have thought singing " The Saints go marching in" would be far better to continue to lift the team and leave the away supporters subdued. The other chant just starts them off again. We need them shut up, not riled up and chanting, then if they score they really drown our supporters out.

The rules are common whatever the competition or country. Maximum width if you need to get round or through a defence. Minimum or reduced width helps the defence. If our team took a leaf out of Man Utd's team play, they have two players one each on both the touchlines, joined by the fullback on the play side. They also always keep the wide players from being sucked in, providing two players wide of the back post. They score loads of goals because of this. They are always getting in crosses from the byeline. Surely if it's good enough for MU to play this way, why don't we copy them. Our wide players are always too narrow. We scored at Barnsley because Holmes was 20 yds out on the back post, classic Utd, the first time it's happened this season.

If it was banter it would happen all the time, it doesn't happen when we are losing/drawing, why wait until the few times we score, to rile the away fans and get them going again, instead of shutting them up. We are just asking them to rub our noses in it again.

Does anyone else cringe as soon as this chanting at the away fans starts. My first thought is always, "It won't be long now until they equalise" I just wish they would stop this arrogant posturing, and wait until the game is won.

On Loan, and Hereiderson has signed for Reading, so it doesn't look likely that Surman would go there.

It would help, if we played the whole width of the pitch, rather than 15-20 yds inside the touchlines. It is so easy to compact the defence and defend in depth. Unless we sort this problem we will struggle to win at home.

I used to give a lift to Gatwick to a pilot when we were flying together, Steve, I think lived nearly next door, owned an insurance broker at the CF end of Leigh Rd.

Still there I believe.

Talking of Peachey, I played golf with him a couple or so days after a vasectomy. It really was difficult to keep a straight face, he played the whole game with bow legs.

In any event that wouldn't have included Saeijs as he was only contacted Tuesday afternoon last week.

And "The alphabet of the Saints", anyway I remember him well, 1955/1958.

Jimmy McGowan played 82 times for Saints and scored 9 goals.

I'm not a great fan of McGoldrick, because I think his lack of effort, and poor concentration detracts, he could be a much more effective player, he has ability, but sadly an arrogance that has no basis. Credit where credit is due, he took the chance well.

The goal yesterday was because of good luck. The corner in to the back post (for once), hit the shin/foot of a saints player, the ball shot out, direct to Holmes, he then put in a peach of a cross to Mcgoldrick, who put it in the corner. The ball could have gone anywhere, but went straight to Holmes.

We surely need it.

Influencing referees, Mike Riley over a 7 year period in 27 matches gave Utd 13 penalties and sent 7 opponents off. 1997/2004. We saw what happened the other night, an offside goal, a back of the head penalty, and a sending off for both players going in studs up and Paterson got the ball. Interestingly he needed stitches and wouldn't have been fit this week.

I think you'll find 39.375 x 1.9 = 74.8125 or 6' - 2.8125" to be even more precise.

Da Silva last man, just pulled Commons back, Phil Dowd bottled it with a yellow. Nobody wants the Ferguson hairdryer it seems.

Utd are a lot weaker tonight without their own referee.

Didn't the Gas Co. who sold the ground, place covenants on it, restricting it's change of use without their permission?

Frank/Ron, there is no question that what Lowe, and with his direction, the board, does, is intended to improve things, however it is beyond their level of competence. Lowe would probably be a very able financial bean counter subservient to a competent chairman. However he is pretty incompetent when it comes to dealing with people. He is even more incompetent when it comes to actually running a football club. It bears no resemblance to running a financially related business. There are lots of people, personalities, fans/supporters not customers, history/tradition, tribal/area feelings, none of which he seems to have grasped. His ego and inability to ever admit that he is wrong, all add up to him being the most incompetent chairman possible. The real problem is that he only owns 6% of the shares and possesses 100% of the power. He or his supporters are not ever going to invest. Trying to run a football club outside the Premier on income, without outside investment is a slippery slope. Unless we bring through enough surplus players and sell them on every year at a vast profit, we are going to continue to drop until we find our level. This is happening now.

Get rid of Moore, appoint another coach, drop Pietersen from the West Indies squads, pick the captain from the squad, leave Vaughan at home until he can start performing.

Paul Wotton I understand, let rip at everybody, at Burnley, I believe at half time. If so, seems to have worked. He was suspended for two weeks and was supposed to be training at Brighton.

Not if we were relegated on his watch, just when the Sky billions was coming on stream. Looks pretty stupid to me.