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🙂 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?

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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?

i believe RH was telling him to look up more, and if you look at our third goal that is exactly what he does and picks out Redmond. We should all remember he's not the finished article but signs like that are promising and that he's learning.

Yes, was wondering about that. Perhaps RH wanted to get a true gauge of the fitness of his core starters against other sides in a match situation? Either way he must have been pleased with their performance. We'll see against Arsenal on Thursday, I suppose. Let's hope Arsenal's luck doesn't change against us..

In one report I saw it mentioned RH being heard urging YV forward and O'B to get his head up when playing, and he himself commented that it was normally the same players he had to speak to without saying who. It will be interesting to see what playing without crowds does, if only for the fact it makes touchline coaching easier. For all they are told in training it's always different in a competitive match situation.

If there are no loos that would get rid of thousands: everybody of a certain age, all the pre-match pub drinkers (will there be any?).. Flippancy aside I can't see no loos, it's a public safety/health concern, but there might be additional staff on hand for cleaning. Also will they institute a mask requirement and maybe temperature checks on entrance? At what stage will restrictions be relaxed, at a particular R rate, nationally, locally? When will even know given the shambles they've made over TTI. I'll probably renew, but it's going to be a season as odd as the last one and I don't envy the organisational task in implementing the new and changing requirements. Incidentally, has anyone involved in grass roots football received the FA's circulars for regulations on resumption? Looks like a fair bit of thought has gone into it.

Are they selling a saints badged face mask yet? 🙂

Ha ha, I just came to check too!