John Boy Saint

Also it’s coincided with the new owners arriving. As @Toadhall Saint said sometimes things just click We also seem to have found a tempo we like and play to it for 2 halves.

My Ceefax memory was the Newcastle game when we were 1-0 down on 90 mins then refreshed to 1-1 , forced the refresh 2-1 ………… 3-1 ….. full time felt envious of those in the ground

Big mouth 😳😁

Stuart Attwell on the whistle for this one - he always makes me think of the Weasley guy in charge of the Radio station in Good Morning Vietnam.

I had a damn hard week away with work, just leaving the NEC at 9 phoned Mrs JBS to say on my way home (kick out the Milkman) found radio 5 (no idea we were the featured game) just at they went 2-1, needed fuel stopped, turned on the engine just as Mo equalised, Che injected the adrenaline to get home buzzing still.

Sorry to hear your news - 15 years you’ve been chipping away on here - no doubt like everyone on here, some of it complete cobblers, but still a rich thread in the fabric of this funny old place. Safe onward journey Sir 😇

just saw some of the clips on the new Twitter - nice goal to seal the win. Capped by Millie Mott stealing the ball off the line to prevent a goal.

Job done

Skied it apparently

Ah yes Mayuka - I had an evening in the presence of Mayuka along with “Tuesday Night” Jos, and Yoshida. Pre season in Cataluña under Poch and I struck gold as we had a friendly 5 mins from where we were staying. We were sat up in the little stand on the row in front of them. Jos was good value and funny - but serious too, my mate asked the occasional question as we watched the first half “then said I’m not wishing to being rude, need to concentrate on this - at half time I will answer all the questions” and he did. Mayuka was sat next to Maya all through the first half, “what formation are we playing now” was said more than once as Poch dabbled “why is he playing there” - “why didn’t he pass there” Maya explained and Jos chipped in when he could find the english - you did think really? When he went it was much of surprise, performances aside.

Just peeked at a tweet - unless I am reading it wrong 3638 bums on seats a for the games. That’s a good turn out.

I always thought the same, but then I guess people who make those decisions know what they see in a player. When you consider how long he has been consistently banging them in since he left us in the Championship, he has been very effective at that level. He is a combative player and maybe those that know could see that any attempt to finesse him to fit the premier league would simply dull his edge - and early signs in pre season made their minds up about him. You could say “ah but Lambert”, Rickie himself admits that he was a pie eating beer drinker when he came to us, until Pardew gave him a kick up the backside. With the facilities and science at Saints compared to Bristol Rovers, as he got fitter he realised what more he could do and as we went through the leagues his untapped potential had a chance to develop at a steady pace. Billy Sharp came to us as an established player who had followed the necessary fitness regimes to make it, and by comparison the pot of untapped potential was smaller than Rickies. Whos pot at the time nobody could see the bottom of - first Prem game “oh he can do it’s at this level” away at City. Roll the clock on - England debut “can he do it at this level” we all know the answer. Maybe he could have adapted as Che took his time to do. Maybe when you think back to Nigel Adkins interview after the Coventry promotion game, Sharp had served his purpose. Obviously this is a Sunday morning rambling. Maybe he could of adapted

My memory of Danny was against Liverpool (not the famous evening game). In the lower west stand near the box Danny gets the ball 2 Liverpool defenders, one might have been Hansen, closing down on him Danny knocks the ball through the narrowing gap between them both, then somehow he follows the ball through the gap that was no longer there - HOW!!??!! Shame Man U didn’t work out for him - seems his baffling injury issues there were the first sign of his MS but no one picked it up.

Those were the days - the letter key was in the back of the programme. I did think they were down the Milton Road end - because as nippers the first thing to look for when turning up at the Dell was the TV Lorries in the Car Park - BBC or The Big Match - We were always the first ones through the turnstiles when they opened and headed down to the front wall to get our prime spot. Before we did anything else, we all leaned over the wall to see what letter we were over. I thought it was the half time alphabet when I first saw this, but, you’re right as to it’s location, I then remembered it was seeing what letter we were above in which advertising hoarding………….. All that just so we could look for ourselves on TV. As you say simple things from a bygone age.

Nah - but we’ve got a weekend off so we all get to ramble on in a relaxed fashion about any old cobblers that has a Saint related tag in the content to spawn a thread 😁

Blimey a danger of us becoming Budget Brendon Rodgers, raiding the verdant plains of Cobham. The late Matthew Hardings muse about us being Chelsea on Sea might finally come to fruition

Tunnel - Full Time - if I’m not there start without me! Excellent report as always.

I can’t see the advantage of him being here, he has an arrogant air about him that might think us below him which just makes a stink in what seems a nicely bonded dressing room (KWP only had 12 games? for Spurs so was just treading water in a career that hadn’t got off the ground). If as threads above have said we would be stumping up his £100k wages, why would we want him here to stick in the shop window for Spurs, in return for bobbins or no commission. He was proper pants when we played them last month, plus his fuse seems pretty short, only the fact he was playing for Spurs held off him going in the book.

Despite being played in water - Water Polo is well known as a very dirty sport even at the very highest level - "goes with the territory"

I missed that. Even though many think that we are a team of Son in Laws, we are also expert exponents of the dark arts, whilst refs buy simulation like its a penny sale. Our angelic choirboy persona masks it superbly from the eyes of the ref.

Surprised Sterling hasn't chipped in - you could see Perraud slowly winding him up very subtly.

If memory serves me well, when Ranieri signed up and raised eyebrow rose, somewhere in the background there was a passing comment that the Pozzo family and Claudio were long time family friends.

He must have built up a nice little retirement nest egg, given the clubs he has been with since Leicester success. But boy what an absolute basket case of a club, you could be forgiven for wondering if the players have a book on how long each of their new managers will last.

Drag them down the Bargate and burn em at the stake!!! While we all dance round like mad whirling dervishes celebrating that he's getting what he deserves. In real time sat in the crowd facing that incident all Stuart had not an ounce of malice, he was concentrating on getting control of the ball bouncing away from him, Laporte came across rather quickly and replaced the ball with his leg. Bit like a car accident, it happens and there is nothing you can do about it. .............that Ederson can jog on though, running to the ref motioning that Stuart tried to take his leg off with a steam hammer ----------------anyway it turned out alright.

Absolute bullshit penalty for Liverpool - dodgy as f**’k - Jota plays himself into the keeper.