John Boy Saint

No good having a player who is, by all accounts, dynamite on the training pitch but anonymous in a full stadium on a Matchday. We don't have room for passengers.

I am confused, I have a season ticket, to some I earn f**k off money, where do I fit into this equation?

My mate got our 4 easy peazy lemon squeezy, linked accounts et al

Great news, congratulations.

I thought the answer was going to be watching Sports Personality of the Year: but realised it was a sensible question. I won't let the door bang on my ar$e on the way out!

................ and the shin pads!!!

Blimey getting him in would be the kingpin to getting his old mucker John Terry to follow then all of our defensive worries would be solved in an instant.

They were not stewards!

So many people said the Olympics would be $h1t, especially after Bejing. Patriotic bias aside, they were stunning! Add into this the Gamesmakers and the Jubilee celebrations and I think a little bit more Great was put back into Britain. Personally: Built a kitchen. Daughter #1 got into Uni, which meant moving away, and suddenly she grew up. Finally went to America Won my first Golf Trophy Can't think of owt else, I don't know get on an Internet forum and you just freeze!! Oooops back to back Pronotions featuring the Siege of Elland road where one man single handedly repelled the marauding White army of the North.

That is a real giggle cos it keeps the buggers on their toes. I have a few customers who speak Punjabi, Gujarati, Urdu as their first language and having a Grandmother and Father who can speak Hindi through being brought up in India until 1947 when the British Raj came to an end, and many years of calling on these folks I have picked up certain words, when I comment on something they have said in their own tongue to keep me out of the loop it certainly stops them giving me the run around.

I had French from School, which made learning Spanish for holidays quite easy. Not fluent but after a few days in both countries I seem to get better and better. Had a holiday a few years ago in in France and there was a chap opposite who spoke almost zero English, but we struck up a conversation which had the aid of my old French- English dictionary but after a few evenings that was cast aside and we would just chat for ages in French to the point of one day in a shop negotiating a huge discount on something, then commenting to my wife about the little shopping coup I had just pulled off found myself speaking English a la Joey Barton. But weird. I have a smattering of German from working for a German company, there I have mastered, which is the key to learning all language, hearing the gap between words. Sadly I don't have the vocabulary. Mandarin is the one I would like to crack as it would help with work, one of my work colleagues is Chinese and she has been trying to teach me but normally being good at picking up bits of language it just seems to go in one ear and out the other. Maybe at 48 I have used up my allocation for language absorbtion. I would say learn French or Spanish as it opens up your ear to most of southern Europe. But if you want a challenge go for Mandarin but try and make friends with someone who speaks the Launguage as that will make it so much easier.

Link your accounts on line as friends and apply as one, you will need one or the others login doings etc to facilitate it. But should work.

But we will still poke up with it and cough up the readys sadly not enough folks will revolt against the various little "stings" the club are squeezing a little more out of us with, and boycott a game on mass: if a tax too far was to occur and we did all stay away, for someone dealing in business money that would be a severe kick in the nuts. Bought a coffee on the concourse recently? same price and 2 cup size reductions this season already at the current rate a white coffee really will be an Espresso with milk by April. All leaves a bit of a taste in your mouth............. Damn good job Beer is sold in regulation Pints.

Sitting in the Chapel you get to hear quite a bit of noise and witty chants from the Northam & Kingsland corner. You also notice that people are getting absorbed in the game and concentration takes over from singing, but then you always get someone who can't concentrate as much and something starts to get sung. Just as an aside there is a bloke 2 - 3 rows behind me who is going the be told to shut up soon. For the best part of Saturdays game all you could hear was him talking a whole load of cobblers, this mate that, that mate this, some mate who thought driving his van from Sholing to Chandlers Ford was too far to go all at a few decibels below shouting. Then when he does actually pipe up about Saints it is an absolute Horses ar$e that dribbles out of his gob. I don't actually think he sees much of the game as he is talking to his mate................. Be surprised if you Northam dwellers can't hear him too!!

Come on give us a hand Roberts you big lump this one is too damn strong for me

As said elsewhere Premiership v Championship. From the off Reading were scared of us, which was surprising considering They gave Manure the right runaround for the first 15 - 20 minutes last week, 10 men behind the ball was their default setting. Shaw had their talisman Roberts in his pocket to the point that Ben from Eastenders switched him to the left in the first half: won't get much change out of Clyne you plum Brian. Reading must have thought they got a break when Lallana went off, only to be replaced by Gaston: that's the kind of substitution you dream of. Jose Fonte has realised that he can defend in the Premiership, a good few weeks ago he looked like he had gone a league too far the last few games he has looked like he believes in himself. Cork is very tidy player, last season I felt that Morgan seemed to set the tempo, now Jack's back he seems to be the metronome. Nice one Saints

Luke Shaw has without any doubt taken his opportunity to secure a first team place firmly by the throat! And for someone of such a tender age that is so refreshing to see. I remember seeing a young Gareth Bale like young Luke breaking into the first team, then playing back with his mates v Villa in the Academy league final. You could see Bale was different gravy to his team mates through playing first team football. I thought today Luke was fantastic, he was up against the Reading talisman and to my mind he had him tucked nicely in his pocket. In fact Roberts was trying to induce a reaction by nudging and pushing Luke in the centre circle when Saints were defending corners and LUke just brushed it aside. Then he started getting played in by Ramirez and whipping in some really evil crosses. Well done Young Man.............................. Mr Cortese screw this lads feet firmly to the Southampton ground.

Poor fans, poor team, they set their stall out early doors with 10 men behind the ball. Roberts like Holt both big units looking for the foul for the set play rather than actually playing football. Interestingly Ben from Eastenders actually switched Roberts over to the left wing because he was getting rinsed by a 17 year old!! That says a lot that their Talisman was in the pocket of a nipper most of the game. They were scared of us. And sat in the Chapel you get to hear the full force and wit of the Northam (and naughty words) Reading fans were mere Church Mice. If folks commented that they we fantastic, that must make Saints fans on the road F**king awesome!

Goalkeepers are a protected species Federici slipped with no one near him, I just knew the ref would blow. i think it's the inconsistency that is the biggest gripe Rickie gets battered nothing, other teams strikers suffer less of a battering but tumble like a delicate butterfly in a storm and the stupid refs fall for it. We tackle from the side ref blows, we get takled from behind ref points to the ball. That decision against Puncheon in the final few minutes was woeful. What I don't get is Ramirez already has a "reputation" with refs: how the hell did he get that!! He has only been here 2 minutes and has 2 Bona fido penalties denied"...................... Is it because he is a fellow countryman of that slimey Toad Suarez?

A few times where the build up to finish in the back of our net has been very good I have found myself clapping in a strange slow way almost like "that was a very good goal" and sarcastically "oh well done lads for not defending that"! Funnily enough at those times I have heard many around me doing exactly the same. The strangest clapping the oppo's I can recall, goals in the opening thread aside, was when we played Steaua Bucharest back in 2003 (?) they had a moment of inter play in the middle of the park which was mesmerising fluid football, when they made what turned out to be the last sublime pass, the majority inside SMS just broke into applause. It was one of those surreal moments, where you, along with many others, just got hypnotised by the football.

Blimey you got on the OS and lifted a link before slashing your wrists!! You truely have the patience of a Saint!!

How to handle the added intensity and be relaxed not burning up energy through being nervous.

Sounds like 3 premiership games in a week are taking there toll................... Need to learn from this though.

That's Mrs Yoshida now turning up, too much bedroom action and home cooking methinks.

What a bizarre thread! We have those who saw it for what it was from the relay to Sammy, lighthearted harmless entertainment that made the majority smile. Then those who must have really sad dark lives who are amused by very little. Then of course there are those on here who just like winding up others by slagging it off and were actually enjoying it too. I wonder how many of the Nay sayers are the same ones you saw at away games last season having poured themselves out of the pub with a few lunchtime Jaegerbombs inside them being all gobby, then once in the ground when the Mascot comes to have a look at the visitors, they stand there all big and hard giving a cuddly fluffy Mascot the middle finger telling them to F off from row 10: now that, for the uber cool who thought Wednesday night half time was embarrassing, is 100 times more cringeworthy to be associated with.