John Boy Saint

£3b or even £1.5b shared with her Sister is an awful lot of money and it snowballs faster than most folks can spend it at that level. What's to say the world of engineering just isn't her bag so if that has vanished maybe a Footie team might be a bit of a giggle stick a decent person at the helm and chip off a bit of excess with the bank account.

You are joking?!

might be a bit risky to get from your office at the top of the Burj Khalifa to the smoking shed and back up again yo your computer!!

Where are the Covering details and prospectus available from to back up the thread title................................. Anyone got a link?

The bottom line is nobody outside the upper echelons knows anything, everything is pure speculation based on summation or assumption and the petrol is being poured onto this by the media who until this season wouldn't give us the time of day. The sooner folks get that into their heads the better, and stop all the drivel being spouted based on knowledge totalling the sum total of bugger all.

You could stick this post onto just about every thread on today's main topic of conversation as the vast percentage are doing just that.

Nice Choice. One Step Beyond - Madness has nowt to do with it.

This is just like "Strachan to be announced as Leeds manager tomorrow" headlines that screamed out at us Saints fans a few years ago. Bugger all is going on in the transfer window and suddenly the once Nasty Nic resigning from "Troubled Southampton" has instantly provided Manna from Heaven for all the lazy bored hacks. Cortese has gone and so has the money as he obviously owned the club lock stock and barrel, bucket against the wall time something is bound to stick.

Who is telling us that KL has no interest in Football, what's to say that when her Father took over the club she didn't get interested as previously it was something that was just not on her radar. Being such a chauvinistic environment how much is assumption because she is a girl she wouldn't be interested. Cortese resigned from Mali which is run by KL, maybe she wanted to have more to do with Saints but NiC keep trying to close the door on her. The Chat was that we would not have stripes while NC was in charge, who's to say that the Markus flag has been locked away because of NC and saying the family would be a convenient way to brush it away. Ever since we have been Swiss owned, we have conducted our business in the quiet Swiss manner, which is seen as being secret to the point of sinister. The Swiss know they can piddle up the wall but unlike every other nation don't enter the competition to do it publically. We will probably never know what has gone on to reach the point we are at right now.

Pochettino is obviously going to consider his future he is the most exposed individual, managers are binned at the merest snap of the fingers.

So Cortese has nowt to do with the Liebherrs now then, having left the board of Mali a while ago.

When I left for work this was on page 1 I have now come home to a 21 page. runaway Train. For those of us who don't fancy ploughing through 1030 posts at the time of writing ( which will no doubt have the usual Troll bun fight over a few pages in the middle) Is there any chance of a Saints News summary of today's events for those of us just back in the house. Thank you in Advance. JBS

2nd season Syndrome has always been a factor through the years, Reading did the not being able to cut the mustard last year at first time of asking (which has followed history), West Ham surprisingly you could have seen them consolidate this year, but then their negative style of play that seems fit for a division between the Championship and Premiership looks like they could be the sufferer of second season syndrome. We have pushed on and are learning some lessons, our recent wobble has stuck us on an Island where 8th is closer than 10th. With the resources at our our disposal our journey to the top league seemed pretty easy, so appearing to just be bobbing around is probably seen as being dull after the adventures of previous years. If Ramirez and Osvaldo had made the same impact as quickly as Lovren and Wanyama then we would more than likely be riding a little higher and right in the mix.

I am amazed he didn't spontaneously combust in that first half

If they can pay £30m outright without blinking, tell them to stick £20m on that price and we might consider a discussion.

Luke probably gave the Lino a bit of deserved chirp, because from my seat it did look a bit cheap.

Take the Cynics view

Made no secret of having enjoyed Christmas and New Year with his family this year when speaking on Solent, I think the Vodka line might be spot on and straight out of the freezer too, so long as it isn't Tatra Mountain wedding Vodka: NASA wouldn't touch that stuff. Very good to see him back.

I have to say he looked a bit keener today, maybe someone gave him a bloody good kick up the backside for trotting off the pitch before being subbed last Saturday. Mrs JBS reckons he's carrying a bit of timber. hopefully the potential will be realised at long last.

He was not at his best, how the hell did he not book Anelka (I think) for Scything down Clyne as that was just as bad as Dejan on that little s**t Long, Dejan was rightfully in Webbs ear. Sian Massey had a wobbly few moments second half which was out of character for her, not helped by Webb over ruling her decision on a clear corner for us when she had the better view. There were a few decisions today that would have a cynic thinking the Referees Union has closed ranks where we are concerned following the Clattenberg cobblers.

Old Basing in Ampshoire, a pleasant little Village. It would have been even more pleasant if Oliver Cromwell hadn't laid siege to the place then smashed it up before moving on: bloody Oik!! Come On You Cavaliers!!

Some folks must be going as there is a queue online round to the Kingsland-Northam corner!

In light of what was going on in the Duggan case they were possibly told to only shoot them in the legs or just wound them. Armed Police in this country are very well trained and regularly assessed marksmen, so even in the heat of the moment they are pretty certain of where exactly the bullet they fire is going to hit. There was a radio piece a few years ago from an American Hospital and they were talking about gun crime and injuries, a Senior nurse said about 2 young gang members who had come in both with gun wounds from horsing around, "one of the boys with tears running down his face said" "Ma'am I didn't think it would hurt this much" Like she said people have got use to seeing Bruce Willis and the like being in films and TV shows being shot and still running 2 blocks to catch the perpetrator, in reality that does not happen: you are shot and injured the shock and pain, even if on Narcotics, will see you unable to move very far if at all.

Man United as well as apparently telling their players that if the fail to reach the Champions League for next season they will get a 25% pay cut, Have made no secret of the fact that they are supposedly sitting on a £100m transfer kitty, we all know the drill Man U are looking at Charlie "just change that 1 at the beginning to a 2" And we aren't going to flag up any targets we may have, when you have situations like Willian having a medical at spurs then getting snaffled up by Chelsea, even Diego Forlan all those years ago flew into London enroute to finalising his move to Middlesborough and was "kidnapped" at the airport my Man United.