John Boy Saint

Looks like Bailly has been left out in the rain!

Mrs JBS opened her clapper (oi steady on lads) when she got to her seat yesterday and read the big ST advert printed on one side “ooooh £399 tickets! Where are they” over there in that corner “Oh I think I will stay where I am thank you”.

Well that was fun, I’ll happily settle for mid table obscurity next season versus this and last season, with a few bloody noses handed out to the top 6 along the way. With my Saints shirt on that was hard work yesterday, with the benefit of knowing the result no wonder it was Sky Game of the Day, it was entertaining. When they went 2-1 up I did have a please don’t give us that Norwich game in reverse from all those years back with 2 games left, that was only a brief thought though. Bournemouth have always looked quick in attack, and no wonder Ralph changed things at HT, from my seat the hole in the middle of the centre backs with Yoshi missing looked big enough to sail not one but 2 cruise ships through. Must have been a tiring game for Bournemouth players as they seemed to have the need to lay down on the pitch whenever the chance arose.........and as we saw in the first half whenever they felt like it. We so need to stop gifting the oppos chances with sloppy balls cut that out alone and Ralph’s early season 40 target can come up much sooner than planned next year, no wonder with knowing Cardiff were losing we were fannying about in the corner it kept the ball as far away from our goal and far enough to negate any brain fart mispasses. Very pleasing to see Valery develop into a good player before our eyes, he has a bright future in the game especially when he tidies up his defensive work in his corner of the pitch, Ake certainly didn’t like it when he ran at him, and what a great bit of work to cross the ball over for Matty Targett to score a cracking header to open his Saints goal scoring account, as Blackmore said to him on Solent he scored the goal that kept us up! (Few haters won’t like that) With him being a Saints fan too, I’ll give him that.........to top that Matty goes in the book as the 1000th Premier League goal scorer of the season! Also pleased to see JWP’s development under Ralph, and that was a sweet strike for his goal, just needs to give Redmond a few tips on composure....................Hey this new Irish lad we have had playing for us these last few weeks looks to have goals in him and a bit useful, shame he missed that sitter. Someone please screw Ralph’s feet to the Southampton carpet.

Watford have shown for much of the season when behind they decide to twist and go s**t or bust. They were crowding us, and we start defending like the ball is suddenly a hand grenade with the pin out no bugger seems to be able to put their laces through it and smash it out of the 18yrd box, Stephens guilty of doing a Hoedt and pansying up the line, not long after Lemina decided to try and play it out from just outside the box, sorry mate against Watford when their tails are up you ain’t going to get the time to winkle the ball away. Should be use to it by now when Saints are in a spot and turn games into like we are playing in treacle. Still that was much better than Saturday evening especially that woeful first half where not only were we playing in treacle but the the treacle was in a paper bag.

MOTD have clocked it at 6 seconds

Fastest Hat-trick now Fastest Goal .........blimey we will need a new honours board in SMS

Really!?? all the good Shoite in the Next sale is sold by a minute past 4 am when the doors open and on facebay by 4:30 sold by 8am - post office won’t be open so no queues to be worried about being stuck in

They certainly aren’t a hoof and run team so that’s a start - amazing how the Bees aren’t in the mix only sitting in 15th.

The Bees have looked good for their 2-0

He doesn’t need to think or has already processed what he wants to do. Wind back the clock to the Liverpool semi picks the ball up from the clearance and is running he can see Matip coming and already knows with the speed he is carrying to run across him as any contact it’s a foul, the next move was probably a slight naivety PEH is screaming for the ball to probably take it to the corner, Sims more likely looked at the 2 options and already decided to pass to Long as he was the most likely of the 2 to score and finish the game. No slight on Redmond, by comparison he reaches a point near the penalty area and is still thinking what to do so hesitates, Sims by comparison knows what he is going to do. One of Ralph’s diamonds for polishing.

There can’t be many second tiers in World Football like the Championship. Just watched Naaarich v Wednesday boy you can tell there is a multi million pound pot on the table, last kick of the game peach of a free kick goal for 2-2!!

Think I read that he found it strange having kids with scouse accents. In a similar vein I had a mate who was properNewcastle Geordie, get him drunk and subtitles were needed, he was on the books at Marseilles as a nipper, spoke fluent French with a southern French accent, which a French friend found weird for someone so Geordie. Think I tenuously kept that on subject.................carry on

During the 2014 World Cup we were on Holiday in Spain and one of our Dutch friends would set up his TV in his caravan awning for their games and we got excited with them as the Oranje progressed it was good fun. (To the point where for the semi we were only allowed to watch with them if we were wearing something Orange, the wife found an orange cap, but I brought the house down when I took off my fully zipped up golf jacket to reveal a KNVB shirt bought for €15 in a Nike outlet shop) Anyway I digress, when he came on as sub v Argentina they were all pretty excited and for the play off game moaning that he should have been playing earlier (but I think he had been injured) so when Saints’s picked him up I was pretty excited, you don’t get into the Dutch national team when it’s flying through being average. Obviously the Premier League is different gravy to many other leagues - but for him to turn out to be at best average for us, especially playing for his “father” Ronald Koeman was disappointing, especially as he blocked the pathway for Reed who similar in stature showed more tenacity (albeit a bit raw) when he did play that was more suited to the PL. He needs to sort himself out but if he leaves us for buttons it’s a more palatable pill to swallow than someone like Carrillo. I keep forgetting Clasie is still one of ours until this thread gets bumped now and again.

Chelsea game v Slavic Prague has just got minty, Chelsea cruising at 4-1 (5-1agg) HT. Prague came out with a “hey nothing to lose here” Bang Bang 4-3 Prague’s 3rd absolute screamer! Chelsea have turned to Meringue as a result.

Jeez Eurovision is the whole point of this thread, the rest is just stuff and nonsense! Lighthouse is having a Eurovision party again this year, bigger and better than previous years because he has booked a Marquee for his back garden!

If my maths are right. Saints - 51pts - somewhere but wondering what all the fuss was about Relegated - Brighton - Champions - City Other two CL spots - Arsenal and Spuds Promoted - Norwich and Leeds Playoff winner - The Blades FA Cup - Watford Champions League Final - Ajax shock VAR decided 90 +5 pen scored by Tadic Pompey - don’t make playoff final Eurovision - Ukraine

Have faith Sir Wolves lose Reading win 1-0, we smash Sunderland off the park next week in front of a shock capacity crowd job done on Goal difference. Simples. Monday 29th April 7pm St Marys

When he scored on Saturday he looked like a huge weight had been lifted from his shoulders, we have seen in seasons past if he is on it no one wants to play against him. Lets hope he has a little flurry of success to see out the season.

But Ralph said he loves him on the presser

That is a spectacular goal for causing the comedy full speed collision in midfield by the WBA players alone! The stuff of comic books.

In that meet the Ralphs soiree in the Gas Works bar, it was said that all the folks out on loan would have the rule run over them before decisions are made. In fairness to Boufal I think he is capable of being compliant, when he first turned up he just wanted the glory moments and not bother with the dirty work, under Pellegrino even young Sofiane said that he had learned to be more of a team player by working on his defensive responsibilities. From my seat in the stands you could see that he was more wiling to get back and carry out defensive duties. Ralph has given JWP the shot in the arm, that he himself admitted he needed, so who knows. At the end of the day if he turns out as not fitting the blueprint, maybe we can sell him back to Lille now they have CL next season.

They say the decisions even themselves up, I guess given the amount of spawny offside goals City have scored over recent years, some against us, they got pinged on one big time tonight.

Good decision

Wow Madness This is Espanyol v Barcelona where the managers are concerned

Wouldn’t count on Wolves taking to the pitch smelling of Hawaiian Tropic and wearing flip flops just yet. No way were Watford just going to lay down in that cup semi at 2-0 down. Against us we punched them on the nose early doors, gave them a bit of freedom to roam in midfield but stayed disciplined in defence, when they equalised whereas before we would have crumbled we quickly responded. Liverpool didn’t cruise past us although the score line looked like they did. We are on an upwards curve, stuck Sims in the mix (who delivered what he does), which an hour before kick off Wolves were going to have to scrabble around to find data on. Brighton look like just a bowl of milky porridge - Wolves fans alone are not going to let their team cruise at home on Saturday, 7th place is still on the table with a game in hand. Cardiff under Warnock are battlers, he ain’t going to let them go down without a fight. Last night could have seen them cut further adrift with games running out, now they have a target for Warnock to pump them up for.