John Boy Saint

Definitely not if they have been naughty boys and lost on a Saturday with a major brain fart involved Maybe having had a busy month of pre season - its got to the stage where rest is just as as good as training before ramping it back up for the weekend.

Like you say harsh to leave out JWP but then unless Burnley switch to playing Barcelona style football, he is likely to be getting a crick in his neck as he watches the ball sail repeatedly over his head. Think Ralph already has Yoshida written in Biro on his team sheet, he knows his value to defence.

Well at least the reference to Little People does bring us round to post #2 again, (just need to find one to squeeze and tell me where his crock or gold is) pretty good start to the season on here normally Workd Championship Chinese Whispers on here has us acres away from the initial subject by this point of the thread

Spotted this on the OS - Thought its interesting enough to share on here for those who might have missed it. We think the Sky o'clock kick offs are an inconvenience - the Luftwaffe were far worse!!! https://www.southamptonfc.com/news/2019-08-02/an-appreciation-arthur-house-southampton-football-club-2-august-2019

(1) 8th (2) 5th Round (3) Winners (4) Ings - (think a bit of competition with Adams might break out) (5) JWP (6) Vokins (7) Miss out on the play offs last day of the season on goal difference.

Pretty sure Cortese wouldn't have poked up with it.............. wasn't it him who had a set to with Adidas? Something needs to be done as replica kit sales is an integral part of the club (go to SMS on a warm sunny day and there are plenty of fans who buy them). In previous years with UA there have been supply issues with the lesser kits. Last Christmas someone asked in the Megastore about the Goalkeepers shirts - the reply from staff was a frustrated "for some reason we just can't get them". To drop the ball on the main shirt has to be grounds to walk away from a pretty long contract, if I remember correctly. Just watch out that we don't end up with stuff from that new sub division of our main shirt sponsor - LD Sportswear!

That just made me think of when I worked for the Reading Evening Post many moons ago, in those days the back page of the paper (most local papers really years ago) had a blank space across the bottom. At 4:30pm a grumpy bloke would come in and set up a little machine, like the one found in schools before photocopiers existed, and type up the football scores and a small run of papers would be printed with the days results. I got a couple of them to put in Saints. One bloke did his best and succeeded in getting taken off Saturday afternoon duty as for ages he abbreviated as many teams as he could to amuse himself, Arsenal was obvious so was Partick Thistle, one Saturday he pushed the boat out and the complaints rolled in as those checking their Pools coupon all of a sudden saw lots of saucy words. Think the steel town just south of Hull on the north east coast was the tipping point

Get with the programme the bloke is bloody excellent money well spent where we are concerned

Does seem a bit pickle - can’t see the sponsor being an issue regardless of how opaque it’s been - be curious to see what shirts the team play in on Saturday as it’s been the Grey and Yellow all pre season. Unless in the weird way the septics view the world beyond their borders - UA are feeling under pressure as a US company to be dealing with a Chinese owned company even though it is in the UK. Going to be a chunky loss of revenue.

Still the best paper headline but not Saints is "Super Caley go ballistic - Celtic are atrocious" After Inverness Caledonian Thistle beat Celtic at Parkhead 1-3 in the Scottish Cup - John Barnes got the tin-tack a couple of days later. Apologies for the deviation from the subject

I’ve mentioned it before more than once - 1-0 down v Newcastle on 90minutes midweek at the Dell, on the final whistle Saints had won it 3-1!! South Today overlaid the camera footage with the Solent Commentary - not sure who the tater was, but when the whistle finally went the Fire Brigade must have kicked down the commentary box door to hose him down to prevent him spontaneously combusting.

For those tempted malign Dave Merringtons commentaries this coming season, just consider that he will be 75 in January................so treasure his Peals of wisdom and other Gems that he releases onto the airwaves, for when he decides to hang up the mike there will be a big hole in Solents Saints commentary.

I really don’t see what the issue is - looking at the image it hasn’t cost a Kings ransom to put together - everything is easily removed if it falls on its face - as someone who doesn’t need to always go to the pub and sink 30 pints before kick off, an hour before the game there are a lot of folks milling about outside the stadium just taking in the day. More recently outside the Chapel there have been activities aimed mainly at youngsters that have seen plenty of kids queuing to have a go. I was surprised at the number of people who turned up at that Saynts Day thing. The club could easily be looking to see what the take up is over the season before making the decision to go bigger and better. Right now pre match you can either go to a pub en route to the stadium, some of which aren’t family friendly or suitable, or enter the stadium buy a pie and a pint then have nowhere to put it when trying to consume one or the other. You can’t take your beer to your seat in the stand. But there’s no need to slag it to the degree to which it’s being slagged so far on this thread, especially if you ain’t experienced it yet! Back in the 80’s an opportunity presented itself to get tickets for Michael Jackson’s Bad tour at Wembley, I had zero interest in going, but the then pre Mrs JBS liked Wacko so I bought them (£17.50each!!) she hadn’t been to a concert before. At the end of the evening as we walked out even the very little interested me still to this day says it’s one of the best concerts I have been to. So before everyone’s goes “that’s crap” get to the ground on time to be able to get in - then post your negative review on SaintsWebAdvisor

And that is the nub of it.......or nail hit squarely on the head.

I can’t keep my mouth shut any longer - your Avatar reminds me of the drunken gag with girls. “ I bet you 50p I can make your tits go up and down without touching them!”...................................................”Sod it here 50p!!”. Trouble is with pre arranged songs with clever words is no bugger sings them, on the other hand spontaneous funny songs from the stands are pretty funny like “that fat bastard is one of your own!”” from the Huddersfield fans last game, and was it Carlo Nash in goal for Preston years ago who was sporting long hair that looked like it had spent a week bathing in chip oil, to which the Northam sparked up “Shampooooo! have you ever heard of Shampoooo?!”.

Nice move for Liam Kelly Reading to Holland - his Mum works for Mrs JBS

Sorry, but it looks even lighter with him in it!!

Don't forget at Christmas when you like to eat, drink, and be Mary!

Blimey indeed - Small World - Alas I was too young to sneak down the boozer having left there when I was 4 - my Dad was Sales Manager for a detergent company - I have recall of seeing the QM depart Southampton from a prime Quayside position on his shoulders due to his dealings down the docks - He did more and more work in London and because the M3 didn't exist we moved up to the very north of Hampshire.........so still a Hog!!

Me too first place I ever ever lived, Chatsworth Road behind the Cop Shop.

Spotted in Bitterne! Surely he would be looking for somewhere up on The Peak - Peartree Avenue. Then he can point out to his Mum where he works when she comes to visit. So checking out the Sainsburys (is it still there??).

I can't recall ever being served by the same person more than once, often by someone just tossed a Halo Polo shirt and and looking like someone out of the Amish community being plonked in front of an electronic device for the very first time. But I guess getting cheap labour in for only a guaranteed 19 days a year is going to create this situation...........this is a situation that ain't going away. Happy with Kingfisher though.

So best have a drive about and look out for the blokes with scouse and Lancashire accents in camouflage armed with binoculars and video cameras (a la Leeds) as they will have found a good spot up a tree!

Probably hoped for some wet weather training. Think its a way of getting everyone together to hammer home the strategy without them being able to sod off home after each session to play X-Box or get another tattoo and forget half of it.

Funny reading some of the above, especially after going to the Hampshire Cup Semi-Final against v Basingstoke Town at the Camrose. I wondered what all the fuss was about as he looked uncomfortable against a team of part timers.