John Boy Saint

What no smiley further down!!??!! I warned you it was coming................. Good job I left the Reebok Classics out (got to keep Frosty!!!).

I wonder what age those who are making these judgements about who wears what to Football are. Those in their 40s+ probably do it without a care because they could not do it when they were teenagers. I am late 40s when I was 13 - 14 -15 travelling to Southampton to watch Saints from Basingstoke you had to be on your toes, simply because there was always a chance that opposing fans were on the train or along the route and any sniff that you supported the other team had you in line for a kicking. You never wore a replica shirt, you never saw the volume of families, or females that you see now. You went to football because you wanted to and took your chances. Personally I could not give a chuffin monkeys if someone thinks I look a plum because I wear a replica shirt, a Saints jacket, and (wait for it) when it's hot my Saints crested 3/4 length shorts. How many of those passing judgement have been chased down the street as a nipper by grown men who just want to batter anyone, seen Darts whistling inches past your head, had to hide in the toilets on trains, not to dodge the ticket inspector but hooligans cruising through the train looking for someone to batter simply because they support the opposing team. It's nice to know when you walk through a town home or away with your shirt on these days you are likely to get into good banter with opposing fans rather than a punch up!

Glad I sit in the Chapel................. Allegedly it's Chapel by name Chapel by nature................ Sing something it's wrong. Whoa!don't sing something it's wrong! So what, everyone had a chortle home and away at the Peterborough keeper wearing luminous orange that made him look like a crispy snack. If you want an axe to grind at slightly wrong things from some of our fans. Next time you attend away have a look at the number of young men who have had not enough Lemonade in their pre match Shandy when the Home teams Mascot comes out for a wander about. It is amazing the number of our super hard fans giving a Giant Fluffy Rabbit, Massive Hornet, or whatever; The finger! Two fingers! Or the Five knuckle shuffle sign!!!!

It does stun me that prior to the Blackpool game someone started a who will our first game of next season be? The farmer let the sheep out and we have Premiership teams in the first few posts, and looks what happens Now we have this little gem rock up! Obviously there are a few on here who do not subscribe to what Mr Adkins says every chuffin week, "it's easy to get ahead of ourselves" "lets stay in the here and now and take one game at a time". Still before long we will have the HCDAJFU thread riddled with every pit pony and glue pot in football we should sign. Just look at Norwich and Swansea who did not make wholesale changes, compared to QPR who piddled pennies up the wall on the likes of Barton and SWP who have proved to be a waste of space.

Just back to Basingstoke thanks to Linford Saint, stopped for a jar in Sandy then detoured thanks to the M3 junction closed on M25: bloody roadworks! First ten minutes were immense, it was almost like Adkins had deprived Lions of meat since the Reading game and showed them the Steak they would get at half time if they were winning. The movement was constant for the 90 minutes and apart from a couple of little spells Peterborough were getting the right runaround. Cork seems to have stepped up a few gears in the absence of Morgan he was everywhere. Jos as always was as solid as a rock, Chappers was busy albeit a bit sloppy at times, Butterfield was very solid, Fox was still sticking in some nice Hollywood balls plus a few stinkers, but his corners are like Exocets into the box. Billy Sharpe put in a storming display and has a very nice relationship with Rickie growing, which takes the pressure of him somewhat. All in all a very enjoyable noisy night. Listening to 5 Live tonight I like that Adkins has now said we want the title, so I figure the boys will be on meat rations as of tonight till Saturday again. COYRs

Hmmmmm.......... So what if in your deck of cards of fate a positive card was turned as you placed that bet? Can I have first dibs on the promotion and ticketing rights for your Ye Olde Public Lynching down the Bargate?

Blustery showers later, a game off in April due to waterlogged pitch and after so little rain in recent weeks: I would get on your push bike down the bookies quick and get a few quid on that, as the odds for would be impressive. From recollection from driving past London Road a few times it is on, slightly, higher ground so drainage should not be an issue. So it should be perfectly safe for you to continue packing for your trek north.

Why

302, then the weather, then TV. Used it a few months ago in a hotel which had not switched to digital.

Surprised no one has got to him already. How the hell can you be council for a man like that, surely your reputation would damaged, plus you are fighting a lost cause. Or is it legal aid and that poor chap was sitting having a Cuppa when his name came to the top of the list?

Wigan are a negative for me, voted into the Football League at the expense of Southport starting life in Division 4 as we set off on a 27 year spell in the Top Division. When we got relegated from, they were promoted into the Premiership "in our place". Until recently we looked like we would waving politely to each other as we went in opposite directions at the end of the season: which would be apt symmetry. Anyway we should be taking no notice of all this Mumbo Jumbo........... Cr@p on TV: pure myth

We had better decide which goal of Mattys to influ..... get behind, seeing as his impact is diluted with 2 entries compared to the other Rubbish............... Sorry Alan!

This was pointed our a couple of years ago when we were last in the Championship and pennies were scarce, and there was a tread hoping that 1 or 2 relegated teams were in with a shout of going straight back up as a few ITK who stated this little gem as fact back then. The monies remaining waterfalled down through the leagues. Although seeing as the Parachute is such an obscene amount over 4 years now, a vast percentage probably does go back to the PL.

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!!!!

Family

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!!!