John Boy Saint

Don't think any of the pop up Car Park guys will be passing up a chance of a bonus games earnings, might see the prices pop up a little though.

That just made me think about the queues for home league games when the capacity was 15,500, stood on the pavement half way down the Milton Road stand for over an hour, and a steward coming along counting folks, then getting to half a dozen folks behind you and then saying "I can't guarantee you will get a ticket"!!!

Drove past the Potters Heron the other day with Mrs JBS - and joked they should have a Blue Plaque on the wall stating that one of biggest Football signing coups was revealed on this spot on the 11th February 1980. On the Kevin Davies sale to Blackburn, I vaguely recall reading something from Dave Jones about this. It was along the lines of being sat in his office and a call from Blackburn being put through to him, Blackburn saying they wanted to buy him and were offering £7.5m for him, Jones said he nearly fell off his chair on hearing the amount, Blackburn thought he had hung up due to the silence on the Southampton end of the line, but Jones was just running the madness through his head, that there was this lad who played a season for Saints let alone the Premier League (I always thought under the circumstances us getting Davies from Chesterfield was a bit of blinding business - getting 10 times what we paid for him even more so) Jones had commented that Davies still had a lot to learn but if someone was stupid enough to spend that kind of money on an unfinished player then he had better say yes before they changed their mind. Turned out to be a cracking bit of business as we got some oik called James Beattie as part of the deal.

Lawrie Mac in his first book Diary of a Season was chasing Colin Todd, who turned out to be a bit up himself and went elsewhere, and we got Charlie George instead.

He was out of contract (and out of favour) at Reading at the end of his season with us - as he had done so well and were sniffing about to snap him up. Reading went “oh hang on maybe we were a bit hasty and he’s better than we thought”. So they gave him a new contract and as we were doshed up tied a £1m+ Price tag round his neck.

He will be fine if he has Cheese and Marmite with the crusts cut off.

But Sue in the 70’s the pitches were pure mud no little bits of plastic in them just Mother Nature’s miraculous curing elements.

I fell into that one!!

Amazingly yes!!.............it’s just north of them where it goes wrong! As an aside Whilst discussing acceptable wardrobe to attend p*mpey.........any advice as to what to wear on Tuesday night for sitting in the Itchen.

Hang on Doddy - what about those of us who ran the gauntlet back half of the 70’s Half the gobshoites on the committee would soil their Calvins if we turned the clock back. Still makes the thread entertaining

Think I will dodge this and opt for building my Star Wars X Wing fighter over the next 100 weeks for just shy of £1000.

You forgot Neil!!!!!

Will there be a dress rehearsal before hand and when will it be? As to meet the specified criteria to attend I will be needing to eat dust for the next 2 and a half weeks.................bet some of the Fan Police above will be rushing to hide behind me when it kicks off!

I thought that competition in training looked like they were all having quite a bit of fun.

Nice One Lighthouse

That would be a shame as he and his brother have done a sound job with them, gave Everton the right runaround in the cup (2-4 defeat was no reflection of the game whatsoever). As see Huddersfield have been sniffing about too.

Is that parking still available down near the Decathlon? - used that for the fateful cup game and amazingly found it not too hard getting out (but then I guess traffic wasn't bulked up by Saturday shoppers)

I'm in the same boat on Klarer too. I actually thought for a moment N'Lundulu might get a spin out one Saturday as at some point in the second half not long before we went down to 10 I just so happened to be looking over to the bench (maybe the ball was thereabouts) and he was sent out alone to warm up and there was an eager spring in his step as he set off. Wouldn't be surprised to see him given a go this side of Christmas.

Excellent work Instant!!! 14 people managed to keep this thread like Agatha Christie’s Mousetrap! Still on here that that ain’t bad going!

Nailsworth stream is just down the road ................I’ll get my coat!

As posted before I quite like some of these quizzes against the clock that pop up on the Official Site. This one is a quite an easy one to start with naming the teams James Beattie scored against for Saints. So just for fun have a go and post what you got - be honest - and no cheating on google. I got 27/30 - the 3 I missed 1 was a bit silly, the other 2 will likely trip others up. https://www.southamptonfc.com/news/2019-09-03/tuesday-trivia-james-beattie-southampton-football-club-quiz-3-september-2019

Thank you very much for the heads up Steve just got 3 tickets and a chance of being on the Tellybox too - so I had best get my face paints ready, foam hand out the loft, and have a rummage down the side of the sofa for a bit of loose change to buy a half and half scarf with...................oh and paint a big cardboard arrow John Boy Saint so everyone on here can spot me and rip the whatsit out of me

Sorry mate, that IS a spectacular “whoosh!!!” moment comment!!!!! ................she WAS the most vocal “moron” in the crowd!!!

Middle third think it’s Bertie

The club should have asked Redmond if they could borrow his Mum to be the sorry bunch of stumblebums we have packed off surrogate Mother for a few weeks. Apparently she is behind his improvement last season because she gave her lad a piece of her mind. Nathan said in an interview that he doesn’t have one tattoo, because his Mum would kill him if he came home with one. Even Ralph said he liked Nathan’s Mum, when he met her at his contract extension signing.