John Boy Saint

I was disappointed that he left us as he gave the team some connection to Southampton, as a player he was frustrating, one week fantastic the next missing, a bit like Anders Svennson. Hammond V Surman?............ Hammond for me, the bloke is a hard tackling presence in our midfield who puts in a damn good shift every week, him and Spiderman make, for me, a good combination Finesse and Steel.

These were always classics: trying to remember all the words at the end of this was a regular challenge at school: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7vfl5iRueU Watch out for these!!: This verges on NSFW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEhfxGGCDzY although this is the backing track best remembered: First time that I saw this was at the cinema, as you can tell I found it quite impressive on the big screen. but then this one always seemed to make folks laugh But this is the cinema classic:

Papa without a doubt, Antonio is someone to bring off the bench as he has the pace to wear out already tired legs of the opposition, he also has a lot to learn about the game. I have to say that when Antonio confused his own feet in the second half was very funny.

If it looks like it will be dry & Sunny, and with it being a 3pm kick-off I bet there will be a good walk up to fill the gaps. Especially as by then everyone will have been stuffed full of food and looking for an excuse to go out and get some fresh air ahead of filling their faces some more.

When we had that heavy snow on a Friday back in February my kids were stuck in town because the Buses had stopped, so I walked to collect them and got the missus to pick us up nearer to home where there were no traffic queues. As we got closer to home this knob was driving so close to the back of my car that I could not see his lights in the rear view mirror and rarely in the wing mirrors, so I stopped the car where he could not drive round me, got out and asked if he had special insurance that covered him for driving like a pillock in these conditions? He just looked at me then as I walked away he laughed, I went back & told him to feel free to drive into the back of my car and see how much he will be laughing when his next insurance quote comes in.

Napalm!.................... never fails not even on wet logs :-)

Its not just here that the ****s drive like dimwits, I was in Canada staying with friends for Xmas quite a few years ago arrived in heavy Snow which was great. Stayed in Toronto overnight then the next evening headed about 200 miles to the north east towards Ottowa, the snow had eased up but there was mountains of the stuff all around. As we drove up the highway every so often someone would pass us like we were going backwards, and so the game started: how many miles down the road will that car be off the road. It was stunning nearly every single car that blasted past us was buried in the central reservation within the next 10 miles!

Agree, not only is he getting the team in the right mindset of late, but he is whipping us fans up along the way. Its like we are being included in the team talk. I like this line; But, the players' commitment to what we're wanting to do can't be faulted, they've been absolutely brilliant and I think our fans know that when the players put on the stripes of Southampton, they're seeing a committed performance from people who are going to perform to the best of their ability, which is what we'll do at Leeds. We have not seen enough players playing for the stripes in recent years, we all know those are the players we want to see.

Bloke out on his Company Christmas party on Christmas Eve gets exceedingly drunk and even more so when the Pub crawl starts. Feeling the worse for wear he steps outside the pub trips stumbles and falls right on the curb, he is in agony at the pain coming from his groin. A kindly passer by calls and Ambulance which carts him of to the Hospital. When the Doctor examines him, he just shakes his head with a worried look....... "Well young man I have some very bad news for you, I am afraid to say that you have broken your penis!!". As all the colour drained from his face at this shocking news he asked if there was anything the Doctor could do for him. The Doctor said there is something he could try and went and got 4 tongue sticks and some surgical tape and made a splint around his damage old chap. The next day the poor Bloke still in agony visits his Girlfriend who he loves so much but has never got further than a kiss & a cuddle with. He gives her some nice jewellery and perfume which she is delighted with. She then stands in front of him and says "I couldn't wrap my present up..." then lifts her skirt pulls her knickers down and says "Here is my present to you my darling un touched by any man!". To which he stands up drops his trousers and says "Beat that mine is still in the bloody box!!"

So you will be up at Crabtree next to the M3 sledging the hill of death if we get enough of a dollop?

Lino: "Phew! they bloody missed one, should be in the dressing room showered and dressed on time to see the Eastenders repeat on BBC 3 now!".

Sorry, disagree with that, if you have the balls to put your name in the first five then you are old enough to take a penalty. Funnily enough young James slotted his pen v Torquay where the pressure for embarrassment on the team was much greater. There is only one way to learn how to handle the pressure of penalties, when penalties become the final solution to a result out on the pitch in a full stadium. When I was trying to get a job selling years ago, I would be told when applying for a trainee reps jobs "sorry you have no experience"!!?? Like hello! its a trainee role!!

Does the suspicious suicide of Dr David Kelly still cast a shadow over all of this, especially when "grey" people were apparently searching for his body when it was "not known" that he was missing let alone dead.

Very good night out, eventually, thats the kind of effort you hope to see even if you are being frustrated by the opposition. 1st time I have seen penalty shoot out in the flesh at 1st team level, don't like watching pens at the best of times, but that was uncomfortable for me especially as I did not have a sofa or cushion to hide behind!! ;-) The last 30 seconds and pens certainly made the cold go away for a while

At Christmas Pete the closet transvestite couldn't wait to dress up, eat, drink, and be Mary.

Peter Dreary and David Bleat: whenever they are on together there is not enough Prozac in the World to numb the agony that they bring to Football commentary, they are worse than the lady the Beeb keep trying out on us.

Makes you laugh all this Maggie bashing: in 1979 she inherited command, from the Labour party, of a country that was in no uncertain terms going down the sh1tter. She came in and had to make some unpopular decisions in an effort to get things back onto an even keel but she did it. If you lived in a steel or a coal town you have a bitter enough axe to grind in her direction. Anyone who has lived in and around Hampshire all their lives has lived a far better life as a result of the Tory policies through the 80's, 90's, 00's (even if the greed of plenty at the end of the 80's did give you a bloody nose). If you worked down the docks there is probably a bit of a gripe, but if Union rule had not had a kick up the backside the docks would not be what they are today in Southampton. So here we are again under a labour government who inherited a sound economy and as usual have ****ed it up the wall again. So the Tories will come in and make the unpopular decisions that we know need making just to get the country back on the straight and narrow again: everyone will moan and let Labour back in to fritter it all away again on 5 a day Tsars and the like at £35,000 a year! Back to the original subject, if George doublyah's Pappy had had more guts good 'ole Tony would not have been in the pickle that he is now. Maggie said to keep in going to Baghdad but Bush senior got a bit windy and said to stop at liberating Kuwait. At the end of the day what is unacceptable is that a Prime Minister abused his power to go to war. At least when the Argies invaded South Georgia they were invading British soil so Maggie had a nailed on reason to go to war, telling the Yanks to take a hike of the way down there. That was a legitimate war and came at the right time to buy the Tories time to keep on digging us out of the inherited hole. Tony thought he would gain the same popularity Maggie had at the end of the Falklands by taking us to war. Vanity will always see the demise of a politician.

Pantomine Dames would be very seasonal.

8pm Kick off I believe to allow some recovery time from the previous match: and so we can polish off some more cold Turkey and get a few drinks in........................ Can't wait!!

With their under soil heating might be worth a pitch invasion just to lay on the pitch and warm up!! ;-)

My Mum won't let me out the door without one when the weather is like it is at the moment.............................and my gloves on elastic through my sleeves. With regard to questioning the quality and the number singing along, the overiding fact was those who did join in were signing at the same time as those stood in opposing and neighbouring stands which, apart from the chorus of Swing Low from everyone when we played Chelsea the afternoon after England won the Rugby World Cup, has to be about the only time it has been achieved: hence the number of people commenting about it and the uplifting feeling it has produced.

Who thought the Ref in his nice Lime Green shirt looked like he had already eaten his Christmas Dinner?

My Moment of the Match.

The other thing with Rickies miss was the ball came from behind him and before he went to strike it he looked at the lino to see if he was off by the time he had looked back to strike it the ball had moved........ Sack the Ball!!

Yahoo! You can still get Plastics in the 3rd Division, that was going to be my question on the Muppet show over Christmas. We must have sold loads into the 20K's for Boxing Day I bought extra tickets for Family and they are 6 rows behind where I can normally get seats at shorter notice on the fringes of the masses in the Chapel................................ I just hope we don't get the mothers meeting conversation that was going on between a couple of chaps, who none of us had ever seen before, behind us all through the 1st half yesterday; thankfully they got lost finding their way back to their seats for the second half.