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Seems the U23s and U18s get soundly beaten very often. Not great.

Sure looks like at 38-40 pts will be needed for safety. In that regard not much has changed.

Ings must have had a knock. Wasnt in the most recent training pics.

Its a defence mechansim I think. Hojbjerg is a good player, and the stats show clearly his best attributes. He has experience of playing at a massive club, with superstar players so don't think anything would bother him. If he does go, as long as its done well I would wish him success. Obviously would prefer to keep him - he would be a big loss and anyone suggesting otherwise is just wrong.

He is if the talk of Spurs, Leicester and Arsenal being interested ends up proving to be the case. Because they are better than our level.

Players don't usually change Agent for anything other than trying to get a good move. No coincidence that this change happened shortly before lots of media stories about teams interested in him. Also, can barely think of a Saints player who has signed a new contract having run it down to a year to go. Every other example like Clyne and Wanyama has seemingly been a strategy to force the club into a sale. I doubt this will be any different. Would be a big loss though, he is our captain, his style fits perfectly to Hasenhuttl's system and our recent record of replacing key players is dreadful. Also is a message to others in the squad that you can do better than Saints.

Is top flight games a requirement of a good pundit? Many of the worst have hundreds.

Well RH wants quick strikers who can run in behind, so probably yes.

Dwight McNeil isn't already better than Redmond.

There are some loons on here who don't rate Redmond.

Rolling with his bro Cedric (and Cedric's agent) up in London today.

Agree. One of the best around. Tom Heaton was on 5live last weekend in a pundit type role and was excellent as well, really helps when you have a current player - so much interesting stuff about goalkeeping that most fans would never even consider.

Without Ings we would be screwed so as well as others have done (namely JWP, PEH and Stephens) it will be Ings by a mile and deservedly so.

He is an excellent player. I have knocked him a lot in the past but this year he has been excellent. I am sure there will be offers for him in the summer.

Was good when he came on. Exactly what you want from a sub. He made good decisions and caused them problems. Probably his best sub impact, certainly at home.

Really liked his performance. Good first touch, careful passing, looked to play one touch where possible and was calm on the ball. Very promising. Reminded me a little of Schneiderlin in terms of build and the way he moves.

Overly simplistic IMO. We signed Vestergaard because he won headers in Germany. He wins headers in the PL also, very well according to the stats. Personally think mobility and technical ability is equally important.

This is a must not lose IMO. A draw would not be a bad result.

Boufal is in training, which is good news.

Our home form is the worst in the league this season, and without being a good bit above average in terms of away form we would be relegated by now pretty much. We have seen that at times we are actually a good team and are capable of matching and beating teams with better players. Some of our football in December and January has been great, but mostly away from home. This has been the case for a while now. So, to what extent are we, as fans, to blame for this? I am a ST holder but couldn't go yesterday so watched on TV, and was struck by how woeful the atmosphere was. Jenas mentioned on commentary that he has seen us a lot at home and thinks the fans get on the players backs too easily, and that was certainly the case yesterday, at least from the TV experience. So, are we a problem, at least in some part?

Wasn't there an old thread where each country was matched with a SWF member? I wonder who the Belgian football expert was?

Liptak was a CB so thats a lot of wasted worry time. If forced to pick I go Liptak and I would play him in the ticket office as a front sweeper.

You have to wonder why no team in Europe has bought Maehle when Genk are one of the ultimate selling clubs and he is supposedly cheap by PL standards. Must be something that puts scouts off and that you don't see in the 5min YT clips that are probably the only time most on here (myself included) have seen him play.

Pretty obvious that KWP will start, no?

Doesn't look like JWP is training with the team at the moment.