John Boy Saint

That was bubbling under the surface all second half. Taffys top the group, this could get squeaky as the Welsh will have their tales up for the that game.

At last a proper dead ball specialist gets to take a free kick

come on ITV sort it out England should be 6-0 up by now!!!

My Mum & Dad had a tour of the Iberian Penisula when the Euro's were on there way back when, they stayed on what was a nice campsite near Albufiera, then the tournament started and the place filled up with fans from all over Europe. The mood of the place tangibly changed, the ones who stood out like a sore thumb as constantly drunk, loud, aggressive, and intimidating were all "England" fans: and as my Dad said they all had the next generation of foul mouthed little oiks doing their apprenticeships. Needless to say my parents moved on, but it was the only place they came across England fans en-masse, they stayed in other places With other big groups of fans from other nations but didn't find the atmosphere half as intimidating.

Reading all this "Big Club" stuff on here, we could have been in that perceived bracket, but for our geographical location. Reading one of the Hagiology books, I am pretty certain that I read that the club took the decision in long off distant sepia hued days (even longer before football was invented in 1992) to forfeit promotion into the top league, because the constant travelling expenses in particular to the power house of football back in those days of Birmingham northwards, would have put a severe strain on the clubs finances. Bit of a shame really when we get into these "seeing how much further up the wall we can piddle" spats with other fans, but having a top flight team to support today is better than being Bradford Park Avenue who burned brightly very briefly, then had a very slow death.

There was a game at the end of the season where Juanmi came on putting in a good performance, but there was one strange moment where he was standing in acres of space in a great position right on the edge of the box, and right in front of JWP who had the ball and just needed to slide it forwards, but he blanked him and sent it in the opposite direction.

Having had a few sherbets tonight on a company away couple of day. My initial comment is that I hope the club said " Don"t the door doesn't bang on your aR$e on the way out"! Night

Just heard Neville Southall on 5 Live, Christ the bloke olden days, pretty much saying we are not going achieve much more than we have these last 2 season as we don't have the investment etc etc, bloody cheek. In life there is a thing called Evolution, in bloody football their just seems to be history, that is believed can be bought back by at the drop of a hat by throwing stupid amounts of money at it. Just look over the otherside of Stanley Park you lardy lummox, they chucked quarter of a billion quid at history over the last couple of years, and have absolutely bugger all to show for it. Blimey can't believe it's taken this long for me to bite!!

Beat me to it. I did find it amazing that between 10ish and 7ish yesterday, about 500 posts were made on this subject despite no official comment having yet been made. It was a glorious sunny day yet folks were still bashing their keyboards like something significant had happened.

Must be BS "not being able to announce it till 1st July" Liverpool had no problem announcing SRL to the world before he jetted off to Brazil. There is very little chance it would stay secret from the media both national and social for that long.

Reading this I am glad this forum is a minority of a full St Mary's stadium. As there are a lot of stones being thrown in our own glasshouse. ......... And nothing to actually throw them at

....... with Stevie Wonder ahead of him

Just got home and found that the lazy toads in our house hadn't turned over the Month on the Saints 2016 Calendar to June. So I took responsibility for this minor task...... "I wonder who it can be looking down on us this month" Virgil in the away strip, good-o......and........ "WTF! Steven f***ing Caulker...... You are having a laugh!!!" "Where's Cucu Martina?" Blooming glad whoever bought it in our house did so in the sale for bobbins!! Whilst I stand to be ripped on here for confessing we have a Saints Calendar in our house of grown ups, when the Calendar was signed off did we really expect to still have Caulker or had we genuinely hoped that he would have converted his loan into a permanent contract..... Still a loanee on an official calendar: how bizarre!!

Echo..echo...echo......echo.............echo..........

I knew my Southampton FC tinted spectacles were the right prescription. As my Granny always said, "To be a referee you need to be able to run about, require glasses, be able to write, and most importantly not know who your Father is!".

To douse the fire somewhat, I guess some of you missed Trousers post in the England v Australia thread last night. See post #82 http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?56583-England-v-Australia/page2#.V0lHSYqkqnM Agents can wheedle away all they like, but then when the Missus gets involved the ability to push water up hill might be handy!

I have a TAG that is an insurance replacement for a previous one that was ripped from my wrist by the sea in Spain and lost forever (I like to think that some lucky soul found it many months or years later). It's only an Aquaracer and not uber expensive in the grand scheme of their range. The only thing of note, when I chose it there was not one in the UK and it had to be sent from Switzerland. Strangely whenever I have been looking at watches out of curiosity, it sometimes gets commented on but more often watched by the shop staff like a kitten following a length of wool. The strangest was in a TAG shop abroad, a Russian already had 2 different his and hers styles being prepared for the bag, he suddenly was the kitten after the thread, and followed me round the store as I looked in the cabinets, my Daughters said afterwards that he couldn't take his eyes off it, my daughters, who were watching him, said later that they thought he was going actually make me an offer for it. I chose it because it looked like the lost original that my Wife bought for me as a surprise, after she had seen me looking at it more than once in the Jewellers, the only thing swish about it is the brand. But at the end of the day if you are buying it as a treat to yourself you have to firstly like the look of what you are buying and not be driven solely by the name on the face.

any chance of a clue on the *****? Thanks in advance

These f***wits on Sh ITV (sorry that is worthy of stealing) mithering on about Roy having 3 centre backs, Dier on as the emergency centre back totally ingniring the fact that our Ryan can also play at Centre Back....... Bloody great own goal. .......... Classic "Dier does have experience as a centre back, he played at centre back at Wembley last season" Please can someone post up some shonky links so for when ITV are showing Ingerland games!!

I don't like Cress Head he is a lazy toad who thinks his £50m price tag confirms he is great, so he doesn't seem to like, on the flip side I do like this nipper Rashford seems prepared to work, just got to hope Jose doesn't bugger him up. Sturridge should send his missus down Thomas Cook in the morning

I think you would find if they asked you to evacuate the stadium for no obvious reason there would be a bit more gusto about the pace of deoarture, instead of the final whistle ambling that goes on, like stopping turning round and talking to your mate or stopping on the landings at the top of the stairs to exit the "bowl" to tell your mate that you will see them next week and probably give them a call when that conversation could be had on the concourse.

The frustration with him was you had to check the weather vane on the spire of St Mary's Church, just to see which way the wind was blowing, for an inkling as to which Anders would take to the pitch for us that afternoon. Some days un playable, others "oh I forgot he was on the pitch".

Surely that's Shortist? Still just as shocking !!!

Pardon? As as has been said before you would have hoped with VEHO there might have been someone to have worked with on this. I expect this has been looked at, but when the stadium is empty with no background noise from 30k people gabbing away, then again as others have said, strange how Justin wishing Maude from Freemantle a happy birthday, and Ampshoires own North Car Park Darth Vader can be heard.

I can't be the only person who has happily had an Outlook - Hotmail email account for many years allowing them to merrily check your emails and sort them out with ease. Only to in the last week have a new inbox pushed upon them, which with a mobile device in particular, is absolutely bloody useless, almost to the point where it is possibly worse than when email accounts were invented. How can someone actually sign off something so woefully backwards from what it was.