John Boy Saint

Thornhill obviously everyone on here is shy, good luck with your operation: with you missing the rest of the season it must be pretty heavy duty.

I get the impression that he would have stayed at Espanyol had the board there not sold his jewels from under his feet, I can imagine that is very disheartening. Lawrie Mac always showed the beauties of living in Hampshire to prospective players before taking them to The Dell to nail them down, add to this that so many past managers and players still have properties or live in the area. Also various comments seem to point to the fact that his family are quite happy in the area. Ralph is also making noises that Mauricio is in his plans. And like the Mauricio has said he has a year left on his contract and there is no hurry regarding his contract. All of this leads me to believe that the chances of him staying with us are pretty good: however all managers know that they can be binned off at the drop of a hat so they are all going to be a bit cagey.

Certainly has Banana Skin written all over it, if we come out of the traps on fire like we know we can then it should be smooth running once one goal has hit the back of the net. But the seeing how they dug in V WBA and no doubt wounded by last weeks mauling at home we might find out if they have any character left in the tank.

Which apparently by the end of each season had gone from Navy blue to more of a Blackburn blue in the wash hence the change to Black which was a bit more colourfast all them years ago.

That is a very lame pink and fluffy defence. Don't get me wrong I would be delighted if he came good, however maybe it comes from my line of work in selling, which is also a results based environment if I or anyone else isn't delivering the goods after 2 years you can pretty much expect to be heading out the door without the door banging on your backside on the way out.

With almost 2 seasons under his belt there is only one way, sorry two ways he us going to get it my friend: extract a digit to make himself a first choice pick, or pack his bags and play elsewhere.

Whilst a very valid argument for the chap, when you look at Lallana in isolation whilst he might not have been banging them in for fun which seems to raise the point of the greater chances he has had compared to Gaston, the bottom line is attitude. Lallana in the eyes of the fans through all our troubles has alway been a positive one, whereas Gaston like Osvaldo have come in with big price tags and shown a Billy Big ****** attitude yet have failed to deliver or shown over a full 90 minutes how good they really are. Positive attitude, the team that rolls out most weeks is full of the same ordinary players who show the right attitude, if Gaston showed the right attitude he would be asking questions of the manager everytime he took to the field or in training, but then when you look at international games Yoshida back from Japan quick smart Ramirez by comparison ambles back. If his attitude in application was right MoPo would be forced to pick him, Rickie Lambert off the bench is a man on a mission, Gaston Ramirez off the bench, loose the ball more often than not in the space of a few minutes, v Newcastle Morgan replacing Steven in midfield a Jack Russell chasing everything past his gate replaced by a Ninja straight off the bench. Its all down to attitude and application who makes the line up on a Saturday, 18-19 year old Academy lads opportunity given, opportunity taken, Gaston Ramirez opportunity given and treated as his god given right. MoPo's style of play requires workers and fair play to him if one of our most expensive players is not showing the right attitude he is not going to upset the balance of the side just by putting him in the team because of price tag and supposed ability, he is going to put players into the side because of their application and attitude.

Thats a worrying stat Bear!! Better have 8 pints of Doom Bar before Saturdays game as an anaesthetic.

Stop Press! Stevie G in a transfer tussle between Leyton Orient and Brentford: With Brentford having the edge due to them sitting tidily in the automatic promotion slots. In other news, Luke Shaw linked with Bury FC after staying in Ramsbottom for the weekend after the Manchester City game, sources close to Shaw claim the youngster was mightily impressed with the way the Shakers battered the Saints 4-0 in the 1900 FA Cup final. Mike Riley calls for the FA to give match officials translators to identify when foreign managers swear at them in their native tongue. At the end of the day there is very little we as fans can do about all this cobblers, as frustrating as it may be.

Whilst he was an expensive signing probably on eye watering money pw (to us mere mortals) surely his gross misconduct is serous grounds for a contract termination which at the end of the day does us no favours. Given the J-Rod situation if the players are willing to tolerate him, get him back on a reduced wage and tell him straight to bloody well grow up get his act together, and should someone show the vaguest Interest the club won't stand in his way. Otherwise he will end up playing in a lower league in some footballing backwater. If he has half a brain cell then he should know that the comments from Juve are a pretty damning black mark on hi CV. No doubt hs contract is bombproofed against such action, and of course Gordon Taylor will have us black listed for any such action against "such a precious talented player". Just a mere ramble.

What a crying shame he certainly was pulling himself to the front of the plane. Get well soon Jay

Oooo you don't want to be going there, they had that Noro virus or whatever it's called in November wiped out loads, bet it's still lurking in the $h@gpile carpets!

No, sorry Mrs Miggins with her Lumbago is ahead of him on the cancellation waiting list

Nice to see Professional footballers also have to wait till Thursday to get to see their GP

Nice

Stekelenburg from Fulham is a thought, stepped up to Dutch No1 when Van der Saar retired, must have thought what have I done a few weeks into Fulhams season as he was behind a grim performing set of players. You don't get to be Dutch No1 just by being next in the queue.

On the flip side Anyone with Insomnia catch The Football League Show last night? There was a game on there where the ref awarded a penalty and sent a chap off. His Lino called him over they had a chit chat, the referee reversed both of his decisions.

Whilst we were beaten by the better team who have battered "better teams" than us. Listening to Lallana commenting about J-Rods injury, coupled with the tight bond the players seem to have with each other and looking at the training ground photos Mopo aswell. I wouldn't doubt that he was pretty upset at J-Rods nasty looking injury (for a foreign coach he certainly does appear to take great pleasure from his players breaking into the England team especially) then you get yet another carp decision from the officials like that. The fact that he commented in English alone showed that he was pretty ****ed off at the ineptitude of the match officials. As a team we do play the game with a pretty straight bat, making it very easy on match officials. We don't have players like Suarez who expends so much energy on getting spawny free kicks, or make like they have been taken out by a sniper in the floodlights at the merest breath, yet we get very little in return for such honesty from the match officials. I wouldn't be surprised if he just felt he had to let off some steam.

The thing that stunned me was the instant he hit the deck and was in pain all the Man City players stopped, signalled to stop the game, and for the physio. Just wish him well for a full recovery, however long it takes.

Daughter #1 has an exhibition for Uni in Carmarthen that morning, there was a faint thought of going. Might give it a bigger go if true................. Bit shallow I know.

Wow nice on Jack

What someone criticised his pass so he's taken the hump.

Interesting combination Shaw and Bale down the left, on paper a pretty effective force especially as they could both cover for each other marauding down the left.

Good up front!! The centre of midfield looks a great pairing. with Phil Silvers as Manager we would be constantly under investigation at the FA for something, never to be proved. will the assistant manager be Private Duane Doberman.

If he could guarantee a repeat his 4 touches and 2 quick goals display from the MK Dons game, then why not give him a spin