Matthew Le God

If they maintain that "blistering form" in the next 12 games... 20 points and they'll finish on 53 points... only 6 more than Man City currently have.

With only 12 league games left you think Chelsea are in "blistering form" and still have a chance of 4th? Really? 4th Man City 47 points ........... 6th Saints 40 points 12th Chelsea 33 points Form of last 6 league games... Saints = 16 points Chelsea = 10 points

You conveniently cut off a lot of the rest of my post and taken a very short part of it out of context. European football fixtures on Thursdays have altered games at weekends for many years.

Modern football? We've known this could happen since June 2015 when the fixtures were announced. It shouldn't take anyone by surprise that the fixture can change at short notice. Its foolish to assume this fixture was set in stone due to European matches we've all known about for a very long time. Both Saints and Liverpool knew they potentially could have a game the Thursday before since they qualified for Europe last season. This isn't a recent thing, things like this have happened in football due to European fixtures for a long time.

Crewe Alexandra F.C. ‏@crewealexfc 3m3 minutes ago 37' #crewealex sub: Looks like a bad injury for Ryan Seager & he's stretchered off. Callum Saunders is on (2-2)

Sadio Mane's pace, dribbling and movement has given the Chelsea defence nightmares on more than one occasion. John Terry put him in his team of the year last season after the difficulty he had dealing with him. I'd go with Mane and Long for this game, with Pelle and Austin on the bench if needed... nice to have such good options for Koeman to mull over. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqSpp_3ZQ8Y

Is to claim a post is crazy when you pluck it out of your imagination. You appear to have repeated this nonsense so many times you have actually convinced yourself that I said it. When in fact I've said no such thing. Utterly bizarre! If you really think I said it, can you please provide a direct link to it? Because it is utter nonsense you keep bringing this rubbish up.

It has a lot of competition, but this thread has got to be up there with the craziest ever on Saints Web! A lot of people have said some very bizarre things. Fickle football fans far too easily jump on results and are unable to notice when a player or team is showing quality even if results aren't going their way. Stunning the number of Saints fans that can't recognise a good player when they see one if the last result was negative. Yes, we went through a bad patch, but we always had this season one of the best squads in the league.

Swansea aren't particularly good at defending set pieces, which may explain why Ward-Prowse looks like he may be shoehorned into being a right wing-back.

21st century "professional" sports dietetics the Pompey Way... take them to a greasy spoon cafe in Southsea for a fatty full English breakfast... Tinpot, delusional, 1970/80's mindset.

Have you plucked this out of the air or are you basing it on something other than just a feeling? There are numerous players that have recovered from similar injuries and still performed very well. In the summer Rodriguez did speed tests and was actually faster than he was before his knee injury.

Although Saints fell away the season after he left, they did better without Keegan in the team. He left in 1982, Saints came 2nd in 1984 and 5th in 1985. Of course he would have been useful in 83/84, but they didn't do too badly without him. Before Keegan... 1979/80 - 8th With Keegan... 1980/81 - 6th 1981/82 - 7th The three seasons after Keegan left... 1982/83 - 12th 1983/84 - 2nd 1984/85 - 5th

36 years, not 40

It is used for player recruitment at all levels.

More likely S.Davis and Targett come into the squad.

Clattenburg has been a ref for 20 odd years, its hard to believe he suddenly forgot where he keeps his red and yellow cards. The red he takes from his top pocket, the yellow from his short pocket.

I would think Reed is unlikely to make the match day 18, let along start or come on. Steven Davis was back in training in the build up to the West Ham game and will probably go into the squad instead of Wanyama.

How many non-selling clubs can you name?

That doesn't make sense as a question. Plus you are the one that started the thread, so its you that should provide the evidence. So where is your evidence?

Anyone who at any point this season thought we'd go down is very poor at being able to analyse the quality of players. Anyone who put money on Saints to be relegated was wasting money whether the odds were 200/1 or 5000/1 or 1,000,000/1, it was never going to happen so didn't matter how good the odds looked it was wasted money. We only lost 3 players from last seasons squad of note and it wasn't hard to see they were all of good quality. The only doubt should have been quite how good they could become, not that they were going to bring down the level of the rest of the squad to relegation fodder levels. There was still a huge amount of top half quality in the squad and the depth improved this summer as we not only brought in replacements for the 3 main departures, but also additional players which increased the number of senior players and depth to the squad.

1) Wanyama commits foul 2) Clattenburg reaches to yellow card pocket 3) Clattenburg sees Payet rolling around 4) Wanyama gets red

Theory... we are all living in a matrix version of a Gary Lineker dream!

Wanyama put in a transfer request in the summer like Stones did... Wanyama is still here. Schneiderlin wanted to leave in 2014, we refused and he stayed for the season. Stones, Barkley and Lukaku won't stay at Everton long term either. What are you talking about? 2014/15 - Saints 7th - Everton 11th 2015/16 - Saints 7th - Everton 11th

I don't think you should be throwing stones! The Premier League's January manager of the month unsurprisingly looks at January's Premier League results. January's Premier League results... Norwich 1 Saints 0 Saints 2 Watford 0 Saints 3 WBA 0 Man Utd 0 Saints 1 = 3 clean sheets The clean sheet at Arsenal was on 2nd February and clearly doesn't count to January's Manager of the Month.