John Boy Saint

Hey Nigel you see that! We told the ref to be very kind to us, we told him we were the team in the nicer stripes. The silly old bugger he like your stripes!!!???!!

Absolute farce, but it shows why so many players are so theatrical to get a decision. Still Mr P Walton will be back in the Premiership next weekend!

Without a doubt, as a fan leaves you with stupid grin on your face for bloomin hours: Papa Waigo in off his backside V Norwich in the JPT had the 40-50 something's I sit with bouncing around like 12 year olds. Even Beatties winner way back when v Man U in the 88th minute will live on in the memory for years................................. Also a late winning goal is suitable punishment for those who hold 85 minute tickets, that must be a real kick in the Wedding Vegatables to hear the roar when walking away from the Stadium. That said an early goal makes the game open up more as the team one down will then try to get it back opening up the opportunity for even more goals which results in a far better game for the spectator.

Nope, even in the Premiership after meeting certain criteria, they have the self assess option to continue, that they feel capable in themselves to continue. Dermot Gallagher spilt that little gem during a meet the ref evening, he said that he had signed himself back on to the roster after passing the natural retirement age. But during a game between Villa and Man U Ronaldo had picked the ball up in the Man U half and was off up the pitch like a whippet, when he got to the Villa box the time on the stadium clock was 4:20 the attack broke down and Agbonlahor picked the ball up and was off down the other end: Dermot said when he got to the Man U box the stadium clock said 4:40 he knew then that it was time to call it a day. In contrast Peter Walton is obviously in total denial of his inept abilities, after that Leeds game the assessor (unless he was on the payroll) must have written a totally damning performance report that you would remember. Hopefully the 1st half hour will be played at Championship full on 100mph by both sides, and he "pulls" something to get the hell off the pitch.

Ahem! I shall try again:blush:

Just have to disguise the songs like singing the famous sweet brand words for "a ****** of ***** is just enough to give your kids a treat" then by the time the rozzers have worked it out all the offenders will be sat at home with their feet up in front of Strictly Come Dancing. Failing that get a cat, they can't touch you for anything if you have a cat to care for!

went get tickets for my teenage kids at lunchtime today for Boxing Day v Palarse, I could get nothing near where we sit, first choice was 6 rows further up the stand. Being over a month away I was quite surprised. With regard to Saturdays game, whilst in the queue it appeared the only places where more than 2 seats together were available was Block 1 Itchen and Itchen/ Chapel corner.

Mine and Mrs JBS's will be on EBay after the postman has been at 10:30 tomorrow morning, anyone planning to bid below £150 will see a message the reserve has not been met.

They have those numbers on the wall alongside the stairs from the concourse, so you would still get the aimless meanderers on the grand tour of the rows, most of these are folks with no sense of direction or awareness of their location. The amount of times we have people at 10 past kick off shuffle along our row to eventually find & take up their seats 4 from the steps on the other side of our block then at 40 minutes past kick off shuffle back across a whole block to get in the beer queue early via the same steps they mistakenly came up beggars belief, as I have said especially when they are only 3 seats away from the nearest steps.

He could wind up his career there quite nicely, not able to cut the mustard in either the English or Scottish Premier leagues (so the latter precludes the Championship too) Bournemouth would be great for him to be a big fish in a small pond.

Amazing how times change, I can remember being on a waiting list for a Season Ticket when we were at the Dell. At the same time buying tickets on the internet was impossible, phoning up was a chore. I am sure I was not alone in queuing up Milton Rd on a Saturday morning to get a ticket, for a game in 3 weeks time, as a paid up member only to have a Steward come along counting folks getting 2 in front on me saying "cant guarantee you will get a ticket, sorry!!". When the game came you never had the 12,000ish, Season Ticket holders waving their books at the 2000 lucky souls who managed to get a ticket via what was a lottery! If we had got to a minor glamorless Cup Final at Wembley and 55,000 Saints fans had snapped up every seat available back then no one would have questioned where all those extra folks came from. So here we are today with a ground that can hold more than double what the Dell did, no one has to suffer the upset of getting up on a Saturday morning to stand in the rain outside the Stadium only to have after being there 2 hrs someone counting folks and telling them, despite all the effort, they might not get a ticket. Now you can stroll up to most games at 14:50 in the afternoon and get a ticket.................... but what you run the gauntlet of now is someone, who has been able to acquire enough money and in a position to take every Saturday afternoon off, thinking that because they have a little floppy book they have a licence to mock and abuse those who who do not have said book. It is discrimination akin to the caste system in India, which is even more spiteful than skin colour, as you are picking on your own based on perceived self greatness. Something that has not popped up in any post so far is the attendance at games where just about everyone has the day off like Boxing Day and New Years Day the attendance on those days is always much much higher, New Years Day 2011 over 22,000 folks turned up to see us play Exeter City in league One we had the 4th or 5th highest gate of the day over the 4 leagues, and no disrespect to the Grecians they are not exactly top drawer glamorous crowd pullers. Like I posted elsewhere on a similar subject thread: The message from Nigel Adkins and the the club is Together as one some people really need to take that message on board.

A Five year plan? They must be getting that from the pound shop! When ML & NC took over we had an impressive infrastructure already in place, and being financially astute they still figured that we needed a 5 year plan to get to the "promised land". Our Fishy friends are over 20 years + behind us in terms of infrastructure and its roots. Ah well it all adds to the entertainment.

I had a mate who was an account manager at Electrolux with Comet as one of his responsibilities. One Boxing Day at 9 o'clock in the morning he got a phone call from the buyer demanding to know why 2 competitors were selling their washing machines at 2p cheaper and what was he going to do about it!!

Advertising these companies on Kids TV channels is very irresponsible, these guys know what they are doing. Firsly targetting hard up parents in need of a quick fix, but at the same time sowing little seeds in youngsters heads for later in life.

Do you think Spurs are seeing if we are still gullible enough to fall for a repeat of the Tommy Forecast gag: trying to swap a Donkey for one of our Throughbreds again!!!

I did it under my own steam with JohnBoytours, so if you want to do a very easy cheap and pleasant weekend (as much as a trip to Auschwitz will allow it to be pleasant) I can give you some tips including an excellent company to get you about.

Folks will only want them back to see if the one on the top of the Pyramid face plants at the end of the back flip dismount!!

Having made the visit to Auschwitz and Birkenau it is a real eye opener. Especially as they guide you to the "homely" Auschwitz first then to Birkenau: its desolate vast emptiness leaves you in no doubt as to the industrial scale of what went on. At Auschwitz where most of the buildings still stand the most sinister part is that the camp commandant lived in a very nice house with his Wife & 2 children within the grounds of the camp, in sight of the small gas chamber and crematorium!

Super Saint was seen on the OS launching Movember sporting a very impressive Moustache only last week. Wasn't it rumoured that Sammy was the product of a wild drunken night out in Southampton where Super managed to pull a top glamour model. This wasn't revealed until Sammy made his debut at St Mary's and folks were amazed at how much more handsome Sammy was than his Dad Super.

Very interesting. Take a closer look at photo 31: is that a ship going up the mushroom stem, and look at the sticks on the beach in the foreground - there are blokes sat on 2 of them 3.5 miles from a nuclear explosion!! And the Japanese soldier relieved of Duty in 1974, quite bizarre.

Even at 30mph dense smoke from a Bonfire would be passed through very quickly. That said driving 40,000 miles a year you can see someone in a car slamming on the brakes, then a lorry who needs loads of braking distance coming up behind them Jack-knifing as a result of slamming its brakes tying to avoid a collision. Then the car driving on totally oblivious to the carnage going on behind them..... The mileage I drive I see these happy drivers tootling along in their steel bubbles totally unaware of their surroundings: accidents waiting to happen

Blimey that Fonte bloke looks like he hasn't even found a local barber since he has been here. and look what happened to Guly first time he found a Barber in Southampton he must have regretted that little trip for months.

We had 2 heating issues 2 years running both times when Snow was on the ground and having to wait to get sorted. It soon got chilly in the house, so I bought an oil filled electric radiator and a Halogen heater, the Halogen took the edge off the cold quickly and the Oil filled radiator kept the warmth up. Ours was a small 2 bed house and they seemed to do the job, not toasty but enough, I was amazed at how little Electric they used.

I had a very enjoyable Prawn sandwich ticket for today. Being sat in touching distance of Coventry fans was a bit strange. There was one Coventry fan with crutches who as our host said breathed and played every ball "the Sky Blues" played every time he had been there. He even went to give the board his 2 penneth worth. Something that seems to happen when we play against teams who offer no challenge we seem to switch off as a team. Once again for me Big Jos was superb. We seem to have gotten in to a habit of stubbornly not giving up: which is bloody superb.

Like Nigel said when I spoke to him after the game (ooo get me) first half was good second half was entertaining.