Patrick Bateman

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!

Just watched Pochettino on ITV4 now ... he still dresses like a uni grad on placement.

It has an official different meaning to what you're implying; http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/mong

This, definitely this! He is well 'loved' by many Saints fans and he should definitely hang around to win the FA Cup for us! We can but dream, hey?

Give it a rest!!!! Dog with a bone comes to mind

Well this was very badly phrased then?? "shirleysfc Because you've stated 100% that he'll go. Mates will have insider knowledge, I'm not so sure about stalkers.

Nah, come on Artur, that number 1 shirt is yours unless you stuff it up. Competition is healthy - fight for that first team place Edit: Plus additionally, due to the injuries from last season, I think the competition is even more healthy as Gazzaniga isn't ready and Kelvin on his way to retirement (and hopefully staying with the club to coach long term??)

Take the medication. I have no more words.

Really?? How many points did we win without Artur in goal vs him in goal? His loss was THE biggest factor in our semi slump - with decent competition, we have two goalies who will want that number 1 spot, rather than one who is learning and one who wants to be a coach. I love Kelvin, although his injuries are worrying but he's a great 3rd choice with a sensible head.

Youtube, De Ridder, etc etc etc., but I like the look of this guy's defensive skill set. No nonsense, not afraid to put the big challenges in - a yes please from me based on this short compilation!

Yes I know, it was a joke.

Carlton Palmer?!?