John Boy Saint

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.

"Yes I am sure there is a £50 note on the floor, but if you think I am going bend down and pick it up just so that you can kick my backside!".

He is a bit of a MkII Richard Chaplow, very busy on the pitch without a twist of headless chicken, willing to have a shot on goal, has a more mature intelligent head for the game. Absolute bargain at £750k very nice gesture payment to Rangers as they were gurgling down the drain.

Don't the visiting team have to be consulted on pricing for these cup games by the host club Saints could have said £12 tickets and kids a Quid to fill the ground, but Bristol City might have said no way. Wasn't it Shrewsbury a couple of seasons ago who had ideas of Grandeur and greed wanting us to charge normal prices but came to an agreement on Lower sensible pricing.

Rickie looks well impressed

Sublime, Llafranc always attracts the rich Barcelonans year round so is very civilised, the last 2 years we have been there at the beginning of July and even that is is very civilised we have been on the small beach there with plenty of space to spread out. We know folks who have been going for over 30 years, it is definitely not "kiss me quick" as you know, just very relaxed. Blimey just realised my first trip there was in 1988 so despite a few years away I am not far off that clubs membership!! Without doubt it is a Marmite destination if you want fast living head south if you just want to unwind from a year of hard graft head here.

Hmmmmm if you like Russians and the price hikes they bring to the restaurants etc, and the largest offering of Puta's I have seen on the Costa Brava. Plus you really need the money pit that is a boat up there. I could happily live on the hill in Llafranc, but with prices €1m + for the nicer small places my 2 wheeled Villa will suffice. if you have done Mas "Paxo" you must have been down to the Dutch magnet that is Chicken & Chips (or Can Padres) on the roundabout to Pals beach? I had to go to La Bisbal this year with work, pretty weird driving down through a town when you are suited and booted then a month later going thru the same town 680 crow miles from home on your holibobs!!

Kim's in Llafranc. Don't you go towards Pals?

Bricks and Mortar abroad always have an appeal until the operating costs that everyone I know, who has taken the plunge, talks about!!. Being brought up on camping holidays as a nipper I seemed to have continued the family trait, to the point where our Spanish Villa has 2 wheels and is kept in storage on the Med coast near where Saints played pre season this summer in Palafrugell We bought a little Caravan here for £750 did a fair amount of work on it ourselves then drove it south. It costs us €200 a year for storage, that includes a wash, towing to the campsite of our choice, and collection at the end of the holiday and returned into storage, the climate is such down there that we should get many years out of it and right now, due to the use we have had, it really doesnt owe us anything. This year our Campsite fee for 3 weeks in July came to just over £600, we can fly from Bournemouth to Girona an hour away, but prefer to drive which is 3 tanks of diesel total. We know that we can go and stay from March until October if we wish, but when we leave after our holidays we know that we can go anywhere we want in the world without feeling obliged to return to our "Villa". If you have no desire to go Camping what we do would probably leave you cold, all I can say is we have a great time and most evenings normally involves spontaneous evenings drinking and chatting with the neighbours from all over Europe.

Had he lost the rest of the present??!!

Blimey when did a match Fred last stumble along to just over a page and a half after 90 minutes??!!

The first too by all accounts!!!

I am surprised more wasn't made of that save as it was almost an exact copy of Banks save, the ball was 99.9999% going in and somehow Boruc got a hand to it. Blayneys was very good, I thought it was Smith with the double save against Arsenal, and my Favourite from Niemi was on his debut when Charlton had a free kick and Jensen (I think) was on hot form for them from a dead ball, he let rip and the ball was going for the very top left corner like a missile and Niemi switched on his jet boots and flew like Superman to tip it round.