John Boy Saint

8-0 was surreal The whole San Siro trip was magical Mane’s Hattrick was - what just happen! 4-0 Arsenal Boxing Day - Crap kick off time, then Martina lit up Christmas! That City game, our little group met up on the Chapel concourse - Bob pipes up “coming down in the car John and I have been talking and we reckon we are getting something tonight” the rest looked at us like we had just escaped the nut house. One of the best moments was Harrison Reed coming on and being all over Aguero like a very nasty rash and Aguero turning to the touch line arms out palms up face just saying “Who is he - and I don’t know what to do about him”

Not sure which thread it was on but there is an piece from the athletic alluding to things not looking rosy behind the scenes, pretty much backed up by JWPs comments on the weekend that standards have slipped and things not being right before the season kicked off.

Stuff that has come out these past few days you can understand why it went tits up last summer trying to get him.

Ah so it was Jenny and Elaine who started the happy clapping of the players after the final whistle to cheer them up, because of those nasty people in the Northam Kingsland corner boo'ed them rather loudly.

They didn't need to be very good. After about 20 minutes, sat in the stadium, you could see that Fulham realised that there was not much to fear and relaxed into a rather pleasant afternoon in the sun by the sea......................our lot didn't have enough about them to see the opposition were coasting through the motions.

That was quite weird at the end - I was talking to the regulars on the end of our row as the booing started in the Northam and rapidly got louder, at the same time the Fulham players in-front of their fans almost as one looked over in disbelief. The wife of the chap I was talking to uttered “there’s no need to boo them” - sorry did I just hear you right? 3 performances out of 18 that you’ve paid to witness, and that shocking performance this afternoon. As I went down the stairs I was obviously in the minority as I was suddenly in a fucking Sealion colony - happy effin clappers feeling sorry for the boys. Bloody worlds gone soft!

After 45 years of going down the Saints - I have no emotion anymore and I will not be renewing.

Pretty sure whilst he isn't pleased he is not playing - at 30 aside from his time in the Chinese Super League when the wages for overseas players were nuts AND tax free, he is probably quite happy feathering his nest a bit more for doing nothing. How many players have we had from little clubs who have been "backed up" by a YouTube show reel from CL league games against bigger fish, and turned out to be a bit Meh! - Poor old Mislav here shredding Spurs, and everyone's favourite Moi giving Citeh a torrid time - who upon his first contract uttered "my signing here has set me up for life". You just get the impression that behind closed doors at SMS in positions of influence the pencils aren't very sharp!

Weird isn't it - we have the match thread from last night evolving into how crap and fickle we home fans are. Then we have this thread about a player who might be lacking in finesse and should, in some folks minds, be locked away on a matchday for all our sakes. Yet the one thing that can't be denied is when Lyanco hits the pitch his sheer enthusiasm and passion causes a buzz in the crowd. In the cold light of day, maybe too many people are playing FIFA whatever on a gaming platform, where there is no programming for the players to have a personality, and random variables -Characters - like Lyanco don't exist in the "meta verse", for want of a better term. You could say looking across our team for the season the whole team is like a computer graphic devoid of characters - but then Lyanco hits the pitch an its like a film where someone from the real world is plunged into the PlayStation box and the world gets scary. I like him - maybe that because I grew up watching characters out on the pitch, there is an air of danger about him, but that is only because he sticks out from 10 (or 21) other increasingly anodyne players. Putting my head in the Lions mouth - he has got better as a player from when he first started playing for us.

Whiney Smudger on Sky agrees

For fucks sake you fucking Donkey!

Hmmmmm - here comes the nutter

Right on cue!

Diabolical

Arse

Nope he is probably right - they would have missed out the Chickens to keep costs down, and when we start grumbling about the omission cite Avian Flu as the excuse. 😳🤪

Not even the usual picked “for the badge on the shirt could get that number up” - underlines how great he isn’t. The bit that sticks in my head from recent games was Palace when Charly pinged a rasper off the post as the ball ricocheted out towards the sideline losing speed as it went, he motioned to go for it then just gave up despite it being very easily getable to ping back 8th the mix. No doubt we will give him a contract next season.

Certainly got a few to bite 🤪 And no doubt a heap more will have jumped on the hook by kick-off 😁

Alas they are losing 1-0 at SMS

Your profile image would be seen as a bloody messiah by comparison at the moment 😳🤪

Hopefully a straight red (not likely the way he ducks out of a challenge) then Selles can’t pick the fucker

Ah well at least the loss was 8 goals better the last time I woke up here in China to a Saints result. Cheers for the observations on here. Just made me think of Merson on soccer Saturday when we beat Chelsea at theirs “Chelsea seem to be a assembled team of very expensive individuals”, Reading on here seems we are the opposite - a team of very cheaply assembled individuals. Hey ho

Had wait 11 hours for the result - 😳

At the airport - and I’ve missed 2 saints goals 😢

Use the beer to wash down a couple of Codeine might help quite a bit.