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Don't do yourself down mate. Post 3455 was a classic. Definitely not lengthy nor boring.

Couldn't agree more. The comparison with Burley is amazing.

19 C, I would suggest that for Christmas you ask your wife to buy you a copy of Duncan Holley's rather excellent book on the history of the Saints. I know that you like to sneer at it (Duncan had a row with Rupert so therefore Duncan is a bad boy in your eyes) but if you were to read it and learn a bit about the club that you purport to support, your opinions may be regarded in a better light on this forum. It isn't pricey but the contribution it would make to your knowledge would be priceless. :-)

Don't ask him questions like that!! You will be termed a Saints anorak. When Channon and Davies were playing for Saints, our friend 19C used to support Leeds United. He then went on to support Charlton. He has told us this himself in countless posts. He is clearly completely unaware that both Channon and Davies played for Pompey in the twilight of their careers. No wonder he dislikes MLT and Lawrie. The Southampton teams that they played for / managed used to play and beat the team(s) that he supported at the time. Ron Davies being English. Priceless.

Why would the Welshman Ron Davies ever be regsarded as the greatest English centre forward ?? You are such a great Saints fan that you think Ron Davies is English ! Priceless!!

A cup game against Bristol City. I think it must have been in 1967 / 68. We lost 1-0. At that time we were in the 1st division and they were in the second so in theory it was a cup upset.

I hope that the autobography has plenty of pictures. There is no way that most Pompey fans wii be able to read it.

I was 17, at school & living in Birmingham and went to the first game on a Villa supporters club coach with my mate who was a Villa fan. I kept my mouth shut on the way back !! I missed Blackpool, WBA at the Dell and Bradford.

Thats right. Unfortunately they are not still around :-(

If there is one thing better than watching the car crash called PFC it is watching the car crash knowing that you are going to make money on it. I just hope they stay bottom all season .... I have had a serious wager (well serious to a man who does not bet big) that they will be bottom at Xmas. I got 10/1 on that back in the summer. I was banking on them getting a 9 point deduction for going into admin but I am still feeling confident as I reckon that their fixture list between now and Xmas will scupper any hope they have of a revival. I then have 14/1 on them being bottom at the end of the season. I think that unlike our esteemed ex leader Rupert they will pull the plug so that they get the 9 point administration deduction whilst still in the Premiership rather than carry it into the championship for next season. I also have them at 4/1 to get relegated. That must be a certainty . Do you think the bookies will pay out on it already??

So despite saying that he wouldn't buy it, Numpty has read MLT's book!!

+1.

I reckon that watching a few episodes of Fawlty Towers before we turn up at 19C's house will prepare us well for dealing with our host.

Can I come for dinner as well please??? We could make it a party round 19C's house!!

A big difference between the early 80's & now was that football was not as trendy or respectable as it is today. My future father in law was disgusted when he found out that I was a football supporter. To him, football was watched by violent yobs who were constantly being arrested. The fact that I supported my team away from home just made me even worse in his eyes. To us Saints fans this was the golden age. To the football world at large this was the lowest point in the national game. Attendances generally were low (from memory attendances of 10 - 12.000 were commonplace for top flight games at places like Luton & Notts County) & with events lke Heysel and Bradford just around the corner, it is only in Southampton that the early 80's are looked on with affection.

I would quite happily take that dullness!!

I bet he practised hard and if he had been any good he would have been out there at half time in his kit!!

With over 120 posts on this thread in less than 24 hours maybe you should consider what people want to write about before you make your next foray into the realms of slagging off the members of this forum ???

Who is on the bench??

Oh FFS calm down , calm down. What is it with some people?? Haven't you heard of irony??? Is it necessary to put smiley faces on a thread to show people that you are not completely serious?? Like so many people on this board I am tired of the trolls - in particular 19 Canteen's continual denigration of the club's heroes. MLT last month, Lawrie today, it will probably be Ted Bates next week. I thought that this subject might be a suitable antidote to Nineteen Canteen's upteenth thread denigrating our heroes. I didn't appreciate how seriously it would be taken. So calm down, calm down. I always thought it was Americans who couldn't understand irony. Perhaps it is also some of the readers on this board. :-) :-) :-)

Yes but at least Leeds lived the dream & had the memories of good football. All we could enjoy was some rather dubious catering and the fastest growing radio station in er ... Southampton.

As it says on the tin. Can anyone think of a worse chairman than Lowe during his last year in office?? Is Lowe the Fred Godwin of football?? Lets play Nineteen Canteen at his own game.

I went there in our promotion season in 1978. It was a dreary day in November - wet & bleak and we drew 1-1. It is those kind of games that shape a season & I can remember being pleased with a point back then thinking along the same lines as the OP. From memory the Oldham fans that day were superb. I went into their supporters's club where I was made very welcome. Cheap, good beer and good cheap food. Since then I have always had a soft spot for Oldham.

He doesn'realise that we put up with so much poor stuff last season that this year's awful was last season's norm.

I had the misfortune to listen to some of "Call Collymore" the other day. You would have thought that if you presented a radio show you would be able to string a coherent, succinct sentence together ... but not Colly.