John Boy Saint

I had my new coat on yesterday, worked very nicely thank you in that horrible wet rain!

If they are local little s H 1ts, Southampton is small enough for someone to have a few shandies and get a bit gobby sooner or later: curse them with Rickets, a bolt of lightening is a waste of Electricity!!

I wonder if we will get an Eterna watch when we extend our contracts to watch Saints by renewing our Season Tickets?

What about the silly little Cartons of Unigate milk the totty would throw to the crowd at half time? I always remember v Wolves one evening a couple of Coppers walking in front of the Milton became the moving target for these now opened full cartons!

Wow a whole page without Bazza!! What's happened? have you buggers rinsed him?, is it a Socialist Worker weekend retreat?, or did his Mum call him for tea? I can't believe he let 34 posts slide without pulling someone, or everyone's tails!!

Sorry Tokes I need a Mandarin-Saint, mad Michelle at work from Shanghai is trying to teach me but my head is like one of the products I sell: a sieve! so it just falls through the holes in my head. Give me 2-3 days in France, Spain, Germany even Portugal and I am tuned in and away, get beyond Munich and it's all double Dutch. Very rude Cantonese and Italian seems to have corrupted the hard drive, which is weird. Japanese will just pollute the soup of every other language in the old noggin!

What beggars belief is when a numpty ITV commentator notices that Gerrard has just told Welbeck that in future he should be on the other side of the defender to recieve the pass, this is supposed to be the cream playing for England not the bloody YTS. Woy in his gripe about teams putting player before country just stepped on a landmine in the eyes of supporters of 86 teams. Take the bloody blinkers off and grow a pair Roy when selecting the team then you might have a leg to stand on when you moan. Rio mugged you and the FA right off but you still kiss his backside, what was a possible solution? Maybe we can play Carrick at centre back? In 92 teams in the professional game there is not one single centre back of English birth who could fill just one hole. Sorry it's early Saturday morning and the home measures have kicked in.

Like I said if you had experienced the dark days of football hooliganism, when at 13/14 you were chased through the streets by grown men, without a copper in sight, and they only have one thing on their minds: to kick your F'ing head in! To be in your 40's with Mrs JBS and the Tin lids without even a thought of having to run for your lives, to see a full stadium of home and away fans that is elated without an ounce of nastiness to be seen is a pleasure. There was nothing "gay" in that 2 sets of fans were very happy with the outcome of the afternoons football, for you to still think as much nearly 3 years down the road is a shame. C'est la Vie.

Doh! Sign a contract get a watch, Eterna are supplying at cost which in reality is bobbins v retail so a "freebie" is mere dust in the grand scheme of things. Anyway a grand a go is small potatoes when it comes to Premiership footballers. I have a TAG Heuer that even the TAG sales folks in a few stores including Harrods have got moist at which was only £900 (thanks to an insurance claim) and they have £4k and £5k + watches behind the glass. I saw a stunning Brietling in Harrods at £14k so a grand Eterna is a bit Ticky tocky Timex by comparison.

Southend & Walsall obviously, I did enjoy the moment when despite us beating Walsall the PA announcer gave out the all important to them Dagenham score 10 minutes from the end. We sang "You are staying up". At the final whistle all the Wasall team and bench had a bundle on the pitch only to be enveloped by a sea of joyous Saints fans. When you have experienced the dark days of Football hooliganism that was such a warm moment, there was no malice just a very happy stadium. (well apart from the k nobers behind me in the Chapel who normally sat in the Northam and all they could do was make stereotypical quips about can they do this and that as the were sat in The Chapel.................... Until I told them to shut the **** up for being so bloody annoying). Uddersfield fans come in 3rd, as all of them we met while drinking our way round town enroute to SMS and back to the station, were all very pleasant.

If it was so amateurish as some folks have commented, do you not think that the club would have recognised that in the 40 years it has survived for, and gone down the Leeds route in particular and changed it like the weather, or in our case like our Managers. Back in 1974 the new badge was probably introduced with little outrage because a majority of folks felt included in its inception having come from a Competition. I think if it was changed drastically now without consultation with the fans there would be considerable outrage from the vast majority of fans who don't frequent this forum. Arsenal changed theirs in 2002 from one that had existed for 64 years with the odd bit of tinkering here and there to great uproar from the fans, despite the main Cannon component from the 1920s remaining. The main reasons for the change was that over the years in which it had been tweaked it had acquired components from here and there which no one knew the origins of, resulting in Arsenal not being able to get a copyright on it, hence the change. In our case we knew the source and when image rights etc loomed on the horizon tweaked the ball to protect it. Blooming expensive exercise changing the company branding. Hood down Anorak off: I have a Arsenal ST holding mate and club badges came up one evening after about 2 or more bottles of wine and most of the last bit seems to have been embedded in the useless information file between my ears

Is this happening today? ......... It's just my Mum wants me home early for once this week for my tea as its my Favourite: Bangers, Mash, and Baked Beans with Angel Delight for Puddy! Thanks in advance.

I Could always FaceTime you from my seat in the stand, obviously at a reasonable charge! Can't guarantee you will get to see the half time relay as every man and his dog are on their phones and the signal gets a bit dodgy!

Where, When, What, How?! Did I miss something, or just lose the context?

Ah well if we lose then we better give him the dogs abuse on Twitter to go back to predicting losses.

I can't see what is really wrong with our badge, whether it is because I am a Saints fan, but to me it is one of the better ones out there and stands out, the fact that it has remained relatively unchanged for nearly 40 years shows that in itself it's design was a good one. It does say who we are where we are from and what we are. Just looking at that website some of those badge changes were pretty backwards stepping, Brentfords looked like it had been put together on a slow day in the office, and being always affectionately known as the Bees that was lost from the identity, which is what a badge of this sort is all about. The Crystal Palace one continues to show the Eagle but the end result quite frankly looks like a design studio having approached a Football club assumed there was a bit of money to be had here went through the process BS and ended up with an Eagle that looks like someone had trawled through Clip-Art for a few hours. I was given an iPhone cover by one of my kids for Fathers Day last year from the Saints shop, it has a not very big Saints badge on the back. The amount of folks who spot it fleetingly and instantly recognise it is astonishing, especially those who live hundreds of miles from Southampton and even more so have very little interest in Football. Coca Cola, Kellogs, Heinz, Marmite, you all recognise them instantly they may have had a little tweak over the years but they are a brand identity that folks are familiar with. Our badge is our brand, just because it is as old as it is does not make it naff especially as it is so well established. Just my thoughts. You never know the Shirts for this season might be the thin end of the wedge. But then when you look at the launch images for the shirts the clever thing was the red and white stripes were there in the image (I think there is a big poster on the wall by the Megastore) As a result it softened the blow of a predominantly all Red and all White shirt which was a break from our established identity.

Dear Top 4 teams of the Premiership (plus Tottingham, Liverpool and Everton), After very careful research, here is the shopping list of players you should put all your efforts into buying if you don't already own them. By all means buy them off each other as it provides excellent column inches during the summer while we are all on our Holibobs. Once again we will appreciate your assistance in making the job of selecting the England team so much easier, in return we will ensure you get the usual easy ride off the referees and any hard disciplinary issues we will show the usual leniency. But please make sure that you make more effort next year to ensure that the title is not pretty much over by the end of March, the relegation battle this year is getting far too many column inches than the cream of the product. Any ideas you have to resist our wishes, please may we draw your attention to Mr Redknapp's predicament. Thank you in advance for your assistance in this matter. Very best regards From the FA

Spud had to answer the call of nature (something about a dodgy Curry...... Didn't catch the rest) , so he gave me the keys and codes as Phil is out on the Golf Course.

Very wise, I have a few customers who partake, most take it in their stride but others you start to see getting a Bit tetchy after 2 weeks:7th of July at this latitude hmmm bloody long days!! But inside the Big House there!......... a totally different kettle of fish. ........... "it's the thought that counts" in the first instance certainly applies here.

Oi Tokyo have you been playing with that big red button on your desk??! All the Chuffin lights have gone out up here in my small corner of Hampshire!!! Boy is it dark!!! (put my anorak on just in case).

The main board has a perfect thread for a surgical strike: the Summer 2013 HCDAJFU. Anorak on or off, I know I can spout some complete cobblers: but when someone suggests Phil Neville!!!!!!!!!!!!

Only when I have to ask a serious question or state a serious fact in an environment that is not conducive to my life expectancy or onwards reputation in said environment.............................. And being made from the same material as Harry Potters invisibility cloak well that gives me absolution from any ridicule that I might otherwise have attracted had I not had it on with the hood up.

Come on Barry, I have taken your bait and been on your hook for a couple of days now, please just drag me into the boat and lump me over the head to put me out of my misery. You are becoming as tedious as the Trade Union leaders who couldn't be negotiated with and had a liquid agenda at the same time. Who in reality fueled the person you have maligned for the past 3 days to the delight of the masses north and south who were bloody well fed up with the state of things in 1979 at the start of her "reign".

Don't sell it keep it safe, it will be on Cash in Your Attic within a few years as a collectable when Microsoft dump it, my copy of Vista for Dummies is already worth £35.75.

Err serious anorak question. With The Muppet Show being adjacent to The Lounge in the off topic section of the Forum, wouldn't a nuclear strike of the magnitude being spoken of result in an EMP large enough to prevent continuation of the Glorious Independent Republic of The Muppet show in its current format? Or worse still result in at least 30-40 pages of threads being cast into a nuclear desert thus Bumping to the top the Thread "What do you have in your Sandwiches today?" from the 18th June 2010. As you were.............. Carry on! ​where did that saluting one go!