John Boy Saint

If you recall Brighton went to crap last 4 games of last season too, probably a bit of a habit like Saints use to go like a train in the Autumn then as January progressed started going off the boil. We all know from our game down there that Brighton under Poyet are a little nasty and twisted set up (Captain sent off at 3-0 up for stupid forearm smash on Forte in the latter stages!!!!??!!). You go 3-0 up with a team like WHU in the 1st 15, you are very likely going to roger the opposition senseless by full- time. At the end of the day nothing will be found, especially as the Football league will rejoice in the Windfall from the WHU parachute payment being left behind on promotion.

Should we stumble into the play offs and have to play in Yellow, it's a great opportunity to make some hefty profit from those wanting to wear a Yellow Shirt. If at the Coventry game we succeed in our endeavours, they can have a snap sale and clear through a lot of stock as folks will be in the soft frame of mind to be tempted.

Oooooooo! What a Wizard Wheeze.................... Certainly is exciting. ................... Just wish the Butterflies in my stomach would stop fidgeting every so often!!!!

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Funerals normally are s h 1 t simply because ..........err a loved one has died. Maybe the folks running the one Dune went to felt it would not be depressing enough for the mourners, so thought they would add a twist or two just to make doubly sure!!

Nope! Check your spellings you have fallen into the English Launguage trap Peterborough Middlesbrough Amazing what you remember from Geography at school 30 odd years ago!!

Always remember at School in Baughurst near Tadley, I had a mate, Peter Walker, who had been dealt a crap hand from birth which had him with really deteriorating sight but he made it through secondary school unscathed. What he did love was going to the Dell for all the home games with his Dad, he sat on the centre line so that he could make out the action at both ends ( he always wanted to go onto the Miton Road end but said it was pointless as he would only see the first half!! Anyway I digress: as we use to hang around together at lunchtimes there was always someone popping up to talk Saints, next thing I know there is a whole network of Saints fans at my School in North Hampshire, this was old money second division Saints. Next thing I know I am on the shopping bus or train to Southampton to see Saints with my mates, a few of whom were in years ahead of me: which was cool. All of them my first 2 years at secondary school I had no idea existed.

I thought this was going to be something clever like: They can all play in goal, hence the omission of Bart! You are dead right in the OP, We all feel a little queezy in our stomachs but last season it went all the way to the penultimate weekend, just this time 3 of us are in striking distance of each other. But there is no need for some of the wrist slitting that is going on here. But everytime we have new neighbours sat near us in the stadium so many of them you half expect to be hanging from the concourse steelwork when you leave at full time: and that is following a win!!!!

I always remember two guys in front of me, one was a regular the other along for the ride. The teams were being read out over the PA, when it came to the manager the regular said to his mate "just listen to this"....... "Manager for Southampton..... Ian Branfoot!!". Which was greeted by a crescendo of Boo's There can be many (if any) teams in a Wembley final where the managers name was greeted so negatively.

A shoite weekend of Footnall, but discovered I only paid £2.20 for my Pasty and Pint last night thanks to the inept Halo staff. And got positions 2,3,4 in the National so a bit of pleasure pain experience. I think it's time for Saints to open up all the teams they play from now on and get that goal difference back into the healthy position it was a few weeks ago.

Like many woke up this morning slightly hung over and flat following last nights game. Had a trawl through the "The Wake" thread and came across this little Gem buried in the depths gloom posted by Legod Third Coming: It's not over yet. Let's say both Reading and us win our next two games. Come 28th April they will be 3 points clear and away at Birmingham. We will be at home to Coventry... Could be fun! In a Dave Merrington voice: The Boys right you know. I have to say having read that I perked up instantly, and felt I should share it with the masses on here. So folks enjoy your weekend and look forward to Peterborough on Tuesday. COYRs

Well I had hoped to be blowing my 2000th post following a cheery night watching another great from the Saints but C'est La Vie. My feeling leaving St Mary's tonight was: Jeez it's chuffin hard work being a Saints fan! I hoped with a new brush sweeping through the building since admin and having watched some of the most mouthwatering football from my team over the last few seasons (****ing playing on TV aside: shoitebags picked the wrong bloody horse to follow with tonight and next Saturday), I hoped as the finishing line came into view we would be more like Red Rum than Devon Lock (those scratching their head put Devon Lock in Wikipedia). But the tune has changed the Dance is still the same. Reading have fantastic momentum, which tonight saw 3 mistakes by us punished, previously we would have gotten away with them. And fair play to "Ben from Eastenders", who is out of a similar mould to our Nige, he has assembled a potent force who have speed to burn, which at the end of the day is what punished us. I thought we played really well tonight, especially in the first half. But as the game panned out we became too laboured and predictable. There is another thread running on here started by someone not impressed by Steve de Ridder, well sat in the Chapel the amount of times he had the Ball and looking into the box the amount of times there was no bugger there was amazing, (Rickie and Billy were covered) everyone else was having a fag round the back of the dug out! Which opens up another question, all season we have tried to score the perfect goal, strangely enough we have been doing that for quite a while, I think it's about time they had a game of England Scotland ( headers and Volleys) in training, as players like Jack Cork, who played well tonight, should be smoking absolute snorters into the back of the net from outside the box when the defender clears in his direction, rather than going " cripes the balls a bomb pass it sideways to someone else!"! We should be buying a lottery ticket when in sight of the goal, the amount of goals scored every weekend across the 4 divisions is amazing thanks to a ball rifled into the net taking a cheeky nick off a defender en route. Unfortunately the Gods of fate have not dealt us the best hand in recent weeks as players like Spiderman and Lee might have put a different slant on proceedings. Billy Sharpe without doubt is a finisher and increasingly links well with Lambert, but Lee (in the games he has played) is like Willow the Whisp, one minute he is there next he has popped up somewhere else, which is a nightmare for defenders. Morgan Schneiderlin sets a fantastic tempo in midfield, that said Jack a few times tonight looked like he had been in the Joe90 machine linked up to Morgan. Hammond without a doubt is an enforcer, but in losing the ball for their second goal showed he is at the limits of his endurance. Guly who replaced him just needs wiring to the mains and there being a button in the dug out so they can give him the hurry up when he decides to go into Copacabana beach laid back mode. Just as an aside, and further to another post earlier in this thread. Lallana without a doubt is a gifted player when it comes to bamboozling the opposition, but the end product is very disappointing (yes the bucket is on the otherside of the front door ready for the Dog Poo being posted through it) for such an entertaining player, someone really needs to work on his shooting power. As for fans Reading's are as dull as ditchwater, no real songs, "sing when you are winning" is a hat they wear well. Whilst getting right on my Tits, their was a lad singing "we got promted at St Mary's" walking down Brittania Road, made me smile too as we must be seen as a really big team. Anyway I have had my 5 penneth worth on here. We are still in with a shout, worryingly we have one more game against a team playing in Blue & White, which if you look at the results this season is where we have been given the right runaround. 2 wins is all we need. I will skip over the dream that woke me with a start on Tuesday morning, that had us finishing line in the playoffs!!!!! Tonight was a kick in he Wedding vegetables, but we are still in the race. I would have liked us to win probably the best looking Trophy in English football, but if we nail 2nd we are in the big time. Half a bottle of Bacardi since getting home: John Boy Saint out!! COYRs!!!

Christ work is proving to be a chore this afternoon, every minute feels like an hour!! Itching to get going, getting a beer down my neck and a Cornish Pasty in my gob. The Boss has just Skyped me from Shanghai as its half time by his clock there: he sends apologies and the news we are 0-2 down............. Rotten stinker!!! Just seen my post count, shall I save it for later ?

Just hope he has his rough and ready Championship head on. Least it's not a normal league referee looking to be at the middle of everything due to it being on the TV, but a seasoned Premier ref........................ Not that makes much difference when we throw the very recently retired Peter Walton into the mix.

I will print this thread out and pop it through his letter box tomorrow on my way to work, just so he knows where he stands and has all day to think about it.

If I have my lucky pants on. Trouble is I have 5 pairs that are the same: so it's Russian Roulette every game I attend!!!

And those who don't get the take the pace right out of the game at 2-0 up, re charging batteries and preserving players fitness for the next game. Controlling the game

Just a shame we can't get the Floating Bridge song to catch on and give us a unique song like Fields of Anfield and Bladon Races. I just dread the top of the league song and "The Saints are going up" on Friday night when we get a lead, as the way Reading are playing it might just spur them on to shut us up.

If he can make a man Captain who has the mentality to forearm smash an opponents forward, off the ball, when 3-0 up anything is possible.

He is twisted enough to let Reading and Wet Spam win in the vain hope he will get another crack or 2 at us before the season is out!!

When Nigel heaps loads of praise on the away fans for their support, I wonder if he realises the number of obstacles put in their way to even get a ticket in the first place. I also wonder if Nicola knows the feeling of incompetence being exuded by one of the most important departments in the club when it comes to dealing with the most important people; the customer

Just listened to bit on Berkshire, sure Murty is co commentator, Brighton second penalty claim WAS a penalty. Seems like Gorks (sp?) is the one to worry and Harte on of the ones to keep quiet.

Didn't they twin Coventry with Barnsley & Ipswich? Twinning with Reading would have probably complicated matters. They probably figured that Reading would need no twinning with another game.................. Then Sky pipe up and say they want to put it on the Telly, and pig it up

The one factor everyone seems to have negated in the Adkins to Liverpool fear................ Nicola Cortese! He will not just let Nigel walk away if they come knocking.

Well that was a Wizard Wheeze today, Saints in control apart from on the very rare occasion. The local pubs were splitting at the seams, coach after coach of Saints fans rolling up the main street, the cyclists getting a round of applause as they walked down the road in search of something decent to eat. The Coppers all seemed well humoured. Chuffin Bloody Great big Eagle flying up and down the pitch (which even gave the regular Palace fans the frightners as it did a handbrake turn over them when it over shot its handler) Made the ref stop in his tracks as it did the last fly-by. I think Chez covered the player points very well, although I thought Butterfield did better than the marks given. For me MOTM was Fox, he has great vision and great confidence in his ability. To be honest to give a thorough assessment of the team might have been slightly off course through having 2 6 foot lads standing on the upper step of their row right in front of me, along with a stand post!!! A final comment, only the Coppers were geared up for nye on 6000 Saints fans rocking up: if anyone wants to slag the concourse counters at Saint Mary's come to a few away games and try and get a bite and a drink at some of the away crap holes we have played at, Lec the Pole might not understand the difference between Balti and Cornish but we have luxury at SMS when it comes to a pie and a pint.