John Boy Saint

? Didn't realise that he had trotted out for us prior to the 2-2 Bolton 1st home game back in the top flight in August 1978.

If my smattering of Latin based European languages is to be relied on I quite like paragraph 3 (haven't found translate on my iPad still)

Always a bit of Gardening going on in the Chapel box during the game as the San Andreas fault always opens up somewhere in the box. Plus a nice little bald patch emerging where the players go through their pre match warm up drills.

Makes you feel cold just watching that! All this progress and you get a pitch like that and the game goes on, now you have a green pitch but the game is off because it's a bit Icy on the approach to the stadium.!

Ooo-errr! I thought this thread might have disappeared down the page by now. As someone said a bit of a brain fart, although after being the butt of some folks mirth, a few anomalies regarding the changes in the 70's emerge, so being born in the mid sixties an easy faux pas. Bloomin' glad my user name on here is no longer on my shirt, otherwise there would be chap at the end of Brittania Road selling Rocks and bags of gravel for the weekly stoning!! Still the root of my initial post, was probably getting a bit piddled off at TV & Radio football commentators saying West Ham would go top with a win......... Not about a 3 clear goal win. As if it is West Hams god given right to be top of the table. Note to self: don't post a silly question under the influence after midnight.

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!