John Boy Saint

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.

Yeah for goodness sake please don't give them an excuse to have a rumage through the bin for those old ropey speakers to put back up. That Southampton My way song is funny, because it gets abuse on here, yet when it gets played at SMS you can hear more and more people singing along towards the end, and it always gets a good round of applause. (Not it's not "thank F that's over") ....... my mate started off "oh no not that bloody song", then stood at Wembley when they gave us a little snippet I was just about to gee him up to start singing along, but before I could he was already singing along!!!!!!. :lol:

That is amazing, in the context of the game where the Man U players were taking turns to take Hazard out, that was 10 times more obviously deliberate than Mings on Ibrahimovic. The other thing is Referees have the power to book players for talking at them too much in protest, and have done this season. Nathan Redmond has been done at least twice this season. I think the new rule was designed to stop the ref getting crowded and Harangued...... Yet we saw Man U crowding the ref in the EFL Cup Final, and on Monday night Man U did it to the point where they are up on a charge from the FA for haranging the referee, which will no doubt result in a fine of insignificant value compared to the wealth of Man U. Yet Michael Oliver (who always looks officious) had the perfect weapon in his pocket and the rule book to back him up: all he had to start doing was taking names and they would have backed away very quickly...... If the yellows added up to 5+ they would have been fined too.

But would they, like I said earlier there is a jaundiced view of JWP here. Whilst Gareth Southgate might not be viewed as the most dynamic of managers he must see something in James to have made him Captain of the Young Lions especially when you see the array of "more exciting" young players who have been in the team with him. .......... mentioning Tom Cleverley in the same sentence as JWP should having you washing your mouth out with soap!!

Trouble is there are people who, and have, persistently mithered about him are so use to griping about him that if he scored a hat trick 3 games running would still be mithering about him. I certainly wished he believed in himself a bit more, which he now seems to be doing. About mid way through last season I thought he had become a bit more combative, in the 3-2 Liverpool game I think it was Skrtel he turned inside out and put him on his backside, nicked the ball, and set up our 3rd. The praise towards him was very scant almost dismissive and the preferred line (shamefully from Saints fans) was more towards Minolets poor kick out. In a few of the Europa games this season he was getting stuck in like he was slightly possessed and on the edge of getting carded, maybe all those England games taught him where the line is.......... now there is a habit of knocking him, regardless of how he plays, from certain quarters its going to be hard to shake that off. Maybe there should be a poll: Who would you rather have in midfield JWP or Clasie. ............ and neither is not an optional response.

Sorry my fault.......... started "watching" that blooming betting site and it went t it's up.

Wish I hadn't started watching that site now.......... 2 pens in quick succession ain't too clever.

Dollis Hill

At least they are games where we know we need to concentrate and perform, rather than against teams where we might not focus quite as hard as we should.

Don't think folks are ridiculing him, just now he has found what he thinks is dirty washing he has decided to wash it in public, and that is going to piddle people off somewhat. Personally I think he came back from the Euros a bit billy big bollix, thought his stock was higher than it actually was, probably made the wrong noises on the back of his assumed higher status, club thought ok if that's what you want fine we can spend your wages on a younger model. Without doubt he was a great servant for the club, but you could see he had lost that half a yard this season, and his displays for West Ham so far have justified the clubs decision to let him go.

36 points on the table for us still and plenty of football to pass under the bridge.

Be nice to test their mettle again like last year, they spawnily went 1 up and were smug buggers with it. Then when we clawed one back and the cracks appeared. When Davo put away that daisy cutter, which bamboozled everyone, they were shot. I know that was off the back of seeing their title challenge fade, but they have pretty much the same team so you would hope the same soft underbelly is there to be exposed. Last few games we have played with a bit of intensity, and dare I say it: flare. So hopefully we can give them a bit of a run around again.............. anything has to be better than the "Boxing Day" game.

The Bournemouth statement does say that Mings apologised to Ibrahimovic twice after the incident.

I expect this to get moved as the only tenuous link to Saints is that Tyrone Mings will miss the game against us in April. But as we have another weekend off no harm in sticking an interlude into the normal run of things to discuss. Am I alone in thinking that a bit of favouritism has crept into the punishments handed out by the FA to Ibrahimovic and Mings after the rough and tumble of the Man U v Cherries game on Saturday. If anything I think the match bans served up are back to front. You could debate until the cows come home whether Mings trod on the head Ibrahimovic on purpose. Having just been in a tussle resulting in a heap of bodies on the floor, the decision to tread on his head is not going to be a premeditated act, more of an opportunity presenting itself: if it was Mings intent. On the flip side the Elbow in the face Mings from Ibrahimovic has to be a worse offence as it has to have been premeditated, Ibrahimovic knew who was at his shoulder and the act of elbowing Mings was, as most people could see, a deliberate action to get him back having had a while to wait for he opportunity. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39210644

Be a bit of a shame if true, that said it does swing the door open for young Jason McCarthy to progress who looks to be having fun at Walsall. Yes I know it's only League One, but no disrespect to his team mates, he does look a cut above. Relatives are Bury season ticket holders and they said that he was the stand out player (2 goals aside) for Walsall in their recent 3-3 draw.

Seeing as your location has a PO postcode we can let it slide.