John Boy Saint

Only spent a few years working round there and using the rat runs before they closed them off, it's a bit of and easier turd to polish than the Isle of a Dogs down to Silvertown in Docklands but they managed to make a fair fist of that. The plans involve the HS2 running through there with a station in 2028 (yeah right add 10 at least to that). It's Virgin brown field real estate, if they don't sort the roads first, especially the A40, going to Wembley to see Saints in the FA Cup and CL final yet again will be a pain in the backside.

read all the guff surrounding the area which it is being built on and apparently it's going to be another Canary Wharf but a bit closer to being "up West".

Nice one. always a bugger copying and pasting your posts from excel when you have deleted columns!! :-)

Lawrie Mac commented in his Dairy of a Season that he would always take players he wanted to sign out for a little drive through the Forest and some of the pretty villages around Southampton before heading to the Dell for a chit chat. i think quite a few players and managers who have been at Southampton have returned and made their homes in the area.

But this and the HCDAJFU threads need hijacking as some of the Pit-ponies folks still come up with quite amazing, I am surprised Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles haven't been mentioned let alone signed for us yet. (I bet someone reading this will google both of them!!).

Seem to have a canny knack of getting penalties for hand balls, this season, that are waved away in just about every other game too.

Anyone notice Guzans Banana long ball to Abonglahor or Benteke for Villa, what a weapon! if their first goal v us came from one of those kick outs (sorry I can't recall) no wonder Yoshida was foxed.

Very good.

We had 2 on Saturday leaving at 88 minutes, fair enough crouching down, then the stupid Saints players move into the City box and the pair of them stop in front of 5'2" Mrs JBS and my mate and make to stand up in front of them to watch the action!!! if you have to go, go but don't let the door bang on your ar$e on the way out!!!

We have the delights of revolving seats behind and to one side of us so we have gotten use to pearls of wisdom from a different perspective every home game. On Saturday the bloke behind me withered on everytime the ball came into our box "come on goalie you should have been out to that!" every single time the ball came a millimetre into the box, thank god they changed ends at Half time. A regular in front brings his daughter and I don't think she has actually seen 20 minutes of live football in her whole life as her face is permanently down playing a game on her phone! A great one a few weeks back when we were in energy conservation mode second half v Fulham, from a few rows back you heard "Oh do shut up moaning, we're bloody winning!!!". An Oldie Walsall last game of the season a couple of years back, 3 20 something's in the Chapel sat behind us were on a day trip from the Northam, they must have loved not having one of them in amongst the massive that afternoon because all we got was verbal diarrhoea . " Oooo we can still stand up down here............. Oooooo games starting better sit down before being told off.................... I wonder if we can sing? .............. Oooooo they do sing down here.................. That's where we sit, bet Smudger is down there............... Much prefer the view from that end of the ground.................. I wonder if the queue for beer is shorter at this end..................... Its quite nice here but I like it down there......................................... 15 minutes of drivel like Japanese water torture!! Until I stated that if it was so bloody great down that end of the ground why aren't you sat in it?, "we couldn't get a ticket" , well you should have got one sooner "I wasn't able tooooooo" Ooops the Northam Uber fan had let himself and those he professed to represent down. Not a peep from either of them after that until 40 minutes on the clock "Wee-Wee time!" all 3 got up and vanished never to be seen until 55 mins when they were quieter than everyone else in the Chapel!! 80 minutes "let's see about trying to get up the other end and get on the pitch at the final whistle!" And up they got and vanished, probably back to the mystical land at the other end of the ground where the people look to be much smaller!!

Believe me Dani, the only way we are going to win the Christmas Party Karaoke competition with that bloody BeeGees song you chose for us is if you wear your Armani's riiiighhtttt uuuupppp HEEerre!! Ritchie Barker under his breath: "Why does everyone in this room look related? And I could swear McInnes only held up one hand to illustrate the Clubs 6 point plan!!!????!!!".

Interestingly they couldn't get hold of Swansea last week, so if we are as disciplined as we were against Man City for the final 75 minutes, and Osvaldo is looking to have a bit more sunshine blown up his Jacksy (and another wedgie from Jose) we could be in with a shout.

Still would be funny to sneak up on the rails and nick it.

Danny Mills summed it up "if Lallana's goal was scored by an Oscar or another foreign player we would gave been........"

Should be a good game Sean Dyche, one of footballs least glamourous hard working managers, certainly has Burnley going well.

I was very impressed with him up at Sunderland, I quite fancy the idea of him being eased into the team in the latter stages as SD understudy, take off a Jack Russell of a midfielder and replace him with another Jack Russell except this one is on Speed and wired into the mains! His brief cameo showed he has no fear against " the bigger boys" and his little burst of acceleration he showed yesterday had folks sat around me getting a bit excited.

I have to say that was the one thing that I took from the Sunderland Cup Game, that night the bulk of the team was the "second string" but the one thing you could see was that the players could slot into the first team and match rust aside would take up the slack left by the first choice player in that position being out. Many of us must have walked into SMS yesterday, knowing the state of the team, with the acceptance that it might be a tricky afternoon, and walked home with a spring in our step after normal Saints service resumed from about 15mins in. You can't argue with that season ticket comment in the Mail on Sunday

First time I had seen him was in Spain pre season and he looked competent albeit against a little team, I also had Jos sat behind me really heaping praise on him. Then first game of the season v WBA him and JWP worked really well together he certainly isn't shy in getting up the line and has some pace. Overall it's good to have a competent back up for Clyne.

Jose knows exactly what he's doing, the effort of a major wedgie is clear as day on his face!

Today he epitomised what you want in a Saints player, pull on the shirt and take their chance with aplomb, and create a nice headache for the Manager.

My turn to play Turkish .............. Explain

Really!??

Much maligned manager by the ignorant.

We will be going up the Ar$e or to the Totts: "everybody peeps"

Well that's a bit of a bugger, I was really looking forward to the rumble in the Jungle of Big Vic v Toure. 3 Weetabix for Breakfast Jack!!!