John Boy Saint

Looking at the training photos N'Lundulu was with the first team yesterday, wonder if he will get a seat on the bench with Redmond, Djenepo, and Obafemi missing. In the U23 games I have seen with him playing he looks a tricky customer, quick with it. Looks like Elyounoussi was in the training photos too, from what I have seen of him so far, if both are on the bench I would hope N'Lundulu is higher up Ralphs rankings.

That "International consortium" have been there for a little while, but by all accounts Dale has been playing silly buggers and siding with that company who pulled out at the 11th hour last night - Bit like us and that Mickey Fialka (?) bloke who nearly saw Markus walk away. It is a situation that shouldn't have happened, and makes an absolute farce of the EFL claiming they do due diligence own ownership.

its under the EFL jurisdiction for away fans, which is 2000 guaranteed tickets, if the capacity is below 20,000 then 10% - 19.669 gives us just under the 2000 I guess that will be influenced further by the capacity of the Milton End of the ground and what the OB tell them. If this was an FA Cup tie then the allocation would be 15% of the capacity.

Its was signed over to a bridging loan company who are on the side of the club continuing to exist.

Well he sure ain't going to tell a hack asking him the question what his strategy is for playing Man United, got to keep some secrets in these cameras/devices up every orifice world we live in. "Well I plan to play 4-5-1 with Yoshida protecting the back line, and I will be asking the groundsman to not make his planned last cut of the grass and definitely not to water it". Be like Christmas - "you see that present under the tree in the Holly paper - that's from me to you - its a Jagsaw puzzle". Or June 1944 "Field Marshall?! - Robert Smithers Daily Mail sir" "word is that you will be invading Europe on Monday from somewhere along the East coast landing in Calais Dunkirk and into Belgium is that correct?". "No Smithers - we shall be landing on the beaches of Normandy early Monday morning - weather permitting along a 50 mile front".

Well that’s a shame - having dodged the bullet before some years back thanks to the Fans Trust that pulled them out of the fire. Having not been as fortunate as our blue friends down the road who picked up Eisner, they ended up down the same street in the dodgy part of town so to speak and not been so lucky. My lifelong Bury supporting cousin was heavily involved in crunching the numbers for fans trust that saved them before, when some money walked through the door he ended up walking away as the money decided it knew better, and the Fans Trust was increasingly edged out of the picture. They had a Fan from the trust on the board but he ended up being there as a token gesture. It always made me smile when there was talk from Saints to ultimately have a fan on the board, I guess in Leon Crouch we did, and through his personal wealth we were able to hang on until Markus turned up. Roughly speaking we had a similar bunch of chancers to what Bury ended up taking trying to own our club. My cousin was asked for his help again as this final situation unfolded, his wife didn’t give much detail but what she did, it was obviously a much bigger mountain to climb compared to when the fans trust saved them before. There has not been much love for Mr Dale throughout his ownership. There has often been talk about the obscenity of money in the Premier League needing to filter down to the lower reaches of the football pyramid. You could say it has, but the water these lower clubs are swimming in is polluted with the sewerage from the clubs at the top, in that as teams have spent increasing amounts on ordinary players and Mickey Mouse salaries at the top, so the costs of running a football club in all divisions has followed the upwards trend except with very little actual money filtering from the top. Players and more likely their agents have pushed the price and wages of the key component of a football club up, beyond the actual financial means of the club. I worked with a bloke about 15 years ago, he played in a Sunday league side up on Tyneside. Twice a year he had to work a Sunday at a trade show and one day he mentioned that his commission from one Sunday was less than the £275 match fee he would have received had he been at home and turned out for the team. I was shocked that he was getting so much if anything for playing so far down in the Football pyramid. Where does the money come from? Bury use to benefit from mainly Man Utd fans popping along, to get their footie fix, when Utd were playing away. When the Glaziers moved into Man Utd and FC United was formed this extra gate receipt income dwindled as so many Man Utd fans went to watch them instead, bizarrely they played games for a while at Gigg Lane and my Cousins son went along to a couple of games and said the gate for FC Utd games was as big if not bigger than Bury home gates! Professional Football in this country is going to eat itself, and sadly it’s likely to be from the bottom up, as it’s not going to be another 27 gap until the next team is expelled from the Football League. As you can imagine my Cousin and his Shakers mad family are in bits over this............ their regular matchday ritual of many years gone - probably forever.

Boufal sounds like he will come off the pitch black & blue.

Bury are lobbying the EFL hard right now throwing everything they have at them, a fly in the ointment bizarrely is the Carlisle owner who wants Bury out. Hardly a surprise as they are on the edge of the dotted line at the bottom of League 2 if Bolton or Bury go, that means no or one less relegation into the National league.

Bury still have 5 bids in the pipe 2 with Proof of Finance - One of which is the Cala chap (American Sicilian ) who was sniffing around p*rtsm*outh around 2012 with the intention to buy. Mr Cala has had the necessary on the table for a week but the EFL seemingly don't like him, and he the is a bit miffed at the EFLs foot dragging. From the EFLs position you can see the demise of both Bury and Bolton would be quite convenient to even up the league. Bury fans are hanging onto a tenuous thread that they will still have a game on Saturday

You peaked early, didn't go last season but for the Cup game season before, we had one of their Hot Dogs in the ground proper sausage not the usual rubbery stuff sort - they weren't cheap but they were bloody good, so good Mrs JBS normally dallies over her grub turned around and it had vanished.

Looks like he fooled everyone (looking at the latter thread content) , which I am surmising is what we bought from Lille originally. Having bamboozled 3(?) Brighton defenders - Ryan probably thought “he is going to be a greedy whatsit after that, and squeeze one off - so best ready myself for it”.......... “Oh!”. Listening to Redmond on Solent if him and Boufal are developing an understanding together, with Boufal maturing in his thinking and Redmond not having to think could turn out to be potent combination. We can only hope.

And that was the last day of August too!

Thank F**k for that!

We are a bloody charity shop in defence

Boufal coming on

I could have sworn Whispering Dave just said Duffy was w@Nk3red

We've shipped out Forster for the season so the taps have been allowed to opened a little more!!

Indeed those 3 minutes for those who were there certainly is a Saints moment to treasure. 2-0 Down We were huffing and puffing (coughing and wheezing more like) at the MK goal to no avail. Adkins rolls the dice, and on JQ comes - first touch is awful and greeted with groans, second touch back of the net, third touch back of the net. Suddenly we are on fire and MK are resembling the cannon fodder most of us thought they would be at kick off. Straight out of the pages of Roy Race and Melchester Rovers! Those were great days to be a Saints fan.

Spoiling for a rematch?! - Do you really want to go there all over again??? Your observations are based on poor assumptions, that everyone lives round the corner from SMS and has time to stand in a pub from 11am on a Saturday Matchday. If only it was so cut and dried as your perfect scenario plays out. Mid week game I have been a work all day get home get changed and back out of the door as much before 6pm as I can drive down the M3, by the time I have parked in Southampton and walked to the ground it will be 7:15......... now outside of your assumptions mid week especially I am not alone in this scenario as you see the usual suspects who have been equally held up on the M3 or the edge of the city........and guess what after a full day of work and then travelling to football most of us are ready for a bit of food......we would much prefer to eat with a bit more civility......... and as I said all those years ago when we went over this you buy food at football with your eyes wide open to the quality and the cost. When we did have this discussion before you questioned my motives at to why I was maligning the Southampton Football Club food offering, well I have to say for the last 2 season the burgers have been locally sourced and what I would consider to be a well constructed Burger for the money, of a quality I have found on my plate in a nicer pub/ restaurant at £14+ I totally agree with you on the half time shopping - 25 minutes to go and get a beer and stuff your face - and miss 10 minutes of Football!! Driving to watch the Saints from outside of the city does put a different slant on the reasons to purchase food on the concourse or wherever. I use to much prefer midweek finishing early ambling into Southampton and having a pre match Supper in Cove on Shamrock Quay before it closed.

I'll take a bag of what you're smoking!!

Think as has been mentioned already; when it went to A4 size most who bought it as a matchday habit for years bought the first, realised how big and impractical it was and decided £4 in their pocket was better than the personal inconvenience it caused having to carry it all through the match. Of course it looked very nice and big on the tables in hospitality. I still buy one on away games and tuck my ticket inside when I get home, (all A5ish)...............................might help ward off Alzheimers in my dotage by kindling the memories.

Anything has to be a step up from Pastry filled with Slurry badged Pukka Pies. The burger offering has widened too although I don’t fancy having a go at the Northam Burger which I think is a double burger the ones on their own are thick, meaty and dense, trying to squeeze 2 and topping and a bun in your gob could be quite a challenge - seems the only rook with hot food on the concourse is a Hot Dog. I would hazard a guess that they have been listening to the comments made on the endless surveys they sent out last season with regard to the standard of concourse fare.

If he is British he doesn’t need one to get into the US as a visitor you just need an ESTA - but going to work there he needs a work Visa which I believe requires an interview - Having dealt with product going into the US they are very protective of the home market, I would imagine they are the same with outsiders applying to work in the US over a citizen regardless of employer sponsorship. I have a friend who needed to renew his US work visa and had to go to Canada and sit around for a week whilst waiting for his renewal to be processed.

Pace - Have you actually seen Bednarek chasing back against an oppo player he gets buffeted about in their slipstream, you want Danso next to Yoshida primarily for educational purposes to start with. Until Danso is taken out of his box Yoshida remains the fastest centre back at the club.

Martin Tyler showing big team bias in his commentary “Manchester United seem to getting back on top after Wolves were getting ahead of themselves having hit the post and scored” what the chuff. Patricio upset them further saving the pen with his foot behind the line.