Matthew Le God

Why on earth are you writing us off against Stoke? Bar a Begovic vs Forster debate I wouldn't want any of their players in our starting XI. Stoke fans may make a claim for Shawcross, but he isn't the ball playing centre back Ronald Koeman likes as he does ala Toby Alderweireld/Florin Gardos/Jose Fonte and he'd struggle in our system and style of play. (I guess this may be quoted on a Stoke forum)

Stoke put out a weakened side against Sunderland in the 3rd round and there are tougher opponents left in the compettion. Man City away for example would be significantly tougher, their line up vs Sheff Weds at home tonight... 13 Caballero 03 Sagna 11 Kolarov 20 Mangala Booked 26 Demichelis 25 Fernandinho (Boyata - 70' ) 18 Lampard 42 Y Touré (Pozo - 64' ) 07 Milner (Sinclair - 73' ) 15 Jesús Navas 10 Dzeko Chelsea vs Bolton... 01 Cech 03 Filipe Luis 24 Cahill 28 Azpilicueta 05 Zouma 12 Mikel 08 Oscar 14 Schürrle 17 Salah (Hazard - 80' ) 06 Aké (Matic - 91' ) 18 Remy (Drogba - 72' ) Liverpool vs Middlesbrough... 22 Mignolet 19 Manquillo 04 K Touré 03 Jose Enrique 17 Sakho Booked 50 Markovic (Fernández Saez - 98' ) 31 Sterling 46 Rossiter (Williams - 79' ) 20 Lallana 21 Lucas 09 Lambert (Balotelli - 74' ) Those are all better teams than any possible side Stoke will put out against us.

Yes, its on Sky Sports after the Spurs vs Forest game.

The same I want in every cup draw... the easiest team at St Mary's so Saints have the best possible chance of winning the competition. In this case that would probably be Shrewsbury Town at home.

Mark Clattenburg is the ref! He's done a Saints away game since "Lallanagate", but I think this is his first St Mary's game since that incident.

BBC Solent Sport ‏@solentsport #saintsfc boss Koeman on @Prowsey16 “has a stress fracture on his foot, he'll be out between 10-12 weeks, it’s a disappointing situation” https://audioboom.com/boos/2503725-saintsfc-boss-ronald-koeman-talks-to-bigadamsport-after-2-1-win-at-arsenal

They won't have the rights to show video of League Cup games live in the UK, no club does. It'll be audio only when the game starts.

They won't have the rights to show video of League Cup games live in the UK, no club does. It'll be audio only when the game starts.

Jason McCarthy, or could even use Wanyama as a centre back as he played there on occasions for Celtic.

Toby Alderweireld was in light training today, Maya Yoshida is injured and Jason McCarthy was with the 1st team today so I'd guess he is the centre back cover tomorrow night. Southampton FC ‏@SouthamptonFC @AlderweireldTob was in light training this morning after missing Saturday’s game through injury. #saintsfc

How have you jumped to the conclusion it was Shane Long? Southampton FC ‏@SouthamptonFC 1h FT: After Seager cancelled out Grant's opener, a second-half brace from Long hands @Everton the win at Staplewood. #SaintsFCU21s [1-3] Chris Long is an Everton player.

He returned to light training 7 days ago.

Arsene Wenger says... http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/20140922/team-news-monreal-sanogo-and-walcott

More like Southampton's very own Benny Hill... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9nr27rOrL0

Ronald Koeman ‏@RonaldKoeman 7m Stretching the legs after 4 hours by Coach.

West Ham are effectively doing similar in order to fill the Olympic stadium. It helps increase the fan-base, raise the profile of the club and makes the club more appealing for sponsors. Okay, West Ham have a bigger fan base than us, but do you really think it is 32,000 stadium vs 54,000 stadium bigger?

Foreign clubs only at that point, but yes he can. He isn't going to sign a new contract at Saints, we all know that surely.

On what are you basing that?

The Boruc loan (if it happens) will be a short term loan of 3 months. After the transfer deadline in September you can't do loans which finish at the end of the season until the next window opens in January, you can only do short term loans in the meantime.

We can loan him out for 3 months.

Because Fraser Forster is our first choice, Boruc won't play for us as much as he wants and if Forster gets injured we would recall Boruc from his loan. Boruc would get the game time he wants and he wouldn't need to move house and uproot his family.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/5926705/Artur-Boruc-to-join-Southampton-on-loan-from-Bournemouth-exclusive.html?CMP=SOC-SunFootball-SFtw-24_04_2014-318-0-0-0