John Boy Saint

A few times now he has spoken about “affinity with the club”. Whilst we can all say talk is cheap, I get the feeling that despite having had to push water uphill since he came in, personally he actually enjoyed his playing days at the club many moons ago, and bonus aside genuinely personally wants to do well for the club. Bloomin great seeing him doing his nut on the sidelines. Some folks say he rubbish, don’t want him here, taking 2 teams down this season (that last one is BS Stoke haven’t improved much since he left and Lambert has had longer), think if you look at Adkins, McMenemy, even Koeman, sometimes a manager fits with a club, I would have no issue if Mark Hughes turns out to be another right fit.

funnily enough that’s what it’s called l’Etape..........and there is a bicycle wheel on the label

I have a very cheeky Ventoux that is tasting rather nice this evening

That Swansea game BT went to their expert referee for an opinion......Peter Walton!!! Jeez they must have been cleaning the cobwebs off that blind old goat all week!!

Those 2 look like it’s the first game they have been to all season, and the cold reality of the situation has finally dawned on them.

I said him ages ago, but noted when looking up where he is, Leuven (the home of Stella Artois) they are also owned by the Thai folks who own Leicester, figured considering the way he left might not have been as clear cut as the media had us believe, and he’s sat in a very sweet position (despite living in Belgium).

You can’t blame Hughes or keep dragging Stoke up, in reality Lamberts had plenty of time to get them firing and has done very little, so like us their issues are probably deep set. There was a moment in the West Ham game during the second half when we were going through the motions and WH were coasting, there was a shot of him and Mark Bowen and he looked like he had been given a tool box when he joined Saints, what he needed was a Phillips screwdriver and some pliers, but all he had was a bag of Spanner’s. Arsenal was much much better, Chelsea we were doing pretty well, as soon as their goal went in you could visibly see the players crumble. Tonight, the manager can only do so much, but when the game kicks off, at this level, you expect the players, who’s only basic job in life is to kick a bag of air to a team mate, when that goes out the window en-masse what can the manager do in reality. The wonderous Tadic had the ball second half and he passed it back to PEH’s backside where he was sat on the floor after the ball broke loose to Tadic after an interaction between PEH and a Leicester player, there are acres of pitch and plenty of other players in a red and white shirt, if I am shouting at the screen WTF!!! What the chuff is going through the managers mind when your supposed most skilful player on the pitch is making hairbrained decisions like that. Hughes has added a bit of spark to the team, what happens next season is totally out of our hands, if Kruger and Reed are running the show no doubt it will be a manager out of a lucky dip, if Hughes wants to stay I wouldn’t have an issue.

WooHoo redders to save the day

get a torch mate and go and do some more gardening

You know full well that diddly squat will happen, snakes in the grass the lot of them, especially if that tosspot Mike Riley is still sitting at the top table.

Mike Dean is 49 refs in the Prem self certify that they are fit to Ref after a certain age. Remember Peter Walton, he of giving a penalty against Brighton when Fonte was felled 6 feet outside the box, he was 54 and signing him self back on the rosta with the same arrogance he oversaw the game with. In La Liga Mike Dean would have been retired 4 years ago - no ifs or buts.

As the title says Dale Winton has popped to the Supermarket in the sky, at only 62. Eric Bristow went only the other week at 60................ I feel a 6 year party coming on just in case!

Disappointed there’s no Geri Halliwell - Look at me, every time Mike Dean is mentioned

Of course being Shane Long and his reputation, he will have no doubt have fallen into the path of Alonsos foot on purpose.

With one eye on Sunday, as its now Tuesday are we safe to assume that Alonso faces no retrospective action regarding his seemingly deliberate stamp on Long?

When they started off down in the Chapel / Kingsland Tunnel they looked pretty uneasy as if they had been asked to do it against their wishes. They started very quietly with a samba beat like you hear at Brazil games, I have to say because it wasn’t too loud where I was it wasn’t offensive, then they seemed to shuffle up the sidelines to the Northam. The Ingerland band who turned up at the Ladies international were a pretty pants by comparison. if anything the flags in the Kingsland were more cringeworthy.

If you watch Willian whenever a free kick is awarded against Chelsea he makes a point of standing in front of the ball to prevent a quick kick being taken.

Does no one else in the team, beyond JWP, actually practise taking Corners and Free Kicks. Stoke game I think, it was like no one had ever taken one before. Its almost like everyone else sits in the Staplewood stands checking their Twitter account while Prowsey practises on his own. Saturday after he was subbed we got a free kick and it was like Bertrand suddenly realised James wasn't on the pitch and with Tadic gone too it was his turn. Last season Ryan was whipping in some evil corners from the right hand side but this season he seems to have become last resort with Tadic taking them when JWP isn't on the pitch, an all he seems to do is float them deftly into the keepers waiting arms more often than not. I just find it bizarre that without JWP on the pitch corners and free kicks for us are nearly always pointless.

I thought Staplewood was equipped with accommodation for the team, the original thinking was the players arriving back late from a game wouldn’t be disturbing the rest of their own house when getting home in the small hours. That’s was something I recall from all the alleged state of the art sport science we were applying to help make us the wonderous phenomena we once were.

For 70 minutes the oppos weren’t trying as hard as we were.

At least going to Leicester he can nip into Bicester Village like every other Chinese visitor to our fair land. Probably here to make sure everything is going to plan with regards to our falling through the trap door so he can syphon off a lump of the parachute payment to service his debt.

There’s an echo in here!

There’s an echo in here

Errrr all very well pointing at the easy targets our defenders, and who hasn’t been replaced or replaced with allegedly inferior players who wouldn’t get a game up the Sports Centre. You have seemingly absolved the actual first line of our defence, our strike force. Our front line has been powder puff for the last 2 seasons, most teams know the are pretty unlikely to get caught on the break playing us, so just push up at will putting everyone under more pressure in defence ultimately.

Bottom line was as a team we were bloody thick! Chelsea were taking and trying to take all their free kicks quickly, yet to a man we were snoozing ambling into position. Once they scored you could see the fragility run through the team like wildfire. Their second goal was like our defence were in the middle of a bad dream where you can't run away from the monster fast enough, except we were hemmed in and no one could put their boot through the ball and get it away. The upper management of the club should be bloody ashamed of themselves, they have F'd the whole thing up spectacularily - but in reality don't give a tinkers cuss because Football is probably the only business where failure is rewarded by @r$e armouring contracts Oh look it's Wine o'clock!