John Boy Saint

He certainly has proved to be a good acquisition, and in the Everton game his control and passing certainly did look much sharper. If the Ponytailed bellend and the work shy Uruguayan had knuckled down and worked like big Vic we would be have definitely finished higher.

Probably had about 600 frames of him and every single one was him just scowling.

Considering the volume of rain we have had this past winter and the fact that we do actually play on floor, clever designs aside I did think the pitch looked pretty impressive just before kick off on Saturday (well apart from the wonky roller line in the Chapel Itchen corner). And congratulations on winning the award.

Crap photo-shopping in that photo construction, each individually taken then "glued" together. Proportions are wrong. sorry hood down anorak off.

I never watch without a box of Kleenex to hand. Trouble is the dopey bint going after him went with a really bizarre one in her last attack on him with the Burma challenge. They built that bridge and the deck when stood at one end slanted left to right, him and Hammond stood there and said there is a slope on that, which 99% of viewers would have taken as it has always been, apparently Slope is a derogatory term in Asia for the lowest caste of people............. But because of there being one of the locals who helped build it walking across at the time it was blown up to be a racist comment. Hopefully someone will release a dictionary soon of normal English words we are not allowed to use for fear of upsetting someone somewhere in the world. This was recorded but never went to air in reality it's no doubt this woman digging up a nasty little nugget to bolster her case, as she has probably found the Slope avenue she is pursuing has weak foundations.

I liked that. Nice to see them having fun as a workforce, even the chap from the Megastore in Goal. Loved the comment "we have been looking forward to this match all season". Toni's Maize up was fun although he is a big chap so I doubt anyone fancied their chances against him. Nice to see KL there and surprised Ralph wasn't out there on the pitch. Good to see Jaidhi is still looking in shape: obviously pushing his lunchtime Pies and Jelly over to Jason and Willo. .................. and what joy no snipers in the thread.

I think the resounding standing ovation he got on Saturday when he was subbed showed how well everyone had seen him play despite his working out of the spotlight..

Just an aside be interesting to see the reaction to Cleverley making the 23.............. Cos that boy ain't done nowt this season even v Norwich on Sat Eve when Giggs brought him back in he looked lost most of the time.

If you watch him he is effective due to the players around him but there are times when he does look a bit scared still plus a liability as he is still naive in the tackle.

Smalling, and Jones for that matter, always have a look on their faces that says "how the flipping heck did I get here, someone is going to suss me out in a minute". I think Roy is a smart bloke, he has been in the game long enough with lots of experience, but it's very strange how he has spent quite a few afternoons with us, if its not him then Ray Lewington is there, then Gary Neville can see lots of us with Sky and blows sunshine up our backsides more often thn not. I think we might be surprised with the 30, or should I say everyone outside Southampton might be surprised.

Submissive

As you are going that way have not tried the Swansea t/o and play sitting on your hands for 2hrs, if your address doesn't fit askthe accommodation if you have planned some to get them. To the game I reckon it will be an honest entertaining affair as Gary Monk looks like he fancies the job so he will be out to bulk up his CV.

Why is it not Saints related this is Saintsweb where folks like to talk about pertinent issues about Southampton Football Club. For Saints fans estranged from the city or country like Ohio its their only link to snippets true and false about the club. Some threads do degenerate into a point scoring bunfight very quickly.

Opticians for me!! Hang on I am under 50 I could be a referee still....... Nope stupid idea: I know who my Father is!!

That was very nice of you Barry to ease the newbie with 2 posts into Saintsweb.

Ooooo even I felt the float bob under with that one. Have fun James

His mere presence in the Everton box on the defenders radar had them windy enough to drop a clanger twice. Good job you ain't the manager otherwise we would be like Chelsea Citeh etc and just buy a team in allowing the academy players to just collect dust and fester away

All of this is based on last years accounts, not having read all of that in depth, I would assume that running up that level of debt was secured against us finishing 8th and a cheque for a reputed £83m dropping on the SMS doormat at the end of this season. Which if I am still assuming correctly would explain the supposed bonus for MoPo getting us to finish 8th. As much as Cortese gets painted as the Bond villain, I doubt he would have piddled that amount of money up the wall with his eyes closed and moistening his finger to check the wind direction. He was pretty driven, the guy is a banker by trade for many years and switching on your own career dissipation light by unbalancing the books goes against the grain. But still punt out a concerned message, gets your estate valued through the press at the speculation increasing the value of your playing assets adding to the value of the club, and rather than Moyes last year stating that he had £100m+ burning a hole in his pocket and have every potential selling club pressing the add 10%+ to the sale price, we get less dicking around. As has been said already it's going to be a long summer................. Today's announcement from Bournemouth is financial difficulties as they have no Sugar Daddy TV deal in the Championship to paper over the cracks. Just my naive view.

He knows all about keeping Tropical Fish!

Definitely do your homework on the destination. Fly to Vienna arrive in Bratislava in another country. Fly to Frankfurt (now they do add Hann) and you are a good 1.5hrs away from Frankfurt making good use of the unrestricted Autobahn speed limits. However when I have to go to South East Poland rather conveniently they fly to a little town called Rzeszow leaving me only an hours drive down the painful Polish road system rather than 2 plus from Krakow, god knows why they fly there as there ain't much touristy around, Ukraine is just down the road so it could be that, but the daily flight in and out is nearly always fully booked well in advance. The only real gripe with them is you can never sleep as they are making announcements all the time: has anyone actually won the €1m on those bloody scratch cards?!

I wonder if the Tropical Fishtank him and Rupert went out and bought one afternoon off to install in SMS is still there, or was it sold off during the administration?

Watch out this will be tomorrow's Daily Mail Exclusive: Southampton Season Ticket Sales Get Off To a Worrying Start! Following the fans fears of all the Clubs star players being sold off and the managers imminent departure to Spurs. Queues on the first day were reported as poor. in addition fans have reservations that the club has a Woman in charge with German ancestory: especially as Southampton was bombed so heavily during WWII.

Grrrr!! Go get em Tiger!!

Does anyone recall when Strachan was here and the Leeds Managers job was vacant, back then it was still considered a top job in the English footballing World. Strachan had us putting "better" teams out joint on a regular basis and his stock was very high. Based on him having played for them to the media it was a perfect fit, it was probably in the days of Saintsforever and the thread was a frenzy with just about every member online refreshing by the second then someone posted the Daily Mail morning back page up with the Exclusive: Strachan to be named as Leeds manager tomorrow, opening line: the Leeds board will reveal Gordon Strachan as their new manager during a press conference at midday tomorrow (along those lines). As you can imagine the place went into meltdown even the server crashed under the weight of refreshing fingers. As we all know it turned out to be cobblers......... It's going to be a very very very long summer with all of this clap-trap especially between the end of the season and the World Cup then from when England get knocked out until the 31st August. Best buckle up and stick them all on ignore.

All of these threads and a fair few of the heavy reading between the lines reactions, does show how badly scarred so many of us are from seasons past before the Leibherr takeover. We had gems of players both homegrown or made good over a season just depart us with no real effort primarily to balance the books, we had good managers who walked away when the promise of greater achievement the following season was there for us to see. So many negative reactions across the threads seem to have their roots in the pot where we were before. Maybe I am being deluded, but whereas all the chit-chat was cheap bs in days gone by I am prepared to believe the comments now being made will actually hold water. in this case what's to say that KL, RK, LR and Uncle Tom Cobbley on the board haven't had a chat with MP and they are all happy with things and him. He and his family are happy here and in reality the fact that he does have 12 months left on his contract and when he and the club says there is no great rush, there is actually no great rush. i seem to recall that when Adkins had proved he had the minerals for the job his contract extension was signed in January after joining in the Autumn but wasn't announced until we had secured promotion as they thought contract discussions would be a distraction in the public domain......... And have players taking their foot off the gas and blowing promotion.