John Boy Saint

Thanks Hatch........ Posted on my phone sans spectacles

Stunning news to wake up to ......... Sporting legends are not suppose to be younger than you when they die. Sleep well big man. A very nice memory from only this summer.

I remember seeing all the dividing up of the monies at the end of the season Liverpool blew it and they made more money as runners up than Man City did as champions due to them being on TV 28 league games out of the 38 more than anyone else. With regard to the Boxing Day lieu bank holiday Monday games I thought I saw somewhere that all the games will kick off at 5:30 so that the players get a couple more hours rest.

This is pretty grim from a Le Monde reporter, and looking at the lady hanging onto the building it's amazing what the body can achieve in self preservation mode. Warning: This is un edited with scenes none of us would ever like to see. http://www.lemonde.fr/attaques-a-paris/article/2015/11/14/daniel-psenny-journaliste-au-monde-j-ai-senti-comme-un-petard-qui-explosait-dans-mon-bras_4809665_4809495.html

Spot on Says a lot when a piece written, where the tongue and cheek are often in close proximity to each other, is truer than anything the media will broadcast or print , yet is pretty much how most of the nations football fans feel about their national squad selection. I know I have said this before on here: I always found it amazing given the huge amount of time Woy and his entourage spent at St Mary's before the World Cup watching flowing passing pressing effective football, played by what could be considered in some quarters (and deffo between his ears) as lesser players than those of the top 4 clubs. Then first half against little Uruguay England played like he had spent most of the season watching at Upton Park and the glittering enthralling style of Hoof and run just like in a school playground. Expectations for next summer are pretty low.

I could live with that for Christmas

One factor to consider is Pelle is now sat on 4 yellows, how he got some of them for very little beggars belief, but it seems he does pick them up without being a malicious player. So if he picks up another before 31st December that won't be ideal, especially with Shane and J-Rod missing.

Thought we did ok, BFS has to stop the rot, he knows we are dangerous and set out his stall accordingly, they did all they could to smother us when we got in the box, you could see his reaction when they gave away the penalty that the point he needed to start getting a bit if steel back in the side was about to vanish. One of those games where we ground out a result.

Blimey Charlie!! Should have added a smiley!! Typical Saintsweb Chinese whispers in action. I was referring to the title of the thread ONLY, not the bolt on's they have, just like someone else mentioned Barcelona, Man U have more members than seats, just like we had more members and season ticket holders than seats in the Dell. Anyway doesn't affect me I have a ticket for every home game already.

Wow I am stunned!!! I bet they don't have this issue at Manchester United with their membership programme.

Bloomin great! another night having to rub shoulders with the Riff Raff!!

Very weird how for the last 2 home games we have been 2-0 up and then come out of the dressing room like we have had a slap up meal at half-time which included Wine then Port with the cheese! As has been said already, its a good job Bournemouth are missing their Jamie Vardy, dont think Steklenburg actually had to make a save until 86 minutes!!!. Mrs JBS said we looked complacent, I think Eddie Howe just said you are 2-0 down with nothing to lose just go for it, which they did. Still bagged the 3 points went up the table, what more can you ask.

As we are venturing outside the Prem with asides: Bury fans got their monies worth, 4-1 up at half time Blackpool put the willies up them and it finished 4-3, cousin said she was exhausted at full time.

Ooo that worked out nicely Cologne Monday, Gateshead Tuesday, Down the Saints Wednesday!!

Traffic into the city wasn't too clever last night M3 alone was backed up nearly to Winchester services and it ambled all the way to Southampton the guy at the place where we parked was getting ready to buzz off home at 7:25 as it was so quiet then said it just went mental with everyone suddenly turning up to park. Daughter used the facilities by the Store and said for us to go ahead, she text to say she was in the car park still queuing to get in the. Chapel when the game began, when she got in she said the Turnstiles had broken and they were letting them in the big exit doors.

I was amazed at how fast the first half whistled by despite its tedious nature and all the stop start that went on. Looking at the touch line and Ron, Erwin, Sammy getting fired up, I think the Koemans let Sammy slip his lead and use his favourite word beginning with F and ending with K possibly with ing added a few times, as we were much better, to be honest considering the amount of changes made to the team we weren't as poor as we could have been 1st half, we just lacked a bit of fire. Shame to see a player with blistering pace like Agbonglahor becoming like an old Cheetah, in his head you can see afterburners being lit but the fuel is lumpy and the burn time is shorter, that said Virgil covers the ground deceptively quickly when he gets into his stride. Second half was much better, very pleased for Maya to get his very well taken goal. And nice to see the Tadic Pelle partnership scoring another well made goal. But most importantly of all we are in the next round.

Having maligned him not so long ago in another thread on here, I have been impressed with him too. Against Newcastle whether he was far too excited or just totally naive to the PL or both to get a silly yellow and taken off at half-time you did think, oh dear! At MK Dons he looked a bit lightweight too, and doubted very much to see him start against Swansea, and said as much. But there he was in the starting line up, when Montero came on I thought this should be interesting as he is a slippery whatsit when on his game, but Cedric kept him under control. It seems to have clicked for him which obviously shows that once again the back room sourcing team have found another good player with the nous and desire to make it work for himself, and the team.

He has hit a funny age for a football player 30 and especially one who has played at the top of the game for 14 years, being expected to play at 100% every week, constantly under media pressure to perform and the expectation they heap on him. Most football fans with half a brain can see he has lost his edge, his mate Stevie G burned very brightly from an early age too but dimmed in full public view, the likes of Pirlo, Sheringham, Stanley Matthews are freaks of footballing nature playing well into their 30's even 40's. Most players can slide away quietly, unfortunately the likes of Rooney are in a goldfish bowl that is very hard to get out of.

Zzzzzzzzzzz ............... uh what was that ................. Did I miss anything?

If you dont mind a bit of a walk , might be worth looking at where we parked for Everton last season which was on the A580 just outside the Lifestyles Sports Centre on Walton Hall Park Road, loads of locals were parked there for the match, and ones we spoke to said in 12 years of parking there they had never had (or seen) any trouble, the nice thing was you walked past all the clogged up post match traffic then hopped in the car straight up the road to the M57 and away........ and it cost nowt. Have a look at Google maps to see where it is............. and decide if you want to walk past Anfield Cemetery in the dark!!!!

Without a doubt.......... Round the flower beds selling dummies to the apple trees in his back garden!

Oooo what joy we have Andre Marriner on the whistle, the one ref who has spectacularly proved that he actually needs to go to Specsavers. I noticed last weekend that we have the highest tally of yellow cards so far this season, which through my eyes is bizarre, so with Mr Perma Tan running round the pitch on Sunday don't be surprised if we remain top of that league.

I have had Black Cherries sat soaking in Brandy since August: Obscene on Ice Cream Need to go and get some Sloes this weekend and get them going. Anyone got an apple brew up their sleeve, that isn't Cider.

Funny that as we (still) didn't know what we were/are going to do in the end regarding an extension, didn't want to blow a massive heap on the kitchen and then bin it 5/6 years later. As nearly a year after moving in the kitchen looked like a tinkers den and it was making us tetchy (thank fully the house came with a walk in pantry) ended up going to Wickes bought one of their Take Away Kitchens. Like you added a nice worktop, built the units and put them up myself, the Wife insisted that we got the chap in who tiled the bathroom to put up metro tiles, folks who came round when it was done couldn't believe the transformation or price.

Few years ago when we moved house the kitchen was still c1953! So was obviously on the agenda. Having no idea I thought I would look at Mark Wilkinson Kitchens as I had seen some nice examples on my travels. Phoned up, asked for a brochure. Few days later a parcel is sat on the doorstep, open it up and what only could be described as a Coffee Table book was inside, very pretty, hardback and lots of pages and pretty pictures, reading the spine I instantly thought : this is this is going to dent the budget! The Wife whipped it off me and started ooo-ing and aaaa-ing through the pages as I was left with the covering letter, all very polite and nice, the Wife was already cooking baked beans on toast in half a dozen of them......... Then I came to the line in the letter to confirm my fears "......our Kitchen prices start at around £40,000!!...." I laughed and read the letter to the Wife got to that line and the book was instantly closed.