John Boy Saint

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?

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!!!