John Boy Saint

Well might be sprinkled with a bit of a smirking Malwhinney when he announced our 10 point deduction.

That's why its amazing that we don't hear a peep out of the bloke, Chinese are materialistic, the more successful they are the more they push for more, the more bangles they have shows everyone how successful they are. Our Chinaman seems very private and secretive, very Swiss. Which is probably why Kat sold to him.

Still reckon we should get the White Witch back to top up what she got rid of when we first moved to SMS - she did her stuff back then and away we went. The arrival of Markus was a positive force of good to re energise the place. ............anything has to be worth a go, no matter how far fetched it might sound: there are many sensible folks wary of messing about with Ancient Briton sites like the one the Stadium is sat on. With regard to the players coming in, whilst for a while we were without doubt a stepping stone to the big club big bucks. Its like the recent lot through the door believe all they have to do is pull on the Red and White striped shirt and hey presto they are on the fast track super highway to riches beyond their wildest dreams at another team. Right now there only seems one player where the penny has dropped that whilst the magic Red & White cloak helps, sprinkling on a bit of effort and endeavour makes you stand out.......actually he's probably worked out that he doesn't need to waste too much effort and endeavour to stand out with the current crop of ordinariness: Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg.

Brett for me - if he knew a shot wasn’t on he knew exactly where his mate Beattie would be to rifle it home. Shame about Shane seems his legs are so fast that like an old fashioned international telephone call, they create a slight delay in the message between his brain and his feet!

A ray of light to colour these grey drab times https://www.gillinghamfootballclub.com/news/2018/october/chairman-plymouth/?fbclid=IwAR2vLpZWnzfFhC_v1ItRxwZED0DTGsIH21z-GtVx1gvdaIdhUFj8jsLQNBA

There have been plenty of occasions in the lower leagues where promotions have been earned over the course of a seasons performances, where the promotion has been blocked due to not having a suitable ground for the next league up. What happens if WHL still ain’t ready into next year and the fixture list double books Wembley. Like I said if it were Saints you could pretty much guarantee that the dust and cobwebs would be blown off some ruling.

No surprise really if you read this posted in another thread. https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/projects/inside-spurs-stadium-ive-never-in-my-life-worked-like-that/10035311.article Unless they have extracted a digit up there or a bit of “sous la table” shenanigans takes place for the safety certificate, they could well be tagging on dates into next year. And the FA will let them without sanction, you could expect if Saints 55,000 seater megadome extension over ran they would be all over us like a rash with points deductions and fines galore!

As much as folks slate him, give him time and space and he starts pulling all the strings, last season at SMS everything went through him and he opened us up with ease.

Why would you want to stay if you have any desire to play football and you know you are 3rd in Line for a game behind a player who pretty much trundles round the pitch, and another who can’t hit a cows backside with a banjo coupled with not knowing what his feet are going to do next.

Theatrical diving practice is looking for Bournemouth

Someone was saying Gallagher was out of sorts for the U23s, he must be thinking what’s the flippin point?! Far too much hoof and Hope from us so far

Blimey just watching MOTD, the Pitch at Wembley looks like it’s been transported from the 1970s!

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!