John Boy Saint

Shows that everything in life is not chocolate covered, glittering career, playing for England, being a Spice Boy at Liverpool. But the one defining memory in his career was to suffer relegation with us and it hurt more than his knee injury that ultimately, if memory serves me well from the time, could have left him disabled permanently! I always remember at the end of the warm up early in his short spell with us, him running from the corner flag in the Chapel Kingsland corner to the tunnel, and commenting to the chap next to me that it was the fastest we had seen any of our players run across the pitch all season: and that he was crocked too!

They are obscenely rich with Oil and Caviar so staging Eurovision is a mere dot on the finances, compared To Jedward winning Azerbaijan will not be looking for a hand out from us as Ireland did the last time they staged it.

Blimey we are actually getting points............... Hello Bratislava!!!!!

Scudamore was very uncomfortable at the questions he was being asked. I wish Dave Whelan had raised the point again that in Rugby League the end of season divvy up of the money is equal top to bottom of the Super League as opposed to the Premiership where the higher you are the larger share so the top 4 just get richer and richer. In the Super League with an equal share the lower teams can mount a realistic challenge the following season instead of an ever widening gulf.

Despite being trampled by the feet of thousands, as my Dad would say "a lot of £10 notes have been chopped up and spread liberally across that lawn!". Was the stripe pattern on the pitch a clue to the new shirt stripes?

Pies at Wigan are supposed to be a highlight

It's a results lead business, the man has stepped right out of his comfort zone when he came to us, so I would imagine that with having conviction in his own ability, and pulling off promotion following a season of cup finals. It is the relaxation of relief rather than tiredness.

+1 When he was mentioned as being in the frame, I was so pleased as he had not popped up on my Radar, but having got Scunny up on bobbins budget and always came across as being an intelligent manager. The lesson to be learned is that we do not need to be looking to buy the next Billy big bo!!ox player we need to be smart and acquire the hat that fits best. Just as an aside listening to 606 tonight there was a Bury fan who questioned which manager should they get in next to replace Richie Barker!!! The bloke stepped in when Knill buggered off and put his foot on the gas. Brian McDermott at Reading is in the same mould. Well done Nigel enjoy your Holidays and probably the most surreal pre-season you have enjoyed so far.

Fonte or Jaidhi are going to be a bit disappointed then!!

Loved that Introductory montage, full on Saints fest!!

Here is a good moment for the Markus Leibherr songs. http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~2354170,00.html The last time we did this was v Skates I believe and when I looked out from behind my card I glanced over to the Directors box and could see Markus with his card held aloft, no doubt wearing a big smile on his face as he peered out from behind his card so survey the fine sight before him.

Blimey! I just noticed on the Beeb weather next 24hrs that a plague of Locusts will desend on the pitch in the SO14 area at 15:30 today eating every blade of grass before buzzing off! It has been raining in fits and starts since around midnight last night, the ground is as dry as a bone so most of it has run off, the only time that a game has been called off due to rain at SMS was following weeks of wet weather culminating in a day of persistent heavy rain coupled with a high tide that slowed the run off from the drains. When Japan played Nigeria a few years back at SMS you would have thought we had been transferred to a Monsoon region and the game still carried on............... I think too many folks on here have spent too long in this division going to away games where the pitches look like a potato field from the 2nd week of the season, and been used for all in mud wrestling to get some more money in on the Friday night before a game. Half time we will have the sprinklers on. Update from Auntie Beeb: 17:00 it will be raining Frogs!!............ So bring a stout brolly!!!

Not quite Lincolnshire based, but our house has just gone on the market and the first folks to walk through the door on a viewing were folks living in Spain who want to buy to rent and the husband is a Saints fan who has come over for the Walsall game!!

I would say Huddersfield deserve it but, It would be excellent for 4 South Coast clubs to be in the NPC.

Their tickets do include a set number of Champions League, FA Cup/league cup games, however should they get a good run of home games in the cups the following year the price of the "free" games are collected upon renewal. I had customers who were regulars at Highbury with season tickets, I paid them a visit one morning to be greeted by long faces as they had just had to stump up £1200+ as Arsenal had enjoyed a good run of home games in the cups the previous season: that must have been 8 or 9 years ago!!!

The pipe cleaner served there will have you up and down like whores drawers all through the first half!!

Yawn! nothing new in us being rivals, in our very early days as a team Plymouth were our p*mpey in those days.

Cripes I sit in the Chapel, I had better blow the dust off my "how to be a Saints fan book"!! Like 70's Mike & Toomer I grew up on the Milton when it was a proper Terrace (and learned all my extensive bad language there).

I like the Billy Big Bo11ox "I am on the pitch either at Home Park or SMS, sod the rules" on here. As it is criminal offence Hampshire Constabulary could very easily get who you are and where you live from the "owners" of this website, and next Saturday in particular you could be requested to present yourself to a police station at 3pm, or worse still 4:30pm.

Planning and preparation saw my tickets secured in my usual seat weeks ago.

I would say at 00:36 on Saturday morning yesterday was a bloody good day for UK Plc. God Save the Queen

Hard to pick one from those already mentioned above, Oxo's cheeky double chip from a silly angle to score 2 (plus giving the ball back to the ref with pace catching him unawares). My real moment(s) are the periods of delicious footballing passing prowess we display in so many games this season, I have sat there so many times this season pinching myself to check that It really is my Southampton out on the pitch.

He had a mare, the ball went out from a Saints pass by about 4 ft and the lino kept his flag down Rickie ran after it Pool players were having a tantrum, and I think Rickie ran out of steam because him and most of the left side of the Chapel we giggling as a result>

Having swapped a signed shirt for Magic Football boots, Frazer wishes he had agreed to a photo with the dealer in return for the instruction book!

Like I have said before, I am quite happy with us being under the radar for the moment. That said with this being the first TV show since Brighton were made champions you would have thought they would have given the game more coverage, and even more so the fact that we piddled on their parade. Nice the Spirites got the Champions treatment, that must have smarted for B&H fans!!!!