John Boy Saint

Cheers that’s alright then, I don’t Twit myself - got to draw the line somewhere.

Anyone know if Billy (Glen) is OK........... we haven't heard from him since the Burnley game, not even on his FB page. Always enjoy his match reports.

Phil Boyer - smacking in the 5th against Blackburn promotion season 1978, only the second game I had been to. - we were going up!! Paul Telfer - Yup strange one, v Newcastle last game first season at SMS down to 10 men, solo effort, everyone bouncing around lad next to me crying "I've never seen us win before"! Henri Camara - Anyone who was there can't ever forget that goal, fading minutes of the game 3-3 whole Stadium on its feet roaring the team on, Daisy cutter hits the back of the net and the whole stadium explodes cheers hugging crying........we had a chance! Papa Waigo or Dan Harding (who cares) - JPT v Norwich, we were going out, that lump Grant Holt laying on the floor feigning he had been shot ref waved him away we go down the other end 93rd minute score 2-2 phew! 15,500ish in the ground 4 of us 40 & 50 somethings bouncing around like 14 year olds (well like they did when we were 14).......Bialkowski saved 3 penalties in the shoot out that just kept us going. Finally David Peach - League Cup Final 1979........ Shilton floundering on the floor as Peach rounded him (everyone almost as a whisper "we're going to score") to slot home the opener, everyone went mad, I stopped because my often serious and always calm Dad, who had driven me up there, was at his first ever live football game just went absolutely nuts bouncing around like he was possessed - that will live with me for ever and ever. Like others have said so many others to mention, Beattie v Pompey league cup - crackling atmosphere. same season Beattie v Pompey 20th Dec game Baird down the wing like an express train crosses Beattie "merry Christmas Saints fans", Previous season Boxing Day Beattie 1-0 v Spurs and that nasty Mr Hoddle beaten. Jonathan Forte v MK Dons 0-2 down 1st touch absolute pants 2nd touch back of the net, 3rd touch moments later likewise. Every goal scored against Coventry to be promoted the whole stadium was bouncing. Gabbi hatrick in the EFl final, twirling scarves after his "3rd" what a sight (even a Manc mate down the other end said him and many others were just going wow look at that). Can't leave without a Matty Mention - May 95, glorious evening, re arranged game V Palace sat in the Milton Road End, Matty had already scored a remarkable goal in the opening minute think it went down as an OG though, late in the game edge of the 18 yard box Matty hits one everyone (me included) in line of the shot said to themselves keeper has that.......... "how the hell is that in the back of the net!!!!!". Cheering and hugging all round, till the final whistle those in-front and behind us asking each other just how did he do that!!! Cheers Pilchards for blowing the cobwebs off.................. I could type for hours you bugger!

UJ was only following the bookies lead which had Hughes in the second position of the Sack race.........I wonder how many clowns put a few quid on that.........I am amazed he was even so high in the running, given that since Cortese left the building we have dilly dallied on pulling the trigger Personally I don’t get the Hughes bashing, the bloke has done more since he has been here than the last 2 incumbents did since we lost the EFL Cup. People can prattle on about being 17th when he took over and being 17th when the season ended, if we had stuck it out with the last numpty till the seasons conclusion, that would have been us on Sky tonight playing away at Millwall. Still I guess it’s the disposable world we live in, if it doesn’t work straight away take it back or throw it out, no point trying to fix it.

Christ alive has someone broken a bloody mirror, we have to put these away!

Just Bizarre

I have that on CD somewhere. Driving into the NEC for a trade show one morning with a full car of take no prisoners colleagues, I told them to have a listen to this, and put it on. Instantly there were howls of derision raining down on me for owning an effin Robbie Williams CD, once the singing started they all started laughing. Should have taken it out of the car as a couple of months later I was out with the Marketing Manager and we were heading to a call in Southsea, at some point when I left him in the car the bugger had cued the CD up at pretty much the right point, walked the volume up and switched off the stereo. As we turned into fratton he says “it’s warm in here” and opened all the windows, then hits the stereo power button instantly the chorus is blasting out of the car!!!!

The Referee that day Alan Wiley was asked not too long after, at ‘An Evening with the Refs’ I attended, “what do you think made David Prutton go off on one in that Arsenal game”? To which he replied quite casually “I have no idea, it was strange as David is normally a nice polite lad”. I couldn’t stop myself telling him that it was most likely down two decisions he as referee had made against us in quick succession, and told him the sequence of events. When I finished the room went quiet, until Dermot Gallagher sat alongside him nicely moved things along.

John Boy Saint from the County Town of Pedantry in the Shires here............ but even a digital clock without a analogue display still has workings to make it work and tell you the time, so that's still clockwork because it makes the Clock Work.

thats a bit pants Everton

Martin Atkinson on the whistle for this one - he can blow different ways for us too.

Seen JWP stick in a few meaty tackles leaving an oppo on the floor moaning at the ref. The ref has more often than not just gone "I can't believe such a nice young man would have done such a thing..............carry on".

Like I said elsewhere, on Saturday you could see what he wanted to do but like a few imports the Premier League style of play catches them out. Not seen much Swiss football but I would hazard a guess that it’s more languid Ligue 1 than La Liga and Prem hurry scurry. There were a few occasions where he was swallowed up by Leicester players playing as normal, whereas he probably only attracted that kind of attention in the Champions League with Basel. Listening on Solent last night at some point in the second half Merrington was saying about him being a bit ineffective, there was a break in play for an injury and Hughes called him over to the touch line gave him a few pointers, after that Blackmore was mentioning him a bit more, with Whispering Dave chipping in “that’s better”. From what little I have seen he looks more than capable of doing a job, just needs to adapt: got to hope the lad is a sponge and it’s sooner rather than later.

Bullet dodged with that one

Deffo one caught out by the rigors of the Premiership, Saturday he was swallowed up a few times by Leicester players

Come on Sam make it count Lad!!!

Dave and Adam commenting that nobody looks to be staking a claim for a first team start. Also "JWP gets the ball, looks up and no options are open to him"

Just got to hope that big Sam gets his chance and he grabs it with both hands

Silly buggers scored to early - I had Super6 1-0 first goal 9 minutes................. bloody work for me tomorrow then!

Merrington mentioned post match on Solent that while they were setting up, that both of them looked like they were being put through a fitness test, so he figured that they obviously were not available as a result. Be a bit grim if they were moved on.

Ah but they would if Mickys criteria was met as it would be a football stadia utopia.

Merrington said both Yoshida and Gabbi were being put through a fitness test Long before the team was announced.

Thank you might find it’s coming to terms with the pace and style of the Premier League, There was one moment when Elyanoussi had the ball and he thought he had time........when the ball was taken away from him he was like “oh I didn’t expect that”!

Get that White Witch back to top up what she did before

What cobblers.......every half hour! The last 2 incumbents did eff all by comparison aside from just shuffle the deck chairs and everybody moaned, we have been beaten twice at home now by a team managed by a bloke who was one of the deck chair shufflers and major squad rotators. New Season Ticket sales looked to be falling off a cliff, the club phoned a few long term non renewers, they said I won’t renew while Puel is here 8 weeks after the end of the season Claude gets shown the door, next Charlie into the hot seat has an absolute car crash of a game v Wolves 2nd string in the league cup and continues to re enact the slow motion car crash until one trip through the windscreen too many at Newcastle. Ultimately both of them made tweaks but they were almost indistinguishable from what was not working before........now we have a bloke who is trying to find a formula that works by making noticeable changes and a few numpties don’t like that so 3 games into the season Mark Hughes is crap let’s just chuck him in the bin; oh and have a 3rd ex manger drawing a monthly wage from Saints as we pay off their contracts! Lets not forget penultimate game of last season playing a game that was pretty much winner takes all to remain sitting at the top table, defender gets a knock the other 2 would have replaced him like for like. Hughes tossed a coin and replaced him with Gabbiadini, not only were Saints fans going blimey, seasoned commentators on the game were also going blimey! And it worked. When the team was announced at 2pm yesterday I had a quick peek on the Saints Web match thread, quite frankly many comments were pathetic there were people opening up veins with rusty razor blades all over the place. On the whole there was nothing wrong with the team selected through my (obviously stupid eyes) it looked positive. But as I have already said once we scored something in the team changed, we still had the same players on the pitch who were playing probably the best football we have seen for quite a while. So a question to all the clever clogs on this thread who wish to to lubricate the revolving door spindle, on Wednesday morning after we have stumbled out of the league cup and for once Kruger and Reed actually to something quickly and pull the trigger on Sparky. Who do you suggest Saints employ to steer the club onwards and upwards? You have rubbed the lantern (and probably something else) and the Football Genie has popped out: Who would you realistically like to be stood in the technical area at Selhurst Park next Saturday afternoon in charge of the team? You can rip as much of the whatsit out of me and this post as you wish, I don’t care.............even more so if you don’t answer the question.