John Boy Saint

7 Acts left to get through yet, before that bit!!

You do realise that there will be Nippers on here, thinking this lot are having a laugh: 32p for Beer! £5 lasting a week!! "Come on Grandad, tell us some more lie......... Stories" ​makes me feel a little old too

Really!?!? And amazingly it was still only £2.50 for our game v Forest nearly 3 years later on the 17th March 1979 at the same venue! 1976 Pint of Beer 32p, 20 Smokes 45p, inflation hitting 20 odd percent and the average wage £70 a week for Gents.

Little did we know S O U T H A M P T O N was "being engraved" on the cup as it hit the back of the net.

We can now add Mr Potato Head to the Unexpected Saints Fans Thread from last week! Apologies to the gentleman in question, should he see this!

I was amazed to see that Luke Shaw was 6' 1" when reading the article on him in Saturdays programme. Seems like he has his head screwed on too. Hopefully with the likes of Shaw, JWP, and even Morgan having travelled the same route they are on, some of the nippers will be inspired to drive on for a first team place. Add to this a sprinkle of Jack Corks experience at Chelsea and hopefully those who do make the grade will realise the benefit of sticking around whilst they are young.

Without a doubt! Even from the Chapel you could see him get the ball while running forwards, look to the line to see the Lino running long "beside" him with him flag down in front of him, you could see the comedy double take go through his mind, by which time he had closed himself down. As Gary Neville said on MNF "Rickie is a player who will not blink when the situation arises".

21 points on the table still plenty of twists and turns, although Arry giving it out in public on his players does not help his cause. The Fat lady is still only choosing her Frock!!

Goes to Reading already in a win win situation, takes over while they are jumping up and down on the trapdoor, £1m+ in his skyrocket if he pulls the Rabbit out of the hat, 3 year contract at a team where the expectations are more realistic than Leeds. If its true he lives Winchester way, then there's no need to move house again.

I always remember queuing up outside the Megastore for our Yellow cup final shirt, the players were just leaving SMS to travel away (might have been to Man City for the last game), my Wife was ambling back to me in the queue in her own little world heading for an imminent collision with Beattie he stopped she looked up in stunned surprise when she saw who it was from under 2 feet: she is a petite 5'2" and I was surprised at how trim he actually was in his casual clothes compared to when you saw him on the pitch.

I am stunned at how low some people's opinion of Yoshida is. Outside the box the simple pass does go awry at times, but inside the box he is the dominant CB reading the game very well and surgical with his tackles and interceptions. The fact that he has become the constant in defence with Jos and Jose coming in and out under NA and now MP must point to the fact that he is highly thought of. Seems to have an old head on young shoulders which leads me to believe he will mature into an even better CB for us.

Oh Ok! Seeing as you asked so nicely. Steve Williams Lays on more balls than Fiona Richmond!

I can think of a good one for Steve Williams recapturing the humour of the giant banner unfurled at the 1979 League cup final. But it would be totally lost on the younger generation.

We were discussing the great panoramic photo in the 3rd Anniversary JPT thread over our Beer and Pasty, and it prompted 2 of us to recall after that match getting back to the coach to Basingstoke and one of our mates almost at the point of spontaneous combustion questioning why why why Pardew had subbed so-and-so for someone else. We just ****ed ourselves laughing saying "hey Steve what are you getting your knickers in a knot for? We just won 4-1 FFS!". i think some people just moan on auto pilot.

Wasn't it compounded by saying in honour of p*rtsm*uths return to the top flight, the Echo put it on their back page so the OS story on it was qualified and absolutely loads of folks took the bait and Southampton nearly had a peasants revolt. Kit was made by Flair Polo which they hoped would blow the gag. Still Spaghetti being Harvested off trees back in the days of black and white TV will never be surpassed for hood winking the nation.

This should be interesting, slightly surreal Manager who won't be taking any sh1t from Premiership doshed up Prima Donnas.

I did hear a shout of "come on Foxy cross the bloody ball!!' when he was taking it to the corner to run down the clock. That winkle obviously wasn't at the Everton game last time in the Prem when Crouch went for glory, and Everton ended up equalising!!

] YOU!.... YES YOU IN seat 398 Row EE Sing in time with everyone else!!

I thought it was Zorro: the gay blade!!

I am a greedy whatsit I want at least another 21 points!

It's like Smoky and the Bandit, Rickie is increasing looking like the the blocker for J-rod. I do wonder if the fact he speaks Spanish has an influence.

What a nasty man our Scouse goal machine Sir Richard Lambert is! That poor Snr Torres is wearing a face mask and dopey Chelsea stick him at the end of the wall, so Rickie blasts the ball at his face! Classic. I enjoyed that, even the last 20, not voted for MOTM because I just can't choose.

I expect Ramirez will be on the subs bench as he didn't get home until yesterday, according to OS his plane from Chile had a fault hence the delay, always comes home a little worse for wear, unless MP has put a rocket up his Jacksy. Feel quite positive about today, verging on excitement, with the merest tinge of the previous weekend off being the only dark cloud in the sky.

It's a win win fixture, we are cannon fodder for the top four teams as our place in the Prem is to provide points to those teams so they can supposedly fight it out amongst themselves for even more money at seasons end. If we lose it will be no surprise, if we win it adds a bit of spice 'ish' at the top for the fawning media, but it lengthens our chances to be paid oodles of money next year just to provide points to the top 4/5 teams in the league. Like Didcot I am feeling exactly the same.

"Righto you spawny lot I have got £2m straight in my skyrocket if you extract a digit and stay up""!