Matthew Le God

The (ever reliable) Daily Star say Arsenal want to sign Leighton Baines to play left back.

The thread title is very misleading, Ian Abrahams has been shown to be clueless on numerous occasions.

Or... we could be positive and support the team perhaps?

Yes. Just use Artur Boruc.

The main point of opening post was using the fair play league (with Saints at the top and Stoke at the bottom) which has numbers of red/yellow cards as a key weighting factor.

Why do you see getting yellow cards as a positive? It is perfectly possible to be aggressive and not get booked, i.e. win the ball cleanly and also not time waste/dissent etc.

If you mean Hooiveld and not Hooivelt, then it could be because at 6 foot 4 Adkins thinks he offers a counter to Stoke's aerial threat. Today's team has a lot of 6 foot plus players, which we might just need.

Have you considered it is the same 4-2-3-1 formation as normal with Yoshida at right back?

Training is now more like how it is in real life and based on conversations they have had with those in the profession. Surely a good thing?

Apart from being quicker and technically better than Fox, Shaw is quite stocky, strong and pretty good in the air for his size.

I know how you feel!

Ramirez is on the bench so not an injury concern, Clyne not in the squad at all so clearly something wrong with him.

Cagliari are in a mess, do your work Mr Cortese... http://www.football-italia.net/28839/cagliari-will-consider-star-sales

I doubt that is how Cortese sees it, he has said as much in interview.

Williamson joined Saints at 18 years old having already played for the Torquay first team. He didn't come through the Saints academy at all.

I didn't say it was a "poor penalty", I said it was "one of Lambert's worst penalties in a Saints shirt" and he has a 100% penalty record for Saints with roughly 30 penalty goals since 2009. Its all relative!

Does it give your life meaning spending Boxing Day criticising people that correct other people on a football forum?

What about Kelvin Davis? The keeper we've had since 2006. I think Boruc should be given another go, if people keep harping on about experience at a high level then Boruc has more pedigree than any other keeper we've currently got.

Which bit don't you agree with? Lambert has scored every penalty he has taken for Saints, all I said this was "one of Lambert's worst in a Saints shirt". Its all relative, he scored, we all celebrated.

It was actually one of Lambert's worst penalties in a Saints shirt, Schwarzer got a hand to it and nearly saved it.

We haven't reached the 2nd half of the season yet, the next two games bringing us up to the halfway mark are away from home meaning after 19 games it'll be 10 home games and 9 away games. We also had an away game postponed due to Chelsea being in the World Club Cup.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/southampton-transfer-news-1504375 Brighton fans aren't happy... http://www.northstandchat.com/showthread.php?266995-will-buckley

So even if we earn enough points to stay up, you wouldn't think we deserved to stay up? Bizarre!

Ben Reeves