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  1. Good shout on the short-term visa. I've never used it personally but I assume it's straightforward. That gives more than enough time for tourism in Shanghai (two days is enough tbh) and possibly even Suzhou or Hangzhou as one-day trips. You might want to just stick around Shanghai though and take it easy.
  2. Hey all. It’s been a fair while since I last posted but figured I’d wade in on this thread as I’m Shanghai based and have the official Saints social media and fan relations manager as an acquaintance. She’s offering my free tickets for the games if I’m interested. I’ll probably go to the Schiller game even though it’s annoyingly on a Thursday evening at 7:30pm. It’s in Kunshan which is between Shanghai and Suzhou, roughly 20m on the high-speed train from Hongqiao station, itself around 30m from downtown on the subway. It’s just about achieveable after work. The second game is a Sunday but it’s in a city called Xuzhou about 300 miles from Shanghai. I’ll give that one a miss! The weather in July is going to be brutal for a game of football, even in the evening, so I imagine it’ll be a pretty tame kickabout. Anyway, if any of you do make it out let me know and I’ll be happy to answer any questions about getting around etc. Or try to answer them anyway.
  3. Great to see Davis and Long being the heroes for their teams, and that NI have confirmed their spot. Wales are all but guaranteed to be there and RoI have their fate in their own hands now, thanks to Shane. It's only Scotland that's let the British Isles down.
  4. All fair points. I wonder if sometimes our club believes its own hype. The team has a reputation for finding undeveloped talent, so maybe when they find someone they think "We're good at finding good players, we found this guy, so this guy must be good."
  5. I didn't read it that way to be honest. I assumed Batman was lamenting the fact we couldn't get both players in and were forced to choose between one or the other. A fair reason to lament.
  6. I think you missed my point. It's not only us Saints fans who've tweeted support for Luke Shaw, but fans of Arsenal, Man City, Aston Villa ... everyone. There's rarely such outpouring of sympathy for players who suffer less obvious, but no less serious injuries, such as J-Rod. I was commenting on the peculiarities and contradictions of human nature. Because we can see Luke's leg hanging awkwardly, we assume it's so much more painful than the invisible internal tear of a ligament or cartilage, hence less concern for J-Rod's welfare from outside the club.
  7. Feel for the lad obviously, nobody deserves that. But, I don't recall too many tweets of support from Man Utd fans when J-Rod suffered his knee injury, which could easily have been career ending, or when Fraser Forster got hurt so bad he's out for a year. People only seem to care when it's a visible break. They think it's so much more serious.
  8. The money and the fracture are unrelated of course, but I suppose PP's point was that his situation isn't as bad as for an ordinary bloke suffering a similar injury. If someone on 25k a year breaks their leg, it can affect their ability to earn money for their family – money they need much more than a millionaire – and they have to make do with occasional trips to an NHS physio. They also get zero sympathy except from a few close mates. Shaw is going to get the best treatment, all while being paid six-figures a week. That should soften the blow slightly, even if it has nothing to do with the injury itself. I guess that's what PP was getting at.
  9. Neither did we. Our game against them finished 2-2 if I recall, and involved us conceding two very sloppy goals to throw away a lead, before rescuing a point. And like you said, it's "early days", so probably too early to be suggesting Newcastle are a relegation contender.
  10. I know JWP is not the most popular player, but I quite like him. He's not spectacular, but nor is he awful. He just doesn't offer anything we don't already get from the likes of Steven Davis, which is hardly an insult (although he's much maligned by many of you as well). I'd like to persevere with him if only because he's an academy graduate, and pretty much the only one ready for first-team football (Targett wouldn't be there if Bertrand was fit). We need to stay true to our pledge to develop youth with first-team football. JWP will only improve if he's playing.
  11. I seem to recall us being given one for intent against Villa. The defender swung at J-Rod who went down without any contact at all. It wasn't even close to an actual foul.
  12. Dire, obviously, but for those who like a positive spin, that's three clean sheets in a row now, and VVD looks very calm and composed at the back, even if West Brom didn't pose much of a test today.
  13. Brendan Rodgers. No other manager comes close to loving Southampton as much. He wants to manage us so bad he's been moving the club piecemeal. I say we reward his passion with a job offer.
  14. "… earn himself a big money summer move to Liverpool and integrate himself into England’s European Championship plans" I wonder if the writer deliberately drew the connection between those two events. "After progressing through the Palace ranks a move to Southampton followed where he quickly attracted the attention of the big clubs and Three Lions boss Roy Hodgson." I'm glad our small club was able to help showcase his talents. "I always set my mind on playing at the top. As a footballer you want to be playing at the highest level and when you start at the bottom and work your way up to the top it's always good. It's the way I have done it." Fair enough, he has done that, but I'm not sure Liverpool is quite "at the top".
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