Match Day Thread Saturday 22nd February 2025, St Mary's Stadium, Southampton v Brighton, 3pm

Not tried that, Great Expectations my favourite

 

Charlie? Or Jane?

 

Have another go, without picking the wrong author.

 

Try HG Wells up top and he might work out how to get us back to 2013.
We'd probably end up with Morlocks though, knowing Saints

 

Just checking you're paying attention. Et tu Brontë.

 

Conan Doyle surely, we're fond of a double barrel.

 

Elizabeth Barrett Browning ought to improve our shooting

 

Mick Herron could get a whole Slow Horses novel out of our midfield.

 

Dick Francis would give us a run for our money or at least up the stakes

 

I think Jonathan Swift did a story about our striker already...

 

HG Wells explains again...

The Invisible Man

 

It's porn

 

Good idea

 

Left back actually

 

No Skates please

 

I could see Jackson Lamb as our new Manager

 

There's a schoolteacher in it called 'Gradgrind', so I think @milton archer might be onto something

 

It was written to quickly earn income in between writing Nicolas Nicklebury which was proving to take Dickens too long to complete. Starts off about education but then changes half way through to being about the industrial North. I found it really unsatisfactory but David Copperfield and Great Expectations are the best of his I have read. Never picked up Dickens again after Hard Times. I find that many great writers could churn out the odd duff book. This was Dicken's but at least not as bad as the worst Zola or Balzac.

Hope this helps.
Ian

 

As we have strayed so far from the thread perhaps this football video can get it back on track.

 

I think that everyone expects the same result and , indeed, performance on Saturday. We played well for 20 mins last weekend yet even if we play well for the full 90, we always lose.