John Boy Saint

Can anyone remember how to get to St Marys.......... its been so long the I fear I might get lost along the way. That said the pitch must look absolutely superb.

I know this isn't weather web, in China few years back just got missed by a Typhoon reading China Today the next morning, Taiwan had copped it and had 1.15 Meters of rain dumped on it! I asked a local if this was a typo "No" came the reply: imagine the carnage here. Sorry for the digression............ Carry on ............ Hang on just remembered a SMS fact to bring it back on stream. When the stadium was built it was claimed the pumps under the pitch could handle 8" of rain in an hour!! Unfortunately as we found out the drains taking water away from SMS can't handle anywhere near that. right, interlude over......... Is it Saturday yet??!!!

As mentioned before, my cousins support Bury wasn't until our usual Saturday night post match texts that they realised that it was one of ours that spoilt their afternoon with his 2 late goals for Walsall, they did note that he was probably the best player on the pitch for Walsall regardless of the 2 goals. Its good to see some of our lads having a good run out playing 1st team football, regardless of the league it is in. We all know that its not the same as the Premier League where there is a bit more finesse, but we all know its a bit more agricultural from the contact point of view, at least they are getting toughened up. You just hope it all translates into the first team for Saints. Personally I think the time Jack Stephens has under his belt from Swindon has served him well playing 1st team for us, its a shame that someone as slight as young Isgrove who shone at Barnsley (?) last season looks like a fish up a tree when he takes to the pitch for Saints.

Thats as bad as: Two dyslexics having a chat. First one says "can you smell gas?". The other replies " bugger off, I can't even smell my own name".

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The only issue there is Virgin didn't make that away fans special offer announcement until after the buying window shut last summer. What is amusing on here is that some folks are getting whipped up and all the club has done is release the fact that the sale of season tickets for next season go on sale from the 4th April. Someone got "excited" and asked when the cut off was earlier in this thread "because I couldn't see it anywhere". When if you read the OS, the announcement is a bit like a teaser on TV or at the cinema only its "Season Tickets are for sale from next week" with the strap line of prices are frozen, with some being reduced. For the last few seasons the team has been on an upwards trajectory with positives to sell the benefits of a ST off the back of, at the moment after our first indifferent season for years, next season has no gems like Europa league participation to sell off the back of. Maybe if we had won the EFL cup and qualified things might have been different in the sales pitch. Rightt now I think our only visible possible route into Europe is via the FairPlay qualification, where we currently have the least number yellow cards in the league. Wait to next week, and the official launch, before starting to froth at the mouth and bark at the moon.

My daughter knows if she can come to games at the 11th hour, and had mentioned this comment about tickets with "restricted view" had started popping up. From what she could work out was the seats were low down and the men running the steady cam could be in your line of sight! Seems a bit PC if true especially as Crystal Palace have restricted view seats for the poor sods in the 1st block of the away section and QPR couldn't give a stuff for away fans on the top deck of the stand stuffed up in the corner all for top prices.

Come on someone post that photo of Kirk off Coronation Street and his Dad looking hacked off.

Jonathan Moss on the whistle for this game: one of the better ones for us.

That is good news, the way it was done when the Family stand was expanded into block 20 a couple of seasons back absolutely stank, every normal adult season ticket holder who had their seat in that block from day one at SMS went online and were refused a renewal without explanation. Early visitors to the ticket office window were told NO you can't renew those seats unless you are buying a junior ticket too. My mate went down to renew for the four of us together with an inkling of this but wanted to give is tuppence worth as he was a bit puddled off at the bugger you attitude about it all. Started the warming up to be Mr Angry but then backed down when he saw the young lady behind the glass had a look on her face of "oh no not another one please"....... I heard that someone further up the chain in customer relations decided that those of us to be evicted needn't be informed. So you will be having to mind your P's & Q's during the game from next season then.

Little 5 year old Mary sees a group of workmen turn up next door to build an extension. She takes an interest and starts to talk to them. The builders, with hearts if gold, adopt her as their site mascot. After a week they present her with a Pink hard hat and gloves. Even a wage packet of £5. "Goodness" says Mummy smiling, "are you working there next week?". Mary replies: "I think so Mummy, provided those w**kers at Travis Perkins deliver the f**kin bricks!!".

Still is, its on that road between the A32 south of Alton and Petersfield!

Chris Marsden Football Genius proper maisie run........... if he had been a Brazilian they would still be showing it today.

The commentators on Sky commented that it was strange the officials had resumed the game before letting Southampton make their substitution

Redmond gets a run out replacing Lallana, nice one

Chinese Government not only have slammed the lid on Johnnie Foreigners over populating their football teams by sticking in a quota per team. But they have also recently slapped restrictions on big Chinese money being invested overseas rather than at home where it's needed. So this staged buying could well be Lander zig-zagging to get the Chinese Government off their scent.

If you notice most clubs only poach the Violinists off us, never the roadsweepers.

Don't forget Eastbourne Borough or Dover Athletic

Give him time............. while the baying mob try and figure out how to build the ducking stool alongside the boating lake up the Common.

This is a true story, proving how fascinating the mind of a six year old is. They think so logically. A teacher was reading the story of the Three Little Pigs to her class. She came to the part of the story where first pig was trying to gather the building materials for his home. She read. 'And so the pig went up to the man with the wheelbarrow full of straw and said: 'Pardon me sir, but may I have some of that straw to build my house?' The teacher paused then asked the class: 'And what do you think the man said?' One little boy raised his hand and said very matter-of-factly... 'I think the man would have said - 'Well, F#ck me!! A talking pig!' The teacher had to leave the room.

Jeez I will have a couple of bags of what you are spouting, my roses will love it. "Clearly 4th maybe 5th" Who the chuffing hell is in front of him, matey we have on loan? who ain't played for a 1st team game for a year then Gardos. So your order of things is VVD, Caceres, Yoshida, GardosStephens................ thank the lord you ain't nowhere near football management.

Spurs fans singing the he's one of our own inserting Andre Mariners name

Davis is having a mare, absolutely fast asleep on that free kick that said if he had connected the ball would have been in the building site behind the stand.

Mr Burt hasn't run the line for Mr Marriner since the Cup Final, he wasn't sanctioned for his faux pas in our game either as he was running the line in the Spurs game the following weekend. If you wish to enjoy his line running skills he will be putting in a appearance in the Citeh v Liverpool game straight after ours. Hood down Anorak off!

Given who her Dad is, she probably knows more about football than most of us numpties posting on here.