Ivan Katalinic's 'tache

Whoops - missed the other thread. It's not been a good day...

Gonna need to be much better than today f'sure! With Jose's injury we'll need a new CB in too, maybe Astori with some luck. Saw Gaston leaving after the game and he said he'd be fit, so that's a bonus, with the other returning players, rested today. Won't care a jot about today if we get 3 points next week.

Signing on the pitch maybe?

Shame. Still Astori seems to be our main target if rumours are true.

Billy Sharp did the job asked of him last year so maybe things are on the up & there's hope for this window?

Read somewhere earlier (sorry, can't remember where) that Everton might be the unknown club concerned. Sounds like he's a promising player, though, so hope it's us as it'd be a good indication that we're looking to do our business early.

Maybe with a few more appearances he'll start to settle into the side like Yoshida has in recent weeks? Just a thought...

Just been told that the Saints rep who brokered the deal was a Mr D Fox.

How about we tell Arsene to f**k off when we see him on Tuesday?

Bye...

If we could pair him in the midfield with David Prutton (who could cover the after match clapping), we'd pretty much have sorted our clapping for the season IMO.

Just looked at a footy stats site to see Gaston's record before he came to SMS & saw that yesterday's game was only his 100th league appearance. Not a lot for a guy who reportedly cost us £12 millon. He's had a bit of a mixed bag since arriving with injury, the death of a family member & now being shunted around positionally. Give him a good run in his best position, in a settled side & I'm sure he'll come good. The ability is there in abundance.

I was told they were interested in Barney in the summer but never followed it up with a bid.

So Lowry is a young defender deemed not good enough to get into a Villa side battered 8-0 by Chelsea today, as he was moved on in the summer? Eek!

Lewis Dunk at Brighton fits that description, is young, fits our profile & has been linked with Prem before (Newcastle, I think). Complete guesswork but would undoubtedly wind Poyet up so worth a punt for that reason alone.

Have you forgotten the majestic displays Barry Venison gave for our own fair club on his return from Turkey???

That's what I love about this place. It doesn't matter if the news is good or bad, someone is going to get a slagging off. Consistency is key.

Brilliant news. Congrats both Billy & Jade. Still think he could be doing a job for us in the Prem but not to be.

Stay up as the minimum. Continue to develop the squad in Jan so its a comfortable run in & the group can hit the ground running next term. A decent Cup run if it doesn't impair our League performance.

*bite* :D

Agreed. It's like when players boot colours don't match their socks, I have to boo. Guly is terrible for this.

And the Southampton Saints defeated the Reading Royals one zip at the weekend with a netbuster from JP1... Think of how it could be - what's not to love?

What about Chaplow out there? His decent run of form last season came as attacking left mid when Adam was out. Could do a job until Jan & would give Shaw a bit more cover away from home.

A tough tackling Colombian midfielder eh? Could he be the new Jhon Viafara???