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Artur open to new Saints deal
6:00am Monday 11th March 2013 in Sport
By Gordon Simpson, Senior Sports Reporter
Artur Boruc
Artur Boruc insists he is leaving discussions over an extension to his Saints contract in the hands of his agent and the club.
The keeper emerged as the hero in Saturday’s 0-0 draw at Norwich, brilliantly saving a controversial penalty in added time from Grant Holt.
The 33-year-old credited the stop to goalkeeping coach Toni Jiménez, for his homework on which way the Canaries striker was most likely to go.
Boruc, who has cemented the number one position at St Mary’s, is due to be out of contract in the summer, having only joined last September on a short-term deal until the end of the season.
Saints have extended the contracts of a number of players in recent weeks, and Boruc’s recent performances mean he also warrants consideration.
But the Polish stopper claims he is not getting personally involved in talks and is instead leaving that up to his representative.
“I’ll leave it to my agent and the club. I’m just doing my best and I’m working hard, so we’ll see what’s going to happen,” he said.
Boruc’s full-stretch save from Holt perhaps completed his redemption with the Saints fans, following an incident last October when he was alleged to have thrown a water bottle at supporters during the 2-1 home defeat to Spurs, in only his second game for the club.
The former Celtic and Fiorentina keeper was dropped after that match, while the club conducted an investigation, and although he was quickly given the all-clear to return to contention, he did not play again until January.
Since then, though, he has brought some much-needed stability to the goalkeeping position. While the highlight of his time with Saints was undoubtedly Saturday’s vital penalty stop, Boruc refused to take credit for it himself, instead praising the role of Jiménez.
“The goalkeeping coach has done his homework, so it was quite easier for me – a bit easier,” he said of the former Spain international, who was Mauricio Pochettino’s assistant at Espanyol.
Boruc’s stop helped end a run of five matches without a clean sheet, making his save all the more satisfying.
“It was a tough game for us and defensively we were playing good and looking good,” he said.
“It’s a good point for us, especially here, away from home. It’s always difficult.
“We’re pretty happy with the clean sheet as well. We missed for that the last couple of weeks.”
Boruc added: “It was a bit of misunderstandings that we didn’t keep a clean sheet (recently), and that was important for us (on Saturday) and from now on it is going to be better.”
The point at Norwich moved Saints four clear of the relegation zone, although Wigan, who are 18th, now have a game in hand, having been in FA Cup action at the weekend.
Victories for QPR and Aston Villa on Saturday have brought those two teams closer to Saints, who now face home matches against Liverpool and Chelsea.
But Boruc still expects them to survive.
“I’m quite confident,” he said. “We don’t look like a team who should be relegated and that’s the main thing, you know. We are quite confident. I think it’s a matter of time and we are going to grab points.”
Comments(134)
Wide Boy Arry
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8:00am Mon 11 Mar 13
Roughly translated....
Please! Come and get me! Anyone!
OSPREYSAINT
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8:03am Mon 11 Mar 13
Wide Boy Arry wrote:A monthly contract at Nottarf Krap perhaps?
Artur Boruc insists he is leaving discussions over an extension to his Saints contract in the hands of his agent and the club.
Roughly translated....
Please! Come and get me! Anyone!
Wide Boy Arry
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8:05am Mon 11 Mar 13
OSPREYSAINT wrote:He wishes!
Wide Boy Arry wrote:A monthly contract at Nottarf Krap perhaps?
Artur Boruc insists he is leaving discussions over an extension to his Saints contract in the hands of his agent and the club.
Roughly translated....
Please! Come and get me! Anyone!
mack chinnon
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8:10am Mon 11 Mar 13
Wide Boy Arry wrote:Mind the gap.
Artur Boruc insists he is leaving discussions over an extension to his Saints contract in the hands of his agent and the club.
Roughly translated....
Please! Come and get me! Anyone!
OSPREYSAINT
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8:11am Mon 11 Mar 13
Wide Boy Arry
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8:17am Mon 11 Mar 13
mack chinnon wrote:zzzzzzzzz Same stain with the same weak joke. The username says it all!
Wide Boy Arry wrote:Mind the gap.
Artur Boruc insists he is leaving discussions over an extension to his Saints contract in the hands of his agent and the club.
Roughly translated....
Please! Come and get me! Anyone!
Wide Boy Arry
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8:19am Mon 11 Mar 13
OSPREYSAINT wrote:You've been saving that one up haven't you Ostrich.
Thread on the main news site says it feels like minus ten, it certainly does down the road!
OSPREYSAINT
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8:21am Mon 11 Mar 13
Wide Boy Arry wrote:Silly posts? You started it!
OSPREYSAINT wrote:You've been saving that one up haven't you Ostrich.
Thread on the main news site says it feels like minus ten, it certainly does down the road!
OSPREYSAINT
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8:26am Mon 11 Mar 13
Rob The Saint NOT in NZ
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8:30am Mon 11 Mar 13
& here he is, with the last desperate inane comments of a fan of a soon to be non-club, free-falling through the divisions, ridiculed by the country, hated by all for their thieving, tax-dodging antics. A shining example to all of how NOT to behave or a run a football club.
Meanwhile, back on the sane side of the M27, well done Artur for your redemption & fine performances lately.
The penalty save was terrific & of course extremely timely!
Personally, I would be happy for him to be given a contract extension.
Wide Boy Arry
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8:31am Mon 11 Mar 13
OSPREYSAINT wrote:I'm sure he'll be touched by your kind words. Admit it you lot are free falling. #007stainfall
Happy Birthday Nigel Adkins, I bet he is happier not to be out training at Staplewood on a day like this! Best wishes NA let's hope for a decent outcome.
Clever Dick
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8:35am Mon 11 Mar 13
Wide Boy Arry wrote:Well not anyone exactly. Specifically NOT the Sh1te down the road at Nottarf. Havant and Waterlooville or Totton perhaps but he won't go to any clubs smaller than that.
Artur Boruc insists he is leaving discussions over an extension to his Saints contract in the hands of his agent and the club.
Roughly translated....
Please! Come and get me! Anyone!
Wide Boy Arry
says...
8:43am Mon 11 Mar 13
Clever Dick wrote:Och!
Wide Boy Arry wrote:Well not anyone exactly. Specifically NOT the Sh1te down the road at Nottarf. Havant and Waterlooville or Totton perhaps but he won't go to any clubs smaller than that.
Artur Boruc insists he is leaving discussions over an extension to his Saints contract in the hands of his agent and the club.
Roughly translated....
Please! Come and get me! Anyone!
OSPREYSAINT
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8:47am Mon 11 Mar 13
Wide Boy Arry wrote:Explain the hash tag thing, it doesn't mean anything to me on this site, what significance does it have on here? Too late for the Skyfall joke, it is now skuntfall, although I don't like using that word, would have preferred prefer skatefall, but it is all the same thing these days.
OSPREYSAINT wrote:I'm sure he'll be touched by your kind words. Admit it you lot are free falling. #007stainfall
Happy Birthday Nigel Adkins, I bet he is happier not to be out training at Staplewood on a day like this! Best wishes NA let's hope for a decent outcome.
OSPREYSAINT
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8:49am Mon 11 Mar 13
OSPREYSAINT wrote:delete "prefer" no idea how that happened, proof reading not my strong point.
Wide Boy Arry wrote:Explain the hash tag thing, it doesn't mean anything to me on this site, what significance does it have on here? Too late for the Skyfall joke, it is now skuntfall, although I don't like using that word, would have preferred prefer skatefall, but it is all the same thing these days.
OSPREYSAINT wrote:I'm sure he'll be touched by your kind words. Admit it you lot are free falling. #007stainfall
Happy Birthday Nigel Adkins, I bet he is happier not to be out training at Staplewood on a day like this! Best wishes NA let's hope for a decent outcome.
mack chinnon
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8:52am Mon 11 Mar 13
Wide Boy Arry wrote:Mind the gap.
Artur Boruc insists he is leaving discussions over an extension to his Saints contract in the hands of his agent and the club.
Roughly translated....
Please! Come and get me! Anyone!
Wide Boy Arry
says...
8:57am Mon 11 Mar 13
OSPREYSAINT wrote:Sorry but I can't answer somebody who has such poor spelling, it's not even at a GSCE standard.
OSPREYSAINT wrote:delete "prefer" no idea how that happened, proof reading not my strong point.
Wide Boy Arry wrote:Explain the hash tag thing, it doesn't mean anything to me on this site, what significance does it have on here? Too late for the Skyfall joke, it is now skuntfall, although I don't like using that word, would have preferred prefer skatefall, but it is all the same thing these days.
OSPREYSAINT wrote:I'm sure he'll be touched by your kind words. Admit it you lot are free falling. #007stainfall
Happy Birthday Nigel Adkins, I bet he is happier not to be out training at Staplewood on a day like this! Best wishes NA let's hope for a decent outcome.
OSPREYSAINT
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9:02am Mon 11 Mar 13
Wide Boy Arry wrote:.. and the hash tag thing, what is it exactly, I can't understand the message if I don't know what it means, P.S. I passed my English exams in 1964, but have forgotten more than you will ever learn.
OSPREYSAINT wrote:Sorry but I can't answer somebody who has such poor spelling, it's not even at a GSCE standard.
OSPREYSAINT wrote:delete "prefer" no idea how that happened, proof reading not my strong point.
Wide Boy Arry wrote:Explain the hash tag thing, it doesn't mean anything to me on this site, what significance does it have on here? Too late for the Skyfall joke, it is now skuntfall, although I don't like using that word, would have preferred prefer skatefall, but it is all the same thing these days.
OSPREYSAINT wrote:I'm sure he'll be touched by your kind words. Admit it you lot are free falling. #007stainfall
Happy Birthday Nigel Adkins, I bet he is happier not to be out training at Staplewood on a day like this! Best wishes NA let's hope for a decent outcome.
Wide Boy Arry
says...
9:02am Mon 11 Mar 13
OSPREYSAINT
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9:03am Mon 11 Mar 13
mack chinnon wrote:Mind the chasm!
Wide Boy Arry wrote:Mind the gap.
Artur Boruc insists he is leaving discussions over an extension to his Saints contract in the hands of his agent and the club.
Roughly translated....
Please! Come and get me! Anyone!
Wide Boy Arry
says...
9:03am Mon 11 Mar 13
mack chinnon wrote:Déjà vu! Aren't you one of our pet stains on the News site?
Wide Boy Arry wrote:Mind the gap.
Artur Boruc insists he is leaving discussions over an extension to his Saints contract in the hands of his agent and the club.
Roughly translated....
Please! Come and get me! Anyone!
Folkestone Saint
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9:10am Mon 11 Mar 13
Wide Boy Arry wrote:You don't learn do you you stupid boy, you quoted GCSE's last week only to make a glaring error in a fit of temper on your own blog, thank christ my life is not small and meaning-less like yours.
OSPREYSAINT wrote:Sorry but I can't answer somebody who has such poor spelling, it's not even at a GSCE standard.
OSPREYSAINT wrote:delete "prefer" no idea how that happened, proof reading not my strong point.
Wide Boy Arry wrote:Explain the hash tag thing, it doesn't mean anything to me on this site, what significance does it have on here? Too late for the Skyfall joke, it is now skuntfall, although I don't like using that word, would have preferred prefer skatefall, but it is all the same thing these days.
OSPREYSAINT wrote:I'm sure he'll be touched by your kind words. Admit it you lot are free falling. #007stainfall
Happy Birthday Nigel Adkins, I bet he is happier not to be out training at Staplewood on a day like this! Best wishes NA let's hope for a decent outcome.
miltonarcher
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9:11am Mon 11 Mar 13
After extensive tests, however, it has been confirmed that there are no traces of this disgusting blue poopey in the Premier League or Championship. League One is suffering, traces of this blue stuff, declared not fit for human consumption has been found, but steps have been taken to eradicate it.
League two have expressed concern that this corrupt material, a result of years of criminal behavior and cheating is going to be discovered, perhaps as soon as later this year. However, scientists have assured the professional game that it is very likely this low grade material will soon be totally eradicated and quarantined in the non-league until a permanent solution can be found.
OSPREYSAINT
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9:14am Mon 11 Mar 13
Wide Boy Arry wrote:Not me mate, if I post on there it will be as "notapompeyfan" (check it out), just to make it clear who I am, but I have only posted once on there this year and that was not an abusive one, just correcting an incorrect fact. I read it now and then and get so depressed at the infighting, it is worse than on here by far, but then again you have a lot more to be concerned about. I don't see any harm posting on other sites as long as it isn't abusive, a little bit of banter is fine, but I am sorry to say posters from both camps, and non related WUMs and Trolls, ruin it for the decent ones. Please remember I am a scummer not a stain, that is just an idiotic spelling error, and you said you don't respond to them.
Déjà vu! Aren't you one of our pet stains on the News site?
Wide Boy Arry
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9:15am Mon 11 Mar 13
Folkestone Saint wrote:You're one angry Folkestone fairy aren't you. Go mince your way over to the deep fat fryer and serve them chips, hey Tinkerbell.
Wide Boy Arry wrote:You don't learn do you you stupid boy, you quoted GCSE's last week only to make a glaring error in a fit of temper on your own blog, thank christ my life is not small and meaning-less like yours.
OSPREYSAINT wrote:Sorry but I can't answer somebody who has such poor spelling, it's not even at a GSCE standard.
OSPREYSAINT wrote:delete "prefer" no idea how that happened, proof reading not my strong point.
Wide Boy Arry wrote:Explain the hash tag thing, it doesn't mean anything to me on this site, what significance does it have on here? Too late for the Skyfall joke, it is now skuntfall, although I don't like using that word, would have preferred prefer skatefall, but it is all the same thing these days.
OSPREYSAINT wrote:I'm sure he'll be touched by your kind words. Admit it you lot are free falling. #007stainfall
Happy Birthday Nigel Adkins, I bet he is happier not to be out training at Staplewood on a day like this! Best wishes NA let's hope for a decent outcome.
Wide Boy Arry
says...
9:19am Mon 11 Mar 13
OSPREYSAINT wrote:Not you, your mate Chinnon. It's alright you saying that WUMs come on here and ruin it but how about sad seed and Bill coming on the News site. Even when they get ignored and ridiculed they still turn up begging for a reply.
Wide Boy Arry wrote:Not me mate, if I post on there it will be as "notapompeyfan" (check it out), just to make it clear who I am, but I have only posted once on there this year and that was not an abusive one, just correcting an incorrect fact. I read it now and then and get so depressed at the infighting, it is worse than on here by far, but then again you have a lot more to be concerned about. I don't see any harm posting on other sites as long as it isn't abusive, a little bit of banter is fine, but I am sorry to say posters from both camps, and non related WUMs and Trolls, ruin it for the decent ones. Please remember I am a scummer not a stain, that is just an idiotic spelling error, and you said you don't respond to them.
Déjà vu! Aren't you one of our pet stains on the News site?
OSPREYSAINT
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9:19am Mon 11 Mar 13
Wide Boy Arry wrote:Come off it Wide Boy, don't let them tease you into using abuse, that's not your usual way, stick to the wit, leave the abuse to the experts, they know who they are.
Folkestone Saint wrote:You're one angry Folkestone fairy aren't you. Go mince your way over to the deep fat fryer and serve them chips, hey Tinkerbell.
Wide Boy Arry wrote:You don't learn do you you stupid boy, you quoted GCSE's last week only to make a glaring error in a fit of temper on your own blog, thank christ my life is not small and meaning-less like yours.
OSPREYSAINT wrote:Sorry but I can't answer somebody who has such poor spelling, it's not even at a GSCE standard.
OSPREYSAINT wrote:delete "prefer" no idea how that happened, proof reading not my strong point.
Wide Boy Arry wrote:Explain the hash tag thing, it doesn't mean anything to me on this site, what significance does it have on here? Too late for the Skyfall joke, it is now skuntfall, although I don't like using that word, would have preferred prefer skatefall, but it is all the same thing these days.
OSPREYSAINT wrote:I'm sure he'll be touched by your kind words. Admit it you lot are free falling. #007stainfall
Happy Birthday Nigel Adkins, I bet he is happier not to be out training at Staplewood on a day like this! Best wishes NA let's hope for a decent outcome.
Clever Dick
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9:22am Mon 11 Mar 13
OSPREYSAINT
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9:26am Mon 11 Mar 13
Wide Boy Arry wrote:Just feed them with your usual wit and charm, don't let them grind you down, if they do they will have won the day, it's only words and they can't physically hurt you. I still say you should be fighting your battles on The News Web site, with your own detractors, we can offer advice, but cannot really help you in your hour of need, you all have to be using the same Hymn sheet if you are going to succeed, your misfortune is of some amusement to us, but not our problem. Deal with it.
OSPREYSAINT wrote:Not you, your mate Chinnon. It's alright you saying that WUMs come on here and ruin it but how about sad seed and Bill coming on the News site. Even when they get ignored and ridiculed they still turn up begging for a reply.
Wide Boy Arry wrote:Not me mate, if I post on there it will be as "notapompeyfan" (check it out), just to make it clear who I am, but I have only posted once on there this year and that was not an abusive one, just correcting an incorrect fact. I read it now and then and get so depressed at the infighting, it is worse than on here by far, but then again you have a lot more to be concerned about. I don't see any harm posting on other sites as long as it isn't abusive, a little bit of banter is fine, but I am sorry to say posters from both camps, and non related WUMs and Trolls, ruin it for the decent ones. Please remember I am a scummer not a stain, that is just an idiotic spelling error, and you said you don't respond to them.
Déjà vu! Aren't you one of our pet stains on the News site?
george chivers
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9:30am Mon 11 Mar 13
And you are mate! Or is it a pantomime dame?
Folkestone Saint
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9:34am Mon 11 Mar 13
Wide Boy Arry wrote:As you are a skunt I want to see your money up front before entering a contract for goods and services, off you go stupid boy and stop pretending you can afford to eat out
Folkestone Saint wrote:You're one angry Folkestone fairy aren't you. Go mince your way over to the deep fat fryer and serve them chips, hey Tinkerbell.
Wide Boy Arry wrote:You don't learn do you you stupid boy, you quoted GCSE's last week only to make a glaring error in a fit of temper on your own blog, thank christ my life is not small and meaning-less like yours.
OSPREYSAINT wrote:Sorry but I can't answer somebody who has such poor spelling, it's not even at a GSCE standard.
OSPREYSAINT wrote:delete "prefer" no idea how that happened, proof reading not my strong point.
Wide Boy Arry wrote:Explain the hash tag thing, it doesn't mean anything to me on this site, what significance does it have on here? Too late for the Skyfall joke, it is now skuntfall, although I don't like using that word, would have preferred prefer skatefall, but it is all the same thing these days.
OSPREYSAINT wrote:I'm sure he'll be touched by your kind words. Admit it you lot are free falling. #007stainfall
Happy Birthday Nigel Adkins, I bet he is happier not to be out training at Staplewood on a day like this! Best wishes NA let's hope for a decent outcome.
Wide Boy Arry
says...
9:43am Mon 11 Mar 13
Folkestone Saint wrote:Ok Alan Sugar! Now get frying.
Wide Boy Arry wrote:As you are a skunt I want to see your money up front before entering a contract for goods and services, off you go stupid boy and stop pretending you can afford to eat out
Folkestone Saint wrote:You're one angry Folkestone fairy aren't you. Go mince your way over to the deep fat fryer and serve them chips, hey Tinkerbell.
Wide Boy Arry wrote:You don't learn do you you stupid boy, you quoted GCSE's last week only to make a glaring error in a fit of temper on your own blog, thank christ my life is not small and meaning-less like yours.
OSPREYSAINT wrote:Sorry but I can't answer somebody who has such poor spelling, it's not even at a GSCE standard.
OSPREYSAINT wrote:delete "prefer" no idea how that happened, proof reading not my strong point.
Wide Boy Arry wrote:Explain the hash tag thing, it doesn't mean anything to me on this site, what significance does it have on here? Too late for the Skyfall joke, it is now skuntfall, although I don't like using that word, would have preferred prefer skatefall, but it is all the same thing these days.
OSPREYSAINT wrote:I'm sure he'll be touched by your kind words. Admit it you lot are free falling. #007stainfall
Happy Birthday Nigel Adkins, I bet he is happier not to be out training at Staplewood on a day like this! Best wishes NA let's hope for a decent outcome.
mack chinnon
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9:45am Mon 11 Mar 13
Wide Boy Arry wrote:Mind the gap.
Artur Boruc insists he is leaving discussions over an extension to his Saints contract in the hands of his agent and the club.
Roughly translated....
Please! Come and get me! Anyone!
Clever Dick
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9:45am Mon 11 Mar 13
OSPREYSAINT wrote:Yes but it's made even more amusing by their bitterness at the fact we are now in the Prem. with a valuation in excess of £250M. They don't seem to get it that even if we go down we are still in a fantastic position to regain our rightful position in the top tier straight away. Our 5 year plan will still be on track and even if we have to sell a couple of our more highly rated players it won't make any difference. The money brought in from say Gaston and Shaw together with the parachute is more money than most C/ship sides could ever dream of. We'd still have SRL Cork Spider Clyne Fonte Lala Davis Fox Hoover J-Rod Yoshida Punch etc etc etc. Not to mention Tad Lee and Billy Sharp should we chose to bring them back.And yes even Guly. More than enough to scare the sh1t out of most C/ship sides.
Wide Boy Arry wrote:Just feed them with your usual wit and charm, don't let them grind you down, if they do they will have won the day, it's only words and they can't physically hurt you. I still say you should be fighting your battles on The News Web site, with your own detractors, we can offer advice, but cannot really help you in your hour of need, you all have to be using the same Hymn sheet if you are going to succeed, your misfortune is of some amusement to us, but not our problem. Deal with it.
OSPREYSAINT wrote:Not you, your mate Chinnon. It's alright you saying that WUMs come on here and ruin it but how about sad seed and Bill coming on the News site. Even when they get ignored and ridiculed they still turn up begging for a reply.
Wide Boy Arry wrote:Not me mate, if I post on there it will be as "notapompeyfan" (check it out), just to make it clear who I am, but I have only posted once on there this year and that was not an abusive one, just correcting an incorrect fact. I read it now and then and get so depressed at the infighting, it is worse than on here by far, but then again you have a lot more to be concerned about. I don't see any harm posting on other sites as long as it isn't abusive, a little bit of banter is fine, but I am sorry to say posters from both camps, and non related WUMs and Trolls, ruin it for the decent ones. Please remember I am a scummer not a stain, that is just an idiotic spelling error, and you said you don't respond to them.
Déjà vu! Aren't you one of our pet stains on the News site?
So to sum up.
The future is bright 'cos it's RED & WHITE
Folkestone Saint
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9:54am Mon 11 Mar 13
Wide Boy Arry wrote:So how are you going to cover up that 1D tatoo you had done eh stupid boy
Artur Boruc insists he is leaving discussions over an extension to his Saints contract in the hands of his agent and the club.
Roughly translated....
Please! Come and get me! Anyone!
Wide Boy Arry
says...
9:59am Mon 11 Mar 13
Folkestone Saint wrote:Chips stupid girl!
Wide Boy Arry wrote:So how are you going to cover up that 1D tatoo you had done eh stupid boy
Artur Boruc insists he is leaving discussions over an extension to his Saints contract in the hands of his agent and the club.
Roughly translated....
Please! Come and get me! Anyone!
Folkestone Saint
says...
10:03am Mon 11 Mar 13
Wide Boy Arry wrote:Do you know the meaning of the word hypocrite as this has been cut from one of you earlier trollings "with the same weak joke". I am off out now to play in the snow in my LandRover so will let you entertain me later. Tata stupid boy
Folkestone Saint wrote:Ok Alan Sugar! Now get frying.
Wide Boy Arry wrote:As you are a skunt I want to see your money up front before entering a contract for goods and services, off you go stupid boy and stop pretending you can afford to eat out
Folkestone Saint wrote:You're one angry Folkestone fairy aren't you. Go mince your way over to the deep fat fryer and serve them chips, hey Tinkerbell.
Wide Boy Arry wrote:You don't learn do you you stupid boy, you quoted GCSE's last week only to make a glaring error in a fit of temper on your own blog, thank christ my life is not small and meaning-less like yours.
OSPREYSAINT wrote:Sorry but I can't answer somebody who has such poor spelling, it's not even at a GSCE standard.
OSPREYSAINT wrote:delete "prefer" no idea how that happened, proof reading not my strong point.
Wide Boy Arry wrote:Explain the hash tag thing, it doesn't mean anything to me on this site, what significance does it have on here? Too late for the Skyfall joke, it is now skuntfall, although I don't like using that word, would have preferred prefer skatefall, but it is all the same thing these days.
OSPREYSAINT wrote:I'm sure he'll be touched by your kind words. Admit it you lot are free falling. #007stainfall
Happy Birthday Nigel Adkins, I bet he is happier not to be out training at Staplewood on a day like this! Best wishes NA let's hope for a decent outcome.
Wide Boy Arry
says...
10:08am Mon 11 Mar 13
Folkestone Saint wrote:zzzzzzz First sensible thing you've said Tinkerbell. Best you flutter away coz you're fighting a losing battle. No hard feelings!
Wide Boy Arry wrote:Do you know the meaning of the word hypocrite as this has been cut from one of you earlier trollings "with the same weak joke". I am off out now to play in the snow in my LandRover so will let you entertain me later. Tata stupid boy
Folkestone Saint wrote:Ok Alan Sugar! Now get frying.
Wide Boy Arry wrote:As you are a skunt I want to see your money up front before entering a contract for goods and services, off you go stupid boy and stop pretending you can afford to eat out
Folkestone Saint wrote:You're one angry Folkestone fairy aren't you. Go mince your way over to the deep fat fryer and serve them chips, hey Tinkerbell.
Wide Boy Arry wrote:You don't learn do you you stupid boy, you quoted GCSE's last week only to make a glaring error in a fit of temper on your own blog, thank christ my life is not small and meaning-less like yours.
OSPREYSAINT wrote:Sorry but I can't answer somebody who has such poor spelling, it's not even at a GSCE standard.
OSPREYSAINT wrote:delete "prefer" no idea how that happened, proof reading not my strong point.
Wide Boy Arry wrote:Explain the hash tag thing, it doesn't mean anything to me on this site, what significance does it have on here? Too late for the Skyfall joke, it is now skuntfall, although I don't like using that word, would have preferred prefer skatefall, but it is all the same thing these days.
OSPREYSAINT wrote:I'm sure he'll be touched by your kind words. Admit it you lot are free falling. #007stainfall
Happy Birthday Nigel Adkins, I bet he is happier not to be out training at Staplewood on a day like this! Best wishes NA let's hope for a decent outcome.
Clever Dick
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10:20am Mon 11 Mar 13
Saintsincethe60s
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10:24am Mon 11 Mar 13
St Retford
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10:27am Mon 11 Mar 13
Needless to say, Pompey have offered him a monthly deal.
Strasbourg Saint
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10:35am Mon 11 Mar 13
Well done Artur.
Greedy bu66er that I am, I'd still like a genuinely world-class keeper, but feel a lot better now we are not changing keepers every other week.
(.... and please stop feeding the troll, everyone. It would be a small step forward for humanity if he was starved of the attention that is keeping him alive.)
SaintJD
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10:38am Mon 11 Mar 13
Wide Boy Arry wrote:Someone has to post on The News site. That site really is a true reflection of how truly loyal your 'amazing' fans really are - six comments, two comments - that's about all you're good for. It's a joke. Sinking ship is right, as is 'rat's leaving'.
Déjà vu! Aren't you one of our pet stains on the News site?
Of course if the club is finally bought by the fans they'll turn up for one home game to make it look like they were part of it, but the fact is that the vast majority of your fan base deserted you when you needed them most. Disgraceful and not to be forgotten.
As gate records show, this wasn't the case with the Saints, even despite the Lowe era. We stuck with them, you guys ran as soon as the money ran out.
Now run back and add to the comments on the News site, if you put as many comments on their as you did here you'd quadruple the comments volume (and that's a conservative estimate), but you probably wouldn't have anyone else to talk to.
mbetts
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10:51am Mon 11 Mar 13
Wide Boy Arry wrote:How come you spend so much time and effort on a Saints site? But wouldn't have the courage to voice your insightful opinions on a match day in a pub in Southampton, keyboard warriors like you really do deserve a medal! Brave little soldier!
Artur Boruc insists he is leaving discussions over an extension to his Saints contract in the hands of his agent and the club.
Roughly translated....
Please! Come and get me! Anyone!
Confucious
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11:01am Mon 11 Mar 13
St Retford wrote:Looks like it's going to be another wumday and the tread tanking Artur Boruc for tat matcwinner at Norwic has less hance than an H in Polis.
I took my little boy for his first ever football lesson yesterday. He skipped up and down saying "I Gaston Ramirez" and then went and stood in the corner and "did a Puncheon" in his nappy. You kind of want to be supportive but he's got the first touch of Carlton Palmer.
Needless to say, Pompey have offered him a monthly deal.
saint christopher
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11:12am Mon 11 Mar 13
To my mind 2 things were confirmed on Saturday.
1. The old definition of a good referee as being someone you never notice seems to be rapidly disappearing. It seems some referees now want to become celebrities, willing to make the most game-changing decisions even though the evidence is not conclusive.
Common sense says that when it comes to penalties and sending off's you need to be 95% sure, but increasingly such decisions are at best 50/50. Ridiculous.
2. Another game where we've outplayed the opposition and dropped more points.
If our highly paid boys don't quickly learn how to take the opportunities their approach play generates and actually start hitting shots on target from more than 6 yards out we could soon be even deeper in the mire.
"We''re too good to go down" and "we were the better team" may be true to a degree, but that will be of little comfort if carved on our Premiership tombstone.
Still think we'll make it but all around us seem to be raising their game while we're doing the opposite. Worrying.
OSPREYSAINT
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11:27am Mon 11 Mar 13
St Retford
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11:29am Mon 11 Mar 13
We'll need Cork and Spidey (and probably Davis too) to really show their worth in the midfield because that was where Liverpool totally bullied Spurs out of the game. I do hope one of them absolutely flattens Suarez - he's such a horrible little rat of a man. I can imagine Artur's going to need to be amazing again.
On the flipside, Rickie will be straining at the leash. It could be epic.
JohnItaly
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11:49am Mon 11 Mar 13
saint christopher wrote:At last a post that gets back to footballing matters and not the childish banter so beloved by those more concerned with name calling and swopping meaningless insults.
To get back to the actual football and Saints survival in the Prem ....................
To my mind 2 things were confirmed on Saturday.
1. The old definition of a good referee as being someone you never notice seems to be rapidly disappearing. It seems some referees now want to become celebrities, willing to make the most game-changing decisions even though the evidence is not conclusive.
Common sense says that when it comes to penalties and sending off's you need to be 95% sure, but increasingly such decisions are at best 50/50. Ridiculous.
2. Another game where we've outplayed the opposition and dropped more points.
If our highly paid boys don't quickly learn how to take the opportunities their approach play generates and actually start hitting shots on target from more than 6 yards out we could soon be even deeper in the mire.
"We''re too good to go down" and "we were the better team" may be true to a degree, but that will be of little comfort if carved on our Premiership tombstone.
Still think we'll make it but all around us seem to be raising their game while we're doing the opposite. Worrying.
As I have previously posted the most worrying aspect of Saints' current position is they have regularly been the better team but lost or at best drawn. The number of points dropped from a winning position highlights this. Just about 1/3rd of those points would see us in c10th position and relative safety and happily planning for next season. This trend has to be reversed quickly or I fear the worst. We must achieve at least 4 points in the next two games. Two losses could see us in the bottom three and a real survival fight on our hands with Saints' retention of Premiership status out of their hands and dependent of other teams losing.
I am loathed to raise this point but despite long term contracts being signed I suspect should the unthinkable happen the team will be short of a few current faces next season.
Folkestone Saint
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11:55am Mon 11 Mar 13
I also promise I won't feed the troll as he/she is like an 8 track and just goes round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round e.t.c.
Rob The Saint NOT in NZ
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11:58am Mon 11 Mar 13
St Retford wrote:You are so right about Suarez.
Did anyone see Liverpool yesterday? I don't think we've yet played a team in such a rich vein of form. It'll be a test.
We'll need Cork and Spidey (and probably Davis too) to really show their worth in the midfield because that was where Liverpool totally bullied Spurs out of the game. I do hope one of them absolutely flattens Suarez - he's such a horrible little rat of a man. I can imagine Artur's going to need to be amazing again.
On the flipside, Rickie will be straining at the leash. It could be epic.
He could be sent off two or three times over every game, with his sly & not so sly kicks, flicks, leaving a foot in, off the ball slaps, language, etc, etc, etc...
A horrible, horrible excuse for a man.
I of course hope we beat Liverpool, & that Suarez is sent off in the process.
st1halo
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12:05pm Mon 11 Mar 13
St Retford wrote:I watched it Strets, Liverpool look like they are getting the cohesion required to become a force, although I disagree with your assessment of the game as I thought Spurs were the architects of their own demise but should have come away with the points. I'm not keen on Suarez either though mate. Fantastic player but I hate cheaters and there isn't one game where I haven't seen him cheat.
Did anyone see Liverpool yesterday? I don't think we've yet played a team in such a rich vein of form. It'll be a test.
We'll need Cork and Spidey (and probably Davis too) to really show their worth in the midfield because that was where Liverpool totally bullied Spurs out of the game. I do hope one of them absolutely flattens Suarez - he's such a horrible little rat of a man. I can imagine Artur's going to need to be amazing again.
On the flipside, Rickie will be straining at the leash. It could be epic.
Don't think the Scousers will like our pressing game much as they will have to move it quickly.
One thing I was really impressed with in that game yesterday and we know how rare it is .... the referee! thought he was excellent, he could have brandished reds and yellows all day but kept it flowing and didn't take any sh1t. Well done that man.
STID
Confucious
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12:05pm Mon 11 Mar 13
Confucious wrote:Oops, that reply was meant for Strassie and not you Retford. Cold hands maybe. Our hens were laying eggs from a standing position this morning.
St Retford wrote:Looks like it's going to be another wumday and the tread tanking Artur Boruc for tat matcwinner at Norwic has less hance than an H in Polis.
I took my little boy for his first ever football lesson yesterday. He skipped up and down saying "I Gaston Ramirez" and then went and stood in the corner and "did a Puncheon" in his nappy. You kind of want to be supportive but he's got the first touch of Carlton Palmer.
Needless to say, Pompey have offered him a monthly deal.
Folkestone Saint
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12:05pm Mon 11 Mar 13
Rob The Saint NOT in NZ wrote:I heard the Spurs fans calling him a ladies front bottom and have to agree, we will have to wind him up like we did to diouf, the bloke got so wound up he had to be subbed
St Retford wrote:You are so right about Suarez.
Did anyone see Liverpool yesterday? I don't think we've yet played a team in such a rich vein of form. It'll be a test.
We'll need Cork and Spidey (and probably Davis too) to really show their worth in the midfield because that was where Liverpool totally bullied Spurs out of the game. I do hope one of them absolutely flattens Suarez - he's such a horrible little rat of a man. I can imagine Artur's going to need to be amazing again.
On the flipside, Rickie will be straining at the leash. It could be epic.
He could be sent off two or three times over every game, with his sly & not so sly kicks, flicks, leaving a foot in, off the ball slaps, language, etc, etc, etc...
A horrible, horrible excuse for a man.
I of course hope we beat Liverpool, & that Suarez is sent off in the process.
warrens 76
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12:07pm Mon 11 Mar 13
Lallana is begining to bother me, class means taking you chances not just being a show pony..
st1halo
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12:10pm Mon 11 Mar 13
OSPREYSAINT wrote:His mum's name is Tashed Hag Mary
Hash tag 'Arry thinks he is on Twitter, the twit!
STID
SO50 Saint
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12:18pm Mon 11 Mar 13
OSPREYSAINT
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12:20pm Mon 11 Mar 13
Confucious wrote:I have heard that eggs were going up again, that could be a problem for the chickens.
Confucious wrote:Oops, that reply was meant for Strassie and not you Retford. Cold hands maybe. Our hens were laying eggs from a standing position this morning.
St Retford wrote:Looks like it's going to be another wumday and the tread tanking Artur Boruc for tat matcwinner at Norwic has less hance than an H in Polis.
I took my little boy for his first ever football lesson yesterday. He skipped up and down saying "I Gaston Ramirez" and then went and stood in the corner and "did a Puncheon" in his nappy. You kind of want to be supportive but he's got the first touch of Carlton Palmer.
Needless to say, Pompey have offered him a monthly deal.
OSPREYSAINT
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12:33pm Mon 11 Mar 13
JohnItaly wrote:If we were to drop, it would be case of starting again, it would be obvious then, that what we have isn't good enough anyway, so some of them would have to be replaced and the roller coaster ride begins again. Loads of possibilities to happen yet, I am not prepared to give up and 17th will still do for me.
saint christopher wrote:At last a post that gets back to footballing matters and not the childish banter so beloved by those more concerned with name calling and swopping meaningless insults.
To get back to the actual football and Saints survival in the Prem ....................
To my mind 2 things were confirmed on Saturday.
1. The old definition of a good referee as being someone you never notice seems to be rapidly disappearing. It seems some referees now want to become celebrities, willing to make the most game-changing decisions even though the evidence is not conclusive.
Common sense says that when it comes to penalties and sending off's you need to be 95% sure, but increasingly such decisions are at best 50/50. Ridiculous.
2. Another game where we've outplayed the opposition and dropped more points.
If our highly paid boys don't quickly learn how to take the opportunities their approach play generates and actually start hitting shots on target from more than 6 yards out we could soon be even deeper in the mire.
"We''re too good to go down" and "we were the better team" may be true to a degree, but that will be of little comfort if carved on our Premiership tombstone.
Still think we'll make it but all around us seem to be raising their game while we're doing the opposite. Worrying.
As I have previously posted the most worrying aspect of Saints' current position is they have regularly been the better team but lost or at best drawn. The number of points dropped from a winning position highlights this. Just about 1/3rd of those points would see us in c10th position and relative safety and happily planning for next season. This trend has to be reversed quickly or I fear the worst. We must achieve at least 4 points in the next two games. Two losses could see us in the bottom three and a real survival fight on our hands with Saints' retention of Premiership status out of their hands and dependent of other teams losing.
I am loathed to raise this point but despite long term contracts being signed I suspect should the unthinkable happen the team will be short of a few current faces next season.
rocketone
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12:36pm Mon 11 Mar 13
SaintJD
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12:41pm Mon 11 Mar 13
I see the media are starting to try to stir things up on MP's record in charge in the hope that story could still materialise. It will only resurface if we allow it to.
Yes, we are not getting as many points as we should be getting, but we will stay up if we play as we are and stick to our ethics, luck will even itself out, we'll win enough home games and win the odd one away too.
The 'dropping points from winning positions' stat is all very nice, but it fails to take into account the fact that this has, in many cases, been taking the lead early against some of the best teams in the league, usually away from home. These are games where many of our rivals haven't come close to worrying the opposition.
We've played 10 clubs home and away so far this season and only one has done the double over us - and that's Manchester United with a fair bit of luck.
IMO we will only go down if the atmosphere at home games becomes detrimental. If not we will survive. Only just, but we will survive and kick on next season.
Look at MPs games in charge. Of all of them I think realistically you can only point at QPR as a game where we have got 3 fewer points than you would have predicted beforehand and that is balanced by 3 bonus points verses Man City.
Newcastle is arguable, but anyone who gets a point from there would see it as a bonus, so a defeat is not exactly a disaster.
Yes, we could have got more based on performances, but that's something to be positive about, not negative.
SFCSaint
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12:46pm Mon 11 Mar 13
SaintJD wrote:no its not balanced with 3 points against man city because theyre not competing with us for survival a far more important game was QPR because if you lose that it has twice the effect hence why they are called "6 pointers" that loss has rejuvenated QPR and could be very costtly and how can we be positive when we cant even win games we dominate?
We will be OK this season if, and only if, the fans and players don't resort to panic mode.
I see the media are starting to try to stir things up on MP's record in charge in the hope that story could still materialise. It will only resurface if we allow it to.
Yes, we are not getting as many points as we should be getting, but we will stay up if we play as we are and stick to our ethics, luck will even itself out, we'll win enough home games and win the odd one away too.
The 'dropping points from winning positions' stat is all very nice, but it fails to take into account the fact that this has, in many cases, been taking the lead early against some of the best teams in the league, usually away from home. These are games where many of our rivals haven't come close to worrying the opposition.
We've played 10 clubs home and away so far this season and only one has done the double over us - and that's Manchester United with a fair bit of luck.
IMO we will only go down if the atmosphere at home games becomes detrimental. If not we will survive. Only just, but we will survive and kick on next season.
Look at MPs games in charge. Of all of them I think realistically you can only point at QPR as a game where we have got 3 fewer points than you would have predicted beforehand and that is balanced by 3 bonus points verses Man City.
Newcastle is arguable, but anyone who gets a point from there would see it as a bonus, so a defeat is not exactly a disaster.
Yes, we could have got more based on performances, but that's something to be positive about, not negative.
SO50 Saint
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12:51pm Mon 11 Mar 13
Invidia
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12:56pm Mon 11 Mar 13
SaintJD
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12:58pm Mon 11 Mar 13
SO50 Saint wrote:Agreed. It's a joke. Am I right in thinking we actually increased our gap to the bottom three on Saturday after a tough away game?
I fancy us to get 4 points from the next 2 games. No-one will expect us to and I feel we will raise our game against these teams. SFC you are right what you say about QPR but we can't keep dwelling on that game it's been and gone.
Yes, Wigan have a game in hand but it is vs Man City away, plus the fixture congestion is set to build up for them.
From this thread you'd think we'd just got hammered.
If you'd offered me this position at the start of the season or even more so in November I'd have bitten your hand off. Plus we've done it playing excellent football with positivity.
Can everyone maybe cheer up a little bit?
st1halo
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1:08pm Mon 11 Mar 13
SaintJD wrote:I agree JD. Too many think we should beat a team because of their name! QPR beat Chelsea at The Bridge, have an impressive squad and have been under-performing all season, it would be reasonable to expect them to gel at some point. Norwich have a great home record so we had no right to expect 3 points there. Newcastle have imported a new squad since our last meeting. Every game has to be taken seriously and nothing should be taken for granted. One thing is for sure, there is not a single team in this league that we should fear, we have outplayed the best, with some luck and quality finishing we should get our reward.
We will be OK this season if, and only if, the fans and players don't resort to panic mode.
I see the media are starting to try to stir things up on MP's record in charge in the hope that story could still materialise. It will only resurface if we allow it to.
Yes, we are not getting as many points as we should be getting, but we will stay up if we play as we are and stick to our ethics, luck will even itself out, we'll win enough home games and win the odd one away too.
The 'dropping points from winning positions' stat is all very nice, but it fails to take into account the fact that this has, in many cases, been taking the lead early against some of the best teams in the league, usually away from home. These are games where many of our rivals haven't come close to worrying the opposition.
We've played 10 clubs home and away so far this season and only one has done the double over us - and that's Manchester United with a fair bit of luck.
IMO we will only go down if the atmosphere at home games becomes detrimental. If not we will survive. Only just, but we will survive and kick on next season.
Look at MPs games in charge. Of all of them I think realistically you can only point at QPR as a game where we have got 3 fewer points than you would have predicted beforehand and that is balanced by 3 bonus points verses Man City.
Newcastle is arguable, but anyone who gets a point from there would see it as a bonus, so a defeat is not exactly a disaster.
Yes, we could have got more based on performances, but that's something to be positive about, not negative.
STID
SO50 Saint
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1:13pm Mon 11 Mar 13
For me Wigan Reading and QPR/Villa for the drop by the way it's not just on here where everyone's moaning went on Saintsweb yesterday and it's bad on there too.
SFCSaint
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1:16pm Mon 11 Mar 13
SaintJD wrote:yes we did increase the gap but that gap will be gone if we fail to win this week which it is more than likely we wont! and then we play chelsea so given our next 2 games we could be in the bottom 3! especially with wigan playing newcastle at home one of the worst away teams and villa playing qpr so at least 1 of them has to get points if qpr were to win the gap would be halved and if wigan were to win to an we were to lose it would be halved again down to 1 with the next game being chelsea? we are in serious trouble now maybe you can see why were depressed!
SO50 Saint wrote:Agreed. It's a joke. Am I right in thinking we actually increased our gap to the bottom three on Saturday after a tough away game?
I fancy us to get 4 points from the next 2 games. No-one will expect us to and I feel we will raise our game against these teams. SFC you are right what you say about QPR but we can't keep dwelling on that game it's been and gone.
Yes, Wigan have a game in hand but it is vs Man City away, plus the fixture congestion is set to build up for them.
From this thread you'd think we'd just got hammered.
If you'd offered me this position at the start of the season or even more so in November I'd have bitten your hand off. Plus we've done it playing excellent football with positivity.
Can everyone maybe cheer up a little bit?
SO50 Saint
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1:23pm Mon 11 Mar 13
SFCSaint
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1:32pm Mon 11 Mar 13
SO50 Saint wrote:No way mate i could never go out after if that happened id be far too depressed! ive spent over a grand on merchandise and following saints home and away this season and it would really hurt me if we went down tbh thats why im so worried because i dont want everything weve done well this season to be in vain and really we should have 40 points already !
My advice to anyone really worried by the current situation SFC in particular Skybet currently have Saints at 3/1 to go down stick some money on that and if we do go you'll have a decent night out if you've stuck on a decent amount and if we stay up well i'm sure you may not miss that money anyway due to the relief/joy of us staying up :)
batesieboy
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1:44pm Mon 11 Mar 13
SO50 Saint
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1:45pm Mon 11 Mar 13
SFCSaint
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1:47pm Mon 11 Mar 13
SO50 Saint wrote:I know mate just hope we can do enough! weve made it far more difficult for ourselves than we should have!
Fair play on the amount you've spent. You are completely right though we should have far more points than we do currently but theres nothing we can do about that now except for getting behind the team in remaining matches
St Retford
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2:06pm Mon 11 Mar 13
SFCSaint wrote:I'm not remotely worried about relegation. It's never gonna happen.
SO50 Saint wrote:I know mate just hope we can do enough! weve made it far more difficult for ourselves than we should have!
Fair play on the amount you've spent. You are completely right though we should have far more points than we do currently but theres nothing we can do about that now except for getting behind the team in remaining matches
SaintJD
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2:10pm Mon 11 Mar 13
SFCSaint wrote:Blimey, what an optimistic viewpoint. Must sign you up for an inspirational half time team talk.
SaintJD wrote:yes we did increase the gap but that gap will be gone if we fail to win this week which it is more than likely we wont! and then we play chelsea so given our next 2 games we could be in the bottom 3! especially with wigan playing newcastle at home one of the worst away teams and villa playing qpr so at least 1 of them has to get points if qpr were to win the gap would be halved and if wigan were to win to an we were to lose it would be halved again down to 1 with the next game being chelsea? we are in serious trouble now maybe you can see why were depressed!
SO50 Saint wrote:Agreed. It's a joke. Am I right in thinking we actually increased our gap to the bottom three on Saturday after a tough away game?
I fancy us to get 4 points from the next 2 games. No-one will expect us to and I feel we will raise our game against these teams. SFC you are right what you say about QPR but we can't keep dwelling on that game it's been and gone.
Yes, Wigan have a game in hand but it is vs Man City away, plus the fixture congestion is set to build up for them.
From this thread you'd think we'd just got hammered.
If you'd offered me this position at the start of the season or even more so in November I'd have bitten your hand off. Plus we've done it playing excellent football with positivity.
Can everyone maybe cheer up a little bit?
Clearly you are depressed because you are in the best league in the world, the place we've been wanting to get back to for years and we're in a position where we have our fate in our own hands, having shown we can hold our own against the very best and maybe stabilise our position ready to kick on next year as planned.
You may be right about the coming fixtures, who knows, but if we all think like that then, yes, we will go down, because I can tell you that our rivals, though worse off than us, are not about to throw in the towel and give up like you seem to be (from a winning position).
Luckily, games on paper very rarely go the way the form book or common sense would suggest.
Using your formula QPR would have lost against us and Reading would have won both of the two easy home games they've just got zero points from.
Yes, we could be in the bottom three, but we could realistically still be four points ahead or more having got two of our three hardest remaining fixtures out of the way and with Reading away on the horizon.
Keep the faith and don't pre-judge results. I expect a few people pre-judged the QPR result and it didn't quite turn out as planned.
Out of interest - what good does moping around do for our cause, bar spreading anxiety?
SO50 Saint
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2:20pm Mon 11 Mar 13
warrens 76
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2:34pm Mon 11 Mar 13
..normally I am gutted at the draws however out of these two games I would be grateful...win one lose one even better..
We are not finishing though and have'nt for some time..
Citeh was them messing up rather than us buying the ball in the net..we are simply to lightweight in front of goal..
..it irk's me no end to see teams with half (if that) of our overall talent ultimately present more of a threat than we do...
Problem is we need two RL's one to supply one to score them..he cannot be in 2 places at the same time....
On a positive note Jay Rod is slowly getting there..just hope it's sooner rather than later.
st1halo
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2:34pm Mon 11 Mar 13
SaintJD wrote:SFCSaint is Mr Negativity 2013. Can't recall one positive post from him.
SFCSaint wrote:Blimey, what an optimistic viewpoint. Must sign you up for an inspirational half time team talk.
SaintJD wrote:yes we did increase the gap but that gap will be gone if we fail to win this week which it is more than likely we wont! and then we play chelsea so given our next 2 games we could be in the bottom 3! especially with wigan playing newcastle at home one of the worst away teams and villa playing qpr so at least 1 of them has to get points if qpr were to win the gap would be halved and if wigan were to win to an we were to lose it would be halved again down to 1 with the next game being chelsea? we are in serious trouble now maybe you can see why were depressed!
SO50 Saint wrote:Agreed. It's a joke. Am I right in thinking we actually increased our gap to the bottom three on Saturday after a tough away game?
I fancy us to get 4 points from the next 2 games. No-one will expect us to and I feel we will raise our game against these teams. SFC you are right what you say about QPR but we can't keep dwelling on that game it's been and gone.
Yes, Wigan have a game in hand but it is vs Man City away, plus the fixture congestion is set to build up for them.
From this thread you'd think we'd just got hammered.
If you'd offered me this position at the start of the season or even more so in November I'd have bitten your hand off. Plus we've done it playing excellent football with positivity.
Can everyone maybe cheer up a little bit?
Clearly you are depressed because you are in the best league in the world, the place we've been wanting to get back to for years and we're in a position where we have our fate in our own hands, having shown we can hold our own against the very best and maybe stabilise our position ready to kick on next year as planned.
You may be right about the coming fixtures, who knows, but if we all think like that then, yes, we will go down, because I can tell you that our rivals, though worse off than us, are not about to throw in the towel and give up like you seem to be (from a winning position).
Luckily, games on paper very rarely go the way the form book or common sense would suggest.
Using your formula QPR would have lost against us and Reading would have won both of the two easy home games they've just got zero points from.
Yes, we could be in the bottom three, but we could realistically still be four points ahead or more having got two of our three hardest remaining fixtures out of the way and with Reading away on the horizon.
Keep the faith and don't pre-judge results. I expect a few people pre-judged the QPR result and it didn't quite turn out as planned.
Out of interest - what good does moping around do for our cause, bar spreading anxiety?
He's entitled to his opinion of course but some of us see every game as an opportunity for 3 points and don't regard fixtures as a foregone conclusion! If they were the bottom 6 would be Reading, Saints, West Ham, Wigan, West Brom and Swansea according to the bookies pre-season.
Our job is to keep the faith.
STID
OSPREYSAINT
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2:37pm Mon 11 Mar 13
SO50 Saint wrote:Some bookies see it differently
My advice to anyone really worried by the current situation SFC in particular Skybet currently have Saints at 3/1 to go down stick some money on that and if we do go you'll have a decent night out if you've stuck on a decent amount and if we stay up well i'm sure you may not miss that money anyway due to the relief/joy of us staying up :)
http://news.ladbroke
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/premier-league/west
-ham-travel-sickness
-can-ensure-southamp
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st1halo
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2:38pm Mon 11 Mar 13
warrens 76 wrote:He's getting better but I still question the price tag warrens. Shame we didn't go for Murray at Palace, there's a guy who knows where the goal is!
I think we need to pick up two points against 'pool and 'sea...
..normally I am gutted at the draws however out of these two games I would be grateful...win one lose one even better..
We are not finishing though and have'nt for some time..
Citeh was them messing up rather than us buying the ball in the net..we are simply to lightweight in front of goal..
..it irk's me no end to see teams with half (if that) of our overall talent ultimately present more of a threat than we do...
Problem is we need two RL's one to supply one to score them..he cannot be in 2 places at the same time....
On a positive note Jay Rod is slowly getting there..just hope it's sooner rather than later.
STID
SO50 Saint
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2:40pm Mon 11 Mar 13
Strasbourg Saint
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2:40pm Mon 11 Mar 13
OSPREYSAINT wrote:Sounds painful from the bottom upwards, Osprey.
Confucious wrote:I have heard that eggs were going up again, that could be a problem for the chickens.
Confucious wrote:Oops, that reply was meant for Strassie and not you Retford. Cold hands maybe. Our hens were laying eggs from a standing position this morning.
St Retford wrote:Looks like it's going to be another wumday and the tread tanking Artur Boruc for tat matcwinner at Norwic has less hance than an H in Polis.
I took my little boy for his first ever football lesson yesterday. He skipped up and down saying "I Gaston Ramirez" and then went and stood in the corner and "did a Puncheon" in his nappy. You kind of want to be supportive but he's got the first touch of Carlton Palmer.
Needless to say, Pompey have offered him a monthly deal.
I gather Normandy's turned white today but, bar a little flurry, we've escaped so far on this side of France.
You should all man up over there, I saw plenty of t-shirted geordies sunning themselves in the snow in Newcastle last month and the toon chickens were busy plucking themselves because they were too hot.
OSPREYSAINT
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3:28pm Mon 11 Mar 13
Confucious
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3:41pm Mon 11 Mar 13
warrens 76 wrote:I have a very strange feeling that I've seen you post that before.
It is a horrible sense of déja vu...we are not the worst team in the league not even close...however a non footballing side like Norwich can hoof the ball around and threaten us...and our 'star' players cannot take their chances...
Lallana is begining to bother me, class means taking you chances not just being a show pony..
Taoboy
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3:58pm Mon 11 Mar 13
Any team in this league can beat any other team on their day and if they called it right tactically.
Saints have achieved dominance in possession and denied a majority of teams they have played from getting what they expected.
They have also lost alot of points because they couldnt close out the game. They were shown to be naive at the begginning of the season when some opposition players , frankly, cheated.
when the players get hot under the collar they think an appeal to the ref might change a decicion.
i have never in fifty five years seen this tactic succeed. Only the captain should even speak to the ref, it looks pro and allows the team to concentrate on the game and not be emotionally led into unforced errors.
with the Kop you can expect a whole range of artful dodges. be prepared,
Leave the ref alone and Shaw if he plays has to be spotless after Hughton Highllighting his little caper in the six yard box.
Come on You SAINTS.
george chivers
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4:01pm Mon 11 Mar 13
Folkestone Saint wrote:I would advise against winding up strikers of that quality when they are away from home. They tend to respond with goals. Their manager will use that against us at half time to get goal(s) out of Suarez.
Rob The Saint NOT in NZ wrote:I heard the Spurs fans calling him a ladies front bottom and have to agree, we will have to wind him up like we did to diouf, the bloke got so wound up he had to be subbed
St Retford wrote:You are so right about Suarez.
Did anyone see Liverpool yesterday? I don't think we've yet played a team in such a rich vein of form. It'll be a test.
We'll need Cork and Spidey (and probably Davis too) to really show their worth in the midfield because that was where Liverpool totally bullied Spurs out of the game. I do hope one of them absolutely flattens Suarez - he's such a horrible little rat of a man. I can imagine Artur's going to need to be amazing again.
On the flipside, Rickie will be straining at the leash. It could be epic.
He could be sent off two or three times over every game, with his sly & not so sly kicks, flicks, leaving a foot in, off the ball slaps, language, etc, etc, etc...
A horrible, horrible excuse for a man.
I of course hope we beat Liverpool, & that Suarez is sent off in the process.
We wound up 'Arry. Did that help us?
Suarez is horrible, but very good at his job. Don't encourage to over perform.
warrens 76
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4:12pm Mon 11 Mar 13
Confucious wrote:Just hope it's not a little bit of history repeating itself..we've been there before!
warrens 76 wrote:I have a very strange feeling that I've seen you post that before.
It is a horrible sense of déja vu...we are not the worst team in the league not even close...however a non footballing side like Norwich can hoof the ball around and threaten us...and our 'star' players cannot take their chances...
Lallana is begining to bother me, class means taking you chances not just being a show pony..
OSPREYSAINT
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4:26pm Mon 11 Mar 13
Confucious wrote:What was it Nigel used to quote, hard work beats talent when talent isn't working hard enough?
warrens 76 wrote:I have a very strange feeling that I've seen you post that before.
It is a horrible sense of déja vu...we are not the worst team in the league not even close...however a non footballing side like Norwich can hoof the ball around and threaten us...and our 'star' players cannot take their chances...
Lallana is begining to bother me, class means taking you chances not just being a show pony..
SaintJD
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4:35pm Mon 11 Mar 13
warrens 76 wrote:I'm not sure we have to be honest. When we went down last time I honestly can't remember us being anything like as good as we've been this season or dominating possession in most of our games.
Confucious wrote:Just hope it's not a little bit of history repeating itself..we've been there before!
warrens 76 wrote:I have a very strange feeling that I've seen you post that before.
It is a horrible sense of déja vu...we are not the worst team in the league not even close...however a non footballing side like Norwich can hoof the ball around and threaten us...and our 'star' players cannot take their chances...
Lallana is begining to bother me, class means taking you chances not just being a show pony..
I can't remember anyone saying we were too good to go down either.
TheSaintsMan
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4:37pm Mon 11 Mar 13
Suarez is a great player, despite his antics, and we will need Maya on him at all times.
Up front we will need the pace of Gaston to hold off their centre backs before linking up with Rickie who will hopefully be having to slot past Brad Jones instead of Pepe Reina (who may still be injured).
hates the skates
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4:43pm Mon 11 Mar 13
Southampton boy wrote:think your fnd thats 9 games left, of which we need to win 4 games to be absolutely certain of survival, 40 points is usually the target, though this season i feel it will be less than that im sure 3 wins and a draw were be fine, so no need to panic just yet.
After Saturday I hope he gets a new contract , my only worry is it sounds like the year we went down for the prem all these 7 years everyone saying we are too good to go down, and we are playing some great football but not gettng the results we need we have lost 5 points over the last two game QPR and Norwitch away from looking at how we have played over these two game we should have won now we have two home games Liverpool and Chelsea we have 1 games to play and we need to get some 10 to 15 points for safey 1.5 per game 5 win from 10 can we do this!! I hope so come you reds
hates the skates
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5:01pm Mon 11 Mar 13
Wide Boy Arry wrote:you aint got a job clearly perhaps your a theif like the rest of you deluded mugs from poopey, thats how you can afford to eat right?
Folkestone Saint wrote:Ok Alan Sugar! Now get frying.
Wide Boy Arry wrote:As you are a skunt I want to see your money up front before entering a contract for goods and services, off you go stupid boy and stop pretending you can afford to eat out
Folkestone Saint wrote:You're one angry Folkestone fairy aren't you. Go mince your way over to the deep fat fryer and serve them chips, hey Tinkerbell.
Wide Boy Arry wrote:You don't learn do you you stupid boy, you quoted GCSE's last week only to make a glaring error in a fit of temper on your own blog, thank christ my life is not small and meaning-less like yours.
OSPREYSAINT wrote:Sorry but I can't answer somebody who has such poor spelling, it's not even at a GSCE standard.
OSPREYSAINT wrote:delete "prefer" no idea how that happened, proof reading not my strong point.
Wide Boy Arry wrote:Explain the hash tag thing, it doesn't mean anything to me on this site, what significance does it have on here? Too late for the Skyfall joke, it is now skuntfall, although I don't like using that word, would have preferred prefer skatefall, but it is all the same thing these days.
OSPREYSAINT wrote:I'm sure he'll be touched by your kind words. Admit it you lot are free falling. #007stainfall
Happy Birthday Nigel Adkins, I bet he is happier not to be out training at Staplewood on a day like this! Best wishes NA let's hope for a decent outcome.
SFCSaint
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5:06pm Mon 11 Mar 13
st1halo wrote:yeah ill admit i havent been positive much at all this season because ive always been worried of the threat of relegation and will continue to be until our premier league place is secure
SaintJD wrote:SFCSaint is Mr Negativity 2013. Can't recall one positive post from him.
SFCSaint wrote:Blimey, what an optimistic viewpoint. Must sign you up for an inspirational half time team talk.
SaintJD wrote:yes we did increase the gap but that gap will be gone if we fail to win this week which it is more than likely we wont! and then we play chelsea so given our next 2 games we could be in the bottom 3! especially with wigan playing newcastle at home one of the worst away teams and villa playing qpr so at least 1 of them has to get points if qpr were to win the gap would be halved and if wigan were to win to an we were to lose it would be halved again down to 1 with the next game being chelsea? we are in serious trouble now maybe you can see why were depressed!
SO50 Saint wrote:Agreed. It's a joke. Am I right in thinking we actually increased our gap to the bottom three on Saturday after a tough away game?
I fancy us to get 4 points from the next 2 games. No-one will expect us to and I feel we will raise our game against these teams. SFC you are right what you say about QPR but we can't keep dwelling on that game it's been and gone.
Yes, Wigan have a game in hand but it is vs Man City away, plus the fixture congestion is set to build up for them.
From this thread you'd think we'd just got hammered.
If you'd offered me this position at the start of the season or even more so in November I'd have bitten your hand off. Plus we've done it playing excellent football with positivity.
Can everyone maybe cheer up a little bit?
Clearly you are depressed because you are in the best league in the world, the place we've been wanting to get back to for years and we're in a position where we have our fate in our own hands, having shown we can hold our own against the very best and maybe stabilise our position ready to kick on next year as planned.
You may be right about the coming fixtures, who knows, but if we all think like that then, yes, we will go down, because I can tell you that our rivals, though worse off than us, are not about to throw in the towel and give up like you seem to be (from a winning position).
Luckily, games on paper very rarely go the way the form book or common sense would suggest.
Using your formula QPR would have lost against us and Reading would have won both of the two easy home games they've just got zero points from.
Yes, we could be in the bottom three, but we could realistically still be four points ahead or more having got two of our three hardest remaining fixtures out of the way and with Reading away on the horizon.
Keep the faith and don't pre-judge results. I expect a few people pre-judged the QPR result and it didn't quite turn out as planned.
Out of interest - what good does moping around do for our cause, bar spreading anxiety?
He's entitled to his opinion of course but some of us see every game as an opportunity for 3 points and don't regard fixtures as a foregone conclusion! If they were the bottom 6 would be Reading, Saints, West Ham, Wigan, West Brom and Swansea according to the bookies pre-season.
Our job is to keep the faith.
STID
warrens 76
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5:07pm Mon 11 Mar 13
SaintJD wrote:Actually we went down with one of the least number of losses..we just kept drawing and throwing it away in the last 10 minutes...sound familier..
warrens 76 wrote:I'm not sure we have to be honest. When we went down last time I honestly can't remember us being anything like as good as we've been this season or dominating possession in most of our games.
Confucious wrote:Just hope it's not a little bit of history repeating itself..we've been there before!
warrens 76 wrote:I have a very strange feeling that I've seen you post that before.
It is a horrible sense of déja vu...we are not the worst team in the league not even close...however a non footballing side like Norwich can hoof the ball around and threaten us...and our 'star' players cannot take their chances...
Lallana is begining to bother me, class means taking you chances not just being a show pony..
I can't remember anyone saying we were too good to go down either.
Quality of football is there no question however it is not winning us games and lesser teams are getting results against us..Norwich are awful yet we almost lost that..QPR enough said...draw at Wigan when we were winning..etc etc.
Confucious
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5:15pm Mon 11 Mar 13
warrens 76 wrote:It's rather complicated for me because I get amnesia as well as deja vu and I keep thinking there are things I've forgotten before.
Confucious wrote:Just hope it's not a little bit of history repeating itself..we've been there before!
warrens 76 wrote:I have a very strange feeling that I've seen you post that before.
It is a horrible sense of déja vu...we are not the worst team in the league not even close...however a non footballing side like Norwich can hoof the ball around and threaten us...and our 'star' players cannot take their chances...
Lallana is begining to bother me, class means taking you chances not just being a show pony..
Clever Dick
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5:24pm Mon 11 Mar 13
TheSaintsMan wrote:Well I watched that game too. Spurs outplayed them till a stupid defensive error cost them a goal. As usually happens that changed the whole momentum of the game and then Liverpool took control. We need to play on their weakness and that is currently Jamie Carragher. Well past his best, lacking in pace and could easily get sent off for a couple of clumsy tackles.
Looking ahead to Saturdays game, I have a real worry that we can any points from this game. Liverpool are playing very well and passing nicely, so we will need Cork and Spider to rip up their midfield.
Suarez is a great player, despite his antics, and we will need Maya on him at all times.
Up front we will need the pace of Gaston to hold off their centre backs before linking up with Rickie who will hopefully be having to slot past Brad Jones instead of Pepe Reina (who may still be injured).
OSPREYSAINT
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5:42pm Mon 11 Mar 13
dadofmy3sons
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5:55pm Mon 11 Mar 13
Clever Dick wrote:that was going to be my comment!
TheSaintsMan wrote:Well I watched that game too. Spurs outplayed them till a stupid defensive error cost them a goal. As usually happens that changed the whole momentum of the game and then Liverpool took control. We need to play on their weakness and that is currently Jamie Carragher. Well past his best, lacking in pace and could easily get sent off for a couple of clumsy tackles.
Looking ahead to Saturdays game, I have a real worry that we can any points from this game. Liverpool are playing very well and passing nicely, so we will need Cork and Spider to rip up their midfield.
Suarez is a great player, despite his antics, and we will need Maya on him at all times.
Up front we will need the pace of Gaston to hold off their centre backs before linking up with Rickie who will hopefully be having to slot past Brad Jones instead of Pepe Reina (who may still be injured).
you swine!
Carrghea is the weak point in Liverpool.
Put Ricky right on him and tell Jay to run close to him and wait for the foot to pop out! it will!
SFCSaint
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5:59pm Mon 11 Mar 13
OSPREYSAINT wrote:No we dont want him to take it? what if he kept them up and we went down? think before you speak!
McDermott has got the big Elbow, NA step up the job could be yours!
slugger
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5:59pm Mon 11 Mar 13
slugger
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6:02pm Mon 11 Mar 13
SFCSaint wrote:He can't take the job as he's still on our payroll , Nicola may be a lot of things but stupid isn't one of them .
OSPREYSAINT wrote:No we dont want him to take it? what if he kept them up and we went down? think before you speak!
McDermott has got the big Elbow, NA step up the job could be yours!
OSPREYSAINT
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6:02pm Mon 11 Mar 13
SFCSaint wrote:It was tongue in cheek, as far as I know NA is not yet a free agent, if he went for it may lose any chance of compensation, correct me if I am wrong.
OSPREYSAINT wrote:No we dont want him to take it? what if he kept them up and we went down? think before you speak!
McDermott has got the big Elbow, NA step up the job could be yours!
saintkenny
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6:11pm Mon 11 Mar 13
OSPREYSAINT wrote:its the fl have told na he cant take a job while he his being paid .apparently he turned down 2 jobs because of this already .as he asked for advice lma
SFCSaint wrote:It was tongue in cheek, as far as I know NA is not yet a free agent, if he went for it may lose any chance of compensation, correct me if I am wrong.
OSPREYSAINT wrote:No we dont want him to take it? what if he kept them up and we went down? think before you speak!
McDermott has got the big Elbow, NA step up the job could be yours!
dadofmy3sons
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6:13pm Mon 11 Mar 13
OSPREYSAINT wrote:A mistake by Reading I think.
McDermott has got the big Elbow, NA step up the job could be yours!
He was doing the best he could with a motley collection of players.
Nigel and Di Matteo installed as favourites.
Hope the Italian gets it because that will definitely get them relegated.
Nigel might just keep them up and send us down!
Confucious
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6:14pm Mon 11 Mar 13
Taoboy
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6:20pm Mon 11 Mar 13
slugger wrote:i will give NC that one.
SFCSaint wrote:He can't take the job as he's still on our payroll , Nicola may be a lot of things but stupid isn't one of them .
OSPREYSAINT wrote:No we dont want him to take it? what if he kept them up and we went down? think before you speak!
McDermott has got the big Elbow, NA step up the job could be yours!
szent8
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6:23pm Mon 11 Mar 13
oooooooo. Boruc should leave on the same boat as Pochettino.
Save Our Saints
szent8
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6:23pm Mon 11 Mar 13
oooooooo. Boruc should leave on the same boat as Pochettino.
Save Our Saints
SFCSaint
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6:27pm Mon 11 Mar 13
Taoboy wrote:erm no all adkins has to is resign? then hes free to do what he wants! zingarevich their owner is a wealthy billionaire and could give him that money to take the job even!
slugger wrote:i will give NC that one.
SFCSaint wrote:He can't take the job as he's still on our payroll , Nicola may be a lot of things but stupid isn't one of them .
OSPREYSAINT wrote:No we dont want him to take it? what if he kept them up and we went down? think before you speak!
McDermott has got the big Elbow, NA step up the job could be yours!
slugger
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6:29pm Mon 11 Mar 13
SFCSaint wrote:But then he'd be in breach of contract .
Taoboy wrote:erm no all adkins has to is resign? then hes free to do what he wants! zingarevich their owner is a wealthy billionaire and could give him that money to take the job even!
slugger wrote:i will give NC that one.
SFCSaint wrote:He can't take the job as he's still on our payroll , Nicola may be a lot of things but stupid isn't one of them .
OSPREYSAINT wrote:No we dont want him to take it? what if he kept them up and we went down? think before you speak!
McDermott has got the big Elbow, NA step up the job could be yours!
saintkenny
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6:30pm Mon 11 Mar 13
szent8 wrote:silly skate mauricos doing ok a point game .and borac will sign made himself a legend probablt the point that is worth 130 million whille your lot are trying to find cash to a crash site .you dont fool us .and its are not our
Nooooooooooooooooooo
oooooooo. Boruc should leave on the same boat as Pochettino.
Save Our Saints
saintkenny
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6:34pm Mon 11 Mar 13
Taoboy wrote:nc wont refuse it will save him money in taxes paying a lump sum .but nigel has to if he wants another job .they need to sort it out .but there is no problem between the two of them
slugger wrote:i will give NC that one.
SFCSaint wrote:He can't take the job as he's still on our payroll , Nicola may be a lot of things but stupid isn't one of them .
OSPREYSAINT wrote:No we dont want him to take it? what if he kept them up and we went down? think before you speak!
McDermott has got the big Elbow, NA step up the job could be yours!
rocketone
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6:56pm Mon 11 Mar 13
A lunatic like that in charge will send the Reading players crazy.
Previous chairman described his management style as"by hand grenade"
Just as long as Nigel doesn't get it.
Reading are going to get relegated and the new manager may only be there for 9 games!
Wait Nigel, there are better jobs coming soon!
slugger
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7:13pm Mon 11 Mar 13
slugger
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7:20pm Mon 11 Mar 13
OSPREYSAINT
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7:30pm Mon 11 Mar 13
slugger wrote:That's a shame, what did he do? Hope Wide Boy didn't dobb him for his four letter word (mind) the gap.
*Breaking news* ...... Mack Chinnon has been banned by the echo !
Baddesley Bill
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7:35pm Mon 11 Mar 13
slugger wrote:Football has definitly gone mad....
*Breaking news* ...... Mack Chinnon has been banned by the echo !
...we'll score from a corner next!
slugger
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7:58pm Mon 11 Mar 13
OSPREYSAINT wrote:Nothing to do with that pipsqueak , was from another news thread ...... he'll be back . lol .......... COYR !!!
slugger wrote:That's a shame, what did he do? Hope Wide Boy didn't dobb him for his four letter word (mind) the gap.
*Breaking news* ...... Mack Chinnon has been banned by the echo !
OSPREYSAINT
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8:18pm Mon 11 Mar 13
slugger wrote:He did stray into some fruity language at times, I suspect that was his downfall.
OSPREYSAINT wrote:Nothing to do with that pipsqueak , was from another news thread ...... he'll be back . lol .......... COYR !!!
slugger wrote:That's a shame, what did he do? Hope Wide Boy didn't dobb him for his four letter word (mind) the gap.
*Breaking news* ...... Mack Chinnon has been banned by the echo !
OSPREYSAINT
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8:18pm Mon 11 Mar 13
F Fan
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8:30pm Mon 11 Mar 13
And we have two of the worst examples. Hooiveld goes long far too often and it’s just a waste. But, Yoshida, otherwise a better footballer that Hooiveld, is the worst passer I have even seen. At Norwich he was particularly bad – as bad an example of the iron rule that I have ever seen (one exception was the neat **** over the top towards the end). Thankfully, his reading of the game and his ability to intercept are as good as his passing is bad.
They both need to either give it to the midfield or full backs or hoof it into Row Z, as far up the park as possible. Better to suffer a throw in than give it to the opposition in open play.
F Fan
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8:33pm Mon 11 Mar 13
Velleity
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8:53pm Mon 11 Mar 13
SFCSaint wrote:Still think we'll be in the bottom three after the Newcastle game?
SaintJD wrote:no its not balanced with 3 points against man city because theyre not competing with us for survival a far more important game was QPR because if you lose that it has twice the effect hence why they are called "6 pointers" that loss has rejuvenated QPR and could be very costtly and how can we be positive when we cant even win games we dominate?
We will be OK this season if, and only if, the fans and players don't resort to panic mode.
I see the media are starting to try to stir things up on MP's record in charge in the hope that story could still materialise. It will only resurface if we allow it to.
Yes, we are not getting as many points as we should be getting, but we will stay up if we play as we are and stick to our ethics, luck will even itself out, we'll win enough home games and win the odd one away too.
The 'dropping points from winning positions' stat is all very nice, but it fails to take into account the fact that this has, in many cases, been taking the lead early against some of the best teams in the league, usually away from home. These are games where many of our rivals haven't come close to worrying the opposition.
We've played 10 clubs home and away so far this season and only one has done the double over us - and that's Manchester United with a fair bit of luck.
IMO we will only go down if the atmosphere at home games becomes detrimental. If not we will survive. Only just, but we will survive and kick on next season.
Look at MPs games in charge. Of all of them I think realistically you can only point at QPR as a game where we have got 3 fewer points than you would have predicted beforehand and that is balanced by 3 bonus points verses Man City.
Newcastle is arguable, but anyone who gets a point from there would see it as a bonus, so a defeat is not exactly a disaster.
Yes, we could have got more based on performances, but that's something to be positive about, not negative.
Hang on...
St Retford
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9:52pm Mon 11 Mar 13
PS what did Mack say? He's always quite 'route one' but never especially offensive?
slugger
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9:56pm Mon 11 Mar 13
St Retford wrote:Mack commented on another unrelated news thread , something about the jucntion pub and the people that run it .
SFCSaint, you're either a Skunt or you need to grow a pair. If you think you're going to deflate our morale then you're very much mistaken. Reading have as good as admitted they're down with today's news, QPR still have a mountain to climb and Wigan are sh!te. That will be the bottom three. Cheers.
PS what did Mack say? He's always quite 'route one' but never especially offensive?
slugger
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9:57pm Mon 11 Mar 13
slugger wrote:* Junction pub (St Denys).
St Retford wrote:Mack commented on another unrelated news thread , something about the jucntion pub and the people that run it .
SFCSaint, you're either a Skunt or you need to grow a pair. If you think you're going to deflate our morale then you're very much mistaken. Reading have as good as admitted they're down with today's news, QPR still have a mountain to climb and Wigan are sh!te. That will be the bottom three. Cheers.
PS what did Mack say? He's always quite 'route one' but never especially offensive?
St Retford
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10:07pm Mon 11 Mar 13
slugger wrote:Crikey. You're on dangerous ground if you get drawn into commenting in the News section of this site. I mean, the Saints pages are bad enough but the news section seems to be the exclusive preserve of UKIP-voting mentalists. Abandon all hope ye who enter.
St Retford wrote:Mack commented on another unrelated news thread , something about the jucntion pub and the people that run it .
SFCSaint, you're either a Skunt or you need to grow a pair. If you think you're going to deflate our morale then you're very much mistaken. Reading have as good as admitted they're down with today's news, QPR still have a mountain to climb and Wigan are sh!te. That will be the bottom three. Cheers.
PS what did Mack say? He's always quite 'route one' but never especially offensive?
slugger
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10:27pm Mon 11 Mar 13
St Retford wrote:Nail hammer and head ...... he only told the truth .
slugger wrote:Crikey. You're on dangerous ground if you get drawn into commenting in the News section of this site. I mean, the Saints pages are bad enough but the news section seems to be the exclusive preserve of UKIP-voting mentalists. Abandon all hope ye who enter.
St Retford wrote:Mack commented on another unrelated news thread , something about the jucntion pub and the people that run it .
SFCSaint, you're either a Skunt or you need to grow a pair. If you think you're going to deflate our morale then you're very much mistaken. Reading have as good as admitted they're down with today's news, QPR still have a mountain to climb and Wigan are sh!te. That will be the bottom three. Cheers.
PS what did Mack say? He's always quite 'route one' but never especially offensive?
Baddesley Bill
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10:31pm Mon 11 Mar 13
slugger wrote:Was it Mack who burned it down then?
slugger wrote:* Junction pub (St Denys).
St Retford wrote:Mack commented on another unrelated news thread , something about the jucntion pub and the people that run it .
SFCSaint, you're either a Skunt or you need to grow a pair. If you think you're going to deflate our morale then you're very much mistaken. Reading have as good as admitted they're down with today's news, QPR still have a mountain to climb and Wigan are sh!te. That will be the bottom three. Cheers.
PS what did Mack say? He's always quite 'route one' but never especially offensive?
slugger
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10:38pm Mon 11 Mar 13
Baddesley Bill wrote:I doubt it , he was in Norway (I think) at the time ........ must pop in myself , I like a refurbed boozer .
slugger wrote:Was it Mack who burned it down then?
slugger wrote:* Junction pub (St Denys).
St Retford wrote:Mack commented on another unrelated news thread , something about the jucntion pub and the people that run it .
SFCSaint, you're either a Skunt or you need to grow a pair. If you think you're going to deflate our morale then you're very much mistaken. Reading have as good as admitted they're down with today's news, QPR still have a mountain to climb and Wigan are sh!te. That will be the bottom three. Cheers.
PS what did Mack say? He's always quite 'route one' but never especially offensive?
Strasbourg Saint
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10:55pm Mon 11 Mar 13
Baddesley Bill wrote:Blimey! I have an evening with friends and, when I come back, McDermott's gone and he's taken Mack with him.
slugger wrote:Was it Mack who burned it down then?
slugger wrote:* Junction pub (St Denys).
St Retford wrote:Mack commented on another unrelated news thread , something about the jucntion pub and the people that run it .
SFCSaint, you're either a Skunt or you need to grow a pair. If you think you're going to deflate our morale then you're very much mistaken. Reading have as good as admitted they're down with today's news, QPR still have a mountain to climb and Wigan are sh!te. That will be the bottom three. Cheers.
PS what did Mack say? He's always quite 'route one' but never especially offensive?
Can we start a petition to get him reinstated (Mack, not McDermott)? We could call it 'Return of the Mack'. We could even get Mark Morrison to do a benefit gig.
Still, on Mack's behalf and in his absence:
COME ON ORIENT!
On the plus side, if word of all this reaches Brisbane Road tomorrow evening, it'll inspire Orient to greatness; not that they'll need that much of it.
Baddesley Bill
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11:05pm Mon 11 Mar 13
Strasbourg Saint wrote:RIP Mack...and come on orient.
Baddesley Bill wrote:Blimey! I have an evening with friends and, when I come back, McDermott's gone and he's taken Mack with him.
slugger wrote:Was it Mack who burned it down then?
slugger wrote:* Junction pub (St Denys).
St Retford wrote:Mack commented on another unrelated news thread , something about the jucntion pub and the people that run it .
SFCSaint, you're either a Skunt or you need to grow a pair. If you think you're going to deflate our morale then you're very much mistaken. Reading have as good as admitted they're down with today's news, QPR still have a mountain to climb and Wigan are sh!te. That will be the bottom three. Cheers.
PS what did Mack say? He's always quite 'route one' but never especially offensive?
Can we start a petition to get him reinstated (Mack, not McDermott)? We could call it 'Return of the Mack'. We could even get Mark Morrison to do a benefit gig.
Still, on Mack's behalf and in his absence:
COME ON ORIENT!
On the plus side, if word of all this reaches Brisbane Road tomorrow evening, it'll inspire Orient to greatness; not that they'll need that much of it.
logical progression
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11:35am Tue 12 Mar 13
Southampton boy says...
7:49am Mon 11 Mar 13