John Boy Saint

It’s one of them you can close the page then re-open and vote again & again & again!

Trains from Basingstoke to Reading are pretty much every 25-30mins , some might even start in Southampton. But it’s a regular busy service, you just have to watch for odd ones that stop at Reading West then go West, Pretty much every train from Southampton to London stops at Basingstoke.

Yippeee

What is even more damning is that article from Construction News, where, in amongst the reports of staggering failures, someone in a high-viz and a hard hat reckons it ain't going to be ready until next year!! You could bet your house on the fact if Saints were to pull such a stunt, the FA would be all over us like a very nasty rash!

No brainer go watch your Son he will only be a nipper once, plenty of opportunities to watch Saints let you down: it’s as reliable as Christmas coming every year.

Probably through putting in too much effort trying to be noticed ahead of players who either can’t hit a cows backside with a Banjo and the other who looks bloody knackered after 20 minutes.

Whispering Dave has Pinky and Perky under no threat in the CB position, so as you were on Sunday to shore things up tight as a nut at the back. 2 World Cup defenders add to their splinter collection if they are lucky

Yyyyyeeeeeeeessssssssssss!!!

plum

what a miss!!!

Dont be silly its that shandy pants big girls blouse Richarlison, Gladys in the Goodison tea room could let out a little botty squeak and that bugger would go down.

Jack Stephens takes no prisoners!

It’s clearly all a shower of $h!T from top to bottom. And it’s been heading that way since Cortese was shown the door, Poch was over the wall as soon as the season was over, Koeman was the thumb in the dyke, manager with a glittering playing career who’s reputation opened the door before he walked in, so easy to maintain some of the momentum Poch left behind. There was a piece linked from these pages, that talked about Mr Liebherrs very successful engineering company that allowed him to buy the club, Mali. Cortese was, possibly, CEO there too and some time after Markus passed away Katherina removed him from his position. Senior engineers working in the Swiss factory commented that since Cortese was removed the business became directionless and was just coasting. This ain’t putting Cortese up on a pedestal because the bloke was a bit unlikeable. I know someone who worked at Saints and they said he would waft in to the building of a morning and not say hello to anyone if he did it was a subject of conversation. But like Mali we have become directionless and are coasting, five year plans have evaporated, there was some waffle from Kruger about 5 point strategy (so wishy washy that I can’t remember the detail). Talking of Kruger we have a Director who makes most of us cringe when he opens his mouth. He may be mister ice hockey motivational speaker, but where Hughes is concerned are we back to where we were with Souness who famously commented “you tell me if there is anyone else in football by the name of Rupert?!!” If there was a heated argument between them is Hughes questioning being told what to do by his boss who has no previous affiliation to Football - or Soccer?! I was all for giving Hughes a chance but when you can see the glaringly obvious in lacking player performances from the stand or from behind the keyboard, and he comes out and says in a live interview about tonight’s game v Everton that the squad will be rotated and that MAYBE and POSSIBLY some of those players will put in a performance to be considered for Sunday that sounds as directionless as we have become. Are those players going to be convinced and perform: l Yoshida maybe as he seems an honourable man. For those of us working in the real world if we don’t perform in our jobs expect to be shown the door, in Football you can’t sack a player unless he pretty much kills someone even then his contract will be paid up, you can’t just bin the manager without having to pay up his contract what a great job paid handsomely for failure. As for the players Cedric and Bertrand have made no secret of wanting away (maybe that’s agent talk) but it seems no one has come calling for them........which is pretty damning especially when bang average players like Walker and Stones can be bought by City for mega bucks. When Gabbi arrived he came out of the blocks like his backside was on fire he looked like an absolute steal, then he fizzled out, I commented about him to a chap who knows quite a bit inside football and he said that’s why he is at Southampton and didn’t cost you a lot, all through his career he has scored in phases. You can expand that train of thought through much of the squad - bit like Michael Owen still being Newcastle’s record signing! I have said before I am a glass half full kind of chap - but right now the glass is looking rather empty. More empty than when we were tumbling down to league one!!! If these clowns ARE airing their dirty washing in public on the touch line of an away ground at the end of September, we are obviously in a pretty sorry state which is going to spread like an epidemic, looking at the overall performance on Saturday afternoon the place is pretty much infected. What fun!

Anyone who thinks teams like Wolves, Brighton etc are there for the taking are fooling themselves, Saints are the team who are there for the taking. We are weak feeble and bloody slow. I sit up in row EE behind the goal at SMS and you have a fairly good overview of the game before my eyes, today I was in row D pretty much at pitch level with a side view of the game, boy do we look like a bunch of blokes running about taking a hefty wage for a pretty average (being generous) performance. There is a term in Sales which normally goes hand in hand with under performance “telling not selling”. Saints are just going through the motions nice little triangles of passes showing they can play football, putting the ball in the back of the net seems a million miles away from that. Playing a decent simple pass over distance to a team mate does seem an effort. Folks have said Wolves were poor, sorry I didn’t see that, when they attacked they looked promising, when they didn’t have the ball they looked disciplined and tidy in their chores. Their subs definitely changed the game the number 7 when he came on had the body language of “I am going to score a goal”, Traore was instantly a handful. We had run about Gabbiadini and Armstrong neither looked a patch on the Wolves subs if you ran a head to head. Heodt and Vestergaard need sorting out, they both show flashes of ability but as a pairing they are shocking and glaringly show that they are very very immature as a central defensive partnership. Charlie Austin may be a Fox in the box but if he ain’t getting the ball fed to him, then nowt is going to happen from him, Carthorse sprung to mind today offers little to the team dynamic. Redmond was back to his run up to the 18 yard box slow down, Stop, um and err, most opposition teams have obviously said to their defenders, if Redmond is running at you stand up, make yourself look big and your job is done. Just watching MOTD and their first goal WTF is Bertrand our Captain!!! doing casually trotting back into the defence. At least the Inert Long should be back v Chelsea to save the day. Worrying times......... that other thread 5 wins in last 38 league games can’t see that improving much.

Bloody feels like it

You have a PM

I have a spare too now!

I had a plan to meet up with a Customer/Friend from those parts who is a Wolves ST holder, despite all the planning and despite being the boss he has to work Saturday so thats out the window. Reading the Away fans websites etc, talking to the bloke over the road who is a Leeds fan and goes to many away games, seems the original plan failing might not be a bad thing as it appears to be the most away fan un-friendly destination on the fixture list. Leeds fan over the road said that they ended up hanging around for the ground to open just to get a relaxed beer.

84 minutes - “Leganes have a free kick, two players stand over it - and they still send five men forward, While six minutes from a famous win” blimey what’s going on there??!!!!!!

Wow this must be one of the oldest threads on this board, NINE years old!! I only fished out from half way down page 2 of the thread list to ask a question for my daughter, and it’s grown another page!

Creme Eggs will be in the shops soon:D Seems to be a recent phenomena - folks wishing their lives away.

The whole demeanour surrounding this game made me think of an interview with Chris Marsden when Hoddle was our manager. CMFG said that until Hoddle came in the team went into games with no belief that they were going win, when they did it was a pleasant surprise. He said Hoddle made the team believe they were going to win every game. The whole approach to this game was “we are not likely win” “so let’s go play and come home”. Bizarre

Trouble is not hard to disbelieve, Chinese can be stubborn buggers. if it does turn out to be true they can kiss goodbye to my £1000+ next season. Vestergaard and Hoedt are too immature to run the centre of defence by themselves.

Was that one or two bottles tonight?

Not a defector really: Gazza between the sticks for Spurs this evening