John Boy Saint

Blimey the the schools career advisor pointed him at the wrong sport! He could have been the Romanian Usain Bolt!!

Thats brilliant, considering most oppos would pay oodles of money to someone acquiring that sort of information, you just did yourself out a 2 week holiday in the Maldives flying first class in your eagerness to post on here.................. That said you would have been rowing back from there as during your 2 weeks away whoever you sold it to would have worked out that it was bum info. Probably just get a late night knock on the door from some lads what Uncle Les knows, after they spent 3hours setting that shot up, only for some smartypants to read and fritter away a few hours in excel and post it on a fans website, when they hoped they could dupe Wolves and Huddersfield at least....... and just maybe Watford too.

Getting him settled ready for the promotion push next season??!!

If Redmond can stay on the pitch to the end in a Premiership game putting in a performance to make us look like we are also playing with 10 men too, then your wish of seeing JWP out the door is akin to standing in a force 10 gale and piddling into it!

Azpilicueta was given handball against him on Sunday running through midfield, arms and legs doing what they do naturally when you are running, ball bounces randomly up at him off a very close Spurs player unexpectedly and faster than he could humanly react to change direction, handball given, same ball same scenario in the box ref would have waved it off as too close. The lines of interpretation from refs are very fuzzy regardless of position and viewing it in real time despite a lino to help him out in most cases. On a different matter, seeing as it's now Tuesday I guess Nobles studs up tackle on Lemina and also his un-gentlemanly attempt at getting a reaction when Lemina walked away, is just one of those things that happens in football, as it was merely Southampton v West Ham.

Much of that is down to the miserly away allocation the club takes, Huddersfield sold out at just a season ticket stage if I am not mistaken

Think he has sharpened up over the summer, in the brief cameo v Swansea aside from doing himself in the first few minutes he seemed to knuckle down, doing what he can do keeping it simple instead of trying out Fabrice Fernandes Tadic as he was doing last season, and seemed to chip in with his defensive duties......... would have liked to have seen him replace Redmond Saturday.

It's the words from that great pre match video from a couple of seasons ago with the great lines "we've been to the edge of the abyss and come back" and "we don't buy success we breed it" Just reading this thread is quite funny, as a few football puritans are close on getting their knickers in a twist over them, when in reality it's nothing new in football, just a variation on the old Football rattle that could be heard at many footie grounds before they were banned as a potential weapon in the bad days of the 1970s. Damn sight better than those Vuvuzelas

Booing was out of order really, he served us well. Maya did him a favour by getting injured at the Confederations cup, as Loren had been brought in partner Yoshida by Poch, Fonte saw the writing on the wall and dug deep within himself and gave himself and us few more good years, winning the Euros at the end of it all. In these days when players are wired up to satellites to monitor their performances, just like Lambert in his last season any fan, as much as it hurt, could see that the peak had been hit and the journey down the other side had begun. in reality on Saturday we should have been applauding him, as his shenanigans last summer saved the club from having to tell a loyal servant of the club that his days with us were at an end. Even more so for the fact that we bought him for £1.2m in 2010 and sold him with plenty of miles on the clock 8 years later for £8m. Pretty damn fine bit of business when you consider some of the players we have bought over the years for good money at the time, and just slide away for nothing. And cheers for the penalty he gifted us, in getting done by a player only a year younger than himself...priceless!

Harmless enough, although a tad annoying last week because the kids were getting bored and just slapping them randomly. If they have a 40ft container of them to work through they will be just right on a icy winters day when folks have their gloves on. That bloke on the video just painted a target on his backside, worthy of a clack near him just to wind him up

Peach and Boyer?

With you on that one. Not long into the game he was signalling across to the bench that he wanted to come off, then when Maya went to play a ball to him in space he signalled "no" he didn't want it, then he saw out the game??!! Think he was also getting a bit hacked off at Redmond in the second half. I heard from someone with a connection close to the team that pretty much the first available bus out of Saints he wants to be on it.

Sorry Batman thirded....... Without doubt they were getting done in the air which is quite a rare thing where Yoshida is concerned, but strangely enough most of the football is played on the floor, his reading of some situations at times is exceptional. There was a moment in the second half where the ball came to him he shaped and fainted to go one way then subtly switched direction, the closing West Ham players fell for it and he bought enough time to play the ball out without any pressure: but so simple it was exquisite............... It got a round of applause from many in the ground who saw it for what it was.

Radical and Boufal slow things down??!!................ Bloody Redmond just stops and goes errr umm derrr! Romeu had the ball Redmond was showing for it, Romeu ignored him as if to say, you'll be lucky, you'll lose i again, and I will have to run the length of the damn pitch again.

Well with about 12mins left he obviously hasn't set the world on fire tonight, and justified any reason to resurrect interest in dragging him back here.

For a first showing out of the box, I like the cut of the boys jib. The premier league is not a place for the feeble, yes his passing radar needs a bit of calibrating. But for the time he was on the pitch I thought Romeu looked very relaxed and less in need of going in hard on oppo players. The lad ain't scared of the ball, give him a few more games and he will be pretty good for us............ and Romeu

I would be pretty piddled off if I had a bloody pillock like Redmond in front if me, that waste of space offered feck all........... ah ball into Gabbi and rattle the crossbar, aside from that we were also down to 10 men with that numpties on the pitch, Zabaleta had Redmonds trousers down round his ankles all second half, if I was Boufal I would be throwing my toys out of the pram and knocking in the managers Monday morning.Whats Redmond got dirty pictures of Les watching Red Tube??!!!! Yes I have had a drink, bit still that boy was a bloody waste of space on the pitch today.................. BBC are a bunch of jokers too: they have Tadic as MOTM? WTF!!!!

Blimey West Hams Intercity firm must be reforming.......... Armed coppers down the Saints!! (yes I know).

Just lazily catching up, this nearly saw the screen redecorated!

For those of you born many years after these Psychedelic hued days, thinking blimey that's cheap for tickets! In 1969 my Mum and Dad had to move out of Southampton as Dads work was mainly in London, and the M3 didn't exist then, they bought a new 3 bedroom house in north Hampshire for the then princely sum of £6,600. Dad always said it was a risky purchase as the mortgage was only just within his means.

There was an interview with him on Radio 5 one evening recently on a long drive home, it was snipped up into bits played across the show, very interesting and very frank about what saw him inside, what an idiot he had been, seems to consider himself very very lucky and has gotten "his $H1t together" as a result. Fair play to him as he no way came over as a bit of a scrote yet admits that he was a bit of one, and could have easily remained one. Right back on subject

MUST read the dates on some of these bumped threads.................... Started at the beginning and quickly developed deja vu!

Well according to t'internet there is a gang..... oops coven of them called The Southampton Witches, they even have a Facebook page, so even if she has fallen in her cauldron or accidentally put a hex on herself pretty sure she will have a few mates who would gladly step in and give it a go........ anyone going through Burley out in the forest could nip in one of the shops and ask. Of course the Gao's might have a resident Feng Shui grandmaster in their employ, so double bubble........................ You build stuff on old Ancient Briton sites all sorts of mischief goes on: no-one still actually really knows how they built Stonehenge!

I would give that White Witch another go first, seemed to work all those years ago when we first moved into SMS.......... we might be in need of a recharge!

Not just him. i watched that game in the stadium without major beer goggles on, which probably made how bad we were even worse. it wasn't until later in the season, possibly the EFL cup games where a bit more effort was being made, then run in to the end of the season, it was just something that made me go hmmmm. That night in Prague was probably the most animated I had seen Puel on the touchline in the whole of the season, at times he was hopping mad. In all honesty, in light of the way this whole business has been played out over the summer by both the player and his agent nothing should surprise any of us. By all accounts there was enough discontent about Puel in the dressing room to enlist a few unsuspecting cohorts. Anyway before everyone kicks me round the playground, mine was just a thought NOT a statement of fact. Having won the ultimate prize in English Football, did anyone think what happened with Ranieri at Leicester would happen the very next season.............. Strange how they went for miles in the Champions League yet failed to turn up for domestic league matches.