John Boy Saint

.....................It's was halfway through the next week!!! And the Ref still tried to give them till Friday to nail the winner!!

You are just kidding to make a point here......................................... Aren't you?!?!

17th position in the Premiership 1 point above the dotted line, and you are soon to move into a 54,000 seater stadium. Championship football is the last thing Gold Sullivan and Brady want or can afford. They have a £17m Pit Pony, who's hold up play is the kingpin to BFS's style of play, and he is laid up lame in the stable. Rickie is the obvious target in that Kevin Davies at Bolton role, big, hard gets stuck in, holds the ball up well sets up other team mates, a perfect fit in the Rufty Tufty West Ham style, and now he has a bit of finesse added in. They would have have to lay down some pretty serious money before NC would consider coming to the negotiating table, and that for a 30 something will show how desperate West Ham are to stay in amongst the riches of the Premiership. Still another story built on assumptions with a place in the England squad to Brazil underpinning it.

I think he became damaged goods when he flitted from Skatesmouth to Blackpool? then Blackburn in about 3 weeks

Watching Spurs this afternoon v Liverpool and they don't seem to like it up them!

Try and give it a run to get it up to temperature, friends bought a car in a hurry, the seller had wiped the mayonnaise off the oil filler cap so it looked good. 20 minutes down the road after buying white smoke out the back, Head Gasket shot! Judder when pulling away and sometimes between gears, normally points to clutch wear.

Blimey Greavsie's saying "It's a funny old game" still holds true today. Barking mad!

Keeps the points tally ticking along. Sounded a feisty at the end on the bench.

Merson almost off his chair in fits of laughter at the ref getting knocked on his backside

Obviously Gazza blinded Remy with psychology, act the goat Remy slots it 5 yards wide

And Fulham have a neutral stand in an effort to swell the gate with "passers by". West Ham sang "your grounds too big for you" this season at SMS if ever a song was going to come back and haunt fans then that was it. They all live in the shadow of Chelsea, Arsenal, and to a slightly lesser extent Spurs, QPR are going to have to achieve something special consistently to fill a 40,000 stadium with more glamorous teams in the same town. I have cousins who are Bury season ticket holders, one of them was part of the fans trust that saved them from going pop a few years ago, they always said that if you look at the attendances at all the other clubs around Manchester they rarely reach capacity simply because United especially suck football fans in like a Hoover locally (despite Football folklore) so the lesser the team the bigger the struggle to get folks through the turnstile. So strong is their influence that when the protest team FC United of Manchester got up and running they shared Bury's Gigg Lane for home games and attendances were on a par with Burys home gates. Someone must have done the maths at QPR before deciding on a 40,000 seat stadium though.

Set themselves up as Solicitors! ​(don't worry Colin it only took 2 days for someone to take the bait)

The Burnley Chairman was 50% right in his summation of their fellow relegation sufferers (although Hull being sold could be considered as being 100% right)

Just managed to get through to the ticket office to get tickets for my 2 daughters for Chelsea on New Years Day, straight away the chap said we only have singles then took ages to find 2 seats in the same block on the same row. New Years Day at a sensible time will always be popular especially with only one game at home over Christmas then factor in kids like mine being away at Uni and working weekends having chance to get to a game, still pretty good to be selling games so well so far in advance, even if it is a glamour club for the JCLs to get moist about.

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!!!????!!!".