John Boy Saint

For what it's worth, Being a dull fart sat in the Chapel I could hear both Itchen North and The Northam quite well on Saturday, something I have noticed recently as the quality of football before our eyes from Saints has improved there are more moments of quietness but I think this due to more folks getting drawn into the game more so their concentration takes over, maybe it's an age thing: folks growing up. As for early leavers, if you are going bloody well get on with it! don't stop mid row mid exit to watch Saints closing in on goal just get on and bugger off

Ooooo-errrrrr................Sorry .................. But these things happen.

Ticket Sales are looking a bit shabby ATM, looks like a good opportunity for the moaning Minnie's to get a bit of history on their accounts if they fancy another away in the games left. Or if we get a plum away game early on next season.

This looks a bit of a pickle http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/31994404 Won't miss it much though as since they got shot of the long straights through the forest and tarted up the DTM circuit to my mind it became a bit Mickey Mouse.

We have Roger East on the Whistle Saturday, he's the slightly sinister looking baldy who wouldn't look to out of place in a Lock Stock or Layer Cake type of caper. Fair play to him he was pretty damn quick to young Matty when he was sparko at QPR, obviously had received word from his lino too but still pretty sharp to halt proceedings and get folks on. With the conspiracy theory about us being reffed out of the top 4, it will be interesting to see how he does especially as we are the Big club in this game. Should be a good proper 3 o'clock game Saturday as Burnley will have their tails up after beating City, and Sean Dyche can get them playing well as a unit considering how little money he has had to spend.

That was a Chelsea party piece playing for the arm not the goal, Super Frank did it to us in the Cup a couple of seasons back Mike Dean referee we were losing already Lampard takes aim at our players arm as if he had missed all you would have heard was "do-do-da-do effin useless" from row Z of the Northam where the ball landed: Dean without even a thought pointed straight to the spot and Super Franks extraordinary scoring feats just carried on tallying up.

When a player like Tom Cleverly could be selected as an England regularily until last summer, despite being pretty inert as a player then you get the drift of the bizarre selection process. As for Liverpool players being rested because the poor souls are tired, that is taking the whatsit Lower league players must be laughing at reading that.

Blimey 2 more years with the fruit loop!! It's like Tommy Forecast MK II.

Trouble is we haven't seen the whole press conference. Many times Ronald has answered all the relevant questions clearly and concisely, then 10 minutes in some hack wakes up and asks the same question he has answered already, and you can see a look of "really?!!" pass behind Ronald's eyes.

How many over age players can you use as Gazza, Gardos, and Djuričić are all over 21 (that said Djuričić is only 23)

Lallana seems to have become a powder puff player, one tackle matey tapped his shins and he went down like a sniper had dropped him from the floodlights and stayed down............ Or is that Liverpool believing they have the officials in their pockets. With this in mind did anyone spot the pally chit-chat between Brenda and Mr Friend on the weekend following his poor display for us v the Scousers where he had been dropped as a result of dodgy decisions to be 4th official at Anfield!!!! ????

Thought he offered the Brett Ormerod role to Mane's James Beattie partnership..................... and that proved to be a potent combination.

Bit harsh on JWP as this thread is based on his performance yesterday afternoon, both he and Djuricic came into a side that was for want of a better term were under the cosh of a strong Chelsea poking and probing for a winner. Everyone on the pitch in a Saints shirt was tuned into the task at hand and the ping pong breathless nature of the game, Koeman threw the dice and changed up, freshened, the midfield with 2 players who are more than capable to make something happen I think the intensity of the game was such that both of them found themselves having to get up to speed very very quickly whilst not dropping an expensive clanger, as a result they both became anonymous in the grand scheme of things. Just as an aside, Not sure which Chelsea player it was who sent JWP sprawling just outside our box, but I bet if that was up the other end of the pitch the ref would have blown.

Bloody hell I am exhausted!!

Probably because he looked so casual

Forster looked like he was on the training pitch!!!

What an interesting thread, aside from a bit of a wobble part way through. My wife suffered from DV in her first marriage what I saw done to her would make your blood boil thankfully she had strong enough family around her and was stubborn enough herself to walk away. When we got together there were times when we would have the odd ding-dong, not Queensbury rules but verbal nothing nasty but an annoying child like why, why, why and I would just bite my tongue but could see how her first husband probably just lost it. The root of all this was that she naively was of the belief that she could change her man to conform to her ideals, which is probably at the centre of most DV towards men and "the puppy" soils the carpet for the umpteenth time. I think I was an enigma to her having grown up in house where my Dad was the domestic "Godess" ( get a clip round the ear for that) I followed his lead without a second thought: the confusion this caused dissolved these ideals over the years. Reading Whelks post above just made me think of a friend who has been ground down psychologically over the years. He basically can do no right for doing wrong, he has earned very nice money over the years and given his wife a life many women would envy, but can't spend it as a surprise on his wife. Even if he bought her the Koh-I-Noor diamond it would have to go back to the shop to be changed because the colour was wrong or the cuts were in the wrong place: it wasn't her choice. When we lived closer to them, me and him would go out for a walk a few evenings a week as time passed he would be more free with the chat and quite frankly his domestic world is like an Orwellian 1984 existence, his only sanctuary seems to be the Church which is like a crucifix to a vampire to her, but her psychological dominance over him is such that, even at his age of 54, I have to go through his wife to get him a pass to come out and play golf with me! He has never once phoned me up to arrange a game, but within seconds of heading out to the course in the car the first comment he makes is "thanks for getting me out"!

As I understand FFP it doesn't matter how rich the owner is if you are spending beyond the set percentages v income the club generates you fall foul of FFP rules. You can't have a Jack Hayward at Blackburn where he had money to burn and hoovered up all the good players and won the Premier League with them. With a mega rich overseas owner you could set up exhibition games like Man City in the Far East recently and "charge" a mega bucks appearance fee paid via a convenient sponsor to boost the clubs generated income without the FFP committee being able to do owt about it.

"Tell you what boys, this jock is far too big!!"

Mike Dean on the whistle for the game, be interesting to see how he fairs.

They are up against the Voice on BBC1 who have a Saturday Sunday extravaganza, it's a tactical thing to get the voyeurs to watch TG in greater numbers the following Sunday. So much of this is staged for effect, Porsche number plate in Argentina, Asian gentleman on a bridge with what most of the viewing public had a slope from left to right on it but someone of Asian upbringing hears the word and bingo controversy when most folks watching had never even knew the word slope had a derogatory meaning! Top Gear is the Beebs biggest export by a country mile with Clarkson bumbling at the helm they are not going to knife it.

Yorkie got to have been in the fridge for at least a week Dark Bounty Twirl Topic And a dark Chocolate bar I stock up on in Spain with Almonds in. Anyone remember the Chocolate bar Machines that were around years ago, stick in your pennies and pull the drawer under the type you wanted. Arriving back in Basingstoke station after a Saints game in the late 70's we still had money burning a hole in our pockets so went to one of these machines put in the right money and pulled the drawer, got the chocolate bar out and closed the drawer but gave it another tug just in case, hey presto another bar appeared again and again we did this until that choice was empty and tried another drawer and that delivered too again and again until that was empty being 14/15 we were crying our eyes out with laughter at our good fortune so was a bloke on the train, as we had pockets bulging with our booty we passed a couple of bars through the window to him....... Sadly only 2 drawers were wonky.

Rich Tea with a Cuppa Dark Chocolate Digestives Bourbons Choc Chip Cookies Shortbread

Black Jacks Traffic Light Lollies Sherbet Fountain Parma Violets Those Lollys that were made from Cement of different colours, lasted for ages would shatter your teeth before you succeeded in cracking it......... Unless the stock had got old or a little damp in the stockroom.

When he popped up and scored for Wimbledon the other day the first reaction was wow! he is still going despite his regularity in the treatment room when he was with us!! You have to wonder what not playing league football will do to a chap like him, especially as he has managed to keep himself going for so long. Enjoy your retirement David.