Ivan Katalinic's 'tache

He's also got concussion from all that hitting himself in the head.

That would worry mean in League 1 never mind the Prem.

Top news. In Shaw & Clyne we have 2 young full backs with the potential to play for England one day.

I've been told, in the last few minutes, Cortese is closing the deal right now just so we can sing this.

Guly. Will lead by example.

Grubby? Us? Must've got us confused with the other south coast mob.

A potential new God you say? A defensive equivalent to MLT's attacking Godliness?

A damn fine precaution seeing as we made Lallana walk off and never be seen since...

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???