Matthew Le God

1) Why sell Chamberlain when you don't need to? 2) Why would Peterborough sell CMS to a main promotion rival? It just wouldn't happen until the summer. 3) Why do you think Saints need to sell before they can buy? 4) Who would have then played on the right wing?

So should Saints have signed players better than Lallana and Chamberlain and put Alex and Adam on the bench? - Chaplow, N'Guessan and Forte are experienced Championship players (Forte and N'Guessan have hardly played so harsh to judge them yet really). - Guly from Serie A and a key figure in their promtion campaign to the top flight. - Stephens, 21 years old, vice captain and top goalscorer from Oldham from central midfield.

There is probably nothing in it, but you never know...

So did I just imagine Guly, Forte, Chaplow, N'Guessan and Stephens signed for Saints in 2011?

Jack Stephens

Plymouth's 17 year old defender Jack Stephens to join Saints.

Both of those are hardly secrets, was in the Plymouth Evening Herald last week.

Radhi Jaidi on twitter... "Adam is almost ready not sure about Alex it will take longer time ...."

That isn't a new formation, Saints have been using it for a few months now and switch tactics between that and 442 throughout games. Guly is probably ahead of Forte for a starting role and would play behind Lambert and Barnard in such a system.

The game has already sold out in the Brighton end. Saints fans won't be able to infiltrate them. In fact every game is sold out in the home ends... http://www.seagulls.talent-sport.co.uk/PagesPublic/ProductBrowse/productHome.aspx

Sleepwalking?

Every remaining Brighton home game is sold out in the home ends... http://www.seagulls.talent-sport.co.uk/PagesPublic/ProductBrowse/productHome.aspx

Their new stadium is 22,500 - they will probably sell out every game. Especially when 14k season tickets sold 5 months before the season starts and over 2k away fans for most games.

Would you be as willing to watch Saints if you had views like this? Anyway, Brighton can't get those 14,000 season ticket holders for next season in their current 8,000 stadium can they?

They have already sold over 14,000 season tickets for next season.

Would we offer Pompey more than 10% for a league game when we could easily sell out the 29,000 home seats? No

Technically they have done nothing wrong, as it is 10% of the stadium capacity.

8,850

I knew anyway, but the article in the opening post does answer your question.

No he wasn't Southampton manager. He was the chairman of Southampton Leisure Holdings Plc in 2007.

No harm trying, but I doubt she'd be interested in the match itself at that age. She might enjoy the occasion and the spectacle of going to a large stadium though.

I think it would depend on the manner of the failure to get promotion. - A complete collapse in the last 10 games from currently having it in our own hands to not getting promoted and he'd go. - A loss in the play off final to Peterborough/Huddersfield and he'd stay for continuity. I don't know why we are talking about this anyway. All very negative! We are in a strong position to get 2nd place, save this talk for the summer if the worst happens.

Include the games played and it shows Saints in a strong position.

Playing devil's advocate...you could say that the the Plymouth team that beat Saints on the opening day was one they shouldn't have had (and should have sold in the summer rather than January) and couldn't afford, along with the £500k they spent on a new pitch in the summer.

Yes, he is his brother. The Sinclair family is from Bath and Saints have a satellite academy in the city. Jake is extremely fast striker and looks very promising!