John Boy Saint

Will Ferry was £60k from Bury rising to £100k if memory serves me right. as an aside I often wonder what happened to that lad at Stoke who Liverpool offered the world to including Private education at a good school - Liverpool stuffed him on his parents greed and crafty paperwork - Stoke were not happy and when Liverpool pulled the rug from under him and his family - Stoke held his papers and pretty much used him as an example to other parents with greedy ideas.

I thought our category one status gave us carte blanche to pilfer nippers from wherever we wanted just like Chelsea.

Citeh have flown out of the traps at Chelsea

Interestingly in our last 4 games, all the opponents have set themselves up not to be beaten, Arsenal once down to 10 shut up shop. Man City scored a goal thanks to the ridiculous talent they have been able to go out and buy, but spent the latter stages of the game running down the clock. Fulham just set out not to be beaten. West Ham were likewise but hoping to convert any scraps that might be there, they defended like their lives depended on it, which was helped by our sometimes wayward passing, stumbling control of the ball in the “red zone” repetitive balls for the likes of Dawson to head away (there was a bloke making his first appearance since coming from Watford - and metaphorically knocking on Moyes door with his performance). If you take the current form expectation out of the results the last 4 teams we have played primary objective has been to stop us doing what we do - their opportunities to beat us have been pretty thin. Losing Vestergaard has obviously been a loss as he had been putting in some good performances, bizarrely not having the option to use Redmond has stifled the left side somewhat, especially when the option taken is Long, whos play is predictable even from the comfort of my Sofa, so must be even more so if you are a professional footballer. Seems to be a Ralph blind spot Djenepo is (to repeat myself) like that little lump of Sodium dropped in water in Chemistry at school in his randomness, Long runs ambles back, so in reality letting someone like Tella or N’Lundalu off the leash isn’t anymore risky than playing either of those 2, or is the issue that we know Bertie isn’t as crisp as he once was so the primary objective is to protect him so best put a reliable “old” Pro in there over a nipper, eager to impress, tearing about all over the pitch and losing focus on his positional duties. Time for Ralph to earn his corn and work out a way of negating teams who are now digging themselves in when they play us. At least it’s another point in the pot rather than a plucky defeat: keeps the tally ticking up.

Mrs JBS fell asleep infront of the woodburner watch that, didn’t have the heart to wake her up and take the whatsit, or make her watch more. They were hell bent on not losing that primarily which is the time of team Ralph’s game plan stumbles against. I would give young Dan a spin out from the off v West Ham as despite being green Long didn’t really keep the oppos on their toes like the Ings combo does N’Lundalu will move about much more. Diallo got a good education into the Premier League. 3 changes probably affected the dynamic a bit, still we managed to set a new club record of 7 aways without defeat. The kind of ball Saints are good to drop cheaply, against a side like Fulham.

If anyone watched Leipzig under Ralph - I thought that was the default setting/expectation from Ralph.

😀 🙂 you planning on Cheering on Clarkson, Hammond and May and their Massive Hunt - While the rest of us are watching Saints at the Cottage on Sky? 😇 Happy Christmas

me too I guess, now we have broken cover, we will be taking to both knees for them in a couple of weeks time! Anyway I will be lighting a candle and bowing towards the north west tonight for my absolution for posting such tongue in cheek heresy.

Sneaky little header to get Leeds into the game.

Hello - winkles FIFA isn’t real!! It is a computerised game that has no room for emotion or random acts of any emotion - whatever spews out of it is only based on facts input into it - you can guarantee there isn’t an input field for being a complete Cockwomble or Bellend. (jezza mate that’s not aimed at you just the “FIFA” thing in general).

More pissed off at; suddenly discovering, whilst looking for Whitehouse & Mortimer Gone Fishing Christmas Special on iPlayer via Sky Q, rather than watching Idris Elba blowing even more sunshine up Paul McCartneys chuff, that Amazon Prime Video is available now as a Sky Q app viewing selection, been rather nice if either of them 2 had let me in on the secret - as opposed to me friggin about trying to get a connection to watch the match via various means because the chuffin Wi-fi won’t pass through the bloody walls of the house (but works like the clappers at the end of Sandras, 3 doors downs drive!)......................................than I was at Saints losing 1-0 to a technically adept Man City team. Bit pants that we have come up against 2 teams in the space of few days that have started the season like they have water in their Petrol tank spluttering along, yet despite us being the best Saints team we have seen in a while, suddenly get a bit of clean fuel in the pipes just as they play us making an effort to play, and eek out a result. Hey-ho been watching Saints long enough to know not to hope too much. Thought Walcott played pretty well, just needs to up his ball retention, on the flip side Redmond just needs to stop thinking and just believe in himself - if you were sat with a Martian watching his first game and you had guessing game “ the players on the wide left and right - one is 26 the other is 31 - which is which?” On today’s game our little Green friend would guess wrong. Che got pants service, thought Tella did ok. If Che was living off scraps bit of a tall order to expect young Tella to fill his boots. Great to see Vestergaards turnaround - well done to him.

Bloody Redmond bloody backwards play puts Saints on the back foot

Says a lot that City are proper time wasting.

Jeez anyone blowing sunshine up Redmonds backside ever needs to take a damn good look at themselves in the mirror

Even mentioned during the commentary with the tone of a raised eyebrow.

The air went out of the game when matey got sent off - just a wall of Red & White we couldn’t make openings because we couldn’t get them to come out of defence. Bit weird to see a team like Arsenal defending for their lives and wasting time. Years ago with 10 men they would have still been pushing hard for the win. Still one more point in the bag, keeps the tally ticking over.

He was probably bambozled by how a trainer wearing footballer like Scott could manage to walk in the heels she had on last night! .........and at the same time wonder who the dickens he will be talking to on The One Show this week - He spoke to Dolly Parton the other week with a face that said - “how the hell have I managed to find my way here on prime time BBC1 talking to Dolly Parton”?! Worse things happen at sea!

Just before the game when the players were getting ready to huddle or just after - he seemed very vocal, not in the joviality of “what’s for tea” way, but pumping up positivity way.

As they said about Theo in commentary his signing at 31 went against the grain of Ralph’s recruitment, but on the flip side for someone who has been played in Ralph’s system straight out of the box says a lot about Theo’s level of intelligence to grasp it, despite years of his footballing being “polluted” from playing elsewhere. Take someone like KWP by comparison when he got sent out to play straight after arrival, he looked like a fish up a tree, when we restarted last season he had taken on board what was required, now if he was out most of us would be crying in our beer. Theo does alright, sometimes still thinks he Is 10 years younger, but for me if there is just one space on the bench and it’s between Long and Walcott I know where my money would be. What a perfect sub too replacing someone always moving with someone more than capable if he doesn’t think and just plays on instinct. Redmond did exactly that with his goal - he didn’t ponder over it he got on with it. Poor old Bednarek - he must be seen as a threat in our defence because that must be 4 games on the trot now where at some point the oppos have tried to snap him. I reckon I must have been watching Saints for far too long - because I still feel a little on edge even when we are cruising and playing the delightful footie we are right now.

I heard the stadium announcer say 3 minutes and was surprised when 4 appeared on the screen - my hearing is normally pretty sharp.

Very nice Viennese Waltz by that Ranvir off the News. ........obviously didn’t miss owt when Mrs JBS said “sod this” and turned over. 😳😁

I nodded off watching.............thank goodness for dancing on soon.

..........Lemina needs to up his game on that front then considering how many minutes he has actually played this season for Fulham

Betting on which of 2 flies will leave the dog turd first used to be a joke - reading that you obviously really can now get odds on such a two horse race. All the moaning at a misplaced pass these last few seasons from the stands at SMS must be all the silly buggers who have just had their bet vanish down the gurgler by 23.5 seconds.

Indeed Rest in Peace Top totty for many years............ as Sid James would growl - Phwooooaarrr! At least her torment with Alzheimers is at an end - such a shame for a girl who was not just a pretty face. "Get outta my Pub" will never be the same