John Boy Saint

Chez mate you weren't one of the lads on Jaegerbombs in Wetherspoons just after midday? Reading Adkins comments about negating a lively pitch, how great it is for a team that plays such flowing passing expansive football to be able to adapt to the managers plan to deal with the playing conditions by playing a more long ball game and winning at a canter. Lee was a livewire turning lost causes into threatening play. His winning of a penalty was a bit of a funny one as he dived without a chance to get his head on the ball next thing you know the ref was pointing at the spot. The only player I thought didn't look at the races today was Puncheon. Today was a Banana skin sidestepped with aplomb.

............ And Cul de Sac Sturrock actually had him playing as more of team player, then he got clattered majorly and never really came back. Lee Hoos told a great story about him while he was at Fulham: apparently the team coach was stuck in a major traffic jam very close to the team hotel, after a nearly an hour the team decided they would walk to the hotel and get their gear when the coach got free. Everyone got off the coach and set off all except Fabrice who stubbornly refused to walk and demanded to stay on the coach............ 2 hours later he got to the hotel while everyone else was having dinner.

Tad harsh on Lee there methinks I thought he kept the Watford back line on their toes especially when he was retrieving lost causes. Diving for a header and getting a pen as a result was inspired. Puncheon didn't seem at the races today doesn't look comfortable on the left. It does make me smile when folks say our opposition was poor forgetting that in reality, invariably, we are superior. Moon under Water was a wheeze pre match, very noisy as the ale went down: a couple of Lads on Jaegerbombs not long after 12 you had to feel that they will be in dire need of a recharge around 4:15. Grand day out all in all.

Dead soft you lot, live just north of Basingstoke and you regularly hear the crackle of an SA80 to accompany the evening serenade of a Nightingale!!

Will we be doing this next? http://www.groupon.co.uk/ Scroll down to the bottom on the right hand side. Seem a tad desparate for top of the table

And warms itself up!

Blimey the system is working already: change the subject before the bottom of page one!!

I doubt I would even make the gates!! For those of us outside the banking sector, bonus payouts for overall failure just don't compute, even more so if you work your whatsits off, even more so if you work in a performance = positive results industry. Would there really be a brain drain if these payments were stopped, and if there was to the dramatic levels that spokesmen allude to then surely there would be a glut of banking folk flipping a coin and chasing down a few openings elsewhere which would be the case if globally the banking system is having a rough ride.

Keep your arms inside the carriage at all times!! Coming up for 2 calendar months of Football left and we are in the prime seats, because this is the Championship nothing is a forgone conclusion which makes it even more exciting. Interestingly reading through the posts the battle scars that so many of us carry from so many seasons of Saints dashing our hopes, by allowing our genetic flaw of fizzling out to strike is amazing. If last season is anything to go by then I think Doctor Nigel is Prescribing the right course of medicine. I would like to think that Leicester was the defining moment of this season, a night when for once this season the whole team were complete strangers, I think that was a metaphorical kick in the pants the team needed. And with that being such a poor performance I don't think it was a place the team liked being in. The run in is littered with Banana Skins for everyone around us, so let's enjoy the ride and see where it takes us. As Nigel would say: Together as one! As John Boy Saint would say: Come on!Let's reel this big bugger in!!!

Bring back the Relay race!!! NOW!! This current game is stupid because the majority of folks in the Kingsland haven't heard a word old Baldy has been whittering about!! So the race is on and nipper is down the touchline chasing a wayward ball, meanwhile in the stand a giant ball hits Charlie in the head he thinks way hey you can bloody well have that back!! And it instantly goes backwards! Bring back the relay, with tiddlers of all shapes and sizes you have no idea where it will end up, and a chance to score in front of the Northam how great is that, in fact people had latched on the race and the noise was getting louder each week: how great must that be for a kid, who will probably never in their lives again, be cheered on by 20 odd thousand people.

Lashings of Ginger Beer, Pork Pies and Garlic Bread!!!

If our business is all done and dusted, it would be funny to see a Sky Blue stadium as the vast majority would enjoy seeing our fishy friends going down to heap even more grief on them.

Therein lies the the issue that folks have with Nick, he is put in the same basket as the militant shop stewards without a Union McMillan & Chorley so consider him one and the same.

Didn't want to slum it with us in BB again then:(

Lee Hoos, always came across as a good chap everytime I met and spoke to him, great stories too, like others have said caught in the crossfire and double dealing in the end. Nice thing he did was sort out a Christmas card from Rasiak to my daughter. Oh-no! came to Basingstoke Saints one night along with Lawrie Mac, Lawrie was good value as always, Oldknow discovered the cure for insomnia that night.

Look like some has had a recent birthday and is looking for safety in numbers to wear it in public!!!

Chaplow a passenger!!!!!!???!!!!!! he took a hefty challenge first half on Saturday, checked everything was in order as he got up realised that it was all ok and started playing like the Jack Russell on speed that we have come to love from him. Give Lee another good run out, not only does he have a good touch but he is a quick tenacious player who will have defenders worried all the time he is on the pitch.

Might be back you by Christmas!!

Bit of a shock on the news last night, especially as I use to sit next to Martin every home game when our kids were tiddlers in Team Saints corner. Hope everything gets sorted for them quickly.

Couldn't agree more! While he's at it he should point out that he is off to Spurs in the summer to replace Arry! Total no Brainer really!!! Best put that in to avoid abuse from those not having read the full thread at about 3:30 this afternoon!

People thought Beattie was a tubby bloke in reality he had a swimmers shoulders and a barrel chest that just created the illusion. If Sharp was a pit pony I doubt we would have pursued him.

Even El-Abd was rinsed by him, when he was up to his usual slimy tricks, Carroll just side stepped him and El-Abd was flat on his face with the referee not buying his cheating tricks.

But if you noticed when Guly first arrived, Jose was always the first to explain to him what was being said, and help him out when the ref was wanting a word in his ear. Even Guly said in an early interview Jose being around was a big help.

Always nice being able to let your hair down and not have to think about it for a moment though.

Shocking!!: think of the expense!! Chelsea had that Jolly looking bloke who always spoke Italian, lurking about the bench for years. Good to see we are making sure everything is being done right, not as if he has someone else to speak to in his first language like Guly has Jose, Morgan has Rahdi, Steve has Jos