Try posting this on BBC606 Dev, you know where! Mind you Blue Admiral/Pompeyvodkatonic has/have done it already, I daresay. I think that Southampton will just squeeze home on the last day. They need to as well, their midweek away form (as I've mentioned many times) is appalling. How are the festivities going in Kypros?
It's a bank holiday today, but just about every-thing apart from banks and public buildings are open (much as in the UK) The main festivities here are on Sunday and Monday. We're closed on Sunday (so I actually get a day off!) That means Devo won't be online having a thought on Sunday - just Keo
Keo beer! There was a shop in Southsea selling it a few years ago. And I was drinking it too. Funny thing is, not long after I quit, the place mysteriously closed. He used to sell Fée vert absinthe, at 85% alcohol. ã45 quid!
Stay away from the 'Green Fairy' !! Not only will it change your personality, you'll wake up the next day in a different country.
Oh, and back to the original question, if Saints lose at the champions Brighton tomorrow, I reckon they will be pipped to the post by Huddersfield, leaving them to the lottery of the playoffs.
If I remember correctly, the year Huddersfield went down it was a 3 way race to avoid relegation between Huddersfield, Palace and Pompey on the last day of the season. Good luck to Huddersfield. btw Wooperts duck, the correct quote is "Absinthe makes the tart grow fonder"
btw Wooperts duck, the correct quote is "Absinthe makes the tart grow fonder" Is this a favourite saying only in Germany, bladderball ?!
Huddersfield will clinch 2nd place ahead of Saints. They have been the best team in this league after Brighton and not lost for something like 17 games. If I was independent (I'm not as I'm a Saints fan) , I would have to say that Huddersfield deserve the second automatic place as they've been better than Saints who have lost too many games that should have been sewn up. We should have come away from London Road with the three points and done better at charlton. Added to this, we were pretty poor in August / September and there were Pompey fans around here who had us marked for the seond division at that stage! I think SFC will get tonked tomorrow and will draw their game in hand against Plymouth. This will make it very difficult for Saints to climb above them. Bearing in mind that Saints have Chamberlain, Schneiderlin, Barnard and possibly Lallana and Harding out too, all the creative players are absent. We have a large squad but the fringe players are not of the same calibre. Someone also dug oiut some stats at work which showed our results without Lallana an, if extrapolated across the full season, we would now be fighting a relegation battle. Without doubt, he is the most cultured player in this league and good enough for the Premiership. Peterborough are also going through a good run of form and should it go to the play-offs, they will easily push a weakened Saints squad aside. I cant see MK Dons or Bournemouth toppling Peterborough either (nor Saints for that matter!) but Darren Ferguson's team also enjoy a very easy run in to the season. Failure to get promoted this season will prove disasterous for us and would expect half the squad to go over the summer. Essentially, we have a good Championship squad with some very talented players (I think we would probably pip Portsmouth if we were in the same league considering how you have underperformed of late. not enough quality in the squad? I put ã5 on you getting promoted back in August and you let me down!) Man for man, the current Saints squad is better than Pompey's but the games where we don't perform or are missing Lallana seem to be extremely costly. We tend to shoot ourselves in the foot a lot. Unfortunately, the play-off situation is a Russian roulette and, whilst I can see us finishing no lower than fourth, think our confidence will be sapped if we fail to get the second spot. Promotion would be an interesting topic assuming I am wrong. I would fully expect the current Saints team to make a good fist of the Championship. However, as I said, I am certain we will miss out again this year. (Huddersfield have just won again as I type.)
It's actually a late 19th century poem from a said Ernest Dowson. http://www.absinthe.se/default.asp?load=http://www.absinthe.se/lyrics.
Very interesting BB, that stuff did for poor old Toulouse Lautrec. Quite a bit of his wonderful art, including the famous Moulin Rouge posters, was probably drawn under the spell of it. The money he got paid, more than likely bought the next bottle too. Whenever I see the old Moulin Rouge film, with José Ferrer (if he didn't get an Oscar for that role he should have) it makes me glad I gave up the boze.
