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They're home to Macclesfield, the draw was last week.

Didn't they just send someone out on loan? At that level that's usually the sign of a club that's overspent and needs to cut back. Not that it's how they usually respond to overspending - previous experience has shown the typical response is to continue to overspend until the amount owed to others is enough to reduce the HMRC voting rights to less than the amount needed to liquidate.

And near field communication (e.g. contactless payments and Saints season tickets, f'rinstance).

It probably did, because they lost comfortably to Plymouth when I was there a few weeks back.

They're already not the biggest fan-owned club. They're not fan-owned. Their fans are responsible for fewer than 50% of the shares in the club. That is not ownership.

The utterly spurious logic used by the scammed woman shows you exactly how she got fooled by it: " "He had a fantastic album full of all sorts of players, all sorts of people, all signed, all with him shaking hands. "It does make you feel pretty gutted, especially as football's a team game, you don't expect somebody to do that to you." What the actual fock is the thinking behind the comment in bold making someone less likely to rip you off? For a start neither of the people involved were even in a team together... ohhhh, whatever, what a mental.

Absolutely agree a third would have ended it, but people were only worried because of the Leicester game, and there were a pile of recent Bournemouth games showing they were extremely unlikely to threaten. 2-0 was fine for letting them pass it around uselessly with us having 10 behind the ball. Their lack of class showed in every 5 yard pass slightly behind the target. Once we'd started the second half so poorly Koeman made a smart move to make us as solid defensively as possible with the 2 DM shield (and then even with Wanyama gone not long after Bournemouth still didn't look like scoring). I quite enjoyed how bad they were because of how badly we were playing, in a weird way.

Yeah, that made me laugh, specifically having remembered thinking "good sub, those two should sure it up a bit in the middle". As it turned out, the only thing that really gave us a problem was a fat bloke running straight at the defence in the last 10 minutes.

I'm getting a bit bored with this site's inability to see past the one main incident or goalscorers when it comes to MotM voting, tbh.

But we weren't playing a better team. Had we been playing a better team they probably wouldn't have let their levels drop so much in the first place. They kept a clean sheet and only once even looked like possibly conceding despite looking completely unbothered for 45 minutes.

Not defending too deep and midfield not overrun. We kept a clean sheet and they had one decent shot.

Though pre-season was also my basis for "Cedric will be good" and "Martina looks a bit shaky", and they've not been far off so far, though Martina was actually better than I thought he was the last couple of times he played. FWIW it also gave us "Clasie looks lightweight but good at accurate quick passing forward" and that's looked pretty accurate too. Hasn't been obviously "good" yet, but then it took Schneiderlin 4 years to get to that kind of level, and Ward-Prowse is still getting there too. Romeu is a more solid starter at the moment and more comfortable on the ball in the Premier League but we don't need Romeu and Wanyama for most opponents - Clasie/Romeu at Sunderland could be interesting.

They created one good chance and barely got the ball anywhere near our area the rest of the time. It would have been a great performance if they were 2-0 up like we were and didn't desperately need to score goals, but they were abysmal at creating chances. All we needed to do was keep our shape and they couldn't create anything. Tomlin was the only player who gave us any problems at all - by running at us around the box, and he didn't even get on until near the end. The rest of it was them passing it around without a clue of how to get through us, us sticking 10 players between them and the goal, and them playing awful balls around the area which posed us no problems. Now Leicester, that was a great second half - genuine threat and lots of opportunities for decent chances which tested us. All Bournemouth had was a right winger who won them throw-ins.

It was from a corner routine which involved a backheel - he then smashed it across the box, and it went through a corridor of the 10 outfield Saints players in the box who were the only people remotely near getting to it.

We don't change the way we play, we only change the side in reaction to the level of performance on show - it's human nature to ease off when leading compared to a side that's chasing the game and it's a difficult thing to control, no matter how much you can point at the need to continue to work hard. Obviously yesterday Fonte went off which didn't help but it was the lack of effort in midfield early on (and Bournemouth having the chance to knock long balls into King who actually ran for them as opposed to Murray who didn't) that allowed them to have so much ball early in the second half, and we then reacted to THAT by putting Romeu on for Clasie to shore up the defensive side of the midfield to try and stop them threatening. Lucky for us they were terrible at creating chances and we kept a clean sheet despite barely stringing together 4 passes at a time all half.

I'd love to know how you think they were "great" when they had one shot which might have beaten Stekelenburg in the entire second half, despite us playing in exactly the same lacklustre way as against Leicester (who scored twice), and with one fewer player than them for 20 minutes.

You don't know the difference between a team and a squad, is my observation.

They take the topsoil off every summer - or at least they have done at least that for the past 2, possibly 3 years - I vaguely remember one year after Markus took over they redid the whole thing in order to activate the undersoil heating that the pipes had been laid for but hadn't been configured, or something like that.

It's not a piece of paper that you printed at home though, is it? How did they think it worked, magic?

1. Tuesday 3rd November (9am) – 2015/16 Season Ticket holders 2. Monday 9th November (9am) – 2015/16 Official Members who have purchased a ticket for as least one home game since the beginning of the 2012/13 season. 3. Thursday 12th November (9am) – Supporters who have purchased a ticket for at least one home game since the beginning of the 2012/13 season. Season Ticket holders will be able to purchase their usual seat until 8.30am on Monday 9th November. All sales dates are subject to availability. Please be aware that it is one ticket per eligible supporter. Read more at http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/20151030-tickets-southampton-liverpool-capital-one-cup-2773293.aspx#ZtZd1gEGlHLlXTsU.99 Basically if you have more than one customer number, have bought a ticket since we got back to the Premier League using that number, and there are tickets left when that number is eligible, you can buy more than one.

After 2001 I'd agree with you. They were ace for the two albums before 2000 though.

He's got a bad foot. Stop flapping.

I haven't seen one in Winchester or since just after I started working there in 2011, let's put it like that.

I had no idea Hitzlsperger was even gay, though now you mention it there was something in the media about it a while back. That's how much of an issue it was for me. Completely forgot. Mind you, add that to the Nigel Owens thing earlier, and maybe it's just my memory generally.

FWIW I agree re: "you're f'cking sh1t", the "easy" Villa experience back in 2005 was bad enough, and I'm fairly sure no-one would genuinely think we should sing it at anyone else - and probably shouldn't have at 2-0 against Leicester knowing they'd been launching comebacks all over the place. Fairly sure no-one would seriously suggest singing it at our own players, either.