John Boy Saint

Ha Billy Sharp proves he CAN score in the Premier League

It’s like statues at the back - Robbie Savage getting moist at his prediction for us going down on BT sport.

Pretty much as expected - Burnley’s game doesn’t suit the style Ralph wants us to play.

Gosh! Sad news indeed RIP Justin

Whilst a considerable amount of turd falls out of his mouth from time to time - as a bloke he seems decent enough. Saw him at the PGA Golf Pro-Am day a couple of years ago he had time for as many folks as he could get to for piccys and autographs. But most notable when we played Coventry last day of the Championship season he was on the TV panel with WGS, they had just done a piece by the tunnel with Gabbi Logan and were walking round the pitch to go up in the TV platform at the back of the Kingsland. Everyone was clapping Gordon Strachan when he walked past the Chapel the volume went up, WGS was waving to everyone, Robbie Savage stopped his conversation with him and noticeably slowed down to leave Strachan on his own to take the applause, for a pantomime villain on the pitch it put him up in my estimation.

I have to say after watching the first 10 - 15 minutes in the home game v Arsenal, who are these guys playing in Saints shirts?! How has he managed to do that. with a full pre season and the players being physically conditioned to play in Ralph’s style I hope we are very disgusting to play against.

Be thankful it’s not Jim White - put on SSN to see where the Cricket was; empty Kleenex boxes all over the studio.

Rabbits in the headlights

Tyler has already hinted at it, in his mention of last years finalists. caragher carping on about no pre season these days, Tyler talking about the commercial necessity’s etc etc. Neither of the pair of them twigging that their paymasters sit squarely at the centre of how the situation has developed. Come Liverpool use up your quota for the month

Ummm....................when you fart or sneeze is it a bit like Russian Roulette front back or both?!

Hooray postie has delivered both of ours! Now if they are doing that ST discount on the concourse before half and hour before kick off on grub and drinks, if I wear my badge will they still ask to see my actual ST to apply the discount? "Dry sheets tonight!!".

Burned forever into the brain - Walk into the house from school, the phone is ringing - its my mate Willy who I saw just 5 minutes ago "quick switch on Newsround!!" "You've just signed Kevin Keegan!!!!!!". Meeting Lawrie Mac a few years ago he likes to recount the story. His favourite bit though was that next season Saints doubled the gate price and not a single person complained.

I have to say I am with you on this, I can't recall being sat here on the 8th August 2 days before the season kicks off and not been in possession of my season ticket. Like you I have spent a grand, sprinkle in a bit of the shirt fiasco, along with the general laissez faire attitude towards fans. No wet sheets here, but being a salesman myself the transaction experience especially is a bit slipshod.

Hey I'm not claiming he was the Messiah, when we bought him I did think Eh? especially given his injury history, but for £4m that was loose change even then, his natural goalscorer tag came from his days with Swindon, Burnley, and QPR with strike rates of 57%, 50% & 55% thats a record not to be sniffed at, even if he wan't prolific for us based on previous reputation his mere presence on the pitch before this past season made defences a little wary..........he did score a few goals from nothing for us.

As I have said many times - that debut goal at Old Trafford instantly repaid the £4m we paid for him - to get that back after a couple of years and him being older and slower can only be considered as a bit of a result, get the wages off the balance sheet a bonus. Up until very recently he put a much needed buzz in the crowd when he was on the pitch, because most ofus knew a mere sniff was all he needed to put the ball away.

If that's the case, good job you didn't throw them in the bin when you got home from the Huddersfield game...................Risky policy by the T/O too!

Smart move Saints. If you can have Palace turn down £70m plus a couple of Pit ponies from Everton, if Nathan kicks on again like he did last season: money in the bank.

McDonalds over the road - Greggs next door might just tip the balance - that said can’t think of a pub nearby!

You would have thought he would have been the first out the door as he did seem to be a stand out player for them, capable of doing well in better company on the pitch.

Seventy Five Euros!!! Wow!! I thought Walking into the Official Barcelona Shop in Playa d'Aro and seeing rails of Barcelona shirts at 90 euros was bonkers!

Just watching SSN getting moist as deadline day is at last here - seems clubs like Palace and Everton have turned every sofa upside down and Money is falling out, and they are hell bent of buying all sorts of odds and sods like a kid who has found a fiver in the street and run into Mrs Miggins Sweetie Emporium, obviously the Palace pockets are bulging with Wan-Bisaka money. Couldn't quite work out if Zaha is going for £100m!!! If he does go for that then Football has indeed become an obscene farce. Sideshow Bob - Chelsea to Arsenal...............Weird!

“Right Josh as you can see it’s a bit busy with quick midfielders” “we want you to have game time so thinking of loaning you out” “so far we have Wimbledon, Barnsley, Rotherham, and Walsall interested” “we also have an MLS team interested means you will be there till Christmas ish possibly”. “If we get injuries you are ready to slip straight back in” If that was the scenario and options, at 22 I would be asking “where’s my plane ticket?!”. Also If he does well, he could get a lucrative offer to stay. And in roundabout way adds to the global profile of Saints.

That's not fair we live in the same place!!! :(:(

Matty was playing off 3 last time I looked, Sparky Hughes was off 9 (probably less now) Tim Henman was Scratch (handicap of 0 ) thats very good. Tiger Woods was +8 apparently when he turned pro - that is at towards the top of the scale. I played with a bloke playing off +4 sponsored by Srixon too, wasn't doing enough with his ability, just mind blowing to watch............. So Charlie Austin should be able to achieve his goal of getting down to single figures pretty soon.

Awwwww don't spoil it for me! Goodie an out of date fixture list.