John Boy Saint

Blimey you don't half blow out some hot air, in fact I bet you could start a fight in an empty room. You seem to have read far too much into my opening comment about a disappointing development in one item of hot food that is on offer at the stadium and that basically the club who in a roundabout way own the Catering company Halo would be losing out from mine and others monies as a result. But in your vain attempt to hijack the thread you decide to twist it into a position where you are perfect and no one should question anything you say and I am in a group of fat pigs who likes scoffing pies. So as it is really not sinking in to your head, or is going in and simply just flowing out the otherside as there is nothing to prevent it falling out. The Item in Question was a Pasty which previously was on a par with a Pasty you could buy from most Purveyors of such items, including in the County the Cornwall. This was replaced with a Pasty which was very much removed in quality from that previously sold in previous seasons, and at the same time the price went up. I made it perfectly clear that my eyes were wide open to the environment in which I was buying said product from. I also mentioned that I accepted that I would be paying over the odds for whatever I bought. No where did I mention that it was half time because anyone going down at half time and still expect to see the 90+ minutes of football, I am ACTUALLY there for, is living in cloud cuckoo land, 1st ever game at SMS made that abundantly clear. I also mentioned that for various reasons we get into Southampton at around 1:45 on a normal Saturday Matchday so the concourse was convenient over waiting to be served in a pub. So am I allowed to have something to eat before the match kicks off at 3pm when the last meal I had was breakfast at around 9-9:30am? You have also conveniently assumed that I was buying £11 of food for myself when My wife was mentioned who invariably having been at work that morning from 5:30am also would like something to eat before the game kicks off. And yes a simple little thing like a Perfectly acceptable Pasty at football stadia inflated prices being changed into something very disappointing, on top of being evicted out of our seats, drove me to make comment on an Internet forum where folks with a common interest come on to discuss this and that. That does not make me a "Din". As much as you like to think you are the owner of his website, you really didn't have to make any comment whatsoever about something which is on no interest to you apart from to massaging your own ego and casting assumptions of the physicality of folks who do something you choose not to. I never thought that a post about a pasty would still be going on Tuesday and hit 3 pages!!

I thought that I had seen somewhere that Dean Hammond had his contract paid up by the club.

Who's supposed to be apologising? Never once claimed I wanted Silver Service. And I made myself look a Dinlo, the only stupid thing that I did was post it on a Saturday night.

So Turkish if you have amusingly witnessed the slide of Saints Catering arm, Halo, through Johnny Bognor ranting at you that corners are being cut. Why not share empathy rather than joining the playground bullies in the belittling the subject of this thread? That's more a question for yourself rather than posting a reply on here for all. ANYWAY. This did make me smile on the Food Hygiene rating website: http://www.scoresonthedoors.org.uk/business/halo-catering-southampton-693888.html Confidence in Management.......!

Probably incredulous at the lack of protection that he is now getting from match officials after years of getting away with it at Man U. Despite Jose apologising, O'Shea was still intent on getting the ref to punish Jose.

It has never previously cost £11 to buy something for me and my Wife before the match (as it appears that some folks think I was eating it all myself) it has been under a tenner, the disappointment of the product now sold compared to the previously acceptable product emphasised the point of the cost. And like I said in the opening post having a degree of disposable income I have accepted that in a football stadium environment I will pay a premium for generally substandard fare. The previously sold Pasty stood above the other hot "foodstuffs" on offer. I won't be so lazy from now on and like you take my own lunch in future. This thread would have been so very different if it had been about the beer being changed from Stella Artois to Carling and the price being put up.

A rather bizarre bit in the Programme entitled "Catching up with Jos Hooiveld" on a page facing the Junior Saints section. Jos answers some rather inert questions, the last one asks: Would you prefer to fight a Duck Sized Horse or a Horse Sized Duck?? His reply "Duck Sized Horse, can't kick me in the nuts".

My heads in the Lions mouth already tonight: so cobblers to it.............. Too big! Perfect for sitting in the padded seats in the Itchen but crap for everyone else especially those of us who use to eat the splendid Pasties they use to sell at St Mary's!!

Shouldn't he really be on the late shift with Manish?

Obvoiusly my opening comment is attracting some smart mouthed comments to great mirth. Maybe a Matchday habit being cheapened was the stupid little thing that just touched a nerve with a group of people who have sat together in the same seats for 10 years only for this summer when they came to renew their season tickets find that they have been evicted from those seats with no warning, communication or apology for the inconvenience from the club: and along with it the breaking up of long established matchday friendships.

The Pasty was pretty disappointing. Your earlier response was a bit tiresome and a poorly aimed shot at something that obviously has no real interest to you, but as usual you hear the clip clop of goat hooves on the bridge above your head and out you pop!!

You live in such a perfect world, if this thread is so inconsequential to you why bother to comment with such banal rubbish, aside from massaging your uber fan ego by keeping up your internet forum post count up. Just resist the urge and move on. Stadium catering is part of the package presented by the football club, whilst I was stuffing my "fat face" no football was being played so my viewing of football was no effected, my getting my face in the trough happens before the game kicks off. Living out of the city the concourse catering has been convenient as other factors see us get to the stadium around 1:45pm on a normal matchday. Having disposable income we have lived with the expense of what was a pretty good Pasty and a drink. All football clubs will squeeze their fans as much as they can, but when, in this instance, they de-spec something to the point of highlighting how far they are pulling your trousers down then that is not sound business.

A few folks I was with today were pretty disappointed with the demise of Crantocks Traditional Cornish Pasties from the bill of fair of the stadium catering instead they have replaced them with Pukka Pies super cheapo, by comparison, offering over the past few seasons the Pasty has become a Matchday regular. Well as of today it looks like we will be probably just be putting our hands in our pockets for a beer. Previously we have just rolled with the prices as the environment we are in you expect to pay through the nose. However when a Hot Dog a very disappointing Pasty and 2 bottles of water came to £11 the crap Pasty alone brought that into focus. Shame really just to save a few pennies the club has lost £40 at least through their tills for the next 18 home matches!

I would compare him to Paul Telfer, as an honest professional in the Roadsweeper role of the Lawrie McMenemy blueprint of a good football team where the Violinists are nothing without them. Danny was a positive influence in our rise back to the top, I am sure he will have a positive influence on Carlisle. In these days of mercenary footballers it's always refreshing to see a player who just wants to play for playings sake. Good luck Danny and thank you.

That shows in what he had done to his Rolls Royce, Blacked out windows, that Stealth Matt Black paintwork, matching black rims and to top it off 1980s'esk Bright red rim protectors. Regardless of the obscene cost there must have been grown men crying their eyes out in Goodwood as that meandered past them. Stick a car like that in everyone's faces, then put in a very lukewarm performance like he did on Saturday, you have to wonder where's his motivation. That said no ill will wished on him.

I Bagsy Noughts!! Having been evicted I can't work out if this season I will have an S A or Hash under my backside!!

............................ Or Jonno Quick!!! (or have I missed the point and gone back to League 1?). I like it up here, playing now and again. Having weekends to do other stuff, not having to rush home midweek for a game. Getting that less frequent fix of Football makes matchdays even more exciting.

Looks like we dodged a bullet there, I know playing back up at Man U would often be the case for a nipper (Master Shaw take note). But here is another story of a money grabbing parent cashing in on their gifted child way too early, instead of letting them mature a little more for a far better return......... Unless of course they might have known he was average and cashed in before the bubble they found themselves in burst.

Just watching Arsenal playing Fenebache in Turkey, when ever you watch football in Turkey the volume from the crowd sounds ear piecing loud (as I type they are just having a breather). Has anyone ever been or would like to go if Saints hit the heady heights of European footy and draw a side our there, just to experience the atmosphere.

What part of not being poor anymore and needy do the press not understand? But then we have a raft of folks even on here who still think that we are still under the same monetary hardships we were before the dark clouds of Administration descended upon us. I would imagine that the battle lines for players of this calibre are already drawn up, and like has been said above anyone getting to the negotiating table is going to made to touch their toes.

I thought the chat when aap3 were announced was that the club wanted to promote a local business and that the income from shirt sponsorship was not top priority.

Sorry I can account for 2 off the Wigan fixture, we had to go to a family Wedding in Wales which conveniently put us in the right area for inspecting Student Accom for our Daughter.................. oh hang on a minute we have season tickets so we were there: carry on.

As has already been said, a long ball does not have to be a hot potato HOOOOF up field, WBA were working JWP and young Callum most of the time, while Luke Shaw was reading Tolstoy out on the left wing Jose spotted this and when Luke had finished another chapter Jose would send over a Hollywood ball to stop him feeling left out.

Here we go: most apt where living anywhere else is concerned http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10tee6Eff34

They had Ringwood Brewery Bitter on tap as the guest ale on the away concourse at the AMEX season before last.