John Boy Saint

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!!

Funny reading the odd comment knocking him, obviously MP and his team obviously haven't a clue by playing him despite him being too cumbersome, poor in the air, rubbish crossing the ball. Yet strange that so much expensive traffic from the opposition comes down our left. I have no problem with him on the pitch and if Chris Baird managed to slide into the middle with outstanding success, and against Championship monsters up front, what's to stop young Callum at some stage doing the same.

Its in the Echo so must be true that there is nothing to see here! However in other news just to soften the blow for so many disappointed souls this was at the bottom of the Echo piece http://www.givemesport.com/390816-serbian-lineswoman-goes-viral-for-running-line That will be in the Sun, Star, and Mirror tomorrow if not online this afternoon if the Lazy Hacks have been scanning here for titbits as another quiet transfer window day bumbles by.

Wow we must really have sinned against the Footballing Gods................ Relatives are Chelsea ST holders and despite their sometimes arrogant Special One'esk attitude not even they would wish that on us!!

Just watched that on +1 the old Wedding Vegetables have just returned to normal and my toes have fully uncurled! You have to have crossed wiring between the ears to do that. His Mother must jump out of her skin everytime the phone rings when he is not in the house.

When was the last time a player got 80% of the MOTM vote on here? Well done Jack Cork, he looked surprised when he got the trophy after the game.

Confirmation that the tackle from behind is now allowed just been seen in the Swansea v Spurs game Rose just piled through the back of Routledge under not much control bending him in half backwards ref just gave the throw-in to Swansea. Time to play like Norman Hunter once again!

Just bought a ticket for my Daughter online looked like the Chapel was filling up quite steadily, shame that the F A Cup has lost a bit of its lustre, a few years ago we would have had a pretty decent crowd.

Subs v Sunderland were bob on, being able to replace Gaston and Dejan what stunning insight by M P to keep his powder dry a little bit longer

Blimey that bloke Reid we were linked with in the days of the Twitchy one way back when, who ended up at Spurs is still playing, scored an absolute guided missile for Forest today.

Is this the same Express that has been spouting forth that we will have the hardest coldest Winter since the Ice Age every other week when we had the heat wave in July!

And a very nice Stadium too.

To enter into the silliness of the thread. I was going to say that I would go a Division lower and buy Bury (partly because my cousins have been long suffering lifelong fans) but to take a little team from the darkest part of the shadow cast by Man U and City and the depths of League 2 to Premier League. Might need a year longer but get a decent manager sign some better players than the division become invincible unload players that won't make the next step as their stock will be high having played for such a great emerging team and bring in the next batch for the job, bin the manager as soon as he is reaching the limit of his abilities with the squad for a better model, till finally making it to the promised land and smashing the local big boys home and away to ensure a place in the CL and winning it at the first time of asking: Bury Football Club champions of Europe what a giggle that would be. Otherwise Leyton Orient and getting them to a position where Brisbane Road is far too small for them due to the stunning Football they have been playing and forcing the Mayor of London to evict West Ham from the Olympic stadium because they can't fill it or pay the miserly rent, in a stunning ground swap and within 2 years of moving in put in a planning application to take the capacity from 54,000 to 120,000 due to the length of the season ticket waiting list, when it happens Arsenal and Spurs both have to close large swathes of their ground as Leyton Orient become the big dog of London Football teams. Just as an aside, I was sat in a meeting yesterday when my mobile rang twice then cut off, strange +41 at the beginning?! Not China, India, Spain or Portugal those are easy.......... Googled it: Switzerland!!! Who do I know in Switzerland?? So I guess you guys had better watch this space.........:smug: