John Boy Saint

For some bizarre reason we had a Bee in the bonnet to change our holiday coming home plans and instead of stopping in France for the Friday night drove the 926 miles home from the Costa Brava to make sure we were in SMS for the lunchtime Saturday kick off (we weren't alone in our madness as friends we made from being Saints fans were staying at the same place and pulled the same daft stunt!!) anyway I digress.......... The penalty was pretty soft, the ball came into the box bounced up hitting Aaron Martin under the back of the arm he had no idea where the ball was, ref blew without even pausing

That should do it just hope that the 3 in the back 6 nail down who’s turn it is to handle the ball otherwise we could be down to 9 in no time

.. very kind Sir.

I’m optimistic about this one, it’s early in the season everyone is finding their feet. As a friend who made a lot of money betting on Leipzig when Ralph was there pointed out, the game Burnley play is like Kryptonite to the style Ralph wants us to play in. I think we need to have Yoshida playing as we looked light in experience and direction on the pitch Saturday, Bednarek plays much better alongside him too, probably because neither have to think too much about what the other is doing. I would say it’s too early for Danso who only turned up to Staplewood on Sunday, if at 20 he was a Mercurial saviour straight out of the box for our creaky defence a) Ausberg wouldn’t be loaning him to us b) we couldn’t afford to be sitting at the negotiating table for him. (Hey happy to be proved wrong on this). Ings is a funny one as he is good at directing traffic when not on the ball up front, Burnley fans gave him a warm cuddly welcome and he went soft, so here we are another ex club - this one made him rich, see if he goes soft with them after Klippety has given him a hug on the sidelines. One thing is for certain come 5pm on Saturday night we are going to have a better idea of if the Ralph Revolution pre season is actually working, or whether we are needing to prepare ourselves for yet another slow motion car crash.

N”Lundalu gently bouncing the ball off the keepers head as he ran back with it for the restart. thats what we like a bit of old school devilment!! Loverly winner.

God Bless Manchester United - back into a position we are use to! WooHoo

It’s not fair neither me nor Mrs JBS got a window sticker I have to say in these days of saving the planets resources the box is quite extravagant.

Don’t think he is allowed to answer that question on the grounds of gender neutrality. If he were then said Steward would have probable cause to seek counselling for being incorrectly gender identified, which in turn would result in stress and being signed off all work for 6 weeks.

What a weird thread and set of replies - no one has stated the build and stature of the lad. You go into the away end of a ground you know you are likely to be patted down and possibly wanded over. If you have an issue with a thirteen year old being patted down by a steward who hasn’t presented his CRB (or whatever it’s called) certificate - I would imagine that all stewards have to be checked as they are likely to be coming into contact with a minors. Your Tesco home delivery driver has to be certificated to deliver to your house not because they will be having your silver candlesticks away but because they may come into contact with children living in the house being delivered to. If you have an issue with a pat down from a steward, you could ask that a policeman be present (there is always one or 2 near the away turnstiles). And those of you who alluding above, that all 13 year olds are God fearing little Angels incapable of naughtiness - pull your heads out of your backsides - please. The fact that you know you are going to be patted down going into football is a deterrent of sorts. As for why it happens at all, football fans have a very old stain on them which is now more convenient to leave in place than remove. I’m still amused by the lady steward at the City of London Stadium, who had removed my daughters SLR camera from her bag and was holding it up confused at what to do with it - I asked the supervising Steward were they being serious - to which he said to the Steward “its a camera - it’s not a problem” to which the Steward looked at the object in her hand in disbelief at what she had been told it was.

Eh??!!

Mine too back now don’t think you missed owt.

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.