John Boy Saint

Mines not on the pitch. Sat in the stand 1st pre season game in Palafrugell, Jos, Maya, and Mayuka sat behind us, Jos is in a chatty mood. Then my mate asks "where are you guys staying" to which Jos answers "f**k knows, ish in der middle of bloody nowhere!" "All I know is I get on the bus, when it schtops I get off!". "Does that include traffic lights?" says I which has the other 2 laughing and me getting a Paddington stare off Jos.

I can't believe the Bellends giving Ramirez a performance score in the posts you really need to take a chuffin big look in the mirror at yourselves!! Aside from being bloody hopeless (yes worse than Jos): THE FACT HE WALKED OFF THE PITCH AND STRAIGHT DOWN THE TUNNEL WHILST WE WERE STILL PLAYING!! LEAVING US WITH 10 MEN ON THE PITCH, BEFORE THE GAME STOPPED AND THE BOARD WAS SHOWN REPLACING HIM WITH ADAM, THAT IS UNFORGIVABLE AND THE ONLY SCORE WORTHY OF GIVING HIM IS A BLOODY GOOD KICK UP THE BACKSIDE. Just get shot of him: as useful as a one legged man in an aR$e kicking competition applies. Apart from that quite an enjoyable game Burnley are no mugs and big Sean obviously told them to have a proper go second half which made it entertaining. Nathaniel certainly lit the blue touch paper with his goal.

Probably only take a thimble full to achieve that, the tight fitness regime they have been on this season.

Nope we qualify for the spiteful "don't be so bloody insolent with your stupid appeal just for that we will increase the ban to 6 games" Double Whammy extra bonus............................... probably more so now we have stuck our stick in the referees hornets nest with Battenburg!!

Or Just give us the even more sH1ttier end of the stick for daring to question the moral standing of one of their own!

Well fancy that!! Hardly surprising when you have Refs like Peter Walton being allowed to continue refereeing as long as they did what hope is there, just remember the penalty he gave to us v Brighton when Jose was fouled just by the Bargate: 2-3 weeks later he was in charge of a Premiership game! Just sums up what most of us have felt for years................... And Mike Riley at the top of the pile, not a chance of getting anything.

Which is what I said on the Captaincy thread the other day, Adam didn't have the armband on which is why he got booked for giving Battenburg a bit of chirp as he has gotten so use to the Armband being on and the level of protection it offers in being able to talk to the referee as Captain. Adam rightly goes off on one but Clattenburg just sees him as a general foot soldier so books him for possibly being over confident in his argument. If you watched John Terry on Wednesday he was part of nearly every conversation the ref had with a Chelsea player, Adam has done the same this season. Kelvin maybe the Club Captain but in these days of refs being "sponsored by Clinton's" you really do need an outfield player to challenge and talk to the ref as Captain in this case Kelvin couldn't do that from the other end of the ground. And that is what will be used to sweep this under the carpet with.

Old Mother Riley overseeing this controversy, hang on while a big enough edge of carpet is loosened to sweep it under.

Trouble is if we applied that kind of nicey nicey thought process to everyone who walked through the door, who couldn't be aR$ed to get himself into a position to be considered for a first team berth we would be very quickly be looking forward to a trip to Nottarf Krap every season. 18 months is a bloody long time for it not to click, and there are a bunch of nippers in the academy who will not give 2 hoots about trampling over Gaston to get to the promised land.

Hello Neil's being a damp squib!!

:lol: sorry roger couldn't resist............................ Think Bazza was underestimating his value: should be at least £2500.43 a Conker, half a chewed toffee, and a picture card of Bobby Charlton!

Those mooring posts on the Pavement down Northam road will be getting some use at last then!

But that was only when the Ice Caps melt and Southampton becomes Atlantis!!

Looks like we will be playing the Subs then. hat, coat, door not banging on my aR$e!!

Really?, in the last 2 games he has gone after balls punted out to the wing and got them when just about everyone including players on the pitch thought were a lost cause. V Spurs he had Danny Rose, who is no slouch, blowing a few times when being shown a clean pair of heels by Callum.

The other thing could be that Cork invariably passes safely sideways more often than forwards.

probably not Cork who can't be trusted but the referees, when a yellow was handed out for Ashley Cole kicking his own ankles and going down in "pain" with the amount of laying about on the wet grass Chelsea players did at the merest of contact and the ref buying it why risk the chance of losing a key mid fielder to a nothing second yellow.

Anyone hear if the Lass said yes to the Lads marriage proposal on the big screen at half time? The chant of "you don't know what your doing" was quite amusing from the crowd.

We all know Christmas is a bit of a pain for players with less recovery time between games, as a commentator said the other day in, I think it was the Man City game, that City had a glittering array of individual talent whereas Saints had glittering talent as a unit. We all know that our style of play takes a lot of effort and aside from Chelsea changing to game with a double substitution, our own work ethic just bit us on the backside yesterday. As others have said we looked tired, certain key players looked tired which going back to Saints sparkling as one, then with parts of the unit stuttering the whole was going to get wobbly against a team like Chelsea. Finally Gaston Ramirez really needs to step up to the plate, he has been here 18months now and despite lots of people on here fawning and going all Doe eyed at the mere mention of his name, if he didn't have the price tag to hide behind he would be getting a slagging like that seen handed out to Jermaine Wright and Telfer in the past For a bloke who should be the freshest on the pitch yesterday he spent far too much time as a passenger, losing the ball too easily too often, and showing no peripheral vision. It's a shame really as we obviously saw a very talented player when we went all round the houses to buy him.

The state of the tide is the overriding influence, the only game we have lost to rain was the Palace game and that was down to a high spring tide not allowing the surface water drains to run off into the Itchen / Solent.

Kiss my arse says ****ed of Old Basing! No worries Nicky I'll take it from here mate!!

Well I thought that was quite amusing easy viewing!

I think Roger is getting a bit protective of Matty: Roger mate, no-one is knocking Matty.

As the thread title Says Worthington, Razor! Peanuthead, Fashanu. or +1 at 6pm........... If you ain't started drinking yet.

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