John Boy Saint

Errr Adam have you looked at the table lately:D Not being facetious, but it's a bit strange to hear the Match-day 1st team captain make that comment, as I would have thought being a top 4 club is the mission the club is currently on. Or has a little cheeky quip been lost in the one dimensional context of Printed Media to my eyes!

Just sack Roy and be done with it, that way we go to Brazil with no one in charge because no one will want to take up the poison chalice, and the press get their teeth into the only subject matter they can't be brought to task over. Ah well the fact that every one of us are related to monkeys seems to have gotten lost along the way. in addition strange how Ginger haired people openly get the mick taken out of them, and everyone laughs, but no bugger stands up and creates a furore regarding discrimination on their behalf??!!

Nobody is likely to know as now the programme is the size of The Times World Atlas even those who bought it out of habit for Donkeys decades have turned their back on it this year. However you would have thought if it has been taken and produced this year there would have been a few copies for a quid or two in the shop.

Quite a surreal feeling about this game, there is no pressure on us as we are just little Southampton next in the Cannon Fodder line at Old Trafford. To Football pundits and Man U fans we are a nailed on 3 points so the boys just need to go up there and relax as there is nothing to lose. However a Ron Davies'esk 4 goal haul from the strikers would be a bit nice............... About the right length of time has elapsed for a Hollywood remake of an old Classic.

That's it "oh bloody hell Woy got the job done and we are off to Rio without too much fuss in the end". "Right boys get the long knives out Woys a success let's run him through for daring to spoil all our headlines for the next few weeks". if him using that story is being used to class Roy being racist and the ducking stools come out of retirement, then we might as well pack up our tents get on the first boat out of here and leave the keys to the country to anyone willing to poke up with such an increasing PC Dictator lead Banana republic.

Quite a clever piece. No point in getting too upset at such flattery from the media, we are just a new attraction at the Zoo! It's mid October and the last 2 Prem champions are not in the top 4 yet, which is a novelty in itself. Instead there is a tidy little South Coast team sucking up the rarefied atmosphere and enjoying the view perched 88 places above the bottom of the football league. Most Saints fans know the drill post Christmas our part of the pole gets a bit greasy in places, but until then just enjoy life in the sunshine just above the clouds near the summit of the "football pyramid".

He certainly gets some whip on that ball!!

Hmmm Saints tinted spectacles here: he had the chance to accelerate further away from the WBA player, instead he pulled on the handbrake to make sure he was close enough carry out the deed.

Hang on while I pour myself a drink and recline in a comfy chair, before watching this one go off!!

Cheapskate!! it's Bobbins to go over it, just think of the cost v the total length of great free motorway you have travelled on in getting there There is a bit a good few miles before the Bridge on the A75 where I discovered an optical illusion a few years back, having been cracking along 22ft of Caravan in tow I had loaded well and everything was steady as a rock perfectly balanced. I was giving it some across the flat bits for the ascents looming ahead, on one such descent I spotted where the road was flat and upped my speed for the steep ascent just watching the road I felt a twitch through the seat at the base of my spine (you can always feel what's going on behind you there) no wind, no cars, looked at the speedo and the needle was just passing 90mph!! Cold sweat! Instant thought was don't move anything but your accelerator foot. Looking in the mirror I realised that I was still going downhill even though it looked flat: I went up the ascent very nicely, not having to change gear. Certainly had the effect of a triple Espresso for the next couple of hours!!

He played at right back away to Stoke last December and did a great job. His natural position is where Fonte has put down roots this season.

4 of us did a whole bag of them on Saturday at Half Time, waving the bag around with gay abandon, we were right off our faces when Osvaldo slotted the first!!

What you can't take knickers into the ground!! Blimey better take a closer look at the regulations. What about Conkers, seeing that its Autumn!

OH POO!! I was so looking forward to seeing the Parading of Shamed Mirrorcarp shackled and dishevelled in the back of the town Gaol horse drawn cart through the streets of Southampton, being pelted with rotting Cabbages and the like by grubby street Urchins and toothless Hags on his way to a public flogging beneath the Bargate. Ah well maybe next week when someone else has committed naughtiness at SMS!

Blimey your English is better than some who post on here: and for them its their Mother tongue!! If Rickie can do it why not Jose. My only concern is that he is the Claus in the Claus and Killer partnership that did so well for us in the past, so while he has kept a Japanese first choice centre back out of the team so far this season how much is that down to the presence of Lovren being, to my mind, the dominant part of the pairing: just as Yoshida was last year whilst playing on his wrong side.

JWP could very easily as he fits all the criteria of required squad make up: English and home grown. If Henderson went to Liverpool for £18m (and is nowhere near worth that pricetag) and he met that English home grown criteria, then JWP for £12m highly possible even more once he starts rattling them in to the onion bag.

At the moment I see no motivation in him, 22 years old a reputed £60K per week £3m per year for training most of the week then sitting on your bum every Saturday afternoon easy life. You would think that getting overlooked by the manager who has opted for a £750K player and an 18 year old academy product over you in the starting line up would spark some fire in the belly but obviously not. Tadanari Lee seems to have gotten fired up and back in the Managers thoughts (obviously the Japanese national team is already on the plane to Brazil, so that helps). What baffles me is so many on here are still holding a candle for Gaston (and I will no doubt get a kicking off some). The bloke cost £12m which is not a shabby amount of money, he has been here 12 months and in all honesty has been pretty disappointing and heading towards a file near to Augustin Delgardo. If he had cost as much as Steve de Ridder we would not have seen a trace of him over the past 6 league games.

Like you Whitey I, as discussed on another thread, have been down the same road as you The Viaduct d'Garabit is very impressive when you factor in the year it was built then the height and length, then a good few miles down the road the Millau Viaduct from the first moment you see it is hypnotic, must have been over it 20 times at least and everytime the Camera comes out. As an aside I find the Escalier just down the road, when the Motorway plunges a couple of Thousand feet in a very short distance fascinating too as that is also a feat of road building simply because its 4-5 lanes of motorway.

I have bought a programme from probably every Saints game I have been to in person home and away since 1978, this season I have just bought the first home one and quickly established that the size, like has been said already, is totally impractical to tuck away in a pocket, the rain at West Ham just made the decision easier, yesterday I looked then just thought of the faffing about it would create and walked on. If I was sitting in the Itchen soft seats I am sure it looks very nice on the tables, shame really that someone decided to be clever throw a decades old universally accepted size in the bin to turn it into a Cup Final size magazine.

Think that might not be so easy as the Ticket Office will no doubt press the least helpful easy option button on the system. Amazing really with all this CCTV they have spotted a cheeky swig nailed the user and not the supplier (someone else probably grassed on that report naughtiness text number) yet a few years ago that Man Utd supporter lights a flare waves it about then throws it on the pitch in full view of national TV and a lot of coppers but 6 months later the Old Bill were asking folks to identify the flare owner!!

That looks to be a tidy haul. In the same way you make Sloe Gin you can make Blackberry Brandy, obviously with Brandy rather than Gin . Daily Mail had a Jam making booklet last weekend there was what looked like a very nice easy Spiced Apple Jelly recipe in there. And finally....... Although not foraged, apart from within the hordes of rabid French shoppers in Auchan, I got some stunning Black Cherrys (how they made it to their intended destination goodness knows, they were so nice) right now they are infusing merrily a jar filled to the brim with Brandy!! I had a Jar Seal problem after a month and whilst changing it sneaked a Cherry off the top, Wow! By Christmas they will be Superb!! Hic!!!

Thats Lawro having a word with the editor just to get his own back on us for making his life a misery

What amazed me was he gave Steven Davis a yellow for a mere shirt pull on the half way line early on. then a couple of Palarse players just wiped out a Saints player without receiving a word in their ear: the only other thing could be he gave the ref a good bit of Norn Iron verbal for giving such a soft foul.

I think that took him by surprise, as he promptly lumped it into touch straight after! He certainly is a presence between the sticks!!

As the blokes sat behind us said in amongst the match long whittering: that's 25% of safety in the bag. Under Adkins we seemed to let other teams run around getting excited for 20 minutes then we would just turn up the gas. This season we seem to have a pattern of almost warming up for the first 45 minutes, then come out of the traps in the second half. Picking a man of he match is very hard. An easy day at the office. Pleasant weather too for the end of September.