John Boy Saint

Seeking absolution for the sins of his parents, who prostituted the footballing ability of their own son by forcing the sale of him to Arsenal. To have come out 2 seasons running to applaud the crowd, makes me think that there is a little voice in his head asking "why did you leave?".

I think the Chambers speed issue is being clouded by the height and subsequently stride length issue creating the illusion of Clyne being "so much faster" there have been a few occasions where the ball has been pinged deep up the right wing (there was one last night) and you have thought "oh dear Chambers isn't getting that" then promptly gets to it and brings it under control. Its a very nice very healthy positional competition, on the other side Luke can blow hot and cold without too much fear of being dropped, whereas with Chambers & Clyne they are 2 different shaped players who are keeping each other on their toes.

Thought he was top drawer tonight, I have to say having seen him really for the first time in Spain pre season how impressed I was at WBA first game of the season didn't look to phased by it all, and since those 2 first viewings whenever I have heard his name read out on the starting team sheet have had no fears for him at all. The guys on the conveyer belt at the academy really have a viable target at this club and one of the best bits is so far everyone of them who have had a chance have taken it with the confidence of much older players.

Thoroughly enjoyed that tonight, most enjoyable to watch and a bloody good shift put in from the boys. Arsenal weren't allowed to play first half did what you expected second half but our equaliser was a real kick in the guts for them. hard to pick a MOTM, Morgan at times wouldn't have looked out of place in an operating theatre he is like a top draw surgeon with the effortless precision he goes about his business. Once again Chambers doesn't look out of place at all. Maya looks like he is getting up to speed knocking off the lack of match rust, a few times in the first half he had already thought what Giroud was going to do before the pass to him was yet to be made. Young Sam, you give that boy match time against seasoned professionals and he will be immense for us, very good full Debut in fact when you look at the money in Yellow shirts cruising round tonight not one of our young nippers looked out of place competing with them. Jose on Solent tonight talking about the team unity was a pretty powerful statement, any Saints fan hearing that can't fail to have felt really good about Saints right now. I now have a month where more than likely I will not be seeing Saints play in person thanks to work, so what a great game to keep me going until March.

Very good.

Blimey! Switch the lights back on and we still have Osvaldo!!

Pretty apt place to put this looking at those put out already, doesn't take long to sign. http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/59629

I quite fancied going to Spurs but now it's at one of those fidgety times on day on a Sunday

West Ham trying to loan him, blimey him and Ravel Morrison in the same squad! I know BFS likes his teams to be a bit robust on the pitch them 2 together will make My Little Donkey and Nolan look like a pair of big Jessies! The East End of London will never have been so quiet of an evening since the days of the Krays and Mad Frankie. You do wonder just how much Balliotelli's house would have been left standing if Osvaldo had been round Mario's on the night of the Firework caper.

Stick a couple of theirs up in the air in the first 10 minutes and they will be backing off through fear of missing the League Cup Final, better still do what we should have done in the league match and been right out of sight by half time.

Thanks to work I have no home game to see at St Mary's in Feb!!

Saints v Sunderland away what a pile of shiney whatsit 4 bloody times this season Gus bloody Poyet!!

Saints Number 3 apparently if not mentioned elsewhere

That answers St Patrick then :-)

Job done with the minimum of fuss nicely taken pen from Guly, sweet goal from Sam. Kelvin had his Inspector Gadget extending arms on. But strangeness moment of the match has to be during the squall when the chap sat in the Itchen's hat blew off and landed on the pitch a good 20-30 yards from where he was, the players dodged round it, then the once fat Phil Dowd picked it up took it for a trip round the pitch then when the opportunity arose handed it back to its owner.

Wondered the same at half time when she was out there

Mrs JBS thought he looks a bit like Lambert in his runs positioning and anticipation. Beautifully taken goal.

Very nice Viking. i did just have to step back outside to check the sign above this thread to see that I walked into the Yeovil thread and not the Depressed Saints Fans support group. That said if you live away from Southampton the media reaction to last weeks events was quite something, and being in Barcelona they would without doubt have had more than their tuppence worth in the press, you just had to look on here to see the amount folks with a lump of cement tied to their ankles stood on the parapet of the Itchen Bridge. Cheer up Barcelona. should be a good game today Yeovil can relax without the fear of losing points, so should give it go an keep us on our toes.

What happened to the Citeh rumour of £30m folding all done and dusted no installations cash in a suitcase (£30m ain't going to fit in a briefcase).

Bit of an Anoraks guide to wood I stumbled across, most of it lost in a Woodburner for scent. Alder: Poor in heat and does not last, Apple: Burns slowly and steadily when dry, with little flame, but good heat. The scent is pleasing. Ash: Best burning wood; has both flame and heat, and will burn when green, though naturally not as well as when dry. Beech: A rival to ash, though not a close one, and only fair when green. If it has a fault, it is apt to shoot embers a long way. Birch: The heat is good but it burns quickly. The smell is pleasant. Cedar: Good when dry. Full of crackle and snap. It gives little flame but much heat, and the scent is beautiful. Cherry: Burns slowly, with good heat. Another wood with the advantage of scent. Chestnut: Mediocre. Apt to shoot embers. Small flame and heating power. Douglas Fir: Poor. Little flame or heat. Elder: Mediocre. Very smoky. Quick burner, with not much heat. Elm: Commonly offered for sale. To burn well it needs to be kept for two years. Even then it will smoke. Vary variable fuel. Hazel: Good. Holly: Good, will burn when green, but best when kept a season. Hornbeam: Almost as good as beech. Laburnum: Totally poisonous tree, acrid smoke, taints food and best never used. Larch: Crackly, scented, and fairly good for heat. Laurel: Has brilliant flame. Lime: Poor. Burns with dull flame. Maple: Good. Oak: The novelist's 'blazing fire of oaken logs' is fanciful, Oak is sparse in flame and the smoke is acrid, but dry old oak is excellent for heat, burning slowly and steadily until whole log collapses into cigar-like ash. Pear: A good heat and a good scent. Pine: Burns with a splendid flame, but apt to spit. The resinous Weymouth pine has a lovely scent and a cheerful blue flame. Plane: Burns pleasantly, but is apt to throw sparks if very dry. Plum. Good heat and scent. Plum: Good heat and aromatic. Poplar: Truly awful. Rhododendron: The thick old stems, being very tough, burn well. Robinia (Acacia): Burns slowly, with good heat, but with acrid smoke. Spruce: Burns too quickly and with too many sparks. Sycamore: Burns with a good flame, with moderate heat. Useless green. Thorn: Quite one of the best woods. Burns slowly, with great heat and little smoke. Walnut. Good, so is the scent. Walnut: Good, and so is the scent. Aromatic wood. Willow: Poor. It must be dry to use, and then it burns slowly, with little flame. Apt to spark. Yew: Last but among the best. Burns slowly, with fierce heat, and the scent is pleasant.

We have a Stovax it's a tiddler too as the living room isn't the largest. I can certainly get it going like furnace though. we bought the house Mrs JBS Dad built in 1953 off the estate when he passed away, the Chimney had been closed up and it was rammed full of sticks thanks to the Jackdaws, the company who fitted it said that we didn't need to put a liner up the Chimney stating that they don't normally in the north of the country (bloody relief seeing as we had been quoted north of £700 for that alone!!) the draw is pretty impressive. Getting the size for the room square footage is important, so many of the guys who quoted us said that folks walked into their showrooms and despite advice said "I want that one!" then a few months later were complaining that it was too hot and wanted it changed. The one thing I did get after a visit to a showroom was a magnetic flue thermometer, the lady said stick it on the top of the burner rather than on the flue out of the top of the burner, I get the heat stuck in the middle on the thermometer and everything is spot on glass quite clean too, or very easy to clean. The one thing having a wood burner does make you is a wood Pikey, the chap over the road cut down a small Sycamore I said do you want me to get rid of that for you? Then he says I have a 60ft Ash tree in the back garden I want to take down (hyperventilation and a semi would sum up the moment). I have another mate who had a big Birch come down just before Crimbo put the piccys on Facebook and when he said someone had laid claim to it I was almost in tears. Someone said about a bit of Oak they have and wanted know what to do with it, cut it up and leave it over the summer it should be good as gold for burning next Autumn. We are going to extend the house in the next couple of years and there is another Chimney at the back of the house, so that will be used, and something a little more Wow in the way of Woodburners will be installed. I enjoy my Woodburner, and the biggest satisfaction is getting the flue balance just right, so that I have some embers to work with the following morning to get it going again.

Done have I missed something? The petition closes in a years time!!!??!!

God knows how, both useless with the personas of 2 blokes who have accidentally found themselves playing for reputedly the most famous football team in the world and England as a result, but know that they are going to be found out soon for the Pub team players they actually are. Roy was at the Chelsea game last week and more often than not looked less than impressed at the showing of Ingerlands "finest". If Clyne can get fit and back into the team I can see him sneaking onto the Brazil bound plane.

I wouldn't write him off totally, as the thing to remember is he was late to the professional footballing table having started life at Eastleigh, he hasn't had the education that just about every other player for Saints has had, so that's a disadvantage straight away. Add into this a stop start of games that can't help, just look at Yoshida can't get in the side, when he comes in he looks rusty, give him a couple of games and he is more up to speed. Martin is only 24 and when you see the tune up Lallana has had under Pochettino this season there is nothing to say that with a lowly start to his Football career the guy can't become a late bloomer. But then seeing the amount of folks on here who are all going for their Snipers badge, if he makes the chance for himself even if he scored a Hatrick v Man City it would not be good enough.

Football has grown up a bit since then, most of what he wanted do back then has been super-ceded since then, imagine the furore there would have been about cleaning the hotel rooms and taking their own mattresses, and that's before being wired up to machines at Solent University and being mouth swabbed before training every day. Where would we have been if SCW had succeeded in pushing through what is the norm today, we might have been in the CL already!!