John Boy Saint

No Sh!t Shurlock!! I only questioned it because a few seasons ago there was some anomaly that came up with league positions, being close and, either, a Radoi or TV commentator said that goals scored was the deciding factor in the football league. Blimey ask an innocent possibly naive question, and get to made to feel like one of the Three Biily Goats Gruff, with all the late night Trolls coming out from under the bridge. Cheers and merry bloody Christmas!

Seeing as I am being shredded here, thanks to the t'internet and a Racing Paper website I have found the answer And was not massively wide of the mark!. If two or more teams finish level on points the team with the better goal difference will finish higher. If two or more teams have the same points and the same goal difference, the team which has scored the higher number of goals will finish higher. If two or more teams finish level on points, goal difference and goals scored at the end of the season and the championship, a promotion place, play-off place or relegation place is at stake they will then play off to decide who finishes higher. If two or more teams are level before the endof the season on points, goal difference and goals scored, then alphabetical order will determine the team finishing higher. So West Ham would have had to win by 3 clear goals at Reading, and a 6 goal swing next weekend prevents us being top for Christmas.

Maybe so: but yes the Prem works on goal difference first, but I am pretty certain that in the Championship, based on close run things in previous seasons, that GOALS SCORED comes before goal difference.

Twice today with our result already in the bag, TV Footie show hosts have said "West Ham" could go top today. Now I sit here open to being corrected, but West Ham would have had to beat Reading by 3 clear goals if based on goal difference. But as understand it in this league goals scored is the deciding factor, so at 3 o'clock, based on my understanding, West Ham would have had to win 8-0 to have gone top. Over to you good folks............

23:40 and Bart has 69% of the vote. So the Witch hunt is only from a handful of folks!

Got the impression Bart was caught in the headlights today! Turn up every single matchday to park your backside on the bench week in week out, then suddenly he finds himself starting a 1st team league game.................. And the other half a bottle of well chilled Vodka on Friday night wasn't such a good idea! That last bit was tongue in cheek from me, but a few times it didn't look a million miles away from the truth.

"**** Me!! Stay back!!: did you just see the size of that worm that just popped his head out of the pitch!!??!!" SDR " Urghhhh, that's the one that popped up and headed the ball just before Bart was going to kick it in the box!!".

On Steve de Ridder: I have a Dutch friend who supports Ajax, who were looking very closely at signing him in the summer. He said that one failing which put them off was that whilst he he has a good engine to get up and down the pitch and has immense technical ability, he is not selfish enough in front of goal: he will always look to play in a teammate in a better position than him. I think he might be going through a bit of a transition in his playing, shame in today's game he didn't ( referring back to my mate) revert back to his de Graafschap days when Guly & Lallana were queuing up in acres of space. As for Morgan, when he is on the pitch he sets the tempo of our whole play, just like Oakey did in his pomp under WGS.

Hang on a minute! We had grow faster lights before at SMS, or did we just have them on loan? They used them in the Chapel goalmouth as in the winter despite the glass roofing that end does not get the sun. They made the grass a slightly different shade of green. Or did RL sneak those ones out bit by bit in his briefcase in readiness for the wacky backy factory he knew he would need to supplement his income in the years ahead.

Let him stay where he is, he is doing a grand job: otherwise he will be making an appearance in a game of ours anytime soon. Worse Ref around, no one comes even close to Peter Walton.

No Burberry baseball cap? Or is that old hat?

Funny that, in that fateful season when we dropped through the top flight, trap door. Dennis Rofe gave the post warm up pep talk on the pitch prior to the famous Norwich game his body language was positive and pumped up. 2 weeks later prior to the final game v Man U the post warm up pep talk was given by Bond, and from the same position in the stands it just lacked the passion & looked totally uninspiring.

My Boss, who is a QPR ST holder on a very long snowy drive yesterday, refererred to the "end of the World" run featured above having suffered many years of fruitless hope. Like he said if you are going to have a wobble have it now rather than during the latter stages of the season, when your destiny becomes more reliant on others.

Sounds like we were a tad experimental yesterday v a team who are fighting for their lives. I got impression that in the last 2 away games we have come up against sides not wishing to be battered and in the process have dulled our edge to stop the battering and somehow fashioned a win along the way.

Got ones for my girls a couple of weeks ago and could only get them 6 rows behind where we sit!! So 4000 left is no surprise.

I'll have a glass of what you're drinking!!!!

A sauce I know says we have an eye on this chap called Charles Miller Scottish Pa-pa and Brazilian Ma-ma. That sounds far more exotic and as foreign as we should allow, some have said he stands a far better chance of making a name for himself than this Rudolf chappie.

Too late now the chain reaction of events has been already been set in motion an innocent drunken post at just gone 2 in the morning has spread like a bush fire on a windy day, just read the Sunday People tomorrow!!!.......... We are doomed, doomed I say!! .............................. And you Roger, are a very naughty boy!!!

Good to see the fitness of The Saints paying off in the latter stages of the second half to put one over the Military men. Good to see Messrs Farwell & Kiddle getting last weeks nonsense out of their play. Seems the Ref and his Umpires had a good game too and a jolly healthy crowd turning up to cheer on a fine afternoons football. I reckon this St Marys side is on the brink of a marvellous footballing adventure, which will not be making Freemantle best pleased!

Make it interesting................. Electrified Razor wire!

I have read that the limit is about a year, otherwise a trace of the cyanide begins to leak out of the stones making it sour. ............. Oooo-er that reminds me I have a jar that is just over a year in the cupboard so best decant it. The last lot I had on the stew for a year was chuffin lethal: when you can't taste or feel the burn of 80 proof neat Vodka from the next production after having just had a shot of a well matured Sloe Gin you know it's a little bit naughty!!

I remember someone having a chat with Claire Balding while she was having a smoke on the Itchen Concourse: so not on the prawn sandwich seats.

Jeez sometimes you really do take it just that little bit too far for a reaction: so here we go I have put my 10 pence in the slot and will play. Ready the float is about to go under!! I am not a happy clapper, I go to watch a game of Football, I like to watch the way we play especially at the moment because believe it or not our current method of play is quite intelligent: maybe I am a bit soft in the head but I get absorbed in watch the game. And if you read my post properly you would realise that my gripe is not with folks voicing their opinion, but folks spouting complete and utter bo!!ocks from the first whistle to the final whistle. As you appear not to be a regular attendee at games, here is a simple comparison for you: how many times have you sat watching something of interest to you on the TV and your wife, kids or someone else is having a loud conversation about something else, totally of no interest to you. I bet it gets right on your nerves?

Last night he suffered from a very wayward Lino on the Kingsland wing, who's flagging was a bit off the mark at times much to the frustration of both sets of players and the cue for groaning at Guly, in fact there was a Peter Waltonesque moment again in our favour when a Hull player was flagged offside despite even being face on 3 of our defenders we playing him on. Funny we use to have a player who could be anonymous for 75 minutes of a game but for those 15 in which he turned it on boy was was he special, but we have a player in Guly who can be both sublime and lazy within minutes of each other but he pops up and scores some very key goals when required, as far as I am concerned he is a luxury we can afford.

We all know that: but a sustained flow of complete cobblers cascading from the mouths of 2 separate couples during the game becomes very tedious.