John Boy Saint

You are not alone mate! I have never felt so emotionless about it all - which is weird given the efforts I went to as a nipper to get from north Hampshire to Southampton.

£25,000,000 in his sky rocket - he couldn’t give a tinkers cuss - I would bugger off into the sunset.

More like B&M Bargains or Lidl Middle Aisle There just isn’t any substance to our team.

Just looked up that Super Cup - blimey what a farce! Just one season and such a car crash that the final, due to fixture congestion (god knows where from with no Europe), had to be held over to the following season in which it was defunct and to magnify the absurdity of its being - Liverpool won it. Actually even this Full members Cup was a shambles too Liverpool Arsenal Spurs and Man U chose not to enter it ever. This was for the top 2 leagues, as leagues 3 & 4 teams didn't have full voting rights - so they ended up with the EFL Trophy: which we won. Reading did win it once beating Luton - Luton won the 1988 League Cup or Littlewoods Cup, or was it Rumbelows beating Arsenal, that gave us endless views of David Pleat in his flashers mac gambolling across the sacred turf at the final whistle. Reading really milked winning he Simod cup locally, it was the only thing they had to crow about until pipping us to Championship title with a hopefully soon to lost - record points haul.

As was mentioned on the first page - before kick off teams were being announced. Forest first every name cheered by theirs including Cloughy - Saints turn cheers through the team - chap in front of us with his tourist mate “just listen to this”. “And the Southampton manager - Ian Branfoot” - the crescendo of boos was almost deafening. A cup to fill the void left by the ban from European football that had absolutely nothing to do with Liverpool

Penalty was at the the Carlisle end - but the image I am thinking of was taken from behind their goal = you saw the back of their keeper.

Always a good on to have in your pocket for Spurs fan friends telling me how great they are compared to us - “you do realise that even we have won a Wembley cup final since you last did” - Just like the reply in the stadium “Johnstones Paint Trophy you’ll never win that” perplexes most fans. Although I think Chelsea fans coax that response out of us on purpose as ones I know think it’s a great come back to their Champions of Europe chant. it was indeed a great day out - the photo of Rickie slotting the penalty from behind the goal with a wall of Red and White to the sky behind him always induces goosebumps

Met a heap of Scotland fans in Krakow airport back in September, they love Che but not overly fussed with Stu

Would anyone notice if he didn’t😜

The FA will do…………..F A! They will do every thing they can to avoid a stain on the “Product” - the Man City can kicked 4 years down the road. They even bailed out our friends down the M27 when their pot ran dry, well there was no pot, they’d sold that too. The PL financed their appearance in the final fixtures of that season to “protect the product”.

Might have ruled himself out "with a nasty pain" as ABK looks out for a while - the Premier League is likely viewed as the better shop window to be in

Certainly taking their time "making their way out of the city" if the Rozzers weren't called until 6:05pm

Mrs JBS commented the other day something came up on TV, that Fernandes getting off scot free for his shove in the back of the lino, was because the lino placed his hand on Fernandes first in the scenario! Its all half cocked, how many third player in, rushing of the referee has received a yellow since Lemina got pinged against us.

Line was still there clear as day behind all their heels - trouble was the only player of ours who is always up for getting in the refs ear was on his way to hospital

I think Simon Hooper on the whistle interfered with his set up process as Kane and his chums were shithousing at the ball positioning - you could see James getting pissed off, then added to this the wall to a man was stood in front of the magic spray line

Added to that, one young lad got to go home with his Gloves. He got a good reception from the Chapel aside from a very small handful of numpties when he took up position at the start of the second half.

Might find out if you tune into Casualty tonight 🤪😜😀

Both carted off to the General gives a clue

Love to know what Prowsey said in the huddle when we went 3-1 down - I’m guessing it was “right Shit or bust lads!” A tip of the cap to Theo Walcott, bugger off is he 34, played like a 24 year old, he put in a proper shift today so glad he wasn’t subbed. You still have to ask, where was that fight on Wednesday night when at 0-1 we were playing out for a draw!

...........it is a "Saintsy" thing to do!

Nope can’t think of anything

Personally think he is alright - it’s what’s around him being the problem - some comparing to Redmond, when he had the ball players were trying to guess what Nathan was going to do next with the ball next. Sat in the ground last night there were a few times when Sulemana was waiting for a ream mate to show for him.

There were times last night when you wondered what goes on in training, because they all looked like a team of strangers! Part of the problem is that we are just so bloody slow the majority of the time, even when were getting into the last knockings of the game, we looked like we were playing for the draw to maintain mid table obscurity! To show how comfortable Brentford were, on corners their keeper was continuing the chat with the coaching staff on the side lines then standing in the centre circle when the ball was delivered, because 20 other players were in our box. Where was the vision to send our fastest player out to the centre circle in readiness to receive a clearance, probably taking 2 Brentford players with him. For 45 years going down the Saints through rain and shine has been one of those things I have enjoyed in life - the last few seasons have been a bloody chore though, to the point where (and I can't believe I say this) the decision whether to renew is looking to be an easy one. On Brentford - I thought they were a decent team playing pleasing football most of the time, but that changed last night, we must have seen 30 minutes of football and an hour of then laying about on the pitch all ably assisted by the ref who I'm amazed had room in his pockets for his cards they were so stuffed full of receipts for all the crap he'd bought from Brentford. Hey -ho

I think due to our perilous position we are caught between 2 sticks. He obviously has ability, the games where he started he looked useful. Had he arrived in August we would have seen more of him as I think that he is one of those players who needs to play regularly to maintain his inner momentum, bit like Maya when he was in and out of defence. Maya would kick a ball after 5 games out and disappear in a cloud of rust dust, given a run of games and he was much more of the international defender he still is. Alas I don't think "tall Paul" is one of those to bring off the bench in the second half as he is possibly one of those players who doesn't read the game well from the bench and is unable to pick up the match thread when cast into the fray on 70 minutes, at 28 you might struggle to train that into him, and the premier league pace gives you little chance to learn on the job. With our position I am guessing that those in the know can see its a risky throw of the dice to play him more - that said those in the know still send AA out on the pitch to nullify our attack and demonstrate that if the goal was as big as the Chapel Stand and the oppo keeper was a Dwarf, he could still squirt the ball off an obscure part of his boot into the Kingsland.

We hit the post too