Saints training camp

[trousers]

Southampton FC ‏@officialsaints Here's a shot of the #SaintsFC lads in training with Lake Geneva in the background: http://pic.twitter.com/MByVCIJx

 

[St.Patrik]

Bloody Hell what a view - hard to focus on football with that nice suroundings....

Edited 16 July, 2012 by St.Patrik
spelling of course....

[Matthew Le God]

Cortese should pay to get a view like that shipped to Staplewood.

[trousers]

Is that our Tommy in goal?

[Matthew Le God]

Looks like it.

[Noodles34]

  St.Patrik said:

Bloody Hell what a view - hard to focus on football with that nice suroundings....

 

have you never looked across the Solent?

[alpine_saint]

I love the area round Geneva and Neuchatel. Very pretty.

[alpine_saint]

  Noodles34 said:

have you never looked across the Solent?

 

Well I miss looking across at Fawley from Vicky Park, especially in the dark when the lights are on, but thats because I am a Sotonian; I doubt it would appeal to third parties (my wife thinks its hideous).

[alpine_saint]

Actually, if you look down at Weston Shore when playing a round from the Dibden Golf club, it looks a bit like that.

 

A bit. I wouldnt stretch the analogy too far.

[St.Patrik]

Sadly no - must perhaps try that next time I´m in town?

 

  Noodles34 said:

have you never looked across the Solent?

[buctootim]

  St.Patrik said:

Sadly no - must perhaps try that next time I´m in town?

 

From the Eastern Docks across to Fawley is particularly striking, especially with the sun setting behind Marchwood incinerator.

[The9]

They must have a hell of a baggage allowance on the plane to get those "Saints" banners which have been hung around the perimeter on board.

[stanthemanfairoak]

  trousers said:

Is that our Tommy in goal?

great freebe for are tommy 3 post ,hol`s in the sun ,and £1500 a week spenders, where the f**k did i go wrong in life?

[alpine_saint]

I fret that our back-up goalie is STILL Tommy Forecast.

[Saints67]

  stanthemanfairoak said:

great freebe for are tommy 3 post ,hol`s in the sun ,and £1500 a week spenders, where the f**k did i go wrong in life?

Well if your face looks like your avatar then I'd start there

[Badger]

  trousers said:

Is that our Tommy in goal?

 

No, its our £6.5m 'triallist' in goal. It was meant to be kept under wraps but yet another camera happy hotel employee has blown it open.

 

Forecast is the one cycling off in the background having taken the lad's morning orders for woodbines, pies ,and Special Brew to scupper the curfew.

[PhilippineSaint]

  alpine_saint said:

I fret that our back-up goalie is STILL Tommy Forecast.

 

Is that some sort of wood working Class?? Can you make us a new goalkeeper or just board the goal up?

[alpine_saint]

  PhilippineSaint said:

Is that some sort of wood working Class?? Can you make us a new goalkeeper or just board the goal up?

 

Well, a few lengths of 2x4 and a few sheets of MDF would be more effective. Not sure Man City will be too chuffed about the nail holes in their goal posts though.

[Minty]

  alpine_saint said:

I fret that our back-up goalie is STILL Tommy Forecast.

 

Nige said they would be bringing in a goalkeeper. There's nowt any of us can do in the mean time, so I really wouldn't worry your pretty little head about it Alps. Life is too short. There are more important things to worry about in life.

[krissyboy31]

What's the blue stuff at the top of the picture? Don't recognise that!

[VectisSaint]

  Badger said:

No, its our £6.5m 'triallist' in goal. It was meant to be kept under wraps but yet another camera happy hotel employee has blown it open.

 

Forecast is the one cycling off in the background having taken the lad's morning orders for woodbines, pies ,and Special Brew to scupper the curfew.

Do you think Tommy Fourpast can ride a bike?. I suspect he dropped it just after the photo was taken.

[beavis17]

calum chambers ‏@Chambo_321

 

Hardest training session so far this pre-season ‪#blowing

[amsterdam]

  trousers said:

Southampton FC ‏@officialsaints Here's a shot of the #SaintsFC lads in training with Lake Geneva in the background: http://pic.twitter.com/MByVCIJx

 

 

Could be a completely pedantic g*t and say that it is Lake Leman in the background rather than Lake Geneva, but I won't....

[stanthemanfairoak]

  Saints67 said:

Well if your face looks like your avatar then I'd start there

thats not me its tommys dad.

[BadgerBadger]

What's that blue stuff in the sky

[buctootim]

  amsterdam said:

Could be a completely pedantic g*t and say that it is Lake Leman in the background rather than Lake Geneva, but I won't....

 

Is that a joke, or do you not know that its a different name for the same lake?

[hutch]

  amsterdam said:

Could be a completely pedantic g*t and say that it is Lake Leman in the background rather than Lake Geneva, but I won't....

Pathetic effort.

 

Proper pedants know full well it's actually Lac Léman.

[amsterdam]

No - some Vaudois are very sensitive about it - Lake Geneva is a small part around (ironically) Geneva. The lake is Lac Leman... If you fancy a beer anytime in Lausanne, then let me know and I'll invite along some anally-retentive people who will be happy to bore you for hours about this!!

[amsterdam]

Touche - or rather touché...!

[Lighthouse]

They should have just gone to Windermere, then we'd have none of this nonesense.

[Miffy]

  BadgerBadger said:

What's that blue stuff in the sky

 

the sky

[trousers]

  Lighthouse said:

They should have just gone to Windermere, then we'd have none of this nonesense.

 

And, of course, we all know that Lake Windemere isn't actually a lake...

[Badger]

  Lighthouse said:

They should have just gone to Windermere, then we'd have none of this nonesense.

 

The Tale of Tom Forecast.

 

It does have the ring of Beatrix Potter about it.

[Lighthouse]

  trousers said:

And, of course, we all know that Lake Windemere isn't actually a lake...

 

Yep it's a mere, hence the name. I think Winder was a viking, can't remember.

[buctootim]

  Lighthouse said:

Yep it's a mere, hence the name. I think Winder was a viking, can't remember.

 

Yes its a mere, which means 'lake'.

[Pilchards]

  trousers said:

Southampton FC ‏@officialsaints Here's a shot of the #SaintsFC lads in training with Lake Geneva in the background: http://pic.twitter.com/MByVCIJx

 

 

 

Kelvin to Fourpast "You won't have any to save standing there Tommy, unlike me when we swap."

[notnowcato]

classic..

 

Pedants of the world untie!

[shirleysfc]

  amsterdam said:

No - some Vaudois are very sensitive about it - Lake Geneva is a small part around (ironically) Geneva. The lake is Lac Leman... If you fancy a beer anytime in Lausanne, then let me know and I'll invite along some anally-retentive people who will be happy to bore you for hours about this!!

 

Ironically?? Are you sure?

[Graffito]

Tommy's there to fetch the ball when it gets booted in the lake.

 

What a backdrop. Beats being fking stuck here.

[Pilchards]

Tommy to Davis, "Make sure you get your body behind it."

 

Davis "You taking the ****?"

[Doctoroncall]

  BadgerBadger said:

What's that blue stuff in the sky

 

It's the light which due to Rayleigh scattering, makes the sky blue. (I believe, I'm not a pedant!)

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[Minty]

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