John Boy Saint

Think folk quickly saw that whilst he may have the attributes to be a good footballer, it got shot to bits in the full heat of battle, the thought and intention was there but the moment of execution was snuffed out by the pace of the game and opposition players. "oh I was about to kick that"........ and repeat. A damning moment came up at Huddersfield, Obafemi had come on and was scaring the life out of their defence, and bagging his first senior goal. He took a pass from Mo, took it into the box got surrounded, played the ball slightly blindly to where he, and most players in a similar cul-de-sac, thought Elyounoussi would be arriving. Mo was just stood watching pretty much from where he passed the ball to Young Michael. Obafemi just let rip at Mo questioning why he was over there when he should have been here. Didn't Ralph have similar positive things to say about Boufal when he returned from loan last Summer?

I can see that from Boufal - I watched a couple of academy games where he was given a run out and his attitude looked a bit rotten almost "I'm too good to play at this level". One game I think a few of us watched he was subbed after an oppo nipper had run rings round him for the second or third time and he lashed out at him got a yellow, his head was gone so subbed. I have to agree on the Lawrie era, household names pulling on a Saints shirt, Dave Watson I would throw into that mix too. Jimmy Case was only brought in to paper over the crack left by Steve Williams leaving, and I think Jimmy and Lawrie only intended it to be a short term thing as Case knew his legs weren't what they were in his Liverpool pomp, (last signing McMenemy made) amazingly 6 years later he was still running our midfield. Probably find if you had the Lawrie from back then in the job today, Theo might well have found himself on his shopping list.

Probably find after the Shaw measured hack on Sunday, his head wobbles, and we find Shaw being offered on loan as Williams is considered the safer head on the pitch.

A plucky 8th and a cup run.

He was at a dinner held at SMS just before Christmas - Franny, Matty, Beatts, Cockeril, and Jo very pleasant evening.

As an aside, I saw on the BBC that Fulham had been busy boys hoovering up 3 including RLC - Lemina must be laying in bed this morning thinking of all the things he can do in London on a match day having so much money burning a hole in his pocket.

I guess with the log jam these “stinkers” was causing, someone had a sensible moment and like real life decided to finally go “Ah well clear them out and wipe our mouth”.

Hardly a surprise after Shaws meltdown spiteful hack v Spurs

Think I might be indulging in a little something from my cocktail cabinet at that news - good luck to him.

Maybe Ralph wants him as an alternative to Long for the latter minutes of games - wise old head instead of a naive nipper.

He is pretty local himself having grown up in between Newbury and Didcot playing as a nipper in Newbury, which is where Swindon spotted him and the we nicked him from them. So as a nipper he easily fell into the hours drive from the academy catchment limit (even though McMenemy won us dispensation on that ruling as not many football prospects could be found an hours drive south of Southampton)

I thought he was off to play with the Macaronis at Lazio the original Das Boot has a lot to answer for in my vocab

Why would we want Walcott - he’s made of glass! And at 31 seemingly runs against the grain of our more recent recruitment policy.

Seemed like a bit of fluidity was beginning to show in our play. Thought when Che was subbed we just lost a bit of impetuous up top, he does work very hard and the telepathy between him and Danny is beginning to show.

2 more and they can shut the fuck up about us last season. Glad I watched this and recorded top gear

So what happens if Salah gets a hattrick - does Watkins get the ball because he scored his hattrick first?

Beggars belief

Yup as usual it’s all gone tits up! 🤪

How do WBA get away with the barcoded backs on their shirts?

5 years Today ago we took Chelsea apart at theirs 3-1 😎

Don't worry Sausage - Hackedoff was a very naughty boy, so no more real Santa for that scallywag!

Well they managed to get a video reel of 9 minutes of him doing his stuff, certainly looks the part, looks hard working. The proof of the pudding will be after a dozen games in the Premier League.

Saucy! 🥰

As long as they fit better than the interim shirts we had knocked up after Nik-Nak got the arse with Adidas or someone, I had a home version labelled 3 times bigger than normal, and what was a very nice dark away shirt, I can pop it on, shave my legs slip on some 6" stilettos and a bit of lippy and call myself Joanna where it comes down to mid thigh!

Surprised the deal didn't make it onto BBC Watchdog Rogue Traders - Some foreign Johnnies taking advantage of a gullible old man and his idiot nephew fleecing them out of all their savings for "something that was not even worth half what they paid" - said the expert hidden in the cupboard under the stairs watching the secret camera footage. When things are looking gloomy in the Monaco boardroom, I bet all someone has to do is mention Carrillos name and they all cheer up.