John Boy Saint

Only for the first 70 minutes - Palace have switched on - do that against us like they have for the last 10 or so minutes and we will be on our backs having our tummy’s tickled.

If anyone ever deems to slap me down with some ****e stats about Hojbjerg having the most interceptions and pass completion bøłlłôCk$, best make sure they lube them up first for when I shove them up their bloody @R$ē! ..........he was carp against Norwich and pants tonight. The bloke is our Captain - I would just about have him Captaining a paddle boat up the Sports Centre - he is not a captain, he does not lead, he along with Redmond are passengers in this team - the only reason I can see him being captain is due to being Danish and having been at Bayern he probably has a good grasp of German so suits RH to have him as a Captain he can communicate with in his first language. Rather bizarrely if you watch both Redmond and PEH when something doesn’t go their way (ok they draw groans from the crowd) they both theatrically chop their hands upwards. The much maligned Jack Stephens was short changed by a PEH pass back to him that was under hit when the best and first option was forwards, at the first moment Jack ripped into PEH - it’s very rare to see a team captain getting........b o l l o c k e d by a team mate (You think JWP is the master back passer our captain outclasses him - actually I don’t think JWP actually trusts passing the ball to him). The substitution of Redmond was actually the correct decision Just about every attack when the ball came to him just saw the handbrake pulled on. The big factor today was we just got bullied off the ball by West Ham, plus the shocking revelation came in the car from RH on the Solent interview - apparently the long balls were a problem we weren’t prepared for!! WTAF! How many years have our 2 first team coaches been in English football and what style of football is WH’s default setting. Whilst the recruitment has been woeful over the past few years, Ralph might be a smart chap, but I am beginning to think he might not be smart enough for the Premier League. I have watched Saints in person since 1978, work and kids have curtailed watching some full seasons, there were some bloody grim walks over Northam bridge as we spiralled down to the bottom of the championship, but jeez these days are running them damn close. I guess I am getting old and cynical, ****ed off at the stratospheric salaries per week that are the same or greater than what I earn in a year, if I dont do my job properly I get a rocket and possibly end up losing my job, these guys are paid to kick a bag of air about and they struggle to do that.........especially our “Captain”. Highlights of the day getting home before it started raining and receiving my annual scroll calendar from the Chinese down the village.

Hey he can't have been that bad seeing as he is still earning a crust in the top flight 34..........which is a bit S h 1 t when the answers were revealed - might have helped if I could spell too!!! Amazed that Branfoots alleged nark wasn't on the list - 04 to 09 was a struggle but got one in the middle of those years.

He was but that was in our 1977-78 promotion season - Here's a sad mind for you Bonfire night 5th Nov 1977 - turned out to be Peter Osgoods last game for us lost 2-1 (we got them back in the return fixture 5-0!). Without doubt a a good footballing man - what he did at Oxford United was pretty impressive with successive promotions as back to back Champions from (old money) Division 3 to the 1st Division. RIP

Cheers Whelk - I hadn’t drilled down that far - just distracted by the ground graphic showing every block either nearly sold out or limited availability

On sale now to ST holders at £12 - Chapel is closed blocks 13 - 26

Didn’t realise West Ham played in white!!! bet the queue for the tube will still be miles long even after the 7 added minutes

Being harsh we can't score either, or maybe that should be we are relying on 2 players to find the back of the net, one every week (its seems) and the other every 2 or 3 games (Ings and JWP) That ain't good enough in reality. When PEH or Cedric shape up to hit a ball 90% of your brain is expecting it to see the ball whistle into the crowd behind the goal. Long you think must have done a personal deal with the devil on something as some of what he has missed has been harder than actually scoring. As for Redmond when he broke away and ended up one on one with the keeper, that pretty much summed up his inability, the Toon keeper was committed, on floor and miles off his line, yet instead of going round him or deftly dinking it over him he passed the ball straight at him! The Danny Ings thread is covering most of this, but right now if he gets crocked even we spend £100m on a CB and RB - until a few more step up to the plate and score goals we will be in a spot of bother. Like they say defend from the front, if we look inert on the goalscoring front the oppos are going to be more confident to push up on us.

Mrs JBS had nodded off watching the Villa Foxes game (she has been busy making John Boy towers look festive) while we were 1-1 - she woke up after the final whistle and asked “did it finish as a draw?”. “Nope we lost” the FFS! from her had a tone of it being hardly a surprise..........followed by “glad I’m going out next Saturday night and missing West Ham, going to have far more fun than you are watching that shower.”.

Bertie has just switched off these last 5 minutes!

Bum!!

There’s a first stream failed got another Chinese I think

@R$e - we went to sleep

Didn’t hit him!

Oops they popped the ball! Nipper in the crowd gets a souvenir.

Great my little Donkey

I’m back with the Turks

Half time we have looked ok

F*** knows what was going through the space between Cedrics ears

Should have scored there keeper was dead on the floor before Redmond (who looks like Ralph’s rocket up his jacksy has worked).

If you have Spor Canli - get Memmet from down the Kebab shop round to translate for you

Even with a side view Pukki certainly hit it, and like someone once said stand in the middle of the road and a car is driving towards you, you have very little idea if the car is traveling at 30 or 70mph. On holiday in Spain a few years ago we had a footie match, older Dutch chap asked if he could join in. He was pretty damn good, when questioned he claimed he had been on the books at Ajax as a nipper but got a silly injury, having played with lads who got the call to join clubs and sadly not make the cut, it was hard to doubt him. Jeez with very little back lift I had balls whistling past me into the goal (I swear he was putting them near me just to give me a chance) one of the other lads said he wanted a rest and that I was rubbish in goal so swapped with me, 3 more goals later from this Dutch chap - and the lad calling me rubbish just said "wow - I take back saying you were rubbish - they are past you before you even move your hands!!". One of those that you just have to take on the chin, if you wanted to be harsh it did go past 10 other players before getting to McCarthy.

Long has a reputation going back a long way for gilding the lily when it comes to being fouled on contact, when he does actually get fouled more often than not he is treated like the boy who cried wolf. Arsenal a couple of seasons ago in the latter minutes TV later showed he was clearly fouled alongside the Arsenal penalty box, right in front of the Lino who signaled nothing, the Ref waved it away like his decision was "oh look its Shane Long nothing to see here" 20 seconds later Arsenal are in our box winning a soft penalty. You could just imagine the voice in the Ref's ear Wednesday night........" don't bother asking Kevin, its only Shane Long".......Lino concurring "not his best but 6.5 for artistic impression".

Don’t think anyone is, the last 10 minutes last night reminded me of many moons ago when we played Spurs on Boxing Day, pretty sure not long after WGS came in and we beat them 1-0, driving home Mrs JBS said “did you feel the stadium atmosphere change when the clock clicked to 80 minutes, everyone was nervous?”. Last night as we were into the 80 minutes the atmosphere certainly did change from us fans in the ground as many feared the inevitable. I thought everyone played ok, with the odd exception, even Cedric with his brain fart hoof into no mans land in added time, for a bloke who has played and won at such a high level you did wonder WTF!! I have a feeling that despite his waywardness he is in the team in the hope that someone snaps him up in January and chucks a bit of cash in the pot rather than just walking away in June. In a similar vein and amazingly a player who seems to dodge the forum bullets is Højbjerg! Aside from his rasping shot (at the behest of the crowd) in the first half, he was pretty inert and anonymous and seems to have reverted to treating the ball like a baked potato just out of the oven, with the finger often being pointed at JWP for the backwards pass PEH seemed to have that switched on as a default setting last night, that said what the heck he was playing at when the Norwich defence parted like the Red Sea before him giving a clear route to goal, and he opted run diagonally towards the corner flag and a cluster of Norwich defenders instead. I quipped to the chap who was late in beside me and was woofing down his burger at an indigestion inducing rate that PEH had seen he hadn’t quite finished his tea and didn’t want to disturb him by scoring a goal! The other player looking pants at the moment is Redmond, boy he is so predictable soft in the tackle and easily stood up by defenders, he gets the ball high up the pitch and e v e r y t h i n g s l o w s r i g h t down. Still another 3 points in the bag, back to back home wins, hopefully that will give the lads a bit of belief to build on. Finally having driven from Basingstoke to Leicester across to Stamford then back home to pick up Mrs JBS and then to Southampton I was starving Marvin as I walked into SMS and opted for the Steak Pie from the new concourse menu, I have to say it’s was pretty damn good. (Cue Turkish to admonish me now and ignore all the above )

Not being able to grind out a result against 10 men for 70 minutes away in London sounds familiar too.