John Boy Saint

We have turned down Manures bid so going on the Christmas Eve in the Turkey Shed mentality that exists on here that must mean Mauricio will be staying............ Woohoo!!

Bunch of Clowns, it really does beggar belief. Don't fancy the next blokes chances, as I mentioned above Sherwood was obviously popular with the players as they were prepared carry on "fighting" for him despite him being on a one way street out of the door.

QPR spending £60-80m! Uncle Tony will be standing in the headmasters office dropping his trousers for another 6 of the best not sure he will poke up with that. With a wage bill last season in the prem bigger than the income, £65m debt from last season just gets added to the existing debt! They are more like £170m+ in debt. That play-off game last night you could see how uneasy he was, stay in the championship and apparently they get a transfer embargo for such debt, and for him no way of seeing any of that massive amount being eased, or get to the Prem take the fine and see a chance of the slide bring slowed. Derby beat them in the playoff final and they won't be needing to send probes into space in search of Black Holes a bloody great big one will be appearing just round the back of the old BBC!!

Not quite that far yet but very expensive Bouquets of Flowers and little gifts that you could never afford keep mysteriously being delivered, making everyone else talk about how flattering and exciting it is

They are a bit hacked off at not getting a summer trip to a delightful hotel by a lake in Austria this summer at the expense of (from recall the picture that was painted by the DM hack) the fat woman who was paying for it all and had the audacity to turn up looking like she shopped at Primark rather than Versace despite her inherited wealth............. And have an interest in her football team too: time for a Exorcist head spin. Nowt much to do until June 13th when they start sharpening their pencils to stab Roy in the back for not taking a team with the average age of 35 to the World Cup

You really have to scratch your head as to why anyone would want to go and be manager at Spurs especially when Tim Sherwood has stepped up to the plate and done well: even more so with the shadow of uncertainty cast over him that he has kept the players playing for him right up until the last day of the season. Unless of course when you look at AVB and his contract pay-offs from Chelsea and Spurs totalling a reputed £16m, with Levy's Jeckyll and Hyde mentality it's worth going to Spurs to do ok as the payoff when the wind changes is easier that winning the lottery.

Just make sure we don't buy anymore rubbish from the Macaroni league...................... Hmmmmm with all these conspiracy theories, I wonder if someone got a kick back to supplement his meagre £2m salary?!! (light blue touch paper and retire to a safe distance)

Nope he's been on the bench and was waving too yesterday......................... so that makes it Josh Simms or Matt Targett:D

Mike Dean certainly didn't let me down he ref'd the game exactly the way I expected, breathe on a Man U player blow the whistle, Man U player pushing a Saints player on his backside with both hands on his chest to do so sod all given. Januzaj could ran out of ideas v Shaw and getting him booked was about the only thing left in his pocket. As for the fiasco after Rickies great goal Dean should have flashed a card or 2 in the melee and nipped it in the bud. Considering we took our foot off the gas second half and still Man U couldn't open us up showed how far we have come, Chris Smalling for them looks like an accident waiting to happen, RVP looks shot, no Evra or Vidic next season they are going to be very wobbly. We have seen a great season with great performances if we can pretty much stick together over the next few months, I think we could have an even better next season......................... Must have been good as Roy will be trying to get England to play like Saints in the World Cup just you see.

At times like this is when you need a picture of Private Fraser and the caption "We're Doomed, Doomed I say".

Well their fans gave Roy Carte Blanche not to pick a single Manure player.

Thought such cheeky ness would have scored better................ Still nice one Grandad for sharing that with us!

Surprised your not having a Eurovision party........... The Irish love Eurovision

See we have the Top Teams favourite ref Mike Dean tomorrow so expect a cheap penalty given to Manure for the dodgiest of hand balls.................................. And absolutely bugger all given to us!!

Best Danny Fox moment stood near the front at Vicarage road the players were warming up Danny comes to get the ball from in front of the wall by us, two middle aged ladies stood amongst us one pipes up "ooooh that Danny Fox is gorgeous!" Her mate replies "cor not 'arf" and a wag from behind us shouts "Oi! Steady on Ladies". Good luck to him certainly did a sound job in getting us promoted.

Mrs JBS will be happy as being someone with a good eye for football has already observed similarities to Rickie to the point of when they are on the pitch together it's like Father and Son. Anyone who was at the Arsenal game will have seen that the potential to follow in Rickies footsteps is there, it just needs nurturing, and like Sam has said himself pre season will probably set him up nicely. Great news

The definition of A Cynic being an Optimist with experience is a hat that fits so well on this Forum!

So many Saints things over the past five years are logged in my head for eternity, the overriding one is that we really have been treated to some of the most exquisite breathtaking football at times and come away from so many games with a stupid grin on my face (which is against the backdrop of trudging over the Northam bridge after yet another suicide inducing game hurtling us to the edge of oblivion all those years ago). High points as I write. JPT regional Semi v Norwich about to go out when in the dying seconds we equalise for penalties, the 3 chaps I sit with are all sensibly middle aged but we were bouncing around like idiots. JPT Final: obviously what a great day. And at last for me having been to our previous 3 finals to finally see us win. Forte scoring 2 quick fire goals to get us back into the game and the promotion race v MK Dons Some might say I am a bit soft on this one, last day of the League 1 promotion season at home to Walsall we are running them ragged and winning with ease, then the stadium announcer in the latter stages of the 2nd half bizarrely gives out the score in the game that decides Walsall's fate, they are staying up, all of a sudden despite them being 3-1 down the whole stadium is rocking with happy fans at the final whistle the Walsall players and staff are on the pitch in celebration Saints are on their toes to the tunnel as the whole pitch is engulfed by jubilant fans. Leeds first day of the following season on the TV early kick off, knackered from driving back from Spain in one go, Hammond running across the box and spanking a great goal to send us on our way to the prem. Never being outside the top 2 all season. The siege of Elland Road Glorious possession football in a league where proper rough and ready football is played. Having that imperious winning feeling that the likes of Arsenal Liverpool and Man U fans have enjoyed down the years week in week out. Coventry last game a packed Stadium, first goal scored and that was it West Ham were noway going to pass us, party on. Once we found our feet in the Prem we were up to our old tricks from years gone by of bloodying the noses of the "big boys" and still playing some exquisite breathtaking football. Bring on the next 5 years.

I think because we are first and foremost football fans we all recognise that he has had an impressive football career and on the whole we are pretty well rounded football fans I expect he will get a lesser round of applause than Michael Owen last season..................... Followed possibly by a WHO when his name is announced and no doubt capped by a chorus of Sheep Sheep sh@gger!

100%Red & White was ITK at 9:42am this morning and pre-empted your request too: http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?50083-Am-i-the-only-one-who-thinks-the-club-badge-is-naff/page2#.U209AGt5mSM

Typically a shed load of folks getting their knickers in a knot over this because they haven't heard of them, then as they are a local company ooo-err that must make them tinpot too! FFS ................ And we also have the usual suspects taking pot shots at each other polluting the thread If you have a look at their website you can see that it is a pretty good fit when you see the location of their sales offices around the world all places where the Premier league gets strong coverage. Headquarters - Hampshire, UK Sales office - Singapore Sales office - Dubai, UAE Sales office - NY, US R&D/Logistics - Hong Kong

if your going try to modernise the badge at least put a silhouette of one of the Queens on there not some scurvy ridden wind powered creaking lump of Oak!! ................ Or possibly a Container ship!

Isn't this the chap who did that hilarious "p*mpey Scum" song to a Robbie Williams tune backing track. And the Old Bill said to stop selling it because of the use of the derogatory word Pikey: despite the proceeds going to charity.

It was changed after a competition open to all supporters and the winning design was penned by an adult, and despite its age it says everything about who we are and where we are from and as has been said already it is immediately recognisable. In the grand scheme of things it is an established brand identity, have Coca Cola, Ford, etc changed their badging: nope. Will they: nope. I have friends and acquaintances who support an array of football teams (including our fishy friends) and in all my life as a Saints fan has anyone said "that club badge of yours is a bit rubbish", in fact it has started football conversations with complete strangers just through people seeing it on the old iPhone case my daughter gave me or even this week playing golf on the Algarve a complete stranger spotted my Saints crested boot bag on the buggy in the car park and felt the urge to comment on what a good season we have had. It ain't broke, so no need to fix it.

Shocking news for someone so young! http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/tennis/27280549