irishsaint83

Ill keep an eye out for you if I can find the Bodega! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Going to this game alone, never been to Newcastle before. Where do Saints fans usually congregate before/after games? Looks like its a pretty good city for the boozers and the ground is central.

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Its about at most a 5 min walk, on Station Street. See google maps below https://maps.google.ie/maps?ie=UTF-8&q=victoria+pub+birmingham+maps&fb=1&gl=ie&hq=victoria+pub&hnear=0x4870942d1b417173:0xca81fef0aeee7998,Birmingham,+West+Midlands,+UK&cid=0,0,7492755984503563963&ei=K0kOUpzpEdHA7Aau9ICwCg&ved=0CJMBEPwSMAo

I was thinking of going to the Victoria / Crown - around the corner from each other.....

yes. im in home end

I am travelling over from Ireland. In Birmingham at 7:30 am on the Saturday. Looking a ticket if anyone has a spare. Will pay an extra few bob too if need be...... Also, looking to meet any Saints fans centrally in Birmingham if anyone is around before heading out to the Hawthorns?

Any Saints fans going to be in Birmingham early? My flight gets in around 7:30 am..... travelling alone.

Do you know a few of us set up an Irish Saints Supporters Club? Very primitive at the moment but you can get involved? Also, I go to a pub in Dublin to watch a lot of the games if your interested.

Plymouth is on the box so will give it a miss but def (as long as I can get a ticket) will be going to the bristol game!

its meant to be king alfred...........ha ha ha....... king arthur is back home!

trying..... waiting on job offers for several interviews in the passed few weeks

why do i go to games........... I have nothing better to do on saturday than to take a 2 hour bus journey at 4am in order to make a 7:30am flight to Bristol so that I can make the 9:23am train to southampton, so that i can go to the john lewis cafe and get a fry at around 11:15am before heading to the King Arthur so that I can watch the early kick off over a couple of pints before heading around to st marys so that I can take a large gulp to finish off my half time pint at around 4pm to celebrate the fact that its been a full 12 hours since i started my journey to have that gulp before making my way back up the steps to block 31, to try and find row bb and take my seat where my ass has been plonked for 16 games this season before heading back around to the King Arthur after full time before heading round to the hotel before getting a nights sleep before heading to to get the train back to Bristol Sunday to make my flight in order to get a 2 hour bus journey so that i can get home in time for a good nights sleep before i have to get up for work on monday morning..... thats why i go to games.....

Ouch.... couldn't you have just let me enjoyed my little dig at England

I'll be watching Ireland repeating their great efforts of the 1988 European Championships by beating England again in the a European Championships 1-0 in some stadium in Poland or the Ukraine. I presume the rest of you will be watching England get beat by Ireland on the BBC somewhere in England, possible large screens in St Marys?

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I don't know about the rest of you, but even when we made the championship play offs, i feel more positive now than then. It feels like the club is going in the right direction on and off the field and thats a strange feeling for an end of the season one for me. Ignoring the rumours which have always been a cloud around our club, we have a real substance of a foundation. A wealthy owner who hasn't yet been negative in anyway, a hard *ss chairman who is professional and openly wants success. A manager who is still officially our manager at the moment after a pretty good season that even for 1 or 2 results less the -10 would have seen us up instead of Leeds, the lifting of a low grade trophy which has its charm at being realistically one of only two possible trophies we could have lifted this season (league 1 being the other). Purchased an oustanding player in Rickie Lambert knotching up the top league scorer, the pfa league 1 player of the season, the fans player of the season and for a change, friends who couldnt name one Southampton player last season telling me that "lallana is a class act" and "where'd you get that rickie lambert from" and "how much was fonte again?.... jees thats a bargain" to "just saw Jaidi on the pitch for you guys, didn't know he still played!!". We had the low points this season too, Brentford, Brighton, Tranmere, Pompey etc etc but I am going to remember this season for the right reasons, the goods ones.... all i have from last season is negative ones. This is a season when in several years time when were back in the Premier league playing against the mega clubs of English Football where we hopefully wont be contedning "Saint Escapes" again, we can look back on 2009/2010 and say, "thats where it started"..... These rumours dont help and i'd be dissapointed to see Pardew go but this is Southampton FC and I will support ML and his top brass decisions until they effect the club on the field......

Well ain't the two of you brillinat

How exactly does voting for the Tories make the UK better and even more so, how on earth is voting for the tories open minded? That bltch that ruled in #10 for 11 years is a good enough reason to keep the tories out forever. Only in the past 18 months has the debt to gdp percentage reached levels above the last tory rule. The economic down turn has not been created by the UK; its just caught up in it and has largely resulted in national debt climing. The other issue is of course government expenditure, but this nation has the resources to come through this, just look across the pond in any direction, Spain is in the shlts, over 20% unemployment, Portugal is a close second to the mess that is Greece and Ireland is so fncked up that economically they are back in 1996 and will never have the celtic tiger boom like they had before which ultimately means it could be 2 -3 decades before they reach the economic levels of 2007 again. The fundemtal problem to this crisis is a culture to strive for unprecedentled levels of profit. Credit dried up over night in the USA which had profound implications across the globe. We in the UK have undergone massive changes in our wealth structure, in effect we were blasted out of the stone age politics of the tories into a modern globalised liberal nation overnight. Perhaps the pace of that change was too quick but is the UK a better nation now than say 25 years ago? Absolutaley. Iraq - invaded by Tories and Labour Afghanistan - is a just cause Northern Ireland - Labour have done what no tory government could, got both sides to shake hands and work as partners whilst keeping it in the Union. If voting tory was open minded and way to making the uk better, then explain what can the tories offer that is different than labour?.... obviously more conservatism, but what else? Can they get the economy back on track? Yes, but how long, how many cuts and what sacrifices will be made? Labour, particularly under the Blair years proved that they can boom an economy, the present situation is unfortunate and would have befallen any government. Just look at the governments across the globe, some right, some liberal, some left.... conservatives, socialists and dictatorships, they all face the same economic issues. Being open minded would have been to vote lib dem, wanting change would have been to vote tory but to make the uk a better place, vote labour. ***small print The views expressed by me above is an expression of my opinion and does not necessarily reflect complete accuracy. As the above is my opinion, (and only my opinion counts to me) I will not debate your opinion of my opinion.

Thats not correct - the system is just plain and simple, not fair. Thats because if they went to Parliment tomorrow to pass a bill that only the conservatives supported, it would be rejected. You need 326 seats, although 323 would be enough as Sinn Fein don't take up theirs (5 seats). Its highly unlikely but possible. You just need to calm down, DC and NC will do a deal. Actually, I would disagree because there is no law against a coalition government. If you can make up the 326 seats to gain a majority government, then the largest party may be sacrificied and in the case of the current general election, the Conservatives only make up 36% of the vote, would it not also be as unfair for the overwhelming majority (opposition) of 64% to form a government? Thats the whole point of having 326 seats, if you fail to make the cut, you have less that 50% of the seats, if you have less than 50% of the seats, the the majority would be the combination of the the people who got over 50% if a coalition could not be struck between the largest party etc. The conservatives can go alone, without a majority but you can't govern like that.

Ulster Conservatives and Unionists – New Force Danny Kennedy to be precise

was that something to do with an egg? remember recently Cameron got an egg thrown at him?

First off all, 98% of jobs havn't gone to immigrants. 9.7% of people employed in the UK are born overseas. Thats a blanket figure of some 3.7 Million and has no underlying breakdown. This can be worked out youself by getting the figures from here: (http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/tsdtables1.asp?vlnk=lms) Since Q1 1997, there has been an increase in the number of people in employment in the UK of about 2.7 Million, not 1.7Million. Overseas born people account for just shy of 66% of that, not 98%. Again, you can get all these figure from the above link. What these figures don't tell us is how many of these people were born to expatriot parents and how many of these people where here before Labour coming to power in 1997. No question about it, that would reduce the figure further, but it can not be quantified. No, when you calculate the estimated (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5239054.stm) figures of Britons repatriating and Britons immigrating abroad, a further 871,000 jobs became available since 1997 and based on official statistics, were filled by UK Born workers. In Q2 2006 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5320750.stm) 1.3 Million people retired. meaning an extra 1.3 Million jobs became available in just 3 months of 2006. Assuming that to be an extremely high Quater for retirement, why don't we reduce the average by 95% or very generously estimate that the average retirement numbers per Quater were 65,000. That means a further 3.5 Million jobs became available in that time period which by official stats, shows us that during the Labour years, at least 75% of all job vacancies, including new jobs were filled by British Born people. The source data of the below image can not be correct because Q4 2009, the official employment numbers in the UK were 25.2 Million UK Born and 3.7 Million Overseas Born