John Boy Saint

The South Today signal goes up through Oxfordshire for some reason, we stayed up in the Cotswolds once, and at 6:30 Sally pops up!!!!? Shame Radio Solent only just makes it to Basingstoke in fits and starts.

I had looked at the Nespresso since they came out years ago, then my Boss got a Citiz for our trade show stand it was so easy to use and with the frother was excellent. I made an excuse to take it home and clean so I could run it past the Missus, the frother sold it to her (as it did friends). It is very easy to use and clean, living in Basingstoke the water up here is super hard so we put the water through a Brita filter which I am certain will make it last longer. The coffee you have to order and the choice is more than enough to make Espresso Cappuccino Latte even frothy Iced Coffee. The delivery service is very quick, and the coffee works out at about 30p per cup. I think there are 2 companies making the Citiz with Milk, Krups and Magimix, they are exactly the same machine out of the same Swiss factory ( which says a lot for how good they are) just cosmetics. The work one is Magimix the one I bought is Krups. You want nice quick easy proper coffee I can recommend it, most shops selling them have a demo model JLP in Southampton have one. See it working and decide.

I have a Nespresso Citiz with a fantastic milk frother on the side great choice of coffees too with a great Crema. I also have a Bialetti stove top coffee maker so I can get my fix of different coffees especially Delta from Portugal. The most Narcotic coffee I have produced in the Bialetti is Tesco's Finest Java & Sumatran one spoon too many had quite a pleasurable effect!!!

Before I get the man from Panasonic out to check my TV is anyone else experiencing a random resizing of their picture on their LCD/Plasma TV. Eg Sky Sports news is too big for the screen so stuff is missing at the edges regardless of what they do with the TV 16:9 14:9 that kind of stuff.

Hmmmmm are you quite sure about that?

Run it up the flag pole why don't you. We bought hardly anyone in the last window because teams who had players we wanted saw the chance to up the price because the perception is we are loaded and will pay a bit more. We are Swiss owned, which is a business culture where there are no competitions in how high you can piddle up the wall...........you just can, but won't until you have to! If Cortese gets wind of this thread and tracks down your source, then the sentence "don't let the door bang on your ar$e on the way out" or words to that effect might well be said.

Anyone travelling to Spain buy some Baygon by Bayer, says it not only does Hormigas (ants) but Cockroaches too. This stuff is Thermonuclear Warfare in a can with the added faint aroma of bitter Almonds. Someone said peppermint oil from the aroma therapy section of various stores in little bottles wiped around in the kitchen where ants are running keeps them away and is not so toxic.

I bet she has a wardrobe full of samples & freebies from David Gold's Daughters business! As for Delia, breakfast in bed the morning after should be memorable (as long as it ain't that soggy scrambled egg!).

And the crossbars were too low

Wembley personnel said that there were 55,000 Saints fans. I had tapped up a mate with Club Wembley membership and thought that we would be sat on our own as our seats were not in a general release section, amazingly we were surrounded by Saints fans who had no doubt used the same initiative. If the FL had accepted Nicola's proposal to supply and fund additional stewards in return for selling as many tickets as possible to fill the gaps it would have been fascinating to know just how many fans we would have taken!

Wasps, Maggots, & other things that burrow into Apples!!!

When I was 13 - 14 I was in the ATC, one of the activities was model making. I had made tons of Airfix planes, but making Airfix planes here was different gravy, they took model making to an obsessive finite art. With so much model making knowledge on hand on Squadron nights, this encouraged the building of Gliders. All of a sudden you were building models that really would fly: the Dope varnish that you painted the tissue paper wing and fuselage coverings had you flying high too!

3 in a bath!! Who gets the Taps?!

2005 without doubt (1974 smarted a bit I was too young to realise the true significance, but then it can't have been too bad as once European Champions Man Utd went down a position below us) how the chuffin hell did we go down when the Christmas "before last" we were 4th from top!! I still reckon if we had not let player power see Paul Sturrock out the door at the beginning of the season we would have been comfortably safe for another season. But then with vast amounts of money vanishing to God knows where maybe the journey we have been on since relegation was obviously meant to be.

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.