John Boy Saint

Mrs JBS is watching the Barca game - I’ve just watched the last 10 minutes. Wow it’s like watching a Kitten being teased with a bit of wool. Huge cheer for the Ajax goal on the Camp Nou

Keeps us honest

You missed the best bit on that - Messi had an innocuous shot no real pace by the time it got to De Gea it had become a bar of soap!! Trickled into the net!!

You never know. Someone posted something elsewhere possibly in this thread, alluding to goings on behind the scenes. There was something said by Ralph post match on Saturday, and the way he said it was as if he was having a greater influence than just the "head of a department". Its pretty obvious that his head is screwed on properly, I'm maybe looking under totally the wrong stone, but I just wondered if by chance Gao might have found where the Rabbits to pull out of his sleeve are hidden and a route to get them out. Who knows - the Chinese can be just as secretive through silence as the Swiss about stuff, especially business. (the metaphorical rabbit pun was totally un-intended until it fell out of my fingers)

First time I’ve seen that, aside from just realising why I’m not a doctor - because I couldn’t differentiate between the elbow and the wrist. As much as I would like him to miss our game that is a pretty soft red. He’s watching the ball all the time too. As it’s Watford doubt it will be rescinded, they might not even bother to appeal through fear of him missing the FA cup, when the FA add a couple more games to the ban for having the temerity to question the validity of the decision.

Pointless it’s Watford. His kids will be happy - Easter with Dad.

Not directly a defector - but the home of a few. They really do have some pea brain supporters - given their history you would think that none of them would do something so unacceptable.............of course its never them. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-6923229/Young-Chelsea-supporter-left-needing-aid-treatment-Liverpool-fans-threw-smoke-bomb.html

Didn't Norwich do it - we knocked them out of the JPT they got promoted that season - then straight through the championship the following season. If you listened to the strange Coventry post match interview from him, he had delivered what he was employed to do. Adkins is rightfully lauded by the majority of Saints fans - he was a bright ray of sunshine after some very dark days - yes Pardew won us some silverware, but after doing so he took the foot off the gas instead of pushing on for the play offs.

The other thing to factor in is the view of the pitch from the bulk of the seats is far better than the view on the pitch - we see the spaces they don’t have the benefit of that view.

Punting a tenner on it will be far better spend in August this year than it would have been last August. (Without hindsight) If what is slowly being put together by Ralph and his team continues to develop, I don’t think many teams will be looking forward to playing us next season.

It was a pretty easy game for him to manage, in that there were no silly theatrics, both sides went out to play football and he let boys be boys with a bit of rough and tumble and cheeky tugging. Stepped in when he needed to, some refs might have viewed that poor Wolves player getting Romeu’d a lot differently. He ain’t getting any younger and he knows it by his positioning mainly in the middle of the pitch, but his experience papers over those cracks.

Tough question as whilst injury prone, he does seemingly have an intelligent footballing brain, whilst PEH is a good captain, watching Ings from in the stadium yesterday he does direct traffic well off the ball talks a lot to team mates with positioning etc. Actually with him on the pitch we have a decent spine Maya at the back is intelligent and Bednarek seems to be willing to soak up all his advice, the 2 of them seem to talk more than Maya to Vestergaard. PEH is still a bit raggedy but is solid presence, and as said Ings up top is intelligent too. Fair play to Sims he does like running and has no fear, if he nails his composure infront of goal he will easily surpass Redmond simply due to faster speed of thought. I like Boly for them, but he was getting a bit windy with Sims buzzing around him and at him. That front line yesterday if it ticks could be a bit handy. I did think when we went back in front that it might have been "one of those afternoons" with a silly score line. Substitutions were spot on Romeu to add a bit of steel to midfield, and poor old Boly must have gone "good getting rid of Sims" "oh hang on fresh speed coming on" I said to my mate after the game that it was like that Formula E where they swap cars mid race due to battery power. Shane Long after he scored that goal all of a sudden looked like a huge weight had come off his shoulders, 2 in 2, it looked like he got a fresh spring in his step. Bizarre observation of the afternoon, from a possible attacking position we passed it back again towards Gunny, the whole ground groaned collectively, at that moment I glanced over to the technical area, and Raplh is standing there motioning with his hands for the crowd to relax and calm down!!!

Bit late to the news, on first reading this the first thing that popped into my head. ......................of course 1 or 2 might have put on one of their surveys that they would only renew if that Krueger fellow wasn't around

As no one will turn up to vote at the possible European Elections, I have decided to put myself up as a candidate to be elected to the European Parliament with a manifesto that will ensure I get votes just for a laugh. i will show willing for the first week then play the MEPs game of sign in and swan about, I will make full use of all the benefits for me and my family as an MEP - by the time I get thrown out on Halloween I should have accrued enough money in my pension pot to make sure I can keep the fire on throughout my old age. So remember Vote for John Boy Saint!! Thank you

please nobody sing that.......10th place home and hosed for next season knock yourself out........half an eye on the trapdoor don't give them the fuel.

So who is going to go to the Championship decider against Sunderland

.......on the orders of his Commander in Chief Xi Jinping If we don't get Huawei, the hopefully we get Xiaomi ............... pretty much means your bit on the side - Mistress (about right for a mobile phone).

Still take an age to get served

..........drugs!!!

Think you fell into the Saints Web pot hole Billy.......without the benefit of quotes think Charlie was referring to the end of Trousers post: just missed of the 2.0 Anyway with my pedantic head on Yen is Japanese - Yuan is Chinese

If you're top 6 they'll adapt the rules to fit, if you are outside that club they'll beat you with a stick. The fact that Man City are pretty much an overseas State owned company and nowt is said, yet we might be owned by the Chinese state and we become persons of interest, pretty much sums up my tongue in cheek response. If we were Chinese State owned and they threw in all the chicanery that City have done to make sure the expenditure fits the rules, pumping a nice heap of the vast State wealth into Saints would probably upset the apple cart at the top of the league.

If they can install a mobile signal cell that works 100% in the stadium on a matchday, I would have no issue with their name on our shirt...........might have to guard the internet settings mind.

From recall he has been one of the better ones for us overall, this is an easy match with no superstar teams involved, so unless Uncle Les has sent an email down the corridor to the PGMOL to nobble us. It could well be good ole Mr Moss struggling to keep up with play now and again with a steady hand on the tiller, actually in that stupid o'clock boxing day game v Arsenal a few years back (Martina night) he was giving us the short end of the stick to start with, once we got going after the goal he was letting quite a bit slide in our favour including a cheeky little off the ball take out of Kolscelny by Mr Long in the build up to one of our goals, they moaned he seemingly went "whatever"!...................4th Official Marriner can't do much harm there:just worry when he is the man in the van on the VAR next season.

Well thats it I've waited up until 01:03 on the 10th April and still nothing about the season tickets to be seen anywhere.......................night!