Burnsie

My first Saints game in the flesh since Forest away in 2009, due to moving back to Ireland. Definitely a subdued performance, though second half was better than the first and we probably deserved the win overall. Barnard was very ineffectual and Guly even worse. Lambert has gone backwards in a big way. Was impressed by Chaplow - gave the ball away cheaply on occasion, but not as often as he won it back for us. An energetic display. Chamberlain is more potential than performance at this stage I think. Some nice contributions in the first half, but the end product isn't qutie there yet, which isn't a crime at 17. Disappeared in the second half. Lallana is a class apart at this level and he'll surely move on sooner rather than later. Saints crowd were very, very quiet - Shrews lot made far more noise.

let's see if there's a thread like this next time we lost 4-0

I forgot Chester Warren and Michael Stensgaard

Peter Reid Patrick Colleter Gordon Watson Kevin Davies Ian Andrews Ken Monkou Duncan Spedding Ulrich van Gobbel Neil Maddison Frankie Bennett Neil Shipperley

just like Lee Todd except quite different in most ways

This is entirely irrelevant on several levels.

Unless the unusual situation emerges whereby our assistant manager is on loan from another club, he surely can't be registered as a player

After Cortese's failed attempt to bully a 'smaller' club, they're spot on.

Who rents a house before they've taken a job? Whoever said Shaquille O'Neal was more likely was on the money

holy god damn

He wouldn't pass a very stringent medical but he's a class act. made a big difference for Portsmouth in the games he featured in last season.

That's a pretty awesome line-up in hindsight, with the possible exceptions of Ostlund and Bart, and given that Saganowski couldn't stop scoring at the time

Does anyone have an authoritative figure for how many assists Lambert got in total?

I'm pretty sure he means footwork in the same sense a cricketer that has to position his weight correctly when attacking a ball.

I'm reassured that Pardew seems to be staying, but the undertones of paranoia are still there, seeing conspiracies where there aren't any. It's the hallmark of an insecure leader, if you ask me.

Those other figures are just in league matches, so unfortunately the record is in no danger this year.

Wow-wow-wee-wah

What an awful Saints line-up... I'd fancy today's team to take that lot down

If Matthew Paterson is worth more than half of a Nathan Dyer, we'll have done some piece of business.

Agree 100%. It is a highly disturbing development, completely at odds with the supposed professionalism and maturity of our new owners. I would expect it of some precious, egomaniac lower league chairman like Paul Scally at Gillingham, or even of Rupert Lowe, but I'm very alarmed that it has happened at our club. It's no good to speculate (in a fashion that is inevitably favourable to Cortese) that there could be more to this than meets the eye, and that the Echo might somehow deserve it. I can't imagine a set of circumstances that would justify this move. Nothing defamatory has been printed (and if it had, this wouldn't be the way go about dealing with it); in fact the coverage of the club lately has been universally glowing. I would say that this is the thin end of the wedge, but in fact I consider it a very serious matter, so it's a fairly thick part of the wedge. This is an outrageous act of bullying. It hasn't the least justification so far as I'm concerned. The decision should be reversed immediately.

A no-trick pony who disgraced the club against Arsenal, both with the "tackle" (often overlooked) and what happened after.

Powell, Wright, Hammill... Euell

Haven't we been linked with him approximately every season since 1997?

Gordon Strachan has just left one of the biggest clubs in Europe, having won the league three times out of four. Forget about Gordon Strachan.

Tony Adams isn't far behind John Batchelor on my list of people who would drive me away from the club.