John Boy Saint

Don't worry Gary Neville will tell Roy to pick him again!

i would imagine that most Saints fans would have woken up this morning feeling like we had won the World cup! Our Rickie picked at last, comes onto the pitch in a game where the term friendly can hardly be used, and shows everyone what all of us Saints fans have been treated to and know he can do. Anyone who has met him knows what a guinely nice chap he is, which makes the moment even more special. For pure emotion of the moment for me, even though he wasn't wearing a Saints shirt, it's up there with Bobby Stokes, and Mattys last goal at the Dell. Cheers Rickie, you put a stupid grin on all our faces yet again!

55,000 fell out of the woodwork for the JPT and still loads missed out. There was a survey someone had done a few years ago across a very wide spectrum of UK people and the upshot was that Saints were the 17th most supported team in the UK. I know that the number of folks surveyed was quite immense. As I type something along the lines of proportional representation seem to spring to mind so the respondents had to put 3 teams down. so maybe I should go to bed and stop my input into this topic.

What a ripper!

If he wasn't at United you wouldn't have heard of him or Cleverley for that matter

Years ago a bloke round the corner use to grow hs own, one afternoon whilst puffing a particularly good vintage and washing it down with Gales HSB, the Jehovah's knocked on his front door when he invited them in they couldn't believe their luck. 4 hours later they were still in there climbing the walls to get out as he asked them endless questions about their faith then reasons for their answers. And all the time they had no idea what he was smoking whilst they all sat in his living room with the doors and windows closed.

Excellent as always: Thank you. I will put my The9 hat on to say: you missed out that The Hawthorns is, at 600 feet above sea level, the highest league ground in the land. Most folks would have thought that it was Oldham, Barnsley, Burnley, or Uddersfield going on the surrounding terrain, or even one of the Scottish clubs.

I think the issue with Cork was one I spotted last season, and probably wasn't alone with it. Whilst Cork worked his socks off and in games, Swansea away springs to mind, he looked like he had been cloned and there were 2 of him on the pitch, it just seemed like when the 18yrd box homed into view it was protected by an invisible Jack Cork force field that made him dither and dally, the crowd would see a gap and scream for him to shoot but invariably he would pass to someone else after a bit of thought, by which time the opposition had organised themselves after having been carved open by our quick attacking play. Morgan by comparison would just steam on. So maybe in Wanyama they have seen a player who coupled with Morgan possibly makes our midfield a bit more of an attacking force on 2 fronts which is in keeping with the style Pochettino likes to play. And going on Saturdays game that looks like the Brazilian ethos of you score 3 we'll score 4 might become a feature of the season.

Looking at that map again I make Arsenal to be in Hells Kitchen which I guess would be about right if you went back to the team in the 70's and Early 80's.

I surprised we haven't had the Clyne at Left back Maya at Right back (thought he had a great game there at Stoke) Jos and Lovren. Jos is fine as long as he doesn't get too clever, he drove Suarez to foul him into substitution at our place last season because the little toad wasn't getting anything off him: not that it did him any good.

What inspired this question was, Friday night I checked my email inbox and there was an email from Ann Summers thanking me for my order!!??!! when I opened it there was the order confirmation for a rather expensive model of Ladies bedroom buddy and sundries, blimey what's going on here is the Mrs getting a bit saucy, then as I saw the delivery address that brief frisson of excitement turned to the possible onset of 20 questions as the intended recipient turned out to have my same first initial and surname and lived in Birmingham an area I frequent with work!! The silly person had entered her email address incorrectly obviously hence me getting her receipt. I am tempted to print off the receipt and post it to her with a warning to be a bit more careful in future: you can imagine the flush of embarrassment on her face!! Has anyone on here received similar strange emails

Stevie Wonder & Ray Charles were also mentioned while you were out of the room!

That's been going on for ages (keep up): on this occasion it's the shout for Luke Donald one of Phil's bezzie mates that no doubt started that.

There are some strange people out there. I bet it is a cracking night in round their house!!

There was a report during USA 94 that American housewives liked soccer compared to American football as they knew what time the game was going to finish and the husband would be home from the Bar.

Bit of a scalp away to Boro too!!

My Missus has a season ticket, footy on the TV she's the first to tuned it over. And to be honest she spots most of the donkeys playing for us long before most on here or the Manager For that matter and will back her observations as to why up. Me playing Golf...................... Hmmmmm which way is the wind blowing??

Didnt Kamil Kosowski start Scarecrows R Us with Mikael Nillson, who is gainfully employed in a European field scaring....... um er...... Crows and waiting for his Mate Kamil to join him full time when he finishes playing with Wisla Krakow. Wasnt Frederico Arias the one nicknamed the Torpedo? If he was he sank without a trace (as will that poor gag when it turns out to be another winkle we bought and never played).

If true then Wigan wouldnt be too shabby a place to go under a decent manager as well, Coyle seemed to get Daniel Sturridge firing on all cylinders. Mayuka just needs game time, and going on the questions about formations and the like he was asking Jos when sat behind me at the Llagostera game he needs just a little guidance too. He is still only a youngster in the grand scheme of things.

A* Nice one Bearsy.

Not having looked at the buying regime and relying on a mate who normally gets away tickets for us as I was passing SMS I said that I would go and pick them up. Went through all the palaver then got told you can't have your tickets as you didn't do 4 away games last year: oops "I can still sell you your friend Simons ticket, but not you or your wife's" " would you like me to put that through for you, and you can come back on Monday for the other 2". I thought this was a strange comment in that it was obvious we wanted to be sat together simply by me asking for 3 tickets at the beginning. It was almost like a smirking "your mates ok but tough on you". i should have played my Joker and shown him my Llagostera v Saints ticket that is still in my wallet to double our tally as reward for making the effort to see Saints in Spain!!

Nice work Bearsy: good to see you showing some previously unseen maturity in contributing such an excellent piece on the Main board. I am sure the regulars on here would like to see more informative pre match pieces like this from you. Without doubt Saint Armstrong will be delighted in knowing he has such able deputy: and from such an unexpected sauce too!! Well done.

Blimey!! J Rod hits the front in the race to be the main target thread subject of hate and vitriol on SWF for the season 2013/14 despite a competative ball yet to be kicked!! No danger of splinters in your backside eh mate!!

I live in a house of 3 of the fairer sex, they say that by some quirk of Mother Nature's sadistic side when the painters rock up to put up the scaffolding up on a monthly basis in a house of Women that synchronisation will develop with this phenomena. In our house Mother Nature decided to wind me up by letting them work as a tag team, overlapping as they go resulting in 2.75 weeks out of 4 weeks being a joy to behold. Thank god for Golf! Or maybe not: one week are you playing Golf on Saturday next week "don't you dare even think about playing Golf his weekend!!???!!". Thankfully one has gone through the personal summer experience ( however the 'fingerprint' is still there!!), but the youngest has decided she will make up for her Mum by dishing out double the vitriol onto her poor old Pa!

If you are happy self catering have a look at here http://www.campingkims.com/en/ Its a nice part of the World on a quiet and non commercial stretch of Coastline being close to the Pyrenees means that up until around July the temperature and weather can be a bit more tiny people friendly than further South (says a man who took his 8 month old to South Af.rica donkeys years ago) Ryanair fly direct into Girona about an hour away. Barcelona proper is 2 hrs away driving sensibly. All the rich Barcelonans come here for their weekend escapes. One of my customers with a sprout not long out of the "factory" came to this part of the world in late April early May and said that they loved it. If you like kiss me quick fish and chips washed down with Watneys Red Barrel ignore here like the plague, if you just want to unwind with ease give it a look. Even if you ignore here specifically it gives you and ideal of the area.