John Boy Saint

In the game down at SMS this season he was the hub of their team, they looked to get the ball to him every time and every time he passed it on he found his own player, left, right, down the middle, or over the top. We just let them, and him, do it for the whole game.

Are you his publicist? I you ain't I would get your CV in for the job pronto! Tadic fritters away more chances than he makes, and his passion is pointing at everyone else when it goes awry for him. Like I said Saturday 1st half when on the attack he was more interested in the oppo player alongside him than the ball being played to him, for all his self (and your) belief in his abilities he should be getting the ball and skinning the Oppos player, rather than preferring to feint being shot by the sniper in the floodlights (he ain't much cop at pulling that off either). If he were that great we would have been fending off approaches for him every transfer window since he got here.

Tadic on Saturday was shameful, especially in the first half, for all his guile and fancy step overs when warming up, I could not believe the number of times when he was making a run how he spent most of the time looking at the Stoke player tracking him only for the ball that was passed to him trundling past him out of his reach by the time he eventually looked for it.

Blimey that's posh..............that has to be close to being highlight of the whole season!.........those around you must have been looking on in envy!

I'm disappointed that we didn't learn what the soup was at half time, received an honourable mention as the highlight after 45 (50) minutes but we are left hanging!!

Well if that was the best we could fritter £19m away on, when you add in the appointment of Pellegrino I think it’s safe to say that the fabled Black Box is without doubt the Emperors New Clothes under shroud of smoke and mirrors.

Wow some of you are getting you knickers in a right twist, of course everyone wants to know if it on or off with the most notice. This is what the club has stated: Southampton Football Club is anticipating that tomorrow’s Premier League match with Stoke City will proceed as planned. Make sense and leaves the door open should the weather not play ball. I would imagine that the club are pretty keen to get the game on, because I would guess Stoke have travelled and if it’s the same in the Premier league as it is in the League then Saints will be picking up their tab for travel and accommodation if the game is called off.

Snowing hard here just outside Basingstoke

Shouldn't be the pitch as if I remembered correctly we had to plug in the undersoil heating as a requirement of the Premier League possibly UEFA.

Decision on whether the match will be on to be announced at 5pm according to OS https://southamptonfc.com/news/2018-03-02/southampton-stoke-city-match-update-weather

If you watch the You Tube of that game Eric Martin wasn't wearing gloves think the commentator even mentions. those were the days that even in a modern house you would warm up a penny to put on the window to make a spy hole in the ice on the inside of the glass!

Rather than start a new thread........... does Wembley not hav3 undersoil heating?

I pulled a huge handbrake turn on the A45 that night at the junction where you can go to Coleshill and where we were staying in Balsall Common for the Spring Fair at the NEC, there was nothing on the road, huge expanse of tarmac and a company car just had to be done. That took us pretty much 3hrs too. still not as cold as that Sheffield Utd game, as the game wore on you could see the frost forming on the pitch, still I had a lump of mash of the day from down the road keeping me warm.

What’s the point of buying him with all those qualities when any forward endeavour is seemingly being drilled out of the players, Boufal is a Maverick attached to one of those retractable dog leads, off he runs but the retrieve button is not far from the managers finger, Lemina - first sniff of interest from elsewhere, and the door won’t be banging on his backside because the bloke is being suppressed.

With City winning the League cup and nailed on Champions thats another Europa League spot up for grabs, come on Saints this league is so flakey this season lets go and get it.

Mrs JBS said when she saw Rickie and young Sam Gallagher on the pitch at the same time for us “if you didn’t know otherwise you would say theta Father & son out there” after many years I have learned to pay attention to her observations on footie players.............and that’s no thumb print on my head.

The thread title is like being in the Turkey shed when the farmer walks in and flips the calendar over to December. trouble is if it happens it's a ***** of a job to hang on if you get back to sit at the top table. If it happens I'll be more piddled off that we let it slip through our fingers so bloody cheaply.

Nice assistance from that bEllend Bobby bloody Madley apparently!

2500/1 surely

I’m a Wooden Spoon Salesman and even I could see we were getting mugged off with that purchase

Oooo nice bit of porn just popped up........................ blimey you could park a bus in there!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To be fair South Today primed us Thursday I think. I watched his first spin through the air and land on his bum then lost the battle with my eyelids

Ahhhh.........that was in the good old days of football when going to a game was like going to the gym, bit of boxercise, bit of running either away or into the fray, dart dodging, and if you were lucky you could recoup the cost of your ticket by picking up all the loose change that often rained down upon you, for some reason the authorities thought that the 10 day lead time would quell any needle that might be hanging over from Saturdays game 2-3 days before. I always thought that 10 days gave the psychos enough time to get their logistics sorted for an even bigger ruck. Blimey going to this years World Cup could be like popping along to one of those Sealed Knot re-enactments of the English Civil War. Back to WG’s original comment - wasn’t the second replay venue decided on the toss of a coin?

This shouldn't affect too many of those travelling up north for this one, unless there is an issue on the A34. From the north of Hampshire the other route to the M40 is via the A404M from the M4 at Maidenhead to the M40 at High Wycombe, this approach to the M40 is closed for this whole weekend. Which might in turn punt a bit more traffic onto the A34. Like I say for the majority it won't be an issue.

I thought (pretty certain) Admiral went Pop!