John Boy Saint

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!

That without a doubt, a full stadium our Premiership survival hanging by threads, playing a topsy turvy game against another team in relegation trouble, the clock running down with a point not being enough, the crowd already up and out of their seats willing and urging the team on with all their might, then a Daisy cutter hits the back of the Onion Bag and the whole stadium just explodes in deafening celebration that could be heard far across the City!

What will be interesting is if the prevarication continues and Bologna and the Agent keep whoring Ramirez around in the background, at what point will Cortese push his chair away from the negotiating table?

Amazing 1694 posts over 34 pages, it's like Rudi Skacel MkII. ........................ Dare I say "has he signed yet?". Hope he's worth it!!!!

Add to this we don't have the noose of a £32m Mortgage for the stadium hanging round our necks sucking funds from the club, plus I thought when ML & NC came in a comment that debt was frowned upon was made. There was also a rumour picked up somewhere that when NC was playing hardball on the Oxo deal, one proviso was that they paid "cash" no installments for the headline fee.

Bottom line was we did not get spanked, yes they could have been out of sight but failed to convert the chances they were presented with, you could see we were cautious but grew in confidence when we realised they were not as invincible as on paper would say. So on that score being billed as cannon fodder the fact we made a game of it is a positive, zero points for all that effort is a negative without doubt.Football is a game of ifs and buts, if the Lino was standing in line not 8ft beyond our back line, Tevez probably would have been flagged offside. If Webb had followed the letter of the law from previous seasons, we would have had a penalty (just look at Skrtel the day before) not only that Lescott should probably have been off too as that was a 2 footed studs up tackle on JRod, and we have seen many a player walk for just a little of that.Do what we know we can and we will be alright. As for stamina I would say as a team we are fitter now than we were under WGS which makes coping with the challenge each week so much easier. Man City at 3-2 thought we were put to bed but we kept at them.Nigel may have been positive in the post match interview, but as he said himself it counted for nothing: that is feet squarely on the ground with work to be done.

Take a look at that parried save again, the spin on the ball even in slo-mo was evil.

I thought this was going to be a Puncheon thread as he really seemed to come to life when he knew his number might be up soon with his replacement getting ready to come on. Prior to that I thought he was a tad powder puff. Nowt wrong with Guly

Is "F'sure" included in that?? Surely it's "the boy done good"?

Surely it would be the other way round, if anything happened to you and yours as a result of going public that would be massive negative PR for the lottery, so 15% should cover the cost of some safeguards.

A late friend of the family was a Mason and high up in his lodge. The Masons are viewed as having a bit of a mythical existence simply because they don't make a bit thing what they do, especially the Charitable things which is at the core of their society. if his small and ring finger are folded into his palm when he shakes your hand, there your answer.

Seems that Club v Country has crept into the game of Cricket. £1.3m to play in the IPL I doubt he is on that kind of money as a retained player for England unless I have missed something. Playing Cricket 12 months of the year all round the world with a young family must be a bit of a chore too. He is also not getting any younger and you can't see him getting into the media, so a few paydays from the IPL might just be part of his exit strategy, and if folks are trying to prevent his own personal plans as he is perceived as a player (possibly the only one at the moment) with character to put bums on seats then it is going to get a bit messy.

I have given up on it on my iPad as quite frankly it is a total pain in the ar$e, whoever signed that and the red shirts off needs a kick in the pants.