James

Sturridge has been awful, how has he been deemed good enough to stay on? We won't go anywhere with Roy, he just get's it all wrong...

Gibbs has been dreadful since he's been on...

Lallana looks very good.

It wasn't with no one near him though was it? It looked as if he challenged someone but then took an air shot. He was on a good while after going down so I'm sure he's ok.

Agreed. Good post. I was sitting behind some Arse fans who were getting ****ed off at my bashing of Wilshere. He is so overrated and just does nothing. My mates laughed at me when I said he wouldn't get in the Saints team, but he wouldn't for me. There would be nowhere near as much hype if he played for say Villa.

Was at Wembley. What a completely ridiculous performance by England, any criticism that's coming the way of our boys should fall squarely at the feet of Roy Hodgson, he is a tactical dinosaur. The problem was not the players but the formation and the tactics. JRod was being asked to play as an orthodox left mid and stuck to the touch line all game - I've never seen him be asked to do that for us or for anyone to say that's his position. Why call up a player and not give him a fair shot to show what he can do? Roy's understanding of how saints play and where JRod fits into our attack (if represented by last nights set up) is worryingly basic. I thought lallana did well and worked extremely hard but even he was nowhere near as effective stuck out on the right playing second fiddle to Rooney. I'm glad our boys are getting recognised but it's always been club over country for me so would now actually rather they weren't picked. They miss a week of training with MP, are subjected to tactics like that and there is always the risk of injury (heart in mouth when Adam went down). I'm worried that the slating the press give England will hurt the confidence of the players when actually they should be taking a long hard look at Woy. We will never win anything playing like that, not with him as manager. If Roy managed Spain I honestly reckon they wouldn't get past the quarters...

Gutted that Rickie isn't going to play but will still be wearing my Lambert England shirt with pride. As others have said, will be well worth the journey for Lallana and JRod debuts...

Should have been a penalty.

I would still prefer to have a chairman who had ten year's sporting finance experience to one who ran an old people's home...its a bit of a no-brainer.

The fact that York was included in that list at number 5 makes a bit of a mockery of it...

Decent performance today - Boruc was amazing and as others have said Lallana was brilliant. Have to say Adam has really kicked on this season and has been absolutely key to our good start, he took a lot of stick last season (perhaps rightly at times) but this season he looks a potential England call up. As others have said Fox was absolutely dreadful - I don't like to criticise our own players but he is just not good enough at this level. His positioning is just dreadful, he is constantly in the wrong position and leaves us so exposed down the wing. He makes really basic mistakes as well and I lost count of the number of times he either just hoofed it away or literally passed it to Dyer. If we are going to kick on this season then we really need better back up - I honestly would prefer Jack Cork at right back (or even left back) and Clyne left back.

Some lads who sit behind me were knocking back cans of Magners at the West Ham game - they got kicked out and weren't at the Palace game, could be coincidence but then maybe not. I have to say I find the OP's story pretty hard to believe - if you accept a drink from a hip flask (as opposed to a regular flask) then surely the assumption is that it contains booze (I mean, its such a tiny volume what else would you use it for?!). The Stadium rules are pretty clear, no alcohol in the stands so in my mind the OP only has himself to blame. Is it unfortunate in light of other offences which go unpunished? Yes, but the rules are the rules and the OP has broken them. That being said, let's hope the punishment isn't a permanent ban as a lifelong Saint doesn't deserve that. Good luck.

Some lads who sit behind me were knocking back cans of Magners at the West Ham game - they got kicked out and weren't at the Palace game, could be coincidence but then maybe not. I have to say I find the OP's story pretty hard to believe - if you accept a drink from a hip flask (as opposed to a regular flask) then surely the assumption is that it contains booze (I mean, its such a tiny volume what else would you use it for?!). The Stadium rules are pretty clear, no alcohol in the stands so in my mind the OP only has himself to blame. Is it unfortunate in light of other offences which go unpunished? Yes, but the rules are the rules and the OP has broken them. That being said, let's hope the punishment isn't a permanent ban as a lifelong Saint doesn't deserve that. Good luck.

This is all utter rubbish. Last time I checked Cortese was in charge when we wore stripes in the Championship and...oh wait...we also had a yellow away kit....if he 'hated' it then why allow it in one of the seasons when he had control of the kits? As for Potch subbing Adam over other players so that he doesn't upset them...clearly this is absolutely nonsensical and I sincerely hope that people have more faith in our manager than to believe this rubbish.

Dreadful performance. Hopefully a one off.

Gaston has been awful.

Weird subs from Potch.

Agree, I think it a bit of a shame that our promotion winning captain wasn't given a minute of Premier League football with us...still we have moved on to bigger and better things. Good luck Dean, a true pro who deserves it.

I'll take an iPhone 4S case - PM me let me know how to pay.

The press think Osvaldo doesn't know yet - no direct quotes from him. It could be more advanced than the press are reporting. VMAN doesn't get much wrong so I'm inclined to believe that it's going to happen.

Got back from Birmingham around an hour ago. Absolutely buzzing about this performance and now so excited for the rest of the season. Key Highlights Just how good is Lovren? I thought he was absolutely outstanding and a huge upgrade to our defence. A real coup to get him judging on that performance. Wanyama - so good that I didn't really notice Morgan was playing (which is a huge compliment given just how good he was last season). Absolutely made up that Rickie scored again today - must literally be the best week of his life? What an absolute SFC legend. Delighted that we had 3 18 year olds in the starting XI - Shaw is just superb, Chambers very solid and JWP was a big big improvement on last season. The future looks bright...

Call it a hunch but I reckon we will get him. If we do we are in for a belter if a season

Tickets for Rickie's England debut have been purchased. Good luck SRL!

On what basis are you making that judgment?

You must have been watching a different game to me. We outplayed a very very decent outfit away from home. Encouraging stuff.