John Boy Saint

Funny that Gaston Ramirez has not been mentioned anywhere, but then silly me he cost a small fortune err 'the club won't sell him" ! For those who have been paying attention most will realise that there is little room for sentiment where Cortese is concerned in his quest to do the job. To be brutally honest we have certainly not seen what most would associate with a player of that cost, 9 months in and he is being kept out of the starting 11 by an Academy player, one who was a steal at £750k, and what is becoming £7.5m well spent. Yes he has scored some goals but in reality he has disappointed overall. If we were to off load him after one season that would make some folks sit up and pay attention. Only a controversial thought so the sandbags have been filled and the tin hat pulled on!!

Please can someone confirm that my ears did hear "It's a lovely day for watching the Swans" being sung. Land of my Fathers sounded very good from them.

All lies everyone knows Football didn't exist before 1992. Seriously though it is always fascinating when you stumble over old Sunday papers.

Thought he played well today, not easy up against someone like Dyer who is quick and moves like a wasp trying to avoid being swatted.

I had to admire his outward display of disappointment as Fox looked to be going lame with cramp, Mayuka was waiting to come on then everyone pointed out to MP that Fox was in trouble so he called back Luke to go on and motioned for Mayuka to go back to the dugout, for a moment he forgot where he was and reverted back to being 5 years old and just denied sweets in the shop, and had a mini stamping paddy. Good to see he is champing at the bit.

As must Phillip Schofield and as for Gordon the Gopher!!! Trouble is these days there is always someone looking for a quick buck for a story, only trouble is the main man to maximise their opportunity for 'top dollar', Max Clifford has also had his collar felt by the Feds on Operation Yew Tree.

Can you really get an infraction for making people laugh out loud at the "oh **** moment" and the legs trying to run down the road really fast. The tape from the car and the double take from the Rozzers would probably be very funny too. Cheers Bearsy!!

As I posted elsewhere I think from 9th position down in the Championship none is safe from relegation, which is barking mad, still the one consolation is, having only watched the last few minutes of tonight's game, the quality of who might come up increases the odds of consolidating our Premiership status next season (should we cross to the safe side of the line this season) Cardiff could survive. Hull, should they make it, are looking like a team needing a shed load of readies. Watford if they cross the line will be interesting, they have a Donkey of a ground and a current team that is made up of some very clever use of the loan player rules. To answer the original question: Jordan Rhodes absolute dynamite for Uddersfield, but I think a poor career move to the club challenging p*mpey for the title of Clown team of the year.

I think they have to give a minimum of a month or 6 weeks notice to televise a game, the only time that goes out of he window is last day of the season when everyone kicks off at the same time, plus not all kicking off at 3pm on a Saturday negates the ruling of not being able to show a live league game at that time.

That was worth it just for the moment when as the team was being read out and it was the mangers turn, the bloke sat in front of us turned to his mate and said "just listen to this" as soon as Ian Branfoots name was mentioned the Boo's were deafening!! Bit surreal as he had got us to the 'banned from Europe substitute cup final'. Actually the 1979 League Cup Final I would not give up as it will live with me for ever for 2 reasons, Lawrie Mac sorted my tickets for My Dad and me. But most of all; my Dad had never been to a Football match in his life (at 14 I had to get there somehow before the moaning starts) so to loose his 'cherry' at Wembley full to its 100,000 capacity priceless on its own. Stood behind the goal on the upper tier my Dad had obviously been touched by the atmosphere because when David Peach rounded Shilton to slot it home and we went mental I stopped, as I watched my calm level headed sensible fairly strict Dad going absolutely berserk along with everyone else..................... Still Bloody priceless 34 years later!!

You Pillock! why waste a vote on that Plank? Watchout the Dinlows are out tonight!!........................................ its Tom Cleverly all the way for me!!

The England Team will have the Brazilian mentality of "score against us we dont care, because we will score more goals than you".

Don't ask a Geordie when they last won something (Championship aside which some will be embarrassed about in the fact that they had been relegated in the first place). They'll be jumping from the Tyne Bridge.......................... or maybe they just did the deal, like the one on offer in the OP, with the Devil already!

Promotion from the Championship first time for back to back promotions. The Championship is a tough competitive league where as a fan you have no certain idea which way the dice will roll when you pass through the turnstiles. to emphasise how tough a league it is. even today, with I think 3 games left?, from 9th down is mathematically in a relegation battle!!

Wasn't it the ref who was the cheat and his past caught up with him a couple of years back.......................... but then as I type and blow the cobwebs off recall weren't Anderlecht implicated as being in it together??

This is like going back in time thousands of years and being told not touch anything as it would change the future, inadvertantly you tread on a beetle unknown to you, and when you return to the present everything has changed...................... 1976 Cup win was the turning of a corner for Saints, having been relegated 2 years before, this was the furnace being stoked up under the desire to get back into the top league, which we achieved and went onto to be runners up to the League Championships (which these days would have gotten us into the CL) we qualified for Europe by rights more than once. Leave the cup in our history, it is still a sweet little grenade to drop in the pocket of a gobby Manure supporter. Let evolution take its course and let, eventually, the being Champions of Europe taste even sweeter by having enjoyed the full journey in getting there, not missing out on the trials and tribulations by nipping through the hole shown to you in the hedge of the maze to its end by swapping a Glorious day in our Footballing history for a handful of not so Magic beans.

Colin Murray can have one too for his alternative league table on MOTD2!

My sides are beginning to really hurt now, I fear my sides will split in a minute!!

If you haven't already it might be worth writing to the club, explain what you are wanting to do and see if you can get into the press box to learn a few bits. Might even be worth badgering some sports editors to try and get go along with a reporter for some on the job experience at St Mary's. Good Luck.

Just trying to fit in with the Saints own Gok Wan - Turkish and his blue print for football attire....................... Bit of a worry though that even from San Francisco you can smell my aftershave (better sort that out!)........................... But most worrying that it has taken until I am 48 before someone has called me a Chav: Ooooooo-errrrrrrrr!

We had just been to Ikea at Wembley, which at the time was new in the UK, with friends we had gone in to find stuff for our 1st new house that we were moving into in the next week. I had just nipped into a favourate Indian sweet shop to buy some tempting fancys to force onto the Guinea pigs in the car, when I got back into the car faces were serious as the radio was on the football, we drove from Wembley to Basingstoke just listening to the disaster unfolding in silence.

I have been in touch with a bloke who has 250 tar torches and 300 pitchforks, he says that if I take the lot off him he will throw in a Ducking Stool for only £20!! Yes Jos has had a bit of misfortune but in all honesty there have been others in the team to have made ricketts, you can't legislate for a fellow defender smashing one straight in your guts from point blank range, using a perfectly good tackle v Reading as a negative FFs! (The bloke with the pitchforks etc also does a nice line in stakes and firewood). Looking forward to the thread "£12m player fails to put in a decent freekick from the same position on 3 consecutive occaisions, in the same game, in the same half!!". Might get into importing my own Witch Hunting Supplies myself. Strange how Jos gets into the team on a regular basis and Jose is having to wait his turn....................... I might just get that Ducking Stool afterall so we can find out if Jos floats!

They do............ There is a chuffin great big digital one top right hand corner of our nice new LCD screens at both ends of the ground!!

As others have said it should be a good game with 2 teams capable of playing fast flowing football, and hopefully the virus will have moved well away from the club so a good weeks training can be had. Added bonus is for our Daughter who is at Uni in Carmarthen just down the road, so she gets to see Saints at least once this season when she thought for the first time since she was 7 that she would not see Saints play at least once in a season.

Thats him with the hat likely to be as free as a bird for the rest of his life, the Old Bill will ask if anyone knows him in about 6 months when they didn't nab him at the time: Just like the clown with the flare who did nothing to hide after throwing it on the pitch at SMS a few years back, yet despite no end of live TV footage the OB never knicked him.