Saint Garrett

A centre back who has been and done it would be nice. I don't particularly rate the bloke, but we missed a trick with Cahill in hindsight. We need to - cleverly - throw some money into the squad. But if they're going to back the manager, then they need to do it financially and not just in the telegraph.

Should be a weeks wages, but something is better than nothing.

Yup - an interesting listen for sure. Seems it wasn't just a case of him being injured at the start of the season, which we knew if we're honest

Think we have to go with 3 at the back, we're so much better when we play like that as we have another at the back covering one of the inevitable mistakes one of the others makes.

Good on him, we all know he is capable as he's done it before, but his confidence was shot at Saints, similarly to that of J-Rod after his injury. Could never get enough game time to lift his confidence. Hopefully he has a great season, he must just be happy to be playing every week.

Blimey, there are loads available in the chapel end, wouldn't expect to see attendance at more than 28k tonight.

Is he registered? Could he play? Or would we have to wait until January anyway? Would be nice to have another option if nothing else.

No surprise Bednareks isn't great, his distribution is dreadful. Valerys' is alarmingly poor, but probably because he plays a lot of balls up the line and likes to dribble into the other half. Certainly something he needs to improve though.

I don't think that the standard is any better this season, but there just isnt a couple of teams that are just a mess like last season, in Huddersfield and Fulham. You look at the 3 promoted sides and Sheff Utd have fight and endeavor along with playing some very decent football, which IMO will keep them up. With all the changes at Villa, I thought they'd struggle more at the start of the season, but they've been impressive and can't see them going down, and Norwich who knows...the most likely of the three to go down, but far from a shoe in. From the other teams towards the bottom last season: 17. Brighton - We only beat them because Andone got sent off - have been quietly impressed with their football, but will be there or thereabouts. 15. Burnley - Already got 12 points, solid and home record will keep them up 14. Bournemouth - Already got 12 points, free flowing attacking football, and have upgraded their CM position to protect their back 4 - won't go down. 13. Newcastle - Poor side, poor manager, big club. Will be involved. 12. Crystal Palace - Already got 14 points, and currently 6th - impressed with them this season. 11. Watford - Poor side, who can't win a game, but have the money and the players to get them out of the position they're in. Other teams of note currently towards the bottom... Wolves - too good to go down Everton - too good to go down Man Utd - just wanted to put them in here If you asked me now, I'd say it'll be three from Us, Norwich, Watford, Newcastle and Brighton.

Hopefully he goes somewhere with a bit larger budget, and he can buy Carrillo off us.

Not sure I get this "we've been lucky because of VAR". All the goals that have been ruled out against us, should have been clean cut decisions, so if anything it just shows the refs aren't doing their jobs properly in our games. The handball / offsides are black and white, VAR is just correcting the poor refereeing. The decisions that have some kind of subjectivity to, are the ones that are an absolute mess at the moment. The ref is not there to re-referee the game, but they are allowed to overturn decisions if the errors are clear and obvious. Problem is no-one know what's clear and obvious! I have no problem with using VAR for offsides / handballs (it's probably more the rule that needs looking at?). Questions have to be asked about the pens / tackles though.

Can see it being a routine Leicester victory. Fingers crossed we can stick a performance together, and take our chances, and get some luck at our own end. Been very impressed with them, especially their 3 midfield players. 1-3 - we always score at home.

Back to a 5 at the back for me...we're not good enough defensively to play 4222 IMO. --------------------McCarthy--------------------- ----------Bednarek-Danso-Yoshida-------------- Cedric--------------Romeu--------------Bertrand ------------JWP--------------Hojbjerg----------- -------------------Redmond-------------------- ---------------------Ings-------------------------

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/extra-time-charlie-austin-interview/id1474544449?i=1000453091078 Extended interview with Stan Collymore here... An interesting listen, but doesn't really feel that Austin was challenged that much by Collymore...

Still absolutely no idea why he went for that with his left foot.

All football tickets should have a £30 cap IMO.

It always happens in positions with no competition, look at Bertrand over the last few years too. Also the tactics we are playing at the moment kill our defence as a unit. We press with 3/4 players, the keeper chips it over those and then its 6 on 6 a lot of the time, with their midfield turning and running at us. We are giving the oppo so much time in the middle of the pitch, and we're relatively weak at the back. It's no surprise we are leaking goals. I think we have to go back to a 5-3-1-1 to stand any chance of keeping a clean sheet. We are nowhere near good enough to play 4 forward players. ----------------McCarthy ---------Danso Bednarek Yoshida Cedric----------Romeu-------------Bertrand ------------Hojbjerg---JWP ---------------Redmond ------------------Ings

Needs to be taken out of the firing line IMO, give McCarthy a go, and make Gunn earn his spot back. He’s a kid, and learning. Only thing I would say is it can’t be the keepers fault all the time, maybe it’s something to do with the dreadful defence he’s playing behind. Chelsea could have had 6 or 7 today.

You say that, but Tadic had no pace, and he was excellent for us.

When you're signing players in the market we buy in as below, you're going to have no guaranteed success. Agree that we have been worse recently, but that's probably because we're trying to sign players for the same price, but the market has moved substantially in the last few years. The players we were buying 4/5 years ago for £8-12m, are now going for upwards of £30m. - highly rated upcoming talent - 21-24 age bracket - £8m - £20m transfer fee - £30K - £60k wages

What is the tune for this? Not sure I've ever heard it?

Meant to be acceptable, some odd ones here Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Given the amount of chat regarding our support over the last week or so, thought I'd start a thread where fans can discuss the songs to sing (home and away!). Sure it will create some discussion, and probably plenty of sarcy responses as per. Probably missed a load, but at least they're all in one place, I'll update as we go. Saints Songs Oh When The Saints... All Southampton Shoot the P*mpey Scum... Give me an S,O etc We love Southampton, we do... Southampton lalala, Southampton lalala... We are Southampton, the pride of the south... Southampton 'til I die We all follow Southampton Wings of a Sparrow Hello Hello, we are Southampton boys On the **** for Matt Le Tiss Red Army Yellows Come on you reds, come on you reds, come on you reds, come on Woolston Ferry Oh what a night, won at fratton on a tuesday night, we scored four because you're f*cking sh*te, I remember, what a night Fratton Park is falling down Tiss RL Southamptions goal machine Marian Pahars, Marian ooo Marian WTFILN One team in hampshire Walking in a Liebherr wonderland My old man said be a Pompey fan Player Songs 22. Angus Gunn - No song 1. Alex McCarthy - No song 2. Cedric - "He's our Cedric, running down the right wing he's electric, he does things we never expected, and he ****s on Clyne" 43. Yan Valery - No song 3. Maya Yoshida - "Woah Maya Yoshida..." 4. Jannik Vestergaard - "Do, do, do-do-do-do, Jannik Vestergaard" 5. Jack Stephens - No song 38. Kevin Danso - No song 35. Jan Bednarek - No song 21. Ryan Bertrand - No song 29. Jake Vokins - No song 14. Oriol Romeu - "Ori, Oriol Ori, Oriol Ori, Oriol Oriol Romeu" / "Oriol Romeu, Oriol Romeu. etc" (Harry Maguire tune) 23. Pierre Hojbjerg - "Ooo Pierre Hojbjerg, the one and only, from Munich, they said his days were numbered if he stayed in Germany, now he's on the south coast and he f*cking hates P*mpey" 16. JWP - "James Ward Prowse, my lord, James Ward Prowse, oooo James Ward Prowse" / "Ooo Prowsey Prowsey, he used to be a skate but he's alright now" 17. Stuart Armstrong - No song 30. Calum Slattery - No song 22. Nathan Redmond - "He's our star man, playing on the right, his name is Nathan Redmond and he's ****ing dynamite" / "Do do do do, Nathan Redmond" / "There's only one Nathan Redmond" 12. Moussa Djenepo - "Moussa Djenepo runs down the wing for me" 19. Sofiane Boufal - "Ole ole ole ole, Boufal...Boufal" 7. Shane Long - "La la la la la la la, la la la la, Shane Long" / "We all dream of a team of Shane Longs" 9. Danny Ings - "Ings can only get better" / "He's one of our own, he's one of our own, Danny Ings, He's one of our own" 10. Che Adams - No song 20. Michael Obafemi - No song

We pretty much always score, especially at home - the last time we didn't score at home was against Newcastle on the 27th October 2018. We've only not scored in one game this season - vs Burnley. Unfortunately we always concede!