John Boy Saint

....................... "And here we are at the International Super League of Chinese Whispers and Rumour Championships, this month from the largest county in England: Hampshire".................................................... "Looks like we could have a memorable round on our hands with this one!"......................................................

We have this ref for the Watford game........................... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/7984554.stm ............ Not

Smith was on the whole like a Pork Pie at a Jewish wedding for much of the time when he came on and left Jake more exposed than he was when Lallana was on the pitch, he seemed reluctant to track back.

The numpties are not just outside the ground, some c o c k decided to launch a sprite bottle with gusto in the Chapel to celebrate our second goal (wtf!!) the chap behind me dodged it and I copped it. We certainly do have a bunch of f+(£wits amongst us!

I have total apathy to the feeling of disappointment Saints performances leave me with when I walk away from St Marys after the final whistle. Yesterdays game was nothing unexpected in reality. As I have said many times on a post match Sunday since the Blackburn Match in the relegation season it has been like the longest slow motion car crash ever.................................... And still it goes on. What went on after the game in the Northam car park, was to be frank pathetic, what happened mummy wouldn't them go to London this week? We are on our backsides hoping someone will come and rescue us and a bunch of idiots decide it will be fun to have a kick off that dilutes the big issue at hand. Ah well the sweetener of the day was winning a ton on the Grand National, and before anyone suggests a home for my winnings, My family will enjoy the benefit; as they normally have to put up with "kick the cat" Dad when I get home from a game.

Blimey I wish he was coating some of my Frying pans.

I have a customer who is taking on a lease in the Westfield centre in Derby, it is very similar to West Quay but much newer, he has acquired a cracking deal to fill the unit. However he said that if he did not have such a good deal he could not even dream of taking such a unit as he would have to take over £1m through the till to make anything. Another example is the place that use to cut my hair in Reading the chap there has an immensely successful unisex Salon, when the Oracle shopping centre was being filled with retailers they begged him to take a unit; he worked out that he would have to cut hair from January until September before he could think about paying himself. Both of these examples give you an idea of how much it costs to have a unit in a modern shopping centre thats why its very rare to see an independent retailer in such surroundings, Saints shop in West Quay is an independent retailer surrounded by multiples. The council may have secured a unit or 2 from the developers as part of the deal to build West Quay which they could be sub letting to Saints for favourable rate as the City benefits from Southampton Football Club especially when the team is doing well

At the end of the day nothing will happen regarding new investors if Messrs Lowe (in particular) Wilde and Askham are still on the scene. When the Wilde consortium were making their bid to take over Lee Hoo's in his meetings with fans said that there was no intention of making an outright bid for the club as the removal of one man would not leave anything much to put in the club to move on. As Rupert said in an interview around the time the wheels started to come off the club "if someone paid me £25m I would walk away". These are sad times for Saints fans, just like wishing you could go back to school knowing what you do now, how nice it would be to return to Football in August 1978: the dawn of happier times when this kind of carry on was a very very distant probably non existent thought.

A mate of a mate is a copper t'up North; a couple of years ago when the G8 met in the wilds of Scotland he gave up his holiday so that he could "have a laugh with other Coppers, dress up like Robocop, and if they are lucky get to kick a few smellys, and get payed a nice bit of overtime!". Allegedly (before the internet Stasi decide to come round mine at 6am and kick down the front door)

Royksopp ~ Junior

Quite amusing really, if Mickey the Shoe had started on the back row and finished 3rd (or even 4th in real time) there would have been a queue of folks looking to vanish up his backside for days.

Makes you laugh, you spend all your time trying to get your missus to have a curry, and then normally spend 4 hours begging her for it, just for 2 minutes of frantic action............. Sprout under construction decides they want to stay in the factory a bit longer, so those in the know say a Ruby and a spot of Rumpy is a good way to get things going and suddenly its Christmas.

Can I come.................. I have my own bicycle complete with lights.

Probably the public liability insurance outweighed the income generated, kills of most things these days.

The Lone Ranger was ambushed and captured by an enemy Indian War Party. The Indian Chief proclaims, "So, YOU are the great Lone Ranger" .. "In honor of the Harvest Festival, YOU will be executed in three days." "Before I kill you, I grant you three requests" "What is your FIRST request ???' The Lone Ranger responds, "I'd like to speak to my horse." The Chief nods and Silver is brought before the Lone Ranger who whispers in Silver's ear, and the horse gallops away. Later that evening, Silver returns with a beautiful blonde woman on his back. as the Indian Chief watches, the blonde enters the Lone Ranger's tent and spends the night. The next morning the Indian Chief admits he's impressed.. "You have a very fine and loyal horse". "But I will still kill you in two days." "What is your SECOND request ???" The Lone Ranger again asks to speak to his horse. Silver is brought to him, and he again whispers in the horse's ear. As before, Silver takes off and disappears over the horizon. Later that evening, to the Chief's surprise, Silver again returns, this time with a voluptuous brunette, more attractive than the blonde. She enters the Lone Rangers tent and spends the night. The following morning the Indian Chief is again impressed. "You are indeed a man of many talents,". "But I will still kill you tomorrow." "What is your LAST request ???" The Lone Ranger responds, "I'd like to speak to my horse, .... alone." The Chief is curious, but he agrees, and Silver is brought to the Lone Ranger's tent. Once they're alone, the Lone Ranger grabs Silver by both ears, Looks him square in the eye and says: Listen Very Carefully !!!! .........FOR... THE... LAST... TIME... I SAID ... ......."BRING POSSE"!

Nice to see a range of clothing with big people in mind; perhaps he's not such a bad lad after all............................................................................................................................. :smt034

In that article it says that Bernie and Max are "paranoid about not enough teams making the grid in 2010". Well this little change will hasten that happening, in the current world climate, who is going to continuing chucking millions of dollars down the drain to not even have any chance to win a championship. This will become like the Football Premiership the top four get all the money and everyone else is left to bob about as cannon fodder with almost zero chance of breaking into the golden circle. Years ago these 2 poked their fingers into the Sportscar (Le Mans) series. Jaguar had just racked up a couple of Le Mans wins 1000k endurance races were very well attended. Big manufacturers backed the series, Jaguar, Mercedes, Porsche, Aston Martin. Yes some of the engines were a tad obscene by todays standard: 7ltr Jags, 5ltr lightly blown Mercs, 6 ltr Astons, 3.5ltr fully blown Porsche, but they were all the type of engines that you expect from these marques. Then then probably as a result of the attendance popularity encroaching on F1 these 2 changed the engine rules making them all 3.5ltr normally aspirated engines, 1000 kilometre races were stopped, as a result most of the privateers threw in the towel. We went to the Silverstone round the year these changes were made the race started the cars went past us and my wife said where's the rest of the cars "thats the lot" was my reply. "What only 8 cars!" she exclaimed. In reality we paid good money to see a poor spectacle compared to the big field 1000k days only the year before. I bet they are paranoid because if only 8 cars made the Formula 1 grid in 2010 the pair of them would be lynched by the folks in the grandstands who had just stumped up £120 for the privilege of watching a very dull affair. I will look forward to cutting my grass this summer when there is very little point in watching.

Looks like a bunch of grade A plums on first showing, most will have one of their feet not a million miles away from their own facial orifice. Philip Taylor looks a bit like Bryan Robson, hopefully for him that's where the resemblance ends.

Who is going to listen to a bank that can't run itself solvently without outside assistance, if you have shares sit on them don't panic and unload them as you will only make matters worse. I have 20 odd years before we might have to start dipping into ours by then the world will have gone round a few thousand times and them events of these turbulent years will have passed into history.

Thank you

Which pre match pub shows Sky as the Lads who are coming to the QPR game on Saturday with me fancy watching the Manure v Liverpool game beforehand without busting a gut to make kick off.

The pitch was narrowed a couple or 3 seasons ago on the kingsland side. If you look at where the lino runs towards Team Saints corner in certain lights you can see a darker strip where the old lino wear line has grown back. Hood down Anorak off.

1987 was my first British Grand Prix and what a race. The boys from the pub were all Grand Prix anoraks we had been camped between Club and Abbey from the small hours. When Mansell went into the pits the disappointment all around us was tangible. From then on the intensity of the crowd grew with each lap, it had to be the longest Mexican wave in the world as every time Mansell went past the crowd were willing him on as he reeled Piquet in. As Piquet exited Stowe you could hear people counting the gap before Mansell appeared. When Mansell and Piquet were both on the Straight between Stowe and Club the place was going mad it went berserk when Mansell came out of Stowe first with a lap to go. On his celebration lap he ran out of fuel right in front of us, being the last year before total fencing everyone was on the track, everyone wanted to touch their hero the trouble was that being closest to the car you were pushing back because the heat coming off the car was so intense; these were the 1500cc turbocharged days if they had run a night race in those days I swear you would have seen the whole car glowing in the night not just the brake discs. What a race!, nigh on 22 years (!) later you can tell it is still indelibly burnt into the memory bank.

Yeah absolutely loads mate....................................... Except it will all be a figment of your imagination as most of it will be hidden by strategically placed Buns & Jams as per the original idea. But then get a box and you might just get to sneak a peek from the side. :smt048

A bit disappointed Phil Boyer didn't get a shout, spearheaded our attack through promotion and continued his goal scoring feats into the 1st Division (old money) which even in todays football is a rarity.