Saint Keef

I guess all Saints fans who watched that game, were paying particular attention to PEH's performance. It was a poor all round performance by Spurs, but PEH was possibly the poorest of all. Toby doesn't look the same player he once was either. As much as I hate to say it, I was actually quite impressed with Everton's shape and performance. And the first manager to get the sack this year could be..................... As for the previous game - West Brom and Leicester. That co-commentator/pundit Andy Hinchcliffe - boy he winds me up. I remember him as a reasonably average premiership player, I guess a good professional, but nothing out of the ordinary, ok but nothing special - but he commentates like he never made a mistake in his whole career, never failed to mark an opponent, never gave a stray pass away, never shot wide of the goal, never gave a foul away, never made a wrong decision.......yet he commentates like he was some sort of a tactical and playing genius. He's annoying me as much as Carragher now and that's saying something.

It'll be 0-0 if England play like they did last week. And really, in these times of restricted travel and playing behind closed doors, plus the inherent risk of contracting Covid 19, plus the possibility of players getting injured......one has to ask what is the point? England will learn absolutely nothing from a game like this and it brings with it unnecessary risks.

....and he's having a go at JWP for rubbing his boot across a penalty spot........OK Roy.....whatever.

I think this is the 4th or 5th day that I haven't had a problem on here. Thank you to Steve and to anyone else who helped get it sorted. However some of the advice from those who obviously know far more about IT and computers than I, reminded me of just how out of touch I am with these things and baffled me as much as the Chinese graphics/letters/words? on the front of an LD Sports sponsored Saints shirt. I didn't have a clue what they said either. Anyway - the site seems to be working fine and long may it do so.

Palace struggled in the last few weeks of the season. They rely heavily on that home support in their "old fashioned" ground, and with no crowd I think they will struggle. On the contrary our form was excellent and in particular away from home. I know Saints are slow starters but I'm going for a 1-2 Saints with Redmond and Adams to score.

Assuming we beat Brentford and then we get West Brom.........Charlie Austin? Just googled his profile to make sure they haven't sold him yet. All the pictures show him still in a Saints kit. Weird! Hasn't he had his photo taken up there yet?

Saint Roy. The Patron Saint of Fair Play........ Poacher turned gamekeeper. He does spout some nonsense. Mainly controversial and mainly nonsense.

Thanks for the various replies all - I'd forgotten the JWP and Redmond game......well I remembered JWP came on but forgot Redders had come on as well. Cheers.

Boring - the build up was so slow. Very little inventiveness I thought. Danny didn't have much to feed on. I thought JWP had a generally positive game and when he did lose it, chased back and won it back with that new "bite" he has in his game. Anyway - genuine question as I don't know....hope it hasn't already been mentioned previously in this thread.. When was the last time in an England game, Saints had two players on the pitch at the same time? Someone on here will know I'm sure......Cheers.

No news on Skakel, but we're looking at a young kid from The Channel Islands apparently. Matthew something or other....

From what I saw of Grealish at St Mary's last year, he spends most of his time falling over if a defender goes within about three feet of him. The most fouled player in the prem apparently and I'm not surprised based on what I saw. On the concourse at half time, most of the conversations I overheard were what an annoying w****** he is. What is as bad, is the referees buy it every time. Still, I suppose he can fall over for England now. Good luck to JWP and Danny though. DO NOT under any circumstances get injured!!!

They are very slow. Apparently we've signed Kevin Keegan......and Mick Channon has left.

Chief Executive Martin Semmens doing all the media stuff of late concerning this debacle. I guess that's his role as Chief Exec.. However I wonder why we haven't had a statement of sorts from our owner in all this....Oh hang on a minute.

Thanks Trousers....Phew! Everything's ok again..... But hang on again. Why is he leaning to the left? Maybe he was told we play in stripes and the he can't work out the sash. By leaning to the left he is trying to make it look more like a stripe.

OK. Now we've seen Salisu in an actual Saints shirt, but hang on a second.......he is not smiling. Something must be terribly wrong!

Good business for Fulham and good business for us I'd say. As regards Fulham - £8m for a player who will go straight into their midfield as a starter and fits into their system nicely. As regards us, £8m for a player who can't get into our first team and doesn't suit our current system. So I think both parties will be pretty happy, plus the lad gets to play regularly and presumably pockets a few quid as well.

OK - let's start the predictions. How many starts will he make for Fulham? Not including substitute appearances. My guess - 14 appearances max. Fulham will either realise he's a waster or he'll pick up a mysterious injury. Nearest guess wins a prize of a holiday for two to.........well nowhere at the moment due to Covid. I don't get to every Saints game, but I did get to see him "live" on several occasions and I honestly couldn't see what all the fuss was about him. Very frustrating player and lazy. Poor attitude. That said, the managers at the time, and style of football could hardly be described as motivational. It would have been interesting to see how he played under a manager like Ralph, not that he struck me as the sort to fit into Ralph's high press system. Obviously Ralph felt the same way.

It's only a feeling, but I think those three goals at the end of the season will make a world of difference to Adams. My feeling is....he's going to bag a few this year. If Ings carries on his form then 12-15 from Adams would be useful.

The more I see the other kits, the more I like ours.

Could have been much worse I reckon. Palace away and Spurs at home are both winnable if we play like we did at the end of the season. And PEH back at our place so soon. No doubt he'll want to make a point! Equally KWP will want to prove Spurs wrong. Follow that with Burnley away - tough, but again if we go there with the right mindset it's another winnable one. So....0-1 points from the first three games would be very poor, 2-3 would be disappointing, 4-5 points wouldn't be a complete disaster, 6-7 points would be very acceptable. 9 would be brilliant.

Of course every Saints goal is a classic......but actually when you watch that list back to back you realise just how many really high class goals we scored in the season just gone. As soon as we are back in St Mary's they'll have a whole new bunch to put on the big screens before matches and at half time etc.

VVD and Sadio Mane to Barca? Now that would be funny. I'm already laughing at the thought. That would rip Liverpool apart. Maybe Ron will arrange to meet VVD in Blackpool.

Great news this. I've always liked him, but he has definitely improved his game under Ralph. Despite always liking him I thought he was a bit weak in the tackle, but he has added a much tougher streak to his game. A bit more nasty if you like, without being over the top. And our performances with him as Captain speak for themselves. And now if any of the "bigger boys" come sniffing (which wouldn't surprise me) we can put a much higher price on him. More positive news.

Only my view, but I think they will say ownership is unaffected, because if they say anything other, and even hint that Gao needs to get out quickly, his asking price for the club will plummet and other will come around sniffing a bargain. Again, only my view but I think if Gao got offered the right price he'd be off in a flash....hopefully. From what I've seen he has zero interest in the club and any plans he may have had for developing areas around Southampton will have probably gone up in smoke in the current China v Rest of The Western World political situation. As regards new sponsorship; the way we finished the season (post Lock Down) will surely benefit us. Much better than if we'd scraped home with a Pellegrino/Hughes character at the helm.

Maybe we could be sponsored by Velcro........Oh no, that's a rip off too. Sorry! In all seriousness, who pays for the many thousands of shirts that have been manufactured that now won't be sold. No doubting it is a shambles. Many of us mere mortals smelled a rat at the time of the sponsorship deal. How come our highly paid executives and decision makers didn't. Or maybe they did and had no choice but to bite their collective lips because it was coming from the very top that this would be the deal. Maybe if/when our owner goes, the truth will be revealed in time.