John Boy Saint

Be interesting to know how much input Dragan had in the background with us not folding for tuppence ha’penny. Recalling the comment made at the end of last season at his own people’s concerns at the rate Saints were burning through money, and him getting more involved.

I didn't bother to zoom in - probably a irked at the "being shown a photo of another man out with my wife". Football at the top really has become a like a trophy hunting Safari.

Unless thats very good photo shopping - it amazing that there is a photo with him in their shirt and reportedly there is no ink yet to dry on the deal.

I went to a couple of away games in the home end as a teenager in the naughty days of 1970/80's - that certainly focussed your mind to follow etiquette and avoid a ride in an ambulance after a bloody good kicking.

Thats a bugger if true, and a real shame for Will - his spell at Stoke last season, where the fans liked his performances after a dodgy start, seemed to have him set up a treat for this season.

Transfer window is still open - just putting himself out there for a more money making move 🤪

Victor Wanyama said Poch was the best thing to happen to him in his football career.

As an aside - watched the Chelsea - Liverpool game yesterday and my ears were reaching for a bucket: Caragher AND Peter flipping Dreary - the main man taking over from Tyler.

Cheers for making the effort to put that together - Given the success of the Lionesses you would think the club might have pushed the Women's team info out there a little bit more to get more bums on seats. I had forgotten how young Milly Mott was, in National League South she certainly played beyond her years.

What distracted McCarthys attention from watching the ball?

Nice from Che

Happened to be driving home late Tuesday night and listening to 5 Live - they had the 72 plus football show on and were talking to Adam Blackmore about Saints, he said the word from the upper floors of St Mary’s was that we are not going to bend to silly offers

I’ve being saying for ages - get that white witch back to give us a top up. The ancient settlement of Hamwick is still under the stadium, more powerful mystic stuff than a p*mpey shirt under the centre circle. Right I’m off to find some water with my Hazel twigs!

Very good 👍🏻😁

I’m getting confused by all this now, Southampton born, lived in Bitterne until 4 and a half then lived right on the Hampshire Berkshire border. As I’ve spent more years living closer to Reading as a kid, should I have switched my support. 😳😵‍🤪

No other way of putting it if the last few seasons are anything to go by - we'll be f*****d by the throw-ins alone. Quarter of the team double yellowed in the first half meaning having to keep things tight whilst burning through the 18 added minutes wasted on deciding who to throw the ball to! Just have to hope the man on the whistle can the difference between ineptitude and deception 🤪

I’ll play Born up the General where the carpark is now situated, feel a bit like Damien from the Omen. Place burned down -didn’t really kids - when it turned out my mother was a Jackal, those old enough to have seen the original can hear the Ave Satani theme tune (I always hear it driving past Guildford Cathedral- again you have to have seen it) - anyway I digress. Gran and Grandad and Mum proper Sotonians according to my £19.99 Ancestry dot com subscription. Ok I digress again, my Grans Mum came from Cape Town from a family going back to 1700’s Prussia - but if anyone at this point wants to step outside on this, I must add that she did marry a Fireman from Shirley, who when he wasn’t rescuing cats from up trees, did a bit of plumbing on the many ships down the docks - as for my late Grandad he could remember Titanic leaving Southampton as a nipper. He also had the minerals to sit outside on a sun-lounger during the second war with his broken leg from having a mishap on his Norton 500 dispatch riders bike, watching the dog fights (that’s the RAF Johnnies sticking up Gerry over Southampton kids) while mum and gran were safely in the Anderson shelter where Grandad ended up building his greenhouse as the existing foundations were pretty good……….see I have digressed again. So my Mum was the bird who took my Dads eye (don’t ask about his heritage ‘cos we’d be here another couple of hours) anyway they got it on.Married in Shirley and nested in Bedford Place at the end of the road leading to The Dell before decamping to Bitterne where I turned up one afternoon after a ride in an ambulance with the bells going (no neeee-naaaa’s back then kids) right past where St Mary’s now stands. Dad was the main man for a janitorial supplies company (we were never short of soap) but had to work in that there London - no M3 in those days - and he moved us out of Southampton to a little village right on the Berkshire border north of Basingstoke. Despite a “Heinz 57” ancestral make up, I was still an ‘Ampshoire hog , but Southampton boy first! For 45 years, from the age of 13, I have been pretty much been making the pilgrimage down the Saints, and in those early days by any means possible. I married a girl from a village outside Basingstoke and live in that village now, and if I can be arsed, walking to the end of the road I can see the metropolis. The fact remains I am a Sotonian and if anyone wants to question the validity of my support of the Saints because I now live adjacent to Basingstoke they can sit on my middle finger and swivel 😁

I friend sadly no longer here, big Coventry fan, use to go out socially with Paul and his wife - he always said, like you say he had no interest it was a just a job, when he clocked out football was left hanging up in his locker, until he clocked back in.

Most of the players hated the pre season runs, especially on the sandy beach runs north of Edinburgh, last place had to go in the sea. Everyone did all they could to stick with one player - Paul Telfer - No one could beat him. Marmite to many fans but there was no doubting that he had a good engine and could run for miles. Like you say they were super fit. There was a season stats page in the matchday programme, and one stat was "the number of goals you missed leaving 10 minutes before the end" our number was pretty high. Before WGS Mrs JBS use to say "I hate how the atmosphere changes negatively in the stadium when the clock rolls over to 80 mins" she was right. Under Strachan the last 10 minutes were often the best.

Posted this more than once before when this comes up - so sorry for repeating myself. My memories from that night were firstly the atmosphere before kick off was crackling, all the naughty evicted Northam boys smeared across the stadium. But one thing remains cemented in my head We were in the Family corner in our usual seats, pompey chimes would go up, and the universal reply from 3 sides of the ground would be fired back “f**k off pompey, pompey f**k off” louder and louder every time. Like I say I’m in the family centre with the wife and our 2 girls - up go the pompey chimes again, and again the response goes back louder than the last. As I’m standing there taking it all in, out the corner of my eye I see a little finger pointing, only to turn to see my nice 9 year old daughter stood on her seat joining in and belting out “ f**k off pompey - pompey f**k off!!” - I was stood with mixed emotions, 1st being omg we are with many of the other nice families we sit with every week what must they think of us, on the flip side I’m bursting with go on girl.

That just made me think back 30 years (!!) selling my wares around East Anglia on a monthly run. Premier Inns had just started popping up all over the place offering something better than Travelodge with the attached Little Chefs. They became very popular very quickly with travelling Reps. A new one opened just outside Ipswich and the manager clocked on to a whole load of many solo blokes who would eat and just head back to their rooms, so spending bobbins in the bar. He managed to get the novelty of Sky Sports Monday Night Football running into the bar area TV, and until Sky started stupid priced business subscriptions, it broke the monotony of travelling on your own, staring at the 4 walls of your room - Monday nights away in Suffolk suddenly became less mundane, everyone was on a similar Milk Round so it became quite a social event............until Sky killed the magic.

You do wonder if anyone knows what they are doing in the marbled halls of power within St Marys. Kit launch went well

I thought this design was the one that many fans would have liked to see reinvented in the various kit threads over the years. I like it. Wondering if the Goalies shirt is more Naval Dazzle camouflage than St Marys stained glass window "err where exactly is their keeper standing!?" Amazed that you can pop along to the store and buy it right now and not 5 minutes before the season kicks off, as has happened for about the last 10 seasons or more.

They’ll be the first to moan when the bars are closed tonight in town

I don't think him, his agent, or parents would give a shit about us mending him, whilst paying him, if another team waft the right deal under his nose in the next couple of months. There are no ethics left in football at this level.