James

No way that we will sell him to one of our rivals in January. Even Saints aren't that stupid.

Except for the fact its quite clearly his knee....

I wouldn't say there is any evidence he is a 'doubt for Sunday' - its just a cut on his knee!

Clearly 3-5-2 again.

This is unbelievably depressing. Thanks Saints.

We aren't going to score. We don't have Graziano and we've basically forgotten how to.

I can't believe we've become so bad so quickly.

Agreed. obviously Clatts didn't give it.

We can't get anything going up top. Tadic not looking good.

Odd that Mane is starting instead of Long. Pleased for Hesketh. Time to step up son.

Agreed.

Season well and truly falling apart.

I suspect Morgan is badly injured but they don't want to disclose it to damage morale. Good(ish) news about Toby hope he makes United. If he doesn't who plays? I can't believe we've had so many injuries in such a short period. Literally identical to last year.

That's how I read it too.

If Cork starts tonight I have confidence of getting something. 2-2 I reckon.

LOL.

Not as good as we think we are. Simple as that.

My thoughts exactly. Typical media getting carried away - they beat a team that had been down to ten men since the half an hour mark 3-2 due to defensive mistakes...it was hardly the performance of the season was it?!

This win doesn't hide the fact that Spurs are utter dross. If they carry on playing like this there is no chance they will finish above us.

Lovren backing off led to Bolasie hitting that shot. What has happened to him?!

I do agree with this. But, we aren't competing against City/Chelsea for a top 4 spot (they are imo - nailed on). We are competing with Man U and Arsenal among a couple of others for the remaining spots. My point is that United and Arsenal do have a lack of depth (and you agreed I had a point) but they would never be beaten with the 'paper thin squad' stick. We on the other hand are constantly accused of this by the media when in reality you could argue that we really aren't much worse off than some of our rivals for CL places.

Targett is an England under-20 international who did well to shackle Alexis Sanchez in a win at the Emirates. We'd have to be pretty desperate to be starting Isgrove so not sure why he was mentioned as he currently isn't even in the squad. Seems to me that big club back up players are deemed better just because they are well known. Liverpool and Spurs have plenty of squad players that are internationals and that I've heard of but it doesn't make them good. I suspect Spurs would enjoy being in a position where they had JRod as a back up striker. Or would you rather have Soldado because he cost a lot and played for Spain a few times? I just don't take the point that the big teams have much better strength and depth as I honestly don't think many do. Look at United for example - a few injuries and they are also playing under 19 centre backs. An injury crisis can hit even the biggest squad.

I actually disagree with a bit of that. Our squad is far from 'paper thin'. I'd like to see how Man City would fair without Toure and Aguero for an extended run of games...their form would suffer as well. Then the suggestion that big teams will 'nick our players in January' - I mean come on, surely even we aren't stupid enough to sell anyone of note in the window if we are still in the mix for the CL? It struck me as a pretty patronizing article which is laced with the belief that a small time club like Southampton will never break the top 4 and the reasons given are the ones trotted out whenever a club outside of the so-called elite makes any kind of challenge. I'm not saying I believe we will finish in the top 4 but its hardly ground breaking to say - 'they've got a small squad' or 'big clubs are just better'.

Would love us to get TA and RB signed up permanently. I think we will definitely secure RB but I fear that the TA deal is a bit more complicated. Fingers crossed though.

Which part of the post do you dispute? I'd be interested to hear.