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I think he does have the makings - like Chez I thought he was slightly unfairly singled out for the Martial goal. The forward was running him at speed but didn't get round his outside but was forced in to the more congested area where Stephens should have done better getting a block in. He may not have the height for the high crosses but he doesn't give me the same level of uneasiness as I had when Cedric was dealing with them, and as we saw from his head injury he isn't afraid to go for it.

Shouldn't there be an "=" sign?

Whey hey, just back from the pub and my first post-lockdown pints. Must have washed my hands about 7 times, very quiet (apart from me!) and a table to myself.. Aside from the decent result I thought we played some excellent football - moving the ball around, people making themselves available (and that's the sign of a good team..), first time and accurate passes. We never gave up and just suffered a bit from their forward pace. Will definitely have to renew my season ticket!

I don't know anybody, whether a neutral or a Spurs fan who thought he was a good appointment. Given Levy's reputation as a hard headed business man you would have thought there would be performance clauses, but certainly given the debts for building the ground financial considerations must weigh heavily. Perhaps they'll sell Kane.. 😉

Drat. Shame about the result, but the good thing is that we are disappointed about not winning and should have done. Trying to take out my own bias but I think we were the better team. When you look at just how inexperienced our bench it makes you reflect that if we could have put Boufal or Djenepo on their fresh legs, pace and trickery could have made the difference.

At around this time you used to get people posting on here "which pub are we meeting in".. As that has gone by the board perhaps we could have "what beers have you got in the fridge?". Or where it applies "what Burgundy domaine are you having tonight?". I've got a few bottles of Proper Job.

🙂 You won't like why we don't like Stoke then!

Adrian Heath..

Ooh, it's a six-pointer with Everton tomorrow!

I'll wait. Doesn't seem right to short cut the usual way!

I am so tempted to lift that and send it to a few people, but in the interests of community relations and living in a PO postcode I'd better not...

Nah, I normally agree with your analyses, but on that bit I disagree: he got his head to a few vital balls and I thought at the time that he was better than Cedric in that respect. He might not be the be all and end all, but in the last few games he's certainly looked a lot better and may be worth keeping. I didn't think that earlier in the season.

Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way, Oh what fun it is to see Southampton win ...at home?!! I think my heart rate is slowly going back to normal after that second half..

I see no mention of large private yachts: it's not happening..

What _is_ the penalty for sexual assault? I'm only following the game on a MBM, but what is the prognosis for Citeh's performance against us on Sunday? On a short high, on the beach?

yes

Is that because he doesn't take our penalties or we just haven't had any?! I don't recall the last one we got this season. Having said that, if he is in line for the GB perhaps he'll take them IF we manage to get any in the last few games.

Fair enough, but I think the issue is that there aren't any "sterile" areas with our defence. There's a palpable lack of confidence and rather than do anything they just shift the responsibility to somebody else who is probably in a worse position. Decision making seems to be delayed and/or telegraphed as well leading to the sort of incidents you shouldn't see from highly paid professionals. As for PEH, I'm sure he's not trying to put other teams off or even trying to reduce Saint's asking price, (and I remember you, Andy Townsend, back in the day..) but I don't think he is as good as his own opinion of himself. His inability to turn and offer another way out of awkward situations other than a back pass hasn't just been observed by Saints fans!

The number of times we've effed up back passes. it's the one area where your average Sunday football keeper doesn't make mistakes, and the fact that a highly paid professional pats a five yard pass like that defies belief.

Sure, she was parked on a hard surface but in the shade. The point being that she's never seen 40 displayed before and thought it worthy of note.

My friend has just sent me a photograph of the temperature on her van display: 41! Where are you working at themoment, I asked? Southampton..

I suspect most would prefer the dild* brothers to go down?

Having a brief look at the training pics for clues, is it just me or does Boufal look to have a bit of excess stomach on him?

Did Rallyboy make it across, we've been missing his er.. perspective recently?

I've just had a glass of wine with my Sunday dinner, so in a spirit of relaxed flippancy, and with the idea stimulated by reading the MBM report on tonights game, what sound effects should we have at St Marys for this game? Our most impressive feature is when we get the whole ground singing OWTS, so surely they must have a recording of that to hear once or twice?