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http://www.fai.ie/ireland/news/video-winners-unveiled-for-2016-three-fai-international-awards

So, with JRod and Austin likely to be back in contention, we could be looking at one of our strongest match day squads ever IMO... I'd revert to our 'February clean sheet formation' for this one (i.e 3 CBs + 2 wing backs), for example... ------------------------ Forster ------------------------- ------- VvD ------------ Fonte ---------- Bertrand ----- Cedric ------------------------------------------ Targett ------------- Wanyama ----------- Romeu ------------- ------ Pelle -------------- Mane ------------ Long ------ Subs: Stek, Martina/Yoshida, JWP, Clasie/Davis, Tadic, JRod, Austin I wonder if this this will be the first time a regular full international player won't make the Saints match day squad (out of choice rather than injury/suspension)?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W13vlE10bzg

Good quality highlights here... http://goal91.com/video-southampton-3-2-liverpool-premier-league-highlights---12121.html

Nah....there's still one more meltdown left in us this season I feel

Including a JRod hattrick.... happy days

I'd like to dedicate this win to Alpine. He played a blinder on the match thread

Ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!

Boom!!!!!!

FFS Alpine. We need you to keep criticising the team and management if we're going to score another!

If we get an equaliser it'll be a brilliant decision but if Liverpool get another it will be a poor decision. #footballfanlogic

Clearly

Ha ha....Mane is crap The Saintsweb forum intelligentsia strike again

And if he had scored we'd all be saying how good it was for his confidence....

Just watched a replay of the penalty decision. I'm not as convinced now as I was at the time that its a stonewall penalty. Long seems to turn right into Lovren at the last moment and the two players then collide. As much asI hate to say it, I don't see how Lovren was supposed to avoid the collision.

Like the optimism that we'll score one goal

A massive point away to the mighty Mansfield. Some good results for the teams around them too. Shame Plymouth lost though.

Leicester win

Equaliser for Chelsea. Dodgy penalty decision

Oops... http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/4961/international-football/2016/03/17/21410032/payet-kante-earn-france-call-ups-as-schneiderlin-misses-out

Interesting? (yes, I know 97.4% of stats on the interweb are made up and spun to fit a given narrative)

I note that the FA ruling (http://www.thefa.com/news/governance/2016/mar/sadio-mane-southampton-red-card-appeal-upheld) doesn't mention whether the red has been downgraded to a yellow or that the incident was deemed unworthy of any card. Is that because the FA's appeal rules don't include provision to downgrade? I know it effectively doesn't matter (as Mane is unlikely to accumulate enough yellows to get a ban between now and the end of the season) but just curious as to whether 'downgrade to yellow' its an option available to the FA. I don't think the incident was worthy of a yellow, let alone a red.

Ah, rhetorical. My favourite type of question (p.s. shortened it for you, to cover all possible scenarios)