JackanorySFC

I wouldn't be so sure fella. Where is the job based, if it's PO post code I'd consider saying you follow Eastleigh or sommit(makes you look like a "proper" football fan rather than a glory hunter. Only reason I say this is bacause I used to work with a skate (in London, just my luck eh), during their golden years and our admin he gave me pelters, actually called it on with him at a works do once after an evening of him constantly going on and on - I just about managed to avoid disciplinarary over it. Anyway, I eventually became his boss. Despite his a*** licking I made work a nightmare for him, forensically going through his expenses, passing him over for jollies to Wembley, O2, overseas etc. Eventually he asked to be moved teams but I made it clear to our director he was a wrongun and his card should be marked. He left in the end. To be fair he wasn't brilliant at his job otherwise I'd have made an exception. Harsh but petty things like that happen in the workplace. I'd play it with a straight bat until you get your foot in the door. Either that or invent a girlfriend/ family member that's a skate and say how you "banter" all the time about it.

If Rickie Lambert boo'd the national anthem I'd never want him to play for our club again. Scousers (LFC fans in particular) have a victim mentality, perfectly illustrated by our resident scouser on here. Yeah I'm generalising but I can only go by scousers I've met and comments on websites like the Liverpool Echo. If you really want a laugh check out the RAWK forum (Red & White Kop), Man U fan at work pointed it out to me and I scanned through it. I know we have some mental posters (see the 5 year plan thread) but I honestly never thought football fans could be as blindly insane as LFC fans (Suarez, King Kenny, national anthem, Hillsborough, Heysel etc), if you have a spare 10 minutes onyour lunch break or whatever and fancy a laugh check it out!

Ha, brilliant! Err, I was there in the 80's and from what I remember only Chelsea was ever all ticket (due to previous crowd trouble). You could travel from anywhere and guarantee entry merely by turning up early enough (as many did, I used to get to the Milton End with my old man a good 2hrs before KO some times). Sorry but what you have said is complete rubbish!

Check out the Indianapolis Colts stadium. Think/ hope/ heard it will be similar to that. Googled it the other day and can only say "wow", didn't think the yanks had that in em!

Said they are planning on keeping the original features (towers, turbine room etc) which would be cool enough, but they have also applied for the largest single tired stand in Europe (15,000 capacity) behind one of the goals. Have to admit I'm rather jealous. If done right it will be the best stadium in England by a mile! Was wondering how even Roman could afford it (they have offered to contribute towards a new Norther Line station amongst other things) but then again the land at Stamford Bridge must be worth an absolute fortune! Saying that though, it could end up like the toilet in the Ocean or whatever the skates "concept" was called...

The Portuguese Police, and the Met have completely ruled out the McCanns so what's the alternative. Although I may have jumped to the conclusion regarding the pervert bit as she may have been abducted to a lovely family that couldn't have kids and wished to use illegal methods of obtaining one. I hope to god that's the case and she wasn't taken by a nonce or someone working with/ for one. You have read a old Daily Mail article based on 47 questions out of a 11 hour interview where she had taken leagal advice on what to answer and what not, and think they bumped her off for no apparant reason in a 10 minute window whilst laughing, eating and drinking with friends seconds beforehand. Then they decided the best way to get away with it was to spend the next X years tirelessly working to raise awareness of a crime you completely fabricated and looking down the lens at TV cameras through tearful eyes to say that all you want in this world is your child back. You probably think man didn't walk on the moon, 911 was a CIA conspiracy and Diana was bumped off by the Queen. Mikey - this got huge publicity as, despite kids going missing "all the time" they very rarely do on holiday in a foreign country (feel free to point out instances where they have). The holiday angle makes it even bigger than any other. Pap - What are your thoughts on Shannon Matthews? Good mum yeah, working class salt of the earth, she should have got just as much publicity as McCanns, what are the papers doing questioning her 7 kids by 7 dads (except The Sun who offered a £20k reward - not that you'd know as you're not one of the 300k in Merseyside that read it, more than any other paper). Oh hold on, what's the old bill doing round her brother in laws...

A single mum from Dewsbury had a huge amount of media sympathy and financial support when her daughter, Shannon Matthews, went missing. Unfortunately for her and anti McCann class snobbery everywhere she turned out to be an absolute wrongun and hid her kid away to generate sympathy and money. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_of_Shannon_Matthews The only thing more disgusting than doing that is actually abducting a child, which some sick f***er actually did to the McCann's daughter. The fact some on here want their sick, morbid, schadenfruedian (sp) suspicions confirmed by the killer fact that during 11 hours of interviews Kate McCann excersized her democratic right to no comment a full 43 times, just repulses me. Lock her up and throw away the key eh.... Forget innocent til proven guilty, don't like the look of them, they have no heart, bad parents, middle class spoilt brats etc etc. Once again, does anyone want to condemn the sick pervert that stole a child from her Hotel room? Or would that be admtting the McCanns actually do have a reason to keep this in the news like any normal parent with a heart?

Typical of a large section of our society that love to experience schedenfruide (sp) and dig at others in a holier than thou way. They were guilty of neglect. No one's words on this forum or in "real life" will make them feel any worse/ better than they do now. Fair play to them working so hard to raise money and (therefore) awareness of a abducted young girl. They are doctors, not a council estate couple. Reverse ssnobbery means people revel even more in there misfortune, shortly after there was a case in some sink estate up north where the child "done a runner" for a few days and parallels were being drawn between that and the McCanns. Only for the kid to be found hiding under the uncles bed whilst they tried to make every penny they could out of it. Whilst penty on here have dug the McCanns out no one has condemned the sick minded scum that stole a 7 year old girl from her Holiday apartment. That/ those individual(s) are where my anger is focused.

Really pleased with that appointment, wanted him from the start. Great CV, articulate bloke that speaks 5 languages and is well read. 2 things annoy me though: 1- The assumptioon that everyone wanted Harry to be manager. No they didn't, seriously anyone I know that actually takes a serious interest in football (not a bandwagon jumper that will hang a St George's cross from their 8th floor balcony and screams "In ger land" at the top of their voice down the pub with their bird p***ed up on Carling) really wanted HR. In fact, most could see that Capello was treated shabilly and tried his best (pefect qualifying, beat Spain etc) with a limited squad. 2- Today's Sun. I used to work for them and today I'm embarrassed by that. Taking the p*** out of a speach impediment is bang ut of orer. As stated above he's a seriously intelligent bloke that reads books I've never heard of and watches foreign films I'll never see. The night before Liverpool vs Napoli RH decided he would take a walk round the back streets of Naples to take in their culture and try to pick up the local lingo (Neapolitans slightly differently to northern Italians, a language RH is well versed in), the squad basically thought he was slightly weird to do something like this (without an entourage/ guide etc). Sas more about them than Roy in my book. Good luck to the bloke, really want us to do well in the Euros now, hand on heart even as a proud Englishman I honestly don't think I'd feel that way with Harry in charge.

Where are the dirty plastic backboards being beaten like Balboa in Rocky? Anyway, the Itchen North has barely been open this season because our support is generally very disappointing for a table topping "big" club. To be fair I'm going back a few years before Lowe shut it, superb up there and has been the few times I've ventured back (the derby game 3 years ago it was genuinely mental - barely a replica shirt or female in sight). Not being a miserable sod, just people like to move around and the "on the pitch, on the pitch" follwed by calling everyone that went on "w***ers" perfectly illustrated the "all mouth, no trousers" nature of the majority of people that frequent the Northam. A few notible exceptions of course. Anyway, my 3 posts are done. I'll leave you to chat amongst yourselves. May I add I hope the Northam, Itchen, Chapel and Kingsland stand for 90 minutes, stay positive (remember the response to going a goal down to Blades last game when Pearson was in charge) and roar the boys home tomorrow! Up the Saints!

Northam Stand, heartbeat of the club, always sells out fast and gets behind the team. However, I think the commonly held view here is despite a few of the originals that have been there since Chelsea at home first game dotted about, it is generally full of: Mouthy teenagers wearing McKenzie tracksuits and checked, Nike baseball caps pointing upwards Clowns that spend the whole game facing a piece of rather dirty plastic sheeting in the back row and banging the c*** out of it as fast as they can Strange lads that take their birds with them in some pathetic attempt to show them how cool they are Grown men wearing jumpers with a replica football shirt squeezed over the top of it (applicable to every area of the ground tbf) I had a season ticket there only the season before last in block 41, but knew I wouldn't be renewing when the entire stand started singing "on the pitch, on the pitch, on the pitch", and booing the announcement to not go on the pitch during the last game of the season. And it really was the entire stand. Then, on the final whistle when 50 odd kids did go on the pitch they started singing "w***ers, w***ers" at them and booing them off. That for me, along with numerous instances of morons screaming abuse at the away fans then when getting called on outside claiming it was "banter innit", sitting elsewhere and realising the away fans literally can't hear a word the Northam are singing, was the moment I said "nah, not for me this". If you have left the Northam, or are planning to do so next season, when was the moment you made your mind up? Viva la Itchen North.

Always liked Cov. Like Southampton both destroyed by the Luftwaffe leading to god awful City Centre planning, 2 unfashionable top division clubs for a generation, some great "cult heroes" (Steve Ogrizivic, Le Tiss etc) and the ability to upset the bigger sides now and again. Last season in League 1 was my best ever supporting Saints since the mid 80's. Brilliant away days, off the back of a Wembley trip, home wins, proper fans and real football. Good luck with SISA and next season.

Has gone down well in SO30! Few issues with light pollution from residents of Cranbourne Park but I understand that has been seen to. Good "political maneuvering" from Cortese I agree. However I personally hope he never has to ask, love our stadium being slap bang in the heart of our City. Proper football area. Would love it if they could link it with the Waterfront and add a train station (not for me, I like to drink heavily in the area around the ground - but I'm a considerate soul sometimes to the needs of others) but that's a long way off!

Also, nice touch from Saints and Cortese in particular. He is giving the old floodlights from Staplewood to Hedge End Council (Rodaway Park) for free so Hedge End can move up to the football pyramid. Wanted to help a local club and invited a number of sides/ councils to apply. Nice touch that.

Quality!

A discreet Saints pin badge is perfectly acceptible. I wear a silver 12mm Saints badge on my jacket. I also own a Saints badge air freshener and a Saints keyring. Oh, and a pair of Saints shorts (perfect for that Marsielle '98 beach riot look of crisp Ralphy polo top, club shorts and a deckchair to launch at the OB) for strolling about unopposed round some foreign market town on holiday letting the locals know that I'm Southampton and I'll do what I want... Any more than this is tacky/ embarrassing unless you are a schoolkid. Whereby a replica shirt, pencil case, scarf for bedroom wall and red smoke grenade are standard kit items.

I agree mate. Wasn't going before but now I'm going to drive up early in the morning... Can't miss it!

Cos that's where he always played, sort of, wasn't a striker, played in the "hole". Class. Voted for Newcastle too. No doubt the 14 yr old Man United fans will rig the vote towards Rooney's overhead kick. Morons.

So you seriously think if a female manager managed a side none of the players would want to/ try to/ imagine smashing her? If I was a chairman I'd know that's how young, 18-30 lads think. Like it or not footballs about testosterone, chest thumping, aggression, competitiveness etc -.I want those attributes at saints, I see those attributes at saints, I wouldn't want some PC owner sack our manager and bring in a Doris to change that way of football.

Absolutely zero chance of points deduction if widespread disorder breaks out - reason being West Ham v Millwall league cup game went ballistic on pitch and around ground with no ramifications. As much chance of a points deduction as there is of the Skates actually backing up their words with actions... 200 coming to England Macadonia Loads in the home end for Cup game Operation Scum Breaker (Mong name btw) 100 top 657 going to St Marys St... Oh actually they did back up words once, doubt they'll do it again though ;-)

Genius - main reason being there's no clapping involved! Up there with Citeh's U-N-I....T-E-D Sounds like ****ing debt to me With a nic mac paddy whack give the dog a bone Ocean Finance on the phone Only problem being it needs to be sung slow so they can hear the 3rd/ 4th lines.

We sold out last week, but by chance someone checked the online site and extra tickets are now available. I just bought 2, no problem at all.

Just saw a thread on TUI about it, went online, requested 2 tickets no problem. Has our allocation increased or what? Top comm's from the Club again eh?

No offense but it shows how thick and gullible the people of Liverpool (and other large urban areas to be fair) are. I work in the Alresford area, rural petrol stations out this way are all empty, as they are on my way home via Bishops Waltham/ Botley etc. Fuel only 3p a litre more expensive than Sainsburys Hedge End where I normally fill up. Happy to potter about on 1/2 a tank for a few more miles 'til I need more at the weekend. The sheer number of morons in this country astounds me! The Tories have played a blinder in terms of mugging off the Unions though....

I'm hoping for a cauldren of hate. It's one game where I care more about baiting those ****s than supporting my own team. The atmosphere in the Itchen North last time was the best I've ever known at SMS, when Lambery scored I've never known a celebration like it. Remember as well that every derby game at St Marys has seen the Skates freeze. Seriously it took until the 4th goal last time to get a peep out of them, usually any song they try and sing we copy and take over - for example their "and it's Ports***** City" song, we drowned em out and they couldn't take it. The most noise they ever made was during Ted Bates' minute's silence. Don't forget that. Scum the lot of 'em. If they saw your gran lying in the street on derby day and they suspected he of being a scummer theyd put the boot in. No mercy to 'em I say. I want dads in the Chapel leaning over the hoarding screaming abuse at Ashdown's goal kicks, old boys in the Kingsland throwing off ther tartan rug and taking a swing at Varney as he takes a throw in and mums in the Itchen to give their lairy son a ticket instead so they can scream abuse at Appy. Up the Saints! Block 2.