sandwichsaint

Is Martina ****ed?

let off there, we're making lots of sloppy errors, don't seem compact at all, they are penetrating at will,

I don't buy this 'prioritising Leicester' stuff - we are doing simple squad-rotation/player fitness management. If Puel produces draw/draw from these two games he's done his job, and I've every confidence he will get that based on the way he managed the squad recently over 4 games in 12 (?) days - he got 4 straight wins there so I think we can cut him some slack on his selections for HBS and Leicester (at least until we've seen the results of both games ... and preferably the results of the Christmas games too!)

Same, not great timing, hopefully things get sorted.

KUMB - 'When Karen Brady promised us an atmosphere I didn't realise it was going to be provided by 3000 Southampton fans'.

Good to see that even John Hartson's given up on the club formerly known as WHU.

Creative tension caused by Boufal looking over their collective shoulders? Bring it on, I'm loving the rotation and competition for places. We are probably one good CB, one good DM and one decent striker away from being a top 4-6 side (will never happen, by the time we buy three more starters another three-plus will have left).

West Ham struggling again, 5L say they look shot on confidence and ideas and struggling in the new stadium .... you just know hat's going to happen at the weekend ...... West Ham 0 Saints 2.... go us.

1.5/10

Is there anyone on the forum NOT going? It looks like this will be the largest collection of internet trolls/soccer experts/finanacial whizz kids/forum geniuses/bed-wetters/PR plants and general malcontents ever assembled in one place. Shades of the round-up in Blazing Saddles. Has anyone got on to Batman yet to see if we can charter his submarine?

Can my wife be your wife for the day? I have two tickets for self and (disabled) son, Mrs Sandwich is making the trip with us, no way I would be able to take him abroad on my own, and she has no chance of a ticket (no ST or membership, just the old style membership number, tho she does a few games a year). Considering it's taken a couple of weeks to sell 4000 to theoretically our 'bestest' supporters would it be out of order for me to give it some special pleading and ask the tkt office for one of the remaining 1000 odd tkts?

Sorted, got my two after a 10 minute wait, totally brilliant. Hopefully everyone else gets sorted too.

Well done Puel and well done players, two excellent results this week and it seems like the rotations/selections worked out pretty well in the end. Bigger tests ahead, Sparta and Swansea both v poor but we can go to West Ham with every chance of a positive result. We certainly seemed a bit more coherent yesterday than in the previous home games and could (should) have won by three or four. Looking fd to seeing what we can do once Boufal comes into the team. Puel also seems to be using subs well both in timing and personnel.

Think David Peach might have something to say about that.

I would 'love' this to be true ... it's almost too good to be true though! Why would they go to the hassle of selling them online and then having lengthy collections/ID at their end? Surely they would set up a sales point at the ground during the day (where they could selL against ID), or even from their kiosks in town. Doesn't make a lot of sense but here's hoping!

How do you know they didn't? And fix that bloody PA! If they can't fix it can they at least not put a slide on the big screen for the oppo's substitutions ..... and probably for quite a few that sit around me for our own subs too.

Looking at the second picture down, if Shearer bowls a bit of off-spin, right arm over, I think he's got the pose just about right.

Don't forget, no beer in the ground on Thursday ...... UEFA rules.

my streams a bit rubbish but it would appear so to me, we can do this.

Perfect, Milan cock-up the allocation and we see a mass outbreak of red on red squabbling and a massive ****-waving, best-est fan contest. Wind it in everybody, we're all Saints fans! I have no priority for this fixture, I did my aways a long time ago and in all the leagues (I've seen Saints on I think 63 away grounds in the uk), I currently have a ST at home and make a 300 mile round trip for every game. I had no real interest or excitement in the Euro draw, I knew that with allocations of 2000-3000 there was no chance of getting away tickets. Saints pull out a San Siro plum, one of the biggest club grounds in Europe, here we go, flights booked for what will be one of the landmark games in our history ... we all want to be there. I'm not claiming any preference over the 5000 people who will get the tickets (other than anybody that goes on somebody else's ticket and doesn't get in!). Not quite sure what my options are now, I have no real interest in going out there and watching it in a bar. Anyone want to buy three plane tickets?

Second, just below me .....

I called 0-0 for the two home games, damn defence can't keep a clean sheet and our pesky forwards keep scoring one per game, events dear boy, events ... I'll take a 1-1 here.

From a purely selfish point of view, as a travelling fan (300 miles a game) who can flexi out of work early, I was hoping for 1 or 2 of the home games to be 6pm kick-offs! Obvs we will get better crowds/atmosphere with the 20-00 kick-offs, just a shame families/kids will find it harder to take advantage of the cheaper tickets and seeing some new teams/players. Hey-ho, another three late nights for the middle-class, non-singing, non-travelling fans to put up with .

Horse's mouth, or at least from a very helpful man at the ticket office. I booked my home bundle by phone on Saturday. I asked about Inter away tkts, they originally offerred 4.2k which is the 'UEFA' allocation ie c5% ... we asked for more ... they came back with a final allocation of 5k. There will definitely be no more. I then asked if he knew anything of 'neutral' tickets/buying out there, tactful silence at his end!

Can't believe anyone that's seen the three games could fall for this 'most shots' guff. Watford keeper made a couple of scruffy saves, I can't remember DeGea making any meaningful save in the whole game, the Sunderland keeper played well but that was as much about managing his defence and commanding the box than actual shot stopping, although he did make three(?) genuine 'saves'. For all those that have spent the last x number of seasons calling for us to shoot more, shoot from distance and to shoot on sight perhaps a re-think is needed? But not at the expense of tippy-tappy, walk it into the net Arsenal football that we saw in the first 15 mins of the Sunderland game! Who'd be a manager eh?