John Boy Saint

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!

Just smoothing the way for Independence.

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Jeez for a bloke who has admitted that he was 4 when Maggie came to power, you certainly are having a lot of fun with this subject matter. I have been through the towns decimated by the closing of the highest employer be it steel, coal, cars. I had to try and sell my wares in those towns I was in my very early twenties, it was pretty bloody depressing to do and see. But hey I lived in the "affluent" south of England I could escape I could trundle home to "normality". I felt for those people, but being one of Maggies Children I am probably to some a bit of a hard faced bastard when it comes to self preservation, when I got kicked severely in the nuts I did what the Chingford Skinhead said and got on my bike and did something about it, but that didn't stop me feeling for the poor sods who did not have the opportunities or didn't know where those opportunities were to escape the vortex they were in. Negative equity and soaring interest rates that saw letter for the next mortgage payment that was nearly as much as my monthly salary before I had even thought about eating, all in Maggies tenure, and as a result of the actions of her governments policies. Did anyone give a toss at my plight the, cold sweats, the fear of losing my house: No. Was I luckier with the opportunities available to me compared to those who had lost the only way of life they had known for years: Too bloody right.................... Hey I can't hide from it but I certainly dont need someone questioning my solidarity with other peoples suffering. Just as footnote my Father was from a Coal mining Family not a million miles from your stated location, they were private mines that the NUM tried to interfere with to no avail, but the fall out from the closures and cheap imports saw them eventually close prematurely, so my empathy runs a little deeper than you realise................. blimey I got lucky there too as I was en-route into the that side of the families line of work until I got nudged in another direction.

Like someone said some pretty poor comments on here, quite funny that The Sun newspaper, one that you would feel would have a predominantly anti Maggie readership have conducted a poll asking whether she was good for the country 50% said yes 34% said no (16% probably didnt understand the question) so even from beyond the grave she nails another landslide. What is also funny is those who are painting her as a nasty piece of work, are delivering their thoughts with quite a bit of vicious vitriol. If we were fans of a northern Mining town team you would expect no less, but for fans of a team in the South of England the axe to grind in her direction is pretty feeble. Unless of course you were denied your seat on the gravy train that existed down the docks. To get this back on track marking her passing in a football stadium is not the best idea

So how do the Stadiums owned by the Cities and Towns stack up with this in the German Bundesliga?

For those who might be interested it is repeated tonight at 11:35 on ITV. Even Bazza might find out that she wasn't just parachuted in for a bit giggle.

I would like to do that ferry route one day, just the cost in the summer ain't cheap, be nice if those loverly Tesco Clubcard people could get friendly with Brittany Ferries. As for the comment by Art regarding the criminal gangs, they still exist however the French got a little embarrassed by the frequency a few years back and clamped down, so it is not a highway man behind every tree. On the Toll motorways as you are videoed in and out of the Peage sections and in and out of many Aires these criminals don't like that. Just as you would here be a little bit smart. Walk round your car if you have left it alone check the tyres etc. In Spain use the service facilities in shifts. When you see massive signs advising you to stop no more than 7 minutes on the Motorway Laybys in 6 different languages including the local one you know you should just hang on a little longer for the full facility service area.

Scargill thought he could take on the Government and democracy, and in the process of let many of those funding his Empire building exercise down. Even Kinnock "thanked him for losing him the election". As for selling the Silverware, having taken over healthy economy Gordon Brown still managed to piddle the bulk of the healthy Gold reserves up the wall. So it's amazing that one woman can stop this country going down the drain in the 80s, yet even from behind the veil of a Labour Government (who never wasted a penny:ever) she still manages lead this country to the dogs. Woohoo you got a bite!!

Have an annual pilgrimage to the Costa Brava each year, travel via the Tunnel (use your Tesco club card vouchers to cheapen the cost). Normally get into France around 9am Shop briefly for Wine, then having been stuck round Paris so many times, route via Rouen, Dreux, everaux, Chartres then on to the A10 in a directly southerly direction (gets a bit monotonous around 3pm flat and straight) go all the way to Issoire south of Clermont Ferrand (from here the A75 to the A9 is free Millau aside). Stop over at Issoire we got there at just before 6pm last year. I hasten to add that I drive 40k miles a year so drive consistently for hours at a time with ease. Left the hotel at 07:15 stop for breakfast 30mins, we were getting off the AP7,which goes all the way to the very bottom of Spain, at Junction 6 just after Midday. It was raining so I put my Bosses villa at La Manga 800 junctions further south into the Sat-Nav just see what time we would get there as it was warmer, ETA was set at 8:30pm. Marbella must be another 4-5 hours further on!! if you have less than 3 weeks I would fly to Southern Spain as the drive home would possibly negate the benefit of the Holiday.

Have to agreed with that, When she came to power I was at an age where I was just becoming politically aware, and like many have said this country was going down the drain. Not only was rubbish piling up in the streets but many were unable to bury their loved ones who had passed away. The Unions had the country by the short and curlys, I recall car park votes to strike on TV where the show of hands was the ballot and the show of hands NOT to strike was visibly greater than those who wanted to. In Southampton I had an uncle who worked down the docks, the amount of times he would be home early because of strike action, if the mob rule of the Unions had not been broken by her hard line stance, Southampton would not be the successful city it is now. Whilst some of her policy's will never go down well, understandably, in some parts of the country. And some commentators above have posted that she is responsible for some of the woes today, if she hadn't been so bloody minded we would be in much more sorry state than we find ourselves today, just look at the grief in the Eurozone funny how we dodged that. I wonder how many of the older posters who saw the sorry state we were in when she took up her tenure, had a feeling of deja vu when it's was revealed in a note in the treasury after the last election that read something like: Good Luck - there is nothing left. The one thing that Mrs Thatchers policy's did do was to make us as politically aware as we are today, which is why some many of us have a cynical view of politics today. She did a damn sight more good than bad. RIP

I was surprised Shearer didn't re tell his story about when he was a nipper with us in a training game and found himself 1 on 1 with John Burridge. Shearer said he thought he had better pull out of the impending challenge for fear of damaging our number 1 goalie, apparently Budgie grabbed hold of Shearer and told him to never pull out of a 1 on 1 with a keeper as they expect to get hit. They say you have to be slightly un hinged to be a goalie, and Boruc fits that bill. I think the water bottle incident was a defining moment, as he was flapping at fresh air so many times up to the point where he was getting the bird from the fans, his reaction was not professional, but I think the investigation (which had more to do with a young steward being brushed by the bottle) was a bit of a wake up call for him, as when he returned he certainly was meaner and leaner. Good on him.

On Radio 5 earlier he was blowing sunshine up our backsides: just hope he predicts a 2-3 win for Wet Spam next week.