John Boy Saint

Reverse psychology my dear Bearsy.................................. Plus the Fat Lady has not been seen in her dressing room running up and down through her scales!!! So keep your powder dry for a little longer.

I have speedy infinity and it's still poo. I also have a friend working at SMS and they said that the new site is not very good, people aware of it too. Noticed Blackpool have the same and that is carp too. Typical FA if it's a league wide must have template, "lunch was nice thanks" "weekend in Paris! How lovely!" "week in the Maldives!! Where do I sign".......

Just reading both the Sun & the Mirror, coupled with the mega thread for some Uruguayan, "Adkins has tabled a bid": looks like Cortese is dealing with the big money and Nigel is picking up the bits and pieces.

Second that went there for a family lunch in March everyone came out with satisfyingly full tums. I would recommend you book as there were loads waiting for a space on the Saturday lunchtime we were there. also it's not a £9.95 a plate go and serve yourself type place, you order off the menu everyone dips in and you order as you want more. However pace yourself as if your eyes are bigger than your stomach and you leave a load of untouched dishes you will get charged full menu price for those left dishes: certainly stops good food going in the bin and folks taking the whatsit.

Big bit of Strapping round his right knee in that Sun article.

Funny times indeed, last week eldest Daughter got her A levels then tears when she realised she had just missed her 1st choice and resigned to her insurance, her UCAS was not updated so she politely contacted her first choice to ask about the UCAS update, within a short space of time she gets a reply and is instantly bouncing round the house "Congratulations, see you in September". Me in the poor house but very proud as only 12 places up for grabs. Today youngest waiting for her English retake. She got the necessary C which keeps the door open for the next stage in her beauty empire training, thank goodness.

Should it pop its little Cloggs round yours fess up, make a little coffin for it and keep it somewhere cool so your Nephew can bury it in the garden preferrably under a Rose bush, Roses are "carnivorous" and always thrive on a bit of decaying pet through their roots. Then take him down the pet shop for a replacement, they are cheap. If you decide to cover it's demise make sure you know what sex it was, Boy Hamsters are much more friendly than Girl ones.

Quite probably the Macaronis in cahoots to jack the money up. If in the 70's you could stuff the press positions behind the goals for European or International games full of guys with empty cameras banging off flash bulbs whenever the opposing foreign devils were attacking the home goal. Then add the recent dodgy dealings in Italian Football, mixed with the number of teams in financial strife, a bit of mutual back scratching to get some money in from overseas wealth would not be a surprise. If Bologna are going to fanny about with €15m are they really going to settle for less than €10m that will no doubt be demanded to be paid in instalments. Still keeps us entertained while nowt else is going on................. Probably all a massive smokescreen and 3 other bigger players are signing as we speak shrouded in the fug, for a big Taa-Daa moment.

We had the whip hand there for once we had no need or desire to sell Oxo so we could mess about to our hearts content. We have a little of the upper hand here Bologna are skint. Still it leaves the door open to gazumping as we all well know.

and that was made 10 years ago too!!

pretty useless if no other player can keep up! Anyway I seem to recall on Sunday afternoon us breaking away v the superstars of Man City and we were 3 then 5 v 2 homing in on their goal to ultimately score a second, even misery guts on MOTD 2 said it was "like the Red Arrows!".

Well if the deal collapses then the Colin Todd fiasco angle would have been covered. Blimey imagine having an internet forum back in the late 1970s with dial up speeds you might have had back then! The threads would be more fragmented than they are now as the transfer window would have closed before your post uploaded or the page refreshed. Oh for 4 channels on your Tele and every game to kick off at 3pm on a Saturday.

Done it myself on Studland beach, worked a treat to put a bit of distance between us and a family with obnoxious kids who persisted in running through our little patch with bloody flip flops on flicking sand everywhere, they P'd everyone off parents couldn't give a toss. Next day same family turned up pretty soon beach walls were popping up everywhere in their vicinity.

Sincere apologies BB Bob: I think my insomnia might have been cured between pages 62 & 64..................... Apologies everyone for my brief interruption................. Have I missed 'owt since page 66:sorry been out earning a crust.

amazing 65 pages in and finally this thread delivers something useful!! Cheers!!

Surprised the Lad stood next to me at that game, if he is on here, has not posted, Saints down to 10 and Telfers goal just about ensures the win, this Lad was bouncing around like he had springs in his feet tears pouring down his face, blubbing "I have never seen Saints win in person before!!!".

As others have said I think it's wise to keep a lid on transfers if only to keep others from outside muddying the waters, this Ramirez wants out of where he is he met the club, a deal of some sort seems to have been agreed between gentlemen, but then the main object of the transaction gobshoites on twitter that it's in the bag:Ciao Italia. Was this at the behest of the agent in cahoots with Bologna to get a better offer, probably. Buttner seemed a similar affair club doing it right, but others around him leaking stuff pushing harder for monies, in reality coming to Southampton was probably never a possibility, we just got used as a stepping stone/ shop window to get the "dream" deal. Phillips deal as I said elsewhere the illegal approach business could be we might have had a very loose conversation with the agent and said if your boy ever wants a move give us a call, to which the Agent tells the player, who in turn shouts round the dressing room Saints are in for me. Away from Saints Demba Ba hit a rich vein of form for Newcastle last season, at it's height his agent pipes up out of the blue to the football world " Ba has a £10m buy out clause in his contract"! Newcastle said nothing which made player and more so Agent look like very greedy individuals. The least we say the better, there is nothing to say until the deal is closed. Probably the best example of Saints keeping their mouths shut was Lee Barnard, rifling them in for fun at Southend and a hot property everyone was looking at. The window was closing, Leeds by all accounts had secured his services, then bang we have signed him much to all us fans surprise. In fact it was a surprise to Leeds as they were so certain of having got their man that their midweek match Programme had a big spread welcoming him to the club!! If we made public every player we had an eye on this board alone would go into meltdown, they are not stupid inside SMS, they probably know full well that least said is also saving a lemming like leap from the Itchen Bridge by a small section of fans!

The only things I remember from that was Norwich were time wasting, Grant Holt had been poleaxed by a worm that had inadvertently popped its head up from beneath the pitch, the ref was telling him to stop being such a Jessie as we were off down the other end and Papa seemed to put it in off his backside to equalise. The guys I was with were all 40 & 50 something's but we were bouncing round like 14 year olds at the School Disco (well when we were 14). Still not a patch on Camara's winner v Norwich which was a pure and utter emotion. Surprised the game at the Dell v Newcastle when we were 1-0 down going into added time, then winning 3-1 in those added minutes. I couldn't go but listened on Solent, as the third went in the commentator sounded like he about to spontaneously combust at any second: if he was that excited what were fans in the crowd like?

Forgive my ignorance: In a few posts above Leon Crouch gets a kicking for being involved in the Lowe Wilde triangle. If I remember correctly he was the deciding factor with his shares to tip the balance of power in Wilde's favour, then after time realised in error that he had backed a bit of a Mickey Mouse Circus and a Mad Hatters Tea Party in the boardroom. But when we were hurtling towards the abyss (yes he was involved in the demise) and Pinnicle were dicking about he put his hand in his own pocket to keep folks in their jobs at SMS, which was far more than anyone else involved appeared to have done. I stand to be corrected (Sans abuse would be nice). In the grand scheme of things when the wheels were coming of its amazing that whatever of value there was in the Academy and training set up was not disposed of to keep heads above water, it's something our friends down the M27 had been without for years and they were looking pretty comfy in the Prem.

It's only idle chit chat while the adverts are on You'll know if 'owt has happened when the thread title changes to "Official" & "Signed". Or another thread starts titled "who's fault is it he didn't come". Always the way on here the further you get away from the OP the more Chinese Whispers subject change creeps in.

I like a little Schadenfreude, be funny as hell if he turns out to be complete bobbins in 6 months and his valuation has plummeted and Brum get a little money wobble that 7months earlier £6m could have papered over.

Why not then we will have enough Moderator points for a Poll

Or help them out when 3 company credit cards are declined when checking into a hotel the night before a game (Peterborough). How can he have gambling debts when he raided the Tangerine Piggy bank to help himself to an alleged £11m from the parachute/positional money. With this fella and Ramirez you can see why we are so keen to have 50% of our squad fed from the Academy should cut out most of this bluffing and pimping that is going on.

I am amazed that it is still a pile of Pooh, yes I am a lucky boy with an iPad, but I can't be in a massive minority in this day in age. But I am also a lazy git who will go to his iPad over firing up a traditional computer/laptop. Still I expect this Ramirez business is distracting everyone at SMS.

Mine just needs a little reminder now and again when she has spent too much time with the moaning *****es at work, some of whom are married to blokes who are fecking useless. I can see it coming a mile off in the tone, so I just work to rule. Like someone else above she has been into football for years so in that respect I am very lucky, however depending on which way the wind is blowing the mere mention of Golf can go one or 2 ways unfortunately its split 70/30 negative/positive. Still must be something right between us known each other 31 years married for 22 of them. She has gone through a few Labrador's in that time mind!