Ivan Katalinic's 'tache

Utter nonsense to award this as an own goal. Can we refer this to the dubious decisions panel? Either that, or someone sent in a clip of the wrong goal when we were wanted the Bridcutt own goal re-considered!

I'm happy to wait until May before we hit the summit...

Stunning. Absolutely stunning. We is well good!

Super stuff. Well deserved too! With Davis signing a new contract, it's been a rather good day for us Saints. Hoping the good news rolls on into tomorrow with a resounding win.

My favourite XI: 1. John Burridge 2. Ivan Golac 3. Francis Benali 4. Steve Williams 5. Michael Svensson 6. Jose Fonte 7. Kevin Keegan 8. Matthew Le Tissier 9. Steve Moran 10. Barry Horne 11. Danny Wallace 12. Nathaniel Clyne 13. Ivan Katalinic 14. Russell Osman 15. Morgan Schneiderlin 16. Ronnie Ekelund 17. Marian Pahars 18. Paul Rideout

And we mustn't forget his birthday: November 8th according to Wiki. Who's getting the card? No need for a present, the club will get him a watch.

We would've been mental to have accepted Cardiff's offer during the summer and I'm glad we saw sense and offered him a new contract instead. A rival for Rickie, IMO, as the best signing we made during the recovery period we started in League 1.

Excellent today up against a strong centre half in Caulker and a fading Rio Ferdinand. Strong, good positional sense, great touch, didn't let that miss in the first half affect him and scored a goal of the season contender. Everything I hoped Dani Osvaldo would be.

W**k draw but a chance to dispose of another Premier rival, I suppose.

Honestly, Bale & Theo aside, no. They've all made decisions to move on - fair play. I'm only interested in the squad RK has assembled now and those he feels are worth adding to the group. If its an old boy being brought back - fine - but its all about the future for me and, for now, the exciting squad with greater depth we have for this season

Farking marvellous stuff. Gets better & better. Hope we get a good home draw next round & we could go a long way in this Cup.

Great result tonight on now on to the next one! Think Harry will park the bus on Saturday so we'll need Dusan at his creative best to unlock their defence. Looking forward to it!

It was Swansea at SMS...

This one was good too...

A quick search of the Liverpool forums which come up first on Google and there's one that's got player ratings for today's game. This one made me chuckle...

He could leave out Long, go with Morgan, Vic & Cork in the middle and push Davis out to wide right? That's the beauty now, plenty of strong options in the squad with Jay Rod & Mane still to add in

Wife is clued up on this as per my earlier post. It's something called a hub and spoke model and the reason he had to go to Ghana is this is our hub where visas are more likely to need to be processed speedily. Senegal does also have a visa processing site but could be the spoke leading to Ghana where he might get sorted more quickly. The TB check I wrote about yesterday is a real process required to enter the UK and does cause deltas for overseas entrants to the UK. "Slow paperwork" could include this. Just got to wait this out unfortunately, if so.

Wife is a student immigration adviser and she says Senegalese nationals (amongst many other nationals) have to undergo a TB test which can take 10+ days before the results are approved. Introduced by Theresa May apparently. No test, no visa. Apparently waiting times are worse in Sept due to the huge influxes of overseas students at these times. Don't know if being a highly paid footballer on a tier 2 sports person visa at a super wealthy football club can mean the process could be sped up at all. This is, of course, complete guesswork on Sadio's situation but is a feasible reason for delay according to the missus. Bloody students.

Senegal ranked 59 in the world and he seems to play regularly so don't know on what grounds. Koeman was expecting him last Thursday so I'm sure he will be here soon. Either that or I hope we didn't pay his signing on fee up front...

Heard him say in the car park it was just a bit of a knock & he's fine. He drove off so he can't have been too concussed...

Brilliant performance. Looks like there are goals all over the team and still got Jay Rod and Mane to add in. Could be another fantastic season looming, chaps.

2 weeks in and he may not even have been to Southampton yet! Is this a record?

One final one - what about Franny? 400+ apps, 1 whole goal, a few red cards and an incredible run for charity.

Personally, I think Nick Holmes deserves a space up on the banner. FA Cup winner with Southampton, a one club man (in terms of League football) and a damn fine representative for the Saints (unless there's something I've missed?).

Jack Stephens loaned to Swindon until end Jan 2015. Toby must surely be done, at least...