John Boy Saint

We are in the Fluffy Southampton Football Club world of Markus Leibherr, not the pull the customers pants down and roger them senseless world that exists everywhere else: especially in football................................ They don't need the money to appease creditors, so what's the rush, don't you want that £300ish pounds in your pocket a tad longer earning you money?.

I get the impression that if we had not crossed Bristol Rovers palm with silver he would have been more than happy to have stayed with them. The guy rocks up in a 04 plated car when others in the team arrive in much newer an flasher cars maybe he just enjoys a simple life earning a comfortable amount playing for a good team.................. He really could turn out to be a MLT MkII

The Echo have twisted AP's comments he has always been positive about the fans. There are times in games where we do all go quiet, but there have been times this season where our play has been so sublime that I have been sucked deeper into watching even though I have been slightly aware that others around me are singing and clapping maybe that is what happens when your team is playing exceptionally well.............. Like Manchester United often do: we all love this game maybe some of us get pulled in deeper than others.

Cobblers! Reading took him recently from non league Tooting and Mitcham then farmed him out to Cheltenham Town for 8 games before loaning him to us. the people who should be getting any readies is the team that he played for from the age of 12 in London who were a feeder club for Richmond Borough! Reading had Jack sh!t to do with his development.......... if anything we've done that!

For who? For the Club there are no money issues, Staplewood development is ahead of schedule because of the attendances this season being above those factored into this seasons budget. Sound Financial sense for me because Mr Leibherr and Mr Cortese feel confident enough that we will come, for the money to stay in our bank accounts a bit longer rather than in the clubs. Bit Topsy turvy really in the money grabbing World of Football.

I thought he looked ok seemed to get up to the speed of the game quite quickly with some effective passes (those of you noting he gave the ball away every bugger in our team does that so back off!). Nice to say hello to his proud Mum & Dad outside the ground after the game.

It certainly does, to my mind the best strip we had.

Go to night school on a welding course and put it right yourself, Footie season is nearly over so you will have a few free Weekends. ;-)

I always thought how great it was that Steve Bull from second division Wolverhampton Wanderers made the squad due to his prolific scoring record at Wolves. Shame is today if Rickie Lambert was suddenly called up by Capello the media would shread Lambert and question Capello's sanity.

"I have no affiliation with this clubs supporters" "Most round here like a bit of Fish action, me I just like a previous owners alleged products, and a good noshing off by giant Rabbits: when I can find them!"

Really? Make sure the fire part of your house insurance is up to date! An old boss had his brake fluid pipes munched through by field mice!

Cripes!! That's exactly what it looks like under the bonnet of my Accord!!

Glace Cherrys or Peanut butter in either a humane trap (that you must empty over a mile away from home) or a back breaker that I suggest you put on paper for when the mouse explodes. We had one in our kitchen. It turned up in the cupboard at 11pm slipped through my fingers at 11:15 and was eventually caught at 2:15am. When you have snaffled it find the holes and stuff them up. I cut old computer CD's to fit round holes where the pipes come through cupboard sides the little buggers can't gnaw through them. Good luck

If Andy Gray was the chap who was Dave Roberts right hand man he was always the one to come up with the prettier patterns in the cut. The pattern that always threw me was the one that follows the line of the centre circle: if you are sat higher up in the Chapel or Northam it actually makes the pitch look like there is a bloomin great big dip with the centre line at the bottom of it. Well done Andy and his team!

I think that despite probably flying out of the blocks like a scalded cat, we will come up against more teams in a similar mould to Oldham or Leyton Orient who sneak a goal up then camp in their own half. Resulting in it not being the cakewalk people believe.

Nearly 24 hours on I can't believe how we didn't score! In the first half we were playing what looked like 2-6-2 or even 2-4-2-2 Oldham were playing so deep even in the last 5 minutes we were playing with 11 men in the Oldham half! I can't remember the last time we were throwing everything including the kitchen sink at a team without a resulting goal. ............. Too many cooks on one of the last chances as there were so many Red and White stripes in the box that they were blocking our own shots. Frustrating, disappointing, and exciting all at the same time; could not fault the team for trying. Shame that we are too good a team for this division and that next season is not going to be the cake walk that many believe we will see more teams like Oldham rocking up with the main objective on leaving with a point and not being on the end of a battering from us.

No Ref can be worse than Peter Walton a few weeks ago, last nights was another poor one but that's the way the cards fall.

Shame is it will all be pigged up by a pitch invasion and the once traditional showing of our appreciation of the players, and a possible showing of the the JPT trophy will go straight out the window.

It weren't no Lee Barnard scoring that goal it was a gurt big worm this big what popped up out of the ground an nodded it in......................... honest this big!!!

Barclays did not wake up on the morning that the said cheque entered the clearing process and said "Hey lets bounce this bugger and watch Southampton FC squeal". The writing was on the wall and like the man who could not tell his wife who enjoyed the high life that he had lost his job 6 months ago, correspondence was metaphorically hidden down the back of the sideboard. Mr Lowe in his notable arrogance probably figured that a Knight on white horse would come and save the day at the 11th Hour, not accepting that he was the reason said Knight would not appear. Lowe naively (despite the city world from whence he came) hadn't accounted for the Football League having a flexible rule book that closed loopholes behind teams who had maximised the loophole in a similar situation. Also naively he failed to realise that by taking the 10 point hit last season before the deadline having a blank canvas to start the next season in league 1 might have made Southampton Football Club more attractive to a buyer which would have resulted in him walking away with a damn sight more money in his pocket that he ended up without. As has been already said its happened, we have moved on to a better place, no one has died: unfortunately when Huddersfield hit that 79 points on the last day there will be a lot of bitterness centred around the question "What if??".

My Granny is also in the running for the Celtic job: despite the fact that she passed away in 2001 We don't half get some cobblers written in the papers " Righto Celtic need a manager boys whos in the frame?" "Hang on a mo boss Charlie is just finishing the analysis".......................... Charlie looks up from the News of the Screws footie supplement results page, having scanned who's team is hot and who's is not right down to the Unibond league!

I saw that he held his red card above his head with the rest of us before the skate game for the mosaic. Hope that adds a bit more to the file................................ especially if it P's off the Anti happy clapper shirts and scarves brigade!

That'll be skates then!

Play them at Camp Nou late July just so I can go and watch the game while on my Holi's!! :cool: sent from my taplop whilst coping with my dyslexia.

The thing to remember with this lad is he has not had the grooming most of his team mates have enjoyed in their younger years to be professional footballers, he has had a football upbringing from the age of 12 with a feeder team to a conference side, until very recently he was playing with Tooting & Mitcham until Reading snapped him up. He is going to have rough edges and corners that need rounding off, but that will come if we take him on and invest time in him. Pardew is probably one of the best people to make the most of Antonio as his own professional football career did not start until he was 25 years old, after spending his earlier years non-league football.