John Boy Saint

I would imagine that he is the one who blocked the pathway for Harrison Reed. .........and before anyone says "but Harry Reed ain't Premier League quality", Clasie was never a box of fireworks in a Saints shirt, came in for quite a few quid and stuffed a not too shabby 5 year contract in his pocket. Reed already had more PL experience, Poch trusted him, trusted him enough to help close out the game v City on a memorable Saturday night. Far more dynamic player than Clasie, just needed a bit of polishing. As mentioned before, Peter Crouch wrote a very true piece after Loftus-Cheek took that recent CL game by the scruff of the neck "If he had cost Chelsea £35m he would be playing every week". The acquisition of Carillo for £19m, even us dumb saps who sit in the stands went "who?!" "really?!" especially after seeing his less than sparkling CV. Slipping Birmingham City £5m to buy Gallagher out of his loan would have been a damn sight cheaper and less of a risk. Certainly a bit of a grim read

Hope so because he is about the only one capable of getting on the end of Cedrics high altitude crosses over the 6 yard box.

Is he the lad on the rolling contract because of it?

Exactly.......I have stood next to folk who if compared on paper are viewed as vastly more intelligent that me, put us both in a practical situation and you would think it was the other way around.

As a season ticket holder - I was disappointed not to have received this survey, as like many others who did get it I would have enjoyed giving reasons for my negative scoring. In more recent times the club has commented that the Football on the pitch is the primary product of Southampton FC. We all know the primary product has been faulty for the last couple of years, I just love the fact that some numpty who generating these surveys and signing them off for publication is totally oblivious to the fact that renewals for next season are looking like a major disaster. Any idiot knows if your product ain’t right you ain’t going to sell a lot. These inane surveys just show we have a certain type of special idiot dreaming this stuff up. Anyone get the one on Saturday night? “How were you greeted at the stadium?”!!!!!!!!

That’s where the obscenity of it lays.

So with the raft of offences from the FA read out on the sports news this evening, like Pep commenting about the ref pre match, and dopey Sturridge thinking he was cleverer than the system.........has Charlie gotten away with it, or are they giving him Tuesday in the Spotlight without the riff raff cluttering the headlines.

Beat Leicester in the cup and it will be manna from heaven for the advertising team “guarantee a ticket to Wembley with a half season ticket” forgetting that Man City stand in the way before the ticket becomes valid.

In the midst of all of it Yoshida knew he was offside and had the presence of mind to be very certain that he did not touch the ball after it made contact with the Watford player. This weekend has been peppered with rum decisions, Cardiff winner the goal scorer came from offside, Mitrovic for Fulham has a good goal chalked off incorrectly, last weekend Wolves have a perfectly good goal rubbed out for offside when the guy was played on by 2 Spurs players. These aren’t just ‘one of them things’ mistakes these are multi million pound mistakes, especially when you are scrapping at the bottom of the table.

Pretty sure I read somewhere not that long ago that about Wilson. That he basically tripped and fell into football whilst en route into another field of life entirely.

Bertrand is on 4 yellows - hopefully Deeney will pull his tail and he gets the 5th to earn a suspension: that might see the pack shuffled, a different captain, and a bit of effort from left back............alas that won’t be in Saturdays game.

Far from it, can't recall a Captain who saunters round the pitch with a face like a smacked backside. If you are wearing the Captains armband you have to put in the effort and be seen to put in the effort for 90 minutes, not put in the odd flash of a run and decent cross. Just watch back the first Wolves goal from this season Traore has the ball and has put his foot to the floor to race into our box, just as he passes the ball for the player to score, oh hello look who has just turned up in the Penalty box our Captain casually trotting back to defend. If folks notice the laissez faire attitude from the stand, then the players must notice it too. If Deeney plays on Saturday you will see fire and brimstone from the bloke wearing the Watford armband, and if this season so far is anything to go by our Captain will also be easily spotted sat on the side of the 'room' twirling his Olive around in his Martini.

With the slight possible exception of Rodgers, that top 5 looks bloody grim! Ok Moyes might have the stigma of the Man U poison chalice hanging around (bizarrely he was binned with a far better win ratio than his successors had after the same number of games). Pearson could be interesting but then is he tucked up nice and tight in Belgium on King Power money, think Billic will have probably learned where it went wrong at West Ham. Either way if the trigger is pulled, I think the bunch of stumble bums currently getting a game need someone not scared of kicking some backsides to get them fired up and performing.

To be fair he hasn’t been the worst player on the pitch, and more shots on target than Long.

My day has been cheered up by the advert on NBC Girl sat in the passenger seat of a car with a touch of HayFever - sneezes and blows the whipped cream topping off the top of her coffee - very funny.

Think I might open a bottle of wine

Wow penalty

What is it with Hoedt opening minutes v Liverpool og opening minutes v City og!

Pop up world for me

Reading the Peter Crouch column last Saturday - his headline piece was very true "Loftus Cheek - If he cost Chelsea £35m he would be playing every week". Harrison Reed v Clasie - Reed everytime, but there are loads on here who prefer us to blow a wad on a Carlos Kickaball rather than blend a talented nipper into the squad. ......................no doubt some bellend reading this will take this comment as re running the all kids relegation experiment and filling spots 1-11 with nippers: Blend them in.

Mike Dean has his bestest Spurs underpants on tonight!

Hard to disagree - some poor sod up in Row GG would have had that full in the mush!!

You obviously weren't watching on Saturday afternoon (although Saturday afternoon was the cure for insomnia) within seconds of coming on he put one of the Newcastle players up in the air leaving him in a heap on the floor, ref signaled that he had won the ball, Shelvey didnt like that and went after him with a misplaced stamp that JWP just skipped out of the way of. Aside from that its a myth he can't tackle.

The late Bobby Robson once said that if he could make his perfect player he would mould together, the strength of Shearer, the pace of Rod Wallace, and the skill of Le Tissier so them 3 and Jimmy Case to kick em all up the backside. Can I have Phil Boyer on the subs bench please?

Someones won the lottery!! May as well just as well use the £500 to light the bonfire Lighthouse is having down his garden after finishing his chores on Sunday afternoon!