John Boy Saint

When you look at the rate Managers are fired at, I would imagine that being the manager at Celtic is a pretty cosy gig IF you can keep churning out results, winning stuff keep everything ticking along without too much fuss. No spectre of doom anywhere near your front door, if the money is more than enough to get by on (I imagine the severance cheque from Liverpool would see the average Joe placed in a position to retire alone) the only thing to make you go elsewhere is personal ambition. I get impression that Neil Lennon got bored, which is why he left, and boredom is probably the only thing to see Rodgers depart........... given his nationality the weather in Glasgow isn't going to be much of a factor ;-)

True or not, I heard that the shocking Season Ticket sales were a contributing factor in the departure of Monsieur Claude, I bet compared to last year the uptake or even enquiring interest in the half Season Tickets this year is pretty atrocious. I know we had 2 weeks off, and 3 for our next home game, approaching, but when we walked past the ticket office after the Burnley game every window was occupied by staff, and even from the Britannia road side of the railings their body language was bored to tears, normally when we walk back to the car ,at the same time, there are always a few fans at the windows.

It was on the Club Facebook with video, as my (these days politically incorrect) Grandad use to say after Saints had thumped another team "who were we playing... the blind school". Still the upside was that we have progressed to having real live people to try and score against rather than stick in the ground plastic men or nothing, so I guess Mr Pellegrinos comment on the back of yesterdays Echo held some truth "We are getting closer".

Sad news indeed, Rest In Peace

It was the ridiculous to the sublime............Kenzie still probably got a gentle rattle out the glasses in the cocktail cabinets up on Pear Tree Avenue though! Probably why some folks missed the instructions for the rememberance silence.

Based on this season alone, I think Maya might argue with you on that point.

...............As Virgil has a Lovren we all laugh at game!

Eh!!!!! I know I looked at the clock after playing 3hours of the second half and it said only just 70 minutes, so I might have been distracted with boredom. But Redmond having a better game than Boufal??!! Have a word with yourself, Redmond did the same as he always does in the same way he always does, you may counter that he loses the ball more than Redmond but that's because he takes people on, but the one thing he does try to do is make an effort to get the ball back and often does. As for your earlier comment that "Tadic had his best game in a while", if that's the case then we are in serious trouble!! His game was summed up perfectly in one moment by the cross field weighted pass to Cedric only 10 yards away straight out of play.

How the hell does Chris Smalling get away with the amount of very visible shirt grabbing he does?

Last league game he played for us must have been away at Palace a couple of years back (I stand to be corrected), he had a pretty sound game then was dropped, yes we lost 1-0 to a scrappy goal, but it could have been a few more were it not for Gazza. Good luck to him.

Both us, and our daughter sat seperately up in the rafters of Wembley at the EFL final, saw people leave their seat when Man U scored their second and never return for the rest of the match!?! ............ analysise that.

Hmmmmm Skiing for the Spurs game nice............ beats being in Bloody Felixstowe in an ice box of a warehouse (even in the summer) for the annual company stock take for the Palace game. Still means I can get sozzled New Years Eve on Snowballs followed by Creme de Menthe!!

Spoke to an acquaintance tonight, Arsenal fan, old boy, he fratanises some of the folks in the know at Arsenal and apparently this is quite likely. He did say he isn't as quick as he once was, thinks it could be through fear of breaking himself again.

Lee Probert on the Whistle for this one. Nice leisurely afternoon for him.

I remember him at Walsall in the rearragned game in league one. he was full time with the Saddlers then. Spiderman got trashed in the opening minutes and went off, Walsall scored a goal and shut us out, second half there wasn't a kitchen sink to be found in any house in a 10 mile radius because we had thrown them all at the Walsall goal to no avail, Ollie Lancashire was centre to it all.

Purely as an aside one of my mates is a delivery driver, if anyone can remember the Pop Band 5 Star from back in the 90's. they hit the top like a rocket, burned super bright then imploded. Steadman from the band now works in the transport office. So what position is Yoann applying for? I always thought it disappointing that my hero from years ago Phil Boyer ended up as a bank courier when his playing days were over: if he was playing today with the same shooting skills he could probably retire and buy his own bank.

Whoa!!! That is far too avant-garde for the current edition of the mighty Saints! That line up when announced at 13:30 will see the 999 switchboard light up like a Christmas Tree as folks collapse across the City!

That clown Carragher, was blathering on about how Dyche would be pretty much insane not to take the Everton job. As "Burnley are just" and he stopped himself saying just a little club (but it pretty much fell out of his mouth) the money he would have available to him at Everton dwarfs the money Dyche has a Burnley............. I had to turn over, think Gary Neville standing there wished he could turn over too: his tongue looked like it was getting pretty painful with his teeth sinking deeper into it as the clap trap fell out of Carraghers mouth. No doubt the deckchairs will be rearranged slightly and 16;50 will take an age to arrive.............. Oooooo there's the Winter yellow ball now, that'll brighten up proceedings.

As they said on MOTD2 when we had the chance no one was pushing upto the Brighton defence when we were in possession, the graphic just showed a wilderness of no Saints players outside the centre of the Brighton box on more than one occasion. Watching Lemina the other week, I think against Newcastle he was doing his nut at the lack of pace and movement in front of him when he had the ball. Said it before we just play like its a game of playground Wobbling Jelly or Whats the time Mr Wolf!!

Our neighbours in the stand at home games traipse all the way down from Northampton, half time v WBA Mrs turns round to us "ah good to see it running to script" "Its so predictable". The one question I have, in his back room staff, we are suppose to have some bloke who apparently wrote a book that is alleged to be a coaching tactical masterpiece, the Sun Tzu of football by some accounts...............did it get lost down the back of a bookcase in Alaves?

Jenas and Lurch (sorry) Phil Neville just smashed the nail on the head on motd2. Pretty much summed us up, nice team good players, well coached........ "but just let them off the leash to create something"

Years ago stuff like this would have been done by loads of kids on here, it's jolly japes, sneak in somewhere you know your supposed to be, have a look about. The only difference was the event wouldnt have been plastered over social media as it didn't exist. The bottom line is they didn't cause damage getting in, take any souvenirs, or Tag the place up with a spray can. Saints quietly probably don't mind that much as it shows that there are systems in place, and people at the ground even at stupid o'clock in the morning to prevent anyone with a darker purpose thinking to get in. West Ham had a similar bunch of folks sneak into the Tax Payer Arena while it was being converted back to football from the Athletics this summer, West Ham ended up using the footage to help show the scale of work required to get the ground ready. Who's to say that this wasn't by invitation as in making their eventual escape they were potentially painting themselves into a very tight corner.

Last time we parked at Lewes station, hopped on the train to the ground, coming home squeezed sardine like into the train back to Lewes. Friends parked near the ground were still in the car park when we were 45 minutes un hindered drive down the road.

Shame the Zoo is closed, that would have been a fun escape from the Attack Penguins!!

See we have Neil Swarbrick on the whistle for this one, so neither here nor there really................. Although he does always make me think of the Officer in charge of the Radio Station in the film Good Morning Vietnam! Who Robin Williams winds right up by doing his own thing.