John Boy Saint

We have players that in league 1 just scared the whatsit out of opposition players and managers, this bought the rest of our team time to maximise the holes left by magnet players like Lallana sucking folks in to get the ball off him. And defenders looking over their shoulders to see Rickie in their vicinity and just hoofing it anywhere into the stand to our advantage. The players listed in the original post all gave the side this quality of taking 2 or 3 players out of position and allowing the less gifted players in the side the room to be more effective. The best exponent of this was Matty, if he was on the pitch, no matter who we played, every opposition feared that at any moment he could make them look very silly at the expense of a goal, which just gave the less able that few extra seconds to be more effective. I always thought that if Glenda had brought on Matty for the second half that fateful night at Tranmere we would not have lost so embarrassingly. The nice thing now is we are a club on the up and once again we have players who teams fear ( which needs to be quickly established in NPC) but for the first time in eons we do not need to sell!!

Rory Delap discovered that he had been born with Swing wing technology in his ears, which when mastered would allow him to adjust his running speed by sweeping them back and forwards. It was not until the boffins at Stoke City had trained him to master his ears by the use of electric shocks, that they discovered that ear adjustment mid throw-in would take it from the useless lob into the box at Southampton which yielded just 1 goal in 4 years. To become a lethal weapon with Exocet qualities.

Just to keep this on the main page: The 2 players who scored in the 1979 League Cup Final v Forest were the only 2 players left in the team from the victorious 1976 FA Cup team: David Peach & Nick Holmes.

Last one of those I attended was in the small Irish town of Drogheda 4 years ago, a night of quite a few scoops of the Black stuff. And the Garda only knocked on the door & came in to check no one was smoking inside!!!

That has to be the biggest barefaced Lie ever told on this forum. . . . . . . . You must think we are all really stupid!!!

I saw the Red Arrows coming from a mile out:D There are still some however who will have missed the smiley and continue to wield the stick.

It beggars belief, folks moan when they don't hear anything out of St Marys from upstairs, then when something is said so many folks fail to listen. In January the club had identified players to bring in, but with all the rumour surrounding Chamberlain and the money he was allegedly going for, plus it was Southampton knocking on the door, those clubs inflated the price of the target player to above what he was worth in the clubs eyes. So quite sensibly we walked away: we may be in a very healthy position in the grand scheme of Football but with Nicola holding the purse we are not stupid with it. As for young Alex being sold, I think you may find that the defining factor in all of it will be, if him and his father think it is time to move on, that the buying club will have to pay the full amount, no instalments I can see that card being played very hard by Mr Cortese: which if true is very shrewd.

Hopefully that means or nippers can play at the highest level, instead of having to play pit pony teams, thanks to the elitist Premier league mentality.

Be having words with that Simon not letting me have first dibs on filling the gaps in my collection!!

I have a 1972ish V Arsenal one with Bob Wilsons Autograph on the front cover, which is photo of one being slotted past him the previous season. Often wondered if it had any value to someone should I ever consider selling it.

I wonder how many other clubs out of the 92 do not have their season tickets on sale yet?

So that will be double site meltdown as everyone looks to see the details, then pile on here to comment and mither!

So that means a price hike for the Chapel might be on the cards again with the Family section reverting back to kiddies corner.

Something is about to happen, as unless my computer is being protective, the link posted here : http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/TicketNews/0,,10280~1635574,00.html on Sunday 29th May 2011 just keeps going round and round?

Trouble is for Sally Taylor they are her local club.

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!