John Boy Saint

They say frost tonight, and my Apple trees are loaded with blossom, be a shame to have a crop failure. With all these fruit growers if we have success this year might have to organise a meet.......... To swap fruit:)

Well the installment plan was shelved due to a small minority (you know the saying) of thieving whatsits getting the season ticket on the installment plan then cancelling the direct debit but still coming to games for nowt. The swipe system makes it a smart system preventing the less honest blagging their way in when the turnstile operator is flat out taking tickets.

"This is the Voice of the Mysterons, we know you can hear us Earth men!". Question for the folks hooked on Captain Scarlet all those years back: what was Captain Scarlets real name? (no Wiki cheating!!). There are some great TV shows listed above. Being born in 1964 the World of Jerry Anderson was immense when I was 5, Thunderbirds was bigger than my eyes. (with all the CGI that exists today the Thunderbirds film from a couple of years back was such a disappointment, but showed what an immense show Thunderbirds was) Captain Scarlet, Stingray (those Titans were a bit scary), Joe 90. There was a great cartoon: Marine Boy, the boy chewed Oxygum and could breathe under water: 'Elfin Safety nightmare! Hectors House The Herbs The Clangers

Be waiting a long time they have gone on their end of season team holiday the 1% holiday fund they syphon off the annual subs ....................... Lyme Regis this year I reckon. ;) Next year with all the JCLs who will sign up it the boat will be pushed right out for Skeggy or even ............ Wait for it.......... Great Yarmouth!!

Kevin Keegan carrying a bit of timber was blowing a bit so walked off removed his England Shirt and gave it to a ball boy and sent him on to play up front with Mitchell Le Tissier he even got to score one from memory. Mike Osman didn't have a clue who he was, so couldn't give him a name check. Apparently he was a nipper from Basingtoke who played in the same team as the son of my Wife's friend. His face was a picture being thrust out under the floodlights in front of 32,000 people. You can just imagine him getting home "did you have a nice time tonight?". Mum! Dad! I played on the pitch at Saint Mary's in front of 32,000 people with Mitchell Le Tissier and his Dad Matt, Alan Shearer, Ian Wright, Tim Flowers, Gordon Strachan, John Barnes....................... I scored a goal, ............. Kevin Keegan gave me his England Shirt and sent me onto play on the pitch in the real game and...... and .......... I think the kids in the half time relay race get a real buzz now the crowd have got into cheering them on. That lad at Mattys testimonial can't have gotten to sleep until it was time to go to school next morning. Great night out....... But blimey 10 years!!!!!

But that was a song they sing in their repertoire, they play Blue Moon over the PA up there too. Like above "another on bites the dust" and "celebrate" by Cool and the Gang are hardly sing-a-long favourites. Our CD doesn't even have OWTS on it, if it did it wouldn't be a version we could all sing along to.

I had to take my Daughter to South Wales on Saturday, on our way down the M4 we saw 1000s of Newport County fans heading to Wembley for the FA Vase final. On the way home with nowt much on the radio we tuned into BBC radio Wales to see how they were getting on, unfortunately they lost 2-0 to York City. When York lifted the cup somewhere in the depths of Wembley someone inserted the celebration CD into the machine and pressed play. So you heard the York City fans cheer as the Captain raised the cup then piped we are the champions, followed by the same tunes we heard following our winning of the JPT at full blast. When it came to interviews of the Newport players they could not hear the question due to the volume. That reminded me of our last game of the season following the pitch invasion stood up in the stand still you could hear the 1000s by the tunnel trying to sing OWTS, we are going up, etc and basically giving up against the PA and you thought why is the person with the music switch not paying attention and switching off or turning down the music as the fans just seemed to give up the battle. When we ambled onto the pitch the sound from the PA was just white noise as the various distances from the speakers in the stands just blurred into a mess, so no wonder the choir gave up. Part of football down through the years is the singing from the crowd, and there are so many times when the crowd at SMS sing as one and it sounds fantastic. I would love to know in this world of TV cameras everywhere if the piping of crap Celebratory music is there a directive to cover up songs with naughty words in being heard at home on the TV and radio. Or whether the folks who run the PA just are like a poor DJ wanting to play what they want and not what the dance floor is dancing too.

Nope, simply because at the end of the day Mike Dean knows that in showing leniency he will get marked down in his assessors report, which might go against him in the maintaining of his Premiership referee status. Agree though bloomin stupid in the moment, just like Billy Sharp getting a yellow for high fiving a Five year old at SMS, apparently that was inciting the crowd!!!??!!

Certainly an exciting game at the end, I thought Mark Hughes was going to spoil the party, (I can imaging him wanting to get into a room with Joey Barton on his own and get someone to lock the door from outside). Well done Man City. Glad QPR stayed up, cos now I can give my Boss some chirp next season.

Those North of Winchester fall into that bracket.

Errrr No............... When we hit 4th after an early Christmas present v P*mpey, WGS was asked "can you stay in 4th" to which WGS said without a quip NO! It turns out that Lowe had blocked the potential signing of 2 players that might have made the difference, his rational, alledgedly, was that he did not want to line the pockets of another Premier League team and allow them to strengthen: being on a mission to prove you could make money from owning a football club would have seen us buying long shots from the lower leagues which would have been our undoing ultimately. What we have been through over the past 7 years is ultimately the best route we could have taken, despite the pain at the beginning feeling like the longest ever slow motion car crash in history. As someone once said "You don't choose to support the Saints, the Saints choose you" well they did a good job in choosing ML and NC. And what a wheeze the last 3 seasons have been.

£££££££££££ wrapped up nicely in a Manila envelope?

5 in 10 games on loan for Notts County makes that statement a tad harsh, add to that 2 game saving goals v MK Dons to get us back on track.

Not so fast! apparently the bloke who heard it from a bloke who's sister is going out with a chap who's Nephews-Cousins - Uncles - Mates -Brothers - Son was listening to 2 chaps in suits coming out of the Swimming baths talking about players going here there and everywhere was getting the water out of his ears so heard BA and Southamptmmmmmmnnnn in the same sentence, but HIS mate who was Crunching on a bag of Monster Munch fresh out of the Vending Machine only heard Drog! So maybe its DrogBA and not Demba Ba after all!!! Ah! Hat ~ Coat.......................

Ok I give up I have been sat here for over 3 hours now Phil and still don't get it!!

That will be £10m piddled up the wall, although a good return is guaranteed with a good contract buy out clause if he scores 15 in 10 as his agent will be gobbling off about the buy out value of Master Ba's contract............... Which is what he did following a hot little run recently at Newcastle. Not bad going on the Chinese Whisper thread track, Lee Holmes to Swindon to Demba Ba in 8 posts

Spent 7 consecutive years Summer Holidays up there when I was a mere nipper. Started under Canvas and got sunburnt first year, the folks across the road were a bit more well off than my Mum & Dad, they headed to Spain which in the early 70s was quite something we came back browner than them!! We went all over the Highlands first place was Gairloch, wall to wall blue sky and glorious scenery fantastic beaches. Just north of Oban was one of the best, camped by the Loch edge beech combing for miles collecting driftwood for an evening fire on the Beach, in the middle near Loch Rannoch, over to the flattish east to Dornoch. Right up the top to the Kyle of Tongue, we were there in June one year and Dad had shed the tent for the comfort of a Caravan, they had asked friends along on a grand Scottish Tour with their caravan and kids, the Beach was fantastic shame the sea was so cold, one evening the grown ups were getting oiled on Scotch and us kids were playing outside in the light, then we were suddenly told it was time for bed to which we all groaned at only to be told it was 2am in the morning!!! Being able to recall holidays from well over 30 years ago (blimey!) they must have been good............. The demise of the Holidays to Scotland were shelved after 2 consecutive years of atrocious weather then being greeted by warmth and blue sky's the further down the M6 we went. Must return there some time as I would imagine that once north of Loch Lomond it is pretty much unchanged, apart from some of the faster roads they were starting to build back then being completed

Just hope the weather is kind to you and you get to see the place in all it's glory. I would recommend getting an Ordinance survey map of the area, the one we found useful was standard O/S on one side and places of interest on the back, so if is mouldy you can have a look at something else to keep occupied. I am sure they all it a Sightseeing Map pretty certain you can pick one up in a decent bookshop or outdoor pursuits shop. If you like it up there and fancy a return trip and you like bike riding I would take a look at the Tissington Trail , it runs for 14ish miles from Parsley Hay just south of Buxton down to Ashbourne, it follows the old railway line so a picnic sat on the old platform at Tissington is a bit strange in a pleasant way. Have a good time.

A Few folks I know have stayed at The Castle in Castleton, part of the Innkeepers Lodge chain but an Olde Inn. If you like walking there is absolutely loads to do around the Village, The Devils Ar$e cavern, Peverill Castle ruins, Climb Mam Tor (then walk the ridge for a 8 mile round trip). We have stayed there a few times but had the Caravan so stay on the edge of the Village. Castleton is quite central for both the White and Dark Peak, and the next Valley over the hill sees the start of the Pennine way. We hadn't really paid much attention to the Peak District until my Sister moved to Glossop, then discovered it en route to her house the scenic route. Once you get into the Peak after a while you forget this big bit of relative Wilderness is more or less surrounded by some of the densest populated Towns and City's in the country, which is where the down side is: because it is so close to so many people it does get busy on the main routes and in towns like Matlock, Buxton, and Bakewell on the weekend if the weather is good, thankfully most of those folks will give the nice little places just off the main routes a miss. Hope it helps

I think you might be getting confused with various clubs securing their immediate financial needs against the next 5 Years Season Ticket sales.

Don't take umbridge at those fantastic folks of Liverpool, otherwise they will get very upset with you. We all sit on our backsides at football thanks to a big mob of Beered up "Scousers" forcing their way into a Cup Semi Final resulting in the deaths of 90 so called fellow supporters: oops! Sorry....I forgot it was 100% South Yorkshire Police's fault....... That's the Dog poo through my door sorted. All English Football teams cast out of European competition football, for what was it 5 years, because Liverpool fans went on the rampage......... Oops sorry again! Silly me, Stadium was woefully inadequate and decrepit for a European Cup final it had absolutely nothing to with the fact that a bunch of Liverpool fans, no doubt Beered up on strong Belgian Lager, decided they were invincible and started a riot.............. That'll be a big hole in the ground where my house was when I get home. The National Anthem is the National Anthem, whether you agree with the Monarchy or not it is the National Anthem, we don't live in a dictatorship, we live in probably one of the most liberal and laid back Countries in the World, if you don't like the Anthem don't sing it, but don't abuse the National Anthem or those who chose to sing it. Booing the singing of it is unacceptable, if you are a British National living in our very liberal freedom of speech society, if you feel that small minded enough to Boo the National Anthem, then quite frankly you should save up your pennies or giro and get on a plane or boat and b u gger off out of the Country. Most of all, never question the actions of the good people of Liverpool, the wrongs might be committed by the minority, but the majority will stand behind them regardless.

Funny I have heard this 3 times now so must some truth in it!!

Wasn't just me and my 40 & 50 something mates bouncing round like loons when the ball went in off Papa's backside!......... Phew!!

Cheers for that. I shall save that for when the tour of Wickes on my travels has been exhausted.

I have 3 1/2 rooms to complete in our house we started renovating last Easter (steaming paper off the ceilings whilst listening to Saints securing a box seat v Plymouth) Moved in last August Bank Holiday with rooms of civilisation: so not having to think about going to Southampton and away here and there and actually getting some down time as well, is most welcome!! Oh! and play Golf!!