John Boy Saint

Thank you Scotty................. More haste less speed.

They have bloomin shedloads of money, on paper, seeing as the parachute payment is now a squillion quid and is coughed up over 4 years rather than the bobbins we got in comparison over 2 years. Still typical Football team, money burning a hole in their pockets and blowing it on tat they cant afford.

Getting this back on track 47- Southampton Born living in Old Basing First Home game: Notts County 1978 3-1, My Hero Phil Boyer bagging a brace to make my day. First Away Game: Reading league cup 1978 0 (very fortuitous) -0 thanks to a blind lino. Me on the infamous South Bank watching Saints fans climbing the Floodlight pylons and being told off!..................................... Then Shock horror! David Peach asking me for a light for his fag outside after the game!!

We had to do the best part of a house recently, had looked in JLP - all very samey. Paid a visit to Carpetshoite, as that was all that was on offer in Blazingsmoke, and was very uninspired, so returned to where we went 21 years previously, Downs Carpets in Newbury. Within 40 minutes we had sorted Stairs, landing, dining, living, and bedrooms, all at a very reasonable price. They have a Branch up at Winnall in Winchester and would imagine that delivery to Southampton is on their patch. Whatever you decide on get decent underlay, not the Waffly cheapo stuff. Cloud9 is the stuff most carpet fitters recommend, bought that independently off the Internet from a company in Hull at a very good price.

Something very pleasant, easy to watch, amusing, nicely filmed by Ridley Scott is: A Good Year. Russell Crowe being humorous is quite different too.

Ipswich showed last night why they are in a rich vein of form, they have always been a bit of a niggle side against us down through the years at our place and last night was another, Paul Jewell had them well sorted for us. Part way through the second half I did comment its another game against a team wearing Blue shirts and white shorts giving us the runaround. Once again we had moaners around us who you doubted came to every game, 2 just behind mithered about the minutest negative for 2 minutes. And showed no interest in the positives!?! Then sitting in the car listening to Solent, well Prozac sales must be through the roof this morning listening to the garbage that folks were texting in, and bloody Solent kept on reading out: if you had just got back into the country and turned on the radio you would have thought that we had been smashed out of sight! Still at the final whistle there was no booing, which is a positive. At the end of the day we were grinding out a result, when someone slips in the box which in turn opens a window for a striker to do what he is paid to do, have a go (and this is something we should learn from). Scotland fires in a shot that takes a deflection and the ball is in the back of the net, we have enough big hitters in the team to do a bit more of that ourselves especially when all else is failing or we are trying to tee up goal of the season. Still we are still in the race.................. and one that looks like it might go right down to the wire!

Everyone knows that sometimes the Wiki info can be slightly awry. Anyone see that QPR - Four year plan: Flavio Briatore showed the kind of Italian you don't want to work for.......... And as for his henchman.

The coincidences run deeper than you think where Wigan are concerned: The season we were promoted to the top flight in 1978, Wigan were elected to the Football League at the expense of Southport, the season we were relegated they get promoted to the top flight............................. Hmmmmm Now the 2 previous times we were promoted to the top flight it was secured with a draw at Leyton Orient: how strange would it be if Wigan were the link on this occasion even if it is just passing between leagues.

Was on the agenda until what was niggling me about that date finally dawned: Mum & Dads 50th Wedding Anniversary. So no dodge available in the book of excuses.

Anyone else watching France v Ireland on a half decent TV, whenever they show a kick for conversion or Penalty, the track camera on the sideline has had a nice slow run making everything look surreal and in 3D. Or is it just my eyes

I have often thought that when Morgan is on his game he sets the tempo for the team, a bit like Oakley under WGS, not a superstar in the spotlight performance just a solid hub in midfield. He also seems to have curbed his desire to react to the niggling he gets from the opposition, but his tackling has become much more precise and still just as hard......... Almost like Hammond with finesse in that department.

We could certainly hear you on the TV, well done!!

.......... And there was me thinking the anagram of your name being Colin W@nker was a tad harsh! Or Go on Nigel 'ave im!

Kelvin was immense tonight. Blaney stopping Shearer was fantastic. Smudger keeping out the Arsenal with a double save was Brilliant. But the one that popped into my head on reading the OP was Niemi's debut v Charlton, I had a prawn sandwich seat for that game so a good view. Charlton got a free kick in a dangerous spot, possibly Jenssen (?) who had been on fire from dead ball strikes so far that season lined up and hit a Howitser of a shot going in at the Airmail stamp of the goal, all of a sudden Niemi has switched the jets on in his studs and somehow flown across and pushed it wide............. From that moment I thought he would do alright for us.

Hope when it's completed young Farrow9 shares the results with us all on here.

Did he join Saints just to get his airmile total up a bit quicker.

No Surprise on the odds of the 2 highest placed players Holt 2/10 Rickie 1/10 on chances of going to the Euros, whereas all the premier league Darlings players get short odds............................ Danny Wellbeck crap player "when he hasn't got the ball does F all, when he does have it his first option is to flick the ball when a proper pass would get a higher pass completion" to quote my mate a Manure fan: who also played at youth level against Shearer and the Wallaces.

Winning 0-3 at Vicarage Road on Saturday, seeing as we haven't won there since 1988 I believe, that is what I call a bit of a shock. Quite a few folks in the build up thread were a bit windy about our visit to a bit of a bogey ground for us.

That New England Shirt looks like they got it out the back of Fat Freddie's van, or out of the Kay's Catalogue!

Nah! Its the ravages of time taking its toll on the film-stock, look at the old black and white newsreel type films made pre 1930, everyone is walking like they are in a race. Watch that game in 25 years time you would question how they found the energy: or realise why we lost

We seem to be getting some intelligent ex pros into our back room staff, the kind of guys who knew what had to be done and did so sometimes at the extreme of their ability, passing that on to more gifted youngsters is a real positive.

Ahem! 6th sorry........ 7th! not forgetting Seaborne and Danny Fox (when he stands in and covers in that position).

Someone in Football is going to have to crash and burn in style soon, in the vague hope that Football might eventually wake up and stop living beyond its means. No one seemed too give 2 hoots about us as we held onto the rim of the abyss by our fingernails, Portsmouth seem to have a charmed life, maybe them going under might just be the straw. No one has really blinked at Rangers admin, and some of the bizarre ways it alledgedly came about. What would be bad is if Portsmouth get relegated they will just be a minor League 1 team and no one will notice.

Don't recall too much of that! apart from when he collected some nice stud marks on his lower stomach.

Anyone else notice we didn't have a corner all game?