John Boy Saint

Who else has the World of Sport theme tune playing in their heads reading this. 4pm off to Wrestling with Big Daddy, Mick McManus, Giant Haystacks then at 4:45 wait eagerly for the teleprinter and Saints result - all read out in his unmistakable voice. 94 is a good innings RIP

Saw his post match interview on Soccer Saturday- immediately thought “I’ll buy some of whatever you’re selling”.

Brilliant 6 points off Chelsea this season - a third of our tally to date

Phew

No surprise with Coote on the whistle

One more I think

Nah - he penned it at work in word, then panicked when the Boss walked in the office to see what he was up to, and rushed to post 🙃

In retrospect when you look at the way sport science has evolved, including the Transit van of mattresses turning up at away hotels for the players under the Cortese regime - Woodward was probably the sanest of the lot - but with Jurassic Arry around the place he was on a hiding to nothing.

It would be good if what happened to Lemina becomes the norm - 3rd player into the argument and your getting a card. It’s been a policy in Ice Hockey for years 2 opposing players playing windmills at each other - third man in = 2 minutes in the sun bin

From my seat I thought in the first half on Saturday - we actually had, for once, some presence in midfield with Lavia, Charly, Sulemena, with JWP tidying up. Someone was always showing for the ball receiving it, keeping it and recovering it when lost. (where it vanished to second half - goodness knows) That quartet needs polishing into a unit, as they are all able footballers.

He said he wasn't ready when we very first approached him - he certainly got that dead right. And filled his pockets in the process of proving his opinion of himself to be correct.............. Driving away from St Marys, he probably had a wry smile as he thought "I told you, but you just didn't listen the first time".

From my seat in the stand I couldn’t find anything to moan about in his performance - given the price tag seems a bit of a bargain, especially as he seems to be adapting quickly.

Forgot it was an early kick off

My customers up in Wolverhampton are really looking forward to this game after their game last weekend. They are all throwing themselves round the room over the thought of Lemina returning to haunt us - “he was a bit more than good last weekend”. Just reading through the threads above, weirdly I have no emotion about this game. I’ll drag myself down to Southampton, take my seat in the ground, swear at the ref, put my head in my hands at another half arsed pass, then amble back to the car with a “whatever” attitude. Shame really

Returning to when he first came in, it was mentioned that he was approached for the gig back in the summer before the season started and Jones himself said no, as he didn't feel HE was ready for the job. They obviously badgered him to take it after all the analysis the club had spent on him - you can only guess he thought why not take, it the worst that can happen is "I'll get sacked and my contract paid up". The "brains trust" that made the decision to pursue him must be tossing and turning at night wondering why their fool proof recruitment algorithm appears to have a glitch

In fairness Newcastle went into shit housing overdrive wasting every single millisecond possible - evaporating what fragile momentum we had.

Blimey refs found his yellow cards

How isGuimares not in the refs book

Is Salisu on drugs or something

I’d have kept Charly on with Lavia - a couple of times he had the ball and no one was on his frequency to receive it

Oops that wasn’t in the plan

Mattys on a hatty Fuck me - dont stop toon

Wake the fuck up!

Hot knife through butter and a keeper made of cheese

Jeez just how big a bag was it - or were you licking them first.