Adkins: Lallana loss didn't cause defeat (From Daily Echo)

Mayuka has had his chance and I wouldn't be surprised if we don't see him for a while. Having pace to burn and the odd step over here and there are not enough in the championship let alone the prem (just ask SDR).

I would actually have played Davis in a 3 man midfield as the more offensive of the 3. This would of given us more control of the midfield whilst letting Punch, SRL and Gaston license to do their thing. Davis struggled in the absence of Cork because sitting in front of the back 4 isn't his game, getting forward and chipping in with goals (lampard style) is what Davis did at Rangers.

Nigel's tactics for Fulham should be quite interesting, do we sit back like we did at Liverpool or do we try and get on the front foot like we did against QPR. I think I know what suits us best! Over to you Nige..! Coyr

It was de ja vu, as against Wigan, we had a game that should have yielded a positive result, but too many players, for what ever reason failed to give 100%, to say Lallana would not have made any difference is a bit tenuous, what Southampton FC needed was a spark, something special from one player and Adam is capable of doing that. Ramirez is capable, but on this day he was obviously not liking the conditions and was ineffective. Mayuk? why did he start? Possibly NA listening to pressure from the fans, I don't know. Probably will get flamed but I would give Guly a start at Fulham, it is his kind of game.

Nemesisaint wrote:
It was de ja vu, as against Wigan, we had a game that should have yielded a positive result, but too many players, for what ever reason failed to give 100%, to say Lallana would not have made any difference is a bit tenuous, what Southampton FC needed was a spark, something special from one player and Adam is capable of doing that. Ramirez is capable, but on this day he was obviously not liking the conditions and was ineffective. Mayuk? why did he start? Possibly NA listening to pressure from the fans, I don't know. Probably will get flamed but I would give Guly a start at Fulham, it is his kind of game.

Guly to start wouldn't be a bad shout. Less pressure away from home and would probably get more support from our quality away fans. Nothing against the home fans but it can't be easy to raise your game when sections of your own fans are booing you!

I'n pretending Saturday never happened.

At least we have a game in hand on the rest. I'm sure Chelsea away will get us at least a point, lol.

All to do against Fulham. Let's see who steps up. If it's Guly, I think we can all give him the clean slate he would deserve.

I doubt we'll see Mayuka or the riddler again for a long while.

Personally I would give j-rod a start on the left at fulham, put gaston in the hole, let sir rickie wreak havoc on the knock downs and make cork the captain. And possibly partner davis with cork in the middle of the park. Spiderman looked tired, and/or afraid of his fifth yellow. It's a shame because I still see captain material in him otherwise.

One thing is certain, if you play as poorly as saturday Fulham will run riot.

kent thats probably the most relevant thing you have ever said on this website. We started off well for about 15-20 minutes after that each and every player was poor some more so than others. Thought Clyne and Shaw were OK but apart from that

Not sure I understand why the shape of the team had to be changed because one player was injured.
We had plenty of options to replace Lallana, like for like, there was no need to tinker so much.

There have been fans calling all season for 4 4 2. When they get it they moan. Many have called for Mayuka, they got him. Others De Ridder, they got him. Now many call for Tad Lee, maybe he will play at Fulham.

I watch with amusement as fans call for something, get it and then distance themselves afterwards.

The team against Sunderland was the one I would have picked. A few may have gone for Gazza and Jay Rod instead of Kelv and Mayuka but the rest of the team picks itself.

It wasn't bad management it was a p!ss poor effort by the players.

That last line summed the game up completely Seed

TWENTY TWO

City Saint wrote:
I'n pretending Saturday never happened.

At least we have a game in hand on the rest. I'm sure Chelsea away will get us at least a point, lol.

All to do against Fulham. Let's see who steps up. If it's Guly, I think we can all give him the clean slate he would deserve.

I doubt we'll see Mayuka or the riddler again for a long while.

Personally I would give j-rod a start on the left at fulham, put gaston in the hole, let sir rickie wreak havoc on the knock downs and make cork the captain. And possibly partner davis with cork in the middle of the park. Spiderman looked tired, and/or afraid of his fifth yellow. It's a shame because I still see captain material in him otherwise.

Agree wih most of this. Mayuka looked a bit nervous. Thought Steeeevie did ok. Went at them and got a couple of them booked. Didn't do too much wrong for me. Spider did look a bit off and Davis did well as his replacement, Wouldn't be surprised to see Spider get his next booking just b4 the cup game. After that he will be able to get back to his normal game. Gaston has obvious talent but needs to step up a bit to justify his fee. Too easy to criticise a poor performance with the weather conditions the way they were. They got one lucky break and took it and then we let them off by not biting back hard enough. Just like in the Wigan game. Anyway as someone said on a previous thread we have gone from certain relegation to a battle, so that's a plus. Need to keep believing. COYR.

Still feel a bit gutted about Saturday! Had we won we would have been an amazing position leading up to Boxing day. Why were they not fired up to the max for this game? Why didn’t Punch pass to Ramirez instead of running straight into the player? With the conditions, why weren’t we shooting more. I thought Sunderland were there for the taking, for me they didn’t really offer anything other than a lucky goal, what I do know is they will be laughing right now! Come on saints, let’s put it in against Fulham!!!!!

Good positive discussion in this thread. I like it.

Saturday was down to the players - they just weren't there.

The goal was lucky - but I can't fault Sunderland for getting it and then closing out Saints like they did.
where did the long ball suddenly come from? all season I've been seeing a great passing game and then suddenly we are hoofing the ball up field? It didn't work the last time we played it so I don't know why it would work now.

However it's done and dusted - need to come away from Fulham with at least a point, would prefer three.

COYR

So what do we reckon on the score boxing day? Obviously I would love the win but being realistic I can see another 2-2.

2-1 Fulham but I reckon we might suprise a few people with a result at Stoke 2-1 win for us up there

I think reading through this adkins is saying that if lallana played we still may have got the same result and we are not a 1 player team. Obviously no one will really know. We looked jaded Saturday and not even 2nd best. We had a break but did it do us any good? I think not.
Fact is we haven't got an ambundence of quality in the squad and with lallana out you miss that and his high energy.
Ramirez is also a quality player who needs to see a lot of the ball, on Saturday for what ever reason that didn't happen, srl was labouring and we were losing possession as soon as we gained it. What is the answer? Sdr, guly, and Jay rod at the moment appear not to be. Srl is not an out n out goal scorer but a link up player similar to sheringham, Saturday there was nothing to link up and he almost looked like he was sulking.

llalana is the main engine room in midfield runs for everything and can whip a decent ball in the box.tad lee is that sore of player runs for everything .not sure if he can put in a decent cross in seen little of him.i would start tad lee or jwp inplace of mayuka

I've been working on the numbers. Fulham got thumped 4-0 by Liverpool who lost 3-1 to Villa last week, Villa got thrashed 8-0 yesterday. We beat Villa 4-1 and drew 2-2 with Fulham.

Taking the additive and cummutative properties of the associative numbers and applying the inverse subtraction rule (with the quotient being negative and the reciprocals multiplying), we will win 5-2 on Boxing Day.

I haven't had time to calculate the exact score with Guly and Davis starting or Gazza v Kelvin in goal, but I've e mailed Nige with the formula so he can get one of Nicola's lackies to do it.

Surprisingly Foxy playing doesn't alter the result as we score as many from his crosses as we concede from his defensive slips.

Anyhow, using my scientific methodology, we can be pretty confident of predicting a win by at least two clear goals (plus one extra with my lucky pants on).

I've given Nige a separate formula to decide who should play in the hole, but have explained this is only 53% reliable.

It would be rather apt if, in the window, we signed Gustav Moth to play in the hole.

Confucious wrote:
I've been working on the numbers. Fulham got thumped 4-0 by Liverpool who lost 3-1 to Villa last week, Villa got thrashed 8-0 yesterday. We beat Villa 4-1 and drew 2-2 with Fulham.

Taking the additive and cummutative properties of the associative numbers and applying the inverse subtraction rule (with the quotient being negative and the reciprocals multiplying), we will win 5-2 on Boxing Day.

I haven't had time to calculate the exact score with Guly and Davis starting or Gazza v Kelvin in goal, but I've e mailed Nige with the formula so he can get one of Nicola's lackies to do it.

Surprisingly Foxy playing doesn't alter the result as we score as many from his crosses as we concede from his defensive slips.

Anyhow, using my scientific methodology, we can be pretty confident of predicting a win by at least two clear goals (plus one extra with my lucky pants on).

I've given Nige a separate formula to decide who should play in the hole, but have explained this is only 53% reliable.

It would be rather apt if, in the window, we signed Gustav Moth to play in the hole.

happy christmas just to add to the mix.we lost home to wigan fulham won away.we got thumped by arsenal fulham draw away.does this mean a 0-0 draw

up saints wrote:

Confucious wrote:
I've been working on the numbers. Fulham got thumped 4-0 by Liverpool who lost 3-1 to Villa last week, Villa got thrashed 8-0 yesterday. We beat Villa 4-1 and drew 2-2 with Fulham.

Taking the additive and cummutative properties of the associative numbers and applying the inverse subtraction rule (with the quotient being negative and the reciprocals multiplying), we will win 5-2 on Boxing Day.

I haven't had time to calculate the exact score with Guly and Davis starting or Gazza v Kelvin in goal, but I've e mailed Nige with the formula so he can get one of Nicola's lackies to do it.

Surprisingly Foxy playing doesn't alter the result as we score as many from his crosses as we concede from his defensive slips.

Anyhow, using my scientific methodology, we can be pretty confident of predicting a win by at least two clear goals (plus one extra with my lucky pants on).

I've given Nige a separate formula to decide who should play in the hole, but have explained this is only 53% reliable.

It would be rather apt if, in the window, we signed Gustav Moth to play in the hole.

happy christmas just to add to the mix.we lost home to wigan fulham won away.we got thumped by arsenal fulham draw away.does this mean a 0-0 draw

Nah, still comes out as 5-2 to Saints.

Confucious wrote:
I've been working on the numbers. Fulham got thumped 4-0 by Liverpool who lost 3-1 to Villa last week, Villa got thrashed 8-0 yesterday. We beat Villa 4-1 and drew 2-2 with Fulham.

Taking the additive and cummutative properties of the associative numbers and applying the inverse subtraction rule (with the quotient being negative and the reciprocals multiplying), we will win 5-2 on Boxing Day.

I haven't had time to calculate the exact score with Guly and Davis starting or Gazza v Kelvin in goal, but I've e mailed Nige with the formula so he can get one of Nicola's lackies to do it.

Surprisingly Foxy playing doesn't alter the result as we score as many from his crosses as we concede from his defensive slips.

Anyhow, using my scientific methodology, we can be pretty confident of predicting a win by at least two clear goals (plus one extra with my lucky pants on).

I've given Nige a separate formula to decide who should play in the hole, but have explained this is only 53% reliable.

It would be rather apt if, in the window, we signed Gustav Moth to play in the hole.

That 'hole' you've left Nigel deciding about, has it got anything to do with Fanny Craddock's doughnuts? If so, I think we'll lose.

What we need over Christmas is simple. As I pointed out on an earlier thread, Strasbourg thinks of itself as the Capital of Christmas. This makes Spiderman (with Punch and Cork) playing in a croissant-shaped midfield formation just in front of a back 5 croissant-shaped defence (Fox, Shaw, Fonte, Yoshida and Clyne) a MUST.

Stick Ramirez behind SRL in what is known in France as 'le pan-au-chocolat ligne de but' and we'll be in for a tasty 3 points.

Of course, given how often Fox gets caught out of position drifting downfield, many will see this as justifying their belief in a straight forward 4-4-2. Those of us who understand a bit more about croissants and les chocolatines know differently.

Joyeux Noël et une Bonne Année tout le monde!

Or, as they say here in Portugal:
Feliz Natal e um Feliz Ano Novo a todos!

Fulham looked shocking against QPR and Liverpool and being the home team they can't really sit back and defend so this should suit us.

Strasbourg Saint wrote:

Confucious wrote:
I've been working on the numbers. Fulham got thumped 4-0 by Liverpool who lost 3-1 to Villa last week, Villa got thrashed 8-0 yesterday. We beat Villa 4-1 and drew 2-2 with Fulham.

Taking the additive and cummutative properties of the associative numbers and applying the inverse subtraction rule (with the quotient being negative and the reciprocals multiplying), we will win 5-2 on Boxing Day.

I haven't had time to calculate the exact score with Guly and Davis starting or Gazza v Kelvin in goal, but I've e mailed Nige with the formula so he can get one of Nicola's lackies to do it.

Surprisingly Foxy playing doesn't alter the result as we score as many from his crosses as we concede from his defensive slips.

Anyhow, using my scientific methodology, we can be pretty confident of predicting a win by at least two clear goals (plus one extra with my lucky pants on).

I've given Nige a separate formula to decide who should play in the hole, but have explained this is only 53% reliable.

It would be rather apt if, in the window, we signed Gustav Moth to play in the hole.

That 'hole' you've left Nigel deciding about, has it got anything to do with Fanny Craddock's doughnuts? If so, I think we'll lose.

What we need over Christmas is simple. As I pointed out on an earlier thread, Strasbourg thinks of itself as the Capital of Christmas. This makes Spiderman (with Punch and Cork) playing in a croissant-shaped midfield formation just in front of a back 5 croissant-shaped defence (Fox, Shaw, Fonte, Yoshida and Clyne) a MUST.

Stick Ramirez behind SRL in what is known in France as 'le pan-au-chocolat ligne de but' and we'll be in for a tasty 3 points.

Of course, given how often Fox gets caught out of position drifting downfield, many will see this as justifying their belief in a straight forward 4-4-2. Those of us who understand a bit more about croissants and les chocolatines know differently.

Joyeux Noël et une Bonne Année tout le monde!

Or, as they say here in Portugal:
Feliz Natal e um Feliz Ano Novo a todos!

Or as we say in Greece, αυτός είναι βαρετό!

Seedhouse the Unrepentant wrote:
There have been fans calling all season for 4 4 2. When they get it they moan. Many have called for Mayuka, they got him. Others De Ridder, they got him. Now many call for Tad Lee, maybe he will play at Fulham.

I watch with amusement as fans call for something, get it and then distance themselves afterwards.

The team against Sunderland was the one I would have picked. A few may have gone for Gazza and Jay Rod instead of Kelv and Mayuka but the rest of the team picks itself.

It wasn't bad management it was a p!ss poor effort by the players.

Tussling with your logic and working through the points you made I can only really say one thing .. absolutley !

Alicesdad wrote:

Seedhouse the Unrepentant wrote:
There have been fans calling all season for 4 4 2. When they get it they moan. Many have called for Mayuka, they got him. Others De Ridder, they got him. Now many call for Tad Lee, maybe he will play at Fulham.

I watch with amusement as fans call for something, get it and then distance themselves afterwards.

The team against Sunderland was the one I would have picked. A few may have gone for Gazza and Jay Rod instead of Kelv and Mayuka but the rest of the team picks itself.

It wasn't bad management it was a p!ss poor effort by the players.

Tussling with your logic and working through the points you made I can only really say one thing .. absolutley !

Based on what I've heard about the game and some of the knee-jerk reactions I've read, I also agree absolutely!

Confucious wrote:
I've been working on the numbers. Fulham got thumped 4-0 by Liverpool who lost 3-1 to Villa last week, Villa got thrashed 8-0 yesterday. We beat Villa 4-1 and drew 2-2 with Fulham.

Taking the additive and cummutative properties of the associative numbers and applying the inverse subtraction rule (with the quotient being negative and the reciprocals multiplying), we will win 5-2 on Boxing Day.

I haven't had time to calculate the exact score with Guly and Davis starting or Gazza v Kelvin in goal, but I've e mailed Nige with the formula so he can get one of Nicola's lackies to do it.

Surprisingly Foxy playing doesn't alter the result as we score as many from his crosses as we concede from his defensive slips.

Anyhow, using my scientific methodology, we can be pretty confident of predicting a win by at least two clear goals (plus one extra with my lucky pants on).

I've given Nige a separate formula to decide who should play in the hole, but have explained this is only 53% reliable.

It would be rather apt if, in the window, we signed Gustav Moth to play in the hole.

Merry Christmas Confucious !!

I think Nigel is going to need bigger whiteboards to take on this level of analysis. He must be well into his tenth set of erasable pens this season.

I'm not sure about the "hole" I thought that's what we had a Cork for (yo ho ho we do have a laugh dont we .. )

Perhaps we should consider standard deviation as a way of eliminating errors ... its a big formula and would put off the BBC asking questions about it in the post match interviews .. although I'm sure Nige would explain it very lucidly.

Regardless of the maths I have to say I never cease to marvel at Nige's middle management vocabulary though, after weeks of "playing as one" "underpinning the positives" and being swayed by his " there's goals in this team" comment I am disappointed by "we were flat" ......
I thought there were a myriad of other phrases to describe what was effectively a lack of imagination. my favourite, which I haven't heard lately on the telly, is "we didnt get the ball into the corridor of uncertainty" ..

Anyway a two goal win margin would have me wiping the whiteboard clean and getting ready for a happy New Year.

All the best !





I think we will beat Fulham .. I would never have thought of that if the Echo hadnt put up that "Saints target a win at Fulham" headline .. but now Im thinking hey! yeah! .. good idea !!

kent141 wrote:
One thing is certain, if you play as poorly as saturday Fulham will run riot.

i dont think we paid poorly .both about the same considering the condtions .perhaps just a minutes lack of concentration for the goal from clyne .but hes young learning like shaw .which will stand saints good stead later in the premier league next season .other than the goal saints defended pretty well ,sunderland closed down tooth in nail for the win.but it was who ever was going to score would win .it was more like a mid table battle .then a relagation battle .considering the conditions .the ball was holding up .normally it zips on the stmarys pitch .but saints can learn off sunderland about defending away from home.they were the best defensive team thats played here .what counts is at xmas will not in the bottom 3 .same as we wont come the end of may.thats all that matters this season

City Saint wrote:
I'n pretending Saturday never happened.

At least we have a game in hand on the rest. I'm sure Chelsea away will get us at least a point, lol.

All to do against Fulham. Let's see who steps up. If it's Guly, I think we can all give him the clean slate he would deserve.

I doubt we'll see Mayuka or the riddler again for a long while.

Personally I would give j-rod a start on the left at fulham, put gaston in the hole, let sir rickie wreak havoc on the knock downs and make cork the captain. And possibly partner davis with cork in the middle of the park. Spiderman looked tired, and/or afraid of his fifth yellow. It's a shame because I still see captain material in him otherwise.

i think fox is a option on the left .duff will use his experience against him .fox is not a left back but can defend a bit ,but his delivery is great balls into the box set peices.he his the answer for me and keep gaston with ricky .for me he offers much more than deridder .its just what spurs done with bale .moved him up from left back

Strasbourg Saint wrote:

Alicesdad wrote:

Seedhouse the Unrepentant wrote: There have been fans calling all season for 4 4 2. When they get it they moan. Many have called for Mayuka, they got him. Others De Ridder, they got him. Now many call for Tad Lee, maybe he will play at Fulham. I watch with amusement as fans call for something, get it and then distance themselves afterwards. The team against Sunderland was the one I would have picked. A few may have gone for Gazza and Jay Rod instead of Kelv and Mayuka but the rest of the team picks itself. It wasn't bad management it was a p!ss poor effort by the players.

Tussling with your logic and working through the points you made I can only really say one thing .. absolutley !

Based on what I've heard about the game and some of the knee-jerk reactions I've read, I also agree absolutely!

Good points. But man management is part of management, and Nige didn't get them up enough for the game. That said; I think that the rest didn't help. I blame Chelsea and Abramovich's ill gotten gain.

Spider should be dropped and JWP to start with Cork in midfield. If this doesn't happen I predict as follows: Fulham 2 Saints 1; Stoke 2 Saints 0; & Saints 0 Arsenal 3. Saturdays performance can give no Saints fan any hope at all. You only have to read the national papers at the weekend to see that Spider and Ramirez both scored 5 out of 10 to see that the midfield needs shaking up. I don't think Davis fits the bill as he's too negative. JWP will at least go forward.

I'm afraid NA not for the first time this season looked totally clueless in the second half. Why of why was de Ridder included in the matchday squad? He hadn't even played in the premier league! Guly once again was awful and Davis has no 'forward' gear. I wonder who picks the squad I don't think it's NA! He said he will utilise the whole squad over the festive period. Is he managing a football team or a Boy Scouts outfit? Surely if you want to win in this league you play your strongest team?!!!!!

NA needs to be more assertive otherwise he will be off in January.

I Posted yesterday we spend to long faffing about giving the opposition all the time in the world to defend...the killer balls aften come from RL our Blöody centre forward..

It is not enough to trap, control then pass, the decision of were it is going and what the person receiving himself is going to do needs to happen about 3 times as fast.

England even when they were not so embarrasingly bad would make the same mistake, simply put they took to long..

Teams beat us often with only one or two chances all game but they are incisive and cut us to shreds...yet for most of the game we have the ball, to what end if not to rip THEM open..

Talentented individuals sure, but collectively they are behind the 'thinking' speed of the premiership..

It is not an individual's problem nor one which a 'wonder' signing will solve...more a collective knowledge of what to do before they do it..

Also in the early stages when we threaten we simply do not convert an acceptable percentage, although we were free scoring in championship we missed hundreds it was obvious to all that this profligacy would never win games in PL..

Pretty football at times yes, clinical no..we need both.

I understand that Fox is back training. No doubt he will come back in at left back and Shaw will be dropped to the bench like JWP was dropped to the bench when Cork returned. All the hype about Shaw will have an adverse affect on him. All the nonsense you hear about the big clubs coming in for him an about him being another Gareth Bale - for God's sake! He's 17. He's an outstanding talent and has done very well. However, on Saturday he struggled at times and was caught ball watching when Sunderland scored failing to get tight own or close down Fletcher - MOTD showed that! Just let this lad develop amt the best club for youth development and enjoy his football!

warrens 76 wrote:
I Posted yesterday we spend to long faffing about giving the opposition all the time in the world to defend...the killer balls aften come from RL our Blöody centre forward..

It is not enough to trap, control then pass, the decision of were it is going and what the person receiving himself is going to do needs to happen about 3 times as fast.

England even when they were not so embarrasingly bad would make the same mistake, simply put they took to long..

Teams beat us often with only one or two chances all game but they are incisive and cut us to shreds...yet for most of the game we have the ball, to what end if not to rip THEM open..

Talentented individuals sure, but collectively they are behind the 'thinking' speed of the premiership..

It is not an individual's problem nor one which a 'wonder' signing will solve...more a collective knowledge of what to do before they do it..

Also in the early stages when we threaten we simply do not convert an acceptable percentage, although we were free scoring in championship we missed hundreds it was obvious to all that this profligacy would never win games in PL..

Pretty football at times yes, clinical no..we need both.

Very good post. I agree!!!!!

saintlysoul wrote:
Spider should be dropped and JWP to start with Cork in midfield. If this doesn't happen I predict as follows: Fulham 2 Saints 1; Stoke 2 Saints 0; & Saints 0 Arsenal 3. Saturdays performance can give no Saints fan any hope at all. You only have to read the national papers at the weekend to see that Spider and Ramirez both scored 5 out of 10 to see that the midfield needs shaking up. I don't think Davis fits the bill as he's too negative. JWP will at least go forward.

I'm afraid NA not for the first time this season looked totally clueless in the second half. Why of why was de Ridder included in the matchday squad? He hadn't even played in the premier league! Guly once again was awful and Davis has no 'forward' gear. I wonder who picks the squad I don't think it's NA! He said he will utilise the whole squad over the festive period. Is he managing a football team or a Boy Scouts outfit? Surely if you want to win in this league you play your strongest team?!!!!!

NA needs to be more assertive otherwise he will be off in January.

Guly actually came closest to scoring, agreeing with your post though what does that say about rest of team...notice if RL is off form team suffers..he scores we usually win he does not it all goes to 5hit.

saintlysoul wrote:
I understand that Fox is back training. No doubt he will come back in at left back and Shaw will be dropped to the bench like JWP was dropped to the bench when Cork returned. All the hype about Shaw will have an adverse affect on him. All the nonsense you hear about the big clubs coming in for him an about him being another Gareth Bale - for God's sake! He's 17. He's an outstanding talent and has done very well. However, on Saturday he struggled at times and was caught ball watching when Sunderland scored failing to get tight own or close down Fletcher - MOTD showed that! Just let this lad develop amt the best club for youth development and enjoy his football!

i would keep him in .bringing back fox would be a backward step ,as he defends better than fox does .but fox offers more going forward.so the simple answer is play him in front of shaw,then you have the same balance you have with .clyne in puncheon on the right .at least till adams gets back .i would stick with shaw till we buy a left back ,which is what nigel tried to do .pre season

the suderland came from clyne in puncheon .wrong side my friend .goal scored in the chapel end think about it.

Did you know?
We have one of the top three academys in the country and yet we are still 15 years behind the Ajax and Barca model..both very, very similar..

The average trainee here has around 4000 hours of actual close control by the age of I think 14...over there it is 10.000 hours...

...in all sports and indeed life, practice, practice, practice...who said the more I practice the luckier I get?

Our coaches discard youngsters who are not naturals yet in Europe they have taken mediocre players and by repeating the same basics over and over these kids who would be discarded here eventually as they become automatic in their movements and control put our best to shame...

We need to be at the forefront of these teaching methods...

saintkenny wrote:
the suderland came from clyne in puncheon .wrong side my friend .goal scored in the chapel end think about it.

It was clear on MOTD that Fletcher was in the box unmarked. Shaw was about 3 feet from him ball watching. By the time the ball reached Fletcher Shaw hadn't reacted by getting tight in him thus allowing him a free shot. You're absolutely right about the build up to the goal coming down the right hand side and Puncheon and Clyne should have done better. Shaw I'm sure will learn from it. I like your comment about Fox!!!

saintkenny wrote:
the suderland came from clyne in puncheon .wrong side my friend .goal scored in the chapel end think about it.

i mean if you watch it again he is allowed to cross the ball not closed down,that is what caused the goal .sunderland never gave puncheon a sniff.never able to cross the ball .harsh to critisise shaw for that .but then fox has done that before ,thats why i think they could help each other .shaw had poor protection from mayuka and deridder.that he gets from lallana.whats what we missed saturday .and fox is the best substitutte for that in my book

warrens 76 wrote:
Did you know?
We have one of the top three academys in the country and yet we are still 15 years behind the Ajax and Barca model..both very, very similar..

The average trainee here has around 4000 hours of actual close control by the age of I think 14...over there it is 10.000 hours...

...in all sports and indeed life, practice, practice, practice...who said the more I practice the luckier I get?

Our coaches discard youngsters who are not naturals yet in Europe they have taken mediocre players and by repeating the same basics over and over these kids who would be discarded here eventually as they become automatic in their movements and control put our best to shame...

We need to be at the forefront of these teaching methods...

This is very informative something I've heard before. As a country we are way behind the Dutch. Bergkamp and Overmars didn't play a competitive game of football until they were 14 spending their early developmental years concentrating on ball skills! Didn't it show!!!!!!!!!!!!!

saintkenny wrote:

saintkenny wrote:
the suderland came from clyne in puncheon .wrong side my friend .goal scored in the chapel end think about it.

i mean if you watch it again he is allowed to cross the ball not closed down,that is what caused the goal .sunderland never gave puncheon a sniff.never able to cross the ball .harsh to critisise shaw for that .but then fox has done that before ,thats why i think they could help each other .shaw had poor protection from mayuka and deridder.that he gets from lallana.whats what we missed saturday .and fox is the best substitutte for that in my book

Fair point!!!!!

kent141 wrote:
One thing is certain, if you play as poorly as saturday Fulham will run riot.

... and if Fulham play as badly as they did against Liverpool, we might get a result, it wasn't us that lost 0 4 Saturday.

Nemesisaint wrote:

kent141 wrote:
One thing is certain, if you play as poorly as saturday Fulham will run riot.

... and if Fulham play as badly as they did against Liverpool, we might get a result, it wasn't us that lost 0 4 Saturday.

there normally poor away from home ,better at home but theu did lose to newc,funny fans they never seem to sing much.place as a funny atmosphere every time iv been there with saints

saintkenny wrote:

saintkenny wrote:
the suderland came from clyne in puncheon .wrong side my friend .goal scored in the chapel end think about it.

i mean if you watch it again he is allowed to cross the ball not closed down,that is what caused the goal .sunderland never gave puncheon a sniff.never able to cross the ball .harsh to critisise shaw for that .but then fox has done that before ,thats why i think they could help each other .shaw had poor protection from mayuka and deridder.that he gets from lallana.whats what we missed saturday .and fox is the best substitutte for that in my book

Yes, Clyne was marking space instead of Johnson and lost him completely, the defence were wrong footed by Sessegnons mishit, which couldn't have fallen better for Fletcher who doesn't miss chances like that, Shaw wasn't quite close enough to get a block in, no chance for Davies. Had we been a bit more clinical with the finishing it wouldn't have mattered.

Strasbourg Saint wrote:

Confucious wrote:
I've been working on the numbers. Fulham got thumped 4-0 by Liverpool who lost 3-1 to Villa last week, Villa got thrashed 8-0 yesterday. We beat Villa 4-1 and drew 2-2 with Fulham.

Taking the additive and cummutative properties of the associative numbers and applying the inverse subtraction rule (with the quotient being negative and the reciprocals multiplying), we will win 5-2 on Boxing Day.

I haven't had time to calculate the exact score with Guly and Davis starting or Gazza v Kelvin in goal, but I've e mailed Nige with the formula so he can get one of Nicola's lackies to do it.

Surprisingly Foxy playing doesn't alter the result as we score as many from his crosses as we concede from his defensive slips.

Anyhow, using my scientific methodology, we can be pretty confident of predicting a win by at least two clear goals (plus one extra with my lucky pants on).

I've given Nige a separate formula to decide who should play in the hole, but have explained this is only 53% reliable.

It would be rather apt if, in the window, we signed Gustav Moth to play in the hole.

That 'hole' you've left Nigel deciding about, has it got anything to do with Fanny Craddock's doughnuts? If so, I think we'll lose.

What we need over Christmas is simple. As I pointed out on an earlier thread, Strasbourg thinks of itself as the Capital of Christmas. This makes Spiderman (with Punch and Cork) playing in a croissant-shaped midfield formation just in front of a back 5 croissant-shaped defence (Fox, Shaw, Fonte, Yoshida and Clyne) a MUST.

Stick Ramirez behind SRL in what is known in France as 'le pan-au-chocolat ligne de but' and we'll be in for a tasty 3 points.

Of course, given how often Fox gets caught out of position drifting downfield, many will see this as justifying their belief in a straight forward 4-4-2. Those of us who understand a bit more about croissants and les chocolatines know differently.

Joyeux Noël et une Bonne Année tout le monde!

Or, as they say here in Portugal:
Feliz Natal e um Feliz Ano Novo a todos!

Donde esta mes zapatos...wo ist meine shuhe..
or something like that or, au, oder,ou est mon chausseur..

Were are my shoes even I can score better than our lot..

Nemesisaint wrote:

saintkenny wrote:

saintkenny wrote:
the suderland came from clyne in puncheon .wrong side my friend .goal scored in the chapel end think about it.

i mean if you watch it again he is allowed to cross the ball not closed down,that is what caused the goal .sunderland never gave puncheon a sniff.never able to cross the ball .harsh to critisise shaw for that .but then fox has done that before ,thats why i think they could help each other .shaw had poor protection from mayuka and deridder.that he gets from lallana.whats what we missed saturday .and fox is the best substitutte for that in my book

Yes, Clyne was marking space instead of Johnson and lost him completely, the defence were wrong footed by Sessegnons mishit, which couldn't have fallen better for Fletcher who doesn't miss chances like that, Shaw wasn't quite close enough to get a block in, no chance for Davies. Had we been a bit more clinical with the finishing it wouldn't have mattered.

we should of had a penatly though .was a foul on mayuka ,i agree with lilly savage on that one ,we were unlucky .we dont usually win with webb as referee

saintkenny wrote:

Nemesisaint wrote:

saintkenny wrote:

saintkenny wrote:
the suderland came from clyne in puncheon .wrong side my friend .goal scored in the chapel end think about it.

i mean if you watch it again he is allowed to cross the ball not closed down,that is what caused the goal .sunderland never gave puncheon a sniff.never able to cross the ball .harsh to critisise shaw for that .but then fox has done that before ,thats why i think they could help each other .shaw had poor protection from mayuka and deridder.that he gets from lallana.whats what we missed saturday .and fox is the best substitutte for that in my book

Yes, Clyne was marking space instead of Johnson and lost him completely, the defence were wrong footed by Sessegnons mishit, which couldn't have fallen better for Fletcher who doesn't miss chances like that, Shaw wasn't quite close enough to get a block in, no chance for Davies. Had we been a bit more clinical with the finishing it wouldn't have mattered.

we should of had a penatly though .was a foul on mayuka ,i agree with lilly savage on that one ,we were unlucky .we dont usually win with webb as referee

Bring back Billy Sharpe, he would have been handy last Saturday, who said that he was not suited in the big time league.

saintlysoul wrote:
Spider should be dropped and JWP to start with Cork in midfield. If this doesn't happen I predict as follows: Fulham 2 Saints 1; Stoke 2 Saints 0; & Saints 0 Arsenal 3. Saturdays performance can give no Saints fan any hope at all. You only have to read the national papers at the weekend to see that Spider and Ramirez both scored 5 out of 10 to see that the midfield needs shaking up. I don't think Davis fits the bill as he's too negative. JWP will at least go forward.

I'm afraid NA not for the first time this season looked totally clueless in the second half. Why of why was de Ridder included in the matchday squad? He hadn't even played in the premier league! Guly once again was awful and Davis has no 'forward' gear. I wonder who picks the squad I don't think it's NA! He said he will utilise the whole squad over the festive period. Is he managing a football team or a Boy Scouts outfit? Surely if you want to win in this league you play your strongest team?!!!!!

NA needs to be more assertive otherwise he will be off in January.

Merry Christmas!

Strasbourg Saint wrote:

Alicesdad wrote:

Seedhouse the Unrepentant wrote:
There have been fans calling all season for 4 4 2. When they get it they moan. Many have called for Mayuka, they got him. Others De Ridder, they got him. Now many call for Tad Lee, maybe he will play at Fulham.

I watch with amusement as fans call for something, get it and then distance themselves afterwards.

The team against Sunderland was the one I would have picked. A few may have gone for Gazza and Jay Rod instead of Kelv and Mayuka but the rest of the team picks itself.

It wasn't bad management it was a p!ss poor effort by the players.

Tussling with your logic and working through the points you made I can only really say one thing .. absolutley !

Based on what I've heard about the game and some of the knee-jerk reactions I've read, I also agree absolutely!

Or as a Pompey fan was heard to say, " Huh? That hurts my head!"

saintlysoul wrote:
Spider should be dropped and JWP to start with Cork in midfield. If this doesn't happen I predict as follows: Fulham 2 Saints 1; Stoke 2 Saints 0; & Saints 0 Arsenal 3. Saturdays performance can give no Saints fan any hope at all. You only have to read the national papers at the weekend to see that Spider and Ramirez both scored 5 out of 10 to see that the midfield needs shaking up. I don't think Davis fits the bill as he's too negative. JWP will at least go forward.

I'm afraid NA not for the first time this season looked totally clueless in the second half. Why of why was de Ridder included in the matchday squad? He hadn't even played in the premier league! Guly once again was awful and Davis has no 'forward' gear. I wonder who picks the squad I don't think it's NA! He said he will utilise the whole squad over the festive period. Is he managing a football team or a Boy Scouts outfit? Surely if you want to win in this league you play your strongest team?!!!!!

NA needs to be more assertive otherwise he will be off in January.

How would you explain the games won with Schneiderlin playing?

I agree he didn't play well on Saturday, but he's usually one of our best players.

I'm not a great fan of de Ridder, but not having played in the prem before is hardly a logical reason for not playing him. After all, everyone who has ever played him in the prem has had to have a debut.

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Can anyone explain why NA is being so coy on how long Adam is likely to be out for?

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Have a gooddun Mush San!

to all who post and read ,merry christmas who ever you are a fan of .have a great one

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Did you say you'll be over in Feb/March?

I'm intending to take the boys to Newcastle. I gather it's likely to be moved to the Sunday 24/2 and it's the day before term restarts but, hey!

So, if that one's on your schedule, let me know.

The coaching staff aren't up to Premier League standard, it's as simple as that!
I've been saying all season that NA needs the help of a first class coach.
Interesting that the first thing Bagpuss did, on taking over at QPR, was to bring in his own two coaches, Bond and Jordan.
Saints can play like Barcelona on the training pitch, its what happens against real opposition that counts.

saintlysoul wrote:
Spider should be dropped and JWP to start with Cork in midfield. If this doesn't happen I predict as follows: Fulham 2 Saints 1; Stoke 2 Saints 0; & Saints 0 Arsenal 3. Saturdays performance can give no Saints fan any hope at all. You only have to read the national papers at the weekend to see that Spider and Ramirez both scored 5 out of 10 to see that the midfield needs shaking up. I don't think Davis fits the bill as he's too negative. JWP will at least go forward.

I'm afraid NA not for the first time this season looked totally clueless in the second half. Why of why was de Ridder included in the matchday squad? He hadn't even played in the premier league! Guly once again was awful and Davis has no 'forward' gear. I wonder who picks the squad I don't think it's NA! He said he will utilise the whole squad over the festive period. Is he managing a football team or a Boy Scouts outfit? Surely if you want to win in this league you play your strongest team?!!!!!

NA needs to be more assertive otherwise he will be off in January.

I thought the subs Adkins made were the right ones. Davis was brought on to try and add some urgency, close down players and put them under pressure.
De Ridder was brought on to add pace to the left, and it worked in my opinion. It always helps to have someone who can take on a player and get them booked. I'd like to see him come on more. They ended up doubling up on him and he still managed to cause problems.
On the not played in the Premier League before, I presume you wouldn't have played Lambert at all this season then?
Puncheon was kept quite all game by Rose, who was fantastic. I think Punch would have been better on the left as they had a midfielder playing right back and his pace would have been more effective.
Guly was on for 10 minutes and you say he was awful, it's hardly long to make an impact, and he showed a new, better, attitude I reckon and some decent touches.

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Did you say you'll be over in Feb/March?

I'm intending to take the boys to Newcastle. I gather it's likely to be moved to the Sunday 24/2 and it's the day before term restarts but, hey!

So, if that one's on your schedule, let me know.

Strassie, yes I am going to Chelsea. Are you desperate for a pint.
Ive just paid Bill out. I put his money on a Jack Cork score any time,11/2.
We lost.

Red n White wrote:

saintlysoul wrote:
Spider should be dropped and JWP to start with Cork in midfield. If this doesn't happen I predict as follows: Fulham 2 Saints 1; Stoke 2 Saints 0; & Saints 0 Arsenal 3. Saturdays performance can give no Saints fan any hope at all. You only have to read the national papers at the weekend to see that Spider and Ramirez both scored 5 out of 10 to see that the midfield needs shaking up. I don't think Davis fits the bill as he's too negative. JWP will at least go forward.

I'm afraid NA not for the first time this season looked totally clueless in the second half. Why of why was de Ridder included in the matchday squad? He hadn't even played in the premier league! Guly once again was awful and Davis has no 'forward' gear. I wonder who picks the squad I don't think it's NA! He said he will utilise the whole squad over the festive period. Is he managing a football team or a Boy Scouts outfit? Surely if you want to win in this league you play your strongest team?!!!!!

NA needs to be more assertive otherwise he will be off in January.

I thought the subs Adkins made were the right ones. Davis was brought on to try and add some urgency, close down players and put them under pressure.
De Ridder was brought on to add pace to the left, and it worked in my opinion. It always helps to have someone who can take on a player and get them booked. I'd like to see him come on more. They ended up doubling up on him and he still managed to cause problems.
On the not played in the Premier League before, I presume you wouldn't have played Lambert at all this season then?
Puncheon was kept quite all game by Rose, who was fantastic. I think Punch would have been better on the left as they had a midfielder playing right back and his pace would have been more effective.
Guly was on for 10 minutes and you say he was awful, it's hardly long to make an impact, and he showed a new, better, attitude I reckon and some decent touches.

You talked lot of sense there Red n White.
Must agree Rose was good.

Seedhouse the Unrepentant wrote:
There have been fans calling all season for 4 4 2. When they get it they moan. Many have called for Mayuka, they got him. Others De Ridder, they got him. Now many call for Tad Lee, maybe he will play at Fulham.

I watch with amusement as fans call for something, get it and then distance themselves afterwards.

The team against Sunderland was the one I would have picked. A few may have gone for Gazza and Jay Rod instead of Kelv and Mayuka but the rest of the team picks itself.

It wasn't bad management it was a p!ss poor effort by the players.

Completely agree. I picked that side on the Friday. It wasn't the fact that lallana was absent, it was nine of the other eleven that went missing that played the biggest part in the defeat.

Onwards and upwards, teams lose games they should really win on paper! Welcome back to the premiership and life hovering around from 15th - 18th as we always did in the main. The lowest we'll finish is 16th, so relax, enjoy your turkey and up the Saints!

TEBOURBA wrote:
The coaching staff aren't up to Premier League standard, it's as simple as that!
I've been saying all season that NA needs the help of a first class coach.
Interesting that the first thing Bagpuss did, on taking over at QPR, was to bring in his own two coaches, Bond and Jordan.
Saints can play like Barcelona on the training pitch, its what happens against real opposition that counts.

and qpr will still go down big deal

TEBOURBA wrote:
The coaching staff aren't up to Premier League standard, it's as simple as that!
I've been saying all season that NA needs the help of a first class coach.
Interesting that the first thing Bagpuss did, on taking over at QPR, was to bring in his own two coaches, Bond and Jordan.
Saints can play like Barcelona on the training pitch, its what happens against real opposition that counts.

sorry to disapoint you .but no one really cares about what you think on here .like wedont most pompey fans .perhaps you could give some of your wisdom of advice to help .redknapp bond and jordan .obviously dont give a toss anymore do they,thats what counts

Red n White wrote:

saintlysoul wrote:
Spider should be dropped and JWP to start with Cork in midfield. If this doesn't happen I predict as follows: Fulham 2 Saints 1; Stoke 2 Saints 0; & Saints 0 Arsenal 3. Saturdays performance can give no Saints fan any hope at all. You only have to read the national papers at the weekend to see that Spider and Ramirez both scored 5 out of 10 to see that the midfield needs shaking up. I don't think Davis fits the bill as he's too negative. JWP will at least go forward.

I'm afraid NA not for the first time this season looked totally clueless in the second half. Why of why was de Ridder included in the matchday squad? He hadn't even played in the premier league! Guly once again was awful and Davis has no 'forward' gear. I wonder who picks the squad I don't think it's NA! He said he will utilise the whole squad over the festive period. Is he managing a football team or a Boy Scouts outfit? Surely if you want to win in this league you play your strongest team?!!!!!

NA needs to be more assertive otherwise he will be off in January.

I thought the subs Adkins made were the right ones. Davis was brought on to try and add some urgency, close down players and put them under pressure.
De Ridder was brought on to add pace to the left, and it worked in my opinion. It always helps to have someone who can take on a player and get them booked. I'd like to see him come on more. They ended up doubling up on him and he still managed to cause problems.
On the not played in the Premier League before, I presume you wouldn't have played Lambert at all this season then?
Puncheon was kept quite all game by Rose, who was fantastic. I think Punch would have been better on the left as they had a midfielder playing right back and his pace would have been more effective.
Guly was on for 10 minutes and you say he was awful, it's hardly long to make an impact, and he showed a new, better, attitude I reckon and some decent touches.

One of the better posts on here, good analysis of what happened.

saintkenny wrote:

TEBOURBA wrote:
The coaching staff aren't up to Premier League standard, it's as simple as that!
I've been saying all season that NA needs the help of a first class coach.
Interesting that the first thing Bagpuss did, on taking over at QPR, was to bring in his own two coaches, Bond and Jordan.
Saints can play like Barcelona on the training pitch, its what happens against real opposition that counts.

and qpr will still go down big deal

the real with redknapp he cant manage is own .before he had to have jim smith.and now kevin and joe .he gets praise as a manager .but has never done it on is own ,he needs them he lacks confidence without them .nothing to do with coaching

Just put on the telly and lo and behold, Dicken's Christmas Carol is on....

...with Tebourba playing the leading role..."Bah Humbug" :O)

TEBOURBA wrote:
The coaching staff aren't up to Premier League standard, it's as simple as that!
I've been saying all season that NA needs the help of a first class coach.
Interesting that the first thing Bagpuss did, on taking over at QPR, was to bring in his own two coaches, Bond and Jordan.
Saints can play like Barcelona on the training pitch, its what happens against real opposition that counts.

Let us make it clear here, the statement made about the Coaching staff is not a statement of fact, just the thoughts of a sometimes misguided and self opionated poster. He has been saying things all season and has about a 44% truth rate, and I may be a bit generous here.

Baddesley Bill wrote:
Just put on the telly and lo and behold, Dicken's Christmas Carol is on....

...with Tebourba playing the leading role..."Bah Humbug" :O)

..... and kent141 the Ghost of Christmas Past, it's what he is good at, made for the role.

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

TEBOURBA wrote:
The coaching staff aren't up to Premier League standard, it's as simple as that!
I've been saying all season that NA needs the help of a first class coach.
Interesting that the first thing Bagpuss did, on taking over at QPR, was to bring in his own two coaches, Bond and Jordan.
Saints can play like Barcelona on the training pitch, its what happens against real opposition that counts.

Let us make it clear here, the statement made about the Coaching staff is not a statement of fact, just the thoughts of a sometimes misguided and self opionated poster. He has been saying things all season and has about a 44% truth rate, and I may be a bit generous here.

"a bit" ??

no, steve de ridder did

Strasbourg Saint wrote:

saintlysoul wrote:
Spider should be dropped and JWP to start with Cork in midfield. If this doesn't happen I predict as follows: Fulham 2 Saints 1; Stoke 2 Saints 0; & Saints 0 Arsenal 3. Saturdays performance can give no Saints fan any hope at all. You only have to read the national papers at the weekend to see that Spider and Ramirez both scored 5 out of 10 to see that the midfield needs shaking up. I don't think Davis fits the bill as he's too negative. JWP will at least go forward.

I'm afraid NA not for the first time this season looked totally clueless in the second half. Why of why was de Ridder included in the matchday squad? He hadn't even played in the premier league! Guly once again was awful and Davis has no 'forward' gear. I wonder who picks the squad I don't think it's NA! He said he will utilise the whole squad over the festive period. Is he managing a football team or a Boy Scouts outfit? Surely if you want to win in this league you play your strongest team?!!!!!

NA needs to be more assertive otherwise he will be off in January.

Merry Christmas!

Ha ha like that! Merry Christmas to you!!!!

In other news...I'm really beginning to feel quite confident about my bet with ghk (£50 that NA would still be in charge come January)...

...Saints Foundation looking like they will be £50 to the better come the new year.

...over to you ghk.

Saints need to get the cheque book out in the January sales. A class centre back and a hard nut gritty midfielder, who can strike a bit of fear into the opposition by winning tackles and settin up the play. A pacy winger that can consistently get a decent cross into the box wouldn't go amiss either.
COYR!

warrens 76 wrote:

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

TEBOURBA wrote:
The coaching staff aren't up to Premier League standard, it's as simple as that!
I've been saying all season that NA needs the help of a first class coach.
Interesting that the first thing Bagpuss did, on taking over at QPR, was to bring in his own two coaches, Bond and Jordan.
Saints can play like Barcelona on the training pitch, its what happens against real opposition that counts.

Let us make it clear here, the statement made about the Coaching staff is not a statement of fact, just the thoughts of a sometimes misguided and self opionated poster. He has been saying things all season and has about a 44% truth rate, and I may be a bit generous here.

"a bit" ??

lol, I couldn't be asked to work it out properly, just guesswork on my behalf.

Blackknight wrote:
Saints need to get the cheque book out in the January sales. A class centre back and a hard nut gritty midfielder, who can strike a bit of fear into the opposition by winning tackles and settin up the play. A pacy winger that can consistently get a decent cross into the box wouldn't go amiss either.
COYR!

... and eight other 100% players to make it work.

A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to Osprey, Baddesley, Kenny and the rest of my fans, too numerous to mention individually.
I will repeat my wish list for the Festive Season for those of you who may have missed it:-
1) NA to stay in his job
2) Saints to stay in the PL
3) NA&NC to clear out the dross and buy better than they did in the close season and bring in an experienced coach -- wish (2) may well depend on it!!
4) The Spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future to visit Nicola Cortese and have the same success as they did with Ebenezer --- although I know that is a very tall order indeed!
5) The Directors of Solent Interiors to choose their clients more carefully in 2013 and will be paid on time for the great work they do!
It is the season of goodwill to all men --- and although I appreciate none of you are not in the same league as I, when it comes to football knowledge, never-the-less, I bear no grudge and wish you all well!

TEBOURBA wrote:
A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to Osprey, Baddesley, Kenny and the rest of my fans, too numerous to mention individually.
I will repeat my wish list for the Festive Season for those of you who may have missed it:-
1) NA to stay in his job
2) Saints to stay in the PL
3) NA&NC to clear out the dross and buy better than they did in the close season and bring in an experienced coach -- wish (2) may well depend on it!!
4) The Spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future to visit Nicola Cortese and have the same success as they did with Ebenezer --- although I know that is a very tall order indeed!
5) The Directors of Solent Interiors to choose their clients more carefully in 2013 and will be paid on time for the great work they do!
It is the season of goodwill to all men --- and although I appreciate none of you are not in the same league as I, when it comes to football knowledge, never-the-less, I bear no grudge and wish you all well!

You started well then fell into the usual trap. Forgive me if I don't reciprocate.

5) I agree, this way you might, just might get your life back..felicitations for the new year.

TEBOURBA wrote:
A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to Osprey, Baddesley, Kenny and the rest of my fans, too numerous to mention individually.
I will repeat my wish list for the Festive Season for those of you who may have missed it:-
1) NA to stay in his job
2) Saints to stay in the PL
3) NA&NC to clear out the dross and buy better than they did in the close season and bring in an experienced coach -- wish (2) may well depend on it!!
4) The Spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future to visit Nicola Cortese and have the same success as they did with Ebenezer --- although I know that is a very tall order indeed!
5) The Directors of Solent Interiors to choose their clients more carefully in 2013 and will be paid on time for the great work they do!
It is the season of goodwill to all men --- and although I appreciate none of you are not in the same league as I, when it comes to football knowledge, never-the-less, I bear no grudge and wish you all well!

Merry Christmas!

TEBOURBA wrote:
A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to Osprey, Baddesley, Kenny and the rest of my fans, too numerous to mention individually.
I will repeat my wish list for the Festive Season for those of you who may have missed it:-
1) NA to stay in his job
2) Saints to stay in the PL
3) NA&NC to clear out the dross and buy better than they did in the close season and bring in an experienced coach -- wish (2) may well depend on it!!
4) The Spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future to visit Nicola Cortese and have the same success as they did with Ebenezer --- although I know that is a very tall order indeed!
5) The Directors of Solent Interiors to choose their clients more carefully in 2013 and will be paid on time for the great work they do!
It is the season of goodwill to all men --- and although I appreciate none of you are not in the same league as I, when it comes to football knowledge, never-the-less, I bear no grudge and wish you all well!

Same league?...of course not...my Club are in the Premier League all said and done.

...all the same...merry Xmas you miserable old buggar! :O)

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Did you say you'll be over in Feb/March?

I'm intending to take the boys to Newcastle. I gather it's likely to be moved to the Sunday 24/2 and it's the day before term restarts but, hey!

So, if that one's on your schedule, let me know.

Strassie, yes I am going to Chelsea. Are you desperate for a pint.
Ive just paid Bill out. I put his money on a Jack Cork score any time,11/2.
We lost.

Yes, desperate for a proper pint, but no need for you to pay (unless you happen to put a tenner on Saints to win 5-2 at Fulham with Cork, Shaw, Clyne, Fox and Guly to be the scores at 1000-1, of course. In which case, I'll leave my wallet at home.

Not sure if I'll make the Station pre-match yet. I have to collect my cousin at Parkway and he may be running late.

But I was thinking of popping into the now famous Joshua Tree and pitching big-little Strassie against little Seed and little Velleity on the pool table with the winning family getting a free round off the other two families.

Where is it? Do you go there after matches, too?

Blackknight wrote:
Saints need to get the cheque book out in the January sales. A class centre back and a hard nut gritty midfielder, who can strike a bit of fear into the opposition by winning tackles and settin up the play. A pacy winger that can consistently get a decent cross into the box wouldn't go amiss either.
COYR!

No our existing players need to speed it up and think Prem not Championship style..it a'int one player it is slow thinking from our entire crew..

saintkenny wrote:

TEBOURBA wrote:
The coaching staff aren't up to Premier League standard, it's as simple as that!
I've been saying all season that NA needs the help of a first class coach.
Interesting that the first thing Bagpuss did, on taking over at QPR, was to bring in his own two coaches, Bond and Jordan.
Saints can play like Barcelona on the training pitch, its what happens against real opposition that counts.

sorry to disapoint you .but no one really cares about what you think on here .like wedont most pompey fans .perhaps you could give some of your wisdom of advice to help .redknapp bond and jordan .obviously dont give a toss anymore do they,thats what counts

I agree with what he says.

I got six clean sheets and a pair of draws last Christmas. I've asked for ten wins this year.

thomasupton wrote:

saintkenny wrote:

TEBOURBA wrote:
The coaching staff aren't up to Premier League standard, it's as simple as that!
I've been saying all season that NA needs the help of a first class coach.
Interesting that the first thing Bagpuss did, on taking over at QPR, was to bring in his own two coaches, Bond and Jordan.
Saints can play like Barcelona on the training pitch, its what happens against real opposition that counts.

sorry to disapoint you .but no one really cares about what you think on here .like wedont most pompey fans .perhaps you could give some of your wisdom of advice to help .redknapp bond and jordan .obviously dont give a toss anymore do they,thats what counts

I agree with what he says.

You are he?

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

thomasupton wrote:

saintkenny wrote:

TEBOURBA wrote:
The coaching staff aren't up to Premier League standard, it's as simple as that!
I've been saying all season that NA needs the help of a first class coach.
Interesting that the first thing Bagpuss did, on taking over at QPR, was to bring in his own two coaches, Bond and Jordan.
Saints can play like Barcelona on the training pitch, its what happens against real opposition that counts.

sorry to disapoint you .but no one really cares about what you think on here .like wedont most pompey fans .perhaps you could give some of your wisdom of advice to help .redknapp bond and jordan .obviously dont give a toss anymore do they,thats what counts

I agree with what he says.

You are he?

I'm flattered you think so, I'm not as knowledgeable as Tebourba

It's the season of peace and goodwill, so MERRY CHRISTMAS to one and all - even you lot!

thomasupton wrote:

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

thomasupton wrote:

saintkenny wrote:

TEBOURBA wrote:
The coaching staff aren't up to Premier League standard, it's as simple as that!
I've been saying all season that NA needs the help of a first class coach.
Interesting that the first thing Bagpuss did, on taking over at QPR, was to bring in his own two coaches, Bond and Jordan.
Saints can play like Barcelona on the training pitch, its what happens against real opposition that counts.

sorry to disapoint you .but no one really cares about what you think on here .like wedont most pompey fans .perhaps you could give some of your wisdom of advice to help .redknapp bond and jordan .obviously dont give a toss anymore do they,thats what counts

I agree with what he says.

You are he?

I'm flattered you think so, I'm not as knowledgeable as Tebourba

That was a question not a statement. Your IQ must be fairly low if what you say is true.

Skating on thin ice wrote:
It's the season of peace and goodwill, so MERRY CHRISTMAS to one and all - even you lot!

Humbug! Oh all right then, have a decent Winter Holiday (don't you hate it when they call it that!) I just hope that the New Year brings something to take your minds of our problems and gives you something to shout about, and keeps you off of here.

Confucious wrote:
I got six clean sheets and a pair of draws last Christmas. I've asked for ten wins this year.

I bet you get socks for defeat!

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

thomasupton wrote:

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

thomasupton wrote:

saintkenny wrote:

TEBOURBA wrote:
The coaching staff aren't up to Premier League standard, it's as simple as that!
I've been saying all season that NA needs the help of a first class coach.
Interesting that the first thing Bagpuss did, on taking over at QPR, was to bring in his own two coaches, Bond and Jordan.
Saints can play like Barcelona on the training pitch, its what happens against real opposition that counts.

sorry to disapoint you .but no one really cares about what you think on here .like wedont most pompey fans .perhaps you could give some of your wisdom of advice to help .redknapp bond and jordan .obviously dont give a toss anymore do they,thats what counts

I agree with what he says.

You are he?

I'm flattered you think so, I'm not as knowledgeable as Tebourba

That was a question not a statement. Your IQ must be fairly low if what you say is true.

If I had a high IQ I wouldn't be on here

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

thomasupton wrote:

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

thomasupton wrote:

saintkenny wrote:

TEBOURBA wrote:
The coaching staff aren't up to Premier League standard, it's as simple as that!
I've been saying all season that NA needs the help of a first class coach.
Interesting that the first thing Bagpuss did, on taking over at QPR, was to bring in his own two coaches, Bond and Jordan.
Saints can play like Barcelona on the training pitch, its what happens against real opposition that counts.

sorry to disapoint you .but no one really cares about what you think on here .like wedont most pompey fans .perhaps you could give some of your wisdom of advice to help .redknapp bond and jordan .obviously dont give a toss anymore do they,thats what counts

I agree with what he says.

You are he?

I'm flattered you think so, I'm not as knowledgeable as Tebourba

That was a question not a statement. Your IQ must be fairly low if what you say is true.

If I had a high IQ I wouldn't be on here

warrens 76 wrote:

Blackknight wrote:
Saints need to get the cheque book out in the January sales. A class centre back and a hard nut gritty midfielder, who can strike a bit of fear into the opposition by winning tackles and settin up the play. A pacy winger that can consistently get a decent cross into the box wouldn't go amiss either.
COYR!

No our existing players need to speed it up and think Prem not Championship style..it a'int one player it is slow thinking from our entire crew..

Yep. Gaston had a poor game but there were a couple of passes that looked good to me but because no one anticipated them they appeared carp.

Strasbourg Saint wrote:

mack chinnon wrote:

Strasbourg Saint wrote:

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Did you say you'll be over in Feb/March?

I'm intending to take the boys to Newcastle. I gather it's likely to be moved to the Sunday 24/2 and it's the day before term restarts but, hey!

So, if that one's on your schedule, let me know.

Strassie, yes I am going to Chelsea. Are you desperate for a pint.
Ive just paid Bill out. I put his money on a Jack Cork score any time,11/2.
We lost.

Yes, desperate for a proper pint, but no need for you to pay (unless you happen to put a tenner on Saints to win 5-2 at Fulham with Cork, Shaw, Clyne, Fox and Guly to be the scores at 1000-1, of course. In which case, I'll leave my wallet at home.

Not sure if I'll make the Station pre-match yet. I have to collect my cousin at Parkway and he may be running late.

But I was thinking of popping into the now famous Joshua Tree and pitching big-little Strassie against little Seed and little Velleity on the pool table with the winning family getting a free round off the other two families.

Where is it? Do you go there after matches, too?

It's a few hundred yards from the ground on the corner of the road leading to Shamrock Quay.

We had to shoot off after Sunderland game but hope to make it there after Chelsea.

Seedhouse the Unrepentant wrote:
TWENTY TWO

Guly needs help with his confidence. Counting down the days to the anniversary of the last time he scored a goal won't help him.

thomasupton wrote:

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

thomasupton wrote:

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

thomasupton wrote:

saintkenny wrote:

TEBOURBA wrote:
The coaching staff aren't up to Premier League standard, it's as simple as that!
I've been saying all season that NA needs the help of a first class coach.
Interesting that the first thing Bagpuss did, on taking over at QPR, was to bring in his own two coaches, Bond and Jordan.
Saints can play like Barcelona on the training pitch, its what happens against real opposition that counts.

sorry to disapoint you .but no one really cares about what you think on here .like wedont most pompey fans .perhaps you could give some of your wisdom of advice to help .redknapp bond and jordan .obviously dont give a toss anymore do they,thats what counts

I agree with what he says.

You are he?

I'm flattered you think so, I'm not as knowledgeable as Tebourba

That was a question not a statement. Your IQ must be fairly low if what you say is true.

If I had a high IQ I wouldn't be on here

A high IQ isn't a pre-requisite though, we just want someone that can post sensible, decent and interesting opinions. If it is an opinion, say so, not presenting it as a fact a la Theborer.

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

thomasupton wrote:

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

thomasupton wrote:

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

thomasupton wrote:

saintkenny wrote:

TEBOURBA wrote:
The coaching staff aren't up to Premier League standard, it's as simple as that!
I've been saying all season that NA needs the help of a first class coach.
Interesting that the first thing Bagpuss did, on taking over at QPR, was to bring in his own two coaches, Bond and Jordan.
Saints can play like Barcelona on the training pitch, its what happens against real opposition that counts.

sorry to disapoint you .but no one really cares about what you think on here .like wedont most pompey fans .perhaps you could give some of your wisdom of advice to help .redknapp bond and jordan .obviously dont give a toss anymore do they,thats what counts

I agree with what he says.

You are he?

I'm flattered you think so, I'm not as knowledgeable as Tebourba

That was a question not a statement. Your IQ must be fairly low if what you say is true.

If I had a high IQ I wouldn't be on here

A high IQ isn't a pre-requisite though, we just want someone that can post sensible, decent and interesting opinions. If it is an opinion, say so, not presenting it as a fact a la Theborer.

Would that be the Echo or you that requests sensible, decent and interesting opinions?

Skating on thin ice wrote:

Seedhouse the Unrepentant wrote:
TWENTY TWO

Guly needs help with his confidence. Counting down the days to the anniversary of the last time he scored a goal won't help him.

Merry Xmas skunt.

thomasupton wrote:

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

thomasupton wrote:

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

thomasupton wrote:

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

thomasupton wrote:

saintkenny wrote:

TEBOURBA wrote:
The coaching staff aren't up to Premier League standard, it's as simple as that!
I've been saying all season that NA needs the help of a first class coach.
Interesting that the first thing Bagpuss did, on taking over at QPR, was to bring in his own two coaches, Bond and Jordan.
Saints can play like Barcelona on the training pitch, its what happens against real opposition that counts.

sorry to disapoint you .but no one really cares about what you think on here .like wedont most pompey fans .perhaps you could give some of your wisdom of advice to help .redknapp bond and jordan .obviously dont give a toss anymore do they,thats what counts

I agree with what he says.

You are he?

I'm flattered you think so, I'm not as knowledgeable as Tebourba

That was a question not a statement. Your IQ must be fairly low if what you say is true.

If I had a high IQ I wouldn't be on here

A high IQ isn't a pre-requisite though, we just want someone that can post sensible, decent and interesting opinions. If it is an opinion, say so, not presenting it as a fact a la Theborer.

Would that be the Echo or you that requests sensible, decent and interesting opinions?

It is from anyone that wants a decent Forum, does that not match your opinion on what a good discussion site should be, or do you prefer the mass ranks of WUMs and Trolls that have infested the site for a little while now? You, in the past have posted legitimate arguments, for which you have received unfair abuse, Many disagree with you, only you can decide why that is, but I don't think intentionally from me, however some of my methods can easily be misunderstood, if read the wrong way. I may be cheeky, I may be argumentative, definitely boring at times, but never intentionally abusive, though my patience has been tried on occasions, until I realised that I was just being led up the garden path by mongs who take my good nature for granted and feed off of the attention that I mistakenly gave them in good faith. All we need is for you (and others) to post sensibly, think before you hit the submit button, and don't get upset if the response isn't what you expect.

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

thomasupton wrote:

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

thomasupton wrote:

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

thomasupton wrote:

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

thomasupton wrote:

saintkenny wrote:

TEBOURBA wrote:
The coaching staff aren't up to Premier League standard, it's as simple as that!
I've been saying all season that NA needs the help of a first class coach.
Interesting that the first thing Bagpuss did, on taking over at QPR, was to bring in his own two coaches, Bond and Jordan.
Saints can play like Barcelona on the training pitch, its what happens against real opposition that counts.

sorry to disapoint you .but no one really cares about what you think on here .like wedont most pompey fans .perhaps you could give some of your wisdom of advice to help .redknapp bond and jordan .obviously dont give a toss anymore do they,thats what counts

I agree with what he says.

You are he?

I'm flattered you think so, I'm not as knowledgeable as Tebourba

That was a question not a statement. Your IQ must be fairly low if what you say is true.

If I had a high IQ I wouldn't be on here

A high IQ isn't a pre-requisite though, we just want someone that can post sensible, decent and interesting opinions. If it is an opinion, say so, not presenting it as a fact a la Theborer.

Would that be the Echo or you that requests sensible, decent and interesting opinions?

It is from anyone that wants a decent Forum, does that not match your opinion on what a good discussion site should be, or do you prefer the mass ranks of WUMs and Trolls that have infested the site for a little while now? You, in the past have posted legitimate arguments, for which you have received unfair abuse, Many disagree with you, only you can decide why that is, but I don't think intentionally from me, however some of my methods can easily be misunderstood, if read the wrong way. I may be cheeky, I may be argumentative, definitely boring at times, but never intentionally abusive, though my patience has been tried on occasions, until I realised that I was just being led up the garden path by mongs who take my good nature for granted and feed off of the attention that I mistakenly gave them in good faith. All we need is for you (and others) to post sensibly, think before you hit the submit button, and don't get upset if the response isn't what you expect.

No that seems to be a fair comment to be honest.
Just hope the festive period is good for Saints and see what Father Christmas brings us in the January transfers.

thomasupton wrote:

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

thomasupton wrote:

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

thomasupton wrote:

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

thomasupton wrote:

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

thomasupton wrote:

saintkenny wrote:

TEBOURBA wrote:
The coaching staff aren't up to Premier League standard, it's as simple as that!
I've been saying all season that NA needs the help of a first class coach.
Interesting that the first thing Bagpuss did, on taking over at QPR, was to bring in his own two coaches, Bond and Jordan.
Saints can play like Barcelona on the training pitch, its what happens against real opposition that counts.

sorry to disapoint you .but no one really cares about what you think on here .like wedont most pompey fans .perhaps you could give some of your wisdom of advice to help .redknapp bond and jordan .obviously dont give a toss anymore do they,thats what counts

I agree with what he says.

You are he?

I'm flattered you think so, I'm not as knowledgeable as Tebourba

That was a question not a statement. Your IQ must be fairly low if what you say is true.

If I had a high IQ I wouldn't be on here

A high IQ isn't a pre-requisite though, we just want someone that can post sensible, decent and interesting opinions. If it is an opinion, say so, not presenting it as a fact a la Theborer.

Would that be the Echo or you that requests sensible, decent and interesting opinions?

It is from anyone that wants a decent Forum, does that not match your opinion on what a good discussion site should be, or do you prefer the mass ranks of WUMs and Trolls that have infested the site for a little while now? You, in the past have posted legitimate arguments, for which you have received unfair abuse, Many disagree with you, only you can decide why that is, but I don't think intentionally from me, however some of my methods can easily be misunderstood, if read the wrong way. I may be cheeky, I may be argumentative, definitely boring at times, but never intentionally abusive, though my patience has been tried on occasions, until I realised that I was just being led up the garden path by mongs who take my good nature for granted and feed off of the attention that I mistakenly gave them in good faith. All we need is for you (and others) to post sensibly, think before you hit the submit button, and don't get upset if the response isn't what you expect.

No that seems to be a fair comment to be honest.
Just hope the festive period is good for Saints and see what Father Christmas brings us in the January transfers.

Just let us know if you get any wind of any signings, information is precious, have a good Christmas, we all want the same in the New Year.

I shall post anything I hear, have a good Christmas also and a peaceful new year

http://youtu.be/vm4f
wjw92S8

Have a very happy Christmas all..

Only three hours at the Training Ground for the First Team, no spuds!!! No Gravy!!

Merry christmas, I hope this covers most of you!

Afrikaans: Geseënde Kersfees
Afrikander: Een Plesierige Kerfees
African/ Eritrean/ Tigrinja: Rehus-Beal-Ledeats
Albanian:Gezur Krislinjden
Arabic: Milad Majid
Argentine: Feliz Navidad
Armenian: Shenoraavor Nor Dari yev Pari Gaghand
Azeri: Tezze Iliniz Yahsi Olsun
Bahasa Malaysia: Selamat Hari Natal
Basque: Zorionak eta Urte Berri On!
Bengali: Shuvo Naba Barsha
Bohemian: Vesele Vanoce
Bosnian: (BOSANSKI) Cestit Bozic i Sretna Nova godina
Brazilian: Feliz Natal
Breton: Nedeleg laouen na bloavezh mat
Bulgarian: Tchestita Koleda; Tchestito Rojdestvo Hristovo
Catalan: Bon Nadal i un Bon Any Nou!
Chile: Feliz Navidad
Chinese: (Cantonese) Gun Tso Sun Tan'Gung Haw Sun
Chinese: (Mandarin) Sheng Dan Kuai Le
Choctaw: Yukpa, Nitak Hollo Chito
Columbia: Feliz Navidad y Próspero Año Nuevo
Cornish: Nadelik looan na looan blethen noweth
Corsian: Pace e salute
Crazanian: Rot Yikji Dol La Roo
Cree: Mitho Makosi Kesikansi
Croatian: Sretan Bozic
Czech: Prejeme Vam Vesele Vanoce a stastny Novy Rok
Danish: Glædelig Jul
Duri: Christmas-e- Shoma Mobarak
Dutch: Vrolijk Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! or Zalig Kerstfeast
English: Merry Christmas
Eskimo: (inupik) Jutdlime pivdluarit ukiortame pivdluaritlo!
Esperanto: Gajan Kristnaskon
Estonian: Rõõmsaid Jõulupühi
Ethiopian: (Amharic) Melkin Yelidet Beaal
Faeroese: Gledhilig jol og eydnurikt nyggjar!
Farsi: Cristmas-e-shoma mobarak bashad
Finnish: Hyvaa joulua
Flemish: Zalig Kerstfeest en Gelukkig nieuw jaar
French: Joyeux Noel
Frisian: Noflike Krystdagen en in protte Lok en Seine yn it Nije Jier!
Galician: Bo Nada
Gaelic: Nollaig chridheil agus Bliadhna mhath ùr!
German: Fröhliche Weihnachten
Greek: Kala Christouyenna!
Haiti: (Creole) Jwaye Nowel or to Jesus Edo Bri'cho o Rish D'Shato Brichto
Hausa: Barka da Kirsimatikuma Barka da Sabuwar Shekara!
Hawaiian: Mele Kalikimaka
Hebrew: Mo'adim Lesimkha. Chena tova
Hindi: Shub Naya Baras (good New Year not Merry Christmas)
Hungarian: Boldog Karácsonyt
Icelandic: Gledileg Jol
Indonesian: Selamat Hari Natal
Iraqi: Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah
Irish: Nollaig Shona Dhuit, or Nodlaig mhaith chugnat
Iroquois: Ojenyunyat Sungwiyadeson honungradon nagwutut. Ojenyunyat osrasay.
Italian: Buone Feste Natalizie
Japanese: Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto
Jiberish: Mithag Crithagsigathmithags

Korean: Sung Tan Chuk Ha
Kurdish: Serî sallî nwê pîroz
Lao: souksan van Christmas
Latin: Natale hilare et Annum Faustum!
Latvian: Prieci'gus Ziemsve'tkus un Laimi'gu Jauno Gadu!
Lausitzian:Wjesole hody a strowe nowe leto
Lettish: Priecigus Ziemassvetkus
Lithuanian: Linksmu Kaledu
Low Saxon: Heughliche Winachten un 'n moi Nijaar
Luxembourgish: Schèine Chreschtdaag an e gudde Rutsch
Macedonian: Sreken Bozhik
Maltese: IL-Milied It-tajjeb
Manx: Nollick ghennal as blein vie noa
Maori: Meri Kirihimete
Marathi: Shub Naya Varsh (good New Year not Merry Christmas)
Navajo: Merry Keshmish
Norwegian: God Jul, or Gledelig Jul
Occitan: Pulit nadal e bona annado
Papiamento: Bon Pasco
Papua New Guinea: Bikpela hamamas blong dispela Krismas na Nupela yia i go long yu
Pennsylvania German: En frehlicher Grischtdaag un en hallich Nei Yaahr!
Peru: Feliz Navidad y un Venturoso Año Nuevo
Philippines: Maligayang Pasko!
Polish: Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia or Boze Narodzenie
Portuguese:Feliz Natal
Pushto: Christmas Aao Ne-way Kaal Mo Mobarak Sha
Rapa-Nui (Easter Island): Mata-Ki-Te-Rangi. Te-Pito-O-Te-Henua
Rhetian: Bellas festas da nadal e bun onn
Romanche: (sursilvan dialect): Legreivlas fiastas da Nadal e bien niev onn!
Rumanian: Sarbatori vesele or Craciun fericit
Russian: Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdestva is Novim Godom
Sami: Buorrit Juovllat
Samoan: La Maunia Le Kilisimasi Ma Le Tausaga Fou
Sardinian: Bonu nadale e prosperu annu nou
Scots Gaelic: Nollaig Chridheil dhuibh
Serbian: Hristos se rodi.
Singhalese: Subha nath thalak Vewa. Subha Aluth Awrudhak Vewa
Slovak: Vesele Vianoce. A stastlivy Novy Rok
Slovene: Vesele Bozicne Praznike Srecno Novo Leto or Vesel Bozic in srecno Novo leto
Spanish: Feliz Navidad
Swedish: God Jul and (Och) Ett Gott Nytt År
Tagalog: Maligayamg Pasko. Masaganang Bagong Taon
Tamil: (Tamizh) Nathar Puthu Varuda Valthukkal (good New Year not Merry Christmas)
Trukeese: (Micronesian) Neekiriisimas annim oo iyer seefe feyiyeech!
Thai: Sawadee Pee Mai or souksan wan Christmas
Turkish: Noeliniz Ve Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun
Ukrainian: Z Rizdvom Khrystovym or S rozhdestvom Kristovym
Urdu: Naya Saal Mubarak Ho (good New Year not Merry Christmas)
Vietnamese: Chuc Mung Giang Sinh
Welsh: Nadolig Llawen
Yoruba: E ku odun, e ku iye'dun!

erry-may istmas-chray

cor Osprey.. you did that well!
Nadolig Llawen to you you and yours!

OSPREYSAINT wrote:
Merry christmas, I hope this covers most of you!

Afrikaans: Geseënde Kersfees
Afrikander: Een Plesierige Kerfees
African/ Eritrean/ Tigrinja: Rehus-Beal-Ledeats
Albanian:Gezur Krislinjden
Arabic: Milad Majid
Argentine: Feliz Navidad
Armenian: Shenoraavor Nor Dari yev Pari Gaghand
Azeri: Tezze Iliniz Yahsi Olsun
Bahasa Malaysia: Selamat Hari Natal
Basque: Zorionak eta Urte Berri On!
Bengali: Shuvo Naba Barsha
Bohemian: Vesele Vanoce
Bosnian: (BOSANSKI) Cestit Bozic i Sretna Nova godina
Brazilian: Feliz Natal
Breton: Nedeleg laouen na bloavezh mat
Bulgarian: Tchestita Koleda; Tchestito Rojdestvo Hristovo
Catalan: Bon Nadal i un Bon Any Nou!
Chile: Feliz Navidad
Chinese: (Cantonese) Gun Tso Sun Tan'Gung Haw Sun
Chinese: (Mandarin) Sheng Dan Kuai Le
Choctaw: Yukpa, Nitak Hollo Chito
Columbia: Feliz Navidad y Próspero Año Nuevo
Cornish: Nadelik looan na looan blethen noweth
Corsian: Pace e salute
Crazanian: Rot Yikji Dol La Roo
Cree: Mitho Makosi Kesikansi
Croatian: Sretan Bozic
Czech: Prejeme Vam Vesele Vanoce a stastny Novy Rok
Danish: Glædelig Jul
Duri: Christmas-e- Shoma Mobarak
Dutch: Vrolijk Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! or Zalig Kerstfeast
English: Merry Christmas
Eskimo: (inupik) Jutdlime pivdluarit ukiortame pivdluaritlo!
Esperanto: Gajan Kristnaskon
Estonian: Rõõmsaid Jõulupühi
Ethiopian: (Amharic) Melkin Yelidet Beaal
Faeroese: Gledhilig jol og eydnurikt nyggjar!
Farsi: Cristmas-e-shoma mobarak bashad
Finnish: Hyvaa joulua
Flemish: Zalig Kerstfeest en Gelukkig nieuw jaar
French: Joyeux Noel
Frisian: Noflike Krystdagen en in protte Lok en Seine yn it Nije Jier!
Galician: Bo Nada
Gaelic: Nollaig chridheil agus Bliadhna mhath ùr!
German: Fröhliche Weihnachten
Greek: Kala Christouyenna!
Haiti: (Creole) Jwaye Nowel or to Jesus Edo Bri'cho o Rish D'Shato Brichto
Hausa: Barka da Kirsimatikuma Barka da Sabuwar Shekara!
Hawaiian: Mele Kalikimaka
Hebrew: Mo'adim Lesimkha. Chena tova
Hindi: Shub Naya Baras (good New Year not Merry Christmas)
Hungarian: Boldog Karácsonyt
Icelandic: Gledileg Jol
Indonesian: Selamat Hari Natal
Iraqi: Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah
Irish: Nollaig Shona Dhuit, or Nodlaig mhaith chugnat
Iroquois: Ojenyunyat Sungwiyadeson honungradon nagwutut. Ojenyunyat osrasay.
Italian: Buone Feste Natalizie
Japanese: Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto
Jiberish: Mithag Crithagsigathmithags


Korean: Sung Tan Chuk Ha
Kurdish: Serî sallî nwê pîroz
Lao: souksan van Christmas
Latin: Natale hilare et Annum Faustum!
Latvian: Prieci'gus Ziemsve'tkus un Laimi'gu Jauno Gadu!
Lausitzian:Wjesole hody a strowe nowe leto
Lettish: Priecigus Ziemassvetkus
Lithuanian: Linksmu Kaledu
Low Saxon: Heughliche Winachten un 'n moi Nijaar
Luxembourgish: Schèine Chreschtdaag an e gudde Rutsch
Macedonian: Sreken Bozhik
Maltese: IL-Milied It-tajjeb
Manx: Nollick ghennal as blein vie noa
Maori: Meri Kirihimete
Marathi: Shub Naya Varsh (good New Year not Merry Christmas)
Navajo: Merry Keshmish
Norwegian: God Jul, or Gledelig Jul
Occitan: Pulit nadal e bona annado
Papiamento: Bon Pasco
Papua New Guinea: Bikpela hamamas blong dispela Krismas na Nupela yia i go long yu
Pennsylvania German: En frehlicher Grischtdaag un en hallich Nei Yaahr!
Peru: Feliz Navidad y un Venturoso Año Nuevo
Philippines: Maligayang Pasko!
Polish: Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia or Boze Narodzenie
Portuguese:Feliz Natal
Pushto: Christmas Aao Ne-way Kaal Mo Mobarak Sha
Rapa-Nui (Easter Island): Mata-Ki-Te-Rangi. Te-Pito-O-Te-Henua
Rhetian: Bellas festas da nadal e bun onn
Romanche: (sursilvan dialect): Legreivlas fiastas da Nadal e bien niev onn!
Rumanian: Sarbatori vesele or Craciun fericit
Russian: Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdestva is Novim Godom
Sami: Buorrit Juovllat
Samoan: La Maunia Le Kilisimasi Ma Le Tausaga Fou
Sardinian: Bonu nadale e prosperu annu nou
Scots Gaelic: Nollaig Chridheil dhuibh
Serbian: Hristos se rodi.
Singhalese: Subha nath thalak Vewa. Subha Aluth Awrudhak Vewa
Slovak: Vesele Vianoce. A stastlivy Novy Rok
Slovene: Vesele Bozicne Praznike Srecno Novo Leto or Vesel Bozic in srecno Novo leto
Spanish: Feliz Navidad
Swedish: God Jul and (Och) Ett Gott Nytt År
Tagalog: Maligayamg Pasko. Masaganang Bagong Taon
Tamil: (Tamizh) Nathar Puthu Varuda Valthukkal (good New Year not Merry Christmas)
Trukeese: (Micronesian) Neekiriisimas annim oo iyer seefe feyiyeech!
Thai: Sawadee Pee Mai or souksan wan Christmas
Turkish: Noeliniz Ve Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun
Ukrainian: Z Rizdvom Khrystovym or S rozhdestvom Kristovym
Urdu: Naya Saal Mubarak Ho (good New Year not Merry Christmas)
Vietnamese: Chuc Mung Giang Sinh
Welsh: Nadolig Llawen
Yoruba: E ku odun, e ku iye'dun!

erry-may istmas-chray

Merry Christmas OSPers! And and a happy and healthy New Year! Up the Saints!

OSPREYSAINT wrote:
Merry christmas, I hope this covers most of you!

Afrikaans: Geseënde Kersfees
Afrikander: Een Plesierige Kerfees
African/ Eritrean/ Tigrinja: Rehus-Beal-Ledeats
Albanian:Gezur Krislinjden
Arabic: Milad Majid
Argentine: Feliz Navidad
Armenian: Shenoraavor Nor Dari yev Pari Gaghand
Azeri: Tezze Iliniz Yahsi Olsun
Bahasa Malaysia: Selamat Hari Natal
Basque: Zorionak eta Urte Berri On!
Bengali: Shuvo Naba Barsha
Bohemian: Vesele Vanoce
Bosnian: (BOSANSKI) Cestit Bozic i Sretna Nova godina
Brazilian: Feliz Natal
Breton: Nedeleg laouen na bloavezh mat
Bulgarian: Tchestita Koleda; Tchestito Rojdestvo Hristovo
Catalan: Bon Nadal i un Bon Any Nou!
Chile: Feliz Navidad
Chinese: (Cantonese) Gun Tso Sun Tan'Gung Haw Sun
Chinese: (Mandarin) Sheng Dan Kuai Le
Choctaw: Yukpa, Nitak Hollo Chito
Columbia: Feliz Navidad y Próspero Año Nuevo
Cornish: Nadelik looan na looan blethen noweth
Corsian: Pace e salute
Crazanian: Rot Yikji Dol La Roo
Cree: Mitho Makosi Kesikansi
Croatian: Sretan Bozic
Czech: Prejeme Vam Vesele Vanoce a stastny Novy Rok
Danish: Glædelig Jul
Duri: Christmas-e- Shoma Mobarak
Dutch: Vrolijk Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! or Zalig Kerstfeast
English: Merry Christmas
Eskimo: (inupik) Jutdlime pivdluarit ukiortame pivdluaritlo!
Esperanto: Gajan Kristnaskon
Estonian: Rõõmsaid Jõulupühi
Ethiopian: (Amharic) Melkin Yelidet Beaal
Faeroese: Gledhilig jol og eydnurikt nyggjar!
Farsi: Cristmas-e-shoma mobarak bashad
Finnish: Hyvaa joulua
Flemish: Zalig Kerstfeest en Gelukkig nieuw jaar
French: Joyeux Noel
Frisian: Noflike Krystdagen en in protte Lok en Seine yn it Nije Jier!
Galician: Bo Nada
Gaelic: Nollaig chridheil agus Bliadhna mhath ùr!
German: Fröhliche Weihnachten
Greek: Kala Christouyenna!
Haiti: (Creole) Jwaye Nowel or to Jesus Edo Bri'cho o Rish D'Shato Brichto
Hausa: Barka da Kirsimatikuma Barka da Sabuwar Shekara!
Hawaiian: Mele Kalikimaka
Hebrew: Mo'adim Lesimkha. Chena tova
Hindi: Shub Naya Baras (good New Year not Merry Christmas)
Hungarian: Boldog Karácsonyt
Icelandic: Gledileg Jol
Indonesian: Selamat Hari Natal
Iraqi: Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah
Irish: Nollaig Shona Dhuit, or Nodlaig mhaith chugnat
Iroquois: Ojenyunyat Sungwiyadeson honungradon nagwutut. Ojenyunyat osrasay.
Italian: Buone Feste Natalizie
Japanese: Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto
Jiberish: Mithag Crithagsigathmithags


Korean: Sung Tan Chuk Ha
Kurdish: Serî sallî nwê pîroz
Lao: souksan van Christmas
Latin: Natale hilare et Annum Faustum!
Latvian: Prieci'gus Ziemsve'tkus un Laimi'gu Jauno Gadu!
Lausitzian:Wjesole hody a strowe nowe leto
Lettish: Priecigus Ziemassvetkus
Lithuanian: Linksmu Kaledu
Low Saxon: Heughliche Winachten un 'n moi Nijaar
Luxembourgish: Schèine Chreschtdaag an e gudde Rutsch
Macedonian: Sreken Bozhik
Maltese: IL-Milied It-tajjeb
Manx: Nollick ghennal as blein vie noa
Maori: Meri Kirihimete
Marathi: Shub Naya Varsh (good New Year not Merry Christmas)
Navajo: Merry Keshmish
Norwegian: God Jul, or Gledelig Jul
Occitan: Pulit nadal e bona annado
Papiamento: Bon Pasco
Papua New Guinea: Bikpela hamamas blong dispela Krismas na Nupela yia i go long yu
Pennsylvania German: En frehlicher Grischtdaag un en hallich Nei Yaahr!
Peru: Feliz Navidad y un Venturoso Año Nuevo
Philippines: Maligayang Pasko!
Polish: Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia or Boze Narodzenie
Portuguese:Feliz Natal
Pushto: Christmas Aao Ne-way Kaal Mo Mobarak Sha
Rapa-Nui (Easter Island): Mata-Ki-Te-Rangi. Te-Pito-O-Te-Henua
Rhetian: Bellas festas da nadal e bun onn
Romanche: (sursilvan dialect): Legreivlas fiastas da Nadal e bien niev onn!
Rumanian: Sarbatori vesele or Craciun fericit
Russian: Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdestva is Novim Godom
Sami: Buorrit Juovllat
Samoan: La Maunia Le Kilisimasi Ma Le Tausaga Fou
Sardinian: Bonu nadale e prosperu annu nou
Scots Gaelic: Nollaig Chridheil dhuibh
Serbian: Hristos se rodi.
Singhalese: Subha nath thalak Vewa. Subha Aluth Awrudhak Vewa
Slovak: Vesele Vianoce. A stastlivy Novy Rok
Slovene: Vesele Bozicne Praznike Srecno Novo Leto or Vesel Bozic in srecno Novo leto
Spanish: Feliz Navidad
Swedish: God Jul and (Och) Ett Gott Nytt År
Tagalog: Maligayamg Pasko. Masaganang Bagong Taon
Tamil: (Tamizh) Nathar Puthu Varuda Valthukkal (good New Year not Merry Christmas)
Trukeese: (Micronesian) Neekiriisimas annim oo iyer seefe feyiyeech!
Thai: Sawadee Pee Mai or souksan wan Christmas
Turkish: Noeliniz Ve Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun
Ukrainian: Z Rizdvom Khrystovym or S rozhdestvom Kristovym
Urdu: Naya Saal Mubarak Ho (good New Year not Merry Christmas)
Vietnamese: Chuc Mung Giang Sinh
Welsh: Nadolig Llawen
Yoruba: E ku odun, e ku iye'dun!

erry-may istmas-chray

understood most of them, but was 1 of them skuntish

merry christmas to all, inc the blue few



C.O.Y.R

Skuntish comes under jibberish!

ah yes the ancient language of jibberish.
do you realise there are now probably less than 10,000 proficient speakers of this local language, only a few years ago apparently 200,000 of them were on southsea front all talking jibberish

and skuntish goes under 01/15/2013

Successful managers, when they move clubs, will, almost invariably, bring their own coaching staff with them.
I must confess to a very small gap in my knowledge, but can any of my many friends out there advise me if NA brought any of his coaching staff from Scunthorpe Utd?

circa 66 saint wrote:
ah yes the ancient language of jibberish. do you realise there are now probably less than 10,000 proficient speakers of this local language, only a few years ago apparently 200,000 of them were on southsea front all talking jibberish

Can’t believe he didn’t include Farmerish. It’s an old language, but not very well known outside Farmer town though. Apparently the local football team based their colours on one market trader who used to line his carrots and parsnips up together in his local store. Eventually the orange colour was dropped as Blackpool (another seaside town) were so much more famous.

Recently there’s been a bit of a revival in farmerish; and some of the farmers have been swarming in unheard of numbers at the local cattle market, and shouting “pride of the saarf”.

Sadly, a lot of the new generation have forgotten their west country roots and changed the word “south-west” to south, hence “pride of the saarf-west”, the original chant has been lost. Many historians feel that this happened in the seventies when a local’s team of donkeys won a national award.

On the subject of Donkeys. Many local councillors now want the donkey to be part of a new town emblem, which they feel epitomises their town as some researchers believes donkeys are smarter, more easily trained, longer-lived and hardier than horses, and they can go longer without water than a horse; something which the locals just love.

Indeed one local story is that there was a time when some local donkeys reached the national gala final for 27 consecutive years; even though they never won any of the races.

MG... I would try to stick to your one-liners if I were you.

They aren't witty either...but will probably create less wear on your keyboard.

btw Happy Xmas :O)

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE !!!!!!!!!!!!

Baddesley Bill wrote:
MG... I would try to stick to your one-liners if I were you. They aren't witty either...but will probably create less wear on your keyboard. btw Happy Xmas :O)

History is rarely funny Bill, unless you watch some Terry Jones; x python. Funny and informative.

Have a good one.

It is only football. I think your'e great btw

More Glory wrote:

circa 66 saint wrote:
ah yes the ancient language of jibberish. do you realise there are now probably less than 10,000 proficient speakers of this local language, only a few years ago apparently 200,000 of them were on southsea front all talking jibberish

Can’t believe he didn’t include Farmerish. It’s an old language, but not very well known outside Farmer town though. Apparently the local football team based their colours on one market trader who used to line his carrots and parsnips up together in his local store. Eventually the orange colour was dropped as Blackpool (another seaside town) were so much more famous.

Recently there’s been a bit of a revival in farmerish; and some of the farmers have been swarming in unheard of numbers at the local cattle market, and shouting “pride of the saarf”.

Sadly, a lot of the new generation have forgotten their west country roots and changed the word “south-west” to south, hence “pride of the saarf-west”, the original chant has been lost. Many historians feel that this happened in the seventies when a local’s team of donkeys won a national award.

On the subject of Donkeys. Many local councillors now want the donkey to be part of a new town emblem, which they feel epitomises their town as some researchers believes donkeys are smarter, more easily trained, longer-lived and hardier than horses, and they can go longer without water than a horse; something which the locals just love.

Indeed one local story is that there was a time when some local donkeys reached the national gala final for 27 consecutive years; even though they never won any of the races.

ooohhaarrrrhhhh !
them pitchfork carrying yokels is only supoooortin a team wots only 47 places above their local rivals.now thats proper
better I rekons.
oooohhhhaaaarrrhhhh !!!

angus mc coatup wrote:

More Glory wrote:

circa 66 saint wrote: ah yes the ancient language of jibberish. do you realise there are now probably less than 10,000 proficient speakers of this local language, only a few years ago apparently 200,000 of them were on southsea front all talking jibberish

Can’t believe he didn’t include Farmerish. It’s an old language, but not very well known outside Farmer town though. Apparently the local football team based their colours on one market trader who used to line his carrots and parsnips up together in his local store. Eventually the orange colour was dropped as Blackpool (another seaside town) were so much more famous. Recently there’s been a bit of a revival in farmerish; and some of the farmers have been swarming in unheard of numbers at the local cattle market, and shouting “pride of the saarf”. Sadly, a lot of the new generation have forgotten their west country roots and changed the word “south-west” to south, hence “pride of the saarf-west”, the original chant has been lost. Many historians feel that this happened in the seventies when a local’s team of donkeys won a national award. On the subject of Donkeys. Many local councillors now want the donkey to be part of a new town emblem, which they feel epitomises their town as some researchers believes donkeys are smarter, more easily trained, longer-lived and hardier than horses, and they can go longer without water than a horse; something which the locals just love. Indeed one local story is that there was a time when some local donkeys reached the national gala final for 27 consecutive years; even though they never won any of the races.

ooohhaarrrrhhhh ! them pitchfork carrying yokels is only supoooortin a team wots only 47 places above their local rivals.now thats proper better I rekons. oooohhhhaaaarrrhhhh !!!

that's the spirit Angus. Don't take your pitchfork outside though if you are wearing your father crimbo outfit; as people might mistake you for the dark lord.

Well, hope you have as dossy a new year as this one. Sadly I may be working for 7/8 months this year.boohoo

More Glory wrote:

Baddesley Bill wrote:
MG... I would try to stick to your one-liners if I were you. They aren't witty either...but will probably create less wear on your keyboard. btw Happy Xmas :O)

History is rarely funny Bill, unless you watch some Terry Jones; x python. Funny and informative.

Have a good one.

It is only football. I think your'e great btw

Thanks...I do like pythonesque humour myself.

Spike Milligan is a personal favourite of mine.

Did you see him do the Room 101 Portsmouth thing?

If not...youtube it...it is very very funny...and not one mention of football. :O)

Baddesley Bill wrote:

More Glory wrote:

Baddesley Bill wrote: MG... I would try to stick to your one-liners if I were you. They aren't witty either...but will probably create less wear on your keyboard. btw Happy Xmas :O)

History is rarely funny Bill, unless you watch some Terry Jones; x python. Funny and informative. Have a good one. It is only football. I think your'e great btw

Thanks...I do like pythonesque humour myself. Spike Milligan is a personal favourite of mine. Did you see him do the Room 101 Portsmouth thing? If not...youtube it...it is very very funny...and not one mention of football. :O)

I did comment on this the other day. But just for you Bill. Here it is again. as I don't like to be too repetitive.

What have have Spike Milligan and SFC got in common?

More Glory wrote:

Baddesley Bill wrote:

More Glory wrote:

Baddesley Bill wrote: MG... I would try to stick to your one-liners if I were you. They aren't witty either...but will probably create less wear on your keyboard. btw Happy Xmas :O)

History is rarely funny Bill, unless you watch some Terry Jones; x python. Funny and informative. Have a good one. It is only football. I think your'e great btw

Thanks...I do like pythonesque humour myself. Spike Milligan is a personal favourite of mine. Did you see him do the Room 101 Portsmouth thing? If not...youtube it...it is very very funny...and not one mention of football. :O)

I did comment on this the other day. But just for you Bill. Here it is again. as I don't like to be too repetitive.

What have have Spike Milligan and SFC got in common?

taste !

slugger wrote:

More Glory wrote:

Baddesley Bill wrote:

More Glory wrote:

Baddesley Bill wrote: MG... I would try to stick to your one-liners if I were you. They aren't witty either...but will probably create less wear on your keyboard. btw Happy Xmas :O)

History is rarely funny Bill, unless you watch some Terry Jones; x python. Funny and informative. Have a good one. It is only football. I think your'e great btw

Thanks...I do like pythonesque humour myself. Spike Milligan is a personal favourite of mine. Did you see him do the Room 101 Portsmouth thing? If not...youtube it...it is very very funny...and not one mention of football. :O)

I did comment on this the other day. But just for you Bill. Here it is again. as I don't like to be too repetitive. What have have Spike Milligan and SFC got in common?

taste !

Well, partly right actually Slugger.

The last time they visited Portsmouth in the big league, they died a death.


or; as you alluded to; "tasted" a humiliating defeat.


your'e quite as cool sometimes as well.

More Glory wrote:

circa 66 saint wrote:
ah yes the ancient language of jibberish. do you realise there are now probably less than 10,000 proficient speakers of this local language, only a few years ago apparently 200,000 of them were on southsea front all talking jibberish

Can’t believe he didn’t include Farmerish. It’s an old language, but not very well known outside Farmer town though. Apparently the local football team based their colours on one market trader who used to line his carrots and parsnips up together in his local store. Eventually the orange colour was dropped as Blackpool (another seaside town) were so much more famous.

Recently there’s been a bit of a revival in farmerish; and some of the farmers have been swarming in unheard of numbers at the local cattle market, and shouting “pride of the saarf”.

Sadly, a lot of the new generation have forgotten their west country roots and changed the word “south-west” to south, hence “pride of the saarf-west”, the original chant has been lost. Many historians feel that this happened in the seventies when a local’s team of donkeys won a national award.

On the subject of Donkeys. Many local councillors now want the donkey to be part of a new town emblem, which they feel epitomises their town as some researchers believes donkeys are smarter, more easily trained, longer-lived and hardier than horses, and they can go longer without water than a horse; something which the locals just love.

Indeed one local story is that there was a time when some local donkeys reached the national gala final for 27 consecutive years; even though they never won any of the races.

And now they are playing for the SKUNTS.

Ignore the "as" far too many whiskeys tonight.

More Glory wrote:

slugger wrote:

More Glory wrote:

Baddesley Bill wrote:

More Glory wrote:

Baddesley Bill wrote: MG... I would try to stick to your one-liners if I were you. They aren't witty either...but will probably create less wear on your keyboard. btw Happy Xmas :O)

History is rarely funny Bill, unless you watch some Terry Jones; x python. Funny and informative. Have a good one. It is only football. I think your'e great btw

Thanks...I do like pythonesque humour myself. Spike Milligan is a personal favourite of mine. Did you see him do the Room 101 Portsmouth thing? If not...youtube it...it is very very funny...and not one mention of football. :O)

I did comment on this the other day. But just for you Bill. Here it is again. as I don't like to be too repetitive. What have have Spike Milligan and SFC got in common?

taste !

Well, partly right actually Slugger.

The last time they visited Portsmouth in the big league, they died a death.


or; as you alluded to; "tasted" a humiliating defeat.


your'e quite as cool sometimes as well.

lol , merry xmas .

More Glory wrote:

angus mc coatup wrote:

More Glory wrote:

circa 66 saint wrote: ah yes the ancient language of jibberish. do you realise there are now probably less than 10,000 proficient speakers of this local language, only a few years ago apparently 200,000 of them were on southsea front all talking jibberish

Can’t believe he didn’t include Farmerish. It’s an old language, but not very well known outside Farmer town though. Apparently the local football team based their colours on one market trader who used to line his carrots and parsnips up together in his local store. Eventually the orange colour was dropped as Blackpool (another seaside town) were so much more famous. Recently there’s been a bit of a revival in farmerish; and some of the farmers have been swarming in unheard of numbers at the local cattle market, and shouting “pride of the saarf”. Sadly, a lot of the new generation have forgotten their west country roots and changed the word “south-west” to south, hence “pride of the saarf-west”, the original chant has been lost. Many historians feel that this happened in the seventies when a local’s team of donkeys won a national award. On the subject of Donkeys. Many local councillors now want the donkey to be part of a new town emblem, which they feel epitomises their town as some researchers believes donkeys are smarter, more easily trained, longer-lived and hardier than horses, and they can go longer without water than a horse; something which the locals just love. Indeed one local story is that there was a time when some local donkeys reached the national gala final for 27 consecutive years; even though they never won any of the races.

ooohhaarrrrhhhh ! them pitchfork carrying yokels is only supoooortin a team wots only 47 places above their local rivals.now thats proper better I rekons. oooohhhhaaaarrrhhhh !!!

that's the spirit Angus. Don't take your pitchfork outside though if you are wearing your father crimbo outfit; as people might mistake you for the dark lord.

Well, hope you have as dossy a new year as this one. Sadly I may be working for 7/8 months this year.boohoo

nearly turned into long john silver there
for a minute.(no work for me ever again) thank goodness.as It's the season of good will, I hope your team dosen't go out of existence completely.
and you finally get that sh!te ownership monkey off your backs.there's still some major hurdles yet and It's a long road but who knows.
but the bottom tier beckons at the mo.

slugger wrote:

More Glory wrote:

slugger wrote:

More Glory wrote:

Baddesley Bill wrote:

More Glory wrote:

Baddesley Bill wrote: MG... I would try to stick to your one-liners if I were you. They aren't witty either...but will probably create less wear on your keyboard. btw Happy Xmas :O)

History is rarely funny Bill, unless you watch some Terry Jones; x python. Funny and informative. Have a good one. It is only football. I think your'e great btw

Thanks...I do like pythonesque humour myself. Spike Milligan is a personal favourite of mine. Did you see him do the Room 101 Portsmouth thing? If not...youtube it...it is very very funny...and not one mention of football. :O)

I did comment on this the other day. But just for you Bill. Here it is again. as I don't like to be too repetitive. What have have Spike Milligan and SFC got in common?

taste !

Well, partly right actually Slugger. The last time they visited Portsmouth in the big league, they died a death. or; as you alluded to; "tasted" a humiliating defeat. your'e quite as cool sometimes as well.

lol , merry xmas .

here's to the next south coast derby. whenever that may be!!

More Glory wrote:

slugger wrote:

More Glory wrote:

slugger wrote:

More Glory wrote:

Baddesley Bill wrote:

More Glory wrote:

Baddesley Bill wrote: MG... I would try to stick to your one-liners if I were you. They aren't witty either...but will probably create less wear on your keyboard. btw Happy Xmas :O)

History is rarely funny Bill, unless you watch some Terry Jones; x python. Funny and informative. Have a good one. It is only football. I think your'e great btw

Thanks...I do like pythonesque humour myself. Spike Milligan is a personal favourite of mine. Did you see him do the Room 101 Portsmouth thing? If not...youtube it...it is very very funny...and not one mention of football. :O)

I did comment on this the other day. But just for you Bill. Here it is again. as I don't like to be too repetitive. What have have Spike Milligan and SFC got in common?

taste !

Well, partly right actually Slugger. The last time they visited Portsmouth in the big league, they died a death. or; as you alluded to; "tasted" a humiliating defeat. your'e quite as cool sometimes as well.

lol , merry xmas .

here's to the next south coast derby. whenever that may be!!

can't see it in my lifetime ..... i'm 50 already !

More Glory wrote:

Baddesley Bill wrote:

More Glory wrote:

Baddesley Bill wrote: MG... I would try to stick to your one-liners if I were you. They aren't witty either...but will probably create less wear on your keyboard. btw Happy Xmas :O)

History is rarely funny Bill, unless you watch some Terry Jones; x python. Funny and informative. Have a good one. It is only football. I think your'e great btw

Thanks...I do like pythonesque humour myself. Spike Milligan is a personal favourite of mine. Did you see him do the Room 101 Portsmouth thing? If not...youtube it...it is very very funny...and not one mention of football. :O)

I did comment on this the other day. But just for you Bill. Here it is again. as I don't like to be too repetitive.

What have have Spike Milligan and SFC got in common?

Come on mate..it's a great clip from a classic comic.

I guess they just didn't get it in Portsmouth the night he turned up.

Some people just lack humour. :O)

angus mc coatup wrote:

More Glory wrote:

angus mc coatup wrote:

More Glory wrote:

circa 66 saint wrote: ah yes the ancient language of jibberish. do you realise there are now probably less than 10,000 proficient speakers of this local language, only a few years ago apparently 200,000 of them were on southsea front all talking jibberish

Can’t believe he didn’t include Farmerish. It’s an old language, but not very well known outside Farmer town though. Apparently the local football team based their colours on one market trader who used to line his carrots and parsnips up together in his local store. Eventually the orange colour was dropped as Blackpool (another seaside town) were so much more famous. Recently there’s been a bit of a revival in farmerish; and some of the farmers have been swarming in unheard of numbers at the local cattle market, and shouting “pride of the saarf”. Sadly, a lot of the new generation have forgotten their west country roots and changed the word “south-west” to south, hence “pride of the saarf-west”, the original chant has been lost. Many historians feel that this happened in the seventies when a local’s team of donkeys won a national award. On the subject of Donkeys. Many local councillors now want the donkey to be part of a new town emblem, which they feel epitomises their town as some researchers believes donkeys are smarter, more easily trained, longer-lived and hardier than horses, and they can go longer without water than a horse; something which the locals just love. Indeed one local story is that there was a time when some local donkeys reached the national gala final for 27 consecutive years; even though they never won any of the races.

ooohhaarrrrhhhh ! them pitchfork carrying yokels is only supoooortin a team wots only 47 places above their local rivals.now thats proper better I rekons. oooohhhhaaaarrrhhhh !!!

that's the spirit Angus. Don't take your pitchfork outside though if you are wearing your father crimbo outfit; as people might mistake you for the dark lord. Well, hope you have as dossy a new year as this one. Sadly I may be working for 7/8 months this year.boohoo

nearly turned into long john silver there for a minute.(no work for me ever again) thank goodness.as It's the season of good will, I hope your team dosen't go out of existence completely. and you finally get that sh!te ownership monkey off your backs.there's still some major hurdles yet and It's a long road but who knows. but the bottom tier beckons at the mo.

Cheers, Lets be honest, Pompey will never go under. Whatever happens it won't be anything like Wimbledon.

I've been there before, It was when I started going as a little nipper. Great days actually. Got hooked though. I have spent so much money watching average footy, it makes the good bits worthwhile.

On your team; I have been saying for a while- Villa are the key team as they are young and could do anything as shown in the last week, Reading down already, QPR I predicted will survive - could be wrong though. Not sure if you will get above any other teams; but one team always drops badly, so who knows.

Clever Dick wrote:

More Glory wrote:

circa 66 saint wrote: ah yes the ancient language of jibberish. do you realise there are now probably less than 10,000 proficient speakers of this local language, only a few years ago apparently 200,000 of them were on southsea front all talking jibberish

Can’t believe he didn’t include Farmerish. It’s an old language, but not very well known outside Farmer town though. Apparently the local football team based their colours on one market trader who used to line his carrots and parsnips up together in his local store. Eventually the orange colour was dropped as Blackpool (another seaside town) were so much more famous. Recently there’s been a bit of a revival in farmerish; and some of the farmers have been swarming in unheard of numbers at the local cattle market, and shouting “pride of the saarf”. Sadly, a lot of the new generation have forgotten their west country roots and changed the word “south-west” to south, hence “pride of the saarf-west”, the original chant has been lost. Many historians feel that this happened in the seventies when a local’s team of donkeys won a national award. On the subject of Donkeys. Many local councillors now want the donkey to be part of a new town emblem, which they feel epitomises their town as some researchers believes donkeys are smarter, more easily trained, longer-lived and hardier than horses, and they can go longer without water than a horse; something which the locals just love. Indeed one local story is that there was a time when some local donkeys reached the national gala final for 27 consecutive years; even though they never won any of the races.

And now they are playing for the SKUNTS.

Agreed, The only problem is you get used to one donkey, how it moves etc, and then it gets replaced a few weeks later, Very confusing actually

More Glory wrote:

angus mc coatup wrote:

More Glory wrote:

angus mc coatup wrote:

More Glory wrote:

circa 66 saint wrote: ah yes the ancient language of jibberish. do you realise there are now probably less than 10,000 proficient speakers of this local language, only a few years ago apparently 200,000 of them were on southsea front all talking jibberish

Can’t believe he didn’t include Farmerish. It’s an old language, but not very well known outside Farmer town though. Apparently the local football team based their colours on one market trader who used to line his carrots and parsnips up together in his local store. Eventually the orange colour was dropped as Blackpool (another seaside town) were so much more famous. Recently there’s been a bit of a revival in farmerish; and some of the farmers have been swarming in unheard of numbers at the local cattle market, and shouting “pride of the saarf”. Sadly, a lot of the new generation have forgotten their west country roots and changed the word “south-west” to south, hence “pride of the saarf-west”, the original chant has been lost. Many historians feel that this happened in the seventies when a local’s team of donkeys won a national award. On the subject of Donkeys. Many local councillors now want the donkey to be part of a new town emblem, which they feel epitomises their town as some researchers believes donkeys are smarter, more easily trained, longer-lived and hardier than horses, and they can go longer without water than a horse; something which the locals just love. Indeed one local story is that there was a time when some local donkeys reached the national gala final for 27 consecutive years; even though they never won any of the races.

ooohhaarrrrhhhh ! them pitchfork carrying yokels is only supoooortin a team wots only 47 places above their local rivals.now thats proper better I rekons. oooohhhhaaaarrrhhhh !!!

that's the spirit Angus. Don't take your pitchfork outside though if you are wearing your father crimbo outfit; as people might mistake you for the dark lord. Well, hope you have as dossy a new year as this one. Sadly I may be working for 7/8 months this year.boohoo

nearly turned into long john silver there for a minute.(no work for me ever again) thank goodness.as It's the season of good will, I hope your team dosen't go out of existence completely. and you finally get that sh!te ownership monkey off your backs.there's still some major hurdles yet and It's a long road but who knows. but the bottom tier beckons at the mo.

Cheers, Lets be honest, Pompey will never go under. Whatever happens it won't be anything like Wimbledon.

I've been there before, It was when I started going as a little nipper. Great days actually. Got hooked though. I have spent so much money watching average footy, it makes the good bits worthwhile.

On your team; I have been saying for a while- Villa are the key team as they are young and could do anything as shown in the last week, Reading down already, QPR I predicted will survive - could be wrong though. Not sure if you will get above any other teams; but one team always drops badly, so who knows.

I'm not as convinced as you are. It's come a long way but it's far from over, particularly with Channers hell bent on scuppering it.

Good luck with that and Merry Xmas!

Happy Christmas fellow Saints...

...and the same sentiments to skunts too btw..

....let's all have a great day tomorrow...and an even better one on Boxing Day!!! COYR

Baddesley Bill wrote:
Happy Christmas fellow Saints...

...and the same sentiments to skunts too btw..

....let's all have a great day tomorrow...and an even better one on Boxing Day!!! COYR

I'll drink to that Bill,ave a goodun.
and COYR !!!!!!!

Baddesley Bill wrote:

More Glory wrote:

Baddesley Bill wrote:

More Glory wrote:

Baddesley Bill wrote: MG... I would try to stick to your one-liners if I were you. They aren't witty either...but will probably create less wear on your keyboard. btw Happy Xmas :O)

History is rarely funny Bill, unless you watch some Terry Jones; x python. Funny and informative. Have a good one. It is only football. I think your'e great btw

Thanks...I do like pythonesque humour myself. Spike Milligan is a personal favourite of mine. Did you see him do the Room 101 Portsmouth thing? If not...youtube it...it is very very funny...and not one mention of football. :O)

I did comment on this the other day. But just for you Bill. Here it is again. as I don't like to be too repetitive. What have have Spike Milligan and SFC got in common?

Come on mate..it's a great clip from a classic comic. I guess they just didn't get it in Portsmouth the night he turned up. Some people just lack humour. :O)

ok. I will watch it all again later, I did have a little look Spike "I hate Portsmouth" Milligan, It was funny ; I remember it from a decade ago. Just got a few buddies round and one is a massive Amy Winehouse fan - so we are watching BB4 at mo. I do remember he died a death though. Did he become a Saints fan?

TEBOURBA wrote:
Successful managers, when they move clubs, will, almost invariably, bring their own coaching staff with them.
I must confess to a very small gap in my knowledge, but can any of my many friends out there advise me if NA brought any of his coaching staff from Scunthorpe Utd?

yes he did mr crosby .and they won promotions with no money .scunthorpe get 4.000 at home .saints average away support.so he had success without cash .some thing harry did in his bmuff days .but not a pompey has he was allowed money from ,the now found out owners who lent the money ,but never got it back .AS MR CHAINRY IS TRYING TO NOW.IF ITS TRUE HE HAS TAKEN 12 MILLION .THEN HE IS STILL OWED 7 MILLION .ALL BEING WITH NO PROFIT ,.SO I WOULD FORGET ABOUT THE GOSPORT CONTRACTORS .WHO DID NOT DO WERE THEY ADVISED TO DO ON THE CONTRACT .AND COCENTRATE YOUR EFFORTS .ON TO WHY ,HE WAS NEVER PAID .WHEN HE WAS TOLD .HE WOULD BE ABLE TO SELL IT ON AND MAKE PROFIT .LOOKS VERY MUCH LIKE YOUR DIRECTORS CONNED HIM .AND HE WONT BE THE FIRST EITHER

Seedhouse the Unrepentant wrote:

More Glory wrote:

angus mc coatup wrote:

More Glory wrote:

angus mc coatup wrote:

More Glory wrote:

circa 66 saint wrote: ah yes the ancient language of jibberish. do you realise there are now probably less than 10,000 proficient speakers of this local language, only a few years ago apparently 200,000 of them were on southsea front all talking jibberish

Can’t believe he didn’t include Farmerish. It’s an old language, but not very well known outside Farmer town though. Apparently the local football team based their colours on one market trader who used to line his carrots and parsnips up together in his local store. Eventually the orange colour was dropped as Blackpool (another seaside town) were so much more famous. Recently there’s been a bit of a revival in farmerish; and some of the farmers have been swarming in unheard of numbers at the local cattle market, and shouting “pride of the saarf”. Sadly, a lot of the new generation have forgotten their west country roots and changed the word “south-west” to south, hence “pride of the saarf-west”, the original chant has been lost. Many historians feel that this happened in the seventies when a local’s team of donkeys won a national award. On the subject of Donkeys. Many local councillors now want the donkey to be part of a new town emblem, which they feel epitomises their town as some researchers believes donkeys are smarter, more easily trained, longer-lived and hardier than horses, and they can go longer without water than a horse; something which the locals just love. Indeed one local story is that there was a time when some local donkeys reached the national gala final for 27 consecutive years; even though they never won any of the races.

ooohhaarrrrhhhh ! them pitchfork carrying yokels is only supoooortin a team wots only 47 places above their local rivals.now thats proper better I rekons. oooohhhhaaaarrrhhhh !!!

that's the spirit Angus. Don't take your pitchfork outside though if you are wearing your father crimbo outfit; as people might mistake you for the dark lord. Well, hope you have as dossy a new year as this one. Sadly I may be working for 7/8 months this year.boohoo

nearly turned into long john silver there for a minute.(no work for me ever again) thank goodness.as It's the season of good will, I hope your team dosen't go out of existence completely. and you finally get that sh!te ownership monkey off your backs.there's still some major hurdles yet and It's a long road but who knows. but the bottom tier beckons at the mo.

Cheers, Lets be honest, Pompey will never go under. Whatever happens it won't be anything like Wimbledon. I've been there before, It was when I started going as a little nipper. Great days actually. Got hooked though. I have spent so much money watching average footy, it makes the good bits worthwhile. On your team; I have been saying for a while- Villa are the key team as they are young and could do anything as shown in the last week, Reading down already, QPR I predicted will survive - could be wrong though. Not sure if you will get above any other teams; but one team always drops badly, so who knows.

I'm not as convinced as you are. It's come a long way but it's far from over, particularly with Channers hell bent on scuppering it. Good luck with that and Merry Xmas!

Its all down to the price isn't it. That is the key. Not sure what Channers can do to stop the process if the price is what we hope.

cheers anyway. As Arnie once said "we'll be back"

More Glory wrote:

Baddesley Bill wrote:

More Glory wrote:

Baddesley Bill wrote:

More Glory wrote:

Baddesley Bill wrote: MG... I would try to stick to your one-liners if I were you. They aren't witty either...but will probably create less wear on your keyboard. btw Happy Xmas :O)

History is rarely funny Bill, unless you watch some Terry Jones; x python. Funny and informative. Have a good one. It is only football. I think your'e great btw

Thanks...I do like pythonesque humour myself. Spike Milligan is a personal favourite of mine. Did you see him do the Room 101 Portsmouth thing? If not...youtube it...it is very very funny...and not one mention of football. :O)

I did comment on this the other day. But just for you Bill. Here it is again. as I don't like to be too repetitive. What have have Spike Milligan and SFC got in common?

Come on mate..it's a great clip from a classic comic. I guess they just didn't get it in Portsmouth the night he turned up. Some people just lack humour. :O)

ok. I will watch it all again later, I did have a little look Spike "I hate Portsmouth" Milligan, It was funny ; I remember it from a decade ago. Just got a few buddies round and one is a massive Amy Winehouse fan - so we are watching BB4 at mo. I do remember he died a death though. Did he become a Saints fan?

No...he wasn't a Saints fan...it was just a funny clip that I thought you might appreciate.

Off to bed now...big day ahead...my daughter's birthday no less!! :O)

Strasbourg Saint wrote:

Rising_Son wrote:
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Did you say you'll be over in Feb/March?

I'm intending to take the boys to Newcastle. I gather it's likely to be moved to the Sunday 24/2 and it's the day before term restarts but, hey!

So, if that one's on your schedule, let me know.

Newcastle is a definite possibility but I hope it isn't moved to the Sunday.

Anyway, time to start cooking Christmas dinner. Hope you enjoy yours.

The 4 Festive Piemaments,,,,

If you go Fulman, eat first.
Try a pie at Stoke
We like a decent scoff at SMS.
I think we will beat Arsenal

TEBOURBA wrote:
Successful managers, when they move clubs, will, almost invariably, bring their own coaching staff with them.
I must confess to a very small gap in my knowledge, but can any of my many friends out there advise me if NA brought any of his coaching staff from Scunthorpe Utd?

Try Googling Andy Crosby.

TB if you have time on your hands you can check out the rest of the Staff,

Owner The Trustees & estate of Markus Liebherr

Chairman Nicola Cortese

Executive Director Nicola Cortese (Executive Chairman),

Directors Brendan McGlinchey, Lindsey Hyde

Head of Football Development and Support Centre Les Reed

First Team Manager Nigel Adkins

Assistant Manager Andy Crosby

First Team Coach Dean Wilkins

First Team Goalkeeping Coach Jim Stannard

Elite Under 21 Coach Martin Hunter

Development Goalkeeping Coach Vince Bartram

Senior Squad Scout Bill Green

International Development Scout Radhi Jaïdi

Youth Recruitment Scout Rod Ruddick

Academy Recruitment Coordinator Chris Welman

Academy Manager Mathew Crocker

Under 18 Youth Coach Jason Dodd

Assistant Academy Manager Terry Moore

Assistant Academy Coaches Graeme Murty, Paul Williams

Senior Physiotherapist Matt Radcliffe

Sports Medicine & Science Manager Mo Gimpel

Senior Strength & Conditioning
Coach Nick Harvey

Have fun.

The list was from Wiki and may not be up to date so be warned.

TWENTY ONE


HO HO HO!

MERRY CHRISTMAS MR SEED
have just opened my main present to find santa has brought me 2 gold plated 500g bricks with comfort handles for prolonged use,also a very extensive booklet on the correct use of these bricks, ear defenders and safety goggles.
just a little disappointed with the gas as it has simular properties to chloroform so will be using the wife's MACE instead

Merry Xmas saints fans , any idea what colour we are going to wear at Stoke on Saturday ?

merry Christmas all saints fans.

lets have our prezzie tomorrow.

3 points.. and a rickie hat trick

COME

ON

YOU

SAINTS!

Merry Christmas and happy new year one and all.
Dare I say it!
Hope Pompey survive,(i,m getting soft) got (more lives than a cat).
Look forward to many more confruntations in the future.
Too much beer -empty stomach.

Happy new year!

COYR.
P.S.

RedArmy1.

Keep the supporters going at Fulham and the new year.
Hope to meet up again at an away ground in the future.

Osprey: Great Merry Christmas list, Hate to moan but how about these?

Krismasi Njema - Swahili
E gueti Wïnâchte - Alsatian
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RisingSon: Newcastle. Let's see how things pan out, but I'm definitely aiming to go. The reason it's likely to be moved to Sunday is, I gather, because they will be playing in The Europa League the previous Thursday. Annoying, eh? I just hope it's not a 5pm kick off.
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Seed and others: See you after Chelsea at the JT.
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Gloria: I thought the thing that linked the late, great Spike Milligan and Saints (as well as 'taste' of course) is that the last time they visited Skateville, they didn't realise it would actually BE the last time - EVER! :)

Meanwhile, what links Santa with the Skates?

In both cases, their significant moments are always very short, and once those moments have past, there quickly comes a time when everyone stops believeing that they ever really existed.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Strasbourg Saint wrote:
Osprey: Great Merry Christmas list, Hate to moan but how about these?

Krismasi Njema - Swahili
E gueti Wïnâchte - Alsatian
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RisingSon: Newcastle. Let's see how things pan out, but I'm definitely aiming to go. The reason it's likely to be moved to Sunday is, I gather, because they will be playing in The Europa League the previous Thursday. Annoying, eh? I just hope it's not a 5pm kick off.
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Seed and others: See you after Chelsea at the JT.
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Gloria: I thought the thing that linked the late, great Spike Milligan and Saints (as well as 'taste' of course) is that the last time they visited Skateville, they didn't realise it would actually BE the last time - EVER! :)

Meanwhile, what links Santa with the Skates?

In both cases, their significant moments are always very short, and once those moments have past, there quickly comes a time when everyone stops believeing that they ever really existed.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

The more the merrier! Working on the New Year list next...........

Nemesisaint wrote:

Strasbourg Saint wrote:
Osprey: Great Merry Christmas list, Hate to moan but how about these?

Krismasi Njema - Swahili
E gueti Wïnâchte - Alsatian
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RisingSon: Newcastle. Let's see how things pan out, but I'm definitely aiming to go. The reason it's likely to be moved to Sunday is, I gather, because they will be playing in The Europa League the previous Thursday. Annoying, eh? I just hope it's not a 5pm kick off.
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Seed and others: See you after Chelsea at the JT.
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Gloria: I thought the thing that linked the late, great Spike Milligan and Saints (as well as 'taste' of course) is that the last time they visited Skateville, they didn't realise it would actually BE the last time - EVER! :)

Meanwhile, what links Santa with the Skates?

In both cases, their significant moments are always very short, and once those moments have past, there quickly comes a time when everyone stops believeing that they ever really existed.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

The more the merrier! Working on the New Year list next...........

lol I missed Klingon

QISmaS DatIvjaj 'ej DIS chu' DatIvjaj (sg)
QISmaS botIvjaj 'ej DIS chu' botIvjaj (pl)

and yes I am working on New Years Greetings well over 150 so far any ideas?

Try http://www.indobase.
com/holidays/new-yea
r/happy-new-year-lan
guages.html

Nemesisaint wrote:
Try http://www.indobase.

com/holidays/new-yea

r/happy-new-year-lan

guages.html

OK there are plenty of other sites on Google, just a matter of finding time to edit them in, watch this space.

What are our chances tomorrow? Would it be better to keep Ramirez on the bench, he didn't seem to fancy the wet conditions on Saturday, maybe give Foxy a chance in left midfield, and Davies or Ward-Prowse for Spider possibly? Can we deal with Berbatov, and Ruiz if he plays? Would really appreciate a result of some sort.

OSPREYSAINT wrote:
What are our chances tomorrow? Would it be better to keep Ramirez on the bench, he didn't seem to fancy the wet conditions on Saturday, maybe give Foxy a chance in left midfield, and Davies or Ward-Prowse for Spider possibly? Can we deal with Berbatov, and Ruiz if he plays? Would really appreciate a result of some sort.

The chances are 14/5! If we play Gaston behind Lambert then start him.

Daniel Fox??? He's been dropped for a reason. You need to remember he's shiit!

StevieSteve wrote:

OSPREYSAINT wrote:
What are our chances tomorrow? Would it be better to keep Ramirez on the bench, he didn't seem to fancy the wet conditions on Saturday, maybe give Foxy a chance in left midfield, and Davies or Ward-Prowse for Spider possibly? Can we deal with Berbatov, and Ruiz if he plays? Would really appreciate a result of some sort.

The chances are 14/5! If we play Gaston behind Lambert then start him.

Daniel Fox??? He's been dropped for a reason. You need to remember he's shiit!

I don't think Foxy is as bad as some make out, but has been found wanting defensively, but his crossing skills could be useful, last Saturday only once did Shaw get to the by-line on the left and that was one of our best moves all game. Ramirez kept cutting inside, so we had no width on the left and no crosses until De Ridder came on but being right footed that wasn't the solution.

Terry Paine MBE has been made Honorary President as from 1st January 2013.

Details on http://www.saintsfc.
co.uk/news/article/p
aine-named-honorary-
president-559831.asp
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