John Boy Saint

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.

If we were Bilbao fans reading their spread of the La Liga TV money, this place really would be in meltdown as soon as you see Real Madrid and Barcelona getting 55% of the pot!!

Applemakeyoulookatit autocorrect strikes in style again, it will spark an international incident one day. Still fair play to Turkish in his attempt at breaking the annual monotony of a Vacuum cleaner photoshopped under a club crest, along with the headline: Henry signs for Stumblebums United

Unai Emery had been head coach at Sevilla since 2013, so is obviously happy working under the format the club works under. In reply to a later post. Pardew was shown the door and alledgedly would have been earlier than he was as Markus didn't like him and the fact that the impetuous of the team was distracted by the progression in the JPT, Cortese stepped in to put his finger between the hammer and the back of the bullet. In the end the JPT apparently turned out to be one of Markus favourite days ever. Having saved a hasty decision Cortese was less than impressed that the attitude of Pardew after winning the JPT was akin to putting his feet up on his desk lighting a fat cigar and sipping a fine Malt rather than pushing on to the play-offs. When all the nonsense of the next season pre-season and various other rumours and stories emerged Cortese probably saw for himself what his now late boss had already seen, and pulled the trigger himself.

The Celtic board probably saw him fritter away a quarter of a Billion pounds on players at Liverpool and achieve very little on that outlay, and promptly hid the key to the safe. Hoping they get the Brendan Rogers of Reading and Swansea management.

Funnily enough I was driving home last Wednesday evening listening to Radio 5 and their Europa league final build up, they had a Spanish football journalist on there speaking about Sevilla. After a couple of minutes I had a déjà-Vu moment and Mark Chapman said my thoughts as he mentioned a comparison to Southampton. Sevilla seem to have accepted, embraced, and altered the way they operate in accepting that they will end up selling their best players for top dollar and go again, And here they are in the Europa League Final yet again. To cap it all they pretty much have the mindset of, you come to Sevilla we will improve you as a player and you are free to go for top money when the time comes, the players come into the club knowing they will be free to move on when someone comes knocking. Alberto Moreno of Liverpool was mentioned as being one of these players who went through the Sevilla system, Liverpool bought him for big money, and at the final whistle, and his very inert display, you thought, blimey it is like Southampton these good players going elsewhere for big money and they just become a shadow of their forma self.

Looking forward to that moment as FF says he will give him a piggy-back as a celebration.

Too many slippery buggers in European footie, with the Premiership all over the world his issue v WBA will have been noted, his little reaction against the Turkish guy will have also been noted, any opposing manager worth his salt is going to have his players running their finger nails up and down that edge of wallpaper.

..... Not forgetting the Hatters, Shakers, Glovers, or Greecians in the cup.

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