John Boy Saint

Too narrow banging on the same door over and over again, pull em about open up the spaces......... Bertie must have written all his postcards to send home out on the left.

The rest of the players seem to look at Ryan and just go nah, I ain't passing to him......... Bit like when Beattie broke into the squad.

I think Romeu is just as capable and a lot more skilled, strange how him and Vic didn't seem to gel when playing together, I guess having 2 hit men in the team does throw up a territorial conflict. I would hope that the new chap in charge will give Oriol a regular run out as that has to benefit a player in that position to play regularly, and under RK he was dropped the minute VW was back available from whichever suspension he had served, despite Oriol having put in a good stint in his absence. Oriol and Harrison could be a fun combination, if the Jack Russell doesn't get you his henchman will. Still its a shame VW is going but that's life at Saints. Best memory of him will be from this past season v Liverpool. Adam Lallana in midfield with the ball and big Vic decided to go after him, it was like we had been transported onto the plains of Africa and a Big Cat was chasing an Impala, Lallana zig-zagged to shake him off and Wanyama shadowed his every turn with Lallana having to pass it back deep into his defence to stop the persuit.

Top bit of business, top player, top bloke.

Nice to see there is still just Karma in football, after his disingenuous comments about Iceland, seems like the Elves and Trolls on that northern isle put their heads together and wove a bit of their mischief into his boots.

Not sure why, but I am quite enjoying the opening 30 minutes of the Iceland v Hungary.

I would imagine from the clubs point of view Harrison Reed is the nub of the issues regarding not bringing academy players through. I might be biased as every time I have seen Harry play for the first team he has not let the team down and been more than ready to make the step up. Yet Jordie Clasie was bought in, at RKs behest, and basically shut Harrison out of the first team, whilst not blowing our socks off with his performances by any stretch of the imagination.

Nah! That will be a pre arranged day off, seeing as 14th July is Bastille Day.

Season Ending on the 21st May!!! Madness!! FA Cup the following weekend I guess.

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!