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I agree with your overall point too but I'm not 100% convinced Armstrong would hit the ground running like Ings probably would next season. By all accounts, Ings has been offered a really good deal by us, so I still wouldn't be surprised if he considered signing it at the end of the transfer window (if none of his preferred suitors came his way, and the offer was still on the table).

Agreed, look at how much Liverpool took for Brewster last year from Sheffield United. £23.5m apparently and not a single goal scored from memory.

Yup, a balls up of epic proportions. All too easy to piss money up the wall when you have too much of it. We got complacent and lazy and ended up worse off. Unbelievable Jeff!

Yeah, the Virgil thing worked for all parties at the time really. Thanks largely to rat face though, sounds like a gentleman’s agreement to leave after 2/3 years of signing the 6-year deal got withdrawn by him. With Ings, I guess there was nothing stopping us offering him a 5/6 year deal but we instead went for 3. Made sense at the time I guess but with hindsight it should have been more.

I always run in Saints training gear, general rule is they are good up to 10k but then plasters needed for anything longer!

Just received my medium 3rd shirt and happy to confirm that it's not one of those skintight warrior style tailored efforts. Shame they cocked up the motif of The Dell, but it's still a very decent shirt! 👌

You have to hand it to Maguire, that was an outrageous penalty. Love how he took the camera out!

Out of interest, who would you have as England manager?

Well I guess it’s times like this where being a Saints supporter under the age of 45 is a good thing. The disappointment shouldn’t last long before blind faith once again manifests itself.

Bugger forgot about the sizing thing. Hoping the medium I ordered fits ok!

The Dell does look a bit odd doesn't it. When you look at it more closely though it looks like the East Stand is there (it was always a bit narrower than the West Stand). I'm not sure what is supposed to be between the West Stand and the pitch, but maybe that was supposed to be The Archers and was messed up or something! Also, the final Milton Road End did kind of extend into the West Stand a little, but it had a flat edge on the pitch side and definitely didn't encroach over it. I'm referring to my model that I have here by the way.

Now that is worth having!

Maguire is a fantastic player, no doubt about it!

Yeah, he is very limited indeed and when I say that he played pretty well it’s by his own standards and not others on the pitch. In fairness, he showed a few decent bits of creativity at times and didn’t embarrass himself.

Fairly sure Vest wasn't mentioned once last night as a Southampton player. Seemed odd to me. He played pretty well I thought, but Maguire in particular highlighted his shortcomings in terms of agility.

I don't want either to go, but I can't say I agree with that statement. I remember the summer we lost Lallana, Lovren, Shaw and Lambert and had similar thoughts, but things turned out pretty good in the end. I'd like to think our approach to recruitment is back on track now after the events of previous years, but I guess time will tell...

Great work by JV for that 2nd Denmark goal!

Sounds promising, him staying (and, more importantly, signing a new contract) would be a huge boost!

Own up, who else cheered at the girl crying!

Nonsense, would still have banged it in off the crossbar 😃

Amazing character by the Swiss, fair play to them!

Stek well out of his depth here, nearly fell off my seat when I saw he was their goalie earlier in the tournament.

Exactly, seems to boil down to better interpretation of the rules and less splitting of hairs. Goals are the bedrock of football so anything to reasonably maintain them is good by me.

Well I’m glad we’re seeing goals given rather than taken away. The use of the thicker lines is a winner for me.

Who’d have thought, you can use VAR to uphold borderline goals and keep the games exciting. Much better than the ‘how can we take this off them’ approach of the Premier League.