Matthew Le God

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!

Like this...?

I wouldn't even wish that on my worst enemy.

He might be serving his notice in his current job and Rogers is the stop gap as interim chief executive.

Ladies and gentlemen of Southampton, I give you the elected representatives of Portsea Island... MP for Portsmouth South http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25852536 MP for Portsmouth North http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z91arJDZ7Fk

Alternatively Rogers is doing the job until John Williams has served his notice as chairman of the Professional Game Match Officials Ltd.

It was Steve Lansdown, the Bristol City majority shareholder.

I think this applies to you aswell...

Umm, how do you know what I have or haven't done? Even if I haven't said it on this forum (and I think I probably have btw), doesn't mean I didn't think it. Both Katharina and Nicola deserve credit for the club's success.

No I haven't, my point was that Katharina Liebherr has been the owner for the last 41 months and questioning why people are treating her as if she is new. Yes, new as the chair of the club, but her investment over those 41 months enabled Cortese to do his good work.

Its not just words from a new owner, Katharina Liebherr has already owned the club for the last 41 months! In those 41 months; over £75m spent on transfer fees, over £30m on infrastructure improvements at stadium/traiing ground/academy and the club has risen from the League 1 relegation zone to 9th in the Premier League. She has already delivered a lot for the club.

This Saints academy player was impressed... Ben Rowthorn ‏@BenHampshire140m Met Katharina Liebherr and some of the board today, great people, the club is in good hands! Great future ahead for @SouthamptonFC #saintsfc