John Boy Saint

Common theme of fluid football mentioned above. Mrs JBS knows her football, (footie on the TV it's her reaching for the remote and 4xx being pressed). She will identify a flaw with a player and 99 times out of 100 she will be spot on. Sunday evening when we got home out of the blue she just said "some of the football we are playing is almost hypnotic"............. Not the sort of thing that she says, slightly out of character.

I thought Liverpool was (tongue in cheek) the capital of Ireland?

I do believe it's class C1 on your license......... It's a bit of a big bugger, even more so if you are use to toddling around in a Fiesta size car........... Even bigger if you have to take it down a residential street full of piggy parking.

Strange that nothing much has been reported of the open door policy that Germany had to "refugees", now sees the security chain on and the open door very much just a small crack. Nor the early morning deportations they have been carrying out on those welcomed in to big cheers lots of clapping, and the brass band playing along. All of this is a very fine line, some of these folks have had a horrible time and should be helped, but when a load of so called children turn up and they look unlikely to be asked for ID down the off-licence then questions need to be asked, if we just let folks in willy nilly like Germany did, imagine the questions that would be asked if the goings on in Cologne this past New Years Eve happened in London. Lineker Tweeted what most people were thinking, maybe he should have thought a bit longer before posting.................... Lily Allen just has a new album to sell.

I noticed that Puel seemed to put a lid on Martina and McQueen bombing forward during the second half yesterday, which made me wonder if with the full back positions being so thin at the moment he was trying to preserve their fitness with Sunderland, Chelsea, then Inter on the horizon. With the talk about Stephens playing right back, I seem to recall something when Hojbjerg first joined us that playing right back was in his repertoire. I also noticed that when Hojbjerg and Martina are on the pitch when Cucu races forwards Pierre slides over to cover the right back slot. maybe that's an option too, which allows Maya to play as a steady left back and Stephens to slot into the middle.......... but then I seem to recall SD and JWP have deputised in the right back position too when circumstances have arisen during the game and a sticking plaster has needed to be applied. Eitherway it is a bit of a conundrum.

We flew into Geneva drove through the Alps via the Mont Blanc tunnel. Then back to Geneva via the Simplon Pass on Friday passing Lake Maggiore along the way, I will be returning to Milan just to go and visit the Italian lakes.

We flew into Geneva drove through the Alps via the Mont Blanc tunnel. Then back to Geneva via the Simplon Pass on Friday passing Lake Maggiore along the way, I will be returning to Milan just to go and visit the Italian lakes.

Next door in the MGallery had a heap of Accor points to spend, Mrs JBS birthday on the day of the game so pushed fhe boat out as we are there from Tuesday till Saturday.

Leave it here - nice write up, obviously the buoyant mood of us Saints fans touched the reporter. On the Metro to San Siro, there was some hearty singing, sitting by us was an Italian lady on her way home from work she was fascinated by it all, asking Mrs JBS alsorts of questions about the songs.

Flippin heck!!!!!!!!!! Amazed that you weren't arrested for having your pants pulled down in the square!!!! What at were you drinking? beer brewed by blind Monks of a silent order, where the filtration process includes letting the beer flow over the nubile naked bodies of Virgins personally selected by St Peter and God himself!!!!

Psion

Still baffling how we lost that. Great stadium, shame the locals had little interest. Think young Pierre needs a bit more regular game time, as it just wasn't working as he wished, Tadic a pain in the backside with his powder puff passing, then mass waving of hands at everyone else on the pitch when everyone else is defending the attack from his short changed pass (yes he is very good and equally he can be very bad). Just one of those games overall, that said ref was a total homer Trash a Saints player nothing, breathe on an inter player from 10 feet: foul!??! World championship time wasting masterclass from Inter........... If they could still get away with it they would have had the hordes of photographers just behind the goal line with no film in their cameras but an endless supply of flash bulbs. Was it just our positioning high up in the stand or did that pitch look a bit bigger than most. Despite the result a very memorable trip, 7000 Saints fans was impressive, for someone who's first live game as a nipper was v Notts County in 1978 to stand in that stadium watching my team was great........... Bit different to Walsall at the Bescot on a Wednesday night. We flew into Geneva and drove to Milan through the Alps via the Mont Blanc Tunnel, the scenery was stunning (coming home the other way via the Simplon Pass similar) as we drove down the mountains me and my mate, having been here and there following Saints, just said to each other the drive to an away game at home is going to be bloody dull after this feast for our eyes.

Mate text me while the game was on "you lot are a third of the gate"!! "Impressive and shameful from the Italians at the same time"

Just a heads up for the hordes possibly heading up the M3 en-route to Gatwick in the morning. Don't forget the road works are still plodding on along the M3 towards London, warning signs are saying that the road is likely to be closed overnight from Junc 4 Farborough to the M25 until 5am in the morning. I will put this on the other relevant threads in case this one is not read.............. So apologies if you are reading this for the umpteenth time.

Just a heads up for the hordes possibly heading up the M3 en-route to Gatwick etc in the morning. Don't forget the road works are still plodding on along the M3 towards London, warning signs are saying that the road is likely to be closed overnight from Junc 4 Farborough to the M25 until 5am in the morning. I will put this on the other relevant threads in case this one is not read.............. So apologies if you are reading this for the umpteenth time.

Just a heads up for the hordes possibly heading up the M3 en-route to Gatwick in the morning. Don't forget the road works are still plodding on along the M3 towards London, warning signs are saying that the road is likely to be closed overnight from Junc 4 Farborough to the M25 until 5am in the morning. I will put this on the other relevant threads in case this one is not read.............. So apologies if you are reading this for the umpteenth time.

Should have told him to stop shaving a week ago!!

I think everywhere is the answer............ I don't fancy having to queue behind 7000 other Saints fans for my secondi Peroni when we all descend on just one bar!!

Think there is a bit of BS being spun, we got one of the tickets for our foursome on anothers season ticket, entered the person who is actually goings details on the application, it turned up with the ST owners name on. I thought that's going to be a bugger having read the email sent out last week, so played a straight bat at the ticket office on Sunday and the response from behind the glass was basically "tough whatsit" it said that tickets would only be issued to the name on the account "it says it on the website". My mate went along with this wrong ticket and his son who it was for, and the lad behind the glass he saw couldn't be more helpful, changed everything without any hassle (yet)........... so no trying not to look guilty on Thursday. So that leads me to believe that there is no secret code in the numbers on the tickets otherwise the name on the ticket would mean diddly squat, and we would have been told "not to worry as the details entered when the ticket was bought are embedded within it".

For a match day experience paint the concourse walls, it is so depressing down there. Maybe Virgin should shelve the £10 away fans discount and use the money to cheer up the home fans buying the paint.

€90 euros fixed price for a taxi from Malpensa to Milan Central (£81!!!) according to this, catch the bus seems to take just as long as a taxi and possibly more than half the price even if there are 4 of you splitting the fare. http://www.chamonix.net/english/travel/italy/airport-milan-centre

Wow nearly 30 minutes of bloody drivel on a dull game, standby for 2 minutes of Saints

Zzzzzzzzzzzz did I miss anything? Looking forward to seeing the editing suite guys and gals polish that turd into a glittering spectacle in the 40 minutes they have to do it in: standby for 10 minutes of inane waffle and cobblers.

Best bit was her announcing Vokes had scored......... there was a distinct tone of disapproval.

As an aside - Its been mentioned elsewhere that Clasie put in his most visible showing of the season so far yesterday (probably in his whole time with us). With Claude being prepared to play the nippers more freely than RK, Harry Reeds enjoyment working with Puel has probably seen him start pushing Clasie in training thus upping his game, especially as his "mate" is no longer in charge to pick him by default. If that the case its great for the club to have academy lads pushing the Senior players again