John Boy Saint

Robby Savage on 5Live called it right, end of the season nothing to play for you aren't going to make a hard tackle as you know your holiday will be held in check if you get injured. As I have said already, he also said Coventry could be tricky as they will be relaxed.

I'm not sat next to anyone.

I am sure Reading fans were slashing their wrists at missing out on winning the Championship sat on their backsides watching us lose to Boro at about 7:20 on Saturday night, and not up at Birmingham.

That's handy, we will all know what's going on when the Gold Plated Northam massive start to, what looks to everyone else in the ground, wave their hands about: what we won't quite see is the Season tickets in their hands!!

Yeah right....................... Fat chance of that!!

I would imagine the thinking behind the offer from the City for the bus tour is simply down to the fact that if Saints are in the Prem then the Advertising for the City is priceless seeing as we will be on the TV throughout the world every week. When we were relegated I recall a piece somewhere about how much it would cost the City in lost future revenue from companies home and abroad looking to locate and invest in the City and it's surroundings. So you can see the thinking why Norwich did it last year and Southampton City council is offering it this year.

To be fair we had a very competitive Huddersfield shadowing us in 3rd last year until the last but one game. So we do seem to be able to handle it. It's just we seem to make a meal out of doing so!! Anyway the second part of that very dark Silent Witness is on tonight, so whatever I watch it will be from behind the Sofa!!!

The decision not to send him off was wrong and influenced the team, had he been sent off apart from not making Boro so gung-ho, it would not have made much difference to us as against 10 men we have been poor at making the man advantage count these last few seasons.

If there was a league championship for fans web forums to get off thread topic, we would be qualifying for Europe with ease. If I had the money I would invite all the usual contributors to meet in person in a pub, just to add alcohol to the mix, as I think that would very interesting to observe the arguing of points of view without having to type them out.

I would have no problem if we do it tonight, damn sight easier than being on the Telly against a relaxed relegated next Saturday.

The Civic leaders have offered one on Sunday either for Champions or just being promoted. It was in the Echo yesterday. If 55,000 can rock up to Wembley for a 3rd division cup final I would imagine quite a few might just step out onto the streets to cheer the lads for the season.

Feel the same as I have for many years following a chance of some sort slipping through Saints fingers once again, not suicidal or depressed, just a bit of ah well. Just move on and go again. We have another chance to secure our goal. At the end of the day no one died and we weren't consigned to relegation back into league 1.

Very good despite being numbed by incahol that is top drawer!

I have to say living in border country just outside Basingstoke, it does smart that Reading go up as Champions. The last time Reading were in the Prem, despite the number of Saints fans up here, the town was riddled with blue and white hooped shirts that disappeared along with their Premiership status. Also with the Championship still up for grabs at 2-1 down we did not show the desire to keep title chase alive.......... That is such a nice Trophy too. Ah well

Well there ain't nowt we can do about it wherever they stick the cameras. Says a man with a bottle of very nice Chardonnay and a couple of home measure Cuba Libres inside him. Cheers!!

As I have always said, as much as I love Saints, boy is it chuffing hard work supporting them!! Still as I have also always said supporting Saints really sets you up for life, the real world is not sugar coated Disney Channel perfection but bloody hard work............... Just Saints have made the hard work an Art form! I would love to know what it is, the players change, the ownership changes, but we have the same ingrained habits. I reckon it's time to get that White Witch into the changing room to do her stuff there rather than on the Stadium as she did before............ Of course it could just be Marcus pulling the strings from upstairs and making sure that loads of us get to celebrate. One thing is for certain the team will need a nip and a tuck if we are to survive in the Premiership. Especially when players like Chaplow go on a lung busting run down the wing and cross into a box devoid of yellow shirts apart from Billy Sharpe on the far side just outside Hartlepool (or Staithes depending on the orientation of the pitch). Some folks have said we need a new defence, Fox needs to learn not to have too much to do get close to the player who is about to skin him, as for Jos that bloke for the past few weeks has been carrying Jose, I think the moment fr Martin is about to come. Still looking forward to next week when hopefully we will finish the job against what will be against a very relaxed Coventry full of players looking for a move in the Summer. COYRs

On the TV without a doubt Coventry relaxed knowing their fate and us up tight. Down the years Coventry have been a bit of a thorn in our sides. Ah well just have to wait another week.

I would have love to have gone, and thought a small window of opportunity had opened when my Mum phone to say that they will be ready to be picked up from the Queen Victoria in Southampton today at 10:30, not 15:45 as originally typed up. In their 70s and returning from their Golden Wedding anniversary cruise, something had to give. Sadly this trip was it! But this new time had the cogs whirring, by the time I had dropped them off north of Basingstoke putting in The Riverside Stadium into the sat nav had my ETA 5:35pm that was making no allowances for traffic hold ups etc. Realistically the moment was gone, so traipsed home: bottom lip out, snotty nose, scuffing my shoes as I went (if you can do such a thing driving in a car ). C'est la vie. Well done to the folks who have made the trek north, I hope they have the same good time we had at Peterborough on Tuesday. COYRs

Cheddar & Red Onion Kettle Crisps. When we go to Spain Carrefour have fantastic Garlic and Parsley flavoured crisps, once you start you can't stop: and Boy does your breath stink afterwards.

We had New Age Travellers complete with an old Coach and Benders in a field just over a bank at the bottom of our garden. They were supplementing their endless benefits selling drugs, which saw our parking spaces being used as the "Convenience store" car park. We had a very ballsy local Policewoman on our patch who would, on her own, go and raid them plus she wanted every number plate of the cars going shopping as she took great pleasure in knocking on the doors of parents to ask why their car was seen at place where drugs were sold. The land was owned by the original developers of the estate who had gone into liquidation and had bolted to Panama to avoid the creditors, so nothing could be done to get rid of them. Then after 6 months on a Bank Holiday weekend a load of Caravans rocked up and pitched literally 40ft from our front door!! Before we knew it, as we had no fence, we had spawny kids in our garden playing then picking flowers and chucking them about, as soon as you confronted them the Girls were shouting I'm going to tell my Dad you have been fiddling about with me, then running back over the bank, fearing the onslaught to come, the relief when you heard a Father telling them not to go over the bank and if they are seen going over there they will get what for was immense. What we did not know was New Age Travellers and Gypsies, Travellers, Tinkers, Pikeys, Knackers (whatever you want to call them) do not mix well, and first night it kicks off: as a handful of Stinkies wacked up on their stash invaded the Gypsies Caravans. Old Bill rock up but there is not much they could do because of the land issues. Next Morning apart from opening our curtains to be greeted by one of the Women taking a dump round the back of her Caravan, the Police chief comes to pay a visit, when he left I followed him down the road and flagged him down. Everyone in our Close was getting really ****ed off with the Stinkies, and the Gypsies were close to being the straw that broke the Camels back. I asked him how long they were going to stay, he said a few days as they did not like the neighbours. I told him the mood in our Close was not the best, and not to be too surprised if Unigate report a load of empty milk bottles going missing and Tesco reporting petrol sales going up: he replied "Ah, that's what John Major means by the Citizens Charter". His tone was if you want to give them all a kicking we will have something else to do over the other side of town at the time. The Gypsies were gone in a few days, as promised, leaving a massive pile of rubbish behind, which the Stinkies piled up and torched spectacularly. The New Age Travellers took another 6 months to get shot of, and that was spectacular viewing as there were at least 50 Coppers plus the Police Helicopter, and leading the charge was our Policewoman. The whole experience was not vey nice but the relief when they had all gone. Basingstoke has always been a staging post for Travelling folks, less so now as whenever they got moved on a trench or unsightly bank of earth was put over any entry point. Just be thankful you do not live in France, the Gypsies there are the "scum of the earth" and live upto the billing.

Had Solent on at 5:20 for the sport this evening and they were saying about the, I thought 21 years, anniversary of his death. Thought blimey that passed quick, then felt old as I recalled being at the Genesis Invisible Touch concert at the old Wembley and the opening was a Video with Benny Hill in his famous Concierge roll losing control of the girls sneaking back stage.

Premier League Players from top clubs are relatively untouchable for this kind of thing. A white lower league International player getting the book thrown at him for this kind of wrong behaviour is the perfect example to send out to some players who think they are the Mutts nuts on the pull and untouchable in the eyes of the law. Take Ashley Cole, if anyone else had shot someone else in the backside with an Air Pistol they would not have had such an easy experience.

Surprisingly relaxed. We are 'ont Telly so guaranteed to be pants, will settle down in front of the box with a drink and see what we are dished up: hopefully the entree from the opening minutes at Peterborough.

This is worthy on another Bump. I liked "the old sporran was pointing north south east and west from my Speedos" page 2 Stunning that it has been allowed to run, but fair play to Amazon for allowing a bit of a giggle.

Crikey that's torn it, it's all going to kick off now!!!