Matthew Le God

No it isn't.

Yep, he is stumbling over questions and looks nervous and worried.

Live stream... [video=youtube;joE-KbBipDY]

Same as always in a cup draw I want... ...the worst team in the draw at St Mary's to give Saints the best possible chance of progression to the next round!

I made no mention of that. I was talking about the quality of the football. If the "big clubs" leave the league, Southampton's income will fall sharply and we'd be watching a lower standard of footballers.

HITC in that article do not claim to be the original source and in the first sentence of the article they even link to where they got the story from.

No need for "probably" in that sentence Batman.

No it wouldn't, it would be a disaster for Saints! Their income would fall significantly and the quality of players we could attract would also decline.

Spain is doing it to "catch up with the Premier League". If the Premier League is already ahead... they don't need to catch up. Nor will this really help Spain catch-up/overtake the PL.

He only turned 29 last month ffs

A positive post!

I'd guess it was more that Cedric has only had 1 week of training at Saints since last season, played no pre-season games since the World Cup, recently had a stomach bug and wasn't fully match fit.

It was not 4-4-2 in the second half, it was 4-2-3-1.

He was isolated in the first half (which isn't really his fault), if we play 4-2-3-1 and have the 3 supporting him he'll be a lot more effective. No harm giving Gabbiadini a try, but I wouldn't be writing Austin off just yet.

I'd go for 4-2-3-1... McCarthy Cedric Vestergaard Hoedt Bertrand Lemina Armstrong Redmond Ings Elyounoussi Austin

He really was superb today.

It was not really 4-4-2 after 55 minutes when the changes were made, it was more 4-2-3-1. Admittedly there isn't a huge amount of difference between 4-4-2 and 4-2-3-1, but I think the second half shape was different enough to be classed as 4-2-3-1.

Did we? I'd guess Hughes would still like Tadic.

Can you explain how the following applies to Ings...? 1) "hit and miss" 2) "journeyman" 3) signing him means Saints are "preparing for relegation" 4) "bargain basement" when he could cost £20m and will be on large wages

I find the "too small" reason hard to believe. He joined Saints not too long after Nathan Dyer and Theo Walcott and the club was fine with their height. They aren't going to write off a 10-year-old before puberty because of his height, it will be because they misjudged his overall ability/potential to improve or his attitude wasn't what they were looking for and has since changed.

Goooalll!!!!!!

It is completely irrelevant to how we'll do on Sunday.

Possible it could come with clauses that prevent that from being an issue.