Buster Cornelius

Got kicked out of the queue, logged back in, went to 'buy arsenal tickets' straight in. Either bypassed the queue or coincidentally it was my turn prior to (appearing!) to be kicked out...

In a pub 2 miles south of St Andrews. Snowing but no big deal. game will go ahead...

Has this gone yet mate, if not, I'll have it.

Puncheon was tremendous tonight. I just don't get the stick he gets. He will misplace passes and fail to deliver all the time, hello, we're in Division 3. The nipper gives us something, along with Lallana, that is different to most sides in the bottom 3 Divisions, a bit of something different, a bit of creativity. We've got 2 of these beauties! Enjoy their influence and frustration! For some reason, people are waiting for him to **** up every time he gets the ball. I don't get it. Same reason, I guess, Le Tiss got next to no caps (and I remember him getting stick regularly) and Hoddle 50 short than he should have done. Then again, what do I know. I thought Martin was, try as he might, extremely limited tonight, yet another correspondent above felt he was the bees knees......

Loads of fantastic memories, most of which have been mentioned above. Just to chuck another one in the pot, ****erill's brilliant mazy goal in the '86 quarter final at Brighton (and being 16 at the time, the mixture of fear and youthful excitement after the game.....and anyone who was there would know what I'm on about!) However, the main memory that springs to mind is on the motorway, in a minibus, on the way back from Cardiff. Us in the middle lane (jam) and Micky Channon on the inside lane. We kept passing each other, and after the usual thumbs up stuff and Micky Channon songs, we all wound the windows down and gave it the Channon windmill next time we passed him. Next time the inside lane moved and Micky passed us, he gave us the windmill out his window. So, we got our very own Channon windmill. Tragic to most, beautiful to us.

In hindsight yeah, and I have to agree the year you mention was enjoyable, but the year following McMenemy, (and other years) were really poor compared to the previous 10. The "movement" to get Nicholl out was every bit as strong as other subsequent fan protests (not that I'm necessarily condoning it). Perhaps, and with hindsight I tend to accept, that teh Nicholl days weren't too bad, but to think of teh side he inherited in 86, and the youth of 88/89 etc I just can't accept he's teh 3rd best manager we've ever had ! At best, he was beautifully naive. And as a hulking, no nonsense centre half, surprisingly so.

He has gone to Italy (which, I believe to be self funded). It transpires his knee joint is, in laymans terms, "dry", and the italian people , effectively, have injected fluid to the joint. Apparently, his medical people have advised that this should be expected, and everything with the old injury is fine. He shouldn't need to go abroad for this in the future (it is likely to crop up again). In answer to a previous point, of course he feels a certain loyalty to the saints and he is chuffed to have got a contract but his main priorities are to play football and to pay the bills.

Nicholl was poor. Yeah, the 4-1 Liverpool game, 4 up front, bla bla bla....... we sunk from top 6 to bottom 6 in a very short space of time. You could argue he started the rot. Talk about Rupes "academy", we had a magnificent bunch of kids coming through then, mixed with a quality, albiet ageing core, and he turned us in to the most frustrating, NAIVE bunch of journeyman. Rose tinted glasses mate.