John Boy Saint

See we have Martin Atkinson on the whistle for this one. Seems a bit better than the rest, been doing well in the CL games I have seen him officiate, doesn't appear to get conned by the rolling about just been shot by a sniper in the floodlights that goes on in the Eurpoean games.

hmmmmm technical malfunction or fat fingers - wrong fred

Wouldn't worry too much......... I can't remember which under crackers are the un lucky ones this season!!

Kept that quiet. Bet the media team are upset to have missed that Gig, hope they don't find it too chilly then on Saturday with a forecast chill blowing in this week.

Bit of a funny one this, having been off for 2 weeks you would think that we might be a bit rusty, but then this time last year we went on the jolly to Switzerland, this year we seem to have kept the players ticking over in training, which will hopefully make them hungry to get into action come 3pm on Saturday. Having watched Chelsea on TV during the last 3 games I don't think there is much to fear, as Newcastle looked pretty poor through their own doing rather than Chelsea putting them under the cosh, the goal fest only occurred due to the Toon players giving up. Man City yesterday was a bit of joke with only 2 recognisable players in the line up and the rest made up of players wearing shirts numbered 56 61 etc, there was no understanding between the Citeh players who were trying rehearsed on PlayStation passes to fresh air, more often than not. PSG were different though, organised and comfortable with each other, it showed in the result. Chelsea looked like an opposition team who would have turned up at Stamford Bridge last season in the hope of the wind being in the right direction to nick a result. Having missed West Ham due to work, at nearly a month without live football before my eyes I am certainly looking forward to Saturday afternoon.

This falls down the forum menu page far too quickly! Being a busy boy last week I missed the latest edition, still reading it this morning feels like we never exited the cup an earlier round.

I very much stand to be corrected, but on initial viewing of the situation we are one of the richest nations on earth, if we vote to leave the EU that will cause a seismic ripple in the EU as the folks of Germany and France especially will start asking questions. But all the Mickey Mouse directives and weird rulings we adhere to already aside, we piddle something like £20m+ a day into the EU as our membership subs which gets frittered away on all sorts. I worked for a company who bought 90% of a Portugeuse manufacturing company, that part of the business had to build a separate building for staff rest breaks under EU directives, and because they were a manufacturing facility had to also include showers (that were never used) into the build. Our MD asked whether we had applied for EU funding for the build, just like other local companies had and succeeded in getting, our man in the factory said we had been turned down flat because we were majority UK owned. Going back to this £20m a day, if we weren't giving this away we wouldn't have half the cuts we are making in the name of austerity. We would probably wobble for a few months as currencies in particular would get skittish, the City would probably feel like it's engine had been given a de-coke. As I said at the beginning, if we vote to leave, there will be a Tsunami that we won't be wiped out by, might be a bit windy for a while, at the end of the day we ran 2/3's of the World without anyone else sticking their beak in, who says we can't stand on our own 2 feet: there are many countries in the world that do already............... Don't forget we still have strong ties to the commonwealth.

I feel like I have stepped into a bizarre game of Mornington Cresent!!

Adreas Jacobson looked like a bloody scarecrow, and looked a right tit at Man U as he decided to wear Gold boots!

Blimey Jonathan Moss has to eclipse anything Battenburg does surely, just watching our game v Swansea highlights the ineptitude of the guy. Versus Arsenal on Boxing Day 1st half he was doing awfully well as their 12th man, but at full time both sides had plenty to mither about.

Think young Matthew has been a key component to the new team set up, he has taken to his new role very comfortably, so fair play to the lad for picking up the award.

Watching the game on a stream, when Romeu was subbed I thought it was shocking that a manager was forced to change his line up due to the inconsistent actions of the referee. Ronald's post match comments very subtly put his point across where the refs performance was concerned.

Like someone said earlier it was a JFK moment for Saints fans, I remember getting home from School walking in the house and the phone starts ringing, pick it up and it's my Liverpool supporting school mate Willy garbling on about Saints signing KK I Thought he was pulling my leg, he just said "if you don't believe me watch Newsround!!".

Anyone remember Mash of the Day in the industrial estate on the road that brings you up by the Chapel Kingsland corner, they did a couple of nice Lincolnshire Sausages, a funny mash with either Baked Beean or Onion Gravy all for £2.50. Sadly being a catering company they got good at what they did and had to move to bigger premises. Just before they left the queues were impressive.

That just made me think of a "bizarre" incident earlier this season when the Oppos had conceded a free kick to us just outside the box the ref had put his his squirty cream down at the ball, then paced out his 10 yards and drawn the line in the box, while he was faffing about doing all this the goalie had set his small wall and the players in it were standing ready and settled about 3 yards behind the line. The ref then told the wall to move up to the line placing his hand on one of the players to make him do it. I thought that was a tad strange.

Well done Sir on winning January's Manager of the Month http://mobile.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/20160205-ronald-koeman-manager-of-the-month-january-2939195.aspx# ......... Thank you

You lucky bastard!!

Kelvin without any shadow of doubt, there was a queue outside every DIY outlet in the Leeds area the next morning as there wasn't a kitchen sink left in the LS postcode to throw at him at the final whistle. I only watched it on the box but even an hour after the game I was still exhausted just from watching it, dinner was late and a bottle red seem to evaporate on the kitchen side. Fraser tonight was without doubt right on the money and pushing Kelvin hard for the honours.

He got put off by the dog on the hording

Seems to have managed to get his head through the neck.........

Long tackles himself to set up a test for Fraser bizarre

Reading his recent CV, looks like he has the potential to be Gaston MK II. Which is hopefully why we have stayed away.

It was on of those strange afternoons where as the game went on even the most miserable of Saints fans realised that the Southend fans had come to party and everyone was invited. Confused the stewards too as at the final whistle and the pitch was invaded Saints fans wanted to get into the Southend fans section or get them on the pitch too, not to punch their lights out but to have a very pleasant afternoon. The Walsall game that saw us out of League 1 was similarly strange, last game of the season again we were cruising 3-1 and the stadium announcer pipes up to give the Dagenham & Redbridge current score line that was going to keep Walsall up. Which produced a chorus of "you are staying up" from Saints fans. I always remember at the final whistle, the Saints dugout heading down the tunnel sharpish, the Walsall players collapsing on the pitch in relief and their bench running on like they had just won the FA Cup, only to be engulfed by huge wave of jubilant Saints fans.

Err that's strange, the folks who sit next to my wife "sold" their season tickets back to the club before the Leicester game they couldn't attend sold out.

All this gnashing of teeth over not getting your money back on a season ticket, you should be able to sell it back to the club, which was one of the benefits with this years season ticket.