Maynard, Rodriguez and Sharp have all been playing for teams that have been struggling and not creating many chances for their strikers. If any of them do sign they wouldn't be "back ups", they'd be joining to partner Lambert in most games.
That is a daft logic/philosophy to blindly stick to.
So if Saints luckily scraped a win against Doncaster without Adam Lallana and then were up against West Ham and Lallana was fit again, you wouldn't put him in the side?
Arsenal, Chelsea, Man City, Aston Villa and Everton in the same season?
Have a guess and don't cheat by using google to look it up.
Correct answer wins a gold star.
2011/12 Southampton in the Championship are currently averaging more than these clubs did last season in their respective top flights...
Juventus
Palermo
Fiorentina
Genoa
Udinese
Parma
Bordeaux
Auxerre
Villarreal
Deportivo de La Coruña
Real Zaragoza
And many others...
Saints Premier League attendances of 30k+ averages at St Mary's would put them 3rd/4th in France, 5th in Italy and 7th in Spain.
What makes you think that? Saints put out "weakened" sides in the previous rounds and they progressed.
What makes you think Palace will put out their strongest possible side?
Most of you have a lot of changes to make to your predicted line-ups.
Adkins confirms that...
Ward-Prose
Reeves
Martin
De Ridder
Bialkowski
...will all start.
I reckon Luke Shaw will be on the bench again as well.
Not a bug at all.
Southampton in real life aren't in a reserve league, if you want them to have friendly fixtures during the season you have to arrange them yourself or get your assistant to arrange them. You will have the option to rejoin the reserve league with Saints in the summer of 2012.