Matthew Le God

Arsenal are taking their game at home FA Cup game against League One opposition pretty seriously ahead of meeting us next Tuesday at St Mary's... Arsenal 21 Fabianski 25 Jenkinson 28 Gibbs 10 Wilshere 04 Mertesacker 06 Koscielny 44 Gnabry 15 Oxlade-Chamberlain 23 Bendtner 11 Özil 09 Podolski Substitutes 03 Sagna 12 Giroud 13 Viviano 17 Monreal 19 Cazorla 20 Flamini 58 Zelalem

I wouldn't put him high on a list of players likely to be suited to a Pochettino style high pressing game.

Do you have a link?

His nose was apparently broken, so not just the eye. It also didn't happen yesterday, it was earlier in the week so the swelling will have gone down.

Fonte might be available based on this...

Jim Lucas ‏@Jim_SFCMedia6m 21,096 sold at last count. On sale until kick-off so I'd expect another few thousand on top of that. #saintsfc

When did the Vucinic U-turn happen? Because the Osvaldo/Fonte fight didn't happen yesterday, it was earlier in the week.

Wouldn't Inter and their fans be more be likely to want Osvaldo over Vucinic and that could be the reason Inter pulled the plug on Vucinic after events at Saints this week?

2 + 2 = ? 9th January 2014... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2536791/Fredy-Guarin-used-makeweight-Inter-Milan-sign-Pablo-Osvaldo-Southampton.html 23rd January 2014... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2544554/Osvaldo-banned-Southampton-two-weeks-training-ground-clash.html 24th January 2014... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2545124/The-Continental-Breakfast-Juventus-furious-Inters-lack-respect-Vucinic-Guarin-swap-U-turn.html

He said... "if we're comfy" then "rest Adam", that would then be the scenario to bring on "Victor... if poss". So three subs for the first "comfy" scenario, he didn't say Wanyama to come on in both scenarios merely "if poss" hinting towards the comfy scenario.

You are the one that thinks we need 40 points to stay up. Are you unaware the bottom three have 18 points from 22 games? They would need 22 points from the remaining 16 games to force Saints to need 40 points. Plus the teams above would also need an upturn in form. It won't happen as they have to be taking points off each other. The bottom 3 are currently on course to finish on 31 points. Saints with 16 games remaining already have 31 points. Please, please, please stop with your negative nonsense. What do you gain from it?

Adkins wanted Sharp to sign again in January, but this is a big factor at Reading at the moment... http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25877990 So he went to Doncaster. Southend's transfer embargo was lifted today. They couldn't have signed Barnard when Cortese was still here as the embargo was still in place.

Southend United had their transfer embargo lifted today.

Its a shame Southend have already played Pompey twice.

Can you give an example of what a second string would look like? This was the Saints line-up in the last round of the FA Cup... 01 Davis 02 Clyne 23 Shaw 18 Cork 26 Hooiveld (Fonte - 79' ) 03 Yoshida 16 Ward-Prowse 04 Schneiderlin 07 Lambert (Rodriguez - 35' ) 08 Davis 10 Ramírez (Lallana - 59' ) Substitutes 06 Fonte 09 Rodriguez 20 Lallana 22 Chambers 25 Gazzaniga 38 Reed 40 Gallagher

Where have you been looking? Cortese left on 15th January. Since then... - Pochettino pre Sunderland game http://www.player.saintsfc.co.uk/latest-news/article/3624155/date/20140116180200/page/0/name/pochettino-s-pre-sunderland-press-conference http://www.player.saintsfc.co.uk/latest-news/article/3624103/date/20140116171400/page/0/name/mauricio--i-m-staying - Pochettino post sunderland game http://www.player.saintsfc.co.uk/latest-news/article/3627219/date/20140118193800/page/0/name/pochettino--not-pleased--with-solitary-point - Lallana spoke post match vs Sunderland http://www.player.saintsfc.co.uk/latest-news/article/3627232/date/20140118194600/page/0/name/injuries-leave-captain-lallana-with-sour-taste - Ward-Prowse interview pre Yeovil game http://www.player.saintsfc.co.uk/latest-news/article/3634917/date/20140124120000/page/0/name/james-out-to-make-a-statement - Jesus Perez has done Cup game press conferences and interviews both pre and post Cortese leaving.

Smalling and Jones wouldn't play right back in the same way Walker, Clyne or Johnson would. Very much shoe horning a centre back into right back. Smalling and Jones will be going regardless of Johnson being injured or not. So if Hodgson is going to take 2 right backs (Johnson/Walker) and 4 centre backs (Jagielka/Cahill/Jones/Samlling) I don't see why an injury to Johnson means he'd then change the balance of the squad and bring an extra midfielder or striker instead. More likely he'd find a straight replacement for Johnson as an attacking right back, something which Smalling and Jones aren't and they'd be in the squad anyway.

Ta dah...

What are the other options? No other decent English right backs play regularly for their clubs. England will likely take two attacking right backs and Hodgson has already said in the build up to the last England games... "Clyne is always in our thoughts, Ward-Prowse and Shaw are outstanding individuals, you have Chambers and other academy players who are very interesting." If Johnson doesn't make it, Clyne's main obstacle maybe keeping ahead of Chambers for Saints.

They will all likely go regardless of Johnson being injured or not, the latter two as the 3rd and 4th choice centre backs. If Johnson is out of the World Cup England will need another right back.

He only named 7 subs (Fonte, Shaw, Lambert, Rodriguez, Schneiderlin, Wanyama, Boruc or K.Davis) and the FA Cup allows for 7.

I think there maybe a chance he genuinely believes the crap he spouts.

I think Yoshida is back ahead of Hooiveld in the pecking order now as 3rd choice.

I hope for your own sake this is a pathetic windup because if you genuinely believe we will be relegated or require 45 points like eelpie said then you need help. The bottom three teams after 22 games have 18 points each, yet you think in the remaining 16 games they (and all the other teams below us) will get upto 44 points? Early 30's will be be enough to stay up this year, and with 16 games to go we already have 31 points. I'm confident we will finish 9th at worst and 8th at best, 9th looking the more likely.

Saints have broken the 1st and 2nd rules!