John Boy Saint

Just watching that You Tube, he has deceptive feet that don’t tell your eyes what they think he’s actually about to do. Can see why we went for him, because that’s what Ings had. Actually being in the stadium real time some of Ings goals left you thinking how did he just do that……….as they say the proof of the pudding

If you think about it easy to close the North car park and funnel the away fans straight to their coach’s. I just thought it strange the police cells were put just off the Northam end tunnel

For many years when strips were not an emotive issue our away strip was Old Gold shirts and black shorts or knickers as shorts were referred to in those day…….. (like wolves home). But then up until 1950 we had Blue home shorts with our Red and White shirt.

Who knows with an obstacle now out of his way and more pitch time will enable him to evolve and shine

Has anyone checked on the stock of match day Nuns?

Pick that one out!! Hmmmmmm

Ah well he’s gone, nothing new in the cycle of Saints and the various players over the years. Good ones you learn to enjoy seeing in Red and White knowing to make the most of it while they are with us, because in the cold light of day there will be another club with better finances to pay better money. From a players point of view past 30 and the end of your playing days are on the horizon, 35 if you are lucky that’s it. If you have lived in the top flight, no one is going to be paying you a stratospheric weekly wage any more and you have to make what you have accumulated last for possibly 50 years or more to live the lifestyle you have become accustomed to. Unfortunately that’s the way of the football world, there is so much money sloshing around now, we all know the gap between the players and the fans world is beyond infinity. Him leaving us might be a blessing in disguise, we all know that he has medical record that probably has to be wheeled around on a fork lift, most of us all had a sharp intake of breath sat at home last season whenever he got clattered, grumbled when he was out. Goodness knows what Saints had on the table for him, but these pages would be too hot to open if he had signed a new 3-4 year deal and it came out that he was the 1st player to break the Saints £100k per week barrier, then got crocked late August to the point where we hardly saw him before Christmas. This forum would be beating each other up questioning why we renewed for so much money over such a long time knowing that he had the potential to break. None of us know what the Saints medical team could see under the skin of Ings, they could have advised that it was a 50/50 risk to extend his contract we went through the motions to see what would happen and who might come sniffing, none of the big boys seemingly looked through the window, out of nowhere Villa pop up with a pleasing wedge. “He doesn’t want to be here, means we don’t have a potential millstone” “Fans will be upset, but pleased we made some money, but they will asking why Villa thats a sideways move - we don’t get quite so much grief”. He gone that’s it, none of us knows what went on behind closed doors but if it was brewing for the 3 weeks mentioned above, with the media seemingly able to find out all sorts, the lid was superbly screwed down: which is intriguing in itself. Just when he steps out on the pitch at SMS in his Villa shirt, don’t boo or sing silly songs, we all know he can be lethal in the blink of an eye so no point fuelling him up to shut us up.

…………oh bugger fresh socks tomorrow now!

Hoorah - no more midfielder threads with some loon posting what a mega star the wastrel could still be for us.

Sorry but Sako should not be hung out to dry for that - he hit the ball no effin about - Rashford is the one to be rinsed his was bloody appalling

Saving themselves for Saturday night😉

You’re not wrong there - enjoyed that.

When we got evicted from our block in the Chapel for the expansion of Kiddies corner - we left our mate to decide where we going to sit from then on. A few games in, we had been ribbing our mate for such a crap choice of seats, it was pissing down and had been for hours, then all of our eyes were caught by something? Back to watching the game few minutes later it happened again, then it was half an eye on the game - then splat! Chap 5 rows in front of us was catching a sizeable drip right on his shoulder - and looking annoyed. Bob pipes up “that was the other row I was offered when I booked our 4 seats” you chose well was the unanimous reply……………the drip is still there 8(?) years on. At the Leeds game sat on the back row - looking at the “ceiling” there were more cobwebs that a haunted house……….but someone had been and given the seats a wipe or hose down, normally first game back you can write your name in the dust.

No surprise at all - a late friend was very good friends with him when he was at Coventry. He said football was just a job to him, he had no interest in it’, they would go out and there would be no football talk “Paul had clocked”.

This is a game in isolation Ingerland could have been on a 1000 game imperious winning streak - and Scotland would be the fly in the ointment.

Matty didn’t go because Glenda couldn’t live with the fact that Matt had more sublime skill than he could even comprehend being in possession of. That Tranmere game if he had not a jot of green eye and put MLT on at half time, second half would have being a breeze as the whole Tranmere squad would played more concerned at accidentally giving a milligram of a chance to Matty.

.......even Jack Stephens is better alternative.

Just as an aside, I thought it was noticeable that the Portuguese referee was not buying Jack Grealishs falling over at the merest waft of air from an opposition player being in his vicinity - like what happens in the Premier League every week and the ref leaves the pitch from a Villa game with a pocket full of receipts. Be funny if the international referees committee have found him out.

Betting tips............on how not to get caught.

Summed up by Henderson still being crocked along with Slab Head also crocked and picked.............hey ho money talks and getting the tin-tak as a manager is a pretty lucrative even if it is only 18 months ish of £3m pa. Feel sorry for JWP, as he is a man for many positions, and as we have seen has a bloody good engine.

........and a team conditioned with 120 minutes of playing in the tank. The last 10 minutes under Strachan were invariably the best 10 minutes of the game especially if we were in search of a result.

Pretty certain that was under Strachan and it was a Monday night game - Strachan had taken the team to Rod Stewarts house just up the road as WGS and him are mates, Rod has a full size footie pitch in the garden so a nice relaxing warm up/stretch then a short trip down the road to West Ham. Good job they were "just round the corner" as the traffic was horrendous and the team were eventually at the ground less than an hour before kick off - certain Beattie stuck the ball in the net in the last knockings of the game. Might even been the line "late to the ground and late to take all 3 points". It could be the wrong one nil away I'm thinking of

Everything on Sky - no doubt scattered about the place

If you saw the interview with Ralph when Redmond signed his new contract, got the impression Ralph is a bit scared of Nathan’s Mum 😳🤪

Last 10 minutes were entertaining - as has been said our ladies have only played in the cup and Birmingham are WSL playing every week and it showed. Fair play, getting one back put a bit of Petrol in the ladies tank. At 3 nil Birmingham subbed their keeper, almost a tad disrespectful nearly backfired as she was certainly a bit flappy. Brum certainly were rocking when we got it to 3-2. Lets hope they get a fair crack next season because they are miles better than the league they are in.