John Boy Saint

Think we need to cut him a little bit of slack, like all the players he put a shift in on Saturday, scored an absolute belter of a goal resulting in every man jack wanting a piece of him. So you have a lad who comes from a small island has been sitting on the bench or waiting his turn in the side, suddenly he is propelled as fast as the ball hit the back of the net into the limelight, as well as the physicality of Saturday's game that attention has to have taken an emotional toll too. You could see he knew he had played duff balls when he did yesterday, but there is no point beating the bloke up over it..... Give him a chance. The way our right backs get slated on here we may as well play with a back 3 ........... Cos that really works a treat. (45 hours might have been nothing to the old players saying get on with it but Premier league football is much more demanding today than it was 5 years ago)

They installed them for TV as if I remember correctly give off a better colour for HD and 4K and are the new standard requirement. Trouble is they don't flood as well as Halides or Halogen hence there being so many additional banks of them, the electric bill probably went down too.

Well what a smashing surprise Christmas present that was from the lads. That was a bit like last season pre Christmas replace Sheffield Utd with Spurs and us looking poor then replace Everton who most folks thought would batter us with Arsenal. Absolute cracker of a goal to settle us down and another poor performance from the ref in the first half to really get our dander up and away we went. I spent most of Boxing Day pretty hacked off at the kick off time buggering up the day a bit, but got home a very happy Saturday Saints fan. if you have BT sport the game gets a re run at 11am this morning

I'm having a rather fine Cornish Pasty actually:D Merry Christmas Turkish........ Good to see you still have it!

Feliz Navidad from Old Basing. Enjoy national Sprouts day one and all.

Mrs JBS grabbed a couple of packets of those to use at home (oi less of that smut) to get our lazy 20 something daughters out of bed after being told for the umpteenth time to GET UP!!!

He actually did his Jimmy Hill 'eulogy' on the BBC news, from the TV commentary position at the back of the Kingsland.

Midfield has the consistency of Candy Floss, that's what needs to change. and as RK has said we are too nice we just accept the refs decisions instead of getting in his ear like most other teams, yesterday Dembele, I think was constantly chirping at Friend. (Tadic waving the invisible card around is too far the other way though). ............ Or is our current demise a plan to get us to spent some proper money in January.

I hope not. He ain't that great.

It's nothing new, Lawrie McMenemy said "Hampshire folk are gentile folk, the team need to get them going, once they do they are as passionate and raucous as any fans in the land".

I have to say the SSN coverage last night when Mrs JBS flicked up through the channels was cringeworthy....... "we believe the person in the black coat walking out of the Cobham training ground is Mourinho" as they showed a shot from the Sky "sack-cam" Helicopter.

Bloody Hell first the kick off for Arsenal gets put back to bloody TV sod the fans o'clock. Then we get appointed Moss a ref who if I recall the stat right we have only won one game under his watchful eye in the whole of his officiating career. ........... oops sorry Corky just seen we have stated the same.

I have to say second half he was right in front of me, and he certainly was talking to them and handing it out when they were just letting players go...... And especially to VVD when he passed it back to him rather heavily and away from him sending the ball trundling worryingly towards an unguarded net.

We just look lethargic, the amount of times we gave away the 2nd and 3rd ball was amazing. Although instead of keeping it simple we are possibly over thinking everything instead of keeping it simple, we seem to always want to play the clever ball but get slowed down thinking about it. Good to see Gazza having a great game, on the train to the ground all the phones were Pinging with the team line ups, lots of discussion about the squad most of it centred on Gazza with much moaning. I like the bloke I think there is a cracking goalie lurking in there, just needs a good run, I said it elsewhere, if Stek had been in goal today he wouldn't have saved some of shots Gazza did. Finally if anyone feels that they want to moan about the prices at SMS don't waste your breath, when you see the view I had for £40 I could not see a triangle from the centre line to the left hand goal post at the end where the Palace Ultras live, at least at SMS you can see the whole pitch from anywhere in the bowl.

I think if Stek had been in goal they would have scored more. excellent display maybe we saw THE goalkeeper today. When you look at Jack Butland when we were sniffing around him as a youngster for £6m he was touted as the best thing ever between the sticks across all football, he had a bumpy few years, now he is a bit older and wiser and looking good at Stoke. Goalkeepers mature with age hopefully Gazza is ripening................ He must have something to have still been here.

Bury just for a day out with the cousins. if not them why not our fishy friends - that'll get us the Monday night slot.

Trip on the train for this, think the beer might get skipped and straight onto the shorts just to numb the brain in readiness. The one bonus is they will play to win, unlike Villa who just played not to lose.

Me too the grief I would get on here.............. I would be a gibbering fool within weeks Fair comment, however quoted games were 2 where we had our pants pulled down (the latter royally so) but corners more often than not lofted to the oppos goalkeeper, I would get naff odds down the bookies if I asked for odds on him hitting a Saints player down the odds would be bloody grim. Stoke game he was on his toes on a break away, if he had spent less time looking over his shoulder behind him to see where the players were chasing him down and just concentrated on just doing his job (watch the half time relay with the nippers, one is out in front and keeps looking over his shoulder he always gets reeled in) it would have been just him and Butland. The guy has talent to burn, of that there is no doubt, it just need concentrating instead of looking for the foul then chasing the ref round waving the imaginary card. Sometimes a constantly moving blunt instrument is just as effective.

Let Reed off the leash instead of Clasie (doubtful as RK is his bestest mate) better still JWP he is the kind of tenacious terrier like pain in the backside we need getting on the oppos nerves, change Tadic who is increasingly becoming an upgraded Fabrice "Crop Circles" Fernandes with Long, who can also be a niggly pain in the backside chasing stuff down. If Jose is still missing bin off Caulker and play Yoshida in his preferred natural position. if Cedric is not up to scratch give Bevis whatshisface a run he looks like the kind of nipper who would relish the chance.

You must have penned that the minute you walked through the door last night............ As always spot on.

I'll stick my neck out here, why the chuff wasn't Yoshida in his natural position of CB instead of Caulker? His positioning was right up the pictures, bit like a rabbit in the headlights of a peddle car, VVD was having to cover the back line. I sit in the Chapel (sticking his head out even further) I can't remember as I write the last time I saw a goal down our end of the ground so Sturridge opening his Christmas present from our "defence" was actually a bit of a masochistic treat. Better pull our fingers out otherwise December is going to be a f**king long bloody month.

I blame me, last year we got done by Citeh at home Mrs JBS and 1 were in Munich, this year we are in Cologne and the buggers have stuck another 3 past us!!

Just watching match choice, JWP's booking for the tap on Adam was like Mason just remembered he had cards in his pocket.

If you look at the stats for this season we are there or there abouts the dirtiest team in the league based on Yellows and Reds

If we are having a pop at fellow fans who was the bell end in the front of the oh so glorious Northam who as the clock was running down and the ball went out to his gleeful feet decided to give it an attempted big hoof giving Butland the merest excuse to waste a bit more time!!