John Boy Saint

Thank you

Which pre match pub shows Sky as the Lads who are coming to the QPR game on Saturday with me fancy watching the Manure v Liverpool game beforehand without busting a gut to make kick off.

The pitch was narrowed a couple or 3 seasons ago on the kingsland side. If you look at where the lino runs towards Team Saints corner in certain lights you can see a darker strip where the old lino wear line has grown back. Hood down Anorak off.

1987 was my first British Grand Prix and what a race. The boys from the pub were all Grand Prix anoraks we had been camped between Club and Abbey from the small hours. When Mansell went into the pits the disappointment all around us was tangible. From then on the intensity of the crowd grew with each lap, it had to be the longest Mexican wave in the world as every time Mansell went past the crowd were willing him on as he reeled Piquet in. As Piquet exited Stowe you could hear people counting the gap before Mansell appeared. When Mansell and Piquet were both on the Straight between Stowe and Club the place was going mad it went berserk when Mansell came out of Stowe first with a lap to go. On his celebration lap he ran out of fuel right in front of us, being the last year before total fencing everyone was on the track, everyone wanted to touch their hero the trouble was that being closest to the car you were pushing back because the heat coming off the car was so intense; these were the 1500cc turbocharged days if they had run a night race in those days I swear you would have seen the whole car glowing in the night not just the brake discs. What a race!, nigh on 22 years (!) later you can tell it is still indelibly burnt into the memory bank.

Yeah absolutely loads mate....................................... Except it will all be a figment of your imagination as most of it will be hidden by strategically placed Buns & Jams as per the original idea. But then get a box and you might just get to sneak a peek from the side. :smt048

A bit disappointed Phil Boyer didn't get a shout, spearheaded our attack through promotion and continued his goal scoring feats into the 1st Division (old money) which even in todays football is a rarity.

Always a worry when teams have to make do and mend, it presents the ones who warm the bench with a chance to depose the players in their way. I always remember a game against Leeds years ago their regular goalie was replaced by some young nipper called John Lukic, the chat on the Milton terrace was "here's a chance to beat Leeds with a kiddie in goal". He played out of his skin (he had to we were a tasty team ourselves in those days) and we lost 1-2.

Blimey Stu I could swear there is a 9 minute echo in here tonight. :-)

NOW GO !!! Walk out the door........... can't you hear them? ........... They don't want you any more!!

Jasper Carrot had the best ones: "I did not see the bus stop at the time as it was obscured by human beings"

The Milestone on the side of the road a mile from my house says Southampton 32 miles

Listening to Saga in his post match interview it seems like the big difference despite no natural wingers was the ball being played into both his and Euells feet for a change.

Discovered why the Police were mounted today: the Mounted Police and Dog section is based within a mile of Ashton Gate so I suppose it is a good exercise for both the Horses and the Dogs.

That Skoda going past your Veyron like you were in reverse, as they pursue the stolen Lamborghini 2 miles ahead of you; perhaps? :arrow:

Is that Lead as in being in front? or Lead as what seems to be the main material used in the construction of the players boots?

At work we have been producing product price lists ourselves for our customers, to date the easiest way has been is to take the excel spreadsheet master then cut and paste it into illustrator and then lock the cells. Then to reduce the file size we have created PDF's which also makes them easier to move around. The problem with this is the time spent collating the 16 pages as we do not seem to be capable of producing a complete 16 page document that prints in the right order, fully collated. Having now got the headed price list paper we were hoping that we could format the excel master so that we could tell the printer to print straight onto the paper in a uniform manner. However after many hours of picking at the metaphorical wallpaper edge setting print areas and making sure the cell count is the same on each page, we keep getting every page doing what it wants , not what we want it to do. We keep getting pages of different sized grids complete with "widows and orphans" that were not there to start with. So far the the guide book has not pointed us in the right direction, so: are we expecting too much? Should we create the price list in a different software programme? Is there any blindingly brilliant website for dummy's out there in the ether that might help, or is the solution staring us right in the face? Cheers in advance, a very Frustrated John Boy Saint

I have to go with Lawrie Mac, Ted had just stepped aside when my keen interest in Saints was realised, so at an impressionable age Lawrie introduced me into the swashbuckling, take on all comers football that his teams played. Cup Finals, players who were household names, smashing European champions into submission: What an adventure. Plus he did get me my tickets for the 1979 League Cup Final

I can not believe the amount of people in their cars in the these snowy skiddy conditions driving so close to the back of my car, and others, that I can not see their lights in my rear view mirror. Is car insurance so damn cheap that they can afford a claim through rear ending someone?? Rant over

I have to say Special K has a point, all you need is a few fruit loops and renta oik and the whole thing will play right into his Nibs hands if it all kicks off en route. The fan on Fan fighting that we saw v Doncaster shows that it doesn't take very much.

I think the main problem that people have with Skacel is the fact that he was signed with all the hullabaloo of a Messiah from the east (via the north) on the pitch!! And quite frankly he has failed to live up to that expectation.

The further up the M3 you go, as well as Octavia roulette there is also A dark blue Volvo what makes it stand out is the fact that it is a Saloon rather than more common estate. On the M40 up to Banbury they have a silver one, along with those shown above. And on the M4 west of Swindon they run a Silver BMW X3 or X5, As for the drink driving that was alluded to above, when I did a motorcycle course years ago the copper running it said that if he saw someone driving late at night bang on 30 he would pull them, he also said that at the same late hour if he saw someone using their indicators to turn when there was no one else about he would pull them too!

Was this the game where Lawrie Mac said afterwards: " it was a difficult game but we came away with the win, an assortment of mixed fruit & veg, and £4.20 in loose change".

Do you not think thats what he wants? Real Madrid to damp Manchester, not even a sniff of a trophy for at least a season and a half.

You are obviously upset at the situation just be careful how you react. When I started Secondary school I was put in a class above the dimmest, thanks to a witch of teacher at Primary school: it was hell being surrounded by dinlows. One day in English it was painful, I was asked to show an example on the board, when I finished writing I made a comment in the direction of the teacher that came out with the wrong tone attached. That was it, despite my apology, she tells her husband who was also a teacher at the school who took it all wrong and saw that I did not enjoy TD enough to continue. He carried the grudge for something innocent that I had said to his wife for the remaining 4 years at school. In my final year at school he became my woodwork teacher, following a mock theory exam the look on his face when he lined us up in the order in which we scored with me being in second place really rankled with him. When it came to the final examination I got ungraded as I was the only boy in the class not to be contacted to take their coursework in. Amazingly another lad who had his coursework stolen got a grade on the basis of his theory alone!? So just go carefully,as you do not want to be still smarting over something from school over 30 years after you left.

Good Luck Jan, The first half V Birmingham and the whole of the Norwich game showed that when it did all come together your way was a positive way, sadly circumstances beyond your control were what scuppered you in the end. I can't wait to meet up with your neighbour from Holland who you play tennis with, on our holidays in the summer. All the best