Patrick Bateman

He's not; But it's a "Man U XI"

Ooo, I didn't notice that, good spot Art!

He may as well have said "Geordies are thick". Bet that little speech went down really well up there!?

This is brilliant to watch!

Exactly this. He's just not a "Saints signing", can't see it at all, just like I can't see us signing Hernandez - extremes. We'll end up with another striker not many have heard of, or Ings, I'm sure of that. And for those poo-pooing Eto'o, isn't he being touted around Liverpool??

Someone bloody dreadful. Play the U21s, scrape through and treat it with contempt. Just looking at the matches, they all sound like dull opponents, so we can live in hope we'd get Pompey, home.

Of course, as I said, take the biggest f**k off wage going with the longest contract duration, rivals or no rivals, deal or no deal?

Quite! Although given the choice of no contract, shorter contract, or longer contract with your rivals and therefore better family security, what would you do? Moral dilema. Not sure I could ever bring myself to play for Pompey (I'm probably still not even good enough for them, haha), but if they were offering me a decent contract which would give me some security, I may have to swallow my pride ... ?

I think this is worthy of a whole topic on its own to be honest!

A very serious question irene. When you go to a party at Artur's, what do you take with you?

Shush, don't pee on my anti-Pochettino bonfire

As I said in another piece, Pochettino should arguably have done much better with the group of players he had, if he was that good and they were that good.

That wasn't in the public quote, obviously I guess. But has he actually been told that he's not rated? If so, do we know why?

That was exactly my point about last season. He's a class goalie, we all love the guy, but his niggling injuries where he either couldn't play, or played while semi-fit (due to inadequate back-up) meant we dropped points. Forster is also an excellent goalie, I'd love to keep both. Not sure I buy the "if he doesn't play week in week out he won't play for Poland either" - many goalies play for their countries despite not playing every week and in the case of Poland, isn't Szczesny going to be their number 1 anyway? I think Arsenal are going to have a very very good season this year and he'll get more plaudits. I hope we can keep both to fight it out with each other and breed some decent competitive spirit that's been lacking in that area!

Yes, because it was FULL of Saints fans. How annoyed would you be if for Saints vs Liverpool, the "neutral" section was full of Liverpool fans, therefore with two sections singing YNWA loudly? It's a rubbish idea. It's fine for US going to other grounds for the very reason that we can take more and Saints always travel very well to places like Fulham (and most London teams).

I got a flyer with my West Brom tickets too. Seems like a potentially good idea to me - I do like to try to stuff a bottle or two of rubbish lager down my neck at half time and miss the first 5 minutes of the second half (despite saying I won't every time), so I think this could work, to ensure I've drunk and back to my seat on time From a club perspective, the data they could build up from us on this would be useful to them, too.

Totally agree with this. It must be about time a new flavour of the season tune came round ...

That is just brilliant! Well done the Premier League! You just know there will be a Sloop John B "Clatternburg was right" chant now, predictable but amusing nonetheless.

As well as summing up most that is wrong with modern football (i.e. football tourism), I don't think we need it, for a few reasons; - We don't sell out against the lesser teams in the league, so it should be fairly easy for a 'tourist' to buy a couple of tickets in the quieter sections - Against the bigger teams where we do sell out, we'd be depriving genuine Saints of a ticket and allowing the opposition to buy tickets there. (I.e. Man Utd will always sell their allocations, why give them a legitimate chance to get more fans in the ground?) So no, not appropriate.

And; "Would the dark blue Jaguar parked outside the entrance, registration blah blah blah, please move immediately". Think that's about the only announcement I've ever heard. Oh and "The players would appreciate it if you stayed in the stands and didn't run on the pitch at the end of the game", 1000 times seemed to be perfectly audible.

Who "slips on his f00king arse ..." ?

I seem to recall Liverpool signing a rather good centre back though, who spent a lot of last season winning headers in the box and preventing them going in the Saints goal ... contributing towards one of the best defences in Europe for the first 3 months of last season ... He hasn't become rubbish just because he left!

In your opinion. In the opinion of 58% of people who have voted, they think Boruc is better. You tiresome irk.

Just read this; https://twitter.com/SouthamptonFC It sounds like it's actually a bit boring!