John Boy Saint

Gave me a Saturday morning titter

So are half the questions

i have a friend who was Landlord of the Kestrel Pub in Basingstoke he can remember getting home from Wembley on the Saturday evening then something about laying on the floor his next recollection was Thursday!!

Still A penny a mile from New Zealand with Saints has to be cheaper than an air ticket:p I take it you did read Koolmans location?

Been very good on the road this season. So well in with a chance.

Should have opted for the Sunderland game that was only a penny a mile for away travel.......I will let you do the maths on your savings:D

You aren't going to have a pillar or adjacent stand blocking your view, went there first season it opened we were right on the back row upstairs and the players were quite little when at the far end.

Got told by the ticket office late this morning that it's looks very much like it might sell out if not today not long into tomorrow.

In the comfort of your split level very much sought after Penthouse built on the site of the old corporation dump, no doubt.

As is Pep Guardiola's.........which starts the most bizarre auction as they both start a bidding war for the job where they each offer their services for less money than the other. Even more bizarrely this has nothing to do with managing what has fast become the richest club in the world due to the number of exhibition games they have played in North Korea following the sudden fall of the communist regime, and the discovery of larger oil and precious mineral reserves than the whole of the Middle East and South Africa put together under its soil, turning them very quickly into a capitalist state. It emerges that the whole country supports Southampton after a friendship struck up between a couple of the national team players and Terry Paine during the 1966 World Cup. These exhibition games earn Saints per minute what Man City were paid for a whole exhibition game in January 2015 in the middle east which emerged as a sly effort by their owners to inject more cash into the club via the back door and avoid falling foul of FFP. Now all this money has filtered into the accounts Saints can Hoover up any player they wish without fear of sanction to push hard for the elusive CL qualification. Pep and Jose both really want the job as living or having a job in Southampton is the only way they can qualify to buy a residential property on the new waterfront between the Itchen Bridge and the old TVS studios as this has become the most desirable property location in the world with land values that dwarf Sandbanks to mere pennies by comparison, replacing the Northam bridge with a tunnel to lessen road noise saw the prices rise another 45% the day the first car entered the Matt & Franny Tunnel.

Not a surprise, some of the questions that are asked in these press conferences are pretty banal, the one the other day asking if he was going to play a weakened team against Chelsea deserved the response it got. Half the blokes in the room got moist at him alledgedly being sacked, it was column inches from heaven, tapped out their 5 penneth worth then had to back track. To me he seems like an intelligent chap with very little patience, who has no time for the football media circus and the inane clap trap that it spews out more often than not, don't think he has much patience for cobblers in general. What makes him slightly quirky is that he considers what he says almost in an effort to avoid what he says wasting another 5 minutes of his life with the question that his answer might provoke. Think his no nonsense demeanour probably went a long way towards bucking the players ideas up and saving us from relegation in the short number of games he was manager for.

Think our fingers are still singed from the last player we got from them as a pay-off from those shysters. still these days we ain't desperate or stupid

I seem to get the impression that the ones that are ready are kept on the simmer out on loan where they get competitive game time whilst becoming more street wise.

Just as an aside I still think Steven Davis for the £750k goodwill payment to Rangers (that we got told off for making) has been a cracking bit of business.

Good job we got the Chelsea games out of the way early then:D

It's on Sky 5 too

Sunderland vs Saints W Leicester vs Saints D Saints vs Aston Villa D Man City vs Saints W Sunderland are fragile score early and we have enough guile to beat them. Leicester is the funny one if they win the next 2 (yes they are playing the champions elect but strange things happen) they might lose the "we have nothing to lose gung-ho mentality" they seem to be playing with at the moment and we could catch em cold. Villa is another funny one will they have one eye on the cup being only 2 weeks away as a distraction or a motivation, Sherwood seems to have them ticking over nicely. Man City seem to blow hot and cold, ageing team that looks like they could have very little to play for, so thoughts of flip flops and warm sun on their backs could slide into some of their heads. We have Swansea to keep us honest as they are only 7 pts back with 12 on the table.

That was impressive and she was in amongst the masses not aided by the rarefied atmosphere of the elite runners and their head start. Couldn't give a monkeys about her tax exile status really, seems to have the demons not far away between her ears, so the public life reason hold more water that bunking tax.

Think Mane needs to give JWP some lessons as JWP gets muscled out of challenges whereas Sadio when getting muscled out throws the dice in the hope of getting something from the contact from the hapless officials, as has been said Hazard is a maestro at getting spawny free kicks from contact as light as a mouses fart but refs buy it week in week out.

Fair play to him, but I would have said that Bertrand had a hand in it too only because Chadli was nibbling away at Ryan off the ball just before the goal all the way down the wing from their box into our half, even a naughty little elbow back into Ryan's chest which no big deal was made of (my mate sat alongside me spotted it at the same time) they "kissed and made up" but moments later Chadli was off after the ball to slot home it was like Ryan had just switched off momentarily almost in relief of keeping self control and that the pest had moved away. Still at the end of the day it was an entertaining game, would have been nice to have beaten them, but league position and points had it down as an even contest. Pelle's second goal was a thing of beauty, Mane to Long first touch of the game delivered with all the right pace height and accuracy then met with perfection by Graziano to beat Lloris.

Basingstoke town are in the Conference South play-offs after a tidy season home 2nd leg v Whitehawk next Saturday 3pm for those North Ampshoire Saints fans with thumbs to twiddle.

We are 50/50 Dutch/English where we are (Germans arrive and leave 2 days later because of it) it's like a pilgrimage it's full of regulars, we get on well it's a small site though, last year was good fun as many nights spent drinking watching the WC via Dutch satellite, my Dutch was coming along nicely............. Can Padre in Pals is a nightmare with them. Maybe Benteke should get his toenails cut because he must look like Strumpel Peter with his socks off to have been offside!!

That's a shame Daughters graduation (hopefully) puts us back sees us in Llafranc as you head home, would have been nice to have met up for a glass or 2. Benteke was onside by a country mile!!

Played well today sadly most folks are judging him on the attack of the yips he has suffered from in front of goal this season. Like Pelle in his barren spell, that shot he should have leathered past Lloris you could see a million things going through his head before he powder puffed it

Never thought I would say this to you Whitey: Cobblers he was well onside. Sorry mate............ Pals this year?