CB Fry

Never thought I would care about the League Cup this season but we're here now, thanks to some excellent rotation/ squad management by Claude. Go for it, perfectly winnable.

Potential new manager/caretaker manager effect at Palace to put a spanner in it.

In conjunction with the post you edited after the result on the other thread, I'm giving you a 9/10. Great stuff.

Exceptional after-the-fact post editing there. The master craftsman.

And fair play Claude for chucking him in. The Southampton Way.

We will take it steady with him, no doubt. He'll be added gently to the squad like olive oil into mayonnaise. Looks like one hell of an option though.

Well, I thoroughly enjoyed today's football match.

Delicious.

Sims off - Mcqueen on. Claude trolling the #$#% out of Koeman. We'd better win.

16 attempts, 6 on target for a team that doesn't create anything according to the stat experts.

Well done Stek there.

Easier to score.

He hopes this is Puel's swansong: ie he wants us to lose today. Says it all.

What we don't want to do now is concede.

We're attacking them more effectively than they're attacking us.

No threat up front.

Interesting we went Sims not Hesketh who has been more involved this season. Is he injured?

6th in table for shots on target.

I'd like to see a club bottom of the goals table but top of the assist one. Great stat analysis yet again. Well done on posting up both tables. Insightful. I also like how you have now dismissed the key passes stat immediately now that I have pointed out that a crappy old Saints player has the same stat as Hazard/Lamela. Their brilliant key passes are worth much more than Redmond's rubbish key passes. But of course. Let's remember you brought it up. I've said we have an issue, it's obvious what it is. My only advice would be that if you are going to back it up with stats try and find ones that actually back up the point you're making.

I don't really care about stats but a quick glance at "key passes" (whatever they are) shows Tadic is in the joint third in the league with 2.8 (Payet and KDB the only two better than him). And Redmond, with his "under 3" score (1.9) is actually 17th in the country alongside Hazard and Lamela (both 2.0) and Lukaku (1.. So Saints have 2 in the top twenty, which maths suggests is better than the majority of Premier League clubs. Odd you've picked that one to get upset about. As a previous poster suggests, it looks like you are cherry picking stats, or in this case wilfully misreading them. Obviously we do have a problem, but clearly it is conversion of chances rather than creating them. We are a clinical finisher away from being excellent again. Or, in the short term, Long finding something resembling goalscoring form.

They're such a massive, massive club.

Rocket Ronnie when he wins the snooker and everything he was like playing on Tuesday, then again on the Wednesday and then again all the way through to Sunday. Two or three sessions a day too. I'd like to see Steven Davis cope at the Crucible.

EDDIE IZZARD DONE TWENTY SIX MARATHONS IN TWENTY SIX DAYS.

How come the Tour De France is, like, EVERY DAY but Charlie Austin can't play Saturday and Thursday?? HUH??????

But the Brownlee brothers can run, swim and cycle miles and miles and miles THE SAME DAY so why can't Jose Fonte play three games in a week?????? :-/ :- S :-0