John Boy Saint

Has Long actually managed to control a ball passed to him yet??!!

Bloody wake up Long!!!

Least he didn’t fanny about and just smashed that - just as a penalty should be dispatched

Often a nice one http://ripple.is/football/6171-leicester-city-vs-southampton

Fulham winning already at Burnley!

If we are lucky we could get him and Ings to dovetail their injuries to give us a season of permanent cover up front.

Remember getting in the car after all the dancing and singing on the pitch, Solent replayed his post match interview “for those of you who might just be getting to your car”, talk about all the air whooshing out of the balloon! Sat with Hooiveld and a couple of other players up in the stand at a pre season game, my mate asked what’s the main difference between Adkins and Pochettino, Jos replied “before Pochettino we just couldn’t defend”. Either way we were thoroughly entertained in the time Nigel was with us, yes he was given the tools to do the job, but he made full use of them. There are always going to be a few loons posting “look at me” nonsense on an Internet forum, whenever Adkins has turned up at Saints he gets a deserved hero’s welcome from the crowd.

The FA are a rule unto themselves, and can make it up as they go along as they please, with no need to answer to anyone or explanation. With regard to appealing a case like this they have a nasty little Joker hidden up their sleeves to play should a club choose to have the temerity to challenge a disciplinary decision they have made. We could appeal but should that appeal fail, the FA can increase the ban by as much as they like as punishment for having the bloody cheek to question their decision. Not sure if the decision was changed, but that Brighton lad who was sent off the other week with a double yellow, all due to mistaken identity by the Ref booking the player for an offence he hadn't committed. Everyone could see that the Ref booked the wrong player, the same evidence that the disciplinary panel would use in a case showed the ref had booked the wrong player. But Brighton were unable to appeal the decision and (unless common sense has prevailed since) the wrongly awarded yellow card can not be rescinded!!!! Regardless that it was Brighton the player still served his match ban for a double yellow!!. How does that work? The guy is innocent, but the FA rules can't be overruled, unless they choose to......... because the sun is out!

You only just noticed??!!

That is a joke punishment especially for a very British gesture that only the British are going to get not one person outside the UK is likely to be offended by that, middle finger is a bit more purposeful! One match you could hold your hands up and say "fair Cop"! Bet Les Reed sent a memo down the corridor "make sure you eff them up"

The Southampton Way?

Or if I have understood the squad size numbers right, allows another nipper out of the academy into the squad by freeing up a shirt number............as Ralph said in a recent pre match press conference the "as we have seen, the best deals are very rarely done in the January window": thought a little dig towards the purchase of Carillo was hidden in there.

Has the FA not sent him to HMP Parkhurst yet for the Archers salute??!!!!................thought he would be a dab hand at sewing post bags by now!

Depending on where you are in the world - In Europe have seen moving pictures when going in through the BBC Sport website to listen to a game, but ended up with the Radio 5 commentary over the top of the live game. I had hoped it would work that way when in China for the cup Semi last year, but the bamboo firewall only allowed radio through.

As has been said Reading haven’t known what they are doing until the latest manager walked through the door - Christ Gallagher at Birmingham was played out of position. Sims has pace which is what we lack.

Looking forward to him getting a go, and being given a chance to get his feet under the table..........if Mr 50p 2 Left Feet on Backwards can get a game up front more often than not. Sam is going to have to work damn hard to match that level of performance week in week out and get dropped along the way.

Happens further up the pitch too, watching Wednesday night the amount of times we turned the wrong way to be beaten in the challenge. oh yeah......boy there has been some top drawer bellendery in this thread!

Cousins support Bury where we got Ferry from, they said he was the pick of their academy crop. They also asked if we could fast track him to the first team and sell him to City for £50m+........once again Bury have some money issues.

South Today tonight had a piece from Reading, towards the end they said about 6 or 7 players were due to have their futures decided in the next couple of days

It seems already that Ralph has a blueprint for playing, which is no doubt why we got him. I saw something the other day to say the u23's etc were training alongside the first team under the same system. The beauty of players like Valery, and no doubt Klopp has found with Arnold and Robertson, is they are a sponge, so don't really have any other mangers ideas, ways and bad habits in their heads, so they become a blank canvas to have ideas and ways of playing worked into them, which becomes a default setting, creating less of a "sod it this ain't working - I'm going to do what I have always done in the past" mentality.

Secondeddddddd Hazard got very little change out of him last night.

I quite enjoyed that.

If that was Saints it would have pinged back into play and not in the net!

And Kompany gets away with just a Yellow for another agricultural tackle for the second game running. Tonights one made PEH’s tackle look quite soft. At least we have a goal to keep the game bubbling along.

Probably why Bednarek took over taking them, we are crap at throw ins in general anyway