John Boy Saint

That's your ticket up for sale then!!

If you have left & right please can you save me 3 pairs (as no doubt they will sell like hot cakes) as I will not be into Southampton until 11am............. Thank you in advance.

Sitting through the games at home especially for the whole season, I always thought I could see Plan A , B, C, D, and E on many an occasion as Adkins has always tweaked things from the sidelines. However in recent weeks I do think he has been a little hamstrung by players like Lee out who adds another dimension, Chaplow bobbing in and out of fitness, Morgan out, De Ridder looking a little flat (although a ball for him to run onto would be nice). Connelly missing, Barney probably a bit distracted, Puncheon (god. Knows). Guly seems to slow the tempo, but then replacing Chaplow and the way he runs around Usane Bolt might even look a bit lethargic.When we know it's not our day yes sometimes the long ball appears to be the last resort, and lacking in an abundance of pace makes it look worse.

Did you not read my earlier post, the queue to get in is still massive, plus now the fashion police are on the door checking to see if you are suitably attired to be seen in their shop!!!! Plus you are going to have to amend your inspection policy to include the viewing of receipts, because all the current gear has gone, and now they are working through the old stock from about 2-3 years ago and beyond!!!

Yup we will all get wet and there will be loads of rubbish blowing about on the pitch......................... Actually everyone bring balloons let them go, delay the start then we will be 5 - 10 minutes behind West Ham at kick off/ fianal whistle!

Yeah right!! Have you seen the bloody queue outside!! there must be over 18,000 people in it, The copper helping to keep things in order wanted to know what the chuff was going on as he said from 9:53 this morning people started converging on the shop, the car parks are full and the Avenue is at a standstill.

Robbie Savage hit the nail on the head the other night when he said, if you are in the last few games of the season with nothing to play for, as a player you are not going to pile into a 50/50 challenge or any challenge where you might get injured because an injury at this time of the season means you can kiss goodbye to your holiday, as you will be spending the next few weeks on the treatment table being repaired ready for next season. We just have to go out and do what we have been doing so well for the vast majority of the season.

What you mean to say actual association Football was played professionally before 1992?!!?? I reckon you are on the wind up again Turkish!! Next you will be telling us that Men actually went to the Moon and discovered that it wasn't made of cheese!! Everyone knows Sky invented Football!!!!

I would thought you get very little if any seeing as the TV money is a fraction of the Prem and has to be spread right down the the 3 divisions. And if you are off to the land of plenty, do you really need some pocket money for the journey? Be interesting to know if the remains of the parachute payment from the Prem on relegation stays in the League if a team promoted back into it during the 4 years the payment now covers still stays behind.

Only been coming on here since that clanger we dropped v Brizzle City last December!!

I bet Dune didn't expect to get "blue"rinsed by the holders of the grey pound, when he started this thread.

I would dine out on that for as long as you can!! Although the latter is probably true too!!

Thankfully we have someone else who deals in the dark arts of software, plus our main system runs off the very dark mystical world of dBase. At inception I just ask the questions about everything that goes wrong when visiting everyone else's website etc. Admittedly with this little subject, reading the opening posts certainly helped to prepare ones mind for what may lay ahead,(an inquisitive mind might have helped too) instead of diving into page 120 and reading the mithering about a crap system, then joining in................ although by page 120 the subject would be on to where's the tick box to say I don't want to sit next to someone wearing a replica shirt.

It not aap3, its someone who has established experience with this ticketing system. Did mine on Chrome apart from a back track at the end then 2 clicks forwards, takes you to the junkmail and T's&C's tick boxes. when you submit, it takes you round to the first page. All very painless...................... Apart from my Confirmation email being in my Junk Folder: So check your Junk/Spam folder for your confirmation email.

Have you not seen that You Tube video of BFS in his back garden wearing just his underpants doing a rain dance standing on a large map of the St Mary's area of Southampton?

Dear Nicola Please respond to the above letter by directing this SISA Johnny to the Chapel Arms, where he will find an Ale that IS a disgrace. I think this letter might be based on the shame of standing next to folks wearing the clubs colours with pride, which is rampaging through Saints fans Web forums. Putting a pleasant Ale carrying the Saints crest into their mouths is seen as taking medicine to make them turn into happy clappers. Lots of Love Me

The Palace game was postponed due to a day of very heavy rain on sodden ground, coupled to a high spring tide which stopped the drains emptying fast enough. Saturday low tide is at 08:32 high tide is at 15:30 and it's heading towards neap tides, so the drains will have had a good chance to shed their excess before kick off, so if it does piddle down the water will have somewhere to go. We haven't had serious rain for weeks so the ground is relatively hard, any extremes of rain will just run to the lowest point making big puddles making things look worse than they are. For Saturdays game to be off with TV and all the final game factors, the Queen Mary will have to be moored in Britannia Road!!

Pretty laid back, although having a Daughter looking to be blowing her A levels by going off at bizarre tangents with her essays and course work, and not taking on board advice or guidance from stupid parents reminds me that there is another world outside the red and white stripes. And to be honest a greater concern at possibly having to pick her up and dust her down as much as she will allow over the next few months, has proved to be an un expected distraction. Might be a tad different driving down the M3 on Saturday morning mind!

There was a survey a couple of years back about people's support for league football teams up and down the country, it included Scotland too. Pretty certain we were in the Championship at the time and we came out as the 17th. Add this finding to the unofficial 55,000 Saints fans who rocked up to the JPT final and those who missed out, the fact that there will be times when the 32k+ seats at Saint Mary's will not be enough for key games is no surprise. Just amazing that everytime we get big gates and surge for ticket demand a full on debate takes place on here.

He's been getting away with that for years (I remember him having Crouch in a double armlock twice in the box against us years ago: he got the foul in his favour for one and ignored for the other) Silly whatsit forgot the official behind the goal line and paid the price.

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Widen your vision: how many teams when we played in league 1 with our far superior firepower, put 10 men behind the ball? Oldham at SMS ended our play off hopes playing this way, we threw just about every kitchen sink in Hampshire at them and they kept us out. Walsall last season they were 1-0 up and we must have thrown every kitchen sink in the West Midlands at them to no avail. When Di Matteo was manager not so long ago at MK Dons he had them playing well he came up against the same backs against the wall defending. How many times in the late stages of European Football have you ever seen defending like tonight, disciplined every man behind the ball most teams in Chelsea's position would have been trying their hardest to push up, and at CL level punished severely. Hope that helps.

That defending was straight out of DiMatteo's league one play book. Anyone who was at the Oldham game when the play off chance was snuffed out and at Walsall last season will know exactly what I mean.

Certainly glad that's been settled!! Bit mightily piddled off if Saturday was postponed at less than a weeks notice, I work all week just for that moment at 6:30am when I come to look at the clock and go "ah another 2 hours at leastzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz"!

Not seen this elsewhere the Ref for Saturday is Anthony Taylor Here's his Wiki Wotsit ..................... Incriminating photoshopped photos on order http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Taylor_(referee