Saint Garrett

I've run out of words to describe Morgan. He's just amazing. And always is.

Superb

Did ok. Nothing brilliant.

Looked good today, looked v lively vs Hull, has only been with us a few months. If anyone writes him off then they're morons.

He looked good today as he did the other week. Not settled yet but he is a cracking player. Should have come on for Rickie earlier IMO

Genuinly more annoyed than losing 6-1 here last season. Thought we could have caused an upset today and we played ok, but Boruc howler and Lovren out caused us problems. Without Shaw and Lovren we looked a bit sh1t tbh. Lambert had a shocker. No idea why he wasn't brought off and Lallana kept on. Hopefully we'll do better at Chelsea. Coys!

Shocking error, top keeper.

Atleast we have a LB who can defend this year!

It's got nothing to do with home games though. We could have 10k at home games, and still sell out aways before on general sale. The money is supposedly to reward our own fans who travel the country spending an awful lot of money watching us play. Travel prices are going up, as are plenty of others, to go and watch us play Newcastle it's a good £200 weekend atleast.

I reckon if he is out.... Boruc; Clyne Fonte Lovren Shaw; Morgan Wanyama; J-Rod Davis JWP; Lambert

I don't think he said we won't send, just that we won't spend for the sake of it. Interesting. Can't imagine the club will turn a deal down if it's good for both parties.

Well the less tickets we have over the season, the more could have been knocked off per ticket. No brainer to me.... If we took an average of 2000 to every game...lets say £200k goes between 20000 (10*2000).....thats £10 off per ticket per game on average.

If it was me, I'd just take a couple of quid off the ten furthest away games. Let's say 2,500x10=25,000x8=200,000. So the club could have reduced the ticket prices by 8 quid each for these games. Instead they've painted the away end. Brilliant. (This assumes an allocation of 2500 for all away games)

http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/25040893 When Southampton sacked Nigel Adkins in favour of new manager Mauricio Pochettino last January, Saints legend Matt Le Tissier labelled the club a "laughing stock". (external) Adkins, now at Reading, led Southampton to consecutive promotions, taking them from 22nd in League One in September 2010 to 15th in the Premier League in the space of 28 months. The outcry from Le Tissier, who was known as 'Le God' during a 16-year playing career at Southampton, was far from isolated. Fast forward 10 months, though, and Southampton are sitting third in the Premier League after their best start to a top-flight season. It seems that chairman Nicola Cortese's decision has proven astute although not necessarily justified in everyone's eyes. Le Tissier, who scored 209 goals in 462 appearances for Southampton, said: "Even if we go on and win the Premier League this season, I still think he was treated disgustingly and I don't think the club came out of it particularly well. "But we are now sat third in the league and you won't find a happier Southampton fan than me. At that point in time that was my opinion and I will stick by it, at this point in time Pochettino has done very, very well." We will never know if Adkins could have performed the same miracles at St Mary's Stadium, but there is no doubting that Pochettino, 41, has given Saints a new system against which Premier League teams are struggling to compete this season. Southampton have the best defence in the division, having conceded only five goals in 11 games, which have included trips to Liverpool and Manchester United. They are arguably the fittest, too, as statistics show they have covered more distance than any other team this season. And although they face Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium this Saturday before travelling to Chelsea the weekend after, there are suggestions that Southampton's style is better suited to taking on the big teams, putting a different slant on whether they can maintain their incredible start to the season. Pochettino's insistence on a high-pressing game was evident as soon as he was installed in the job last term. His second game was a 2-1 defeat at Old Trafford but, at times, Sir Alex Ferguson's side struggled to get out of their own half as Rickie Lambert and Jay Rodriguez put them under pressure from the front. That system has become more refined this season as players become used to pressing in packs. Not only do Southampton cover more ground than any other team but they are also the Premier League's leaders for high intensity running, classed as more than 5.5 metres per second. Since Pochettino came in, this has increased by nearly 5%. And should the opposition get through the first line of defence, they will come up against midfielder Victor Wanyama and centre-back Dejan Lovren, who have added extra protection to the side since signing in the summer. Le Tissier says Lovren has been Southampton's player of the season so far. Meanwhile, former Saints striker Alan Shearer believes the team's success has come from being a well-drilled defensive unit, but feels it is just as important to have technical players like Adam Lallana and Luke Shaw in the team. "You need to be very agile and very fit to press to the degree that Southampton are," he told BBC Sport. "You also have to be very comfortable on the ball when you get it back because that can work as a rest period for you when you are passing it around." Shearer, who came through Southampton's youth team before scoring 43 goals in a four-year spell on the south coast, underlines how pressing in the opposition half can put Saints on the attack more quickly. But while Pochettino's side have a reasonable return of 15 goals in 11 Premier League games, there is a link between them winning the ball back in the opposition half and the low number of goals they have conceded. Only Tottenham have regained the ball more this way (158 times to Southampton's 145), and Spurs have the second best defence in the league, having conceded six goals. Southampton have also conceded the fewest shots on target this season, with Tottenham third behind Manchester City. In the 1-0 victory over Liverpool and the 1-1 draw with Manchester United, Saints made more tackles in the opposing half than their opponents. Against United they made more fouls in this part of pitch, potentially stopping a quick attack at source. Le Tissier told BBC Sport: "A high-pressing system has worked very well so far, especially against teams that like to pass the ball around the back, it gives Southampton a chance to try and win the ball back in their final third. "The games we've struggled in this season are probably against teams who don't pass out much from the defence, so we lost at Norwich and we drew at home with West Ham and Sunderland." Southampton's increased fitness has come from Pochettino's insistence on double training sessions, although they are not always a hit with the squad. One senior player is said to have returned from a recent international break hoping for a rest and was met with an ultimatum of whether he wanted to play in the next game. While results are good, grumblings about this will no doubt be minimal, but the question now is whether they can sustain that level of intensity through the season. With only the league and FA Cup to contend with, Shearer does not think Southampton's fitness levels will drop off. But Le Tissier is concerned that using the same team might take its toll. "To be fair, they have good energy levels and they are young too," he added. "I think we are one of the teams to have used the fewest amount of players this season so hopefully we can keep everybody fit. When our best XI is out on the pitch, we give anybody a game as we have already proven." The limited depth of Southampton's squad may yet play its part but after they beat Hull 4-1 before the international break, Pochettino said there were no limits to his team's ambitions this season. Both Shearer and Le Tissier are more cautious, believing a top-eight finish would be a fantastic achievement. "It's a great story," added Shearer. "I don't think anyone would have predicted they would be up there now but they deserve to be. From the neutral's point of view, the longer they stay up there, the better it is for the Premier League." Criticism over Adkins's dismissal may have been justified, but it is the manager and players who are laughing now.

Could have always been a bluff.

Bit worrying. Maybe picked up a knock with England?!

System is working......players are working the system. Would say it's probably closer to 50/50!

Let's hope my prediction is wrong this weekend!!

Watching any highlights of our relegation from the prem. Specifically Marcus Bent, Stuart Downing, and that Villa game. Painful.

Think he was the last few games, he definitely took one the other week. If 30yards plus let Rickie have it.

This. He gave the ball away a ridiculous amount tonight as well.

Can someone injure Mertesecker and Ozil please?

We drunk at the hope and anchor last season, was pretty good. Might try out twelve pins this weekend.

He also broke our wage structure with Bernard who was so bad it was embarrassing. Sure there was a few others who he brought in on £££££

England's CM is the big problem. None of ours are DMs so we get overrun. That means the two wide players can't press as the full backs don't press. I actually think Rooney and Milner did ok last night, but Wilshere and Lampard were atrocious. Time to give up Frank