John Boy Saint

Goalkeepers are a protected species Federici slipped with no one near him, I just knew the ref would blow. i think it's the inconsistency that is the biggest gripe Rickie gets battered nothing, other teams strikers suffer less of a battering but tumble like a delicate butterfly in a storm and the stupid refs fall for it. We tackle from the side ref blows, we get takled from behind ref points to the ball. That decision against Puncheon in the final few minutes was woeful. What I don't get is Ramirez already has a "reputation" with refs: how the hell did he get that!! He has only been here 2 minutes and has 2 Bona fido penalties denied"...................... Is it because he is a fellow countryman of that slimey Toad Suarez?

A few times where the build up to finish in the back of our net has been very good I have found myself clapping in a strange slow way almost like "that was a very good goal" and sarcastically "oh well done lads for not defending that"! Funnily enough at those times I have heard many around me doing exactly the same. The strangest clapping the oppo's I can recall, goals in the opening thread aside, was when we played Steaua Bucharest back in 2003 (?) they had a moment of inter play in the middle of the park which was mesmerising fluid football, when they made what turned out to be the last sublime pass, the majority inside SMS just broke into applause. It was one of those surreal moments, where you, along with many others, just got hypnotised by the football.

Blimey you got on the OS and lifted a link before slashing your wrists!! You truely have the patience of a Saint!!

How to handle the added intensity and be relaxed not burning up energy through being nervous.

Sounds like 3 premiership games in a week are taking there toll................... Need to learn from this though.

That's Mrs Yoshida now turning up, too much bedroom action and home cooking methinks.

What a bizarre thread! We have those who saw it for what it was from the relay to Sammy, lighthearted harmless entertainment that made the majority smile. Then those who must have really sad dark lives who are amused by very little. Then of course there are those on here who just like winding up others by slagging it off and were actually enjoying it too. I wonder how many of the Nay sayers are the same ones you saw at away games last season having poured themselves out of the pub with a few lunchtime Jaegerbombs inside them being all gobby, then once in the ground when the Mascot comes to have a look at the visitors, they stand there all big and hard giving a cuddly fluffy Mascot the middle finger telling them to F off from row 10: now that, for the uber cool who thought Wednesday night half time was embarrassing, is 100 times more cringeworthy to be associated with.

Breaks your heart............ If you are an agent. Nice to see one of the pimples on the backside of Football getting short shrift from NC.

4 games 8 points = 2 points a game which is was the target last season and easily safety in this league. At the end of September if someone had told us that we would have a run in November of being unbeaten in 4 games most on here would have taken that with a big stupid grin on their faces. Tonight we came up against a team unbeaten in 8 games so on our season starting form 3 points bagged was probably the thought in the Norwich dressing room at 20 to 8 last night.

Boy did Holt look a lump last night. Mrs JBS reckons that the only comparison between him and Rickie is that Rickie is an Adonis versus Holt (it only took 2 buckets of icy water to bring her back into line!!).

Shame I missed this thread yesterday was running late as had been working down in Bideford, missed the first 4 minutes thanks to the TL way hold up that said back home to Basingstoke by 10:40pm

He made his thoughts known them deflected the pursuance of the subject by switching the conversation to Shaw, so no great story

Best: the circa 1977 thick red stripe with thinner red stripes either side. Worst: This seasons home shirt.

Luke Shaw in a league of his own tonight.

My first observation is the opening post was made while the game was in play as was the bulk of the first page!! My view from behind was the ball was hit with some venom it dipped bounced/skidded under him that could have happened to any keeper. I was cold in the stand and watching Gazza first half he looked cold too which seemed to make him a little slow. The free kick that led to the goal was a bit soft as matey was already falling as Clyne imitated a scythe, which made it easier for Clattenburg.

Ice Hockey returns to Southampton on Wednesday night.

Hammond lighting a smoker from outside the box v Leeds. Waigo knocking it in off his backside to equalise v Norwich in the JPT, seconds after that big jessie Holt had a hissy fit at not getting a decision for the dive he just made to run out the clock and half the Norwich team incredulous that their talisman had not conned the ref as we charged off down the pitch like an invading horde.

All of the above (Grey shreddies included) and number 8 : As posted in another thread and based on my QPR season ticket holding Boss's observations, "your players had spirit, belief and worked hard together".

Lambert and Lallana at least are not on bobbins money, Lambert probably has more trouble thinking about spending it, especially as he use to rock up in a Jeep that had a few years on the plate and not the blinged up pimp wagons most footie players swan around in. Probably in reality most of the players who made the journey from league 1 were more startled rabbits in the headlights than hacked off with someone coming in for silly transfer money who might be on stratospherically more per week than they are.

He has already set the wheels in motion to bring in big Joe and Bond. I think Jordan is a sound bloke, but Bond? I remember when we were teetering on the edge of the abyss, for the Norwich game the players were all sat on the pitch as Dennis Rofe started getting them going smashing his fist into his hand with passion, when we played United last day it was Bonds turn in the middle of the players compared to Rofe was like a wet flannel totally zero passion. So good luck if he does the same job. My boss is a QPR season ticket holder his first comment when we beat them was that we had Spirit and fight that they lacked passion and effort, he does not hold out much hope for Arry to make much difference.

I am quite surprised that the ref did not tell someone to go and help him.

Quite right

Nice bit of time wasting yesterday from the boys to run down the clock. The word must be out on Gazza and his dodgy 80 minute shoe laces as the ref made a point of holding his watch in the air in his direction, then Lallana or Cork went over to the ref for a bit of chat distracting him from his watch. Then Luke Shaw, when he knew he was up for subbing, as Newcastle made their substitution backed himself right over to the Kingsland touchline under the premise of taking a drink from the bottles there then had to slowly trot the width of the pitch to change with Jos.

Mr Mark "sponsored by Clintons" Clattenburg making his refereeing return after the Chelsea debacle nearly ruined the whole of the rest of his life, a nice under the radar game to ease him back in with.

I was about ready to go up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire, but wanted to see Saints on MOTD, blimey after seeing that I was buzzing as much as at the final whistle.