John Boy Saint

That'll look pretty in the New Forest on Saturday shame those going to Burnley will miss it!! OttawaSaint: I'm looking forward to Sheffield Tuesday........... Hat - coat : don't let the door bang on my @R$e on the way out!

Mick will have them giving it a go to give his boys a taste of playing in the Prem. Just like big Sean did with Burnley where he let them loose then reined them in for the job at hand.

The one frustration is no matter who the Manager is or is wearing the shirt Saints DNA is constructed to faff about in front of goal 1-2-3-4 touches too many, trying to be clever with flicks to no one, trying walk the ball into the goal. We have plenty of good players it just baffling, as Ron said "we were not clinical enough". The first goal was gift wrapped for a predator in front of goal, the second considering how far out the free kick was taken from the fact the RVP had time to ghost in at the back stick when he should have had someone all over him like a rash. That said I don't think the new super bright LED lights are helping as there were a few occasions when the ball was dropping past them and the player it was coming to slightly miss judged the first touch, that free kick looked like it dropped out of the lights. And Mr Friend was a bit crap tonight too, which does not help our cause Man Utd players were a bit physical, yet if we farted within inches of them Friend was on the whistle, the longer this goes on in a game the more the team getting the rub of the green off the ref will just carry on, whereas the opposition being pulled up willy nilly for the same offence then become nervous of getting stuck in, yes we beat ourselves tonight but boy did we get some poor decisions against us........ I bet Mane felt pretty bloody good about putting one of theirs in the air late on. Still every team has a wobble now and again let's hope that ours is short lived. .......... Yes Batman the M3 was indeed a bloody joke tonight: frigging Cone Trolls!!

Mrs JBS is just as hard to buy for, she never wears the expensive jewellery I have bought for her through the years, there is still cellophane wrapped perfume in her drawer sometimes I will spot something or she will comment about liking something seen on the TV. Thankfully being practically minded she wouldn't mind something useful for round the house, which is how I got away with buying her one of those cordless Dyson's the other year. Something I did stumble on a couple of years ago after a trip to New York was a Photobook from these Cewe people 30 x 30 opening out to 60x30 opted for nice quality paper and set about building the book using their software and 100's of photos I had taken on our trip. With modern digital photos these things just sit on a stick or SD card somewhere and to see them you have to fire up your device to view them so they just get almost forgotten. Turned out to be present of the year. Last year we went to South Africa for a family wedding then on Safari so pushed my luck and built another photobook which probably went down even better......... It's a bit different and personal.

After a decent goal to matches return for the past couple of years, like most strikers when the goals hit a lean patch they get a bit windy, and the longer it goes on the harder they try. Wednesdays smash for example if he had scored last week would have been more controlled. Add to this he has just broken into the Italian squad late in his career, all sorts of Devils are possibly dancing around between his ears.......... Stick one in the Onion bag next game and their music stops playing.

Blyth Spartans if only to fill their boots. FA Cup legends

Would you expect any less from Mariner after the humongous rickett he dropped sending off Gibbs instead of Oxo, the bloke shouldn't be anywhere near an Arsenal game but then with Old Mother Riley at the top of the refs it's no surprise. All this mithering about the depth of squad, the way we have been dealt a crappy hand regarding our midfield losing 3 midfielders in the space of 2 games is a pretty rum deal, there are not many teams who could cope with their midfield being decimated like this: should be interesting to see how the pack gets shuffled.

Pretty much as has been said above, driving in Belgium the standard really does fall off a cliff particularly after driving in Germany. If you are tempted to test how fast your car goes down the Autobahn make sure your car is up to it regarding tyre pressures condition and general mechanics especially brakes. 100mph equals almost 150ft per second, if you ain't use to driving many miles and very fast just be careful as any idiot can drive fast, it's knowing what to do if something goes wrong .......... North of 80mph things go wrong very quickly so at100mph+ It's often too late.

I have noticed that a lot of dead ball deliveries this season have been pretty shabbily from most teams, corners especially as many teams seem to be working these short re delivered passes to a runner outside the box to hit, as 9 out of 10 times they don't pass the first man, Palace seem to loop the ball into the box but it gets so much airtime that the keeper has done the Times Crossword then trots out to pluck the ball from the air: I think having the roundest ball ever this season is the reason.

All a bit Déjà Vu for the same time last year......... Ah well C'est la vie

Jesus Corona? Sounds a bit foreign............. Nah I'll stick with Cream Soda thanks. ​just for DT and Wurzel

"Er I support Saints cos they is the second bestest team in the land at the moment" "my seat in front of the TV is very comfy and a 75" flat screen before my eyes is just like being at the game (which is exactly what the nice man in the shop it would be like". As has been said already elsewhere, God help us if we lose one or even two in a row!! They will be fishing bodies out of the Itchen for bloody weeks. Some folks really need to stop thrashing their 2-3 year old kids or Granny at FIFA whatever year it is or Football Manager on XYZ BOX, and actually watch some proper live football where the blokes running around on the pitch on BOTH sides actually have an input into the game............ By the way the bloke who runs across the pitch with his lap top at Half time, doesn't have his game controller in his pocket either.

I think Ronald had them sand bagging ahead of Sunday and the visit of Citeh, the only spanner in the works was a typical Villa goal against us. Villa also had to stop the rot. and finally I think the players were confused wearing the same coloured yellow shorts and socks as the referees shirt!!

Quite amazing really how quickly the calendar turns to December in the Turkey Shed in here. It was just one of those things even Koemsn said "we are Human people, we make mistakes", but Gabby Agbonlahor despite getting on in years is still one of he fastest players in a straight line in the league and running straight at you speed perception goes right out of the window Frasers stutter in the decision process emphasised that. Just like Nats goal, Guzan was all over that, what thwarted him was the pace of the strike he had no distance perception until it was too late. As for the flap folks are getting upset about, if Fraser was 5" shorter the ref would have blown for the foul that was made on him to cause the flap. Like has been said above he has spent a lot of time this season twiddling his thumbs between the sticks, and as the old adage goes "practise makes perfect" well he ain't been getting much practise for 90minutes on a Saturday afternoon: which is my only concern when he is suddenly called into action from a cold start.

he really should have known Vertongen is a spawny slime ball and resisted the urge.......... But there is absolutely nothing to like about Sours.

Palace will fight for their lives, Burnley just gave the bottom of the table a shake, and we saw what happened last year.

Blimey blast from the past David Prutton looking neat and tidy on Sky reporting from the Millers v Brum game.

The Michelin Recto-Verso map of France is always good, top one side bottom the other and a proper fold out map, we waste paper by printing out the Via Michelin instructions as Mrs JBS likes to know where she is when she wakes up, or wakes up to pay the tolls (that she has sorted ready), plus as Speed Camera detection and notification is illegal in France but they have a clever way of letting you know where they are.

I forget that Saints fans are spread across the land so assume that everyone lives like me within 2hrs of the Tunnel, having looked at another thread I know where you live so that is a factor. The Tunnel v Newhaven comes down to whether you want to twiddle your thumbs on the boat for 4 hours, or like me, once you have departed the drive want to just keep moving, Dieppe to Tours is 3:40 hrs Calais to Tours is 4:50hrs and with the Tunnel you cross in 30 minutes. Heading for Pau my choice would be Calais - Le Mans - Tours - Bordeaux - which is 650 miles (Dieppe 570ish) add the UK miles sprinkle with Kids who might or might not travel well (I was so lucky with our 2, even from little one would sleep the other would just love looking out the window) so a stop en route is more than likely on the agenda, with 5 you are looking at 2 rooms in 99.9% of hotels have a look at the Ibis Budget (once Etaps) plain,simple, clean, cheap, you only want to sleep. The bedrooms have a bunk bed over the double bed so sleep 3. And don't forget Clubcard vouchers on the Tunnel, last year I only paid £5 of a £168 return ticket (2 tanks of fuel saved).

Done it loads of times carrying on just over the Spanish border into Catalunya to a place called Llafranc. 950 odd miles done that in one hit a few times last time was to get home for Saints v Leeds. Going down we normally get a 7am something train which gets us into Calais just before 9 local time, then head towards Rouen, Dreaux Everaux, Chartres (1pm) onto the A10 avoiding Paris (this will take you to the start of the A20 too). Driving miles for work I just bang on down to Issoire on the A75 and stop in a Ibis Budget right next door to a Buffalo Grill that is just so easy. Seeing as you are going to the Midi-Pyrenees the largest region, that opens up a massive pile of destinations and route options, if you are going Toulouse ish direction Tours is easy peasy from the Tunnel as it's Autoroute all the way these days and by far the stress less way to go across France, unless you are not time dependant, just don't get uptight about the tolls. Tours gives you a whole heap of well priced chain Hotels the Ibis/Accor branded hotels often have good deals booked in advance and the Budget level can sleep 3 if you have a tin lid under 16. In Tours the Accor hotels are all by the station which is a 10 minute if that walk into the very nice centre, where you will find a load of Eating houses. From a Tours you can head South in the morning cross country and pick up the A20 which will take you south, you could go down the A10 then pick up the signs for Limoges to join the A20 but I found that route to be a drag. Go to Via Michelin website and plan your route on there and play with the journey options they will also tell you how much the Autoroute tolls will be, or you can put in the preference to avoid tolls. Which ever way you go see if you can plan a route to take you over the Millau Bridge a stunning piece of British engineering (which the French acknowledge grudgingly). If you shop in Tesco and have Clubcard vouchers kicking around go to the Clubcard website and convert them to Eurotunnel travel tokens £10 in a Clubcard vouchers trades up to £30 of a travel tokens.

When you look at the way the rest of the club is run, the ticket office does seem to operate as an Independant Banana Republic with a loose diplomatic connection to the club , it's almost like the Black Box is used for all employee selection and the least accommodating of a better bunch are syphoned off into there for consular duties. I will add that there are some good folks working in there, but under a strict dictatorial regime that lacks common sense for flexibility, at times. The fun and games we have had with my Wife's season ticket and customer (now) numbers, especially last season, and a minor way this, just leaves you scratching your head.

That was a friendly as I remember them as a nipper, England players putting in some effort. Fair play to Scotland they gave it go too, and at times (as my kids would say when the were little and had something spicy to eat) it was a bit Minty.

Can't believe the "monthly spare £" of £1000 has been missed off the list............ Fat chance in our house!!

Someone posted a photo from the Liverpool v Chelsea game where Lovren and possibly Skirtel were back to the goal line facing 4 lethal Chelsea players in acres of space in the 18yrd box, and what seemed like all their Liverpool team mates were retreating like the Italian army back to the centre of the pitch, we could have conceded no goals last year and sold him for £50m but 1 man is not going to stem the flow of 10 opposing players on his jack jones even if he cost £100m. I find it amazing they have taken so much talent from us, and like many people Rodgers has opened the box and cast the instruction manual in the drawer plugged them in and pressed play when they haven't worked in 5 minutes he just casts them aside, with Lovren as he can't afford another one so he just persists hoping the law of averages take effect. Bit like my Which reading mate with a state of the art Audi that he had for 2 years, one day driving along I said oh look you have one of these and pressed the button marked S next to the gear shift Growl the car goes and whoosh down the road we fly, "well I never knew I had that"!!

The Eastleigh price looks good compared to the similar prices I saw on the gate at Bashley out in the Forest a few years back and that's for non-league 2-3 leagues below the conference!!! I had a chat with CMFG at the Hilton years ago the day after we beat Liverpool with that glorious Riise OG, Brett Had not long joined from Blackpool and was staying there too with his family declining a pint in favour of afternoon tea with his missus. There you go I made the thread Saints related for those with OCD