John Boy Saint

Looking at your location were you possibly his neighbour? He wasn't that great, Niemi was a pretty damn fine keeper when he came to us, his man of the match debut performance v Charlton, in particular the save he should never have got to from a blistering free kick from Janssen showed that, and he had only been with the club a few days. Paul Jones was always a good shot stopper first season with us voted fans player of the season after his first season based heavily on that ability, he had already showed us that ability when in goal for Stockport County in the league cup. With Jones second season oppos strikers had sussed him out, he was still stopping amazing shots but as he was not catching them the immediate second shot was invariably whistling past him. To cut a long story short, I ended up chatting with Coles, thanks to someone else setting me up to comment in his earshot, which got a reaction. He went for me verbally, nothing obscene just wanting to put me straight. Among other things, the chance came. I pointed out that Jones was stopping fine shots but they were all being parried out forwards, and attacking opposition had worked this out and were capitalising on it. Told him to watch the tapes, then look at Bartez for United who saved the shots but always parried them out to the left and right and away from danger. The next week Stone the Crows, Jonah is stopping the shots and they are going left and right. Not saying he wasn't any good, just as has been said already he had "good tools" to work with. He is at Bristol City now. One observation with Dave Watson this season (and mentioned elsewhere) he doesn't seem as active as he was under Koeman in handing out instruction from the technical area.

Just seen Dean give a poor decision, then realised that it's Spurs playing at home in the cup, bound to be a penalty second half.

Having seen the highlights nasty bobble on that back pass from Virgil just as its getting to Lewis.

As Grevsie always said "it's a funny old game Saint".......... You will only regret it if you don't go.

Wow this Preston v Arsenal game 27mins in is pretty damn good, Preston good for their 1-0 lead as they are running circles round Arsenal

Oh good another game

Oh for ****s sake

Always one.............. Amazed you never edited it

That boy does have a good head

Shame Lincoln aren't at home, I have always liked the sound of Lincoln City's ground. Doing well so far v Ipswich 1-1 apologies half time ramble there from me

Poor Eastleigh getting seriously tonked by the Bees, this could be the cricket score of the day 5-1 down half time

I was having a pleasant snooze........... Bloody selfish scoring before half time

Well there is only one way to find out......... And here it is. Goalkeeper is by far and away the worst position to be waiting to fill, if we want to progress we have to find out sometime. Always remember news filtering round The Dell years ago before we played Leeds that some unknown called John Lukic would be in goal for them, easy pickings was the general chat........... He Played a blinder we lost 2-1. Good of luck to him

So are we...........A Curry often does the trick

This has to be right up there too!! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-2914845/Worst-decision-Jan-Vertonghen-goal-disallowed-against-Sunderland-despite-receiving-ball-half.html

Ahem.................er you just did!

Better stop faffing about with the ball and flouncing like a trainee Arsene Wenger when the ref doesn't buy his feeble fall to the floor, if he wants to be at a "top 5 EPL side". Play some blistering games for us Dusan stick yourself squarely in the spotlight and them big boys will be banging on our door and your wish will come true.

Thats a tad Harsh......... But true on the former. That said I did like it when they had that huge billboard on the outside of SMS with his mush on, Pompey lad in Red & White stuck on the outside of our Stadium 20' tall 10' wide........ How do you take that from both sides of the fence. At the end of the day if he got the armband I would be happy with that, because he is much better than some of the sheep on here make him out to be.

If that's the case its great to see Saints ahead of the curve where the future standard of premier league players are going. Merson must have fallen off the wagon surely!!

I have to admit in light of recent rumours, where this poll is concerned I have splinters in my backside. I think Puel is capable of doing the job, and as mentioned before I have watched him on the sidelines doing his nut especially when the team on the pitch has repeatedly played the ball the same route up the pitch and it's just produced the same breaking down and coming back at us result. This Eric Black business though, the guy was brought in, from recollection, primarily to help Claude out with his English because Black speaks fluent French. As has been said and backed up with results his coaching record is pretty turgid. When you see the guy he always looks a bit sour faced, even in that Telegraph exposé I don't think he cracked a smile once. But going back to this translator business, made me think of a situation we have at work where we deal with Chinese factories and have a Chinese national working for us here in the UK, at a trade show in China last year we blagged a bit of lunch off a supplier negotiated through our Chinese person when we sat down only 2 items of the 6 ordered where there, when we asked our person made excuses about the missing items and they said they were not available, which we knew was not right. This got us thinking that as we went round the show and asked them to ask a supplier a particular question, whether that actual question was asked as our own Manderin was nowhere near possible of knowing for sure. With this in mind and the "primary purpose" of Blacks position, how much of Claude's instruction is translated to how Black thinks it should be done. Might explain why Boufal sparkles as he speaks French so understands exactly what Claude wants, without the instruction being lost in translation. As an aside to my musings here, if Black is the translator AND assistant, strange how you very rarely see him come to the line in games to bark out an instruction, whereas under the Koemans Dave Watson was often out in the technical area barking out instruction.

If you watched his exploits in the summer at the Euro's he seemed surprisingly more chummy with the Portugese golden boy than most of the other players, so it's hardly a surprise if his heads been turned. And if it has, at his age he must realise there ain't much sand left in the career hour glass.

The fact they swear we are going to have a winter like the one seen in the film Day After Tomorrow splashed over their front page every September for the past 5 years backs that up.

Poor West Ham having to play against 13 men with 10

To be fair Fonte was giving away free penalties at the beginning of the season.

Sometimes his own reaction to himself when he has fluffed a ball, I think shows he knows he is better than what he is serving up. Need to keep reminding ourselves that he is only 21